I'd never heard of Desther before playing NWN, and I knew off the bat he was a bad guy. It's not that hard to figure out based on the way he treats the main character and others.:)
Back on topic, they could tell their Shadowrun story using brand new characters in the existing world and new and old players alike would be in the dark from the beginning.
I concur on the Gamecube. One major advantage I've seen is that it has a lot of non-standard game types, so the both of you will be newbies at learning strategies and controls.
Note: I posted the original article. (It's a Windows machine, as the majority of newly released commercial titles don't play well with Linux.)
It's a multi-tiered question. I've built a number of gaming machines in the past, and upgraded various components over the life of each machine. I've always wondered if there is a way to figure out if getting a video card with more texture memory would help much, or upgrading to faster or less latency RAM would help, or all that's needed is just getting _more_ of it. It doesn't really help to get RAM though if the CPU/GPU/HardDisk is the bottleneck. Thats why I was asking the question in the first place. I'm sure a lot of people who upgrade their gaming machines might get help from this as well. This is for all of us who want to upgrade, but are not quite sure which component needs it the most.
For reference, I've been building machines on a medium budget, getting middle to upper class hardware. I've got a gig of 3-3-3 PC3200 RAM, a nice SATA RAID0 array, a GeForce 6800, and an Athlon64 3200+ rig. I know that most components I have could be upgraded, but not intrinisically which ones are the most crucial to performance. I play all sorts of games, from RTS (AoE, Empire Earth, etc) games, to FPS (Quake 4, UT2004), to simulations (SimCity 4).
The right-click feature is nice, but it could be better. Something I wish google-maps would implement for a while. Similar to how ppl have hacked google-maps for things like subways -- you shouldn't have to create a whole new webpage. If google-maps allowed you to create a file (e.g. say in your gmail account) that created predefined paths, how great would that be? User defined landmarks, paths, and comments (imagine you could put stickies anywhere you wanted) could make google-maps a *really* powerful and innovative tool. Something I won't expect M$ to ever do.. their right-click is more one-upmanship than actual innovation.
I would think that Google could get similar high res data from DigitalGlobe, or to establish new relationships with AirPhoto for the old high res data. I remember reading on their forums, http://bbs.keyhole.com/, that they were comitted to reinstating the old high res data.
-QMan
They ended up changing their map supplier contracts around when Google bought em out. They now use the google map database (DigitalGlobe) instead of their older hi-res database (AirPhoto) which was negotiated with the Keyhole corporation.
-QMan
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I'd never heard of Desther before playing NWN, and I knew off the bat he was a bad guy. It's not that hard to figure out based on the way he treats the main character and others. :)
Back on topic, they could tell their Shadowrun story using brand new characters in the existing world and new and old players alike would be in the dark from the beginning.
My GeForce 6800, with an Athlon 3200+ and 2 GB of RAM runs great on high quality. YMMV
I concur on the Gamecube. One major advantage I've seen is that it has a lot of non-standard game types, so the both of you will be newbies at learning strategies and controls.
Note: I posted the original article.
(It's a Windows machine, as the majority of newly released commercial titles don't play well with Linux.)
It's a multi-tiered question. I've built a number of gaming machines in the past, and upgraded various components over the life of each machine. I've always wondered if there is a way to figure out if getting a video card with more texture memory would help much, or upgrading to faster or less latency RAM would help, or all that's needed is just getting _more_ of it. It doesn't really help to get RAM though if the CPU/GPU/HardDisk is the bottleneck. Thats why I was asking the question in the first place. I'm sure a lot of people who upgrade their gaming machines might get help from this as well. This is for all of us who want to upgrade, but are not quite sure which component needs it the most.
For reference, I've been building machines on a medium budget, getting middle to upper class hardware. I've got a gig of 3-3-3 PC3200 RAM, a nice SATA RAID0 array, a GeForce 6800, and an Athlon64 3200+ rig. I know that most components I have could be upgraded, but not intrinisically which ones are the most crucial to performance. I play all sorts of games, from RTS (AoE, Empire Earth, etc) games, to FPS (Quake 4, UT2004), to simulations (SimCity 4).
-QMan
I remember seeing this useful guide a while back on the different versions. Enjoy!
The right-click feature is nice, but it could be better. Something I wish google-maps would implement for a while. Similar to how ppl have hacked google-maps for things like subways -- you shouldn't have to create a whole new webpage. If google-maps allowed you to create a file (e.g. say in your gmail account) that created predefined paths, how great would that be? User defined landmarks, paths, and comments (imagine you could put stickies anywhere you wanted) could make google-maps a *really* powerful and innovative tool. Something I won't expect M$ to ever do .. their right-click is more one-upmanship than actual innovation.
Thats what Google Earth is for!
I would think that Google could get similar high res data from DigitalGlobe, or to establish new relationships with AirPhoto for the old high res data. I remember reading on their forums, http://bbs.keyhole.com/, that they were comitted to reinstating the old high res data. -QMan
They ended up changing their map supplier contracts around when Google bought em out. They now use the google map database (DigitalGlobe) instead of their older hi-res database (AirPhoto) which was negotiated with the Keyhole corporation. -QMan