deanb

http://www.escapistm...er-Than-Origins So the diffuculty has definitely been decreased. Supposedly "Normal" should be beatable by playing as a single character. Which makes you question what easy is beatable with in a party based RPG. I can understand using one character to beat a TES game on normal. But Dragon Age?

See I guess that was part RPG and part TGC. Though I don't think that's what Mojang have in mind with this. Pokemon TGC was fun though. (gameboy version) Always wanted an updated version.

I was gonna just throw this on the news feed but it's pretty short: http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/03/02/notch-on-piracy-if-a-pirated-game-is-a-lost-sale-should-bad-reviews-be-illegal/

http://www.scrolls.com/ http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/02/minecraft-mojang-reveal-scrolls/ A full-ish write-up on Mojangs second game. Beta release due this year. That's the same type of beta as Minecraft. I'm not much of a fan of TGCs, only ever played Pokemon and certainly nothing on PC like Planeswalkers. A write-up only does so much for me, so I'll pay attention to it cos it's mojang, but I'm not bothered too much. I have a feeling that "from the makers of Minecraft" will give it some allure.

north korea took over south korea and now as one they've attacked the US!? No but there's plenty of human rights violations.

Well for the past 6 months you can see it's wobbled around the 0.0035-0.0040 mark (don't ask what that is, I think it's million) and then the start of feb, when the new layout cam in, it dropped down to the 0.0010 mark. Making a 60% or so drop in hits.

It's an add-on.

I wouldn't make it that guaranteed. I'm on the home stretch for uni work, so it'd be a on the fly kind of thing, like maybe not till Friday I'd no for sure if I can set aside the time. Like lately I've crammed in a few half hour arena sessions with Cyber. But it's normally on the fly.

Well I have it. I'm up for playing through say next weekend with some guys.

http://www.paradoxplaza.com/press/2011/3/paradox-interactive-unveils-magicka-vietnam-at-gdc-2011 btw why is this thread in Multi-platform?

Yeah it was one of my games from last summer and I raged a bit about it. http://deanbmmv.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/game-completionist-week5/ Same as Fred the controls just didn't quite react as expected. But it has promise, just a bit of spit n polish, maybe expand the game out a bit more.

The straight face EG version: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-03-01-pc-gaming-is-growing-everywhere or the RPS-like RPS version http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/01/pc-is-strong-pc-games-revenue-up-20

SLI? tbh I'd say no. Depends on how long you intend to drag your parts out for. The theory is when your PC gets a bit showing it's age you buy another card slip it in, they're much cheaper then too, and poof speed boost. The reality is you tend to just buy a brand new current top line card. Also SLI doesn't work in every game, and can have it's own issues. It's a great option to have further down the line, but you have to decided if you'd use it or pick up a GTX 960 instead. As Malicious said it's not exactly a coke vs pepsi thing. There's wriggle room on price n performance in some areas. Worth checking Staysicks Tomshardware links up top on what's good for budget. I'm unsure if you'd need 6-cores though. Only now are things taking advantage of 4 cores. Source Engine supports 6 though as of a few months back That's maybe something to google. I think the 6-core stuff is more for video editors and such than gaming. For RAM, since I've now seen your current specs, you'll want more than 4GB. As for capacity vs speed, it's another balancing act but I'd say there comes a point where RAM could be too fast for your needs, but you can never have too much room. However don't go too slow. I have 6GB, but it's slow. The capacity is nice, but sometimes things lag a little bit. (It's also DDR2 though, so much slower than the slowest DDR3). For next PC I'm looking at 8GB Though I do video work and 3D modelling. I also have a ton of background programs open. Which really seems to offend the folks yet to adjust to the RAM explosion a few years back with Vista. Also as malicious highlighted, it's the timings that can help with speed, not so much just the mhz. Well going back on the SLI stuff up top, buy the single card now. If you buy two cards right away you're fucked for wriggle room later down the line. Also I'm pretty sure the 450 were mid-range sop despite it adding up to 900 and having 2GB of RAM I have a feeling they'll be slower. They definitely will be in games that don't support SLI. I've never bothered with SSD's. Still unsure if I will. I'm hard wired for capacity. So 60GB vs 2TB for the same price, I'm buying the 2TB. Maybe I'll look to see what the budget can burden. It's pretty much only going to affect boot up times though. My files will still be stored primarily on the HDD's and my Steam games total about 250GBs, so they're definitely not going to fit. SSD is up to you. I personally think they're still too expensive for what they offer. When it's about 1/4 the capacity of HDD for the price (so that's a 500GB SSD for £100) then I'll look into them. But Win 7 boots up in like 30 seconds or so anyway. I tend to go get a drink or whatever while it's booting so it's not time lost. Also you're only giving it 10 days? I'd get it up before 1st November, RMA could take 2 weeks then you'll miss the launch. But yeah if it's going to be another 6 months almost then I'd spend that time just brushing up on what's important n what not cos all of those are going to become obsolete by then. Or at least much cheaper I guess. I'd strongly recommend more than 4GB RAM though. That's my only main concern.

Well I can say from running you guys in the News Feed for the past few days that as a whole, need to speed up just a smidgen. Like 2-5 hours. It's not much, but on the web that's an eternity. Though you said they have to be approved so maybe that slows the system down. But there are also stories in their that are a bit unique so that's always good.

Oh man, "Oh no, it's not us, it's you. Our site is practically perfect in every way. Not our fault if you're incapable of using it" What a fucking douche. I see they now have instructions up top on reading the traditional blog format. I wonder if it becomes the majority of users that they'll switch over to that. Also blog view you can tell is an after thought because it's full of redundancy. And yeah replies are broken, It just tells you who sent you the reply, not where or when. So no idea if it's new or old, or if one person has sent you 2 replies to comments in two articles. It should just scroll out into the headline feed. Then it has more room than that pop out box. Looks like they've stabilised. But damn have they taken a massive hit:

How'd you do a mock protest of something that is real? But yeah looks like THQ followed suit on EA for this one.

That's quite the dedication. You testifying in court against them or something?

See I've not used it cos I have an email client (Which means I don't even know if I was one of those 150,000 the other day, maybe I should check) but I'm pretty sure due to Gmail being HTML5 compatible, and Chrome being a HTML5 browser you're meant to be upload files to Gmail (And quite a few other google services) by just dragging and dropping it like you would on most desktop programs. Did you give that a shot? Also what file wouldn't it download?

You guys could make an account on Gamespy.com and just use that. (That's assuming you guys are doing it from in-game)

It's a Gamespy/IGN account. If you've got one. I had one from I think ..Sup Com? Then an IGN account from IGN, then I think I reset it all n new passwords with Borderlands. So when I log in it offers me like 5 usernames to pick from I think a few are from sites IGN have bought over the years too. I'm PyritesSFX if anyone wants to add me. Excel is that the servers with 0 ping? If so filter the list by ping and join the ones near the top that actually have a number. Lowest I can get from UK to a UK server is 90ms though. Hope it's fixed tomorrow. Oh yeah I tossed up an event on Steam for anyone interested.

Yeah I saw it as I was posting. I was making a joke that didn't really change with your reply so continued.