[ut3] 3D-Realms Bancrupt !?!

Sir Brizz sir.brizz at gmail.com
Thu May 7 16:18:01 EDT 2009


I figured #1 covered that well enough :)

On 5/7/09 2:17 PM, Matt F wrote:
> I play UT2004 because it performs better on Linux.
>
> Sir Brizz wrote:
>> Probably has to do with the depth of field and bloom crap. I've 
>> turned them off on mine.
>>
>> Most of the people still playing UT2004 do so because of 1) 
>> performance, or 2) some mod they enjoy. I know there are several 
>> people who just like it better, but I think the majority of them 
>> don't know or care if UT3 is better because UT2004 has one of the two 
>> things listed above.
>>
>> On 5/7/09 1:43 PM, Jeff Dilcher wrote:
>>>
>>> third game has some good "gee whiz" graphics, I guess, though the 
>>> color schemes, for some reason, I don't like.
>>> Hard for me to pinpoint why.
>>>
>>> Nothing is as fun as flying a UT2004 Manta craft, and swooping down 
>>> and rotoring an opponants head. Awesome.
>>>
>>> After all these years, I was amazed at how many people are playing 
>>> UT2004 onslought, even today.
>>> Playability is very high.  Kind of like HL2- amazing how many people 
>>> can play it for so long.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 01:35:39AM +0600, Zato-2 wrote:
>>>> C'mon, UT2 was too "slow" and "big". Third game is _much_ better, imo.
>>>>
>>>> 2009/5/8 Jeff Dilcher<dilcher at hiddenworld.net>
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 01:29:07PM -0600, Sir Brizz wrote:
>>>>>> It still is, UT3 has sold as well or better than any previous UT.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 5/7/09 1:26 PM, ceil420 at gmail.com wrote:
>>>>>>> So was the Unreal/UT brand, but that didn't stop Epic from 
>>>>>>> fucking up
>>>>> the
>>>>>>> franchise...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I just reinstalled UT2004-
>>>>>
>>>>> I forgot how much I loved it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Runs great on Linux, and, onslaught is awesome.  Graphics are 
>>>>> decent- not
>>>>> quite
>>>>> as spiffy as Half-Life2, which is my usual addiction, but pretty 
>>>>> good.
>>>>>   Frame rates
>>>>> are simply no problem on modern cards.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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