Video & PC Game Discussion

TheProgtologist wrote: NecronCommander wrote: Anyone else excited for the release of Homefront?  Should be a fun one.   I pre-ordered it after reading about it in Game Informer.Looks like a good game.   Anyone else looking forward to Rockstar's next magnum opus LA Noire?

LA Noire will be a day 1 purchase in this household!  Open world Rockstar game + detective story/setting + 1940's Hollywood = EPIC!!!

TLM170 wrote: god, i just discovered minecraft... cant stop playing...

I've recently bought this laptop (or notebook if you wish):

http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=710_577_371&item_id=034415

And now, I can virtually play any game that exists for PC. 17.3'' screen is very nice for viewing (and watching DVD's), as well as for normal work.

I have finished Deus Ex 2 now and am playing Left 4 Dead and GTA IV.

¨EDIT: I'm successfully avoiding all MMORPG's.

Edited by Marty McFly - March 28 2011 at 07:39

Darkspore beta.

KoS wrote: Two of my roommates just got Left 4 Dead 2 and Team Fortress 2. Spent all evening shouting at each other.

totally did that!!

Mr ProgFreak wrote: Crysis 2. It's quite nice, but but not as good as the previous two games as far as story and gameplay are concerned.

And it doesn't look better than 4-year-old Crysis, which is a damn shame.

Gamemako wrote: Mr ProgFreak wrote: Crysis 2. It's quite nice, but but not as good as the previous two games as far as story and gameplay are concerned.  And it doesn't look better than 4-year-old Crysis, which is a damn shame.

Mr ProgFreak wrote: That's because they developed for the consoles (DirectX 9) ... but rumour has it that they will publish a DirectX 11 patch. BTW: A pleasant side effect is that I am able to play the game at 1920x1080 with a GTX460 card.

Let's face it: if they can't be bothered to change "Press start to begin" and "Adjust the brightness on your TV", they aren't releasing a DX11 patch. In four years of development, all you get out of Crysis 2 is a game that doesn't look as good as the original. They completely sold out (i.e. followed to the exclusion of alternates) on the console route and just lazily ported it to PC.

And there are so many other things that drive me up a ****ing wall. Narrow corridors everywhere, fog with 10m visibility, etc, etc. They could have saved a lot of time and money by just importing Crysis assets into Modern Warfare 2 and wouldn't have seen the tiniest bit of difference.

I heard some scattered reports a few weeks back of Microsoft recruiting people for the development of a new console. That suggest to me a 2013-2014 release, meaning we'll be graphically stuck in 2007 for 7 years.

Oh well, at least BioWare released some nice DX11 features + high-res textures with DA2, even if the game was pretty mediocre overall.

Bantam19 wrote: progkidjoel wrote: Finally finished Demon's Souls after about 6 months of constant failure, now working through NG+. Can't wait for Dark Souls. Demon's Souls was a fantastic game, even though it was often rage inducing (Valley of Defilement I'm looking at you...).  And yes, Dark Souls looks like its going to be a definite improvement, especially by making it open-world rather than level based.  Also interested to see how they made it even more difficult without breaking the game lol. Out of curiosity, did you get your world's to full black/white soul tendency to meet all the special NPC's and what not? I remember getting Boletarian Palace to full-black and then Executionar Miranda just slaughtering me over and over...Still worth it.

Bantam19 wrote: progkidjoel wrote: A friend of mine on NG+9 told me it was a good idea to play through once without bothering with Soul Tendency and then playing with it on NG+, so that's what I'm doing. Gonna have fun playing through this again for sure. The most rage inducing moment for me was definitely the Valley of Defilement, or possibly all of Latria's tower. I literally finished every other archstone before I was even able to do 3-1. Then I found out it was actually pretty simple Ya, I also waited for NG+ before trying to do all the extra stuff.  No joke, the first time I went to the Tower of Latria it was creeping me out so much, I walked around a bit and turned around and left lol.  Then when I eventually came back I got paralyzed and 1-hit KO'd by the Octopus Warden thing, when we started sucking my face off with his tentacles I was just WTFFF.  I also found that the Tower was so dark I would often not see holes in the floor and just fall to my death, which was pretty lame. Also, Lord Rydyell wailing in his cell always made me laugh, I never actually got him out even on NG+. Man, remembering how awesome this game was makes me want to go play it...

Edited by progkidjoel - April 02 2011 at 19:16