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djam...@students.wisc.edu (Shadow Weaver) wrote:

djam...@students.wisc.edu (Shadow Weaver) wrote:

>got...@regiss.optera.com (ABHOTH DAIMONIZOMAI) wrote:

>>Is it just me, or are Origin programmers just really lazy and stupid? The

>I don't think its the programmers, I think its the people that market their
>stuff, and tell them what to write.

I have to agree there, I get uncomfortable when I here WC3 being
called an "Interactive Movie" in the ads.

>>reason I say this is because they hype their games as being
>>oh-so-high-tech and state-of-the-art-push-the-envelope stuff, but yet
>>their games really aren't all that much more spectacular than some of the
>>stuff already out. The only difference, of course, is that Origin's games

>Well, as I said before, companies HAVE to push stuff like this in peoples
>faces nowadays to get people to buy things (Well, other than ID..).

>>though they are EXTREMELY over-rated. Case in point, Cybermage. Huge 9 meg

Cybermage was just an early demo, none of us have seen the finished
product.

>I would have to go for WC3 being extremely over-rated. It was so hyped in
>every magazine, yet a friend of mine bought the game, thought it sucked, gave
>it to me, and I thought it sucked, and i gave it to a friend, and he thought
>it sucked, and now the friend I gave it to has tried selling it for $10 and NO
>ONE WILL BUY IT BECAUSE IT SUCKS SO BAD. 

I disagree with you there.  I have a 486dx266 with a shitty video card
and I love WC3.  So what if I can't play the action parts in SVGA?
That's why Origin gave us a VGA mode.  For the most part it runs
pretty smooth on my system, and it's arguably the best space fighting
game out there(with TIE Fighter the only other contender)

>>demo. The game is pitifully slow on a Pentium 90 at high res with all
>>detail on. And what's so special about it? Graphics are nothing exciting,
>>and everything is still 90 degrees. Oh, but it's SVGA, so I guess that
>>with. Why is this? Origin must think "well gee, it runs on a Pentium 133
>>so lets just leave it alone" instead of tweaking it and making sure that
>>it runs just as well on the slower systems. I guess Origin is just afraid
>>of hard work, they just want the money, that's all. Now I see Origin

Like I said before, run it in a graphics mode suitable for your
system, the VGA graphics aren't that bad..


David Paul