OT: Climbing System Requirements and Specs

[TurinTurambar]

Hence my confusion, thank you.

[Thermodyne]

It’s just one of Fyron’s anti Microsoft comments. Its almost automatic now.

[Suicide Junkie]

You seem to be a bit touchy today... you're definitely reading more into that than is there.

[Atrocities]

Don't make us lock this thread! We will do it.... don't make us!

[Thermodyne]

Nag Nag Nag

[Fyron]

Thermodyne said:
It’s just one of Fyron’s anti Microsoft comments. Its almost automatic now.

What, talking about competing products is now considered anti-Microsoft? Seems more like that whole free market competition thing to me. Try out all of the options to see what fits you best.

[David E. Gervais]

Interesting thread,..

All I can say is the industry has gotten to the point where they are catering to the 'Bleeding Edge' (aka the top 5% of PC owners who have the latest best rigs and aparently spend the most money in the industry) This is a whole lot of bull.. the industry is gonna die faster than 5 ton rhino in quicksand if it continues to 'ignore' the mass majority of 'normal' PC users. I consider myself normal,.. why? because I can't afford to buy a new PC every year. heck I barely manage to get a new rig every 5 years. I'm still running my AMD 1.4ghz with a Gforce FX 5200. When will I next upgrade? hmmm,.. I expect another year or 2 before I can afford to make any upgrades. Real Life (tm) tends to eat up all my money, leaving little or none left for 'luxury' items.

I tend to raid the bargain bins now,.. those games run ok on my system and hey they cost less. it's a win win situation.

Nuf said,. Cheers!

[Fyron]

Thus, we have Dell, makers of cheap commodity computers.

[rdouglass]

David E. Gervais said:
<snip>.. the industry is gonna die faster than 5 ton rhino in quicksand if it continues to 'ignore' the mass majority of 'normal' PC users. </snip>

Ya know, folks have been saying that since I bought my first computer in 1978. However, every year there is a new batch of kids in the game publishers target market (demographics, whatever word you want to put there) that must have the latest and greatest game. And the latest and greatest game usually needs the latest and greatest hardware. Besides, if there were never any excitement over being able to do new things with game software, we'd all still be playing Pong. (And now how much re-playability can you get outa' *that* one. )

Hey, how do you think the game console market survives? Or the auto industry? Or the _____ industry? Oh sure, personally I agree with you. I drive a 6 year old truck not because I can't afford a newer one but why? The one I have works fine for me. I still have the same Atari I bought several years ago (don't want to admit actually how long ago) and it still works. Do I or my kids play it? Not a chance. They want to play the Xbox with Halo. Hey, I wanna' clue you in if you don't already know that Halo is quite a bit more fun than Pong.

The thing we have to keep in mind about statements like that is that there is a *lot* of disposable income out there and the game publishers target market has control over a big portion of that.

A lot of teenagers have a lot of influence over their parents money. Right or wrong, that's just the way it is. So as log as there are teens and game publishers, this industry won't die.

And besides they won't make much of guys like me - I haven't bought a PC game for myself since I bought Gold 4 years or so ago.

[TurinTurambar]

[teenager] Aw, snap... [/teenager]

2.4ghz P4, 1.5gb RAM, latest video drivers, latest DirectX (april'06)...

Now the game won't even start.