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Vote for 2002's "Best" Vaporware

ThatKidYouDid writes "Wired.com is holding a vote for this years best vaporware. My vote definitely goes to the oqo, although I'd still snag one if they ever materialized. What do others really wish could have happened by Xmas?"

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  1. Re:Doom III by tbradshaw · · Score: 3, Informative
    At least we know from the leaked alpha that the game will ROCK :-)

    If you've played the alpha and it rocks, and you're sure that it will rock when it comes out... how exactly is it vaporware?

    I've had the pleasure of seeing the DOOM 3 theater presentation at QuakeCon 2002, and I can assure you that DOOM 3 is no where near vaporware. It's just so advanced that it's taking a slightly longer development cycle than your typical derived engined game.

    I would probably guess that it's more finished than unfinished at this point. (entirely speculation) And Todd Hollenshead did joke with the crowd at QCon that id wasn't in the habit of showing preview versions of the same game year after year at E3.

  2. Re:Might I suggest...? by Chazmati · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ditto here! RH 8.0 is nice, and you hit the nail on the head:

    Extras? (slaps forehead) So THAT'S where gftp, abiword, tux racer etc. went. What were they thinking? Half of the menu items removed and duplicated under "Extras"?

    And although I can't knock them for the .mp3 support, I thought 'Psyche' was surprisingly weak on video tools. Why not include Kino, dvgrab, gscanbus, avifile, mjpegtools, mplayer, etc?

  3. Re:Vaporware ... by (startx) · · Score: 4, Informative

    ... an actual gaming system based on linux

    Did you try the Gentoo 1.4rc1 live cd? It booted, loaded the nvidia driver, and started the ut2003 demo for me with zero trouble.