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Post by MSTJedi on Jan 30, 2006 20:08:21 GMT -5
So what's the deal with Darkstar? Anyone know anything other than what you can find at the website? Doesn't look like anything's been done with it since 2002. I was pretty interested to see what was going to become of it.
I'm beginning to wonder if the whole thing was an elaborate joke.
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Post by Don Quixote on Jan 31, 2006 2:05:10 GMT -5
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Post by FredC on Jan 31, 2006 9:58:23 GMT -5
Somebody should tell the Sattelite News about this. All they have up is the old site, which convinced me that the game had been scrapped long ago (the site they link to was last updated in 2002.). |
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Post by Nunyerbiz on Jan 31, 2006 14:26:17 GMT -5
20-30 gigabyte product?!?
Good luck EVER getting that released. When you are talking about selling your game on USB/Firewire harddrives... ouch.
I will say that it does sound very ambitious. I just hope they can come up with something a tad more practical.
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Post by Cleolanta on Feb 2, 2006 7:01:51 GMT -5
Wow. I had no idea it was going to be THAT huge.
I do hope they get it finished for real eventually, and bring it in at a reasonable, normal-for-a-modern-game size. It just sounds like such a neat idea to me, and I'd really like to play it for myself someday.
...Notorious
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Post by MSTJedi on Feb 2, 2006 19:31:35 GMT -5
Somebody should tell the Sattelite News about this. All they have up is the old site, which convinced me that the game had been scrapped long ago (the site they link to was last updated in 2002.). That old site is what I was talking about. Had no idea there was a new one. |
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Post by GoFigure on Feb 14, 2006 13:29:40 GMT -5
Why don't they just put their energies into bringing back MST3K? We don't need another computer game. We NEED MST3K back!
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Post by FredC on Feb 15, 2006 21:23:37 GMT -5
It's got to be a joke or something. They've been talking about it for years now. Computer games are practically obsolete, and by the looks of it, things like XBOX 2 will crush the likes of Dark Star. It looks like Raven or whatever it's called, and nobody plays those types of games anymore. Over 4 years in the making and it's still just a CD-ROM puzzle game? I don't think so. Either it's an elaborate joke or the greatest video game ever made. Not to get too off topic, but I really don't see how Computer games are obsolete. Sure there are consoles out there but they still make plenty of games for the computer, and honestly I prefer a keyboard to a controller anyday. |
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Post by Cleolanta on Feb 15, 2006 21:39:50 GMT -5
I like computer games. I play them all the time. You can't tear me away from the Civ games if I don't want to be torn, for just one example.
Anyway. I did think that "Darkstar" sounded rather hoaxish when I first heard about it, long ago, yes...but I hope it isn't. It still sounds like it might be cool, to me.
...Notorious
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Post by Don Quixote on Feb 15, 2006 23:50:05 GMT -5
Forrest, three words:
Age of Empires.
'Nuff said.
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Post by MSTJedi on Feb 16, 2006 22:12:58 GMT -5
The point is I think Dark Star appears to have more bark than bite. We'll wait and see, but I honestly don't think it will be a hit, given it's conditions. Well, it will have the MST3K fanbase to draw from initially. But I do agree that it would have to be pretty awesome to catch anyone else's attention. |
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Post by Ator on Feb 18, 2006 4:02:02 GMT -5
It's got to be a joke or something. They've been talking about it for years now. Computer games are practically obsolete, and by the looks of it, things like XBOX 2 will crush the likes of Dark Star. It looks like Raven or whatever it's called, and nobody plays those types of games anymore. Over 4 years in the making and it's still just a CD-ROM puzzle game? I don't think so. Either it's an elaborate joke or the greatest video game ever made. Computer gaming will never die, Forrest. I would love to see an XBox2 play games smoother, and with better graphics, than my current system. (AMD Opteron 146 @ 3.0Ghz, Radeon X1800XT @ 700/800, some other stuff). CHEAP computer gaming may have died, though. |
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Post by MSTJedi on Feb 18, 2006 13:42:11 GMT -5
CHEAP computer gaming may have died, though. I'll agree with that. I have an older system (1.8 GHz Athlon, Radeon 9600xt, 1G RAM), so I have to settle for lesser console imports of good computer games these days. *SIGH* |
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Post by Ator on Feb 20, 2006 2:15:06 GMT -5
CHEAP computer gaming may have died, though. I'll agree with that. I have an older system (1.8 GHz Athlon, Radeon 9600xt, 1G RAM), so I have to settle for lesser console imports of good computer games these days. *SIGH* I had a 9600XT in a secondary system for a while...it's a great card! Played CS:Source smoothly if you kept the graphics turned down to a reasonable level. My X1800XT can run it a 1600x1200 MAXED. Stress test shows over 120 frames per second. Computers will always beat console systems, because not only are they more capable, they are upgradeable. Consumer-level graphics cards are really starting to become insanely powerful (just take a look at my X1800XT again...320 MILLION transistors!). If Microsoft wanted to make a profit with the XBox360, they would have to charge somewhere in the vicinity of $1000 a piece for just the bare system. Give me $2000 and i'll build you a wicked system that'll be on par with an XBox and be able to do way more than it can do to boot. |
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Post by MSTJedi on Feb 20, 2006 12:06:25 GMT -5
Give me $2000 and i'll build you a wicked system that'll be on par with an XBox and be able to do way more than it can do to boot. Well, therein lies the problem. If I don't have the $400 to get an Xbox 360, I sure don't have $2000 to spend upgrading my computer. The one I have has already been exensively upgraded already. I started out with a 950 MHz Athlon and a GeForce2 MX with 256 MB of RAM. Right now I think the CPU is what's holding me back, but I'd have to get a whole new motherboard to upgrade it enough to really matter. Bleh . . . |
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