mkreku

No skill, no time. http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/

Just a warning: every time I post a little eye candy on these forums, Fionavar sends me angry PM's and puts me on moderated status for months.

More videos from Arcania: It just shows a little combat and how seamless the world is when going from dungeon to overland map. But at least it is in English. http://tvgry.pl/ This one is on Polish. Not only that but the video quality sucks and there's no apparent way to link directly to the video. After clicking the link provided by me, you need to click the "Gramy w Arcania: Gothic 4" link on the right. I included it anyhow because of this: The developers have said that the game will be very customizable so it will suit both newcomers to the series and old Gothic fans alike, and in this options screen you can see some of that. You can turn off quest markers at least! All in all, it's really looking good.

This sounds promising: http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/215667...ng-i-saw-at-e3/ I wonder if Obsidian has taken a glance at it? Their games would suit this motion capturing system exceptionally well.

What the hell, Denmark! Way to defend our Scandinavian colours

I can't ****ing watch Italy play. It's impossible. Watching all these grown men throw themselves at the ground and cry like little babies as soon as someone as much as look at them.. It makes me sick to my stomach. I hate Italy. They are ruining football as a sport. Did anyone see that guy squirming like a maggot inside Slovakia's goal? Why the referee didn't card him for filming I'll never understand. Unbelievable.

How To Tell Someone Didn't Pay For Their Game: Lesson #237 "Hey I bought this game for 40

I would actually say that 700W is a little overkill.. but then I remembered that your future rig has a Fermi GPU and suddenly 700W seems perfectly normal. For how long it will last.. Well, I haven't seen a huge jump forward in PC performance demanding games since Crysis was released, and that was like three years ago now. If PC gaming continues to evolve in the current pace, I would not be surprised if that rig would last for at least three years, and even longer with a later GPU upgrade. And don't worry about the motherboard, it is X58 based, thus it can not be ****. That's actually an enthusiast chipset so it's a little bit weird that the rig isn't factory overclocked.

Yes, you're incredibly deep and nothing comes close to the standard your massively intelligent brain demands. We get it.

Or why not go for an Asus? The ASUS G73JH is slightly more powerful (Radeon 5870M instead of 5850M) than the Acer in the post above, but at the same price. Unfortunately it is also one of the ugliest laptops you'll ever find! I think they were going for a stealth plane look, but they failed. Hard.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastro...010/06/22/damn/

No point? The point is that maybe time has outrun Obsidian and their game philosophies? Maybe what they aim and strive for no longer is enough to satisfy today's audiences? Maybe they put all their effort into their strongest cards and lets the rest of the game suffer for it? It wasn't a well-written piece but the point was clear enough.

I read through that thing (and I actually think I read it once before around when it was released), but I must say that it feels a tad dated. It seems to focus on trying to maintain CPU usage balancing for a world streamer using just one CPU core. I know that Piranha Bytes, for example, rewrote their world streaming code to take advantage of the fact that all consoles and most PC's of today are multi core, and Risen (their latest game, released in 2009) actually uses one core solely for streaming world data. In fact, I would love to read one of their technical papers. I will have to ask for one on their official board, methinks! Risen's world streaming code is perfectly hitch free and very impressive, especially the way that they never teleport an actor from one place to another when it needs to move. If a character (NPC) in the game tells you that he's going somewhere, he actually walks there. There's never any cheating, you can follow these characters for hours (all the Gothic games and Risen are very big) as they traverse the terrain the same way you would, until they either reach their goal or are killed by wandering wildlife. Thanks for the link though, it was interesting reading it.

Yes! Do you also play a female character and try to find the right angle for that perfect crotch shot? ..or is that just me?

If they use toilet paper, funcroc will find them.

AAARGH!! WHY DID YOU COME HERE?! WHAT ARE YOU, AN IDJOT?!? I HATE YOU, YOUR FAMILY, THE DUSTBUNNIES UNDER YOUR BED AND Oh. Carry on then.

Just a small reminder for myself. Games I am currently looking forward to (that are actually being released soon): 2010-08-27: Mafia 2 2010-09-03: Dead Rising 2 2010-09-14: Two Worlds 2 2010-10-19: Fallout: New Vegas Autumn 2010: Arcania Sometime 2011 (?): Risen 2 I'm also hoping that Red Dead Redemption (likely) and Crackdown 2 (unlikely) will get PC versions.

Damn NK! So close!

They've found all the missing North Korean players! Yay! In fact, at the last count they were no longer only 23 players in the group.. they were 24! :D Go NK!!

Two more Arcania videos, this time from Gametrailers: Part one: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2010-...a-gothic/700809 Part two: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2010-...a-gothic/700807 Uh.. I don't know what to say.. I mean, I know the quest markers are toggle-able but still.. exclamation marks on molerats? Who thought that was a good idea, even for the worst ADHD cases of the Halo generation? Otherwise it looks great. Graphically very solid and the world streaming seems to work without a hitch. Mostly.

Some German preview of Two Worlds 2: http://www.gamestar.de/index.cfm?pid=1589&pk=14181 Looking very good so far. It's great to have three Gothic-like games to look forward to!

I did. It means that the levels are basically corridors filled with monsters that you have to beat up in order to progress. When you go from one level to another, you do so by entering a featureless actual corridor while the game loads the new corridor-like level in the background. It's not actually a loading screen, more like.. an interactive loading screen.

Oh, right, that's worth a mention: I do not own any of the expansion packs. I forgot which one of those was worth buying?

Hehe, I just read that North Korea might have problems dressing a full team the next time they play. Apparently several players have gone missing in the last couple of days! Go NK!!