A brief tidbit from Quakecon 2010

I wasn't able to stay long to hear John Carmack speak but he did demo something pretty interesting for the crowd. He says that he still likes to tinker with the iPhone. So he fired his up and proceeded to show RAGE running on his iPhone. Not the trailers of the game but actual gameplay. That was pretty incredible

There's also some big sales on Steam this weekend to celebrate Quakecon such as the entire Bethesda and id catalog (about 27 games) for $70. The game of the year edition of Oblivion will also be on sale as a stand alone product for $8.50.

What's that? You want more free?

Well heck yeah, let's talk about Alien Swarm. Some guys from Valve made a dungeon crawler 4 player game but instead of a dungeon it's a space colony and instead of shields, swords, and magic, you wield smart guns.  I'm pretty sure the only thing getting this game to be sued by the owner of the Alien franchise is that the game is freeware. 

So get over to Steam and get this.

From the Land of Stupid TF2 Settings

Namely the setting that was making my game skip and jump and stutter like a breakdancer on meth. Somehow the "Multicore Rendering" option on my video settings was in the ON position.  Now that's only for people with multicore video cards which, alas, my 7950 GT is not even close to being.

So when I turned that off, voila, everything's working again finally with no stutters or problems. Unfortunately, it doesn't help my gameplay.

Regardless, almost a year of struggling to figure that out and it was one stupid little click of a video setting.

The Old Republic at E3 vs. reality

Just so we're clear, this is what was shown about the Old Republic at E3



And this is the reality of what you'll get when you play the Old Republic



Which looks to be about 20 frames per second and not much of an improvement over the Knights of Old Republic series.

Team Fortress 2 for those white shiny computers

 FRESH MEAT!!! FRESH MEAT!!! FRESH MEAT!!!

So you Apple lovin' hippies wanna play TF2, eh?  Come get some ya skirt wearing nancy boys.

The second greatest team shooter ever is now on the Mac and despite my buddy Maulf's acquisition of his bourgeois iPad he and I still know how to roll on TF2; by which I mean roll over your stupid face.  You are fresh meat on platter. Raw, pristine, and uncooked just as someone like Saxton Hale would want it. 

We are going to find you. We are going to kill you. We are going to eat you and make your power ours.

IEEE fluff article about The Carmack

So the IEEE put out an article about The Carmack and his fleet of Ferrari's.  The headline suggests that it will be talking about Carmack hacking the computers of the Ferrari or something really cool like that.  Upon seeing the headline, I had envisioned John talking about cracking open the engine computer and deciphering  its hex code and then having to reverse engineer the whole thing in Italian and then spending hours and hours playing with it to figure out how to change engine timings and other very cool things that should only be done by the shop or with those kits you can buy out of the back of car mags. 

Instead, the article is just fluff about how much he spent on bolt on parts and engine rebuilds.   He spent a lot by the way but big deal.

So this is back online

Had some trouble with the switch on Blogger as they took away the ability to use FTP to update the site. Well, so be it.  It is all back online now except for the old content.  Will have to work on that at some point. 


Been playing God of War 3 after borrowing it from a friend and I'm pretty unimpressed.  Well, not unimpressed because the production values are ridiculously high, however the whole quick time event system is an insult to my gaming instincts.  Such a system of simply pressing a button when prompted rather than beating the system fair and square sort of makes boss fights rather anti-climatic as the method of defeating the opponent is taken out of your hands.


I think if I get another PS3 game I'll get something that is a bit more leisurely and hopefully fun like Guitar Hero: Metallica or something. 


Regardless, everyone still playing Team Fortress 2?  Good, that's good. It's still on my top played game lists even after three years.