You can pick up a GeForce 4 Ti4600 128MB pretty cheap nowadays.
The rule of thumb that I follow is that a video card upgrade is only worth it every 2 generations. If you have a GeForce256, skip the GeForce2 and get a GeForce3.
I currently have a GeForce3, and am going to get the FX 5900 when the price drops down to a sane level, heh.
I'm curious as to how they'll implement bullet time in a MMORPG setting. If I recall correctly, the bullet time feature was left out of Max Payne multiplayer.
If someone hits the "bullet time" button, will everyone slow down? Will all NPC's within a certain radius slow down?
Good luck devs. Lets just hope this title doesn't turn into a grief fest.
I will definately be buying this DVD set. Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of my favourite movies of all time, although each and every Indiana Jones movie is excellent.
All these quotes courtesy of IMDB, seeing as how I couldn't remember them all *exactly*...
---- LOST ARK ----
Marion: You're not the man I knew ten years ago.
Indiana: It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage.
Indiana: You want to talk to God? Let's go see him together, I've got nothing better to do!
[Upon opening the Well of the Souls and peering down into it.]
Sallah: Indy, why does the floor move?
Indiana: Give me your torch.
[Sallah does, and Indy drops it in.]
Indiana: Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?
Sallah: Asps. Very dangerous. You go first.
---- TEMPLE OF DOOM ----
Indiana Jones: Willie, Willie, Willie. What kind of a name is that? Is it short for something?
Willie: Willie is my professional name, "Indiana."
Short Round: Hey, lady! You call him Dr. Jones!
Indiana Jones: *My* professional name.
Short Round: Wow. Holy Smoke, crash landing.
Indiana Jones: Short Round step on it.
Short Round: Okey dokey Dr. Jones. Hold on to your potatoes.
Willie: For crying out loud, there's a kid driving the car.
Chattar Lal: Dr Jones, wasn't it the Sultan of Madagascar who thretaned to cut off your head if you ever returned to his country?
Indiana Jones: No, it wasn't my head.
Chattar Lal: Then your hands, perhaps?
Indiana Jones: No, it wasn't my hands. It was my....
[looks down]
Indiana Jones: My misunderstanding.
Willie: Aren't you gonna introduce us?
Lao Che: This is Willie Scott; this is Indiana Jones, a famous archaeologist.
Willie: Well I always thought that archaeologists were always funny looking men going around looking for their mommies.
Indiana Jones: Mummys.
---- LAST CRUSADE ----
[Encountering a painting of the Ark of the Covenant.]
Elsa: What's this?
Indiana Jones: Ark of the Covenant.
Elsa: Are you sure?
Indiana Jones: Pretty sure.
Elsa: [to Indy] I'll never forget how vonderful it vas.
Professor Henry Jones: Why thank you. It was rather wonderful.
Elsa: [Kisses Indy.] Zat's how Austrians say goodbye.
Colonel Vogel: Und zis is how ve zay goodbye in Germany, Dr. Jones.
[Punches Indy.]
Indiana Jones: I liked the Austrian way better.
Professor Henry Jones: So did I.
Indiana Jones: Nazis. I hate these guys.
Marcus Brody: Is there anyone here who speaks English? Or maybe even ancient Greek?
[Indiana and Henry are tied up]
Indiana Jones: Come on, dad. Help me get us out of here. We have to get to Marcus before the Nazis do.
Professor Henry Jones: But you said he had a two day head start. That he would blend in, disappear.
Indiana Jones: Are you kidding? I made all that up. You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum.
Indiana Jones: I'm like a bad penny, I always turn up.
[after commandeering a plane]
Professor Henry Jones: I didn't know you could fly a plane!
Indiana Jones: Fly, yes. Land, no.
I loved UO. It was the best MMORPG I have ever played (that is, before they implemented the Tram/Fel split. It all went downhill after that).
If a new MMORPG based on the Ultima universe is indeed being developed, it will have one hell of a time living up to, let alone surpassing, the great game that UO used to be. Although my interest in MMOG's has faded since the UO days, I still remember eagerly awaiting UO2 when those first few screenshots were released.
The DVD's of The Matrix and SPR are pretty well done, transfer wise.
I agree that some better choices could have been made though (keeping in mind this is a video test only), such as:
- Terminator 2: Ultimate Edition. - LOTR: Fellowship Extended DVD. - Star Wars EP 1 or 2. - Bridge on the River Kwai (awesome 2.40:1 transfer). - Lawrence of Arabia - Doctor Zhivago
The last 3 are about as visually stunning as movies can get.
The moment I first experienced the world of UO, I was hooked. I remained hooked (correction, CONSUMED) for about 3 years, with both grades and social life suffering. I was in high school at the time.
I eventually got bored of UO and cancelled (near the end of the second last year of HS). Looking back on it, I realize how ridiculous it was to waste all that time in front of a screen. However the experience/time wasted may not have been all bad.
Every MMOG/MMORPG I have played since cancelling my UO account has only lasted a week or two with me. Not hardcore "weeks" either, only an hour or so a day. At the height of the "EverCrack" hype, I ended up using 5 days of my 30 day free trial before cancelling. I just can't get into ANY MMOG anymore, no matter how hard I try. It may sound strange, but I think letting my UO addiction "run its course" made me somewhat impervious to the addictive effects of MMOG's.
Famous last words, "I am invincible!" (*waits to be hit by a wave of liquid Nitrogen*)
The bottom line is I currently take more enjoyment out of a casual game of BF1942 or a platformer like Super Smash Bros' than I do any MMOG. It used to be quite the opposite.
I am also participating in the PlanetSide beta. It is very much like Tribes in many ways, with the addition of a semi-deep character development system (something you'd expect out of any pay-to-play game). While it can be quite entertaining at times, I don't think I'll subscribe once it goes retail. I can get just as much enjoyment out of Tribes/2 as I can PlanetSide.
I got into Beta 7, and despite the eye candy, there was nothing much to do in the game besides mine rocks. The skill system was strange as well, basically you "activate" a skill you want to learn in your character sheet, and it counts down the time until you sucessfully "learn" it. The thing is, you don't have to be actively playing the character to learn a skill, you can "activate" a skill that will take 4 days (real time) to learn, go on a vacation, come back and you are a master miner (or whatever).
While I've been waiting eagerly for a space-centric MMORPG, I'll continue to wait.
The crown has to go to either Team Fortress 2 or Duke Nukem Forever. TF2 was being developed as far back as 1998! As for Duke Nukem Forever... hell, I remember when they were using the Quake 2 engine!
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More like personnel issues. You'd think all of SOE's collective experience in MMORPG's would make a difference. Obviously not.
Actually, the FX series based off the NV35 (upcoming 5900) do not have the jet engine attatched to them.
You can pick up a GeForce 4 Ti4600 128MB pretty cheap nowadays.
The rule of thumb that I follow is that a video card upgrade is only worth it every 2 generations. If you have a GeForce256, skip the GeForce2 and get a GeForce3.
I currently have a GeForce3, and am going to get the FX 5900 when the price drops down to a sane level, heh.
As someone commented above, I'm sort of bummed out by the non-announcement of a new Street Fighter title.
And here I was hoping for Street Fighter Gamma 3y+2x/pi Extra Super Platinum Special Edition.
Oh well, there's always next year's E3...
Ah, must have got it mixed up with the Matrix Quake2 mod. Still, no bullet time in MP for that either... ;)
I'm curious as to how they'll implement bullet time in a MMORPG setting. If I recall correctly, the bullet time feature was left out of Max Payne multiplayer.
If someone hits the "bullet time" button, will everyone slow down? Will all NPC's within a certain radius slow down?
Good luck devs. Lets just hope this title doesn't turn into a grief fest.
For the record, David Hayter did the voice overs for Solid Snake in MGS1 and MGS2 (American versions, of course).
Will Gaseous Snake and Plasma Snake make their appearance in MGS3?
All these quotes courtesy of IMDB, seeing as how I couldn't remember them all *exactly*...
---- LOST ARK ----
---- TEMPLE OF DOOM ---- ---- LAST CRUSADE ----I loved UO. It was the best MMORPG I have ever played (that is, before they implemented the Tram/Fel split. It all went downhill after that).
If a new MMORPG based on the Ultima universe is indeed being developed, it will have one hell of a time living up to, let alone surpassing, the great game that UO used to be. Although my interest in MMOG's has faded since the UO days, I still remember eagerly awaiting UO2 when those first few screenshots were released.
Best of luck to the devs.
The DVD's of The Matrix and SPR are pretty well done, transfer wise.
I agree that some better choices could have been made though (keeping in mind this is a video test only), such as:
- Terminator 2: Ultimate Edition.
- LOTR: Fellowship Extended DVD.
- Star Wars EP 1 or 2.
- Bridge on the River Kwai (awesome 2.40:1 transfer).
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Doctor Zhivago
The last 3 are about as visually stunning as movies can get.
The moment I first experienced the world of UO, I was hooked. I remained hooked (correction, CONSUMED) for about 3 years, with both grades and social life suffering. I was in high school at the time.
I eventually got bored of UO and cancelled (near the end of the second last year of HS). Looking back on it, I realize how ridiculous it was to waste all that time in front of a screen. However the experience/time wasted may not have been all bad.
Every MMOG/MMORPG I have played since cancelling my UO account has only lasted a week or two with me. Not hardcore "weeks" either, only an hour or so a day. At the height of the "EverCrack" hype, I ended up using 5 days of my 30 day free trial before cancelling. I just can't get into ANY MMOG anymore, no matter how hard I try. It may sound strange, but I think letting my UO addiction "run its course" made me somewhat impervious to the addictive effects of MMOG's.
Famous last words, "I am invincible!"
(*waits to be hit by a wave of liquid Nitrogen*)
The bottom line is I currently take more enjoyment out of a casual game of BF1942 or a platformer like Super Smash Bros' than I do any MMOG. It used to be quite the opposite.
I am also participating in the PlanetSide beta. It is very much like Tribes in many ways, with the addition of a semi-deep character development system (something you'd expect out of any pay-to-play game). While it can be quite entertaining at times, I don't think I'll subscribe once it goes retail. I can get just as much enjoyment out of Tribes/2 as I can PlanetSide.
I've been looking into aquiring a 2800+ or a 3000+ recently. Hopefully this will bump the prices down a bit.
I got into Beta 7, and despite the eye candy, there was nothing much to do in the game besides mine rocks. The skill system was strange as well, basically you "activate" a skill you want to learn in your character sheet, and it counts down the time until you sucessfully "learn" it. The thing is, you don't have to be actively playing the character to learn a skill, you can "activate" a skill that will take 4 days (real time) to learn, go on a vacation, come back and you are a master miner (or whatever).
While I've been waiting eagerly for a space-centric MMORPG, I'll continue to wait.
NEC makes great monitors. I've never had any issues whatsoever with any NEC product. Top notch.
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MFC is ugly, and is even more apparent when compared to Qt and GTK.
;)
Although a 'net' by definition is full of holes, VB.NET is a good way to do things under Windows (it isn't any faster/slower than C#).
There's always Java...
Here is a big list of IP's to block.
While Plasma certainly looks promising, I don't think it's quite "there" yet. Give me a 40" XBR or the 34" XBR over the current Plasma technology.
Yeah, I've been meaning to give Postgres a try. Have not had the time recently to get around to it, though.
I'm running 4.7 on my Router/Firewall box right now (with some Apache/PHP/MySQL goodness as well). NATD was a cinch to set up. Looking forward to 5.0.
The crown has to go to either Team Fortress 2 or Duke Nukem Forever. TF2 was being developed as far back as 1998! As for Duke Nukem Forever... hell, I remember when they were using the Quake 2 engine!