Gorgon

Direct X backward compatibility doesn't stretch that far, i'd say you need a DOS box for one, and run the other in win 98/95 mode. Anywho, many of those games are re released at bargain bin prices, 3 for a laugh, I remember Dark Omen was for instance. ,

I thought all new releases were bug ridden and unfinished by default. Usually you have to wait at least a couple of months for a patch to fix the worst of it, and maybe a year for one that will adress all of them.

If a P/C is anything like a PC, thats what i'm voting. I just feel it's pointless to buy games that require a special console, because sooner or later you will wind up with loads of different consoles and a stack of games for each of them. Why no have something that can play them all. I take it an Amiga CD2 is not the same as an Amiga, since the Amiga was meant as a personal computer for the games and graphics enthusiasts.

I would much prefer to have them marching around in formations, as in the boardgame, even if it's not really what you would do in space age combat, I tire of all the micromanagement of DOW and all the usual phases of a 'buildings and troopers' type RTS. Something along the likes of Total war would please me immensely.

I think the premise sounds cool

So it's a mmog with 6 million Michael Thorton's running around farming for their gold desert eagles

This is India, there are plenty of humans who live in comparable conditions to those dogs, basically foraging for scraps and begging. It won't do to apply the same standards.

OOOOO this looks cool, sys rq anyone. *kicks old p4 bucket*

Gimme more Homeworld, it's so much more satisfying to have full 3d battles instead of having the usual buildings and green selection markers milling around- fundamentally unchanged since Starcraft.

Nothing called Icewind was that fantastic. As for replayability, the inventory and ragdolls in Icewind Dale 1 are so ugly it's a real eyestrain. At least they changed a lot of that for Icewind Dale 2.

Man I hope they don't get too carried away too with the prophecy and chosen ones, it's such a, shall we say 'well worn' mechanic.

yeah but they cost an arm and a leg

So has anyone got any fresh polls on who would win a presidential election, a republican or a democrat. Obama and Clinton are basically the same on the issues, so why is this taking up everyones attention. There seems to be a lot of emotional reaction, people feel strongly for or against Clinton, not unlike her husband.

bleh, ww1 was almost over by the time your greenhorns showed up, and the Ruskies won ww2 for all of us on the eastern front. We just help clean the place out.

The US is the world's only remaining superpower, for the time being at least. In many ways who becomes president of the US could impact you more than who becomes president of Sweden.

Sounds bad to me.

What ? You are one annoying son of a motherless goat. I mean, yes, I did tease a bit, but in a positive manner. I guess finesse is just lost on some people.

Run to a shop and get another charger ?

You should get your own show.

i'm watching it right now. I never thought I would miss Macgyver and the Egyptian baldie in a million years, but it's actually worse.

Is that worth holding out for or is it gonna be mega expensive and untested for a long time after it does come out. I can't wait forever, I wanna be able to play Crysis sometime this year.

I must have spent tens of thousands on games over the odd 15 years I have been playing PC games, pardon me if I don't self destruct out of shame.

You spying on your wife or something ?

The numbers make more sense if you think of it terms of copies of games instead of number of people. Naturally, pirates will play tons of games -- it's not like it costs them anything to download ten games a month. Paying gamers probably buy only one or two games a month, if that. Thats apples and oranges isen't it. Only a very small percentage of pirated copies translate into potential sales. I have done a fair ammount of pirating in my day, I don't get much time to play at all these days so I don't bother, if something is worth my interest the cost wont kill me, and I prefer to have it in working order able to receive patches and updates, but there was a time where abject poverty prevented me from getting any games at all, other than the free way.

Then I saw that Bioshock was selling 5 to 1 on console vs. PC. And Call of Duty 4 was selling 10 to 1. These are hardcore games, shooters, classic PC audience stuff. Given the difference in install base, I can't believe that there's that big of a difference in who played these games, but I guess there can be in who actually payed for them. Hmm, this would suggest that the idea that piracy is jacking up the prices of games does not hold water, since console games are noticeably more expensive. More likely companies will charge exactly what they can get away, and be sure to hit that ceiling regardless of piracy levels.