I think they're counting on the fact that people don't need special hardware to see movies. So its comparable once you don't need to own a gaming rig, playstation, or whatever....
Get a seperate machine and run Windows....
And if you hate windows and feel oppressed just reading the name, steal/burn a copy from someone, you'll feel better...
I've always wanted to make a mod but never been able to begin to make all of the models and textures required. Anyone know if these sort of things take real artistic talent or just knowing your way around the 3d tools software used to create them?
I dont wish that hell upon anyone. Ghosts of Mars was absolutely horrible, but with the way things are going it looks like Doom might take the cake. This Callahan guy is ridiculous he attitude is solely Hollywood liked my script and is paying me tons of money so.....I'm sorry but fans don't pay me to make this movie....
I totally agree. When there are 1,200 media players each of which uses the OS in a slightly different way the fact that the OS is being used so many different sheds more light on bugs. Next to no one uses Linux of course not as many bugs are found. But when some random baby-boomer plugs in their digital camera and wants it to go go go, Linux would have the same problem if it had the user base.
I haven't played either but I could say if I was I'd go with WoW hands down. Developer means a lot when you're going to invest time and money into a game and Blizzard has never let me down. (Except when they nerfed my sorceress in the Lord of Destruction expansion.)
As for SOE, I believe the parent here has summed it up with SOE's treatment of SWG players.
I lost my faith in Betheseda way back with Daggerfall when fighting with monsters was running backwards and swinging my sword for 5 minutes and then eventually I'd fall through the floor and die cause of a glitch when the monster was just about dead.
The ability to teleport from anywhere to anywhere removes any sense of scale and destroys the economy.
If you've ever played Eve Online you understand this too well. Trading was a big part of the game and being a lone manufacturer in a isolated part of space used to have its benefits. Often it would be a good 15-20 system travel to get the parts you needed. Or if you were a trader / seller you would buy things at low cost and travel 20 - 25 hops to sell them for profit. Until the developers introduced the "Super Highway" which connected all of the main systems together in one series of jumpgates. Well 25 system travel routes turned in 4-6 hops at worst. All of a sudden people selling goods at manufactured cost were available to everyone in civilized space. No one could sell for profit. And everything was always sold out for trade because the trade routes were so easy to profit on. Funny enough though as long as I played the game the player based courier option never took off due to this.
Single player RPGs are dying. There are less and less every year. At least Bioware and Obsidian are still trying. IMO Final Fantasy and console RPGs went to crap right after FF7.
I agree I feel envious of the online gaming crowd too. I work full time and have a girlfriend so the amount of time I could put into one of these games is not enough to justify the 15-20 monthly fee. Perhaps Guild Wars...
Major inconvience! I hate Steam I bought HL2 in October and all I got was that lousy Counter-Strike Source game to tide me over. And when Nov 16 FINALLY rolled around it took ALMOST 15 minutes to get into the game!! What outrage! If Bestbuy were open at 3 am to insta-release the game I would've gotten it there. And they've made the game so inconviencing to play I mean I have to click on this icon on my desktop (WHICH I HAVE PLACE THERE!) and then wait for the game to start up. Then I have to click through all of these menus like "Load Game" and then find my save game file. I'm telling you guys back in the day with CDs and Ms-dos prompts....oh those were the days.
Eve Online had an interesting death system but I don't believe it was harsh enough. I like perma-death but its a nightmare for the game moderators. People get really really pissed if they don't win. Just pwn some n00bs in Counterstrike and count how many times you get called a camper, a noob, a cheater etc...
Outages and loss of connection are the worst for perma-death because people will complain to a moderator to get their character back and if it doesn't happen the person will start world war 3 on any forums they can find.
Last concern, player killers, this is just the sort of thing people with power will do. But the game needs a mechanism to protect noobs something like Diablo 2. Can't attack low levelers unless they're hostile with you. Hostility is noticable and announced, safe zones, etc.
I love perma-death, it'll definately stop people from whining about the "grind" of high level characters. Unfortunately there are lots of people that don't like it just as much.
Well actually with Windows XP it kinda does. Granted what I'm saying is that newer operating systems wont be able to support the game. You can always keep an old pc around to keep playing it and since it runs on Windows 98 SE you should be fine for another 35 years give or take hardware failure.
http://www.iee.org/Policy/Areas/SCS/problemdates.c fm
Interesting read, most wont apply to an OS entirely or limit your gaming but just a few examples. If you've been gaming on a PC for at least 10 years you know what I mean about trying to run old games on the newest OS. With the last iteration of directx gone and passed who knows how backwards compatible it'll be in its new incarnation.
Not as easy as the voodoo2 days when 3d accelerators were add-in cards that worked in PCI slots. Now its not so easy to just buy a 2nd one and toss it in your box. You need to plan ahead and buy a motherboard with 2 pci-e slots on it. Not too bad if you're looking to build a computer now, sucks ass if you built one in July for Doom 3. *shakes fist*
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I just checked fileplanet and it doesn't appear to be new content. Thats a shame I really enjoyed Half-Life: Uplink as well.
video games are free again!! woooooo
I think they're counting on the fact that people don't need special hardware to see movies. So its comparable once you don't need to own a gaming rig, playstation, or whatever....
Get a seperate machine and run Windows.... And if you hate windows and feel oppressed just reading the name, steal/burn a copy from someone, you'll feel better...
I've always wanted to make a mod but never been able to begin to make all of the models and textures required. Anyone know if these sort of things take real artistic talent or just knowing your way around the 3d tools software used to create them?
Makes sense, lots of kids can't have credit cards but then again a lot of PC gamers are older (just still act like kids)
I dont wish that hell upon anyone. Ghosts of Mars was absolutely horrible, but with the way things are going it looks like Doom might take the cake. This Callahan guy is ridiculous he attitude is solely Hollywood liked my script and is paying me tons of money so.....I'm sorry but fans don't pay me to make this movie....
I totally agree. When there are 1,200 media players each of which uses the OS in a slightly different way the fact that the OS is being used so many different sheds more light on bugs. Next to no one uses Linux of course not as many bugs are found. But when some random baby-boomer plugs in their digital camera and wants it to go go go, Linux would have the same problem if it had the user base.
I haven't played either but I could say if I was I'd go with WoW hands down. Developer means a lot when you're going to invest time and money into a game and Blizzard has never let me down. (Except when they nerfed my sorceress in the Lord of Destruction expansion.) As for SOE, I believe the parent here has summed it up with SOE's treatment of SWG players.
I lost my faith in Betheseda way back with Daggerfall when fighting with monsters was running backwards and swinging my sword for 5 minutes and then eventually I'd fall through the floor and die cause of a glitch when the monster was just about dead.
The ability to teleport from anywhere to anywhere removes any sense of scale and destroys the economy.
If you've ever played Eve Online you understand this too well. Trading was a big part of the game and being a lone manufacturer in a isolated part of space used to have its benefits. Often it would be a good 15-20 system travel to get the parts you needed. Or if you were a trader / seller you would buy things at low cost and travel 20 - 25 hops to sell them for profit. Until the developers introduced the "Super Highway" which connected all of the main systems together in one series of jumpgates. Well 25 system travel routes turned in 4-6 hops at worst. All of a sudden people selling goods at manufactured cost were available to everyone in civilized space. No one could sell for profit. And everything was always sold out for trade because the trade routes were so easy to profit on. Funny enough though as long as I played the game the player based courier option never took off due to this.
Single player RPGs are dying. There are less and less every year. At least Bioware and Obsidian are still trying. IMO Final Fantasy and console RPGs went to crap right after FF7.
I agree I feel envious of the online gaming crowd too. I work full time and have a girlfriend so the amount of time I could put into one of these games is not enough to justify the 15-20 monthly fee. Perhaps Guild Wars...
first post? i think not
Probably just a GeForce 6800 Ultra OC with a few letters tagged on the end like BG $$ VG LE SE $!
What do you think the Gem in the Diablo II battle.net chat window is?
Are there any motherboard with PCI-E that support AMD cpus yet?
Major inconvience! I hate Steam I bought HL2 in October and all I got was that lousy Counter-Strike Source game to tide me over. And when Nov 16 FINALLY rolled around it took ALMOST 15 minutes to get into the game!! What outrage! If Bestbuy were open at 3 am to insta-release the game I would've gotten it there. And they've made the game so inconviencing to play I mean I have to click on this icon on my desktop (WHICH I HAVE PLACE THERE!) and then wait for the game to start up. Then I have to click through all of these menus like "Load Game" and then find my save game file. I'm telling you guys back in the day with CDs and Ms-dos prompts....oh those were the days.
Eve Online had an interesting death system but I don't believe it was harsh enough. I like perma-death but its a nightmare for the game moderators. People get really really pissed if they don't win. Just pwn some n00bs in Counterstrike and count how many times you get called a camper, a noob, a cheater etc... Outages and loss of connection are the worst for perma-death because people will complain to a moderator to get their character back and if it doesn't happen the person will start world war 3 on any forums they can find. Last concern, player killers, this is just the sort of thing people with power will do. But the game needs a mechanism to protect noobs something like Diablo 2. Can't attack low levelers unless they're hostile with you. Hostility is noticable and announced, safe zones, etc. I love perma-death, it'll definately stop people from whining about the "grind" of high level characters. Unfortunately there are lots of people that don't like it just as much.
Damn you Cohegan give those people their air! Admittedly its funnier when said by the Governator....
Well actually with Windows XP it kinda does. Granted what I'm saying is that newer operating systems wont be able to support the game. You can always keep an old pc around to keep playing it and since it runs on Windows 98 SE you should be fine for another 35 years give or take hardware failure. http://www.iee.org/Policy/Areas/SCS/problemdates.c fm
Interesting read, most wont apply to an OS entirely or limit your gaming but just a few examples. If you've been gaming on a PC for at least 10 years you know what I mean about trying to run old games on the newest OS. With the last iteration of directx gone and passed who knows how backwards compatible it'll be in its new incarnation.
Your OS will stop you from playing the game before Valve will.
Not as easy as the voodoo2 days when 3d accelerators were add-in cards that worked in PCI slots. Now its not so easy to just buy a 2nd one and toss it in your box. You need to plan ahead and buy a motherboard with 2 pci-e slots on it. Not too bad if you're looking to build a computer now, sucks ass if you built one in July for Doom 3. *shakes fist*
Lord British totally got killed in the UO beta! He ain't one of us cut off his head and release him from his unlife!
This guy totally works for Vivendi Universal