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Be honest, you are in it for the bewbs. Considering the reduction Lara got in the reboot, if I was in it for the boobs I'd list the original as much, much better than the new one. Quality over quantity for mine, so I'd reverse that ranking personally. (Heck I'd go for another reduction in quantity personally) (As for the games themselves though, I think both the original and the reboot are poor, so I guess it's neutral in terms of the question posed by this thread)

On average I believe 750Ti > 260X > 750 > 260. The nVidia cards will consume 20-30W less power under load though.

Critical analysis by Canadian intelligence agents.

Unfortunately practical concerns mean I'm unlikely to benefit even if fully automated cars become a thing (as opposed to what's essentially increasing levels of cruise control). No car, no licence, never driven in my life: I'm just the kind of person who would stand to gain the most benefit out of this kind of thing. In implementation however, the self-driving car is really just a convenience for people who are already fully capable of driving due to legislative concerns, since I have little doubt that I'd still be required to learn how to drive and have a full licence before I could own an automatic car. Sure, in my case it's purely out of personal choice not to drive, but the same limitations will be faced by people who are physically incapable of driving a conventional vehicle. Don't get me wrong, I can see why any government would not want vehicles with no manual fallback (i.e. a qualified driver with manual controls) out on the streets, but as a result I just can't see the real benefits of automatic cars ever being fulfilled in my lifetime. It's probably an all-or-nothing kind of affair, where full automation would only ever happen if every vehicle on the streets was automated and all were networked together. Manual cars would be banned on public roads, and only used for leisure purposes on private racetracks and such.

Fallout 2's ability to push companions out of the way alone makes it the superior game to its predecessor.

Two 21:9 screens might be a bit weird. Two 16:9 or 16:10 screens, hell yeah. For utility I guess you could mix it up, even have the second screen in portrait mode, say.

They're probably happy to be rid of dwarves altogether in time, no more weird outliers to animate (especially the sex scenes) so the artists are happy. Might turn Vol into one of those rabid anti-Biowarians that haunt this place though.

There is no period of "former glory" unless you count singular products as being an era. Bioware made a mix of good, bad, and average games then, and they're doing that now. BG2 was a relatively early Bioware product, and was a very good one - but it was a one-off. There's a tendency to think of all Bioware games of that period as being good due to the aura of BG2 rubbing off on them, but doing so is erroneous. It's really just a subset of the tendency that's showing in that other thread about RPGs in general, we identify a few 90s RPGs as having exceptional writing, then somehow extend the praise those games deserve to all RPGs of that time, generalising that good writing was a hallmark of that era. A generalisation which is, in the vast majority of cases, incorrect and the praise wholly undeserved.

Well the other thing is that hardware costs are generally not that variable around the world, compared to software, rent, or food. So for residents of countries with higher average income (and higher average living costs), the cost of PC hardware is probably not a big deal at all, relatively speaking. For a median income earner here, I'd estimate that's one month's take-home salary, as opposed to three. Which, if it's an 'investment' that will last 4-5 years, I think is pretty good going.

Beholders are people too!

Bard. Always Bard.

The Amazon rainforest was named after the civilization described in Greek mythology which in turn was named after Jeff Bezos' online bookstore.

Wrath of the Lich Queen (or: How to not use Google Image Search for your news articles)

Yeah, the Lara Croft game is the one game in that list I already own ...never played it though. In other news, PS4 not powerful enough to run Tetris.

So the Squeenix Christmas MYSTARY pack turned out to contain the following: Thiaf - The Master Thief Edition The Last Remnant Murdered: Soul Suspect Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light Deus Ex: The Fall Nosgoth Founders - Warlord Pack Yeahhhhhh, I'm not going to be playing any of that.

I'd be happy if the stereotype of rogues being dual-wielding light fighters died out altogether, but then the rogue archetype I play is the thief with no meaningful combat skills. I especially loathe situations where *not* dual-wielding is outright disallowed. Godammit, WoW.

Actually its not, there are many cases of women being involved on various levels historically in military conflicts. But there contribution was and is overlooked by narrators and some historians Sounds interesting, care to provide links? Because for the most part I'm certain that in trained forces women were kept out, irregular armies and special corps might be a different story. They're too busy inventing COBOL to fight, obviously.

It's not an RPG if a game has a combat system that isn't purely auto-resolve. You character should be able to handle the entirety of combat autonomously because it's the character's tactical prowess that should determine the outcome, not any interference by the player. A true RPG has only two buttons to handle a combat encounter: fight or flee. You then get a pop-up window showing the outcome of the fight. (Actually, my non-facetious answer is that a true RPG implementation of a CRPG would require the development of a natural language parser with an infinite decision space)

My one-month renewal to WoW expired yesterday, and as the single-player content is uncompelling as ever, I'll leave it alone for now, will try another month next year once people are back from holidays to check out what's happened in the raiding scene over the last couple years. With less than a week before I leave for holidays myself, I'm going to avoid any big commitments like Wasteland 2 or XCOM Long War which I've been wanting to (re)start for a while, and just mess around with The Sims 4. Holiday period itself will likely be a whole lot of co-op local multiplayer gaming, so not doing any of that yet either. Incidentally, new Sims 4 patch just released earlier today, couple new careers which were inexplicably mission obvious inclusions - being Business and Athletics - plus some other minor things. At this rate it'll be worthy of being the new title that it is in 6-12 months. (There's also a free Holiday Celebration Pack DLC but it's just fluff)

No live link because of forum rules and all that, this is as SFW as Oglaf gets.

Wasteland 2 was at my doorstep when I got home just now, so that's my official answer as of now. The second last physical game I got ...is also Wasteland 2 because I'm in the tier that gives me both the CE and the regular boxed copies. (Third last would be Super Smash Bros for Wii U) For a while there I was worried it'd arrive while I was away for three weeks over the holidays, so I'm pretty happy to see it arrive this week. For what it's worth, I got the shipping notification email on the 4th, so that's a pretty standard delivery turnaround to Australia.

Could go ahead and grab a motherboard with a legacy PCI slot then so you can reuse your sound card. They're not uncommon, I know the mainstream Asus boards have them for example. For PSUs the definitive resource remains (the stupidly named) RealHardTechX, which links to professional reviews for just about every PSU out there, but more critically lists the technical details of OEMs that the vendors aren't usually keen to publicise. For example, the EVGA G2 that you listed can be easily looked up to in actuality be manufactured by Super Flower (link). Not a bad thing as such, they make good PSUs for many vendors.

For those with limited download quotas, the install discs can save a few gigabytes of downloading, so that's one thing I guess. Can be the difference between downloading 5-10GB for the whole game, versus ~1GB for the launch-day update to the disc files.

Didn't know anything about the Audigy Rx, did a bit of poking around and it looks like%2 **Oh wow, never knew a post to go through partially if my internet dies while posting it** Didn't know anything about the Audigy Rx, did a bit of poking around and it looks like it's just that, an Audigy (2), barely changed from over a decade ago. Sounds like the 'current' Creative line is the Z series which has good reviews, though again I have to admit knowing precious little about it. If you're going stereo only, the Asus Essence STX would be the better choice though - I do like Asus' sound card range better than Creative's these days, though driver updates can be slow. Then again, Creative has been famous for iffy drive updates for two decades now. I'd note that it appears that the MSI Gaming series boards' main selling point seems to be its audio processing, so if you're set on a standalone sound card (and it's still strictly superior to do so), you might find a cheaper board would have no meaningful downside. Miscellaneous notes: - Personally not convinced on these pre-packaged liquid cooling solutions, as in terms of performance-to-noise ratio, they're still handily outdone by simple tower coolers. Can perhaps see a point if you plan to absolutely flog the CPU with a big overclock/overvolt, but for milder uses I don't see an advantage. - 1866/2133MHz RAM, while a very marginal performance improvement, doesn't cost meaningfully more either, so unless you're going with low-voltage DDR3L/DDR3U (1.35V/1.25V), there's probably no reason not to bump it up. - No model number on the PSU so no real comment on that.

Yeah, for a system of that calibre, SSD all the way. You may be able to get some of the savings back by going for a WD Red hard drive instead since with the SSD present you won't really ever need the Black's performance advantage. Also worth noting that the Define R5 is now out, incremental improvements in every area, but particularly so with the included case fans.