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Jun 25, 2002, 6:19am

My computer doesnt suck. It's most definately not the best thing you can
have, but its got a nice hard drive, some good ram, and a decent video card.
I rarely buy/play new games nowadays, considering that the vast majority of
my net time is taken up by three things: aw, darkages (www.darkages.com),
and working on my website (which will open one day i promise). Therefore, I
spend most of my time at these things, and don't really buy new games
anymore. However there comes a time when I see a new game that I absolutely
love, usually before it comes out, and I follow it's progress, and then I
buy it. This was the way it was for Anarchy Online.. I fell in love with it
on paper, liked it in beta, then was extremely disappointed by it in
retail.. it just wasnt what I expected.

However, I remember how frustrating it was buying the game after beta, and
wanting to tear my hair out because of all the bugs and memory leaks and
whatnot. Now, It's worse; I just purchased the newly released Neverwinter
Nights, which I had been looking forward to because of its great DMing and
level creating capabilities, only to be extremely dissapointed and even more
frustrated by one small little error that prevents any creativity in
campaign editing (the toolkit access violation error with properties). Now
unlike AO, this seems like a great game, but it is just so frustrating how
whenever I seek to add to my small collective pool of multiplayer
experiences, it never works anymore. Come to think of it, I havent gotten a
good, stable multiplayer-capable game since Starcraft... and that was a long
time ago. They're have such great promises and potential, but they work you
up and then get you frustrated as hell with bugs and problems.

I wonder sometimes if its just me and my comp that can't handle this stuff,
or is it just the products coming out, with not enough time put into them
before release? Only thing I know for sure is that they _always_ end up
frustrating the hell out of me.. always.


Frustrated and near giving up hope,
Eric

Jun 25, 2002, 11:05am

lol, the great thing about PC Games is that they update so if you buy it and
it has a bug (especially right after it comes out) there's a good chance the
bug will be fixed within a couple months.

I'd suggest getting WarCraft3. It's not out yet, but I've been playing a
leaked beta (I'm not really a beta tester, jut getting onto a cracked
battle.net server with a warez beta). I'm loving it :-)

What kind of vid card do you have, anyway? I have a Voodoo3 and I know it
has tons of problems with other games cause they made it differently than
most vid cards are and it screws things up.

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Jun 25, 2002, 11:20am

ATI Radeon 32mb.. not a bad card.. definately not the best. As for war3,
I've been really hyped about that for a while.. but recently it just seems
that like everything else, its gonna be a bit of a letdown. =/


-Eric
*huge war2 and sc fan*


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Jun 25, 2002, 11:43am

Hmm... I've heard some bad things about Radeon. Some problems with
compatibility with some games and programs.

I don't know how War3 could be a letdown at all. They'd have to really screw
up to fuck it up at this point.
Get the beta :)

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Jun 25, 2002, 12:17pm

*slap slap slap*

Your forgetting the almighty Duke Match :P

-Robbie

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Jun 25, 2002, 1:46pm

And I still swear that had you not stopped playing, I woulda kicked your ass
:P.. but anyways I don't have that anymore lol


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