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Goooooooo Edmonton! Hemsky's shot was phenomenol. He was like "I think I'll put my shot.....there!" BAM, goal. Horcoff with another one. I really hope he has a breakout season, and it seems Cross' play in the preseason stayed in the preseason. I felt he played a solid game (as in he just did his job). Smyth is hurt though

I'm betting on Knights of the Old Republic without the Star Wars franchise type experience. Really? Actually, you'd need 4 chairs to make it have a comparable level of emptiness, as you'd be increasing the area by a factor of 4 (100 vs 400). I'm looking forward to Oblivion and how it's Radiant AI works.

So how's Allison's hip? I'm still predicting Horcoff to go 93-164-257 point wise this season

Another analysis of HL2 performance: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2541&p=5

So which site is more accurate? EDIT: And thanks for ripping on my purchasing decisions.....

I haven't had problems with an ATI driver for a long time, which is why I'm not bothered by them. I'm also not concerned with the multi GPU platform, since I cannot afford it, nor do I feel it is necessary. I haven't been keeping up on things, as my Radeon 9800 Pro still serves me just fine. At the time the Radeon 9600 series was far and away the best bang for your buck. A quick check though, and I notice that the Crossfire X850XT can beat two SLI 7800 GTX chips in Half-Life 2. Based on the benchmarks at Tom's Hardware it still looks like ATI = DX9 (or at least Half-Life 2) and nVidia = OpenGL. In both cases, performances are still plenty fast enough. The most intriguing thing about the Crossfire that I noticed is that it doesn't require identical cards. EDIT: Interesting that it's better to play Half-Life 2 with 1 card rather than SLI (!)

There was an option that would auto aim to the closest guy, I always turned that on to make up for the off screen difficulties. It would only work when you first pushed the button, so you still had to let go and reuse. I still remember RE2, and I quite enjoyed the game. I tried playing RE afterwards, and turned it off once the dude said "Whoa! You were almost, a...Jill Sandwich!!!"

I remember the controls being fine for a dpad. But I think I would struggle using an analog stick for some reason.

I think it's fair to consider the (1996) Rage a gaming chip for its own pre-voodoo moment in history, and it was billed as a 3D accelerator, which was a perfectly reasonable title for it at the time and was accurate in practice, insofar as it did provide some limited support for hardware acceleration of, for example, Mechwarrior 2. At any rate, it was no worse than the NV1 or Virge (which, was my own first 3D card) among pre-3DFX attempts at gaming chips, even if the Verite did ultimately outclassed it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I was actually referring to the Rage128, which came out in the 1998/1999 area. I was wholly unimpressed with a Rage Pro 8MB I had received for free. It didn't have native OpenGL support, and obviously no Glide. Imagine my confusion when I figured it would be possible to play 3D games, but since Glide was still the big boy I was SOL. The Rage128 (Rage Fury) was the first ATI card I had that had good 3D performance. It had fantastic Quake 2 performance, though initially it had subpar performance, particularly on AMD K6 processors. Then they released a patch that had 3DNow! support, and I was in a whole different world. Finally I could play games with fast 3D support!!! As I'm a supporter of the underdog, I continue to support ATI. Although their Linux drivers leave a lot to desire. Fortunately I don't do too much 3D activities in Linux.

No, the developers were

As much as it goes against my Tireless Rebutter persona, I'm with you on this one.

Any goalie should be traded for Luongo

The town near my parents has an EB games, and it's population is roughly 18,000. http://clients.mapquest.com/eb/mqlocator Although there's EB Games in Ankeny, although it's 20 miles away from Ames.

The penalties are a necessary evil. If they stop blowing the whistle, then nothing gets changed.

Quake 2 supports OpenGL natively. It came with the default OpenGL driver support, as well as 3dfx OpenGL (the miniwrapper for it) and PowerVR support. Quake 1 did have a patch though, and it was called GLQuake. Although I think the game was always coded in OpenGL, just not with 3D accelerator hardware support. I assume it just used the software OpenGL driver, as I can't imagine reworking an entire engine to support OpenGL if it didn't support it to begin with. Unless it's easier than I figure. 3D cards became "for real" quite a bit before Quake 2 was released. The Voodoo had already been out for a while, and I believe the Voodoo2 had already been released before Quake 2 came out. Quake 2 was still the definitive FPS when such chips as the Voodoo3 and TNT2 Ultra came out. ATI's first "gaming" chip, the Rage128, was specifically optimized for Quake 2.

Is there such a thing as a true myth? I assume Volourn is talking about the Sleep spell too?

I bow before the wonder that is Gromnir! HA! Good fun!

What's the measuring stick for declaring an EA Sports game better than a competitor?

Nah, it's just because people don't know any better. Again, just because people buy them, does not make them good. The 2K games, particularly for Basketball and Hockey, are better games, particularly from a simulation standpoint. Unfortunately, EA Sports has crazy brand recognition. IMO they've fallen from grace, and I do not praise them anymore for their games in the 90s, which definitely were the better games, especially compared to the competition.

Just because a game is popular doesn't make it good.

Although you could probably contend that it's not that difficult to maintain the dominance with the acquistion of exclusive licenses. Somebody could make a better version, and we'll never know

OMG, owned again. He DID play for the Coyotes. Clearly that was a memorable season! He did only play 59 games though.

Amonte was a Flyer. I think Langkow was the Phoenix guy you're thinking of. Amonte's not THAT old, and he has great hands. You don't lose those with age. I suspect he'll have a good season this year with Iginla.

I think the fact that he considers most EA Sports games to be good just about says it all.

I was bringing them up more for the benefit of other people who may not have played the games yet.