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(Msg. 31) Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 4:45 pm
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"riku" <riku.RemoveThis@none.invalid.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 18 May 2008 08:54:26 +0100, "Morgan"
> <Nospam.RemoveThis@nospam.co.uk> wrote:
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> > This isn't helped when companies like Lucas Arts jump
> > ship and stop supporting the platform.
>
> Oh no! I was so not looking for the nest Star Wars 3D
> shoot'em up, racing game or platform jumping game.
>
> Ok, so it is Telltale Games which is publishing Sam&Max
> games now, instead of LucasArts. So what? Adventure games
> "died" long before LucasArts left PC gaming.
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(Msg. 32) Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 7:51 pm
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"Nostromo" <nostromo DeleteThis @nospam.org> wrote in message
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> SpammersDie wrote:
>> "Trimble Bracegirdle" <no-spam DeleteThis @never.spam> wrote in message
>> news:482f7b9f$1_4@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com...
>>> I really can't think of a time when there has been so few Games released
>>> for the PC
>>> or due in the near future ???
>>
>> Face it, consoles have won this war.
>>
>> The PC game industry is now a serious turdpit and worse, they know it and
>> don't care - the big money is in consoles and they'd love it if we'd just
>> go away. So fine. I could easily spend the next ten years going thru
>> better titles of yesteryear that I never played when they came out (took
>> too much for granted, I guess.) And I don't have to wait for patches to
>> fix the 1.0 bugs, there's tons of accumulated knowledge out there for any
>> big issues that are left, I don't have to rebuild my hardware just to get
>> playable FPS, I don't have to deal with increasingly ludicrous levels of
>> DRM, and I can get the whole enchilada at once instead of being drip-fed
>> expansion packs and sequels over the years. So I'm set - the control
>> freaks that run the show these days can go to hell.
>
> Nice rant (troll?) ;-p
>
> One word: mobility. I've taken to playing all the older games on a decent
> laptop these days. Have 7Mbit mobile data account - will play! 
> I even get decent performance out of the work Thinkpad for current games
> like GW, WoW & CoX. I think my days of being tied to a workstation are
> over. The next 'box' will just sit in the corner w/o a monitor for file
> sharing/storage & I'll just RD to it over the wireless network as needed.
>
> What I'm really waiting for is a 1680x1050 rez notebook with a compact
> size (no larger than 13-14" screen) & a reasonable 3D card. Anyone know of
> such a beast as yet? The Mac Book Pros are nice but a little large & run
> too hot for my liking (it would have XP Pro dumped on it in any case).
> Any/all advice appreciated guys.
>
The Dell XPS M1330 is about as close as it gets these days with a 13"
display and pretty decent graphics options. However, the res is only
1280x800.
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(Msg. 33) Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 12:38 pm
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Nostromo wrote:
> SpammersDie wrote:
>> "Trimble Bracegirdle" <no-spam.TakeThisOut@never.spam> wrote in message
>> news:482f7b9f$1_4@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com...
>>> I really can't think of a time when there has been so few Games
>>> released for the PC
>>> or due in the near future ???
>>
>> Face it, consoles have won this war.
>>
>> The PC game industry is now a serious turdpit and worse, they know it
>> and don't care - the big money is in consoles and they'd love it if
>> we'd just go away. So fine. I could easily spend the next ten years
>> going thru better titles of yesteryear that I never played when they
>> came out (took too much for granted, I guess.) And I don't have to
>> wait for patches to fix the 1.0 bugs, there's tons of accumulated
>> knowledge out there for any big issues that are left, I don't have to
>> rebuild my hardware just to get playable FPS, I don't have to deal
>> with increasingly ludicrous levels of DRM, and I can get the whole
>> enchilada at once instead of being drip-fed expansion packs and
>> sequels over the years. So I'm set - the control freaks that run the
>> show these days can go to hell.
>
> Nice rant (troll?) ;-p
>
> One word: mobility. I've taken to playing all the older games on a
> decent laptop these days. Have 7Mbit mobile data account - will play!
> I even get decent performance out of the work Thinkpad for current
> games like GW, WoW & CoX. I think my days of being tied to a
> workstation are over. The next 'box' will just sit in the corner w/o a
> monitor for file sharing/storage & I'll just RD to it over the
> wireless network as needed.
>
> What I'm really waiting for is a 1680x1050 rez notebook with a compact
> size (no larger than 13-14" screen) & a reasonable 3D card. Anyone
> know of such a beast as yet? The Mac Book Pros are nice but a little
> large & run too hot for my liking (it would have XP Pro dumped on it
> in any case). Any/all advice appreciated guys.
>
I think the problem with that wish is that typically the screens to run
that resolution tend to be in the 15.4" variety. Most 14" units I've
seen can't seem to get above 1280x800.
In the 15.4 range though, I know MSI has one (called an Extreme Edition,
not sure the exact model number) that runs 1680x1050 as the native pixel
rez, with a 512Mb nvidia 8600M video card in it, and it was around
$1600. Sager makes a few models with the WSXGA+ display standard on a
15.4" screen, which I guess is the magic combination to get the
1680x1050 you're looking for, and they all tend to run the mobile
8-series nvidia GPU. I've seen others with dual cards in SLI mode, but
those tend to be super hot gaming rockets that have pretty shoddy
battery life and are really pushing the "mobility" moniker to the limit
- unless by "mobile" you mean "near an outlet 90% of the time and
wearing asbestos underwear to avoid testicular burnage when holding in
lap" and then we're ok. Anyhow, they're out there, and the high rez
screens are coming faster now on more models.
As for me, I do fine with my Dell Inspiron - runs a widescreen 1440x900
native rez, has an nvidia 7-series gpu, and gets well over 4 hours on a
charge unless I'm really pounding the graphics (my record was almost 6
hours, but not gaming). Runs most anything I care to play on the road.
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(Msg. 34) Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 6:38 am
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Thus spake CoinSpin <coin^spam^spin@comcast.net>, Tue, 20 May 2008 12:38:26
-0400, Anno Domini:
>Nostromo wrote:
>> SpammersDie wrote:
>>> "Trimble Bracegirdle" <no-spam.DeleteThis@never.spam> wrote in message
>>> news:482f7b9f$1_4@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com...
>>>> I really can't think of a time when there has been so few Games
>>>> released for the PC
>>>> or due in the near future ???
>>>
>>> Face it, consoles have won this war.
>>>
>>> The PC game industry is now a serious turdpit and worse, they know it
>>> and don't care - the big money is in consoles and they'd love it if
>>> we'd just go away. So fine. I could easily spend the next ten years
>>> going thru better titles of yesteryear that I never played when they
>>> came out (took too much for granted, I guess.) And I don't have to
>>> wait for patches to fix the 1.0 bugs, there's tons of accumulated
>>> knowledge out there for any big issues that are left, I don't have to
>>> rebuild my hardware just to get playable FPS, I don't have to deal
>>> with increasingly ludicrous levels of DRM, and I can get the whole
>>> enchilada at once instead of being drip-fed expansion packs and
>>> sequels over the years. So I'm set - the control freaks that run the
>>> show these days can go to hell.
>>
>> Nice rant (troll?) ;-p
>>
>> One word: mobility. I've taken to playing all the older games on a
>> decent laptop these days. Have 7Mbit mobile data account - will play!
>> I even get decent performance out of the work Thinkpad for current
>> games like GW, WoW & CoX. I think my days of being tied to a
>> workstation are over. The next 'box' will just sit in the corner w/o a
>> monitor for file sharing/storage & I'll just RD to it over the
>> wireless network as needed.
>>
>> What I'm really waiting for is a 1680x1050 rez notebook with a compact
>> size (no larger than 13-14" screen) & a reasonable 3D card. Anyone
>> know of such a beast as yet? The Mac Book Pros are nice but a little
>> large & run too hot for my liking (it would have XP Pro dumped on it
>> in any case). Any/all advice appreciated guys.
>>
>
>I think the problem with that wish is that typically the screens to run
>that resolution tend to be in the 15.4" variety. Most 14" units I've
>seen can't seem to get above 1280x800.
>
>In the 15.4 range though, I know MSI has one (called an Extreme Edition,
>not sure the exact model number) that runs 1680x1050 as the native pixel
>rez, with a 512Mb nvidia 8600M video card in it, and it was around
>$1600. Sager makes a few models with the WSXGA+ display standard on a
>15.4" screen, which I guess is the magic combination to get the
>1680x1050 you're looking for, and they all tend to run the mobile
>8-series nvidia GPU. I've seen others with dual cards in SLI mode, but
>those tend to be super hot gaming rockets that have pretty shoddy
>battery life and are really pushing the "mobility" moniker to the limit
>- unless by "mobile" you mean "near an outlet 90% of the time and
>wearing asbestos underwear to avoid testicular burnage when holding in
>lap" and then we're ok. Anyhow, they're out there, and the high rez
>screens are coming faster now on more models.
ROFLMFAO!
>As for me, I do fine with my Dell Inspiron - runs a widescreen 1440x900
>native rez, has an nvidia 7-series gpu, and gets well over 4 hours on a
>charge unless I'm really pounding the graphics (my record was almost 6
>hours, but not gaming). Runs most anything I care to play on the road.
Nice. May look into the Dells, but I've had an aversion to the brand for a
while. Thanks heaps for the heads up. I guess I'll have to find the best
bang for buck in the 15'4" models in the lightest/smallest footprint
possible. I do love the compactness of this Lenovo Z61t, though it is
yesterday's tech I believe.
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(Msg. 35) Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 1:38 am
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> I'm sure part of the problem is that I've become more picky and will now
> only buy games that I'm damn certain I'm going to enjoy. Otherwise I've
> always got some older games and MAME.
>
I'm in the same boat. I used to buy probably 2 or 3 games a month, now it
seems a game every 2 or 3 months. I've no stats to back this up but it
seems to me the average age of the PC gamer is creeping up with the younger
crowd gravitating to consoles so the PC market could well be getting fussier
and more demanding with what they expect.
That said the only upcoming titles I'm really looking forward to are Fallout
3, a torpedo boat sim and the upcoming Battle of Britain flight sim plus a
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(Msg. 36) Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 10:47 am
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"Michael Cecil" <macecil.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> The ones I'm waiting on are:
> Afterfall
> Age of Decadence
> The Broken Hourglass
> Dead Space
> Dragon Age
> Drakensang
> Dungeon Hero
> Elveon
> Fallen Earth
> Fallout 3
> Grotesque
> HL2 They Hunger
> Legend
> Mass Effect
> Project Offset
> Rage
> and
> STALKER: Clear Sky
>
> Playing LotRO in the meantime
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(Msg. 37) Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 8:25 am
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rob wrote:
> "JAB" wrote ...
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>> I'm sure part of the problem is that I've become more picky and will now
>> only buy games that I'm damn certain I'm going to enjoy. Otherwise I've
>> always got some older games and MAME.
>>
>
> I'm in the same boat. I used to buy probably 2 or 3 games a month, now it
> seems a game every 2 or 3 months. I've no stats to back this up but it
> seems to me the average age of the PC gamer is creeping up with the younger
> crowd gravitating to consoles so the PC market could well be getting fussier
> and more demanding with what they expect.
>
> That said the only upcoming titles I'm really looking forward to are Fallout
> 3, a torpedo boat sim and the upcoming Battle of Britain flight sim plus a
> few more I'll probably pick up when I see some positive feedback.
>
.... oops forgot about Fallout 3. Not sure what's going to be more
entertaining the game itself or the posts saying how inferior it is to
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(Msg. 38) Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 6:23 pm
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(Msg. 39) Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 11:38 pm
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On Sun, 18 May 2008 23:11:56 +0100, Shawk wrote:
> gobama wrote:
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>> And why is that exactly, are adventure gamers a breed apart? Maybe it's
>> just me but I had the impression the topic apllied to all kinds of PC
>> games, which justifies the crosspost.
>
It has to do with the signal to noise ratio. There are about a bazillion
casual games coming out. Would you enjoy it if your favorite newsgroups
were flooded by posts full of the latest casual games? And people who
weren't regular posters in your forum insinuated that you were being
snotty because you don't enjoy the latest versions of games like "Big
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(Msg. 40) Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 7:19 pm
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On 18 May 2008 21:52:11 GMT, gobama <xxxxxx.RemoveThis@xxxxxx.net> wrote:
>LOL! What's crossposting got to do with anything?.. That's right, it
>doesn't - there are no adventure games mentioned only because folks from
>that particular group (including yourself) did not bother to reply, pure
>and simple. You want adventure games? You got it baby! (aprox. release
>dates included, some maybe a hybrid action/adventure)
>
>The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian 05/15/2008
>The Immortals of Terra: A Perry Rhodan Adventure 05/20/2008
A Perry Rhodan computer game? Did they use all the novels to develop it?
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On 28 maio, 16:19, cgoo....TakeThisOut@sfu.ca (Chuk Goodin) wrote:
> On 18 May 2008 21:52:11 GMT, gobama <xxx....TakeThisOut@xxxxxx.net> wrote:
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> >LOL! What's crossposting got to do with anything?.. That's right, it
> >doesn't - there are no adventure games mentioned only because folks from
> >that particular group (including yourself) did not bother to reply, pure
> >and simple. You want adventure games? You got it baby! (aprox. release
> >dates included, some maybe a hybrid action/adventure)
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> >The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian 05/15/2008
> >The Immortals of Terra: A Perry Rhodan Adventure 05/20/2008
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> A Perry Rhodan computer game? Did they use all the novels to develop it?
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> chuk
Hi everyone! im new, thats my first post
Chuck i saw the news of these "adventure" games, buy since Grim
Fandango no adventure game enjoy me...I dont know whats happing with
the industries of games, where are the good-plot and creativity
adventure games!!! I want them back!!! Games like indiana jones,
monkey island, space quest, larry and others....Are the adventure
games dead????
(For those who (like me) wants the feeling of "nostalgia" try this
site (a lot of classic adventure games) www.tavernofadventure.110mb.com
and of course Home of the Underdogs (thz for the webmasters of those,
tkz for still making me feel happy playing good games)
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"lixo1984" <lixo1984 DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
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On 28 maio, 16:19, cgoo... DeleteThis @sfu.ca (Chuk Goodin) wrote:
> On 18 May 2008 21:52:11 GMT, gobama <xxx... DeleteThis @xxxxxx.net> wrote:
>
> >LOL! What's crossposting got to do with anything?.. That's right, it
> >doesn't - there are no adventure games mentioned only because folks from
> >that particular group (including yourself) did not bother to reply, pure
> >and simple. You want adventure games? You got it baby! (aprox. release
> >dates included, some maybe a hybrid action/adventure)
>
> >The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian 05/15/2008
> >The Immortals of Terra: A Perry Rhodan Adventure 05/20/2008
>
> A Perry Rhodan computer game? Did they use all the novels to develop it?
>
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> chuk
Hi everyone! im new, thats my first post
Chuck i saw the news of these "adventure" games, buy since Grim
Fandango no adventure game enjoy me...I dont know whats happing with
the industries of games, where are the good-plot and creativity
adventure games!!! I want them back!!! Games like indiana jones,
monkey island, space quest, larry and others....Are the adventure
games dead????
Not dead but a lot less than there used to be. I played all the games you
mention above except for Space Quest. They were all made in the 1990s and
were good games. Some adventure games are still coming out. I just finished
Dreamfall which I liked. its a sequel to The Longest Journey. If you can
find The Longest Journey around you might like it. Also I liked Keepsake not
a very old adventure game. Others are Sherlock Holmes and the Silver
Earring, Sherlock Holmes Nemesis which is quite a new adventure game. If you
go to www.justadventure.com and www.gameboomers.com and
http://www.adventuregamers.com/ you will see listed some new adventure
games that have come out and some listed that will be coming out in future..
Mary
(For those who (like me) wants the feeling of "nostalgia" try this
site (a lot of classic adventure games) www.tavernofadventure.110mb.com
and of course Home of the Underdogs (thz for the webmasters of those,
tkz for still making me feel happy playing good games)
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Free to play is starting to be where its all at. Never have to pay a dime, all games are a simple download and install, most are casual but also cater to the more hardcore gamers. If ya want to save some money, I would check out those types of games. >> Stay informed about: Where Are All The New Games ? |
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