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    Portal 2

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    Posted · Edited by WDeranged

    I just completed the single player mode, brilliant pacing of humour and gameplay all the way through, there's not many games that can make me laugh these days but I was giggling all the way, sharp stuff.

     

    *edit* It has a satisfying ending too. :lol:

    Portal 2

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    I don't know the gory details but it seems to me that Valve brought personality and storytelling to Narbacular Drop's mechanics, without GladOS, cake and Still Alive I couldn't imagine Portal being a success, so they really did more than just slapping a Valve logo on the tin.

    The Witcher 2

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    I like having good graphics just like any other guy, but seriously, I'm glad the times where you had to upgrade your Mainboard, CPU etc every 18 months are over.

     

    Not sure why people are always complaining about consoles holding back PC games. I think current games like Crysis 2, Portal 2, Starcraft 2 etc. look amazing.

     

    I mostly agree, it's just the amount of bad ports that get me down about PC gaming.

    Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim announced

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    Posted · Edited by WDeranged

    Haven't played FO3 but I am quite sure it doesn't have an NPC like them. I don't know about other people but, with game-plays, these things keep me interested.

     

    Fallout 3 hasn't got a single deep character, it has quite a few likeable ones but they find themselves in absolutely no interesting situations, it's shameful how it won a writing award, the gameworld however is deep, very explorable.

     

    *edit* After a few minutes thought, Point Lookout and The Pitt were an improvement, Desmond and Ashur were reasonably memorable.

    Windows 7 and gaming

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    even with 6GB of RAM I've noticed W7 using most of it at times, right now I'm on 4GB and windows reports zero free RAM.

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    You must have a lot of background processes running all the time. I have 6GB ram and with a video editor, graphic editor (lots of stuff open in it), 9 browser windows, music player all running right now it's only at 1.5gb of ram being used. If I open & run FNV on top of all that, it goes up to about 2.5-3GB.

     

    Very few, if I check now, Windows reports 243MB free but with 2.5GB of cached data, essentially that's still 3GB of free RAM with a few browser windows, uTorrent, VLC and MSN messenger loaded.

     

    The advertised upside is that Windows is pre-loading your regularly used data, the impressive thing is that it actually seems to work. :shifty:

    Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim announced

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    Posted · Edited by WDeranged

    Bethesda are excellent at giving you lots of OCD tasks that ultimately add up to very little, I'm not complaining, hunting for Nuka Cola Quantum in Fallout 3 right now is very satisfying, even if I know it'll just get me a slightly different kind of hand grenade when I'm done.

     

    So far I've agreed with 90% of what I've heard, mechanically speaking I think Skyrim is going to be a game I'll enjoy, I do hope for another Morrowind type love affair though, when you find yourself lying in bed months later, pondering a character's nature and eventual fate; you know something deep happened, it's much like Planescape: Torment in that regard.

    Windows 7 and gaming

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    I've been using Windows 7 for about six months and I've had very few problems, even after moving to x64 it's been pretty smooth sailing, given RPGmasterBoo's specs I'd probably stick with XP, even with 6GB of RAM I've noticed W7 using most of it at times, right now I'm on 4GB and windows reports zero free RAM.

     

    I haven't had any trouble running a few older games but as LadyCrimson said, if you run lots of old software you should stick with XP.

    What you did today

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    I spent the afternoon scrubbing away rust with wire wool, my little CG125 is presentable again after winter storage messed her up, I returned home full of the satisfaction of a productive day to find one of my RAM sticks has gone kaput, it's worth a grumble but ho hum.

    HBO's Game of Thrones

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    Anyone else completely love the
    The fact that it's different for each episode is pretty cool. Can't wait to see the Eyrie.

     

    I thought it was a clever way of establishing the lay of the land, I didn't have much trouble keeping track of the locations mentioned simply because of that, very slick. :)

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