> Wow. You just said a mouthful but you didn't answer the first question at all.
Dave>>
Well, I did, but I can understand how one can be lost in a forest of
unfamiliar words. Let me try to answer your original question:
"Good points but why didn't CPR suporters hear the same thing? Could it
be because MS made it?"
in words you may be able to process a little more easily.
1. The post to which you replied had nothing to do with CPR.
2. My rambling discussion in that post concerned (at least the part to
which you referred) the "willing suspension of disbelief" while playing
a sim.
3. It is a well-documented fact that a certain amount of concentration
and comfort must be achieved for the dramatic phenomenon of "willing
suspension of disbelief" to occur.
4. Many people, wiser and far more experienced than I, consider CPR
unfinished, and so damnably flawed as to be quite unrealistic,
specifically citing the fact that the game's faults are so intrusive
that it is difficult to get comfortable playing it. Thus, the "willing
suspension of disbelief" is nearly impossible to achieve, and the
"simulation" of a putative "real" experience does not occur. Perhaps
this is not true in *your* experience with CPR, but it seems to be true
for the majority of people who have played it.
5. You, like "Charles Mak", apparently cannot conceive of anyone having
an experience different from yours, unless they are unrepentantly stupid
(in Charles Mok's definition) or motivated by the dark forces of the
World-Wide Anti-Microsoft Cabal (the David Fisher version). However,
6. many, if not most, of the people who have commented unfavorably on
CPR own other Microsoft products which they find perfectly satisfactory
and even laudable.
7. Microsoft is a huge company with lots of money and unimaginable
resources. It is not likely that they could not have finished CPR to the
satisfaction of the majority of their customers. Yet they have NOT done
so, and they refuse to answer direct questions about when, or if, they
PLAN to do so; choosing instead to strut and crow about their track
editor and Monster Truck Madness.
If you had bought a Corvette from your friendly local Chevy dealer and
it had no transmission in it when you went to pick it up, would your
desire for a finished Corvette be amply fulfilled by the dealer telling
you what a fabulous Chevy StepSide they were coming out with next month?
I rather think not.
If there is any of this you don't understand, be sure to let me know.
Bart brown