rik
November 3rd, 2007, 00:23
This is well off topic but I'm in a bad mood :-|
Bought the new Expansion pack for Flight Simulator X today. Lured by the attraction of the Merlin helicopter (built in the next county over from me and occassionaly test flown past my office) and the F-18 Hornet with carrier landings and take-offs. If Flyinghell34 can do it, surely I can too, huh, I mean, how hard can it be?! (That's a joke mate!)
So why, in it's infinite ****ing wisdom, did Microsoft decide to release an expansion that doesn't run on a machine that can run the original game (albeit dialled down some). I don't want the super-dooper rendering of instanbul, the multi-player racing. I don't even want the P-51 Mustang. I just want to fly a merlin and a hornet but no, all the installation program does is mock my laptop's graphics card, stamp it's foot and refuse to do anything else.
All of a sudden all my loathing of pc games has come crashing back. I mean, if you buy a PS2 game and you've got a PS2, voila, it works. You buy a Breitling (see how I've craftily forced it back near the topic?!) and if you've got a wrist, voila, it works. Buy a PC game and unless you bought your computer yesterday, you're ****ed. 'Oh you're trying to play me with a puny XVY65 ceramic core but you need at least a ZoomSky 93 VirtuaPort Mark 3. As if! And you're ugly.':rodekaart
Bill Gates hates me personally. Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhh.
I feel better for venting.
OT icon fixed. See I feel for you rik ;-).
Bought the new Expansion pack for Flight Simulator X today. Lured by the attraction of the Merlin helicopter (built in the next county over from me and occassionaly test flown past my office) and the F-18 Hornet with carrier landings and take-offs. If Flyinghell34 can do it, surely I can too, huh, I mean, how hard can it be?! (That's a joke mate!)
So why, in it's infinite ****ing wisdom, did Microsoft decide to release an expansion that doesn't run on a machine that can run the original game (albeit dialled down some). I don't want the super-dooper rendering of instanbul, the multi-player racing. I don't even want the P-51 Mustang. I just want to fly a merlin and a hornet but no, all the installation program does is mock my laptop's graphics card, stamp it's foot and refuse to do anything else.
All of a sudden all my loathing of pc games has come crashing back. I mean, if you buy a PS2 game and you've got a PS2, voila, it works. You buy a Breitling (see how I've craftily forced it back near the topic?!) and if you've got a wrist, voila, it works. Buy a PC game and unless you bought your computer yesterday, you're ****ed. 'Oh you're trying to play me with a puny XVY65 ceramic core but you need at least a ZoomSky 93 VirtuaPort Mark 3. As if! And you're ugly.':rodekaart
Bill Gates hates me personally. Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhh.
I feel better for venting.
OT icon fixed. See I feel for you rik ;-).