I'm buying... as well as about $550 canadian (That's about $300 US) worth of parts to run it.
But my comp is getting old and grey anyways, running anything beyond this point is gonna require more than what I have: Splinter cell is pushing the limit, the next generation of games (i.e. Homeworld2, b&w2, etc. etc.) won't run on my current rig.
Ah well, if I get bored of it I can play morrowind, which would actually run with playable framerates.
I don't think I will get bored of it too easy, though. I mean, it took about two and a half months to get bored of Tribes 2 and I really only stopped playing because the community was filling with lamers n' scriptkiddies, on top of all the competing mods completely eliminating base play. Oh, AND I was getting sick of Katabatic, and CTF in general. AND there was that whole thing with there only being about 450 players on at a time, with an equal amount of servers (95% of which were totally empty). AND there was that wierd incompatibility with my cable modem which would cause my ping to jump to 44000 every 30 seconds and cause the game to practically freeze for five-to-ten seconds and sometimes disconnect me completely - but that only happened some of the time - and this would also cause the maps to simply NOT LOAD.
Yeah, T2 was (still is, kinda) fun but it has too many crippling flaws which I see no sign of in PS (Low player count? Aahahahhahaha) and PS has a lot of the things I like about T2 - vehicles, mostly skill and a little luck based multi-role warfare, running people over with vehicles (Yessssss!), pretty well-balanced weapons, bases, interesting and tactical-possibility-filled terrain, and a you-can-be-anything-you-want feel to it. On top of that is the huge, persistant world, the three unique empires and the promise of continual revamping.
Downside is it costs $18 or $19 per month, of course, on top of the $65+ box and the $550 upgrades (Which would have been done for some other game anyways), but I feel it's worth it.
The only thing I really hope they do is the ability to create 'aliases' that are new characters, but belong to the same outfits, friends-lists, etc. and keep your old stats. So if you decide to start over you don't have to explain to everyone you know 'Hey, it's me! Let me back in the outfit!'
It would save me from having my characters being named "Tieom", "TieomsClone", "TieomsClonesClone", and "TieomsClonesClonesClone"
2003-05-06, 03:07 PM
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