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From: Jim on 13 May 2010 01:10 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > By and large, this is a good thing, although I'll personally stick to my > > consoles for the most part. > > I stopped being terribly interested in games a while back. Elite on the > Beeb was a sort of high point for me, in that line. Stop it - you're making me all misty eyed. There were a couple of games on the PC (well, three actually) called 'X - Beyond The Frontier', 'X2:The Khaak Threat" and "X3:I Can't Rememebr The Tagline" that were very Elite-ish in game play - open ended, trading, fighting, exploring type stuff. The graphics on the the third one were very impressive. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: Jim on 13 May 2010 01:44 T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > >> Or just harvesting the final ~10% of the market (assuming every Mac > >> owner wanted in)? > > > >Or perhaps they've seen the way the wind is blowing. > > > It's one of those slow build winds then eh. ;-) Yep, could be. But even if it's just 10%, it's 10% of a significantly bigger pie than, say, 10 years ago. Jim -- http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK Please help save Bletchley Park - sign the petition for Government funding at: (open to UK residents and ex.pats) http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/BletchleyPark/ Thank you.
From: Woody on 13 May 2010 03:03 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > By and large, this is a good thing, although I'll personally stick to my > > > consoles for the most part. > > > > I stopped being terribly interested in games a while back. Elite on the > > Beeb was a sort of high point for me, in that line. > > Stop it - you're making me all misty eyed. > > There were a couple of games on the PC (well, three actually) called 'X > - Beyond The Frontier', 'X2:The Khaak Threat" and "X3:I Can't Rememebr > The Tagline" that were very Elite-ish in game play - open ended, > trading, fighting, exploring type stuff. The graphics on the the third > one were very impressive. I have played many 'elite-like' games since, but somehow they never had the playability of elite, but then elite 2 didn't. I often think though that it was just a 'time and place' thing. It was great at the time but the world has moved on. I played it to death at the time, but I doubt I could spend any time with it now. Compared to what was around at the time it had really deep gameplay but now, compared to things like Fallout 3 etc, there is not much to it. -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Rob on 13 May 2010 03:07 On 12/05/2010 21:50, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote: snip > > Hurray! Portal works like a charm, level 11 already. > > Steam only crashed four times while getting to the point where I could > launch Portal... > > Cheers - Jaimie Pretty good! I've got the PC Orange Box - will that work from the disk - I'd like to avoid the 5GB download . . . Rob
From: Jim on 13 May 2010 03:35
On 2010-05-13, Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: >> >> There were a couple of games on the PC (well, three actually) called 'X >> - Beyond The Frontier', 'X2:The Khaak Threat" and "X3:I Can't Rememebr >> The Tagline" that were very Elite-ish in game play - open ended, >> trading, fighting, exploring type stuff. The graphics on the the third >> one were very impressive. > > I have played many 'elite-like' games since, but somehow they never had > the playability of elite, but then elite 2 didn't. > I often think though that it was just a 'time and place' thing. It was > great at the time but the world has moved on. I played X:BTF and X2 a hell of a lot as they captured enough of the Elite feel for me to be happy. X3 was much harder to get into, so I didn't. The main problem with them (and it's a problem Elite itself had purely due to the nature of the game) is that they start hard and then become easier as you get more cash/equipment. The first few hours of X:BTF were _tedious_ as you just shuttled back and forth between two space stations, trying to build up some cash. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "[The MP4-12C] will be fitted with all manner of pointlessly shiny buttons that light up and a switch that says 'sport mode' that isn't connected to anything." The Daily Mash. |