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One would hope that the game was not neutered on request by Sony and/or Microsoft, but I wouldn't put it beyond them. Just like they have to acquiesce to Microsoft's demand that the Xbone CE be given extra goodies over the PS4 and PC versions, really. Unfortunately CDPR being a relatively small player in the games publishing market means they have little influence here, so the big boys are free to dictate terms as they wish. Just like how Namco-Bandai can dictate how much CDPR sell the game for, on CDPR's own store.

Physical copy for me I think. Will cost almost $20 more but happy to do it for any game which includes more than a simple DVD case and disc for their physical releases. If there's a spare CE available for whatever reason I'll buy that, but I'm not expecting to. Generally though, I'd take Steam over Uplay but I'd take anything else over Steam.

I don't think I'd be able to use that setup, I'd be paranoid of all that gear up there falling down and crushing the rest of my stuff, or indeed, crushing *me*. (Also the speakers suck )

I think that's a safe assumption. Not sure how they're defining that though? 30fps?

To separate the marketing from the real data, there's some independent testing being done here, if you can read German. If, like me, you can't, then some selected snippets via Google translate: When you consider the testing was done on a pre-release version, I think it's reasonable to assume real-world performance will be even better.

I'd have thought that games like that were already being made all the time in Japan, not sure why he'd have difficulty finding a willing publisher.

Unfortunately Wild Hunt is a GameWorks (i.e. nVidia sponsored) title, so a comparison/conversion to those "requirements" is not possible, nVidia has had a significant amount of exclusive access during the game's development and it can be safely assumed that a given nV card will outperform an otherwise equivalent AMD card initially (the gap will close after launch as AMD get to optimise their drivers for the game, to what extent is anyone's guess). That said, that listing is more consumer advice for those looking to buy a new nV card anyway because it doesn't list older-but-faster products, so it's not useful in the "will my PC run the game" stakes. P.S. The GTX770 is a better card than the GTX960 listed above, so you will be fine.

Yes, free update. Well, not update, it'll be listed as a separate product in your library.

It's raining spiders, hallelujah!

Looks like my plan of waiting until release and getting a CE if still available is no longer on the cards, EB (the CE is an EB exclusive in Australia) aren't even taking orders for it anymore. Not sure if a regular physical copy is worth it now, though I've since learned that it does have a GOG code included in the box. Good to know, because when I checked last year CDPR were saying that it did not include one. A bit weirded out by the disc version being locked (by way of a missing file that can only be downloaded after release), since technically that means this is a DRMed CDPR game. Won't argue too hard on it, but it does mean the disc isn't actually a standalone installer of the game.

Maybe check the GOG forums to see if their version suffers from any similar issues. I trust it doesn't, but would suck having to spend money on the game yet again unless it was guaranteed to work.

Chess is pretty buggy, there's a move you can do where you attack an empty space, but somehow your target gets hit anyway, I think it has some wonky hitbox detection.

You can even have the engagement play out such that you roll around and stun enemies with Aard or whatever to buy yourself time to put on your clothes piece by piece, and once you're fully dressed, you make your escape. Actually what games in general need is animations for equipping gear. No more of this lazy design of gear just instantly appearing on your character model the moment you drag it onto your paperdoll.

Renaming Armored Warfare to incorporate the word Panzer in it would probably doable, but I imagine trying to release it in 1999 would be a somewhat more difficult task.

Hopefully at least the publishers who do "DRM-free" Steam games hop on board to make those games actually DRM-free. But it's not going to convince any publisher to drop their DRM policy, so it's hardly industry-changing. I suppose it's possible that the biggest publishers who are understandably uncomfortable with Steam's hegemony might indirectly or surreptitiously support them with a view that "an enemy of my enemy is my friend". Would a company like EA view Galaxy as something that hurts them by taking away from Origin, or as something that helps them by taking away from Steam? From the customer perspective, it won't stop the irrational argument of people who "want all my games in the game place", but it should help a little against arguments like ease of patching, setting up multiplayer, and, ugh, achievements.

I don't remember much about the game itself, but IWD2 is the reason I'm on this forum, so there's that.

Having your conquests as a collectible card ingame is crass, but making it an achievement is fine and classy I guess. My Witcher 2 playthrough ended up with a pretty high death toll, in that almost everyone who could die during the plot, did. But it's to the game's credit that it was not because I'd deliberately set out to play a homicidal maniac, but that because that's the way things naturally panned out, everyone I had a hand in killing deserved it. I'd be pleased if Wild Hunt turned out the same way. One of my favourite Oglaf quotes: "Good and evil are relative, but being a **** cannot be allowed." As for the whole Ciri thing, I think I've said it before but my objection to it is wholly an objection to playing anything but the singular player character in *any* RPG. I can't help but feel that it undermines the whole roleplaying thing when other characters, who you'd normally only know through their interactions with the player character, are suddenly an open book to you. Instead of having to guess at their feelings, their motives and their personality as a whole from how they behave towards you, it's just there, presented as plain fact while you play as them, and I think that really hurts the characterisation of that character.

Starwars is fine, he doesn't post often but is a valued member of the community. As for the Lucas creation - well, when I'm in a trollish mood, I'll dismiss Star Wars as a meaningless kids movie from the 70s. But in all seriousness it's not a property I've ever had any interest in, although I have to admit I've never actually sat down and watched any of the movies in their entirety. All the small fragments of it that I've unavoidably seen over the years probably add up to a full showing though, such is the media saturation around it, so it's not like I "don't know" it. Maybe it's because for whatever reason I never watched it as a kid - being an 80s baby, I'd be too young for the original release, and too old for easy media availability of the digital era - so by the time I could watch it freely anytime I wanted to, the impressionable period had passed. Or maybe it was because my first real exposure to Star Wars was the god-awful CD-ROM pioneering game, Rebel Assault.

Can't even get to page 2 because questions 3 and 4 are mandatory without there being a 'none of the above' option (though generally checkbox questions should be set optional by their nature, so a 'none' option isn't generally used).

I only have a dumbphone so I'm not in the target audience for the survey, but can fill it out anyway if you want me to - not sure data on the "Nokia Series 40" OS is something worth collecting though.

Well, aside from the FLACs (though technically you save a tiny bit of spin-up time of course), yeah. I guess I'm a little decadent in my ways, in that I no longer consider using SSDs for plain storage as a 'waste', given that it's my primary, and only, internal storage on my PC. But if you feel you're better off selling the drive, then actually considering the use cases makes sense.

You people made me pre-emptively drop the PoE difficulty to easy. I'm still spending most of my time on D:OS co-op though, and can say I much, much prefer PoE's XP system. D:OS has some terrible XP distribution that can swing wildly between alternate solutions (or just the simple matter of remembering to talk to someone after doing some tangential thing), leaving people alternately underlevelled or overlevelled for a particular chunk of content. That said, the munchkin's rule of thumb here is that taking the violent solution will generally result in at least *double* the XP the peaceful solution provides - though in some cases the actual optimal solution is to talk your way out of some fight, then immediately initiate the fight anyway.

You could just cut out the 1TB HDD out altogether by the sounds of it, though it'd be a tight fit, and just back up the lot onto the 3TB. Aside from the speed benefit, you'd cut down on noise a bit.

You say that now, but.... I probably have somewhere between 80-90% of my 1TB used.

I underestimate sometimes how much I can remember of games I played when I was probably around 5-6 years old. Winter Games, Alley Cat, Pitstop II, and they're all there.