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Their third and fourth albums were good. Everything else, however was less than stellar, to say the least... Lhasa de Sela - Desde

While I agree in broad terms with what Pixies is saying, I think that there is market for art games. It's a much smaller market than the mainstream of course, but it's there for a developer to cater to and profit from. It's tiny, but it's also pretty much an untapped market without any competition. I think real, in depth studies of the gamer demographic are in order. I think cinema is a good industry for the gaming industry to learn from due to its multifaceted structure. The fact that a huge chunk of the film industry is broad appeal, Hollywood blockbusters, hasn't stopped smaller arthouse films from across the world, from getting financed and from being successful. Considering there's an industry where products as diverse as Titanic, Airplane!, Weekend, Ben Hur, City of God, Raising Victor Vargas, or Persona can all be made, and be commercially successful, I can't see why games as industry can't have as broad a range as any other cultural endeavour. Linkin' Park can live alongside John Cage.

I don't know about this talk of ATI not putting up a fight with Nvidia. Of late I've been following graphics card prices here in Portugal, and the 38xx series really pu shed Nvidia's prices down. I can now buy a 9600GT here for 129

There's a certain type of entertainment that I generally enjoy more and, as such, I'd like more of those types of films and games and whatever to be made. It makes sense doesn't it? And besides I feel that the "unwashed masses" already have more mainstream titles than they can possibly play, while I usually have to wait at least a year to get like one game that's right up my alley.

I hope you had a good April 20th. Oh, and thank you.

You're welcome. You can always try Tweak Guides if you want to improve your settings.

People generally rather play bland games that don't engage them in any way beyond the most basic emotions. It's the same thing as with books, film, and music, of course. Oh, and also their games were usually very, very demanding in terms of hardware.

I'm just saying that the game looks better on my PC, and my setup isn't a very good one. From looking at the screenies, one thing I can see is that you seem to have the drawing distance set to really low.

I think Terra Nova is the only LGS game I haven't played.

I can understand how that's draw for people who didn't already do all that stuff before. However, for people who have done all those things for years with minimal or no hassle, and take those things for granted (granted as in free), paying for such a service seems a bit underwhelming, to say the least.

Can't you do all that for free on the PC? And have been able to do it for years? The other day I even talked to Pop for a few seconds in TF2, the other day. And I listened to some guys making fun of me in French that same day.

It's difference between natural and botox? Edit: Actually, that looks fugly. What have you done with the graphical settings?

Unless you are talking about achievements or perhaps lower pings, I don't see what you're talking about with "evolution in online play". I don't see any big improvement in online gaming between say, Quake, and Call of Duty 4. Not that online games today are worse than they were a few years ago. I think they're about the same. Anyway, what I do think is that online gaming isn't so much about the gaming but rather about the socializing. The difference between, for example, Xbox Live and Canasta isn't the game that is played but rather the social groups the different activities appeal to.

And Disciples III is taking ages to come out...

Personally, I don't think mainstream games are evolving enough. Innovations in games are few and far between, and few things can hold surprise and a sense of wonder like they did before when everything was knew Also, speaking for myself, all the general hailing of every new, high profile game as the second coming of Christ is leaving me more and more jaded with the industry. As an example, despite how much I enjoyed MotB, I don't feel there really is much of a change in terms of gameplay between it and, say BG1. and that's ten years of RPG development. Also, even where there is some sort of change in design philosophy, it isn't change in a direction I'd like tosee. It's all about wider appeal, focus groups, and profiting. For example, the way party NPC development has been handled in Bioware games starting with NWN1 seems to me like the worst possible way to integrate the characters into the narrative. It made everything about the characters mechanical and pointless, and reduced empathy to a minimum. And this from a company that professes to make games that are centrally about narrative.

Belated? I wouldn't call 30 minutes after midnight, belated.

Genesis - Firth of Fifth

you, me, and Krezzy And me, I'll turn 21 first of May. I'm still baffled that Soulie is 27 and Tigranes only 20. Not to mention you Shryke, you who I thought would be 32 by now. Argh. What the hell, Moat is younger than me! I presumed by the quality of your posts that you'd be in your thirties already. Next Pop is going to turn up and tell us he's about to celebrate his 15th birthday... 28, now...

People born after 1990 aren't really people. They're just kids.

Yes, that sig is starting to annoy me. Pick my smiley!

Last time I played it (sometime around the end of 2007), I had no problems with it, as far as I can remember. Windows XP.

I think Gorth is the oldest poster around.

I seem to recall that at the time of XP's release, while it ran like ass on lower spec systems, it actually improved performance on higher end systems compared to Windows 98 by a nice margin. Also, it was a lot more stable than Win98 SE. Vista, however, to the best of my knowledge offers no improvement in performance and is no more stable than XP. This makes it kind of pointless to me, as I'm not going to fork over 400

You too, eh?