Yes, Manhattan Project was a refreshing change. Old skool meets new-fangled stuff. I wish the monsters had been a bit cooler, though, and that the gameplay was a bit more in-depth. Also, more control over where you look and fire would have been nice. But there was nice use of the camera system which added some depth and variety to the traditional side scroller.

Overall a tops game, though. People should get it. 

i would also imagine the people who write for TIME magazine know very little about video or computer gaming in general. 

I would also imagigine that you know very little about the people who write for TIME magazine, in general.

Just curious how you would come to that conclussion, apart from the fact that they omitted mention of certain games.

People who play, say, racing games or RPG games exclusively, may never mention FPS games, doesn't mean they know little about "computer gaming in general" 

Upgrading to WinXP Pro, just wondering if anyone knows whether PS2Rate works under XP? 

yep, its quite possible i am completly wrong.

its just a hunch. 

/me looks for pentagonal textures. 

I had one recently, it was called QuakeOn I *think* - with the gibbed player head guide guy.. don't recall where I got it.. 

QuakeOn is good, I used it for a long time. It's good if you have loads of mods and/or lots of different engines.

Oh, and the Quake Head helper guy is funny. 

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if you are still in trouble with your disk, I used a 20 gig drive on a 8gig hd limit bios computer (my old ppro200) on w95 with no problems using some software from IBM which installs into the HD root block and makes the full 20 gigs available. It worked very well and reliable. Sadly I can't locate it anymore on IBM's site, but this page mentions it (under "hard disk software", and links some alternative programs (like from maxtor and seagate which do a similar job, but I have no experience with):

http://www.linux-1u.net/Disks/ 

Yay I actually played a game. And very good it was too indeed. More spooging in a bit probably. 

Yeah, that's what I'm using too (MaxBlast 3.) But I suspect that the drivers that came with this copy of Win95 are just too old, and might be causing the resetting.

(Also, it uses FAT16, so the disk is broken into ten partitions. Eep.)

So I'm getting into a bidding war for a copy of Win98. Would you believe people are willing to pay US$50 or more for a copy of this? 

Fatty, you could have had my copy of Win98 SE, plus a Intel 815i based motherboard, PIII 866mhz, 384MB PC133 ram, 64MB geforce 2 GTS, and it would have cost you "NOTHING", except for the shipping costs. I offered, but alas, it is gone now.
:( 

Please spooge on about AVP2, I have it and the expansion pack, Primal Hunt, haven't installed them yet, and was going to give it a miss. Maybe you can help change my mind. :) 

Every once in a while I want to revisit Quake and QuakeWorld, but still haven't got GLQuake to work on my PC (I always played on a Mac before). I figure with all the development and bug fixing and improving of the open source, that there must be at least one really stable improved version--not necessarily with any new graphical features (obviously if I'm just playing Quake, I don't need fog or colored lights or whatever). I've visited some of the websites devoted to this, but haven't found an obvious answer for an overall improved version that is recommended as a replacement for what id released. Anyone have some knowledge of this, or preferences? 

...if anyone could recommend a good engine+bot combinations, I would feel most benevolent towards them for a short period of time. 

If its Quakeworld (NOT Quake) then I would recommend Zquake and Fuhquake. Those are both based on the Zquake source, but fuhquake has added eyecandy and stuff. So Zquake for the purist, and fuhquake for people who want the extra features and stuff (fuhquake is based on zquake anyway). 

And for bots I'd recommend Quake3+CPMA or UT2003. 

Pity I wasn't around when Daz had his AVP2 spooging thread set up. I can see what he means now =). Basically a pretty damn cool game that does exactly what it's supposed to in capturing the whole Aliens - and Predator - vibe. More gripping than HL for me too =).

Teh bad:
- Old engine and it shows, crude skins and dated texturing....and still ran a bit slow.
- 'Feel' is sloppy and a bit glitchy.
- Story loses continuous involvement when spread over the 3 race sections.
- Some game imbalances (e.g. Pred can rely on unlimited energy, Alien can be 'trapped' if it loses too much health).
- Fairly linear.

Teh good:
- Makes good use out the engine regardless, some big outdoor maps and several spectacular scenes.
- Very atmospheric, from the gripping Aliens feel of the marine section to the manic violence of playing as an alien.
- Scary too! Whether it's from scripted shocks, gnarly sounds or just the general atmosphere.
- Playing as 3 races, great. 3 sections making it easier to play in little bits, 3 different perspectives on what's going on, 3 very different playing styles.
- Intriguing backdrop and story, lots of hints and scene setting via cutscenes and overheard conversations, really gets you wondering what's going on.
- Decent gameplay, well balanced overall, appropriate to each race, and fair boss combats. 

AvP2 is great... but avoid the mission pack like the plague, it's quite terrible. They somehow managed to completely omit all the tension and atmosphere that was so good in the original game, reducing it to a sub-Serious Sam level of crappy repetitive horde-based gameplay. Plus they tried to make Dunya a more sympathetic character by giving her a really stupid haircut. 

Well, I was hoping to get away from q3, but cheers anyway :]. UT unfortunately fails to tickle me. 

FitzQuake: http://www.celephais.net/fitzquake/
Omicron Bot: http://www.botepidemic.com/gladiator/obots/obots.html
Routes for Omicron: http://www.planetquake.com/skorpion/

Note that you can play without routes, but apparently the Omis do better with them. Also, FitzQuake isn't your typical sp00ge-lens-flaresss!!!11 type engine; instead, it is a class engine with useful bug fixes and improves the sky, lighting and other things over GLQuake. 

Correction:

Omicron Bot: http://www.planetquake.com/dl/dl.asp?skorpion/files/obots102.zip
Non-FilePlanet Omicron Bot: http://www.xs4all.nl/~elusive/projects/Obots/Obots102.zip 

A big slice of benevolence for RPG. 

Although after "showing" him around the map for a while, will see a good improvement over when the map first starts, all info about the map it gains from the time spent in the map is lost once you change maps. But with the .ent(route) file hard coded to the map, it has permanent knowledge of the map. The .ent(routes) are easy to install, and easy to make yourself if you can't find one for the map in question. I have tried around 80 or so Quake bots, Omicron is by far my favorite, and my vote for best. Others may say things like the Frog Bot etc are better, well, personal choice I guess, but some of theses bots (and Frog is one of them) are limited to a very small selection of maps. Where as the Omicron will play any map, with or without an .ent(route) file.