Hello and welcome to my next edition of my Blog! Today I am on spring break, which is nice because Dad’s going to bring home UT2004, and I will have nothing to do, which is not necessary a bad thing. I hope Bob gets off school this week. He goes to the UofW so that will be awesome if he did. The topic today is why the heck are some videocards so expensive and others are not so expensive? $150 to $350 is reasonable in my opinion. Tigerdirect sells a XFX Geforce 5200 FX 256 MB videocard for 100 dollars. That’s extremely reasonable, and I haven’t had mine die on me yet. This videocard will let you play Unreal Tournament 2003 / Unreal Tournament 2004 at 1600x1200 with 4x anti analyzing. You’re going to get eye catching graphics anyways with no pixilation. Well, if your videocard can support that resolution anyways, you know that the pixels are so small that they won’t show any distortion. Now you take a Geforce 5600 XT 128 MB videocard, and that’ll cost you as much as a Geforce 5200 FX at 256 MB. I thought that any 256 MB card will produce better graphics over any 128 MB videocard. I mean at least when you look at Geforce 4 technologies. Nvidia has this technology called Nview multi-display. This is Nvidia’s answer to Microsoft’s Direct X 9.0, so Nvidia’s technology improve and do more than Direct X 9.0 or am I completely wrong? I can’t be completely off because I know I can run UT2003 at 1600x1200 with my Radeon 9800. It interests me why this type of videocard manufactured by PNY Technologies costs 2000 bucks. This class is called the Quadro FX series. PNY makes the Quadro 500 128 MB GPU and it costs 300 bucks. That is more then any Geforce FX videocard. Quadro FX 1000, 2000 and 3000 are also available. This is the EXTREMELY highend of videocards. And they probably cost 400 dollars more at places like Best Buy and Circuit City. When the Geforce FX 6000 series come out, I beating they will out class the Quadro 500 and 1000 in terms of graphics. Same thing with Radeons. ATI isn’t far behind Nvidia in technolgy. On reason why all three console manufactures (Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft) are turning to ATI to make integrated graphic cards for their next generation consoles. They’ll look better on screen and cost a lot less. I think that 512 MB of DRR video ram is over kill right now. Maybe in 5 years I won’t think so, but Nvidia will soon after that come out with 1024 MB of DRR video RAM. And my BRAIN will just MELT in AWE! 512 MB will let you play DOOM 3 and Half-life 2, very graphically demanding games, at 1600/1200 res with 4x anti-analyzing. That will definitely out class anything Sony or Microsoft are coming out with next year. For the price of a Playstation 3 ($350 US) you can own a high performance videocard that will make anything look better on PC. That’s amazing. What’s also amazing is that consoles still make money off their games and not their graphics. And you know what? I switched from my Dreamcast out performing my computer to my computer out performing my Xbox so I don’t know. Of course, Bill Gates owns all the PCs in the world and, a console.
Guess what….I was watching The Screen Savers, and there is finally a way to have PC software run on Xbox only if your Xbox is modded properly. Xbox is has a cut down version of Windows 2000 on it so it’s possible to MOD it and put in a 40 gigabyte hard drive to run PC games. But you know what…Microsoft is the least experienced. Although Halo, Dungeon Siege, Project Gotham and Flight Simulator 2004 are very good, Microsoft hasn’t got what Sony has and that is 3rd party support. Also hackers have found a way to even put games on hard drives so that the games have no loading times. Of course, every mod chip lets you play “backups” of your games. Mod chips for Xbox range from 30 dollars to 100 dollars. I want to get my Xbox soldiered, but I don’t know who to ask, how much it’ll cost, or which website sells them. I am thinking that I should wait for PS3 to come out so that mod chips will come out for it, and I’ll be able to legally back up my PS2 games and PS3 games and play them. I have 33 PS2 games, just ask Bob. And how about the new 40 GIGABYTE PS2 hard drive released by Sony this month? I just had to minion it today. You literally can’t fill that space up with game saves. After FFXI is loaded (6GB) you can save approximately 113333.3 300 KB game saves. Compress them with your Gameshark at 50%, than you talking about 226666.6 150 KB game saves. That’s insane. You just can’t save that many games. I was dumb founded when I found out I can backup your memory card data on it. Final Fantasy XI is preloaded on it, and that takes up six Gigabytes of the 40. You can also back up WAV files on it, but no games support music unlike all Xbox games. I’m going to ask bob if he can give up his network adapter for a free memory card so I can buy the hard drive and use it on mine. I have 1 memory card that’s 85% full, and that’s with all my game saves. I want a PS2 hard drive so I don’t have to override a game save in my life. Wouldn’t that be just awesome! I even have the 100 bucks for the harddrive on hand. I hate it how Sony bundled FFXI with it. I would never use it. Sony says the game’s free, but I think Sony is lying. This is why I think so, they preload FFXI on it so they can charge you 14 bucks a month to play it. I remember a time period when Sega allowed you to play Phantasy Star Online, plus Unreal Tournament and Quake III Arena for free on the Dreamcast from 2000 + using your own ISP. I booted PSO v1 on my Dreamcast in August 2003 and I got a server down message. I hear the servers are still up with UT and Quake 3 so you can still find servers on the Dreamcast. Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year will allow Dreamcast gamers play on the same servers as PCs. One reason could be that Dreamcast runs Windows operating system too. In fact there is a logo on my Dreamcast at home that says Microsoft Windows CE. When PSO was re-released on Gamecube and Xbox, Sega now charges for Gamecube and the Xbox version is apart of Xbox Live. At least the Gamecube version allows you to play over a modem. I bought the Gamecube modem 2 years ago because I thought the PSO online subscription was free like it was for Dreamcast. Unfortunately not any more. If Xbox allowed free Internet access, I think that would make a big difference in Xbox sales. Perhaps when Xbox 2 comes out, Microsoft may just make Internet access on Xbox free. It would make a lot of sense to do so.
I ended up spending 40 bucks on Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes for Gamecube at Wal-Mart this morning. MGS: TS has been developed by Silicon Knights (developer of Eternal Darkness and Legacy of Kain) and Konami. I found out it has the MGS 1 and MGS 2 packaged together into one game. It looks like it’s graphically superior to Resident Evil and Metroid Prime. Solid Snake has all the moves he uses in MGS2 at the beginning of MGS 1. IGN.com rated this game a 9.7 out of 10 or 97% perfect. I haven’t played MGS 1 or 2 yet. UT2004 got a 9.6 out of 10 rating at IGN.com. It was a 5 page review too. I am not usually into tactical games, but I recently got into first person shooters for the 3rd time. A new enhancement in The Twin Snakes is you can play this game in first person 100% of the time if you want too. A review will be up within a week at this link: http://www.geocities..._metalgearsolid.html
And lastly, my 8X DVD RW came in today. I'm going to install it once I can figer out how to get the current drive out of my Dell. I'm goign to have a ball Backing Up DVDs. I have everything, a ESD wrist band and screw drivers, and I learned to keep my pc plugged into the wall as I install the drive. I hate to bang around iit though. That could prove disasterious!
Signing off and tune in 4 days from now for my next blog entry!
Monday, March 15, 2004
Friday, March 12, 2004
Hello readers! Yesterday, I went to school, walked around the building and eventually asked a fellow student, he said no classes today. The day went by really quick, nothing really to do. Before I knew it 4 PM blasted by before I took a nap. Than I slept until 4:10 AM That’s 12 hours! I had this dream where I was Conon the barbarian. I was very destructive. And I was fighting off the Romanians. In time of Kings, about 1300 AC, I was this Barbarian King (yes, I wore underwear.) trying to defend Norway. (It sort of looked like Middle Earth though) against the evil Romanian King and his army of the undead. Skeletons, Ghouns, and orcs? They were all 7 feet tall and UGLY with armor with bastard swords. Of course, we all had double edged long swords. And we barbarians were on the losing side. The Romanian Army was gaining ground slowing destroying our army, so I met the one-man-army himself from the game Halo, who went back in time after he defeated the Covenant, and gave us shock rifles and grenade launchers. There wasn’t enough for all of us, so we had to share. Anyways, I woke up right before I broke in the Dark Castle of Normandy. I had a scene there where a barbarian through a grenade and a whole horde of undead got blown to pieces. It was like the matrix! Oh yeah, did I mention I was about to save this beautiful damsel in distress? Yeh, that was part of the dream too. She looked like Kathleen Ireland. Okay, I admit it was kind of strange, but I was really an awesome dream. But a lot of you dream, and have these dreams after movies you saw and slept 12 hours and don’t know why?
Next, I’m hoping to invite someone over from WITC. There aren’t many guys at school that have that time. Some of them seem cool enough. They must like LAN parties and videogames. But I don’t know if it’s homework or they don’t like to go to somebody’s house unless they make plans. I just don’t know.
I was looking inside my Dell, and the DVD Drive, Harddrive, floppy drive is locked in to the case with levers and I just bought a 8X DVD RW and want to install it right a way. But I couldn't figer the lever out. I will have to go to Radio Shack and get an IDE splitter. That’ll make two DVDRWs. I had the other one for nearly a year now, and I haven’t burned one DVD!
Picture of my Dell : Pentium 4 3.2 GHz 1 GB Dual Channel RAM, Dell motherboard, 120 GB hardrive / 40 Gigabyte slave drive, Radeon 9800 256MB DRR, 100/1000 Ethernet / Sound Blaster Audagy II / DVD/CDRW / huge duel fan cooling system
Picture of the other monster : Athlon XP 2600 768 MB DRR 333 MHz, 120 GB harddrive, Geforce FX 256 MB DRR, on board sound on a Soyo Dragon Black Edition Motherboard, 100/1000 Ethernet / 56X CD ROM / 4x DVDRW +
My rooms a mess, I need to clean it up. I mean it has books everywhere. Four Mountain Dew bottles laying around CDs cases. I got dog hair on the floor. I wonder since it's a friday, bob can do something? I have this friend, Chuck, and he did something bad, and he works all the time to help out his girlfriend who he got pregnate. I don't call him anymore except for a few times, but I went to school with him for 2 years, and he was the only one I knew and talked too. I miss the times I went over to his house, and played Unreal Tournament. I don't know if he's a loser, because he wasn' t thinking, but this happened after I went to high school.
Four days until Unreal Tournament 2004 comes out, I'm excited! Can't wait to play online with it. And why didn't I play Unreal Tournament 2003 online? Well I did for a short while, but i was slow, and I got by butt kicked, so I dropped it. It's not worth to play all the time, and be above average on the rouster. Because there are a lot of mean players, who know where all the starting points are in the level I and I hate to be killed right away by them. This is not aways true, not I remember a few times this happened too me. All the good areas are taken, and with expert marksmen to boot.
Next, I’m hoping to invite someone over from WITC. There aren’t many guys at school that have that time. Some of them seem cool enough. They must like LAN parties and videogames. But I don’t know if it’s homework or they don’t like to go to somebody’s house unless they make plans. I just don’t know.
I was looking inside my Dell, and the DVD Drive, Harddrive, floppy drive is locked in to the case with levers and I just bought a 8X DVD RW and want to install it right a way. But I couldn't figer the lever out. I will have to go to Radio Shack and get an IDE splitter. That’ll make two DVDRWs. I had the other one for nearly a year now, and I haven’t burned one DVD!
Picture of my Dell : Pentium 4 3.2 GHz 1 GB Dual Channel RAM, Dell motherboard, 120 GB hardrive / 40 Gigabyte slave drive, Radeon 9800 256MB DRR, 100/1000 Ethernet / Sound Blaster Audagy II / DVD/CDRW / huge duel fan cooling system
Picture of the other monster : Athlon XP 2600 768 MB DRR 333 MHz, 120 GB harddrive, Geforce FX 256 MB DRR, on board sound on a Soyo Dragon Black Edition Motherboard, 100/1000 Ethernet / 56X CD ROM / 4x DVDRW +
My rooms a mess, I need to clean it up. I mean it has books everywhere. Four Mountain Dew bottles laying around CDs cases. I got dog hair on the floor. I wonder since it's a friday, bob can do something? I have this friend, Chuck, and he did something bad, and he works all the time to help out his girlfriend who he got pregnate. I don't call him anymore except for a few times, but I went to school with him for 2 years, and he was the only one I knew and talked too. I miss the times I went over to his house, and played Unreal Tournament. I don't know if he's a loser, because he wasn' t thinking, but this happened after I went to high school.
Four days until Unreal Tournament 2004 comes out, I'm excited! Can't wait to play online with it. And why didn't I play Unreal Tournament 2003 online? Well I did for a short while, but i was slow, and I got by butt kicked, so I dropped it. It's not worth to play all the time, and be above average on the rouster. Because there are a lot of mean players, who know where all the starting points are in the level I and I hate to be killed right away by them. This is not aways true, not I remember a few times this happened too me. All the good areas are taken, and with expert marksmen to boot.
Wednesday, March 10, 2004
I was surfing the Internet and I found this really strange website. I know there are stranger…. But a 24 hour TV gaming network? Can it get any stranger? Is the world ready for it? Is there enough games to support a cable channel forever? I didn’t know it was possible! I dunno, a hardcore gamer would even find it odd. It’s called G4, and it’s like Xplay 24 hours a day. Xplay is TechTV’s game show. I knew that Sega tried having a 24 hour channel called Sega Channel or Sega Net, and it didn’t do well, and went off air. You literally watch videogames 24 hours a day! Anyway, I checked out there website and they do have streaming audio on all their shows on their website. I have DirecTV so I don’t get G4. It’s probably not worth it anyways. You get to hear about how awesome a game is or how much a game is sucking all day. It’s not my thing, of course I grew out of this. Still check out their website at http://g4tv.com or go to http://techtv.com/xplay/ to watch Xplay streaming video reviews. I read off the Internet, and there is Game Informer Magazine so it would be too lame to see videogames 24 hours a day. IT is for the couch potato who got tired of playing his PC or Playstation so he watches a cable channel review games all day. I rather play games, and when I"m not playing games, I get out and go to school or hang out with other people. And I thought sometimes TechTV got a little lame sometimes. I guess I was wrong. Still it's interesting what different cable channels there are. I need feedback. What do readers think of G4?
Sunday, March 7, 2004
My topic today is what is the best gaming platform? What a non geekish subject. I will cover cost and performance, and quality games. But only one platform will be the winner. None of this double favorites nonsense. I can do this because I own Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, and PC. I have more than 10 games for each platform.
I wrote this on Cheat Happens, talking about the best console I prefer. I ended the entry by saying it won't matter because next generation consoles will be out next year.
"Cheat Happens is probably the best form in this hot debate on which console is the better. I came hear because I wanted to find out which console I should buy 2 of. I mean the next generation of Playstation will play PS2 games. Xbox 2 will play Xbox games, which leaves Gamecube a stand alone product with no future. Once Gamecube is done, it's done forever, right? So it's what I think, but I wondered if I could get away with getting a another Gamecube. This is not my favorite console by the way. I own so many games for it, 14 in all. As you now realize, Sega is not a major competitor. In 1999, Sega released some absolutely great games on Dreamcast, although it also had a 2 year lead start in Japan (October 15, 1998 release date.) Who could forget Sega's Skies of Arcadia, which I say could be the direct competitor to Square-Enix's Final Fantasy. It was an important game because I knew then how fun RPGs are. Soul Caliber and Dead or Alive 2 were also great fighting games. I also enjoyed Crazy Taxi and Rayman 2. Chu Chu Rocket was a fun puzzle game. Sonic Adventure was state-of-the-art in 1999, and did have good gameplay. After Dreamcast left the market, I knew I would soon have to invest into a newer console. I trusted Nintendo for Quality, but soon found out that I loved PS2 more, which I bought in 2003. After owning both Gamecube and Xbox before PS2. I found out that PS2 is the better of the three. I'm a big fan of Gran Trasimo 3 A-Spec , Xenosaga, Winning Eleven Soccer, and Final Fantasy X. I own copies of Silent Hill 2, Grand Thief Auto Vice City, Timesplitters, and Soul Reaver 2 also were fun. But RPGs give me a lot of time too entertain myself, and rpgs are my prefered genre. PS2 has the most RPGs of any console. No debate there? I try to compete them without cheating, although it's hard. I knew then I soon would invest in Playstation 3 (which I already put a 50 dollars preorder in at Gamestop, only place that lets you do so right now). PS3 is going to sell out in pre orders first day anyway, I already guarantee everyone this is true. Same 3rd party support is going to be supporting Sony, more sequels, I love sequels to games already popular on PS2. The bottom line, why is everyone debating on this generation, when you'll just have to debate PS3, Nintendo Nexus, and Xbox 2? The cell chip is very interesting. Sony is switching to ATI and IBM to make hardware for their system. Playstation I now know is the wisest choice. I sounds like it's going to go up to a 256 MB graphics card, plus onboard flash memory and produce an amazing amount of polygons (1.5 billion), and it will be even a larger online console than PS2, cause online games rule, and in development I heard off IGN.com. Only question is will subscribers to PlayOnline be able to play Final Fantasy XI, Twisted Metal Black, Resident Evil Deadly Aim or Madden 2004 online with it? I have this debate on http://renegadeviking.cjb.net. Also, check out http://ign.com for big updates."
PC 1st place: Cost $500 - $3000 Poor | RPGS – Excellent | RPGS – Excellent | FPS – Excellent | Graphics - Excellent | Racing – Poor | Strategy – Very Good | Features – Excellent | Sports – Very Good | Horror - Good Excellent | Online Support - Excellent free internet gaming |
2nd place PS2: Cost 180 Dollars - Average | RPGS - Very Good | FPS – Good | Graphics – Good | Racing – Very Good | Strategy – Good | Horror - Very good | Features – Excellent Harddrive, DVD playback included, and Psone backwards compatibility | Online support – Good |
3rd place Xbox: cost 170 Dollars Average | RPGS - Poor | FPS – Very Good | Graphics – In-between Good and Very Good | Racing - Good | Online support - Very Good – Features (8 Gigabyte Harddrive, broadband support, Xbox Live, DVD playback | Horror – Poor
4th Place – Gamecube Cost $99 Excellent | RPGS – Poor | First Person Shooters Average | Graphics: Good to above average | Racing: Very Good | Online Support – 1 title, Phantasy Star Online so Poor. | Horror – Very Good | Features – (Gameboy Player and GBA link) Very good.
And the Winner is the PC! The PC is above all the rest because it doesn’t involve immediate upgrading. It is nice to have a state-of-the-art PC, but it’s not required. RPG fans may like consoles over PC because you get a nifty controller. The controller is alright, but the mouse is a lot better in my opinion. Feels better as well. Works better then joystick in most 3D games. Take PS2 for faineance. It has Final Fantasy, the largest selling RPG in the history of the world. I am talking about RPGs because they are my favorite genre. Believe it or not Final Fantasy 7 and 8 can run on PC with graphical upgrades if you can find them. They weren’t really favorite pick though. PC has some wonderful first person shooters and MMORPGs available. All consoles are limited to media space and hardware limitations. Take the 5 year old PS2. It’s like 3 years past the expiration date. Only exception is some games like Gran Tranismo 3 A Spec and Grand Thief Auto Vice City can be played on it. The PC has better graphics. Consoles are reduced to a lower resolution because the PC and 32-bit monitor can exceed the TV’s resolution. Unless you have a flat screen or HDTV. I want one but don’t have the money. To much money going towards upgrading PC for last 2 years.
TOP PC game picks of 2004
Winner – Neverwinter Nights
2nd Place - Half-life 2
3rd Place – UT2004
4th Place Diablo 2
- Unreal Tournament 2004 – Game of the Month
- Half-life 2 – Best First Person Shooter of 2004
- Doom 3 – Second place First Person Shooter of 2004
- Neverwinter Nights Best Massive Multiplayer Online RPG of 2003
- Diablo 2 – Best MMORPG of 2000
- Dungeon Siege 2 – Best MMORPG of 2004
- Metal of Honor Allied Assault – 2002 Game of the Year
- Unreal Tournament 2003 – 2003 Game of the Year
- Knights of the Old Republic – 2003 2nd place RPG of the Year
- Need of Speed Underground – 2004 Racer of the Year
Nominees
- Everquest II - MMORPG of the Year nominee
- World of Warcraft MMORPG of the Year nominee
- Grand Thief Auto 3 – PC game of the year nominee
- Call of Duty – First Person Shooter of the Year nominee
- Grand Thief Auto Vice City – PC game of the year nominee
- The Sims – PC Game of the Year nominee
- Battlefield 1942 – PC Game of the Year nominee
- Elder Scrolls III Morrowind – XBOX 2002 RPG of the Year
I wrote this on Cheat Happens, talking about the best console I prefer. I ended the entry by saying it won't matter because next generation consoles will be out next year.
"Cheat Happens is probably the best form in this hot debate on which console is the better. I came hear because I wanted to find out which console I should buy 2 of. I mean the next generation of Playstation will play PS2 games. Xbox 2 will play Xbox games, which leaves Gamecube a stand alone product with no future. Once Gamecube is done, it's done forever, right? So it's what I think, but I wondered if I could get away with getting a another Gamecube. This is not my favorite console by the way. I own so many games for it, 14 in all. As you now realize, Sega is not a major competitor. In 1999, Sega released some absolutely great games on Dreamcast, although it also had a 2 year lead start in Japan (October 15, 1998 release date.) Who could forget Sega's Skies of Arcadia, which I say could be the direct competitor to Square-Enix's Final Fantasy. It was an important game because I knew then how fun RPGs are. Soul Caliber and Dead or Alive 2 were also great fighting games. I also enjoyed Crazy Taxi and Rayman 2. Chu Chu Rocket was a fun puzzle game. Sonic Adventure was state-of-the-art in 1999, and did have good gameplay. After Dreamcast left the market, I knew I would soon have to invest into a newer console. I trusted Nintendo for Quality, but soon found out that I loved PS2 more, which I bought in 2003. After owning both Gamecube and Xbox before PS2. I found out that PS2 is the better of the three. I'm a big fan of Gran Trasimo 3 A-Spec , Xenosaga, Winning Eleven Soccer, and Final Fantasy X. I own copies of Silent Hill 2, Grand Thief Auto Vice City, Timesplitters, and Soul Reaver 2 also were fun. But RPGs give me a lot of time too entertain myself, and rpgs are my prefered genre. PS2 has the most RPGs of any console. No debate there? I try to compete them without cheating, although it's hard. I knew then I soon would invest in Playstation 3 (which I already put a 50 dollars preorder in at Gamestop, only place that lets you do so right now). PS3 is going to sell out in pre orders first day anyway, I already guarantee everyone this is true. Same 3rd party support is going to be supporting Sony, more sequels, I love sequels to games already popular on PS2. The bottom line, why is everyone debating on this generation, when you'll just have to debate PS3, Nintendo Nexus, and Xbox 2? The cell chip is very interesting. Sony is switching to ATI and IBM to make hardware for their system. Playstation I now know is the wisest choice. I sounds like it's going to go up to a 256 MB graphics card, plus onboard flash memory and produce an amazing amount of polygons (1.5 billion), and it will be even a larger online console than PS2, cause online games rule, and in development I heard off IGN.com. Only question is will subscribers to PlayOnline be able to play Final Fantasy XI, Twisted Metal Black, Resident Evil Deadly Aim or Madden 2004 online with it? I have this debate on http://renegadeviking.cjb.net. Also, check out http://ign.com for big updates."
PC 1st place: Cost $500 - $3000 Poor | RPGS – Excellent | RPGS – Excellent | FPS – Excellent | Graphics - Excellent | Racing – Poor | Strategy – Very Good | Features – Excellent | Sports – Very Good | Horror - Good Excellent | Online Support - Excellent free internet gaming |
2nd place PS2: Cost 180 Dollars - Average | RPGS - Very Good | FPS – Good | Graphics – Good | Racing – Very Good | Strategy – Good | Horror - Very good | Features – Excellent Harddrive, DVD playback included, and Psone backwards compatibility | Online support – Good |
3rd place Xbox: cost 170 Dollars Average | RPGS - Poor | FPS – Very Good | Graphics – In-between Good and Very Good | Racing - Good | Online support - Very Good – Features (8 Gigabyte Harddrive, broadband support, Xbox Live, DVD playback | Horror – Poor
4th Place – Gamecube Cost $99 Excellent | RPGS – Poor | First Person Shooters Average | Graphics: Good to above average | Racing: Very Good | Online Support – 1 title, Phantasy Star Online so Poor. | Horror – Very Good | Features – (Gameboy Player and GBA link) Very good.
And the Winner is the PC! The PC is above all the rest because it doesn’t involve immediate upgrading. It is nice to have a state-of-the-art PC, but it’s not required. RPG fans may like consoles over PC because you get a nifty controller. The controller is alright, but the mouse is a lot better in my opinion. Feels better as well. Works better then joystick in most 3D games. Take PS2 for faineance. It has Final Fantasy, the largest selling RPG in the history of the world. I am talking about RPGs because they are my favorite genre. Believe it or not Final Fantasy 7 and 8 can run on PC with graphical upgrades if you can find them. They weren’t really favorite pick though. PC has some wonderful first person shooters and MMORPGs available. All consoles are limited to media space and hardware limitations. Take the 5 year old PS2. It’s like 3 years past the expiration date. Only exception is some games like Gran Tranismo 3 A Spec and Grand Thief Auto Vice City can be played on it. The PC has better graphics. Consoles are reduced to a lower resolution because the PC and 32-bit monitor can exceed the TV’s resolution. Unless you have a flat screen or HDTV. I want one but don’t have the money. To much money going towards upgrading PC for last 2 years.
TOP PC game picks of 2004
Winner – Neverwinter Nights
2nd Place - Half-life 2
3rd Place – UT2004
4th Place Diablo 2
- Unreal Tournament 2004 – Game of the Month
- Half-life 2 – Best First Person Shooter of 2004
- Doom 3 – Second place First Person Shooter of 2004
- Neverwinter Nights Best Massive Multiplayer Online RPG of 2003
- Diablo 2 – Best MMORPG of 2000
- Dungeon Siege 2 – Best MMORPG of 2004
- Metal of Honor Allied Assault – 2002 Game of the Year
- Unreal Tournament 2003 – 2003 Game of the Year
- Knights of the Old Republic – 2003 2nd place RPG of the Year
- Need of Speed Underground – 2004 Racer of the Year
Nominees
- Everquest II - MMORPG of the Year nominee
- World of Warcraft MMORPG of the Year nominee
- Grand Thief Auto 3 – PC game of the year nominee
- Call of Duty – First Person Shooter of the Year nominee
- Grand Thief Auto Vice City – PC game of the year nominee
- The Sims – PC Game of the Year nominee
- Battlefield 1942 – PC Game of the Year nominee
- Elder Scrolls III Morrowind – XBOX 2002 RPG of the Year
Friday, March 5, 2004
I had a mid-term today in one class today. I didn’t have to take it because it’s a snow day! I felt I had to look on the Internet quick for VI commands and EMACS commands, put them on a floppy so I can view them at school. It’s as good as note taking because the teachers will think I was looking at the man pages. Linux is interesting, it is the only OS that can fit on a CD and run off it.
Bob and I want to get together. He’s been taking the day off too. So this morning I’ve been watching Bridge to Far DVD on one PC while I reinstall Windows back on one of my PCs. It’s a timely process. Somehow I managed to delete hardware acceleration files, Direct X 8.1 if you get specific. My OS was kinda messed up for a while there. I blame it all on Microsoft. The installation cd should have fixed my problem, and it did absolutely nothing! Like I said before, I know how to install Windows XP in my sleep so I didn’t get that mad.
I was thinking of bringing two computers over to Bobs so we can play Unreal Tournament (the first one) together. If I bring my 3rd PC, maybe it’ll be a 3 person LAN game. It’s funny though, I have a CAT V NIC on all my computers, and my HUB is only a CAT 4. It’s nothing really, I just loose 90 MB of bandwidth. Dad should have given me a router instead. He said it was his unused hub from work. CAT IV Hubs should be adequate for playing Unreal Tournament or Neverwinter Nights over a server for now. I’m also bringing over Quake 3 Arena because I know Bob has a copy. I have waited 6 months to have a LAN party. I am waiting to kick Bob’s butt at Unreal Tournament later today.
I found a used copy of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles at the game store. I got it for a modest 35 dollars instead of a full 50. So I was playing it for 3 hours yesterday. Everything looks better than Final Fantasy X, which is amazing to me. Now, I technically have all the Final Fantasy games except for Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy Adventure and Final Fantasy Legend 1 and 2 (Secret of Mana for Game Boy.) I want to bring over Gamecube so we can play that game in multiplayer, that is if he doesn’t want a LAN party. I am also planning to bring over Midnight Club 2 and Winning Eleven 6. Bob told me Midnight Club was one of his favorite games.
This just in, I didn't have a LAN party today. It's a disappointment, but we got 5 inches of snow fall.
On the second part of my blog I realized that there are going to be a dozen RPGs coming out in 2004. Of course Gas Powered Games is releasing Dungeon Siege II [ http://dungeonsiegeii.com/ ] Dungeon Siege will be upgraded to graphics that par up with World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy XI if not better. Dungeon Siege, is not your average game because it is a hack and slash title like Diablo in a 3D engine. It looked pretty good in 2001. Dungeon Siege 2 will have the same features, hopefully an improved multiplayer experience. Dungeon Siege was horrible to be played online, ran very slow.
I’m skipping Everquest 2 and World of Warcraft because I can never afford the online subscription. So this leads me to Ultima X Online. It’s been 4 years since Orgin Systems released an Ultima game. Ultima IX was released in 1999. Ultima IX was like Raven (Myst 2) with the exact same graphics, gameplay and a lot more bugs. Ultima IX was reviewed at IGN.com, and it was not your Neverwinter Nights. Sadly, it was below average. Although it made Ultima 3D. I’ve never played IX. Ultima X is a Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, with graphics as good as Lineage II and Elder Scrolls III : Morrowind. It may even be good, and without bugs! Go to this website to read about it and judge for yourself. [ www.uxo.ea.com/intro.html ] I’m kind of excited for it. Here are some screenshots from the game. Looks original? I hope it plays as good as it looks :)
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Bob and I want to get together. He’s been taking the day off too. So this morning I’ve been watching Bridge to Far DVD on one PC while I reinstall Windows back on one of my PCs. It’s a timely process. Somehow I managed to delete hardware acceleration files, Direct X 8.1 if you get specific. My OS was kinda messed up for a while there. I blame it all on Microsoft. The installation cd should have fixed my problem, and it did absolutely nothing! Like I said before, I know how to install Windows XP in my sleep so I didn’t get that mad.
I was thinking of bringing two computers over to Bobs so we can play Unreal Tournament (the first one) together. If I bring my 3rd PC, maybe it’ll be a 3 person LAN game. It’s funny though, I have a CAT V NIC on all my computers, and my HUB is only a CAT 4. It’s nothing really, I just loose 90 MB of bandwidth. Dad should have given me a router instead. He said it was his unused hub from work. CAT IV Hubs should be adequate for playing Unreal Tournament or Neverwinter Nights over a server for now. I’m also bringing over Quake 3 Arena because I know Bob has a copy. I have waited 6 months to have a LAN party. I am waiting to kick Bob’s butt at Unreal Tournament later today.
I found a used copy of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles at the game store. I got it for a modest 35 dollars instead of a full 50. So I was playing it for 3 hours yesterday. Everything looks better than Final Fantasy X, which is amazing to me. Now, I technically have all the Final Fantasy games except for Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy Adventure and Final Fantasy Legend 1 and 2 (Secret of Mana for Game Boy.) I want to bring over Gamecube so we can play that game in multiplayer, that is if he doesn’t want a LAN party. I am also planning to bring over Midnight Club 2 and Winning Eleven 6. Bob told me Midnight Club was one of his favorite games.
This just in, I didn't have a LAN party today. It's a disappointment, but we got 5 inches of snow fall.
On the second part of my blog I realized that there are going to be a dozen RPGs coming out in 2004. Of course Gas Powered Games is releasing Dungeon Siege II [ http://dungeonsiegeii.com/ ] Dungeon Siege will be upgraded to graphics that par up with World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy XI if not better. Dungeon Siege, is not your average game because it is a hack and slash title like Diablo in a 3D engine. It looked pretty good in 2001. Dungeon Siege 2 will have the same features, hopefully an improved multiplayer experience. Dungeon Siege was horrible to be played online, ran very slow.
I’m skipping Everquest 2 and World of Warcraft because I can never afford the online subscription. So this leads me to Ultima X Online. It’s been 4 years since Orgin Systems released an Ultima game. Ultima IX was released in 1999. Ultima IX was like Raven (Myst 2) with the exact same graphics, gameplay and a lot more bugs. Ultima IX was reviewed at IGN.com, and it was not your Neverwinter Nights. Sadly, it was below average. Although it made Ultima 3D. I’ve never played IX. Ultima X is a Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, with graphics as good as Lineage II and Elder Scrolls III : Morrowind. It may even be good, and without bugs! Go to this website to read about it and judge for yourself. [ www.uxo.ea.com/intro.html ] I’m kind of excited for it. Here are some screenshots from the game. Looks original? I hope it plays as good as it looks :)
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Sunday, February 29, 2004
Doom 3 update | Goldeneye ported to PC!!!!
Date: 2/29/04 at 4:32PM
This is my Doom 3 update. There are a lot of sources off Google so this will be brief. Doom 3 is going to use bump mapping and sound data, shadows loaded with the pixels itself. Doom 3 will use 20 texture passes per second. This new technique is invented by ID Software. The game will be hugely polygon based. As many as 10,000 polygons on objects with their own bump map lighting. The games characters, bots will be bump mapped as well. I'm guessing that the textures will be 128-bit instead of 64-bit because I saw the screen shots, and they look beyond that of Half-life 2. The extra 64-bits will add more color, shadow, depth, a sharpness. Doom 3 will have lighting created in the game engine, and there will be no lighting effects or shadows loading with the map. For the first time ever, moving objects can also have shadows. ID software sounds like they'll be requiring a Pentium 4 2.0 Gigahertz PC with 256 MB of RAM, and a 128 MB graphics card to play Doom 3 at 800x600 at a good framerate. Doom 3 was presented at QuakeCON 2K3 powered by 128MB and 256MB Geforce and Radeons. Doom 3 will need triple much power as Neverwinter Nights because of the polygons. I don't want to blow your guy's brain so go to http://www.doomworld.com/doom3/ for a complete faq.
I know some of you loved Goldeneye, I know I have. I found out a stand alone game that will have the complete Goldeneye single player, and multiplayer running in high res on your PC. It looks like Wolfenstine. Found at http://goldeneye.new...m.com/download.shtml.
Otherwise, many of you may know, but there is also a Goldeneye port for Half-life avaliable at http://www.3ddownloa...elefragged/goldeneye I have the 1.11 patch, but this game will work with any patch dated after June 2000. Goldeneye 2 was just announced by EA Games this week, and it will be multi-platform. No news whether or not it will be developed for PC.
This is my Doom 3 update. There are a lot of sources off Google so this will be brief. Doom 3 is going to use bump mapping and sound data, shadows loaded with the pixels itself. Doom 3 will use 20 texture passes per second. This new technique is invented by ID Software. The game will be hugely polygon based. As many as 10,000 polygons on objects with their own bump map lighting. The games characters, bots will be bump mapped as well. I'm guessing that the textures will be 128-bit instead of 64-bit because I saw the screen shots, and they look beyond that of Half-life 2. The extra 64-bits will add more color, shadow, depth, a sharpness. Doom 3 will have lighting created in the game engine, and there will be no lighting effects or shadows loading with the map. For the first time ever, moving objects can also have shadows. ID software sounds like they'll be requiring a Pentium 4 2.0 Gigahertz PC with 256 MB of RAM, and a 128 MB graphics card to play Doom 3 at 800x600 at a good framerate. Doom 3 was presented at QuakeCON 2K3 powered by 128MB and 256MB Geforce and Radeons. Doom 3 will need triple much power as Neverwinter Nights because of the polygons. I don't want to blow your guy's brain so go to http://www.doomworld.com/doom3/ for a complete faq.
I know some of you loved Goldeneye, I know I have. I found out a stand alone game that will have the complete Goldeneye single player, and multiplayer running in high res on your PC. It looks like Wolfenstine. Found at http://goldeneye.new...m.com/download.shtml.
Otherwise, many of you may know, but there is also a Goldeneye port for Half-life avaliable at http://www.3ddownloa...elefragged/goldeneye I have the 1.11 patch, but this game will work with any patch dated after June 2000. Goldeneye 2 was just announced by EA Games this week, and it will be multi-platform. No news whether or not it will be developed for PC.
Friday, February 27, 2004
I want to learn flash | a look at UT2004 (fixed)
Date: 2/27/04 at 2:13AM
I met this guy from about a year ago on Diablo 2. We talk to each other, he's xwanyecoltx, and he is the top reviewer at newgrounds.com, a community full of flash movies. I usually don't go there often. I did yesterday, and really looked at it. I took my main interest Final Fantasy, and looked at some flash movies. Most of them are based on Final Fantasy 3. I like the Final Fantasy Trilogy. The cat scene was somewhat funny. The graphics are good, it's above and beyond me. Most of these designers have websites that are done in flash. I was trying to learn how to work in Macromedia Flash MX. I can move images around, but I can't do the effects. LOL! I'm no expert for sure! The zooming, the special effects with slash, the timing. I'm another notice at RPG developing. When I heard from him that I can use javascript for some of my effects, I felt better. I have the premiere software to work with, and I can't do a d*mn thing with it. XwanynecoltX got me interested in making flash.
I decided to put Cloud's Adventure on hold. If fact I don't even care for it. I can't find the correct number of characters that'll I'll need in the game. Sure, I have experience in making maps in Dungeon Siege, Neverwinter Nights, Unreal Tournament, and UT2003. I never worked with Milkshape or UT character editor to make models. I have attempted to transfer a UT2003 model to Neverwinter Nights using a add-on for NWN Design Studio. I have one map online <http://www.pressente...~scampbel/nwnmod.exe> I find that I'll have more fun creating NWN mods than anything else. UT2003 maps make no since to me, you develop the map, and you set start points, a couple weapon locations and debug. It's a first person shooter, you you frag people in a violent gory way for hours. I've been guilty in this way because I use to be a fps fanatic myself. I liked gory fps for a while. I agree MMORPGS, especially Neverwinter Nights, are more popular (and my favorite), and a bit more sane. Since then I have become a bit more sane. I did ask my parents about playing Final Fantasy XI online this week, and the answer is still no. I really want to play that game even if it costed 12 dollars a month. That's 144 dollars a year. I wish there was a offline mod for FFXI. I dunno maybe I'll play UT2003 online again with the lad lagacy. Lagacy is much better in NWN, but you never know, maybe the newer patches in UT2003 affect the frame rate?
Speaking of which, I was looking information on both Doom III and Half-life 2, and no new information is avaliable. There is very little known facts on the 'source engine' and what Half-life 2 map editor will use or if the rumor porting older Half-life models into Half-life 2 is true. The game will look great in 1600/1200 at 4 layers of anti-ayalasing with all effects on. Maybe it'll support 2000/1600 high res. It's rather pointless because graphics quality won't be that improved. Right now PCs haven't able to work well at that high of resolution. Most people now should at least be able to run at 1200/768 on their current machines. More than half of pc gamers (from a toll on Gamefaqs.com) have bought a new computer since 2001. That's nice. I know in 5 years we'll look back on today's games, and say how low resolution they look. I knew we said that about Unreal Tournament. It was in 1999 that UT was a huge game and state of the art graphics. I remember in 2000, I downloaded 200 maps in total off FileShack.com before they made you pay for their servers accessablity. I use to play the maps in deathmatch. Some worked some didn't, some made my computer crash. On the bigger maps, it wasn't uncommon for me to reset my resolution to 800/600 just to play the map at 30 frames a second. Not today, my computer is 10x more powerful than 5 years ago.
[ I messed up in this section. I have a Radeon 9800 in my Dell Deminsion XPS. A XFX Geforce 5600 in my custom-built pc ,and a XFX Geforce 5200 in my compaq which replaced my older Radeon 7000 ]
The Unreal Tournament 2004 demo is out now and the game is coming to stores on March 18th. It seems not long ago Unreal 2 was released. And I was kind-of hyped about getting that game because of the class A gameplay. It's okay, but not as fun as Unreal Tournament. If you like a story based first person shooter, this would be the game for you. Unreal 2 has deathmatch but I never once played it. My guess it's exactly like UT2003, but UT2003 is such a revolutionary first person shooter like the first. I got half way through it 1 month ago than stopped for whatever reason. Unreal 2 has been out nearly a year already. I know Bob was thinking of owning it. Why have him buy it when I can just give him a copy? The UT2004 demo is out, and of course with my connection, I haven't downloaded it. Rumor is that it'll play UT 2003 levels because both games use the same physics engine. UT 2004 features vehicles simular to WARTHOG in Halo. It's optimized using the ATI Radeon 9800 GPU. I own both a 256 MB Geforce 4 5600 Ti and ATI Radeon 9800. I recently installed the Geforce 4 5200 128 MB GPU in my Compaq (given to me 3 years ago in 2001). For months I thought it wouldn't work because I thought my Compaq was using a 4X AGP slot instead of the 8x AGP slot required to use the card. It never accured until now that my Geforce 4 works because it's backward compatible with 4x slots. I confused me because i stuck it in yesterday, and it worked. Before I had a XFX Radeon 7000 64MB GPU because that worked.
UT 2004 sounds like it will have space aged weapon optimized spacecraft so that in assault you can dog fight with everyone else. Another idea taking straight out of Star Wars: Rogue Squadron.
One game that would be nice to have on my computer (from 1998) is the XGRacing 2 released on the PC in 1998 by Acclaim. It is a fast paced game featuring futuristic cycles racing on a track. I known the game for N64. And while it didn't get great reviews, I thought it was cool. The graphics were better then Xtreme G (1997 Acclaim) although the game play in XG2 was a bit worse. It was a Christmas present that year. The first game looked good considering it was a early N64 racing title. It was like Tron, but was much improved. The forth game released multi-platform called XGRA (Extreme-G Racing Association) is like Xtreme G 3. (I own XG3 for Gamecube) I read the reviews off IGN.com and they said the game had some errors, but what's interesting is the game itself at a 6 page developer interview at IGN.com. It got a 7.5 at IGN.com, and 7.8 at Gamespot.com. I read both reviews, and it seemed like Acclaim was trying to make this title a worthy sequel with harder AI, more vehicles, and tracks. I read the review and IGN.com said it was too customizable for it's own good and made the controls too unbalance making it a more difficult game any ways and less fun. If the gameplay was more balanced, the game may of been considered one of the better racers for any console. I want it for PC, and instead Acclaim made this title console exclusive. If I see this game for Gamecube/Xbox I'll buy it at an used price, therefore I save money. I already own other futuristic racers like FZero GX.
I haven't had time to play Knights of the Old Republic lately. KOTOR is a great game with state-of-the-art graphics Right now I am in Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark because it's online. I'm going to play it after I finish writing this entry.
This is Ian signing off once again. Tune in 5 days from now to read my next review in my saga. Mean while, visit my webpage.
I met this guy from about a year ago on Diablo 2. We talk to each other, he's xwanyecoltx, and he is the top reviewer at newgrounds.com, a community full of flash movies. I usually don't go there often. I did yesterday, and really looked at it. I took my main interest Final Fantasy, and looked at some flash movies. Most of them are based on Final Fantasy 3. I like the Final Fantasy Trilogy. The cat scene was somewhat funny. The graphics are good, it's above and beyond me. Most of these designers have websites that are done in flash. I was trying to learn how to work in Macromedia Flash MX. I can move images around, but I can't do the effects. LOL! I'm no expert for sure! The zooming, the special effects with slash, the timing. I'm another notice at RPG developing. When I heard from him that I can use javascript for some of my effects, I felt better. I have the premiere software to work with, and I can't do a d*mn thing with it. XwanynecoltX got me interested in making flash.
I decided to put Cloud's Adventure on hold. If fact I don't even care for it. I can't find the correct number of characters that'll I'll need in the game. Sure, I have experience in making maps in Dungeon Siege, Neverwinter Nights, Unreal Tournament, and UT2003. I never worked with Milkshape or UT character editor to make models. I have attempted to transfer a UT2003 model to Neverwinter Nights using a add-on for NWN Design Studio. I have one map online <http://www.pressente...~scampbel/nwnmod.exe> I find that I'll have more fun creating NWN mods than anything else. UT2003 maps make no since to me, you develop the map, and you set start points, a couple weapon locations and debug. It's a first person shooter, you you frag people in a violent gory way for hours. I've been guilty in this way because I use to be a fps fanatic myself. I liked gory fps for a while. I agree MMORPGS, especially Neverwinter Nights, are more popular (and my favorite), and a bit more sane. Since then I have become a bit more sane. I did ask my parents about playing Final Fantasy XI online this week, and the answer is still no. I really want to play that game even if it costed 12 dollars a month. That's 144 dollars a year. I wish there was a offline mod for FFXI. I dunno maybe I'll play UT2003 online again with the lad lagacy. Lagacy is much better in NWN, but you never know, maybe the newer patches in UT2003 affect the frame rate?
Speaking of which, I was looking information on both Doom III and Half-life 2, and no new information is avaliable. There is very little known facts on the 'source engine' and what Half-life 2 map editor will use or if the rumor porting older Half-life models into Half-life 2 is true. The game will look great in 1600/1200 at 4 layers of anti-ayalasing with all effects on. Maybe it'll support 2000/1600 high res. It's rather pointless because graphics quality won't be that improved. Right now PCs haven't able to work well at that high of resolution. Most people now should at least be able to run at 1200/768 on their current machines. More than half of pc gamers (from a toll on Gamefaqs.com) have bought a new computer since 2001. That's nice. I know in 5 years we'll look back on today's games, and say how low resolution they look. I knew we said that about Unreal Tournament. It was in 1999 that UT was a huge game and state of the art graphics. I remember in 2000, I downloaded 200 maps in total off FileShack.com before they made you pay for their servers accessablity. I use to play the maps in deathmatch. Some worked some didn't, some made my computer crash. On the bigger maps, it wasn't uncommon for me to reset my resolution to 800/600 just to play the map at 30 frames a second. Not today, my computer is 10x more powerful than 5 years ago.
[ I messed up in this section. I have a Radeon 9800 in my Dell Deminsion XPS. A XFX Geforce 5600 in my custom-built pc ,and a XFX Geforce 5200 in my compaq which replaced my older Radeon 7000 ]
The Unreal Tournament 2004 demo is out now and the game is coming to stores on March 18th. It seems not long ago Unreal 2 was released. And I was kind-of hyped about getting that game because of the class A gameplay. It's okay, but not as fun as Unreal Tournament. If you like a story based first person shooter, this would be the game for you. Unreal 2 has deathmatch but I never once played it. My guess it's exactly like UT2003, but UT2003 is such a revolutionary first person shooter like the first. I got half way through it 1 month ago than stopped for whatever reason. Unreal 2 has been out nearly a year already. I know Bob was thinking of owning it. Why have him buy it when I can just give him a copy? The UT2004 demo is out, and of course with my connection, I haven't downloaded it. Rumor is that it'll play UT 2003 levels because both games use the same physics engine. UT 2004 features vehicles simular to WARTHOG in Halo. It's optimized using the ATI Radeon 9800 GPU. I own both a 256 MB Geforce 4 5600 Ti and ATI Radeon 9800. I recently installed the Geforce 4 5200 128 MB GPU in my Compaq (given to me 3 years ago in 2001). For months I thought it wouldn't work because I thought my Compaq was using a 4X AGP slot instead of the 8x AGP slot required to use the card. It never accured until now that my Geforce 4 works because it's backward compatible with 4x slots. I confused me because i stuck it in yesterday, and it worked. Before I had a XFX Radeon 7000 64MB GPU because that worked.
UT 2004 sounds like it will have space aged weapon optimized spacecraft so that in assault you can dog fight with everyone else. Another idea taking straight out of Star Wars: Rogue Squadron.
One game that would be nice to have on my computer (from 1998) is the XGRacing 2 released on the PC in 1998 by Acclaim. It is a fast paced game featuring futuristic cycles racing on a track. I known the game for N64. And while it didn't get great reviews, I thought it was cool. The graphics were better then Xtreme G (1997 Acclaim) although the game play in XG2 was a bit worse. It was a Christmas present that year. The first game looked good considering it was a early N64 racing title. It was like Tron, but was much improved. The forth game released multi-platform called XGRA (Extreme-G Racing Association) is like Xtreme G 3. (I own XG3 for Gamecube) I read the reviews off IGN.com and they said the game had some errors, but what's interesting is the game itself at a 6 page developer interview at IGN.com. It got a 7.5 at IGN.com, and 7.8 at Gamespot.com. I read both reviews, and it seemed like Acclaim was trying to make this title a worthy sequel with harder AI, more vehicles, and tracks. I read the review and IGN.com said it was too customizable for it's own good and made the controls too unbalance making it a more difficult game any ways and less fun. If the gameplay was more balanced, the game may of been considered one of the better racers for any console. I want it for PC, and instead Acclaim made this title console exclusive. If I see this game for Gamecube/Xbox I'll buy it at an used price, therefore I save money. I already own other futuristic racers like FZero GX.
I haven't had time to play Knights of the Old Republic lately. KOTOR is a great game with state-of-the-art graphics Right now I am in Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark because it's online. I'm going to play it after I finish writing this entry.
This is Ian signing off once again. Tune in 5 days from now to read my next review in my saga. Mean while, visit my webpage.
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