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  • ...from six years ago!

    As some of you may recall from my then-constant bitching, I used to have a video card made out of scrap lumber with the words "geeforse lol" scribbled on the side in crayon. It had no pixel shader support and I was a very unhappy caveman because my fellow Constructors were going hog-wild over all these fancy effects. That is, until I got myself a brand-spankin' new (well, it was still shrinkwrapped anyway) e-GeForce 6200 so I could make my happy Construct dreams come true. What a marvel of ancient technology it turned out to be! Gentlemen must have popped their monocles and spun their top-hats over the bleeding-edge visuals it provided them back when the 6200 was first released in Victorian times.

    <img src="http://i36.tinypic.com/1zpr3ur.jpg">

    Anyway, what I'm trying to say is I've been a bit behind in my gaming and I'm trying to catch up. It's still kind of frustrating to find good games that run well on my card, but one I've found rather enjoyable is Morrowind.

    Yeah, I know it's probably an old and boring game for many of you now, but hey, it's new to me. So here it is, my impromptu and unsolicited review of Elder Scrolls: Morrowind.

    It's, uh, pretty cool. I tried running it on my old card once and the framerate was so choppy that it was completely unplayable. But now I'm pleased to report that while still a little choppy (but only outdoors at full draw distance) it's very much playable, and I've been very much playing it.

    I must admit, at first I didn't see what all the fuss was about. It took like 45 minutes just to get the character creation and opening tutorials done. I wasn't much impressed. But I stuck with it, and stuck with it some more, and got my ass handed to me several times before I got the feel of the game.

    It's surprisingly deep and detailed. I can't recall ever playing a game before where you didn't walk into a house and clear every little object out. It's strange to me to have a game with so much useless stuff lying around. In every game I played before this, if you found a fork, you'd be needing that fork later for some puzzle or whatever. In Morrowind, there's a freaking fork on every table and you don't ever need a single damn one of them. It's just... bizzare.

    The apprehension I feel when playing is also new. I find I have to exercise restraint quite a lot. I'm used to feeling that in games like Resident Evil or Silent Hill, where everything is claustrophobic and you don't know what's around the next corner or what's behind the door. But this game makes me nervous about going outside in the open, which is weird. It's safe indoors... but stray too far from town and you're ambushed by weird creepy things.

    At any rate, I'm enjoying it quite a bit, and if you've never played, I suggest you do. And if you have played, suggest some fun stuff to check out or do (I taunted Stargel in Balmora into attacking me just because I liked the way he dressed. Nobody was selling black pants or a pimped-out shirt like his so how else was I gonna get those clothes other than off of his corpse? ).

    Also, feel free to suggest any favorite games you may have from a few years back that my fancy new card might be able to handle. And I'll report back in another few years when I've finally had a chance to play Oblivion.

  • dude, morrowind is totally awesome! gret review btw, i agree with it very much! i don't know how this game will fare on your new card but if you're enjoying the free roaming aspect of morrowing then you'll enjoy "s.t.a.l.k.e.r. shadow of chernobyl" it has a free roaming environment as well but it's a great fps for that reason and many other reasons!

  • You can still play Oblivion on older hardware.

    http://www.oldblivion.com/

    As for Stalker, that one might be okay, but it really looks bad without the lighting on, which will indeed need newer hardware.

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  • You can still play Oblivion on older hardware.

    http://www.oldblivion.com/

    Holy smokes, I'm definitely going to check that out

    GTA:SA is another one I've been playing recently that didn't run on my previous card at all. It's running okay, but I can't run it at full quality on all the settings. Still it gets a little choppy sometimes and there are more than a few surprise fences and hedges that magically materialize five seconds after I crash into them, but it's still a fun game.

  • I know it's a really old game, but Shogo MAD (Mobile Armour Division) is an awesome game even today. Heres the link: http://www.shogo-mad.com (Also I should mention that you need to go here http://www.planetshogo.com/ and scroll to the bottom for a GeForce fix to run it)

    EDIT: The fix for Shogo + GeForce is a registry file so it will affect everything, not just Shogo. [quote:3tosxic2]Downsides to doing this? Well, you can leave this setup as is and it may actually increase performance in some games by upping the frame rate (Quake3, Half-Life, Hitman, Max Payne, Unreal Tournament, Tribes 2, GTA2 and most of the current demos out now work just fine with this fix, tested by Coonz). If not, simply change the setting for Vertical Sync in the Display Properties of your desktop.

    Also, that quote just made me remember, Starseige Tribes is another great game (free/abandoned) but you would also need to edit some settings to connect to the new master servers since the official master server is gone now.

  • shogo pwnz

  • You can still play Oblivion on older hardware.

    http://www.oldblivion.com/

    As for Stalker, that one might be okay, but it really looks bad without the lighting on, which will indeed need newer hardware.

    Oldblivion crashed all the time when I tried it, and it worked but made the game *slower* on my cousin's computer, but, I guess, it helps someone.

    I got a $40 AGP card from TigerDirect a couple months ago, and I absolutely love playing Portal and Oblivion. I also play Half-Life 2 every once in a while, and I play a few other awesome-looking games. If I want to play Morrowind, though, I have it on my modified Xbox, well, I have a modified Morrowind on there. (It's a ghetto version of Oblivion.)

  • Oldblivion isn't a miracle worker, it has to be set right for your system.

    Anyways, many of the source engine games should run if you lower the settings. That opens up quite a bit (Vampire, HL2, TF2, Dark Messiah, Etc).

  • Guys!

    If you are going to play S.T.A.L.K.E.R, get the Oblivion Lost mod.

    http://forums.filefront.com/s-t-l-k-e-r ... halos.html

    It makes it uber awesome.

  • That opens up quite a bit (Vampire, HL2, TF2, Dark Messiah, Etc).

    What, are you kidding me? Half Life 2 would actually run on my machine?

    Now this I find hard to believe. I suppose I could borrow a copy from a friend and give it a shot.

  • deadeye: I really think it would. It won't be pretty, but I'd imagine fully playable.

    Valve is good at making games scale back. They even support DirectX 7.

    On another note, ignore Dark Messiah. It's poorly optimized and just totally not worth it.

    http://www.download.com/Half-Life-2-dem ... 49536.html

    Try the HL2 demo.

  • > That opens up quite a bit (Vampire, HL2, TF2, Dark Messiah, Etc).

    >

    What, are you kidding me? Half Life 2 would actually run on my machine?

    Now this I find hard to believe. I suppose I could borrow a copy from a friend and give it a shot.

    eah, I managed to run HL2 fine on my old machine, and that was a bag of crap I dumped nearly a year ago. Source is quite a good engine for running on older tech, or at least it was before Episode 2's graphical upgrades and massive forest maps.

  • The "Lost Coast" mod is the most demanding HL2 game. If you can play Portal, you can play Episode 2, I imagine. Not sure.

  • http://www.download.com/Half-Life-2-dem ... 49536.html

    Try the HL2 demo.

    Eh, what the hell. I'll give it a shot...

    On a side note, a friend suggested I try Indigo Prophecy, and lent me his copy. Hot damn! That's a fine game. I dig the cinematic style of it... it's kinda like a survival horror game mixed with an adventure game, but it plays like a movie. The controls are a little funky sometimes, but otherwise it's pretty badass. If only there were more games like that. Supernatural, mystery, and horror are my favorite genres of games.

  • deadeye: I think then you would like this game:

    http://www.penumbra-overture.com/

    Horror/Adventure/Puzzle.

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