Neat to see there's still population 'round here :-P.

I don't actually have anything to comment on in regards to any of the
video game stuff talked about between you two. Just popping in a "hi
there." I don't play video games like I once did. :-P

Okay, I guess I do have two cents to put in. I think that DNF is
gonna suck in comparison to the development time. I've been waiting
for it like nearly ever since finishing Duke3D. (Actually I guess it
was like a year or two after that game that they announced development
of it, wasn't it?) Once upon a time I would have bought this game the
day it came out. Now I'll probably buy it a couple years after it
comes out and it's sitting in the bargain bin. What's a few more,
right? :-P

Actually, I recall when it was first announced as being a spiffy 3D
FPS (I believe that the title was going to be used for a 2D
sidescroller originally) I wasn't interested because I had a 486 and
Quake only ran at 4fps on my machine, so I knew that the new Duke
game, which would surely be finished in a year or two, wouldn't run at
all on my machine. Then as time went by and the game still wasn't
released, eventually I upgraded to a spiffy Athlon... with a TNT2
card. Max Payne runs fine, but I guess I'm on the lowest of low ends
of machines yet again, a "mere" 1.1Ghz. "Only" 128MB RAM. My video
card has just 16MB of memory! Oh dear, I'm gonna go on a rant about
"the old days" ;). Recalling that my PSX has I think the same amount
of RAM as my video card, with 2 being reserved for video (I wonder how
incorrect I am here, been a while since I reviewed the specs,) and the
games for it still rock... goodness, will the focus ever return to
making games that are enjoyable first, pretty second? I could play
Jet Moto 2 for hours... if I had new tracks, anyways. It's high time
I upgrade to Jet Moto 3. :-P

Is there still even a market for FPSs? Max Payne was the first one
I've seen in a while with any sort of innovation to it. Actually I
guess that one's a TPS, never mind... They're all the same. I'd be
content with a copy of Duke3D that was designed to work with Windows
so I could play it with sound again. Just a couple weeks ago
(actually I think it's been like a month and a half now) I was playing
a DukeMatch, but without sound it just isn't nearly as fun. (Noting
that there was some commenting on free software, I use Linux as my
primary operating system, but keep Windows on here for the rare times
when I want to play video games. I have no problem with booting to
Windows to play a game, though my sound card actually works better in
Linux than in Windows. Not that this is relevant to much if
anything.)


-Steven
(A voice from far far in the past.)