It depends on your definition of "hardcore" I suppose, but it definitely has nothing to do with the genre. I consider myself an RPG/RTS hardcore gamer. And at one point in time, a hardcore FPS gamer. In all those cases, its more got to do with the time I spent with them. I "casually" play StarCraft or AvP in skirmish mode once in a while, but I'd consider a Bejeweled or Solitaire junkie who plays several hours a night into the morning, even more "hardcore" than myself.
It won't kill off Linux, but will seriously damage Longhorn 2007/8. Since Microsoft has a big stake in Apple, wouldn't it be surprising IF Longhorn = OSX86? Now that's a horrid thought.
Linux has already beaten desktop WinXP hands-down, but, what about the games? You still need Win to run most of them. Major game publishers have been targeting the Mac, but I still don't see any major games written/ported for/to Linux. And a lot of Linux users keep a Win partition for these things.
Its true, on another level, its also about the games. For the longest time, I kept switching back to DOS (from win3.1) because the "latest and the greatest" games were written and optimized for DOS. Unless it was solitaire, or some simple DOS game, I wouldn't run windows. Fast forward a decade... I'm using Linux but I have to maintain a win partition, even with WINE if I am to run the "latest and the greatest" games. I strongly suspect that even the most hardened linux-heads still keep windows to run their games. This is yet another chain we must be free of.
Being a civ2 clone, I hope this doesn't get a cease-and-desist order like http://freecraft.org/. So far it's been out of the radar. It would be a pity if the big guys went after such a great game like this. No, freeciv isn't just a copy. I actually like it better than its commercial counterparts. It's one of the best open-source games out here!
And think about it, if $869.76 a huge sum in the US, that's 2+ months worth of wages in China, giving him all the more reason to get mad. It's kinda like losing some $9,000 in the States. Now, would you kill somebody over that?
Wow, so this means I'll be able to slam-dunk, make fade-away jumpers in real life just by playing NBA Live? There's probably a strong connection somewhere...
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It depends on your definition of "hardcore" I suppose, but it definitely has nothing to do with the genre. I consider myself an RPG/RTS hardcore gamer. And at one point in time, a hardcore FPS gamer. In all those cases, its more got to do with the time I spent with them. I "casually" play StarCraft or AvP in skirmish mode once in a while, but I'd consider a Bejeweled or Solitaire junkie who plays several hours a night into the morning, even more "hardcore" than myself.
It won't kill off Linux, but will seriously damage Longhorn 2007/8. Since Microsoft has a big stake in Apple, wouldn't it be surprising IF Longhorn = OSX86? Now that's a horrid thought.
Linux has already beaten desktop WinXP hands-down, but, what about the games? You still need Win to run most of them. Major game publishers have been targeting the Mac, but I still don't see any major games written/ported for/to Linux. And a lot of Linux users keep a Win partition for these things.
Its true, on another level, its also about the games. For the longest time, I kept switching back to DOS (from win3.1) because the "latest and the greatest" games were written and optimized for DOS. Unless it was solitaire, or some simple DOS game, I wouldn't run windows. Fast forward a decade... I'm using Linux but I have to maintain a win partition, even with WINE if I am to run the "latest and the greatest" games. I strongly suspect that even the most hardened linux-heads still keep windows to run their games. This is yet another chain we must be free of.
Quake 5 (after this one) might be pushing it too far in terms of story. I wonder if they'll ever do a Quake Zero, a prequel?
Being a civ2 clone, I hope this doesn't get a cease-and-desist order like http://freecraft.org/. So far it's been out of the radar. It would be a pity if the big guys went after such a great game like this. No, freeciv isn't just a copy. I actually like it better than its commercial counterparts. It's one of the best open-source games out here!
And think about it, if $869.76 a huge sum in the US, that's 2+ months worth of wages in China, giving him all the more reason to get mad. It's kinda like losing some $9,000 in the States. Now, would you kill somebody over that?
Wow, so this means I'll be able to slam-dunk, make fade-away jumpers in real life just by playing NBA Live? There's probably a strong connection somewhere...