Morgoth

Without reading the previous posts, I gotta agree with Ken's statement. After all, the games with the greatest longevity are the ones where you can right jump into it and have fun, without any "stupid" deeply involved plot that just hinders your entertainment. Think of Blizzard games, Diablo, WOW etc. I sure don't play these games for the story. And the more developers concentrate on interesting gameplay, and narrative that really comes through suggestive themes instead of cutscenes, the better. Good story is nice and all, but like many "story-driven" games like Bioware games, NWN2, Kotor etc. I only play them once, then I sell them, simply because they lost any appeal to me after a playthrough. There's hope though that Obsidian will accomplish a classic with Alpha Protocol. Cool setting, cool locations, good action, fast story delivery. No "stupid" line after line reading. Yay!

Good that I recently sold all my old games (all 50 of them!) over Ebay so that I don't have to deal with any issues on my new rig anymore.

Sounds tyte.

You know, my 350 fps-allegation was kinda a joke. WOW even runs on a 800Mhz computer. As for 32bit vs 64 bit. I've Vista 32 + SP1 installed. It shows me 4 Gb installed, but only 3300 MB in the dxdiag. I actually have a Vista 64 from my Uni, but alas crappy driver support and whatever "suprises" are defnitely not on my "must have" list.

I've a 8800 GT. It's not state-of-the-art, but still fast as hell, and more importantly, the card only cost 170

I'm not too worried about tze combat anyway, as that is something Bethesda never got right. I'm more worried about the world size and depth. Is it true that F3 will be as large as Oblivion? Hope not....

I always thought Giants was scored by Jeremy Soule. But whatever. Morgan is still a god among composers.

But who wants to play a FPS on a console anyway?

So, I decided to get 2 x 2 Gig Corsair RAM anyway. There's no sense in upgrading memory later because it's never recommendable to use different chip vendors. Anyway, my Core 2 Quad now runs World of Warcraft with 350 fps!

Ferg's the most charming CEO I've ever seen, that's for sure. Although Steve Balmer does get these nice red cheeks too when he gets a bit emotional...

Still Hellgate London on my second play-through, this time with a Blademaster. Occasionally, I also play some WoW here and there.

Is anyone else here looking forward to Age of Conan? I hope I get into the Beta before deciding to get the real deal. But right now I'm too busy flattening turkeys in WoW anyway.

I just found out that Vista 32bit isn't able to address wholly 4 gig of RAM. Gah, why haven't I thought of that earlier? I'll take a Twin-Kit Corsair XMS2 PC-800 (2x1024MB) to be on the sure side. I can always upgrade to 4 gig later. I don't need more right now anyway.

So, I'm gonna get me a new PC on Monday, and I already have every component in place and reserved, except I still don't know about the RAM.... With an ASUS P5K/intel P35 chipset, what RAM configuration would you propose? I don't do any overclocking. I used to buy Kingston or Samsung with no occuring problems whatsoever, but I heard Corsair is good too? And is there any reason not to get 2 x 2048 modules? Are there any disadvantages over 1 gig modules? Thanks.

Nah. Do people perhaps remember Irrational's "The Lost"? I made a thread over TTLG. Click

Does anyone recognize that game?

Depends on where you live, they're just not very loud, because they're "neutral". Still easy enough to hear what's going on. Morgoth: Are you familiar with Joseph Roth's later works? I only read "Der Radetzkymarsch", which was an excellent book. Can you recommend any other works from him?

Haider is a nothing. Except that his double still likes to stir up embarrassment and nonsense occasionally, just exactly how the right-wing Freedom Party and this new abomination "BZ

Does Obsidian actually has the chance to get access to typical CIA repertoire? I know Irrational Games actually had a SWAT advisor for SWAT4 that told them how SWAT police works, and what tools they are using etc.

I don't need these statistics, either. Always reminds me of playing a silly old-skool game instead of something fashionable.

Since I only play male characters I couldn't care less about the lack of a female option.

+1

I think you should be able to choose between: Spy Super Spy 007's Apprentice.

Yes, it seems like WBI wants to get serious about game publishing now, with PO their first big assignment, so to speak. It surely doesn't make huge leaps forward graphics wise, but I'm rather glad they keep it that way. They more importantly direct their attention to the visceral gun fights and AI aspects, which should become a lot better than in FEAR.