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Originally posted by Tony Shepps
Hey, I've got Tribes 2 on the shelf as well! I've bee playing the only game you haven't, Unreal Tourney. It works.

I'm afraid I'm prejudiced against Unreal. I bought the first game, played it single-player, enjoyed it, although I admit I never quite finished it, and then tried to play it on-line.

OMG. Pings of minute or more! Totally unplayable, and the company had been clueless to that before it was released, because they apparently never tested it except on a LAN. It was even a pig on a T1 line. I never bought Tourney. Just bigotry. People tell me it's good.

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Did you read of the Everquest feud between Curt Schilling and Doug Glanville? When Glanville hit two home runs off Schilling a few months ago, he told ESPN it was because Schilling killed a character of his.

Yes, I saw that. It was great! It made me all nostalgic, because I've been there. I was a dwarven cleric, and spent untold hours in the Butcherblock mountains, grouped with dwarven paladins, elven sorcerors from north in Greater Faydark, and the like, and I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to both deal with the 'dangers' of the game, and how to get along with the idiosyncrasies of the other players. In a group-oriented game like Everquest, conflicts between duty to one's group and self-preservation, like the one between Schilling and Glanville, come up all the time.

I actually just got done playing the original tribes (tribesII smokes my computer, even though it's a 933 with 128ram). And I must say that it is, indeed, one of the best way to blow off steam without hurting real people (a formidable task in itself some days)

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Originally posted by alphageek31337
I actually just got done playing the original tribes (tribesII smokes my computer, even though it's a 933 with 128ram).

Oh, man, you're depressing me! I've only got a 400 PII, with 256 RAM, and a TNT2 Ultra. Ack. This doesn't look good. I had been planning to put off building a new machine until next spring, but...

Ack.

The box sez the minimum supported is Pentium II 300 or 400 depending on the video card. TNT2, they say, the minimum is a 400 Mhz.

So why should it smoke a 933? I guess I should just load it and find out... I have a 750 here. But you people are making me think I should upgrade!

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Originally posted by Tony Shepps
But you people are making me think I should upgrade!

From Pricewatch.com-

AMD Duron 950MHz: $79
MSI K7T Pro 2a: $85
Mushkin PC133 256MB SDRAM: $35
IBM Deskstar 60GXP 40GB w/ATA-100 @ 7200rpm: $107
GeForce2 MX 64MB: $60
Sound Blaster Live! Value: $30
Fong Kai FK-603 case with 250w PS: $60
Keyboard: so cheap it's not funny
Mouse: ditto, but go optical

Being able to load Tribes 2 without choking the system: Priceless

=)
-Cyc

I think my problem might not be with the computer, though. Let's just say I've got all the latest games, and I haven't bought a piece of software since late 1998. I {heart} my burner, and other peoples'.