Warsow: A blog about a game.

I don’t play a lot of games. Really, I don’t. Granted, when I go over to my parents’ place, I might play a spot of Call of Duty 4. At home, though, there’s not really a whole lot of time to play, and I don’t have any disposable income with which to actually purchase any games.

That said, I’ve found a game to play lately, Warsow. It’s free, available for a variety of platforms, and breaks nicely from the traditional Quake-inspired Gothic darkness with cell-shaded graphics and an overall different appearance.

It’s also ridiculously difficult (for me) to actually play. Warsow is clearly geared to gamers and their trix. I, on the other hand, am just a lowly married man with bad hand-eye co-ordination. When I type cg_showSpeedMeter “1″ into the console (yes, it had a console, just like every other game worth its salt), I rarely if ever get over 400. I suck.

Yet I still have fun… try it out. Seriously. I double-dog-dare you.

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Posted January 4th, 2008 in main. Tagged: , , .

4 comments:

  1. Roger:

    Dan ja vu’!

    January 5th, 2008 at 5:40 am
  2. Tim:

    FYI downloaded Ubuntu the other day… it looks like it’d be a lovely OS IF I could get it out of 800/600 resolution. Oh, it detects my nvidia card no problem… it’s the monitor it doesn’t like. I can’t even INSTALL the OS without a higher res so I can see the ‘next’ button on the install screen! Ah well… Until I have 200 bucks to buy a monitor that’s not “Sylvania” brand and a CRT to boot…

    January 5th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
  3. daniel:

    Yeah, I’ve had that experience installing pretty much any OS at least once. I installed Windows XP the other day with a CRT monitor… and I couldn’t see much at all until I downloaded the Nvidia drivers. That was after downloading the drivers for the onboard LAN on another computer and transferring them via USB thumbnail drive. Installing OSes is always pain. (Try installing OS X sometime ;))

    But I’m a bit confused here… if you’re running the Live CD (the regular download), you should be able to go to System > Admin > Screens and fix that in about ten seconds before running the installer.

    January 6th, 2008 at 12:35 am
  4. Tim:

    That’s where I went… but it shows my monitor as ‘plug and play’ and the resolution options only go up to 800 x 600. It recognized my nVidia 6150 no-problem (as far as I can tell) but won’t give options for larger res.
    I found what looked like it COULD be a solution at a discussion forum, but it gave instructions for use with the linux command prompt… something I’m not real familiar with. I’m really a n00b at linux in general and was getting Ubuntu to see how I liked the environ.

    January 7th, 2008 at 5:27 pm

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