Wrong. If done right, you can have a perfectly stable machine. It does take considerable time to get it just right, and there is always some risk, which is why "professials" do not overclock as commonly.
I really like Steam for the most part, though when trying to play games offline can be a big hassle. I also love being able to pay the game developers the full price of the game instead of giving 90% to the publisher and retailer. If they lower the price in the future, thats fine. But I'm content paying the same, giving more to the developers.
Judging based on processing power, thats a bargain. It would cost in excess of $2,000 to get a comperable PC system. (Which don't even exist yet)
The "mainstream" console players, however, may find it harder to justify the higher price tag. Especially if the XBox 360 retails for a couple hundred less.
Why can't PC games just allow you to pop in a disc and begin playing?
LiveCD Linux distros have really brought out the possiblility for this on the PC. Already there are LiveCDs with games like America's Army and the Return to Castle Wolfenstein expansion. Game saves could be stored on USB sticks or over the internet.
All it would take is one big company to step in a try it. And since PC games need to switch to the DVD format anyway, there would be plenty of space for the LiveCD Linux version, in addition to the Windows version of the game.
After looking around for any sign of life in this area, I couldn't find any. I'll guess that the game patches proved too much an inconvience, as the creator would have to remake the LiveCD after every update. It still looks like a promising area that should be looked into, however.
Linux aside, this should be an option in Windows as well. I personally would not use it, as I like being able to play games without scrambling for CDs, but it would be nice for games played infrequently.
Is it so hard to ignore duplicate articles? I'm sure that there are many people like myself that missed that article and tire of reading your irrelevant complaints.
What about scanner sweeps and observatories? Traveling in groups also helps immensly. Both of these improve teamwork, which is the foundation of the marine team. I see nothing but good stuff here.:D
If it was not a hoax, he would have returned the money. Simple as that.
The article also makes the point that the lawsuit was never filed, making whatever documents coming from the MPAA, irrelevant. (It would seem that they settled outside of court)
*pauses as entire Back to the Future Trilogy flashes through his mind*
I say they make a Back to the Future series. Pilot can be where they go back in time and fix the Enterprise series.
He's done conversion duels on multiple servers where he challenges other players to duel with him. If he wins, they accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. If he loses (which he never has) he will give them 6 pieces of silver."
"It is such a rush to kill other players who refuse to accept Jesus Christ as Lord," says one gamer. "I feel like I can really practice my faith the way God intended it. It is like I'm fighting alongside Christians of old, instead of the pansies and sissies from my Sunday school class."
You cannot force beliefs onto other people. Sadly, it looks like a joke to me. I got kinda excited when I read the summary on/.
Anyone who says the reqs are too high either hasn't played the game, or they have a 500MHz Gateway.
I've been testing Beta 6 this week and so far its pretty good. Can't wait for the Source port.
It had to be some kind of internal problem in the company not relating directly to Wish. If there was a problem with either the gameplay, server code or something of that nature, they would have at least made an effort to improve it. They wouldn't have just cut off the servers with no warning. Maybe funds were pulled and they were no longer able to keep the servers up and the game in development.
Anyway, I really hope they give us something more of an answer in the coming days.
I just noticed that I live 3 miles from one of their main offices. Never would have guessed a game development company would be here. It must've been going pretty bad if they would cancel it this abruptly.
Microsoft Paint for Windows 3.1 at my Dad's office. Not sure how old I was, but I would guess around 6.
Before we got an IBM PC we had a Commodore 64 on which I played games like Fischer Price School Bus Driver and Firehouse Rescue and a Dinosaur game (whose name escapes me at the moment). After we got a PC (RadioShack brand (Tandy) 386...oh ya). I grew up on all the Learning Company games in the Super Solvers, Reader Rabbit series Treasure (Mountain, Snowstorm, Cove, Galaxy) series. But mostly, as I wasn't old enough to have alot of money, I lived off Shareware and Demos from Epic, Apogee and Sierra. Jazz Jackrabbit, Raptor and the Sierra Demo discs are what I remeber most of.
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Wrong. If done right, you can have a perfectly stable machine. It does take considerable time to get it just right, and there is always some risk, which is why "professials" do not overclock as commonly.
I really like Steam for the most part, though when trying to play games offline can be a big hassle. I also love being able to pay the game developers the full price of the game instead of giving 90% to the publisher and retailer. If they lower the price in the future, thats fine. But I'm content paying the same, giving more to the developers.
...is a new distribution service icon in my taskbar for every game developer.
Judging based on processing power, thats a bargain. It would cost in excess of $2,000 to get a comperable PC system. (Which don't even exist yet)
The "mainstream" console players, however, may find it harder to justify the higher price tag. Especially if the XBox 360 retails for a couple hundred less.
Why can't PC games just allow you to pop in a disc and begin playing?
LiveCD Linux distros have really brought out the possiblility for this on the PC. Already there are LiveCDs with games like America's Army and the Return to Castle Wolfenstein expansion. Game saves could be stored on USB sticks or over the internet.
All it would take is one big company to step in a try it. And since PC games need to switch to the DVD format anyway, there would be plenty of space for the LiveCD Linux version, in addition to the Windows version of the game.
After looking around for any sign of life in this area, I couldn't find any. I'll guess that the game patches proved too much an inconvience, as the creator would have to remake the LiveCD after every update. It still looks like a promising area that should be looked into, however.
Linux aside, this should be an option in Windows as well. I personally would not use it, as I like being able to play games without scrambling for CDs, but it would be nice for games played infrequently.
MY BRAIN ESS ESSPLODED
Frakking April Fools day.
Is it so hard to ignore duplicate articles? I'm sure that there are many people like myself that missed that article and tire of reading your irrelevant complaints.
Ignore it and move along. That is all.
She's in the same graduating class as me! If only she didn't live 2000 miles away...
:p
What about scanner sweeps and observatories? Traveling in groups also helps immensly. Both of these improve teamwork, which is the foundation of the marine team. I see nothing but good stuff here. :D
...is, IMO of course, the best version by far since 1.04.
Grab it now. And if you've never played NS, now is a great time to get into it.
...is still the best looking and cleanest theme I have ever seen.
If it was not a hoax, he would have returned the money. Simple as that.
The article also makes the point that the lawsuit was never filed, making whatever documents coming from the MPAA, irrelevant.
(It would seem that they settled outside of court)
We must have slashdotted the power grid!
Am I the only one who has never had any problems with Steam? Except for the Friends downtime, its always worked very nicely for me.
*pauses as entire Back to the Future Trilogy flashes through his mind*
I say they make a Back to the Future series. Pilot can be where they go back in time and fix the Enterprise series.
He's done conversion duels on multiple servers where he challenges other players to duel with him. If he wins, they accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. If he loses (which he never has) he will give them 6 pieces of silver."
/.
"It is such a rush to kill other players who refuse to accept Jesus Christ as Lord," says one gamer. "I feel like I can really practice my faith the way God intended it. It is like I'm fighting alongside Christians of old, instead of the pansies and sissies from my Sunday school class."
You cannot force beliefs onto other people. Sadly, it looks like a joke to me. I got kinda excited when I read the summary on
Key phrase:
So the next project is likely going to be NS on the Source engine. We don't know for sure if we're doing this
I get 50fps on an $80 Athlon and a $100 GF4 4200
Anyone who says the reqs are too high either hasn't played the game, or they have a 500MHz Gateway.
I've been testing Beta 6 this week and so far its pretty good. Can't wait for the Source port.
...but the real question is, will it be able to run Linux?
Being able to download 162GB a day would sure change my life.
:-D
It had to be some kind of internal problem in the company not relating directly to Wish. If there was a problem with either the gameplay, server code or something of that nature, they would have at least made an effort to improve it. They wouldn't have just cut off the servers with no warning. Maybe funds were pulled and they were no longer able to keep the servers up and the game in development.
Anyway, I really hope they give us something more of an answer in the coming days.
I just noticed that I live 3 miles from one of their main offices. Never would have guessed a game development company would be here. It must've been going pretty bad if they would cancel it this abruptly.
...is what they will do with the Freespace license.
(Its been discussed here before.
Microsoft Paint for Windows 3.1 at my Dad's office. Not sure how old I was, but I would guess around 6.
Before we got an IBM PC we had a Commodore 64 on which I played games like Fischer Price School Bus Driver and Firehouse Rescue and a Dinosaur game (whose name escapes me at the moment). After we got a PC (RadioShack brand (Tandy) 386...oh ya). I grew up on all the Learning Company games in the Super Solvers, Reader Rabbit series Treasure (Mountain, Snowstorm, Cove, Galaxy) series. But mostly, as I wasn't old enough to have alot of money, I lived off Shareware and Demos from Epic, Apogee and Sierra. Jazz Jackrabbit, Raptor and the Sierra Demo discs are what I remeber most of.