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leongt

leongt

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In between playing AOP2 I've also been playing The Hunter and in the help forum I was surprised at how many people no little or nothing about the computers they use, When I first started using a computer { when we had MS Dos 6 and Windows 3.1 } I made a point of knowing what parts it used so I could build my own computer but it seems that kind of thing has gone out of fashion these days for some people
 
Yeah.. there's loads of those people who don't know jack shit about computers and all most of them seem to know is that when something goes bad they reinstall windows.. that has been the damn case with MANY games that have bugs or some other inconveniences. MANY times the silly people tell that to other silly people and I am like "WTF? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blink:" border="0" alt="blink.gif" /> It's the game not the computer.. and if it is the computer it can be fixed without reinstalling windows". Damn herds of sheep and feeble-minded. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> When I tried to patch Sacred 2 to 2.40 I couldn't because the patch could not find Sacred 2 because I had the wrong patch that was meant to patch some other version of the game so I went reading forums and boy are they bunch of retarded ones. Reinstall windows? Make sure everything is up to date? Reinstall game? And some sillies reinstalled their windows or reinstalled Sacred 2 (like 3 times) or both. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> This was so retarded that I had to keep looking for some logical explanation for this and what I found was that some idiots at Ascaron have made a confusing mess with their patches. Their update site has a 2.40 full patch that patches only 2.12 version of the game (there's a small patch that is for 2.34 version of the game and some other small patches for older versions) and then there is this international retail version of the game what is at 2.0.2 version which I have and that needed a different 2.40 patch. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
One guy tryed to tell me a Nvidia 9500GT was a good vid card but then I showed him the specs of the 9500GT compaired to my old 8800GT and he changed his mind quick smart.

Being a stay at home dad looking after a 19year old autistic son my budget is limited but if I had the money Id get one of these new Mac's that are able play windows & Mac OS they are one brute of a machine but here in Aus even the bog standard one is $4000
 
<!--quoteo(post=335419:date=Jul 6 2009, 04:38 AM:name=leongt)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (leongt @ Jul 6 2009, 04:38 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=335419"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Being a stay at home dad looking after a 19year old autistic son my budget is limited but <!--coloro:#00FF00--><span style="color:#00FF00"><!--/coloro-->if I had the money<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--> Id get one of these new Mac's that are able play windows & Mac OS they are one brute of a machine but here in Aus even the bog standard one is $4000<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->If wishes were Horses

Beggers would Fly.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

you are aiming quite low.
 
<!--quoteo(post=335564:date=Jul 6 2009, 01:24 PM:name=rupertlittlebear)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (rupertlittlebear @ Jul 6 2009, 01:24 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=335564"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Being a stay at home dad looking after a 19year old autistic son my budget is limited but <!--coloro:#00FF00--><span style="color:#00FF00"><!--/coloro-->if I had the money<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--> Id get one of these new Mac's that are able play windows & Mac OS they are one brute of a machine but here in Aus even the bog standard one is $4000<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbs1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":2up" border="0" alt="thumbs1.gif" />
 
The Mac I was thinking of is a bit high price than I thought it's around the $5800 mark and has duel intel 2.66 Quad-core Xeon processors, The single intel 2.66 Quad-core Xeon is the one thats around the $4000 mark
 
I am thinking of changing my graphics card with something more up to date. What made me want to do that was that Sacred 2. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />
 
Sacred 2 not my type of game, I'm more into a morrowind or gothic 3 type of player all 1st person view in RPG
 
Gothic games are full of bugs (from what I've read Gothic 3 is even worse). <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" /> Morrowind's animations are just beyond stupidity. Oblivion feels generic. Fallout 3 has too small world and plenty of other things that make it unfallouty like no proper animations for power armor wearers , no damage threshold system, some silly and unfinished animations plus no nuked landscape just a bombed one... that game should have been FALLOUT 3 not "Fallout" 3.
Well.. those are my thoughts and feelings of those games. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" /> I do prefer third-person RPG games more than those Diablo like games.. but it seems there isn't any good third-person rpg games for me yet or I just haven't found it yet. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shrug" border="0" alt="dunno.gif" />
 
<!--quoteo(post=335936:date=Jul 7 2009, 08:19 PM:name=leongt)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (leongt @ Jul 7 2009, 08:19 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=335936"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Sacred 2 not my type of game, I'm more into a morrowind or gothic 3 type of player all 1st person view in RPG<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
if you need to upgrade your computer to play morrowind

shop at a used computer store.

Heck, a MX440 video card will play morrowind

and a MX440 is positively archaic.
 
What? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> It does? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/24.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rofl" border="0" alt="24.gif" />
 
Does it lag? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
not sure. i don't even think it would, though i doubt that myself. morrowind needs some really low specs.
 
<!--quoteo(post=335419:date=Jul 6 2009, 06:38 AM:name=leongt)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (leongt @ Jul 6 2009, 06:38 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=335419"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->One guy tryed to tell me a Nvidia 9500GT was a good vid card but then I showed him the specs of the 9500GT compaired to my old 8800GT and he changed his mind quick smart.

Being a stay at home dad looking after a 19year old autistic son my budget is limited but if I had the money Id get one of these new Mac's that are able play windows & Mac OS they are one brute of a machine but here in Aus even the bog standard one is $4000<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Anything you might use the Mac OS for??

Otherwise it would be a waste of $$$
 
Mac OS is great for my home movie editing At the moment I have a Mac Mirror Door with twin 1.5 gig CPU's and it dose a good job, My PC with a inte duel core 3ghz cpu dose a good job too but I use that for games only But one of the Big Mac's and the new snow leapard OS would be good PLUS as I said now that they run Intel Cpu and are abel to run any windows version you have 2 computers in one.

I did get My PC to run the the OSx86 Project but couldn't get the sound or network to work and I'm sure a lot of people would like to have a computer with duel intel 2.66 Quad-core Xeon processors. BUT I'M ONLY DREAMING ABOUT HAVING ONE because Id never have the money to buy one the $900 I spent upgrading my PC did me
 
<!--quoteo(post=335969:date=Jul 8 2009, 12:17 PM:name=Morgan Terror)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Morgan Terror @ Jul 8 2009, 12:17 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=335969"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->heck, MY computer can play morrowind. no kidding.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Ol' good morrowind <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/buds.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":drunk" border="0" alt="buds.gif" />
 
Morrowind doesn't take much to run at all <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

Oblivion on the other hand does take a bit, I have a Dell XPS which is a gaming computer and it struggles unless I run the game by itself <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
 
Yes Morrowind is a classic { they even have the game of the year edition still selling on amazon } and I'm sure you'll find thousands of gamers will agree with me and a few wont, It was a great follow up to Daggerfall it's self a flawed gem because of all the bugs in it.

Haven't played Morrowind or Oblivion for a long time and with games like Crisis and such the graphics would look crap these days, I have played Gothic 3 but never found any bugs in it Deep One
 
what i'm playing right now is Arcanum. i'd dare say it's right up there with Morrowind in terms of variety and quests. just as an example, an NPC's reaction towards you can be judged by your race, good/evil alignment, magic/technology aptitude, gender, intelligence, strength, your companions and skill in haggle, persuasion, prowling, thievery, and of course your actions earlier on in the game. starting the game with a totally different character the second time literally changes the entire game. it's amazing.

i seriously wouldn't recommend playing the game without the patches though. Gamebanshee has them. the game's infamous for the bugs it used to have.

it's a shame the voice acting was only sparsely done. only the really important characters have them, such as people who could join you and a few major NPC's, but if it's used, it's very good apart from one or two characters. they really manage to pull off an entertaining british snobby accent sometimes. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

i could go on for ages about the other cool stuff arcanum has, but as a summary, there's a very neat crafting system for technologists where they can use random junk to make something entirely new, the choice between realtime or turn-based combat (although the game never really was designed for realtime, so i wouldn't recommend it), your tech/magic aptitude determining combat advantage and the items you can use, at least 4 different endings, more quests in the capital city alone than PotC build 13 had in total, and a very realistic atmosphere if you know where to look (for that, i'd recommend the Tarantian library).
 
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