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Slithy_Tove · 07-01-2001, 12:30 PM

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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.

alphageek31337 · 07-01-2001, 09:48 PM

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)

Slithy_Tove · 07-02-2001, 04:42 AM

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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.

Undertoad · 07-02-2001, 09:16 AM

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!

CyclopONE · 07-02-2001, 11:29 AM

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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

alphageek31337 · 07-02-2001, 03:43 PM

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'.

07-01-2001, 09:48 PM	#17
alphageek31337 Enemy Combatant/Evildoer Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 263	Tribes 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) __________________ The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. ---Friedrich Nietzsche

07-02-2001, 03:43 PM	#21
alphageek31337 Enemy Combatant/Evildoer Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 263	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'. __________________ The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. ---Friedrich Nietzsche

07-02-2001, 09:16 AM	#19
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	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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