It's all a matter of size. In small maps, lower is better. Otherwise, you have an insane fragfest where you die immediately after spawning. In larger maps, more is better. If you have a few people in a very large map, you spend all your time looking for somebody or capturing each others flags while never seeing your opponent. Currently BF Vietnam is best to me on a server of about 24 players. And, I'm sure most people won't agree with me, but I think occasionally TKers can turn a game that's getting monotonous into something fun for a little bit. But most of the time, they're just an annoyance.
"The gaming industry really needs to learn that they can't blitz a product to market at less-than-optimal quality, and expuct the publc to shell out $50+ without complaint."
The Slashdot commmunity really needs to learn to check their spelling. What is "expuct" and "publc"?
Funny, I thought Warcraft 3 and Diablo 2 were very good games. Diablo 2, I know to have been much better than the original and sold tons. There's never anything wrong with sequels when they are done right. It's just that most aren't so they're an easy scapegoat for blaming loss of inovation. If they had been trying to be "safe" with Diablo 2, everybody would've been hunting for books to learn spells.
This is rather pointless. How many times and how long are people going to keep going on about the "downfall" of PC Games. I play games on the PC because I like them better. My girlfriend plays games on our Gamecube because she likes them better. It's all just a matter of choice. And as long as some portion of people continue to choose PC's over consoles, it will always be there. The reasons why you stick to one side are your own personal combination of reasons, but all in all, you just stick with what you like best. The balance will lean one way and then another, but never completely to either side. Console companies will rise and fall, but PC's will always remain a contender in the game market.
Yes, but the real excitement is that Duke Nukem Forever should be out any day now... OH wait, I totally forgot. That was like 4 years ago or something.
Actually, what would be really cool is a gaming tuned distro that on the site you selected from lists all the hardware in your system and then you were directed to an iso containing all the needed drivers, installers, and other requirements of games that currently run under Linux. It would take a lot of time, money, and space to individually tweak an iso for as many possible combinations as you could make, but I think there are alot of people that have a gaming machine separate from their regular internet/downloading machine on the network and would use a distro custom built for their machine to game on. And install to the freaking hard drive for the love of God. Bootable ISO's are cool for toying around with, demoing, or running on your office/work machine; but you should really install to your hard drive at home if you plan on using it regularly.
I've got it good though. I play Battlefield Vietnam or work on my Linux servers. My girlfriend does Photoshop and is addicted to a forum and Xanga. We take turns on going to the kitchen to get drinks. Occasionally, I have to turn the speakers down, but other than that it works out great.
Personally, I love my little Elantra. I just crossed 60K miles and changed the timing belt. Other than that, the only maintanence I've had to do is oil/filter change. I've never seen the check engine light on my car.:P
I would hope that if you spend the amount of money that it costs for an Laserjet 4300. You would spring the extra money for the one with the network port. What would be the purpose of buying a Laserjet 4300 if you could only print as fast as a parallel port?
Kill Rock Stars Rulez!!! Sleater Kinney kicks ass. I've seen them in concert twice. I also have albums from Gravy Train, Bikini Kill, Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP Master, Julie Ruin, Stereo Total and more.
You know, if only people would put forth some of the money they spend on amps and subs into paddening their car with dampening material, there wouldn't be so many complaints about cars with systems. I like listening to my music loud, but I quite understand that the people around me may not want to hear Slayer's Reign in Blood on the way to work. So, when I do my next sound system upgrade, I plan on adding in some sound dampening material to keep the radio in and road noise out. I don't hear outside junk cutting into my music, and people outside do not have to hear my trunk rattling. As long as I make sure to pay extra attention to the road for ambulances, fire trucks, and police cars, it's a win-win situation.
"It wants to create the entire standard of gaming across every platform. Scratch that. It wants to own the entire standard of gaming across every platform. This isn't about warring between incompatible standards, it's about creating a standard - a VHS-standard of ubiquity."
Except this VHS will only work in one company's VCR...
Now is the time, if any, for people to start making games work in Linux as best as possible. If something isn't done soon, all the gaming manufacturers will start building games to work with this system and make them completely unusable in Linux.
At my work, we have on one of our machines a Nakamichi 5 cd changer. That thing is horrifically loud. And it's really nice when you do something in Windows (like open My Computer) that pulls up all the drives. Click Click 5-6 times as it goes thru every freaking disc in the changer. I hate that drive. It's like a 2-3 minute process everytime I make and accidental drive check. Even if you go to the shutdown screen and cancel.
I'm working on a fix to the CON. At first, I thought about using my girlfriend's dog, but I wasn't quite sure it was up to the skill of the task. So then, I figured I would teach my cats to change the cd's. They've picked up the lesson quite well, but unfortunately, I forgot that cats are evil sadistic bastards. Now, they've learned they can piss me off by taking out the disc everytime I'm in the middle of watching a DVD.
Oh come on now. You know you love it when I drive by your house and blast Ace of Base. I can hear you from inside your computer room everytime singing "Don't Turn Around."
Maybe, if they didn't have their software installed unwantingly by hidden methods of attaching to other software and trick pop-ups, then they wouldn't have laws passed against them. Of course, at the same time, nobody in their right mind would install their crap. I mean seriously, who would be excited about some new freeware they found that redirects their surfing and increases their amount of popup ads. Even when they don't have a browser open.
Neo! Step away from the MMORPG. Go out with a girl... I mean go follow the white rabbit. I mean no!!! Don't stalk the rabbit. Ask it out for dinner and a movie.
How about a good GhostBusters FPS. It would be the perfect idea for a TEEN rated game... maybe even younger. Hopefully, shooting a positron collider at ghosts won't cause any underage violence issues, but then again, parents need something to blame their failings on.
"I remember hearing a governor say that at some point, it's going to come down to having his highway patrol stop all the little brown (United Parcel Service) trucks and see where the stuff is from and where it's going."
And what happens when they pull over a USPS truck? Will it result in a state versus federal government struggle?
This idea is kickass. Then you could go to the porn store and pick up a movie and a violent game at one time. Then if your girl sees a reciept on your table for the porn store; you can say, "I just bought a game. I swear!"
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Oh god, not another MMORPG. Boring... Zzzzz
It's all a matter of size. In small maps, lower is better. Otherwise, you have an insane fragfest where you die immediately after spawning. In larger maps, more is better. If you have a few people in a very large map, you spend all your time looking for somebody or capturing each others flags while never seeing your opponent. Currently BF Vietnam is best to me on a server of about 24 players. And, I'm sure most people won't agree with me, but I think occasionally TKers can turn a game that's getting monotonous into something fun for a little bit. But most of the time, they're just an annoyance.
"The gaming industry really needs to learn that they can't blitz a product to market at less-than-optimal quality, and expuct the publc to shell out $50+ without complaint."
The Slashdot commmunity really needs to learn to check their spelling. What is "expuct" and "publc"?
Funny, I thought Warcraft 3 and Diablo 2 were very good games. Diablo 2, I know to have been much better than the original and sold tons. There's never anything wrong with sequels when they are done right. It's just that most aren't so they're an easy scapegoat for blaming loss of inovation. If they had been trying to be "safe" with Diablo 2, everybody would've been hunting for books to learn spells.
This is rather pointless. How many times and how long are people going to keep going on about the "downfall" of PC Games. I play games on the PC because I like them better. My girlfriend plays games on our Gamecube because she likes them better. It's all just a matter of choice. And as long as some portion of people continue to choose PC's over consoles, it will always be there. The reasons why you stick to one side are your own personal combination of reasons, but all in all, you just stick with what you like best. The balance will lean one way and then another, but never completely to either side. Console companies will rise and fall, but PC's will always remain a contender in the game market.
Yes, but the real excitement is that Duke Nukem Forever should be out any day now... OH wait, I totally forgot. That was like 4 years ago or something.
Actually, what would be really cool is a gaming tuned distro that on the site you selected from lists all the hardware in your system and then you were directed to an iso containing all the needed drivers, installers, and other requirements of games that currently run under Linux. It would take a lot of time, money, and space to individually tweak an iso for as many possible combinations as you could make, but I think there are alot of people that have a gaming machine separate from their regular internet/downloading machine on the network and would use a distro custom built for their machine to game on. And install to the freaking hard drive for the love of God. Bootable ISO's are cool for toying around with, demoing, or running on your office/work machine; but you should really install to your hard drive at home if you plan on using it regularly.
I've got it good though. I play Battlefield Vietnam or work on my Linux servers. My girlfriend does Photoshop and is addicted to a forum and Xanga. We take turns on going to the kitchen to get drinks. Occasionally, I have to turn the speakers down, but other than that it works out great.
Personally, I love my little Elantra. I just crossed 60K miles and changed the timing belt. Other than that, the only maintanence I've had to do is oil/filter change. I've never seen the check engine light on my car. :P
I would hope that if you spend the amount of money that it costs for an Laserjet 4300. You would spring the extra money for the one with the network port. What would be the purpose of buying a Laserjet 4300 if you could only print as fast as a parallel port?
Kill Rock Stars Rulez!!! Sleater Kinney kicks ass. I've seen them in concert twice. I also have albums from Gravy Train, Bikini Kill, Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP Master, Julie Ruin, Stereo Total and more.
You know, if only people would put forth some of the money they spend on amps and subs into paddening their car with dampening material, there wouldn't be so many complaints about cars with systems. I like listening to my music loud, but I quite understand that the people around me may not want to hear Slayer's Reign in Blood on the way to work. So, when I do my next sound system upgrade, I plan on adding in some sound dampening material to keep the radio in and road noise out. I don't hear outside junk cutting into my music, and people outside do not have to hear my trunk rattling. As long as I make sure to pay extra attention to the road for ambulances, fire trucks, and police cars, it's a win-win situation.
"It wants to create the entire standard of gaming across every platform. Scratch that. It wants to own the entire standard of gaming across every platform. This isn't about warring between incompatible standards, it's about creating a standard - a VHS-standard of ubiquity." Except this VHS will only work in one company's VCR...
Now is the time, if any, for people to start making games work in Linux as best as possible. If something isn't done soon, all the gaming manufacturers will start building games to work with this system and make them completely unusable in Linux.
First sea pirates, then computer pirates, now shoplifting pirates...
Hey, maybe they'll have a demo of Duke Nukem Forever at E3 this year... NOT!!!
At my work, we have on one of our machines a Nakamichi 5 cd changer. That thing is horrifically loud. And it's really nice when you do something in Windows (like open My Computer) that pulls up all the drives. Click Click 5-6 times as it goes thru every freaking disc in the changer. I hate that drive. It's like a 2-3 minute process everytime I make and accidental drive check. Even if you go to the shutdown screen and cancel.
I'm working on a fix to the CON. At first, I thought about using my girlfriend's dog, but I wasn't quite sure it was up to the skill of the task. So then, I figured I would teach my cats to change the cd's. They've picked up the lesson quite well, but unfortunately, I forgot that cats are evil sadistic bastards. Now, they've learned they can piss me off by taking out the disc everytime I'm in the middle of watching a DVD.
Oh come on now. You know you love it when I drive by your house and blast Ace of Base. I can hear you from inside your computer room everytime singing "Don't Turn Around."
Maybe, if they didn't have their software installed unwantingly by hidden methods of attaching to other software and trick pop-ups, then they wouldn't have laws passed against them. Of course, at the same time, nobody in their right mind would install their crap. I mean seriously, who would be excited about some new freeware they found that redirects their surfing and increases their amount of popup ads. Even when they don't have a browser open.
Neo! Step away from the MMORPG. Go out with a girl... I mean go follow the white rabbit. I mean no!!! Don't stalk the rabbit. Ask it out for dinner and a movie.
How about a good GhostBusters FPS. It would be the perfect idea for a TEEN rated game... maybe even younger. Hopefully, shooting a positron collider at ghosts won't cause any underage violence issues, but then again, parents need something to blame their failings on.
"I remember hearing a governor say that at some point, it's going to come down to having his highway patrol stop all the little brown (United Parcel Service) trucks and see where the stuff is from and where it's going."
And what happens when they pull over a USPS truck? Will it result in a state versus federal government struggle?
Actually, I think rap music was taking the hit in the 90's. Maybe D&D in the 80's.
This idea is kickass. Then you could go to the porn store and pick up a movie and a violent game at one time. Then if your girl sees a reciept on your table for the porn store; you can say, "I just bought a game. I swear!"