Elderscrolls. Games that require "living" in-game, not just playing. People either love em. Or they hate em. Morrowind was fucking great. Tribunal was erm, rather sad, and Bloodmoon was cool cos of the snow and the WW, but other than that it was kind of bla. I hope that Oblivion will include the whole of, Tamriel however i realise that would be a little too much to hope for. (Remember Daggerfall anyone?) One little thing that I noticed is the cute Horsie that the Knight was riding on.
Horses in RPGS. Sounds logical doesnt it?
SO WHY THE FUCK DIDNT ANYONE DO ANY SINCE FUCKING DAGGERFALL??????????????????

Im really hoping that there will be mounts, and that there will be mounted combat.

Bioware has sold out.
Neverwinter nights was proof of that. That game was meant for the mainstream dumbass masses.

2 words.
"MUD"
and
"www.achaea.com"

Ok thats a few more than 2.
Achaea is 10 years ahead of where WoW or any other so called MMORPG is or will be.
And its free.

Another brilliant Idea from Mr Genius himslef. The Fatboy does it again.....
Shit....I swear some people never learn. Steam should have failed ages ago, if this doesnt bring it down then its meant to be.

Ok, this morning i picked up the chainsaw for the first time.
Suddenly this bleak and dark horror game turned into a beautifull blood-red gorefest. Imps are actually running away from me now, i guess the crazed grin, the smell of petrol and the 40pound chainsaw in my hands are doing the trick!

The $1,000,000 for rights to use the game engine in a commercial product is way too high, but I think it was around $50,000 for Quake2...might have gone up since then though...in fact, you can count on it being closer to the $100,000 mark.

Actually $ 1.000.000 for the Doom 3 engine should be quite close to the mark. Maybe developers close to Id like Raven get a discount but im pretty sure that if Epic wanted to licence the Doom 3 engine they would have to pay a hefty sum to do it, and vice versa.

About 140.00 at most would an FX 5700 work ok?
Thanks
BTO

FX 5700 would probably be ideally suited for your system specs. But the FX series also proved to be rather flawed compared to the radeon 9xxx series. So id rather get a
Radeon 9600 Pro, even though the ATI cards are supposed to perform worse than the Nvidia cards, this is so far only true when compared to the brand new Geforce 6xxx cards.

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www.zdaemon.org
Download the Client, install, and voilla!
Your all set for Doom 2, online multiplayer fragging!
Best FPS of all time, neck and neck with quake1.
Will see how Doom3 fares

Id still like to pick it up and use it though....
Why do zombies get to use cooler weapons than marines??
Its unfair....
Im betting someone will mod it in though in about 6 months or so once they figure out the mod tools for this massively complicated to build and mod game.

FAT32 or NTFS. Whats better. And why?

Ghandi perhaps China wasnt the best example but you have to take under consideration that China has a population of 1.2 Billion. Its a lot of people. And please when u quote me look at the whole of my post before qoting pieces of it that can be interpreted any way you want.
The U.S accepts more foreign students than any other country in the world because it has NONE OF ITS OWN, that are actually any good. It has a very good education system if you can AFFORD IT! or if youre lucky enough to get a scholarship.

Walt C you are obviously oversimplifying the issue of Capitalism vs Socialism!
There is a also the issue of a Socialist country and Democratic Socialism which are two totally different things and of course would hardly be understandable to an average US citizen like yourself. For e.g France is not a Socialist country. It is a capitalist country much like your own.
China is a Socialist country.

If you cant understand the difference between the two than feel free to ignore the rest of this post. The example of overtaxation on Air Conditioning has nothing to do with Socialism or Capitalism or any other -isms. Its government policy. A government that has been freely elected. Unlike the one currently in power in the White House.

I agree that Socialism or rather Kommunism are very dificult to implement but China seems to be doing rather well under this system, dont u think?
And yes people are poorer and a lot of their Political and Personal freedom is lost in the grander sense, but look on the positive sides.
Crime is very low, almost non-existant. There is very little favoritism. There are no social differences (since everyone has a similar income) which leads to less social unrest. Medical welfare is guaranteed to everyone. Equal oportunities at education for everyone (Why do u think the former Soviet Union had the best education system in the world?). etc. etc.
While I agree with you that socialism isnt suited for people today, since corruption and personal greed are inherited together with power, someday perhaps more sensible less greedy and more evolved humans will realise its potential.

LoL!!!!!
Free game dude, did i hear someone say CD-key generator?
Did i hear someone say, copy-protection crack...
I gotta say this has gotta be one of the most stupid marketing stunts ever. Who hires these people??? No wonder game companies are going under in such great numbers

Whats the deal with these new cards coming out in PCI-Express configs???
Does that mean that they are inserted in to your PCI slots??
Could someone explain this to me? I mean isnt AGP like 10 times faster???? What gives....?

Im not sure about HL2, but D3 uses per-poly (or even per-pixel) hit detection system. Which means that the only way to score a hit is to actually hit the player model. Unfortunately this means that all player skins and or models will have to be identical otherwise smaller/thinner etc. models would have an advantage. The good thing about it is that it eliminates problems like the one that started this thread

In interviews, Roth always said he made the lyrics fun, which is probably why you think Hagar's lyrics are sappy. Different attitudes.

MK was all about graphics, glitz and amusement. The SF series was about gameplay, adrenaline, and fighting. This is supported by the fact that all the MK never made it big in Japan. For those that disagree, go to any arcade in Japan, like I did for two years straight, and just see how far your stupid juggling, friendship, combos get. Speed and reflexes are the true sport of fighting games. SF gets it done right. Americans are famous in Japan because they are fat, and eat so much, yet a Japanese guy can eat more hot dogs. What's up with that?

Erm....your post makes perfect sense yes...Hhahaha...Some people on this board are just too much....:):):)

Im pretty sure the only reason why Nvidia is gaining so much on ATI in Doom 3 is cos of the Alpha leakage. If any of you remember the first time people were shown Doom 3 footage, the
game ran on an ATI based gaming rig. Carmack and ATI had a great relationship and everything was super! Untill some jerk at ATI decided to leak the Alpha they were using for driver optimisation. At that point Carmack and id were pretty pissed off so they decided to go Nvidia all the way and optimise the game as much as they could for Nvidia based cards...Thats all there is to it

I wish I had money to spend on a new graphics card...:)
I barely have enough to put food on the table and pay my internet bill....
This whole discussion about which is better Nvidia or ATI is a waste of time, both companies make good graphics accelerators
I for one am glad that there are two good manufacturers out there pushing each other to the limits to make good cards and im hoping a third is out there waiting to jump in the fray! (For obvious reasons)

Take a junior-level Computer Architecture course before you troll like this.

I happen to be a Computer Science student and i was reffering to the cost it takes to make a chip, the actuall cost of the materials and the proccesses involved are very cheap. Just read Zathruses post. Build a Computer fab in Thailand and it pays for itself in under 6 months. The rest almost pure profit my ignorant friend. This in turn probably gets invested in new fabs and or resarch and development. But a profit margin of 500% on a modern PC CPU is not an overestimate by any means.

There is no way in hell that there is a 500% profit margin on chips...not even 50%

This is bullshit. AMD manufactures its chips in Malaysia or Thailand, at a manufacture cost of 1.5-3 dollars per processor. This doesnt of course include the millions of dollars that they invest in research and development but even with those costs they make a HUUUUGGGEEEE amount of profit. Intel is more expensive simply because it is THE brand name, but now that AMD's popularity is growing expect their prices to rise to the occasion