Posted on 07/15/2004 7:51:30 AM PDT by Paradox
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Since 2000, developer id Software has told the world the next installment of "Doom," the game that kicked off the action genre, would ship "when it's done."
Good news, gamers: It's done. In the lexicon of the industry, "Doom 3" has gone gold.That means with id Software's work done, publisher Activision is duplicating copies to ship to retail. What it all boils down to is you'll be able to pick up a copy at retail on Aug. 5, though some stores could start selling the game as early as Aug. 3.
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Never really got into RTS games...
Sheesh. Make that WarCraft III.
I tried it...for some reason I liked Warcraft II better. Can't really say why. Among "town-building" RTS games, I like Age of Kings best.
I didn't much enjoy WC3. I much more enjoyed Spellforce. That was an outstanding RTS/RPG hybrid.
Doom 3 and Half-Life2..
*EVILLL grin*
My all time favorite games are Warcraft II and Heroes of M and M II..I also have WC III and it is a great game as well. Heroes is turn based strategy, a little different but fun.
There is something about WC II though that made it special! Not sure if you have the battleships and fighting ships in part 3, so that is one thing missing.
I also loved Caesar III - more of a strategy game though.
No, I'm not Doktor/doc9, I'm No.6 (WB: bcnu++, previously no-6 and even num6 if you count back to 0.81 days).
See my post #76 above. In my junior year of college, my roommates and I (they were all computer science majors) would play Unreal until the early morning hours (2,3,4 am) over the LAN connection that we had in our university-run apartment. The game would barely run on my Pentium II POS (which I still have), so I would play on my roommate's laptop in the living room, sitting on the futon. I think at one point, there were 10+ CPU's in that room, with network cable all over the apartment. It was pretty cool.
Yeah, go get Morrowind, one of the best games I think I've ever played.
You haven't done much upgrading lately if you currently have 128 mb of ram.
Broadband right now, but I'm moving next month so I don't know what I'll have after that.
Civilization(s) 1 through 3 were great.
My roomate in college had a Commodore 64...
Have been thinking of upgrading but the problem is I don't want to ruin the case.
It is the primary reason I have kept it around for so long, full tower case, and a power system that hasn't failed me in 12 years, even with all the board changes hard drive changes card changes.
The only thing stock on the system is the power supply and wiring.
Be a little hard to find a vesa bus video card today.
We got so efficient at building in that game it was scary. We were well known at the 2 college comp labs as "The Four Horsemen." Sad, I know.
However, we got burned out. Once you figured out easy counters to weird strats like "Tower Method," the game reduced down to which team could develop blood-lusted ogres first. Game over.
WCIII is different - the RTS part of the game is so complicated, it's difficult to always know what to do. It's even worse with the expansion, so all we do anymore is play hero boards on Battlenet. Some of the mods are great and make for interesting games.
Gosh, I don't remember what the dot pitch was.....probably .41 or so.
Hey! We had an Atari 400 too! I forgot. I guess I didn't really think of it as a computer, although we did have the BASIC cartridge for it, and I learned enough to write a crappy game program.
You can find everything on e-bay, except that.
That computer is where I learned machine language and going online. After I got an 800XL I even wrote a database application that could handle a dataset larger than the memory (used the disk as extra memory). So it could work as a computer pretty well.
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