Gryphon
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So,
Games have come a loooooooooooooong way since the Pocket PC's 2000 launch. There's a growing flood of 3D games (GeoPod, a racing game), RTS games (Age of Empires, Argentum), Adventure (originals, as well as SCUMM emulation), and so on.
Palms are slowly catching up, too. I own one of each but Palm OS games just don't cut the mustard graphically enough for me.
Anyway, do any of you own a PDA, and do you use it for gaming? What are you playing? What do you hope to see?
The first person that wants a 3000AD game gets a cookie.
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quote:Originally posted by Reno:I think most of their creative processes were expended with KOTOR. Either that, or George is slippin with keeping the quality of his licenses in check.
Whoa there Reno, credit for KOTOR goes to Bioware
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quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr:They killed, uhm, a Polar bear. On a tropical island.
Yes. This put an interesting spin on things, and smacks of Dr. Moreau. Next we'll be seeing five-assed monkeys.
quote:How can a transciever (obviously from the previous French folks that crashed there I presume) be transmitting for 16+ yrs, when the one they got from their crash aircraft, was already almost out of batteries?It (the french transmission) attached to a power source of some sort. Presumably there is a secret abandoned military laboratory on the island with a nuclear generator where evil scientists modified animals to make them Eeeeeeevvvviiillllll and that transmitter is using said power source.
quote:And how - in God's name - could that ex-Republican Guard military guy, figure out - from transmitting intervals - that the signal had been transmitting for 16+ years. Just by listening to the same repeating signal.Heh, this is the part that I found hillarious, actually. See, after the french voice said its bit, the english voice counted out the numbers. Those numbers actually represented the amount of times the distress call had been transmitted. Syeed (sp?) took that number and the length of the recording, did some math in his head, and translated the result to be 16 years.
What I found hillarious is that most of my older relatives in Italy know how to do this sort of math in their head, sans calculator. I assume the man is either very intelligent, or got a decent education of the non-north american variety.
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quote:Originally posted by Tac:Funniest of all was that most peeps that called in pretty much said they had their sim going around doing crazy stuff & impregnating all females in the neighborhood.[QB]
Hey, why didn't I think of that?!?!?! LOL
quote:[QB]Talk of mods to allow more criminal type stuff and x-rated mods were to be expected soon.Yes, I have heard of a nude patch already. Gawds.
Anyway, I got a chance to play it last night with the wife. Just like many of the games this year, 'tis evolutionary, rather than revolutionary. It's nice to have a proper 3D camera, I love the attention to detail that has of course become expected of this franchise.
It is, however, the exact same game as the first. It has a few new innovations that expand on the formula --- such as hopes & fears, Sims remembering past events, etc. --- but not enough to keep me interested. In a week I'll be back to Rome: TW or finally get started on Call of Duty's Russian campaign.
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Thanks for the offer of help Mordax, but I got it going.
I was actually on my way out the door returning it when I thought of how disappointed my wife is. So I just turned around and put my mad skillz to work and boof, it installed.
Still a PITA.
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Right.
So I got a copy because my wife is a HUGE fan. And what happens? I can't get through the install process on TWO DIFFERENT COMPUTERS.
*WTF*?
This smacks of some crappy copy protection scheme. I can't seem to get past CD3, 49%. Just...freezes. And there's only so much of that bloody installation game a person can handle.
Sigh!
I really wanted this to work. But I am SICK AND TIRED of having to jump hoops to play my bloody video games. I lost a precious hour last night trying to get this to work. Now I'll have to either try to make a disc image of the damn game and hope it doesn't do CD checks (highly unlikely) or I'll have to return it (highly likely).
This was all well and good when I was getting paid to play these things, but now it is just sad. Makes me wanna...
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I believe they have implemented war dogs, with which to frighten the elephants.
Or flaming arrows. I cannot recall which.
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GrayFox, what's this Zama & Cannae that you are talking about? Historical battles?
No doubt there will be a campaign editor along eventually.
I understand the "Risk style" map is where the game truly shines, BTW, more so than the 3D battles.
I for one have tried the demo and find it to be the very definition of...wonderful. It is so good it is pants.
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quote:Originally posted by Cruis.In:what do you expect? that video card is old... and slow now for what Doom 3 wants to do... And it is slowing down your system, a 3.7ghz with a radeon 9000 mobility?? I have a radeon 9000 in my p 1.7 inspiron 8200 from 2002. In my view the 9000 was the first best mobile card to play games on because it could run almost anything for its time and after. For doom 3 it's smooth if you use 640 * low detail.
Hard to believe isn't it? But the power of the 3.7GHz P4 has nothing to do with the slowness of Doom 3. It is entirely the video cards fault. One, it uses shared memory. Two, it is a DirectX 8 compliant card.
I have no qualms about running the game at 640x480, because I think the environments look good, regardless. My qualms are about the character models. Unless you are at the high detail setting, the models look like total crap and aren't frightening in the least. Which takes away from the experience, in my book. Does that make sense?
quote:Im curious as to why you have such an obviously new laptop with such an old video card, what happened to the x800... or 9800 or 9600...A laptop with a REAL video card in it (like what Alienware does) is totally out of my price range. In order to buy something this tough, in fact, I've been saving up for months and sold my old desktop machine (Athlon 2700 XP, 512MB RAM, 120GB HD, Radeon 9600 XT All-in-Wonder). Anyway, I don't play games as much as I used to anymore and when I do it is generally something from two years ago, like Mideval: Total War, so a top of the line gaming rig isn't high on the totem pole. I need something I can bring with me to work so I can keep running my own life and not use the employer's machines...
quote:SNIP THOUGHTS ON GAMETotally in agreement.
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quote:Originally posted by street:As a former Resident of RockHill, I can relate.been outta there, for close to 5 years now...Thank God!!Nice place to be, if your not trying to get ahead
You said it, brother! Charlotte, and cities like it (Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Nashville, etc.) are perfect for people with established careers that want to get a family going. Out of university you get a shitty job, claw your way up the corporate ladder, become a VP, have 2.3 kids...and move to the south, where you can get acres of land and an enormous home for pennies.
I'll take my urban jungle, pan handlers and, most important of all, NEIGHBOURHOOD, over desolate, SUV infested suburbia any day.
And listen to me...my proximity to Berkeley is affecting my political views
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So yeah, to revive a looooooong dead thread
I'm doing slightly better now than I was. The solution was mildly simple. I moved.
Yes, facing total ruin and down to about two months worth of savings, despite working two jobs, we decided to get the heck of out Charlotte, NC. We moved to San Francisco and I signed up with temp agencies and got a temp job in about a week, paying a whole heck of a lot more than anything in Charlotte did. And cost of living isn't ridiculous either --- I live in Oakland and have a very relaxing 45 minute commute by train
I started off pimping my (sigh) Microsoft Office skills. If anything, people were more amazed by my 93+ word per minute ability, then they were by my writing/technology background. It lead to a job at a startup where they needed someone with MS Access skills. I'm now a project manager for them as they try to build an order entry system for their products, and have been with them for five months. Still as a temp I'm afraid, but I haven't quit looking for full time work and I think things are going to be a wee bit calmer on the home front.
Until the job ends anyway!
Thanks again for all the help and advice, all.
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I'm loving Atlantis, and I especially like the fact that...SPOILER ALERT!
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Humans are playing the part of serious villains. I'm talking about the folks from the "summer finale", episode 10, specifically. They are great villains --- doing bad things with a good reason.
I love the humor inherent in the show --- Dr. Mckay is just the best.
I would like to see more of the city itself, however.
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Also caught it, and I agree with the SC --- if this turns out to be some cliched Dinosaur pap I will spit pea soup. I do however agree that I don't think it is.
I assume however that I will be dreadfully disappointed when they finally do reveal what the thing is. Imagination is so much better at filling in the blanks, when it comes to that sort of thing
Anyway, I think the first fifteen minutes were pretty damn good. They handled the whole plane crash scene convincingly. That engine/turbine/whatever that kept spinning up and down was a damn fine touch. And seeing that guy get sucked into it reminded me of Firefly, which is always a good thing. heheheh.
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Managed to finally load this up on a 3.7GHz laptop with a Radeon 9000. 512MB of RAM in the laptop, gave the video card frame buffer 128MB of that system RAM to work with.
The game, she runneth like crap. At 800x600, low detail, the going is pretty rough. The environments look great, but the character models and shading are shite.
The video card is to blame of course. I know.
Anyway, played up until that first imp shows up (shortly after getting the shotgun) and am impressed nonetheless. Good ambiance, nicely scripted events. Zombies don't terrify me half as much as they should, but I'd say that is because it takes them about a minute to walk towards me as I try to shoot them at 12 frames per second
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quote:Originally posted by $iLk:A 40K FPS came out early this year.
Ah yes, the mediocre "Fire Warrior." An average FPS at best.
Dawn of War is sexxxaaayyyyy. I've loved 40K based licenses since Space Crusade, and this one just takes the cake.
In fact, if any of you in here have not yet tried Epic Warhammer 40K: Final Liberation (released in the late 90's) you should do yourselves a favor and buy it online. Excellent tactical wargame based on the 40K license.
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I think it is a fabulous idea, as distribution for an indie goes.
I just spent ten minutes writing something that turned out to be meaningless drivel, so I erased it all and will leave it at this:
online distro = good, but keep an eye on price. I would expect games distributed online only to cost less than a retail game due to savings in national distribution, box & manual printing, national print marketing, etc.
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Hey all,
Thanks so much for your replies. I've been working as a temp for a couple months now - and its been keeping me somewhat busy, just not enough. That's what's been keeping me from replying here actually - two nights a week on third shift, then 8-5 every day...and this labour day, three shifts in a row. Overtime city!
As I'm an alien (Canadian! HAH!) living in the states, the army and such are, unfortunately, out of my reach. So is just about any government job
Regardless, thank you so much for your suggestions. This is such a great community board that you pull together even for lurkers like me. I appreciate it so much.
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Well, it's certainly not for lack of trying but I need a job. I need a job yesterday.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get a job fast? Any job?
Ever day I Scour Monster.com, Flipdog.com and CareerBuilder.com. And, of course, a few others every other day. I send out at least a dozen resumes every day, usually twenty. I have scoured numerous books and websites on how to write and format your cover letter/resume and I'm up to speed on that.
I just can't get a job. I mean, *ANY* job. Heck, I applied to be a garbage collector and never heard back. I was a professional copywriter, technical writer and journalist. I have sales and marketing skills. I know Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Photoshop and just about all the software worth mentioning at a professional level.
And no one is so much as writing back to say, "No, thanks."
I am literally at a point where I have to take something - anything - or I've destroyed our lives. I got us into this mess. My wife is relying on me to clean it up. I've tried every day for three months. I planned for this day years ago, even saved up enough money to last through a year of unemployment. We're down to three months.
And yeah, I guess I do need to vent and share my sob story.
So. Any ideas on how I can get a job yesterday? Thanks.
Erik
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I have it.
It's made 4X *fun* again.
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I think this may end up being one of those long threads.
First, let me say that reading the books will shed a lot of light on what I'm about to say and I highly recommend doing so - the Dune series is literature, not sci-fi.
Anyway, those big Rama-like ships are Heighliners. They are piloted by "Navigators", humans who have - voluntarily - submitted to being bathed, immersed and fed with the spice. The spice eventually makes them look like whatever they end up looking like.
It also gives them the ability to travel to any point in space they wish. They could theoretically do that with any ship they please, but the Heighliner is what the Navigator's guild uses. They can transport ships and cargo and people inside them.
Been a while since I read the books, but that's the gist of 'em.
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Hi Race,
Yep, that sounds like big trouble to me. Can you give us more details? What were the last things you've installed in the past, say, five days? Added any new hardware? Also, can you give us your system specs, including what operating system you have and what utility software you use? (Norton utilities, for example)
In the meantime, here's something you can do. It will probably result in your losing your data, however, but not knowing any details it's all I can offer at the moment.
Do you have Windows ME or XP? These come on bootable CDs. I believe certain versions of Windows 98 did as well.
Pop your OS CD in your CD-ROM drive, reboot your computer. Go into your BIOS setup and tell your comptuer to boot using the CD-ROM *FIRST*. Save and exit. With luck, windows setup will get going and hopefully give you the chance to MERELY reinstall windows. At the worst, you'll get a chance to format your hard drive. That will result in your losing everything, of course.
Give us some more info Race
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Lord David hit it smack on the nose. Quadro cards are not meant for gamers, guys - and though I've never actually used one, reviews I've read in the past indicate that they do not offer any sort of performance boost in games beyond the top of the line card for that generation.
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Kal, my guess is you must've seen the price for an entire system, or perhaps the site owner was smoking de wacky tobacky or something. There's no way in hell it'll be that high.
My guess is the top model will be $500 at the most.
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The only things I'd like to see:
1) Tougher capital ships, to allow for longer, perhaps even more strategic fights. This would make assaulting one of those invincible starstations easier.
2) "Auto-generated missions available from stations" - Quantum. If they can be generated in difficulty according to rank, that would own. It would also give mercs/assassins something to do, and might even give explorers something to do. "ie. go explore planet mars, zone xx, leave probe behind, gain 30,000 credits"
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Ok ok ok, I got it now.
The island is a living creature that can read minds. When the kid read through the comic and saw the polar bear, the island created the polar bear!
Yes. And it must devour or attempt to devour at least one character every episode!