Category: Gaming

My Alienware Aurora computer came in the mail last week. As someone who is overly aware of one’s own mortality, I find the key to happiness is to lower your expectations for trivial things, but ensure your standards are not subpar. That way, you always have your expectations exceeded, but never lower your ethical standard of living.
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Via Ita the Bita.

Voice activated game controls. Insanity. I love to talk, but I doubt I’d play a game like this. Nintendo once had something like this once. Even after my friend and I, donning this huge, plastic headset, went through every swear word in the dictionary to launch missles at enemies… it just wasn’t fun. It hurt your throat after awhile, too.

Anyway, if your drinking, this goes with brrrr nicely. Funny shiot!

Voice Activated Gaming

BTW, Fable came out today! I couldn’t buy as I still have too many games to finish already…

Francis A broken phone annihilated my internet. It’s about as flaky as a box of Kellogg’s. Florida is definitely not a hurricane buffer state… or, if it is, Francis was a bad arse. At any rate when I’m not coding, drawing, or cleaning it’s gotta be about the games. Here’s a rundown of what I’ve hit and what I think in case your thinking of doing the same. I’m only dicussing games I’ve either beaten or played enough to know, fairly, whether they are good or not.
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Co-worker purchased Doom 3 yesterday to prove to me it actually existed. I had thought it was a Mac & Maya publicity stunt gone vaporware, but I was, thankfully, proven wrong.

The minimum specs are like a 1.5 gigahertz P4… awesome! The problem is, we tested here on a 1.7 with the 9600 Radeon, a beast of a card, and although the game looked good, the framerate/refresh rate was pathetic. We upped and lowered the resolution, turned on and then turned off the special effects (each and every setting), even tweaked the video card for performance… all to no avail. The game would play the same for higher or lower settings. The closer your camera was to a wall, without facing much geometry, the better it ran.

My guess is, the majority of the game’s framerate is garnered from processor speed, while the effects are all put on the video card. It ran the same with all settings on or off which leads me to believe that hopefully the first patch will tap into some of the video card’s power to up the framerate. Seeing what the Radeon did for Unreal, I only pray that the game’s designers spent part of that 3-4 years (or was it 2…?) 4 years finding out how to use a video card to what it was made to do. One of my older computers had it’s lifespan extended 6 months because of a new video card; they can do wonders if the developers utilize hardware acceleration to its fullest.

Anyway, I’d wait for the first patch before purchasing… you can still buy the T-shirts, though!

CNET’s Coverage

Time Magazine’s Coverage