3 posts tagged “games”
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Plagiarized Assets From Doom 3 and Half-Life 2?
I can see lawsuits and a round of people getting fired for this. It seems as if 7 years of development wasn't enough time to make a few extra textures, so someone working at GSC decided to borrow a few textures from Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 for the newly released S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl game.
Quake III: Team Arena Coming to Xbox 360?
Quake III Arena is a game so pure in concept and design, it just refuses to die even after 8 long years since it was first released for the PC and later the Sega Dreamcast. It's still a popular hit among fans and it's engine released by Id Software under a GPL license has still proven to be quite versatile. Versatile enough to be re-released for the Xbox 360? It sure looks that way. I wonder if there will be any updated assets and the ability to use a keyboard and mouse (I can't shoot straight with joysticks).
Xbox 360 QWERTY Keyboard Controller?
A little while from now, scrawny Xbox 360 nerds will have HUGE thumb muscles
and will be able to knock out school yard bullies with a single flick.
I hated the original old-school Xbox controllers that were both large
and heavy. This seems like a step back in the wrong direction... unless
you're a puny 360 nerd.
Installing Quake III Arena on a 64-bit Linux box isn't that bad actually. I couldn't find instructions anywhere on how to do this, so after figuring it out I'm writing them down here.
You will need:
- Linux x86_64 with updated video drivers
- Quake III Arena install CD (Windows)
- Linux Q3A Point Release 1.32b
- Q3A Point Release 1.32c
Installation:
- Open up a Terminal session and create a new directory to install everything (usually /usr/local/games/).
- sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3
- Insert Q3A CD in your drive and copy the pak0.pk3 file to your baseq3 directory (can take a while).
- sudo cp /media/cdrom/Quake3/baseq3/pak0.pk3 /usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3
- Quake 3 is a 32-bit application, so you will run into a known issue. You can get around this by installing a couple of packages that will allow you to emulate 32-bit programs in your 64-bit environment.
- sudo apt-get install ia32-libs linux32
- We can now invoke the Quake 3 install script to work. Note that your directory may be different than below. Then follow the on-screen instructions, they should be pretty self explanatory.
- sudo linux32 sh /home/obsidian/Desktop/linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run
- Extract the 3 files in the "linux" directory of quake3-1.32c.zip to your desktop (or where ever else) and copy them over to your Quake 3 install directory.
- sudo cp /home/obsidian/Desktop/1.32c/* /usr/local/games/quake3
- Most distros use su instead of sudo.
- x86_32 users can follow the same process, but omit step 3, and do sudo sh /home/obsidian/Desktop/linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run on the last step instead.
Question of yesterday, I think... better late than never, I suppose. I have a tendancy to miss all the qotd's that I want to contribute to.
Anyway, video games have been a pretty big part of my life, though I never really popped that many quarters into the arcade machines. I started off getting hooked on video games mostly on the PC (IBM XT) and some of the early consoles (Atari, NES and Sega Genesis). But here's a quick random list just for fun...
Early Games on the IBM XT:
- Arkanoid
- Hero's Quest (so, you want to be a hero)
- California Games
- Xenon II
- Prince of Persia (the first sidescroller one)
- Duck Hunt
- Pac Man
- Tetris
- Star Fox
- Super Star Wars
- Mario (I suck, my timing's always off)
- Time Crisis
- Street Fighter
- Mortal Kombat
- Virtual-On (awesome)
- Quake III Arena/Team Arena (deserves special recognition)
- Quake (I, II and 4)
- Doom (I, II and 3)
- American McGee's Alice
- StarCraft
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein
- Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
- Star Wars: Dark Forces, Jedi Outcast , Jedi Academy
- Half-Life and all sequels
- Star Wars: Republic Commando
- Medal of Honor series
- Call of Duty I and II
- Aliens Versus Predator I and II
- Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
- Myst/Riven etc.
- Heavy Metal: FAKK 2
- Chronicles of Riddick
- Gore (total waste of money)
- Unreal Tournament 2003, because right after I bought it, they released UT2004 which was nothing more than a glorified patch that solved all the problems that annoyed me in 2003.
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (Oooo... can't wait *froth at mouth*)
- Final Fantasy VII (I feel like I missed out on a big part of pop culture)