May 20, 2004
Stop me
by peterbStop me if you think that you've heard this one before: Once again the consumer bit of my brain has gotten the sickness, and I have the urge to upgrade my "gaming" PC. I am fighting it tooth and nail.
Those really are derision quotes around "gaming," since most of the games I actually want to run on my PC -- like Warlords II -- don't actually run on modern versions of Windows. And because I never use my gaming PC because it is loud, and takes 5 minutes to boot up, and is in the wrong room, and is big and ugly, and because I can't play on the couch, like I can with the Xbox.
But, stupid is as stupid does. I'm trying to remind myself that all I'll accomplish by upgrading is I'll waste time and money and I still won't be playing any good games on it, since there will no doubt be some odd compatibility glitch between whatever OS/video card combination I have and whatever game (City of Heroes? Maybe) I decide I must obsess over.
Also, the calculus that said upgrading would be "worth it" assumes that my PC133 RAM from ages ago would still work so I could continue to do this piecemeal. I bet that's not true anymore. Everytime I read some article about how you should spend more on some motherboard because this time the new super CPU slow format will guarantee forward compatibility, I want to punch someone.
Hold that ball really still, Lucy -- here comes Charlie brown to give it a good swift kick.
Posted by peterb at May 20, 2004 04:54 PM | Bookmark Thisjust do as i do. pick a game that is never going to come out e.g. DOOMIII or HalfLife 2 and tell yourself to upgrade when it does. now you've got a reason to not to upgrade which is legit.
Posted by belka at May 20, 2004 05:37 PMBrilliant!
I SHALL BUILD THE ULTIMATE "DUKE NUKEM' FOREVER" BOX.
Far Cry is about to break my will. Even though there's supposed to be an XBox version coming "eventually."
Posted by Eric Tilton at May 20, 2004 07:35 PMI just bought KOTOR for my wife, and it won't even try to run on her studly laptop without complaining about driver issue this or hardware issue that.
And this is a game of high reputation that works perfectly on my Xbox, which is no where near as studly as my wife's laptop.
It's a wonder people even bother with PC games at all.
Posted by Pete Su at May 20, 2004 11:49 PMShe needs somewhere to play while you monopolize the Xbox.
How many XBox games can you buy for the price of the upgrade?
Personally, I doubt if I'll feel compelled to upgrade hardware until either the XBox 2 or G5 PowerBooks come out, whichever comes first.
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