13 Jan 2007, 9:28 pm
13 Jan 2007, 9:47 pm
13 Jan 2007, 9:51 pm
Sims 2 is great for about a month, and then it just gets very boring. Your Sims age in days, so if you play for like 12 hours straight (possible, trust me), all of a sudden you have a bunch of geriatrics on your hands. The house building functions are more powerful, but even with serious RAM and a dedicated graphics card, it slows down if you have the settings all on normal. I did not enjoy it enough to buy the expansion packs.
I really enjoy Civ 4, and I am saving up to get Age of Empires III. I have yet to purchase the expansion for Civ 4, but I will soon.
One of my favorite games ever is Pharaoh, and I really wish someone would port it over to the Mac platform.
Currently, though, I am saving up to buy Dreamweaver so I can make my idea of a super-cool online 24 database into reality. It is a very ambitious project, and will probably take me a very long time, but I don't care about small details like time---who needs time?
I love Command and Conquer---that was my first computer game. I haven't played it in a very long time, but I am looking to see if they have it for Mac. (I know a lot of games are PC only, but I love my Mac, and my PC is dying. And when it dies, I shall get an iMac, and if that means I must stop playing certain games, then I guess that is how it shall be. I will probably be a lot more productive, actually, without the ability to play.) 
13 Jan 2007, 10:39 pm
I really enjoy Civ 4, and I am saving up to get Age of Empires III. I have yet to purchase the expansion for Civ 4, but I will soon.
One of my favorite games ever is Pharaoh, and I really wish someone would port it over to the Mac platform.
Currently, though, I am saving up to buy Dreamweaver so I can make my idea of a super-cool online 24 database into reality. It is a very ambitious project, and will probably take me a very long time, but I don't care about small details like time---who needs time?
I love Command and Conquer---that was my first computer game. I haven't played it in a very long time, but I am looking to see if they have it for Mac. (I know a lot of games are PC only, but I love my Mac, and my PC is dying. And when it dies, I shall get an iMac, and if that means I must stop playing certain games, then I guess that is how it shall be. I will probably be a lot more productive, actually, without the ability to play.)
Yeah, I like Macs too, Microsoft kinda sucks.... What type of database is it going to be?
Oh, and about making programs for the computer, I've actually been thinking about making my own game for some time. The problem is, I don't have an advanced knowledge of Java and C++ and I don't have the kind of equipment you would need in order to make decent graphics and gameplay mechanics. I do have a couple of ideas that I wrote down on paper though that I want to turn into a reality.
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13 Jan 2007, 10:45 pm
13 Jan 2007, 10:48 pm
Oh cool.. some like minded Aspies !
I pretty much spend most of my time playing Guild Wars and my Xbox 360 (I play Oblivion and GoW on it). I want to play WoW again but I dunno how to pay for the subscription since it is pretty damn expensive..
I also like RTS's... like Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne and Warhammer (forgot what number goes here): Dawn of War. I used to play Civilization II ALOT on my now defunct Windows 3.1 haha 
I used to play The Sims 2 a lot but I find it very boring now.
@dexkaden
Heh, I loved playing the original C&C. I would get pissed off playing this one level when you had to run a bunch of Infantry and APC through a bunch of NOD guys and get to the finish point. I would play it killing everything.. man, that was so dumb.
13 Jan 2007, 10:53 pm
Basically, you know how libraries and site like IMDB have online catalogues that let you seach by different parameters? That is what I want to eventually be able to do, but I want it to be 24-specific. So let's say I wanted to search for Jack Bauer, and that's all I knew. I would type Jack Bauer into a field, and pick from a drop down menu of choices (i.e. "actor" or "character," etc.) Then I would hit "enter" and everything with Jack Bauer in it would show up, with thumbnail pictures and whatnot. And I want to be able to have people search just for pictures, or a combination of news articles and pictures and profiles, etc.
And in addition to that, I also want people to be able to search for information that is season/episode/character specific, like my stats I am making on kill counts/character, etc.
And I want it to look awesome.
Does that make sense?
Yeah, thats a database alright. Pretty much, a database is a medium that has a huge number of items stored for reference purposes.
I pretty much spend most of my time playing Guild Wars and my Xbox 360 (I play Oblivion and GoW on it). I want to play WoW again but I dunno how to pay for the subscription since it is pretty damn expensive..
I also like RTS's... like Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne and Warhammer (forgot what number goes here): Dawn of War. I used to play Civilization II ALOT on my now defunct Windows 3.1 haha
I used to play The Sims 2 a lot but I find it very boring now.
@dexkaden
Heh, I loved playing the original C&C. I would get pissed off playing this one level when you had to run a bunch of Infantry and APC through a bunch of NOD guys and get to the finish point. I would play it killing everything.. man, that was so dumb.
Windows 3.1?! Didn't paleontologists just find that next to some T-Rex fossil they dug up?
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13 Jan 2007, 10:53 pm
I pretty much spend most of my time playing Guild Wars and my Xbox 360 (I play Oblivion and GoW on it). I want to play WoW again but I dunno how to pay for the subscription since it is pretty damn expensive..
I also like RTS's... like Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne and Warhammer (forgot what number goes here): Dawn of War. I used to play Civilization II ALOT on my now defunct Windows 3.1 haha
I used to play The Sims 2 a lot but I find it very boring now.
@dexkaden
Heh, I loved playing the original C&C. I would get pissed off playing this one level when you had to run a bunch of Infantry and APC through a bunch of NOD guys and get to the finish point. I would play it killing everything.. man, that was so dumb.
Yeah, but it's so fun. I would make my own maps, and leave only a single entry into my camp. Then I would amass hundreds of troops and attack the enemies. I set it up to play on the family network, and my siblings would be unsuspectingly puttering around their fort while I was planning a massive invasion. Then out of nowhere they would be attacked by swarms of infantry and annihilated. It was fun.
13 Jan 2007, 11:01 pm
13 Jan 2007, 11:02 pm
Yeah, swarm tactics are fun. I especially like amassing a bunch of uber-units together and then just stomping on all of my opponents. 
13 Jan 2007, 11:06 pm
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