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Warcraft 3 Announced
Anonymous something something writes "Warcraft 3 has been announced. Check blizzard's site.
No plans on doing a linux port but I'm sure we'll get it to work under wine. " Looks like quite a departure from WC 1&2 - "Role Playing Strategy". 6 races, too. Could the release of C&C: Tiberian Sun hurt sales when the game finally is released?
I'm not sure I like this 'departure' thing; I lay awake nights for three years, fearing that C&C2 would be something different. Fortunately, Tiberian Sun is all I could hope for.
Different doesn't always mean better.
Man, from the day that Loki started announcing their ports, I've been saying that what we really really need is the next Warcraft game to run native under Linux.
To be honest, the games Loki ports haven't been blockbusters. They've been good games and I'm sure that Loki made a pretty penny off them, but no real killers -- Quake 3 will blow them all out of the water. Warcraft, however, might put them on the map with a real winner that would attract a serious amount of attention.
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Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
CNet Gamecenter also has a godd story on it, with some gameplay screenshots...
r craft3/?st.gc.fd.gcd
http://www.gamecenter.com/Resources/Strategy/Wa
Looks pretty good...seems all the RTS games have opted for the 3D look since Myth came out. (Dark Reign 2, Force Commander, WarcraftIII, Homeworld, more that I know I'm forgetting.)
However, I hope for Blizzard's sake that Games Workshop never goes out of business. They wouldn't be able to make any 'new' games.
;->
Seriously, though, as most of the GW-licensed games have been mediocre at best, I am kinda glad that Blizzard has been shamelessly ripping them off all these years. I find it hard to believe that there hasn't been a lawsuit or 8 though.
--sugarman--
Judging from how long it takes Blizzard to finishing their (quality, admittedly) releases, this should come out just about the time I'm a grandpa. (And I'm only 21 now.) Blizzard news releases are about the useless things on the planet .. you know it's coming, but don't start counting the days.
G
"Old man yells at systemd"
I was surprised to learn yesterday that the Wine folks are actually tackling DirectX emulation by rendering it with Mesa.
Of course, now that we have several accelerated cards working with Mesa (Glide, G200/G400, RIVA) I would love to know how fast the emulation might turn out on older (but still good) game titles.
The requirement for e.g. Jedi Knight was a P5-90, so it might run acceptable under Wine emulation.
My question:
Has anyone tried out older DirectX stuff under Wine and accelerated Mesa and can post something about the performance here?
Where can I read about performance and successful emulation examples? The apps service on the Wine HQ site did not work last time I checked.
This is only my opinion of course but it seems like warcraft1 was a copy of dune2.
Dune2 is alot like dune2000 is today but better in strategy and it ran on old 286 and 386 pc's. Dune2 was the first war strategy game ever created and it won all kinds of awards. I believe it runs on dosemu and wine. Whats really cool is there is no mutlimedia trash in it like today's games.
I like the old games alot better. IT seems years ago more thought was given to the game itself rather then 3d graphics and multimedia.
Want to know what my 2 favorite 3D shooters are?
Doom1 and duke Nukem3d. I don't like quake. Doom1 had a better atmosphere that concentrated on dark enviroments and haunting music then todays 3D shooters. But the main thing was the detail of game itself and the levels. Remember the level with the boxes?
Today its just run and shoot with no haunting music and the visuals are just 3D rendered castle bricks, windows and wood which really don't add to the creepy high tech atmosphere of Doom1. The visuals matched the levels. I believe John Romeo was brillant on atmosphere. Its a shame he left ID software. Carmack is great programmer but he cares more about action and quick code then time consuming detail that Romeo likes.
Duke Nukem was cool because you felt immersed in the game. Duke had a character and personality that you felt attached too.
I also love the goal oriented Ultima series. What ever happened to them?
What ever happened to the good old days of gaming and computers?
The reason why I am into computers today is because of games I played in junior high. Nintendo games were too immature for me and were controlled by game marketers while games were made by fun individuals so the games were more intelligent. I can't stand pointless action games like street fighter2 and mortal combat whre you win the game by hitting the buttons faster on the controllers but I loved ultima and dune2 where I had to think to win. PC games are looking more and more like cheap nintendo games.
I believe game marketing droids and bussinesses who think great software is created by companies and not indivudals have taken over the game industry.
This concept is also why Microsofts products are sub-standard. MS word, VB and Powerpoint were created by individuals and not companies and were bought. Windows was created from ground up by a company and thats why it sucks.
Linux started out as an individuals project and it sill is to some extent. Today its just divided down by hundreds of people each doing there own thing that the individuals do best like one writes ethernet drivers, another focuses on the kde gradients, while another focuses on USB ports. This is why linux is so stable. No greed or corporate bs is involved.
What a sad world we live in. I wish the current game industry would just die and the old fun game industry would return. I just read an article here on how the game industry is turning into a very boring and uncreative industry. I believe the poster was quite right on this.
Unless games are written by people and not companies all these games are going to suck or be half-good.
For example on dune2 I kept getting my butt kicked by rocket turrets until I examined the range of my missle tanks and relized if I took just one tank out of the range of the turret then I could capture the base. Details like this are not in dune2000 and warcraft.
All you do is make a huge legion of men that are bigger then the enemies and take over. Duh. Thats too easy and thoughtless! Even a 7 year old can figure that out. IT seems todays games judge players by how fast they hit buttons on controllers like Mortal Combat and street fighter2 or how quick you can build tanks like Command and conquer.
Its all immature and pointless.
Why can't it be like the good old days where your infantry gets killed so quickly that its too expensive to make legions of troops and you have use thought to win a level instead of sheer force or quick reactions liek Mortal Combat!
Perhaps I liked these games more because I was a teenager at the time and I am more mature now. I still wish I had my dune2 diskettes. This was my favorite game of all time. Zelda and doom1 were also great games.
What do you all think about this? Any old timers out there agree with me?
I also miss the BBS's. The internet practically killed them.