12-24-2004, 07:45 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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| For the computer gamers!
For anybody who plays computer games and hasn't played this you should give it a try, it's fun and it takes up lots of your download limit! Yay! http://www.fileplanet.com/betacenter/guildwars/
The link will take you to a FilePlanet page where you will be able to get an access code for a two day trial of the game guild Wars, a massively multiplayer online role playing game. To get the code you'll need to have a membership with Gamspy/FilePlanet which is free to get.
Anyway I'd suggest this to anybody who wants to play games like Everquest 2 and World of Warcraft without the monthly fee, give it a go.
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12-24-2004, 10:33 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Hamilton, ON
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| I played it for a while, a couple of betas ago...the gameplay, I found mostly boring, but it's worth a download just for the visuals. Probably the most gorgeous game I've ever seen, I just walked around and looked at magnificent waterfalls and such. | |
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12-25-2004, 12:36 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Houston, TX
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| Before I go and download, I have a question: Can my computer handle it? AMD 1800+, 256 RAM, Radeon 8500.
I had trouble running World of Warcraft....  I think it's mostly a RAM issue though.
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12-25-2004, 01:17 AM
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Originally Posted by cowpaste Before I go and download, I have a question: Can my computer handle it? AMD 1800+, 256 RAM, Radeon 8500.
I had trouble running World of Warcraft.... I think it's mostly a RAM issue though. | Very good graphics and very low requirements, I got it to run on the machine I'm using now, 880mhz, 64mg graphics card, 512 RAM
It should work quite nicely.
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12-25-2004, 01:42 AM
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#5 | | The Judge
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| sorry, my waking non-fencing non-class hours are taken up by wow. | |
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12-26-2004, 01:18 AM
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12-26-2004, 05:16 AM
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| you need more RAM. Try to get 512 MB worth of ram. Its the standard these days.
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12-26-2004, 07:40 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: New York City (But, you'll never find me.)
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Originally Posted by LordTofuDog-jnr Anyway I'd suggest this to anybody who wants to play games like Everquest 2 and World of Warcraft without the monthly fee, give it a go. |
No, no, no. Anyone that plays those games are RPGers, not gamers. I am a gamer will not have my name sullied by some dirty RPGer. 
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12-26-2004, 09:55 PM
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| I like RPGs, but I am more of a powergamer. "True" RPGers hate me. They think I ruin the game by trying to be the most powerful possible.
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12-27-2004, 09:17 AM
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| Video game RPG's are not 'true' RPGs. They are a subsection unto themselves and not to be confused with tabletop games. FOLLOW THE GOURD!! 
So sayeth the crusty b@stard who remembers 1st edition D&D. 
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12-27-2004, 04:50 PM
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| Well, there are just different levels are role playing. The ultimate would probably be the insane SCA people. I have a friend who loves computer RPGs and always makes choices that fit whatever persona he is trying to play. As for me, I tend to save, pick a choice, reload, repeat in order to see all possible outcomes. Then I pick whatever choice gives me the "best" reward. I'm a pure powergramer. It's kinda like my fencing too...I like cheesy stuff that wins bouts. The sole except is the counter-attacking retards that win just because they bend over fully and GROUND OUT MY BLADE MAKING IT ONE LIGHT FOR THEM EVEN THOUGH I NAIL THEM IN THE LEG.
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