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Article #105573

Re: Games worth playing?

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From: Highlandish
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:59
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Quoth The Raven; Andy McArdle <amcardle60@hotmailNOSPAM.com> in
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>>> darkstar one looked interesting, however my machine ground to a
>>> halt and every time i fired a weapon my system hung. doom3 games
>>> run fine on mu machine, darkstar one seems to want more than i can
>>> afford.
>>>
>>> the game might be worth playing though.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Remove the _CURSING to reply to me
>>>
>>> If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel. -
>>> Will Kommen
>>>
>> Yeah, DSO is a pretty good game.  Nothing deep, but entertaining.
>> One thing really good about the "space-sim" game genre is that it
>> hardly exists anymore.  You don't have to pick and choose as with
>> other genres. You can simply buy every space-sim that's published
>> (that amounts to about one game every one or two years).
>
> The DSO demo is 1GB?  :eek:
>
> I don't particularly  want to buy something that may throw me back
> into the HW upgrade loop but I think in this case discretion suggests
> /buying/ to try...  I can always resell.  ;)
>
> Wish I knew someone nearby

anyone tried "sword of the stars"?

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