I regret having bought Turok Evolution. It's the only game I have EVER sold. Though there's was one I'd call a rental... and another that I gave away, and now wish that I hadn't. I was young and wreckless.... 3 years ago.

I regretted buying Wario World until I beat it. Still not good, but I feel a bit better about it. Oh, and Duke Nukem Time to Kill. I almost forgot about it, sitting all alone it that little box.

He was still here to answer the first post. It's not difficult to figure out what question someone is answering based on it's content. The only real requirement is that you read what's on your monitor, rather than smearing pudding on the screen (I'm sure many of us are prone to doing that).

Why, even now, I didn't quote your post and there's one between yours and mine el_carl,  but you can still feel my disdain even without a roadmap.

Overkill, do you really have to quote what the poster said? You got the first post. Isn't it reasonable to expect you came in here to answer the question. I don't think anyone got lost between the end of his post and the start of yours.

 Now that's overkill...

There's a graphics benchmark program called 3DMARK06. It runs the card through a series of tests and comes up with number at the end. The higher the number, the better the card performed (the higher the graphics quality from the cards). Gamespot uses it a lot. Here's the numbers for the cards in decreasing performance

GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB - 8729

GeForce 7950 GT 512MB -  5431

GeForce 7600 GT 256MB - 3317

Don't worry about exactly what the numbers mean. They're all fairly good cards. For a bit of a comparison, the GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB (the highest rated DX10 card right now) comes up with a score of 10665. Also, depending on the brand name, you get different levels or performance based on how the manufacturer tweeks the card. But it shouldn't make that big of a difference. It's not the kind your get between different models of cards.

Whether or not you buy which card depends on what kind of gamer you are. If you aren't buying the newest games, and wanting to play them on the highest settings, you probably don't need the 8800 GTS. But if you're interested in games like Oblivion, Company of Heros, and Crysis, you may want something a little more powerful. Also a side note: you may want to look online to see how much a card like the one your friend has costs from a retailer. You want to make sure he isn't trying to hose you. If someone's asking for full price on a card that's used, you might as well buy a new one yourself. I'm not saying you should haggle with him, but make sure his offer seems reasonably fair. If you really need help looking for that kind of stuff you can come back and ask, but who knows when someone will come along to answer it properly. Also, you have to make sure your computer has a large enough power supply, that the card fits, etc.

CRAP! Don't listen to any of these boobs. Well, as far as your question goes anyway. I don't know about all this thousand dollar stuff and whatever they said about AMD. They're too dumb to fully answer the question asked, but they sure know a lot about what you didn't ask.

All the editions except for Window's Vista Starter support the 64-bit processors, but Windows Vista home basic has fewer features. You should probably go for the Windows Vista Premium Edition. It says premium, but it's the equivalent of what Windows XP Home edition was during the last operating system. It's what Vista is supposed to be without taking away from it, or adding extra things. For the general consumer.

No it wasn't. The only thing it did different from the old games was hold your hand. Midna told you everything you had to know, video's showed you everything you had to do, nothing was really "hidden". It was an interactive story more than a game.

They wanted to make it accessible to all gamers. But in order to do it they had to make the game playable to the not so bright among us. But in doing that they had a couple of puzzles that would be nearly impossible without the right about of brain power (The puzzle with the two jumping statues before you got the master sword). Those things can't exist together. I played Link's Awakening on Gameboy. It took me forever to get through the first dungeon because it had actual puzzles. What the hell is a pols voice? If you didn't know you had to find out elsewhere. It may have been hard but I'd rather play something hard than something that just solves the puzzles for me because I'm not really playing that game then, am I?

Zelda has always been a game where damage is dominated by the half heart. You get hit you lose half a heart. It is understandable when weak looking enemies only take a quarter of a heart. In the new game, nearly every enemy did only a quarter, thus making the game twice as easy. If you cut a Deku Baba off it's stem and let it latch on to you, it will slowly take two quarter hearts from you (one at a time), keep chewing but not doing any more damage until it eventually lets go. Then it hops around until it decides to attack again some 3 or 4 seconds later. If you tried standing next to a deku baba in OOT you'd be on the ground in about 25 seconds.

The game also requires no reaction time. For TP you can run nearly infinite circles around the enemies and they won't attack you. They just keep spinning in circles. In games, large enemies give more damage. The most probable reason is because they're bigger than you. In TP the bosses did half a heart and even a quarter heart for some attacks. Someone toss link a pillow, I need time to figure out how to beat the boss. Also L-targeting automatically raised your shield. If you stand still while targeting (do you have to even hold the button? I can't remember) the enemies will never hit you. If you don't have to hold the button to target you could walk away from your game and the enemy would just keep attacking and never hit you. Enemies suffer so much recoil that you can press the attack button nearly once every second (that's a long delay) and they will never recover fast enough to retaliate. It is a game for children. The only reason for the TEEN rating is because all the girls wear low cut tops. They say the game has blood but it appears on some fence posts and maybe unnoticeable from some enemies. Ocarina's blood was more realistic and it was just particle effects.

Twilight princess can make you suck at other Zelda games. I turned on Ocarina of Time some time after I beat Twilight and got taken out by the first boss. That only happened to me once. The first time I had played the game. I've beaten Ocarina of Time maybe 11 times on the N64, 3 times on Gamecube, and the Master Quest once, but for all I know I may have done it more. Dying is not something I do in that game but suddenly I've returned to the skills I had when I first played the game. Similar things happend in Link's awakening and in Link to the past. I was so used to being catered to by the game that I was no longer prepared for real games.

I really wish to complain more, but I have to go. Don't complain if you ever see this reposted as a stand alone post later on. I might have a few more things to say and not enough people are going to see it here. The worst thing Nintendo can do to a long standing franchise is to accommodate the requests of fans.

Play anywhere you want to. The biggest noobs will call the most elite players noobs anyway so it doesn't matter. The word is over used and you shouldn't have to defend yourself. New players have to be new and that's just the way it is. I played CS:S for a while until I found a server I liked. I think it ended up being a hard server filled with really skilled players. My expectations changed while I played. I started out just wanting to injure someone. Then I wanted to be able to kill another players, until I got to a point that I frequently went on killing sprees of 5 players or more. (In a strange twist of fate, the server was shut down, my internet connection changed and I started to suck. A weird kind of sucking. The kind of sucking where I constantly get head shots on other players, their heads are smeared with blood, but they take no damage. I finally quit because I couldn't make it stop.)

The moral of the story is you should get better the longer you play, and it's better to gain skills playing against skilled players rather than unskilled. Those noob rooms are probably populated by long time players anyway. Don't take crap from them and don't start calling other players noobs because that's how we all start.