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Quake - a game built around events caused by forces emanating from netherworlds... Quake - an event caused by forces emanating from the earth's core... Nah. No parallels there.

I won't go near most of this except to say the following: Re: crowbar swing. Valve, you need to go to your nearest university, recruit an incredibly geeky professor to go open up some whup ass on an alien species for a week or so of his life, occasionally only with a crowbar, and then have...

I thought using "Half-life" was a clever way to both convey the science-fiction premise and a peculiar set of relevant artistic ideas. The term "half-life" is a cultural currency: say half-life and people think of one thing first (in the population): nuclear disaster - half-life being the...

Miasma - The installation of the bundle you have picked is not difficult. 1) Case: Cases have standard screws. They are easy to deal with. Look inside the case before you buy it, and if you don't have a lot of experience doing installations, I might suggest buying a case with lots of...

It will run. The only hitch: you will only get 4x AGP bandwidth to the system memory, and possibly, maybe, you might have some glitches with an older AGP implementation of fast writes (notoriously tricky with ATi cards). Since the whole point of stuffing a card like the 9700 Pro with a lot...

What he means is Quake 4 is already announced and in development by Raven Software, using Doom3. (I'm afraid he's right... old news) http://forums.ravensoft.com/ib/ikonboard.pl?;act=SF;f=10

Just from what we've seen in the videos, it's hard to believe the game will utterly suck. It might have an atrocious ending, or the plot might be too weird / too cliché / too something-else, but it really seems unlikely that the gameplay will be rotten. And hey - there's always Counterstrike 2.

Thanks for the links... those videos are amazing!

Miasma, Your specs are respectable, but they will likely not let you enjoy the full range of effects in the game. Plus, given the scenes we've seen with a lot of AI-controlled characters running around, I'd have to say that a 1.2 GHz chip will probably need some help. Video: some of the...

This thread is insanely speculative. Based on what's on the web, I feel pretty comfortable for HL2 with my 9500 Pro. I'll probably upgrade my processor. However, until previews / leaks or public betas come around, all of this is just guesswork. For the people with high system specs...

Just to be clear: Doom3 is not a remake in any sense. It's based a new story, built on a new engine, with an entirely different sort of gameplay. Carmack says as much - and we all can deduce it - from the E3 materials. Yes, I could put in a cheap shot about looking at last year's E3...

Frankly, Doom3 and HL2 are likely to both be very strong games, but with wildly different takes on where FPS gaming is / should be going. Doom3 is based on a new storyline and a much moodier game than its predecessors. It is not a simple remake. It will not have the wave-upon-wave of...

For a substantial saving, I'd download it and forgo the paper and packaging. I have enough boxes and manuals here already. That's the key, though - how much off?