What? It's been out for a couple of days now and no posts? Nobody's bought it yet? If you have, what do you think of it?
Bah! And Civ 4 is out, too. Oblivion next month (hopefully)... FEAR and Quake 4 out. Too many games... I'm glad I don't like all of them. lol.
I got it. Doesn't run that well on my laptop. But overall the game is just like AOE 2. More types of civilizations. If you played AOM, then you'll notice a simplification of a lot of the gameplay, which I find annoying. I think the people who play AOE-type games are people who like to control everything from battle formation to the color of their shoes. Don't get me wrong. It's a good game esp. compared to some of the crap out there. But it's more like AOE 2.5 than anything revolutionary.
Installed the demo but my laptop video card is only 32MB which it didn't like too much... kept crashing... ARRRRGKSMF ASTROS.
I've heard good things about it, I'm just more of a FPS type of guy. FEAR is an amazing game and Quake 4 is awesome too (Q4 is for you fast-paced-shoot-anything-that-moves guys)... so many games so little time.
What i've heard from a die-hard AOE fan friend was that there really isn't much advancement in it.. like someone else said it's more like AOE2.5... I can't wait to get my hands on it, i still play the original AOE
Oh, and I installed AOE3 on my old machine last night and cranked up all the graphics... there was no way it was going to run on that box. lol. Radeon 9700/AMD XP 3000+/1 GB RAM was too choppy. I'm waiting for my new soundcard to come in for my new computer tomorrow. After I pop that in, I'll be installing it on there. I'm sure the new PC can handle it it : AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+/Geforce 7800 GT/2 GB RAM.
Speaking of newcomputers. I have decided to build myself a new machine for Christmas. I'm going with a: Athlon 64 X2 4200 Manchester 2 GB Ram Dual 6800GT's 250 GB SATA 3.0 HD
Haha being that I currently have a 30 Gb HD that is barely half full. My guess is 250 is goign to be a little bit of overkill.
Not if you're doing video editing and databases from work. I think my machine will end up with a bit over a terabyte of HD space if you include the SAN/SoIP drives I have on the network. BTW, why are you going for a dual 6800 SLI solution? I know 1 7800 GT runs as fast as 2 SLI'd 6800's and probably with a lot less heat and noise. The 4200 I can understand... there's a price premium for not a ton of performance boost, though. The 3800's also overclock better than the 4200, but I'm not much of an overclocker with my primary machine, so I probably won't do it with this one. Maybe prices will come down by Christmas on the X2's. I'm buying the cheapest X2 and hoping within a year I can slap a faster one in without having to upgrade anything else.
Well, I do it when the games no longer run on it at fairly high quality. The approach I usually take is I build a new computer in year one. Year two I usually upgrade the processor and/or video card because those 2 are where you get absolutely screwed over if you buy the fastest. After 2 years I end up buying a new system. My last primary system was put together in Nov. 2003, so it's been 2 years.
Actually I started looking at 7800's today. The price difference was about $50/card which probably will not be a deal breaker. I'm hoping the X2 prices drop also. I have all this stuff in a NewEgg wish list so I can monitor prices, and the 4200 processor has dropped about $50-$70 in the last couple of days.
