Posted by: bofe | August 12, 2004

Graphics Card over Mind

While I was at the lake a few weekends ago, I took a break from relaxing and fired up some TechTV. I mean, G4TechTV. How lame is that name? That’s like calling the classic game Frogger ‘Highway Crossing Frog’. Lame.

TechTV usually does a pretty good job of reviews, previews, and general tutorials for the less informed user. However, Leo Laporte said something that I can’t get over.

He was doing a plug for a text-based RPG whose name is unimportant. He said:

The mind is the most powerful graphics card of them all.

He was trying to say playing text-based games is so much better than graphics intensive games like Battlefield 1942. It’s not.

A Playstation 2 can draw/interpret do 20 million polygons per second. An ATI RADEON 9800 can do 380 million polygons per second.

On a good day, I can draw a polygon in one second. God. Leo Laporte sucks.

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Help me pave the whole state of Kansas.

By: Bittel on August 12, 2004
at 12:31

I had tons of fun with text games.
Fed (was on aol, now -> http://www.ibgames.net/fed2/index.html )
Hitchhiker’s Guide
And the very best -> BBS rpg games.

I can’t say mindless shooting in Unreal does the same for me as playing old text games.

By: Ross on August 12, 2004
at 15:53

I’m thinking maybe you missed what Leo was getting at :)
It’s the same way that reading a book is still drastically better than watching HDTV.

Although it is NOT better than comcast on demand or p0rn.

By: Randolph on August 13, 2004
at 09:25

wtf when did ps2 come out, i’m still playin megaman 4

By: Adam on August 18, 2004
at 04:19

On a good day, I can go 11 minutes without thinking of Candyland.

By: Chris on August 22, 2004
at 10:41

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