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Mr. T wrote:

SGreenslade wrote: Well as far as I know, good gaming ended with the SVGA era.

That's because you have a **** PC and haven't played such great games as: Half-Life, Serious Sam, Quake 3, and Battlefield 1942.

Degustibus et coloribus non disputandum est.

-Kon-Tiki-

Heheheheh

I have an 2.2GHz Athlon XP ;D

I AM THE BIGGEST!

But I only have a GeForce 2

ROFL, what's the point of having a leet rig (HAHA HACKER TERM) if you only have gforce 2?

Yeah, what's the use of such computer... ;D

Mr.T...even if I had a good computer, I wouldn't be interested in them...I've followed up on the more recent blizzard games, I'll admit, but that's because I'm a fan...

You've been de-throned, Allyb....

2400 MHz P4
64MB GeForce4

But why I have this kind of power, I'm not sure.. I mostly spend my time playing retro games anyway..

Except, perhaps, for the exception of Armagetron.

Well I got my Celeron 400 with 256 megs of ram, geforce 2 mx and an 80gig and 10gig hdds. SB AWE32 for sound

I really need a faster machine for compiling c++ code though. STL takes aaaages. 'course, it'll mean upgrading the cpu, ram and motherboard.

- Nick

Well, quite frankly, I like some 3D games. I remember playing tons of DOOM (with White Zombie playing). The only problem is that modern commercial games are mostly just incremental improvements in quality with very few truly innovative titles being released.

I've been hanging out on GameHippo a lot lately, and playing a lot of really good games. Most of them only require a Pentium 200 mhz, and they all have adequate graphics, good sound, and the game play never gets sluggish.

I think that we can use the more powerful modern processors and RAM to create larger worlds, more complex storylines, and more numerous or more complex game objects. Of course the game can be in 3D and still be a good game if 3D is the appropriate medium for the game concept. 3D can mean many different things... first person, isometric, or... AGI. Bwahahahahahaaaa!

<Ultimately, though, anything you see on a current screen IS 2D. Until we get holography rigs, all games, except for games played with actual other people will be 2D. Gameboy Advance doesn't count, though, because it is just layers, not true 3D... besides it makes people want to puke.>

failrate wrote: Well, quite frankly, I like some 3D games. I remember playing tons of DOOM (with White Zombie playing). The only problem is that modern commercial games are mostly just incremental improvements in quality with very few truly innovative titles being released.

Couldn't have said it better myself. That's the reason I don't buy them, Mr. T. These days you have to look for a needle in a haystack to look for a truly innovative game, while back in the SVGA era, as I like to call it, you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting a classic. In fact some of these classics that I own and look for don't work properly or simply don't work at all because of my sucky(as you say it) computer. Meanwhile, emulation is a relatively new gaming fad and it still works on my sucky computer.