Id is not simply making a game for the sake of overwhelming everyones hardware. They are bringing cinema level graphics to the PC. Everytime Id has released a game, the envelope has been pushed for the better.
Do you think that Valve or Fox or EA or Blizzard could have made Half-Life, No One Lives Forever, Medal of Honor, or Warcraft III by building it on the Commander Keen "engine"?
Yeah, and all the Biochemsitry labs with all the blue, yellow, and green liquids in the test tubes.
I've worked in a few Biochem labs and I never saw any color other than a light pink, sometimes. Mostly they're all clear or cloudy.
And where are the big computers that automatically sequence the DNA and display the sequence graphically on a screen in 5 minutes dammit, I got tired of running gel after gel!
It's almost like they want the laptop to be kosher or vegan.
"They have to make my laptop separately from the other laptops and I don't want any M$ users to have participated in the assembly, they might have tainted it. OS-X users are OK, provided they don't have any M$ boxes at home and don't use any emulation software to run Windows programs."
The best bet if you want to avoid paying the "Microsoft tax", is to buy a used computer or build it yourself.
p.s. The iBook is too large?! Go hit the gym you pansey, get some exercise so you can manage to lug around that HUMONGOUS laptop that is the iBook. Maybe you can find a cell phone the size of a quarter to go with it.
Unless you are Sony and make your new systems backward compatible. Then, even if your old console goes south you can still play the games.:)
In the other console systems defense - There is no previous version of the Xbox to be backward compatible with, we'll see what they do with the next version. - ditto with the Dreamcast, except there won't BE a next version. - Nintendo was moving in a different direction with their delivery media. Going from a cart to a disc.
I got tired of having to update drivers and install service packs just to play the new games coming out. Installing updated drivers and service packs is like playing russian roulette with your system. I get the Gamecube and I know any game I buy for it will run right out of the box.
I'm very happy with my Gamecube, sure I can't run the very latest PC games but who cares. It's all about entertainment right? Just like gaming under Linux, just because I can't run Dungeon Siege under Linux, doesn't mean I can't still be entertained by Falcons eye or Frozen Bubble. Just because I can't play (natively at least) Civilization III under Linux doesn't mean I won't enjoy playing FreeCiv.
It's the same with the Gamecube, just because I can't play Quake3 on the GC doesn't mean that Metroid Prime is any less fun and just because my wife can't play The Sims on the GC doesn't mean she doesn't sit for hours playing Animal Crossing and enjoy every minute of it. Heck, she sent me an email asking what Tom Nook is buying Turnips at today.
I don't need a 2gHz processor to write PHP or ASP code, and I certainly don't need an ATI Radion 9700 to lay out graphics in Paint Shop Pro.
I guess the question is: What software do you want to run under Windows that doesn't have a counterpart under Linux?
I too have the "game issue" with Linux, my solution was to dual-boot and buy a Gamecube so I wouldn't have to deal with updating drivers and hardware every six months just to play the latest PC games. I could still play games that wouldn't run under WineX (except for Warcraft II, which REQUIRES Windows 9x...grrrrrrr).
Heck, I've GOT a windows machine that can't run the latest titles worth a damn even though I meet the specifications on the box.
The only apps I really notice missing from the Linux lexicon are the little greeting card/poster/calendar publishing apps like Printmaster and Print Shop that my wife loves to use. Heck, I often boot into Windows to use the Hallmark card creator to make birthday cards and what not. I haven't found a Linux replacement for those yet.
The documentation still lacks some things and assume a LOT. I ended up reading a lot more of the XFree86 and kernal documentation than I did the Gentoo docs. I never posted in the support forums (which I should have) but found a LOT of helpful information in there as well DESPITE the forum search engine.;)
I will say this, Gentoo does give the installer a sense of accomplishment. I felt proud once I had rebooted, logged in, and saw fluxbox come up.:)
I'm not a big fan of it. I don't think it's even close to a desktop replacement OS.
I like the portage system and the fact that all the apps are compiled optimized for your system. You don't have to worry about dependancies since the scripts take care of it for you.
I don't like the fact that I typed "emerge kde" and 48 hours later , and after seeing numerous "cannot create file due to a permission error" messages fly by, it still hadn't "emerged". Granted it was compiling on an old Celeron-333, but it had 524MB of RAM to do with as it will. That was just for KDE, I had spent 2 days installing and configuing the system just to get fluxbox to come up.
I couldn't even get fluxbox to configure itself for any user other than root, had to go edit all the config files manually and the menu generator didn't work at all.
Compare this to most peoples experiences installing Mandrake, SuSE, and Red Hat (usually about an hour to 2 hours) and I think you can see why Gentoo isn't on the list.
I certainly don't want to run Gentoo down, they're just down I-25 from me.:) But they are hardly a user-friendly desktop distro. They cater unabashedly to the Linux power user.
How often do you upgrade your computers? One of the big selling points of a Mac is it's stability. Yet, they release new products all the time.
I come from a PC world where the next gen of OS and Games usually means I have to upgrade my PC or I can't run these applications. I'd like to switch(tm), but I don't want to spend $3500 for a Powerbook just to find out that it breaks down in a year and parts cost a bundle. I'd rather spend $1200 on an iBook. See if the wife and I like it.
Do these new machines mean that much to Apple users, or can they happily chug away on their old iBook or Powerbook?
Any idea when the Mandrake packages will be out?
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Look at the 1st half vs 2nd half ratings of any Super Bowl (admitidly the most watched football game of the year) in games where one team is leading by 20 points or more.
The best football games are often low scoring and/or go into overtime.
I've often thought the reason soccer isn't as popular in the U.S. (except when we are children) is because of two things: 1) We aren't that good at it (yet?) 2) The camera angles.
When you show the entire pitch, all you see are little dots moving around...rather slowly. When you zoom in on two players fighting for the ball it's as action packed as any NBA basketball game or NFL football game. Unfortunately, most soccer (futball) broadcasts seem to show the wide angle.
On the other hand, there have been much fewer deaths and injuries of spectators at US sporting events than in SOME parts of the world.;)
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I'm STILL playing through Baldurs Gate, let alone the 4 sequels/other games of the same engine that have come since it.
Heck, I still haven't finished Starcraft or Diablo, and Diablo II has come and gone.
Id is not simply making a game for the sake of overwhelming everyones hardware. They are bringing cinema level graphics to the PC. Everytime Id has released a game, the envelope has been pushed for the better.
Do you think that Valve or Fox or EA or Blizzard could have made Half-Life, No One Lives Forever, Medal of Honor, or Warcraft III by building it on the Commander Keen "engine"?
Funny you should mention that, they did a remake of Fantasy Island with Malcolm McDowell as Mr. Roarke.
It was....different....Not everything turned out happily every time. It seemed a little darker.
But it was still a remake of a 20 year old idea.
Worst correction ever
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If it's going to break the build, ou don't check it in to the main branch for the daily build.
Yeah, and all the Biochemsitry labs with all the blue, yellow, and green liquids in the test tubes.
I've worked in a few Biochem labs and I never saw any color other than a light pink, sometimes. Mostly they're all clear or cloudy.
And where are the big computers that automatically sequence the DNA and display the sequence graphically on a screen in 5 minutes dammit, I got tired of running gel after gel!
There is was prestige in living in Kansas?
I lived there for 27 years, where's my prestige dammit!
Seriously, I've got people in my family that live in Kansas and still have party lines where they live.
It's almost like they want the laptop to be kosher or vegan.
"They have to make my laptop separately from the other laptops and I don't want any M$ users to have participated in the assembly, they might have tainted it. OS-X users are OK, provided they don't have any M$ boxes at home and don't use any emulation software to run Windows programs."
The best bet if you want to avoid paying the "Microsoft tax", is to buy a used computer or build it yourself.
p.s. The iBook is too large?! Go hit the gym you pansey, get some exercise so you can manage to lug around that HUMONGOUS laptop that is the iBook. Maybe you can find a cell phone the size of a quarter to go with it.
I was playing that game WAY before they came out with it, except we played it with real hardware and the users were bigger fartknockers.
There's a site called BBSmates that lets users of the old BBS systems get back in touch.
It looks pretty complete, I even found a bunch of old boards that I used to call in the Wichita, KS. area code.
It's funny, some of the people I met on those BBSs I still keep in touch with, while friends I had in high school I never hear from.
Ever heard of a little MMORPG called "The Sims Online" and how it isn't doing as well as it was thought it would?
Unless you are Sony and make your new systems backward compatible. Then, even if your old console goes south you can still play the games. :)
In the other console systems defense
- There is no previous version of the Xbox to be backward compatible with, we'll see what they do with the next version.
- ditto with the Dreamcast, except there won't BE a next version.
- Nintendo was moving in a different direction with their delivery media. Going from a cart to a disc.
Yeah, but I can go down to the video store and rent Nightfire for $5, play it for 5 days and finish it.
:)
I can't rent the PC version of Nightfire.
PS, the Nightfire PC demo ran like crap on my system. I'm able to run UT2003 with no problems. On the GC, Nightfire ran smoothly.
AMEN,
I got tired of having to update drivers and install service packs just to play the new games coming out. Installing updated drivers and service packs is like playing russian roulette with your system. I get the Gamecube and I know any game I buy for it will run right out of the box.
I'm very happy with my Gamecube, sure I can't run the very latest PC games but who cares. It's all about entertainment right? Just like gaming under Linux, just because I can't run Dungeon Siege under Linux, doesn't mean I can't still be entertained by Falcons eye or Frozen Bubble. Just because I can't play (natively at least) Civilization III under Linux doesn't mean I won't enjoy playing FreeCiv.
It's the same with the Gamecube, just because I can't play Quake3 on the GC doesn't mean that Metroid Prime is any less fun and just because my wife can't play The Sims on the GC doesn't mean she doesn't sit for hours playing Animal Crossing and enjoy every minute of it. Heck, she sent me an email asking what Tom Nook is buying Turnips at today.
I don't need a 2gHz processor to write PHP or ASP code, and I certainly don't need an ATI Radion 9700 to lay out graphics in Paint Shop Pro.
Maybe if you'd gone to see it in the theaters we wouldn't be reading this? he he
I guess the question is: What software do you want to run under Windows that doesn't have a counterpart under Linux?
I too have the "game issue" with Linux, my solution was to dual-boot and buy a Gamecube so I wouldn't have to deal with updating drivers and hardware every six months just to play the latest PC games. I could still play games that wouldn't run under WineX (except for Warcraft II, which REQUIRES Windows 9x...grrrrrrr).
Heck, I've GOT a windows machine that can't run the latest titles worth a damn even though I meet the specifications on the box.
The only apps I really notice missing from the Linux lexicon are the little greeting card/poster/calendar publishing apps like Printmaster and Print Shop that my wife loves to use. Heck, I often boot into Windows to use the Hallmark card creator to make birthday cards and what not. I haven't found a Linux replacement for those yet.
The documentation still lacks some things and assume a LOT. I ended up reading a lot more of the XFree86 and kernal documentation than I did the Gentoo docs. I never posted in the support forums (which I should have) but found a LOT of helpful information in there as well DESPITE the forum search engine. ;)
:)
I will say this, Gentoo does give the installer a sense of accomplishment. I felt proud once I had rebooted, logged in, and saw fluxbox come up.
I'm not a big fan of it. I don't think it's even close to a desktop replacement OS.
:) But they are hardly a user-friendly desktop distro. They cater unabashedly to the Linux power user.
I like the portage system and the fact that all the apps are compiled optimized for your system. You don't have to worry about dependancies since the scripts take care of it for you.
I don't like the fact that I typed "emerge kde" and 48 hours later , and after seeing numerous "cannot create file due to a permission error" messages fly by, it still hadn't "emerged". Granted it was compiling on an old Celeron-333, but it had 524MB of RAM to do with as it will. That was just for KDE, I had spent 2 days installing and configuing the system just to get fluxbox to come up.
I couldn't even get fluxbox to configure itself for any user other than root, had to go edit all the config files manually and the menu generator didn't work at all.
Compare this to most peoples experiences installing Mandrake, SuSE, and Red Hat (usually about an hour to 2 hours) and I think you can see why Gentoo isn't on the list.
I certainly don't want to run Gentoo down, they're just down I-25 from me.
How often do you upgrade your computers? One of the big selling points of a Mac is it's stability. Yet, they release new products all the time.
I come from a PC world where the next gen of OS and Games usually means I have to upgrade my PC or I can't run these applications. I'd like to switch(tm), but I don't want to spend $3500 for a Powerbook just to find out that it breaks down in a year and parts cost a bundle. I'd rather spend $1200 on an iBook. See if the wife and I like it.
Do these new machines mean that much to Apple users, or can they happily chug away on their old iBook or Powerbook?
Will they be available via Mandrake Software Update?
or getting crushed to death at a soccer game.
don't like a game if one team scores too much.
;)
Look at the 1st half vs 2nd half ratings of any Super Bowl (admitidly the most watched football game of the year) in games where one team is leading by 20 points or more.
The best football games are often low scoring and/or go into overtime.
I've often thought the reason soccer isn't as popular in the U.S. (except when we are children) is because of two things:
1) We aren't that good at it (yet?)
2) The camera angles.
When you show the entire pitch, all you see are little dots moving around...rather slowly. When you zoom in on two players fighting for the ball it's as action packed as any NBA basketball game or NFL football game. Unfortunately, most soccer (futball) broadcasts seem to show the wide angle.
On the other hand, there have been much fewer deaths and injuries of spectators at US sporting events than in SOME parts of the world.
I was watching TechTV the other day and they did say they were using 1080i cameras to film it.
CBS always looks more crisp than ABC to me too, and I'm just on regular broadcast TV.