What do i want for christmas

ninjabadger · Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 4:12 pm Post subject: What do i want for christmas

I have no new(ish) games for my PC and my girlfriend would like to get me one for christmas.

I have a Gentoo linux system (my Windows partition is no more!)

XP 2000+
1024MB DDR
Geforce 4 Ti4200 128MB

so what should i get for chritmas that will install with very very little hassle.

thanks

(oh and Santa if your reading this i would like a quad opteron server with a SCSI raid array and a wadd of RAM for christmas)

DaveHope · Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 4:35 pm Post subject:

You can get AMD Athlon64 kits at reasonable prices now, for a case, psu, motherboard & AMD Athlon64 3200+ it'd cost you around the £250 mark. Just get something like that and throw in your existing components, ohh and XFX do some cheap 256mb GeForce 5200's - I picked one up for £60.

Only downside, is that you'll spend more time with your PC than your girlfriend

(if you don't already

)

Lotu · Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 4:47 pm Post subject:

Sorry, couldn't think of any games (other than Enemy Territory, which is free) for Linux. Perhaps you'd be interested in Cedega, http://www.transgaming.com/. It's great for playing various Windows-games, from Total Annihilation to Doom 3. Quite cheap, too.

Or you could buy a Playstation. I just got mine, it is grrreat!

There's nothing like a good round of Virtua fighter with a friend.
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DaveHope · Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 5:04 pm Post subject:

eNTi · Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 6:28 pm Post subject:

for christmas... i want... no war, no hunger, no bush!
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ninjabadger · Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 6:56 pm Post subject:

yeah, i was just asking santa for the Opteron

and yeah i would like no Bush as well, maybe if we all club together we could get it as one big gift?

aethyr · Veteran Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 1085 Location: NYC

I played Knights of the Old Republic a few months ago with WineX, it worked very well (and is a fun game).

Currently I'm playing Planescape: Torment with Wine, and that's a lot of fun too (and you can pick it up very cheap).

eNTi · Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 11:17 pm Post subject:

where can i get this game? i'm looking for it for years now!
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aethyr · Veteran Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 1085 Location: NYC

Plastic · l33t Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 649

Unreal Tournament 2004!

Nicom · Guru Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 380

UT2k4, or NWN.

hybrid · Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 6:21 am Post subject:

i just played the demo version of gish, and i think it's wonderful, it's just an other amazing simple game :
http://www.garagegames.com/pg/product/view.php?id=40

so you can consider getting it for xmas

zakk · l33t Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Posts: 614 Location: Oakland, CA

Majesty is a pretty interesting RTS, you can get it from tuxgames.com.

eNTi · Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 11:44 am Post subject:

ninjabadger · Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 3:09 pm Post subject:

Ive been playing the UT2004 demo and its pretty cool,

Do i just get the Windows version and install it via the 20 Meg (ish) ut2004 thing in portage?

aethyr · Veteran Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 1085 Location: NYC

ninjabadger · Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 9:45 pm Post subject:

Another quick UT2004 question.

If anyone has the CD version, does the game (the multiplayer one) run off any of the CDs for LAN play?

If not ill just get the DVD one but it would be cool to p0wn my dad

Imek · Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 9:48 pm Post subject:

The linux version of UT2004 does not require the CD to run, but you only get one CD-key for online play.
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eNTi · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 2:05 am Post subject:

Desti² · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 127

Savage

http://s2games.com/savage/index.html
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