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I should find myself a wheel to play this with. Watching my brother play it... I noticed one the of the AI driving a Prius... I drive a Prius IRL and I lol'd. No way a Pruis is racing material. At all. Acceleration suck ass. I doubt a sport tuning on it can even save it.

This doesn't sound good. At all.

Let all spam text to voice! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Oh boy, I'm not sure if they made it easier or anything but... make multiple save files. YOU MUST. Draw your sword, Dean...

I actually had been told to stay the hell away from the SMT series... okay, maybe not the Persona ones but yeah. For a future game... I would say Versus XIII would be an interesting pick. A Kingdom Heart like Final Fantasy... you know, I would be fine if Final Fantasy evolves into a system like that.

My younger brother up and went to get GT5 today. I was surprised and well, I think I may hop on. I would be just starting out so I will be shit compared to the rest of you guys.

Well, before the forums died on me for a few hours... and with it my edited reply. In short... I realize that my only game that has PhysX is Mafia 2*. Its runs well enough that I can play but it can dip as low as 20 FPS in intense firefights. That was on Medium PhysX settings. I'm sure the 6950 can run it better than my 6870 can with PhysX on but I doubt it can run it on High PhysX settings. If you want high settings, a Nvidia card would be needed. Your call on how good you want your PhysX to be. I can't blame you for wanting it on high. The difference between none and medium is pretty clear to see. It even sort of makes it to feel like a different game. When I was shopping for a videocard, PhysX was not something I considered. With the 6870, I think I got pretty lucky that PhysX runs on it. Else I would start to have buyer's remorse. Whelp, I think a Crossfire setup is in order now... *As far as I know, Mafia 2 is quite a beefy game in graphic terms so I think maybe a lesser game with PhysX can run better on the 6870.

So the framerates running physX on your 6870 are good then? I'll go through all the games that has PhysX I have played to make sure but in general, I think it ran fine. It was at least 30 FPS for the games.

Save. Save. SAVE. Its better to take those many small moments to save than to die and having to do every little thing over again.

I turned it on in every game I ran into that has it so far. I haven't noticed anything bad.

I was sort of in a rush when I posted that post. What I meant was the lifespan of the ATX form factor. The size is really not an issue but the screw placements and such is. For example, say if ATX gets replace by XYZ five years from now and then I want to upgrade. I would be pretty screwed if ATX boards don't exist or a certain parts I want won't work on an ATX. Sure, I could buy a new tower but the tower is one part that you can reuse as many times you want like mice and keyboard, and monitor and speakers to certain extent. It helps keep my costs down when I decide to do something as major as replacing everything. It would be nice to not having to replace full tower. Those are kind of pricey. So yeah, hopefully Dean is right. Even if ATX has a successor, it should take a while before ATX fully dies.

I just was wondering... when do you guys think the ATX mobo form factor will be replace? I'm asking because I was thinking of costs of a gaming PC and how much the tower plays into that cost.

I seriously wonder how many people buy that card in that case.

On the thing about getting cheated by a modder. Back during the PS1 era in 8th Ave mini Chinatown in Brooklyn, NY... modding PS1 was a business for one store. You can get your PS1 modded to play burnt disks for something like $50 or $100. I forget the actual price but you can get your PS1 back by the hour or even half hour. It will work since they will test it out for you. Then... you can browse their collection of burnt games for sale for $20. Let's say that dude made a nice profit for his skills and connections. Later in '00 or so, he. Swapped to a legit business for legal reasons. Same goes to other video game stores that sold burnt games. Now, this situation is pretty damn sweet for the buyer and massively sweet for the seller. All the parent had to do for the kid was to front the initial money to get the console and mod and then the kid, like me, could get a game whenever he pleased when he has $20 which was not hard to do for a Chinese kid who get red envelopes on CNY, birthday and Christmas. So I can get games when I wanted in just 10 minutes. Five minute walk to the store beats going to a legit store by using the subway/bus which can take an hour or two one way. Then there was the $50 price tag on the games. Needless to say, I amassed quite a big burnt game collection. HOWEVER, I did get legit copies of the games at times. Come on, a legit video game store was like a candy shop with all the wonderful colors compared to flipping through a binder. Now that I think of it, the SNES was similar. Just swap disks with floppies. Not sure on the costs since that was pretty much before I was a buyer. My cousins though had BOXES of floppies of mainstream games from the US and JP, and obscure games as well. So I think each game was pretty damn cheap. Again, whoever did that made massive profit as well. Now in this day of age with broadband and burners in pretty much everybody houses... everyone can DIY. ... now I want to somehow get my Xbox to play pirated games... JP games. Mainly Metal Wolf Chaos. Thank you internet!

CLOUD~~~!!! KYAAAA~ As for my nomination... the hero from Y's. Crash into monsters and don't give a fuck.

I do weird random shit like using flash lights as spotlights in my room right now to find a fly.

I never had my own PSP... I know I won't be day one-ing this or even one year-ing this but I think I will be getting this. All depends on what happens at E3. Its kind of makes you wonder what will the next gen consoles will be like if Sony can pack such power in a tiny device like that... sure its a 5" screen but still.

So... how is this game? From the looks of things, its TF2-esk.

Welcome aboard!

I'm currently playing solo. I need some TAY crew. Getting my ass handed to me solo. :< Also, I think I got killed through a wall... by wall hack.

Part of me think I should of waited for the 69xx instead of just getting the 6870. Not like I'm complaining about the 6870 but hey, I could always go for something better. It is only about $45 more after MIR. May the best card win in your purchase!