I played the game through the practice quests and found I couldn't take it, simply because of the camera.
The bulk of my play time was spent struggling to get my character from point A to B, or getting the camera to pan, turn or tilt to make quests do-able or npcs viewable.
After the walk through quests I promptly uninstalled the beast from my system and tossed the discs away. All the beautiful scenery, engrossing quests, and amazingly customizable characters in the world won't save a game in which the basic camera and movement control is hosed. Shame on developers to allow the game to ship in this state.
...when the RIAA claims to do anything in the future for the sake of artists. They are not working for the artists as we all know, but this is a compelling argument detached from the copyright infringement case.
Wow.. compelling. As it stands now, I can 'TiVO' or download all the shows I want to watch, sans commercials and bullshit.. or I can subscribe to the networks' version of youtube for $11.99 a month, that has less content and comes complete with commercials and DRM.
Yeah.. that's going to work out really well for them.
Honestly, I'm going to laugh my ass off 6 months down the road when MS pushes out a mandatory WGA update, disguised as another 'critical update,' that nukes pirated installs. All these scam cracked/KMS/pirated Vista copies are going to lock-up, shut down and only be able to do one thing, display the phone number to call MS to purchase a legitimate key.
Pirates have gotten by the initial flaws in the authentication system. Microsoft is going to change it, and quietly force everybody to reactivate from a legitimate source. Just wait... it's coming.
If you really need a free, modern OS, rather than run something that clings to functionality through hacks, cheats, cracks and work-arounds, why not just bite the bullet and download a good desktop Linux distro? It's free. It's arguably more capable than Vista. How/where/when you play your media isn't decided by the AAs and to top it all off, you don't have to hack/crack/scam to get it to run.
She should just pick up a couple copies of WoW for the kiddies. She'd never have to deal with their snotty demands of family time ever again... let alone see them outside of their rooms.
The person you are requesting from can be infected and not know it. That person can then send you the file you requested from their pool of infected files.. Being solicited and from a trusted source doesn't mean the file is clean in this case.
If you send an email to Fred saying "Can you send me xxxx", and Fred replies, saying "Here it is", you can probably safely open the attachment. You should just exercise caution when Fred sends you an email out of the blue saying "Hey, read this would you?".
That doesn't keep Fred from sending you a infected file. Fred gets an email of an unsolicited.doc. Fred runs the attachment. Fred infects his word files. You call Fred asking for for a specific file. Fred sends you said file, infected hours ago from his attachment.
It's not unsolicited. It's from a trusted source. That doesn't mean it's not infected.
That's about the only thing Windows has over Linux as far as I'm concerned.. gaming. But I came to the realization that I'm not doing myself any favors passing on a next gen console and instead buying Windows Vista to game.
Hmmm.. ~$200 to buy a boxed copy of Vista to keep my OS up-to-date and game or ~$200 to pick up a Wii, download Ubuntu for the same effect. It was an easy choice.
The biggest appeal to me was all of my hardware working on the first boot. The biggest headache I've had trying to make the switch was making all my hardware work. Once that happened, the shackles took themselves off.
Ding ding ding. After seeing the WGA/DRM nightmare that is Vista, I wiped my Windows partition and am full time Ubuntu. I've never been happier with and more excited about the future of my OS.
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I played the game through the practice quests and found I couldn't take it, simply because of the camera.
The bulk of my play time was spent struggling to get my character from point A to B, or getting the camera to pan, turn or tilt to make quests do-able or npcs viewable.
After the walk through quests I promptly uninstalled the beast from my system and tossed the discs away. All the beautiful scenery, engrossing quests, and amazingly customizable characters in the world won't save a game in which the basic camera and movement control is hosed. Shame on developers to allow the game to ship in this state.
Wow.. compelling. As it stands now, I can 'TiVO' or download all the shows I want to watch, sans commercials and bullshit.. or I can subscribe to the networks' version of youtube for $11.99 a month, that has less content and comes complete with commercials and DRM. Yeah.. that's going to work out really well for them.
If your OS choice rests solely on 'which plays WoW' then you probably have bigger issues than I'm qualified to help you with.
Bah.. I'd get a console if I wanted a gaming platform. I'll take Linux over Windows for computing any day of the week.
Honestly, I'm going to laugh my ass off 6 months down the road when MS pushes out a mandatory WGA update, disguised as another 'critical update,' that nukes pirated installs. All these scam cracked/KMS/pirated Vista copies are going to lock-up, shut down and only be able to do one thing, display the phone number to call MS to purchase a legitimate key. Pirates have gotten by the initial flaws in the authentication system. Microsoft is going to change it, and quietly force everybody to reactivate from a legitimate source. Just wait... it's coming. If you really need a free, modern OS, rather than run something that clings to functionality through hacks, cheats, cracks and work-arounds, why not just bite the bullet and download a good desktop Linux distro? It's free. It's arguably more capable than Vista. How/where/when you play your media isn't decided by the AAs and to top it all off, you don't have to hack/crack/scam to get it to run.
She should just pick up a couple copies of WoW for the kiddies. She'd never have to deal with their snotty demands of family time ever again... let alone see them outside of their rooms.
The person you are requesting from can be infected and not know it. That person can then send you the file you requested from their pool of infected files.. Being solicited and from a trusted source doesn't mean the file is clean in this case.
Boy.. I just can't seem to find this IE7 they recommend in any of the Ubuntu file repositories.
I don't live in the US and don't have or need a 'drivers license.' Why should I not be able to contribute?
Yah-who?
Nothing helps out a site currently under a DDoS attack like being linked to on the front page of /.
That's about the only thing Windows has over Linux as far as I'm concerned.. gaming. But I came to the realization that I'm not doing myself any favors passing on a next gen console and instead buying Windows Vista to game. Hmmm.. ~$200 to buy a boxed copy of Vista to keep my OS up-to-date and game or ~$200 to pick up a Wii, download Ubuntu for the same effect. It was an easy choice.
The biggest appeal to me was all of my hardware working on the first boot. The biggest headache I've had trying to make the switch was making all my hardware work. Once that happened, the shackles took themselves off.
Ding ding ding. After seeing the WGA/DRM nightmare that is Vista, I wiped my Windows partition and am full time Ubuntu. I've never been happier with and more excited about the future of my OS.