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World of Goo for iPad. 


Edited by Mr ProgFreak - December 23 2010 at 04:20

Sorry Kev,don't really know of any.

Bought my kids Xbox Kinect and that has to be the best family fun we have had in awhile......that is a workout too. I also bought them Halo Reach and CoD Black Ops.....I don't play those, I watch them...but looks pretty amazing.

The Sleepwalker wrote: This is pretty awesome so far.

The Sleepwalker wrote: The Sleepwalker wrote: This is pretty awesome so far.  Just finished it.  It doesn't get much cooler than that final boss battle.  Great game.

Fighting Giygas is epic, isn't it?  It's one of those video game moments you never forget.

a friend just bought me The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom ($0.49 on steam today!) and it is 100% awesome

I also got Bioshock and Dead Space for Christmas

i'm obsessed with my kinect at the moment

TheProgtologist wrote: I read about the new Elder Scrolls game Skyrim in the newest Game Informer and now I am literally drooling over it and can't wait to get my hands on it!

Gonna be totally honest here:

Skyrim will not look that great. It's made for the current generation of consoles which have already pretty well maxed out their processing power (especially the 360). It won't be any more involving or customizable; in fact, going by Bethesda's more recent offerings, it will be simplified further.

Speaking of the 360, it came out alongside the GeForce 7 and Radeon X1xxx series. Really, it's like a 6-year-old computer with an X1900 in it. It's pathetic, yet because nobody's making a new console, everyone is stuck with this as a graphics bottleneck. Microsoft thinks it should last until 2015, but it's already horrendously outdated. I wonder if they make these claims in order to be first out the door on the new console generation. A new 6970 can produce 10 times the floating point operations of the 360's GPU. Five years from now, when Microsoft thinks the current console generation will end, that number will likely be 100 times more processing power. It's like comparing a Playstation to a PS3. Seriously, by 2015, you'll have handhelds with more power than a 360. Hell, we may have them in 2012. Insane.

SaltyJon wrote: Not to be disrespectful, but have you even read any of the articles about Skyrim?  They've stated that they have redesigned the engine(s) used to make the game; the physics engine is redone, they're now using the Radiant story engine for the questing, a new combat engine, re-done UI, everything's had a makeover basically.  Graphics on the consoles may be maxed out, but us PC gamers don't have such a cap.  Frankly, if the gameplay was good I wouldn't care much if it looked like Morrowind again.  I hate how so many people claim that a game is only as good as its graphics.  And for what it's worth, the few screenshots we've been able to see do look better than those from Oblivion.  I plan to put as much time into it as I have into both Morrowind and Oblivion, aka several hundred hours at the least.

I have read all about it. Remember Deus Ex: Invisible War? Redone physics, new UI, new quest engine, and completely sh*tty game? And no, they aren't going to make two versions of the game just so PC gamers can make use of the superior hardware. Quite the contrary, really. They will just get lazier with the PC port because they can afford massive inefficiency. The game is being built for consoles from the ground up because that's where the money is. There are somewhere around 100 million 360s and PS3s worldwide, and that's a tough market to pass on.

I'm still looking forward to it too.  And when it's the best game in the series, making it one of the best RPGs ever, I won't complain.   Plus, I never said that the company themselves would be the ones to update the graphics for the PC version.  The Elder Scrolls games have exceptionally large modding communities - both of the games have been the subject of heavy graphics updates by fans of the games, not to mention other mods which do anything from add hundreds of new items to new areas/quest lines.  As I said earlier, I really don't care if they don't update the graphics from Oblivion - it's the gaming experience I'll care about, and for games such as these PC is the clear way to go if able.  Bethesda doesn't skimp on their PC games, from my experience.