[geeks] [rescue] Video card request

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 @ 09:13 -0500, Phil Stracchino said:

> Gary Goddard wrote:
> > Doom3 was the same on my pc so i took it back and got a refund!!
> > 
> > Yet quake 4 by the same people, same protection runs fine!
> 
> I haven't tried Quake 4.  Does it actually have a single-player game?

Yes, but I thought it sucked.

In fact, I didn't like the graphics in either Doom 3 or Quake 4.

They look muddled and cartoonish, and everything takes place in rooms
whose textures are so bad it is hard to tell objects apart.

It's like being inside a building make up of recycled spam cans or
something.

To me, several games had *far* better graphics, either because they just
looked better, or were more useful in terms of being able to tell what
things were:

    - call of duty
    - call of duty 2 (good even in dx 7 mode)
    - brothers in arms (both of them)
    - far cry
    - Unreal 2

...and a few more I can't remember.

I am quite *unimpressed* with D3 and Q4, really. I was expecting much
better graphics and stories.

The graphics probably are *technically* better because they are supposed
to show layers and other goodness, but what I saw on screen, even on
very high end rigs, just wasn't that great.

By contrast those I listed above were very good at either just looking
pretty, or doing a very good job of showing me what I needed to see.

> So why on earth, or in Hell, would I buy a game that by all accounts is
> *almost entirely* composed of stumbling around in pitch darkness?

Amen.

> I suppose it makes it a lot easier to render a scene, though, if all you
> can actually see of most of it is vague shadows most of the time.

No, that's not it.

It's the same kind of idiot mentality that thinks shaking a camera so
much you can't see what is going on is good.

> As a side note, I looked at Quake 4 the other day when I was shopping
> for Civ4 for my wife, and thought, "Yawn, more Stroggs."  I don't know

How is Civ4?  I didn't like Civ3, and am hoping Civ4 will restore the
franchise's former glory.

Of course, I also like wargames, and not much is out there from the big
publishers.

Matrix games has some interesting stuff, so long as realism and detail
are what you want rather than eye candy.

I'm also about to fall into the abyss of driving games again, because I
have seen "GT Legends" and I *need* it.



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