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I have a Mordecai who's just finished up his second run through.. the money meter actually stopped counting any more money and so did the experience meter.. I could play soldier as I've only played Mordecai and the Siren girl so far.

Did you try Sacred 2? I thought that was pretty neat.

Gamespy is built into retail Borderlands. Which is why I have no idea how to do multiplayer with people on Steam copies (I own the retail version). I would be up for a game or two. My original plan when I bought Borderlands was to play co-op with my cousin, but he abandoned the PC gaming scene for his cursed PS3. Traitor. Anyhow, I figured it could be fun to try it at least.

My compact camera has a built-in 25-300mm zoom lens..

Some German preview of Arcania: http://www.gamestar.de/index.cfm?pid=1589&pk=14191 I particularly liked the main menu screen where you choose the difficulty you want: Easy Normal Hard Gothic Haha :D

I do not understand this move. At all. http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=5298330

Make the maps huge. I want the Halo-generation to become lost and never heard from again, that's how big. CAN YOU MANAGE THAT?!

Arcania: Destiny Trailer: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2010-...a-gothic/700489 Looks pretty sweet. I'm not really getting that Gothic vibe anymore, but it still looks like a type of game I will enjoy. I wonder what it is about the Gothic games that makes me think of them as Gothic games? Risen didn't have it and this doesn't look like it has it, but what exactly is it that's missing? So weird.

Hehe, I just completed The Precursors (I think) and the game ended with a three minute long cutscene.. entirely in Russian! I didn't understand a word. But the game was excellent! A great mix of RPG and first person shooter and space combat game. I mean, vehicular combat, upgradeable weapons, upgradeable space ship, lots of planets to land on and explore (freely!), lots of stuff to explore in space, huge maps with great variety on the ground (I've seen deserts, wastelands, jungles, cities and even one post apocalyptic planet), lots and lots of quests (albeit many of them simple fetch quests), stealth portions, swimming, diving, ragdolls, believable physics, destructible environments.. Also, the main story quests were a good mix between ordinary dialogue based quests, space combat quests, exploring quests and just plain old silly quests. I never felt like I stayed in any one place too long and the game always broke up the ground missions with space combat quests. Apparently the abrupt end was because the game was supposed to have a sequel. I guess that will never happen now, which is a shame. This game certainly deserved a better fate. I absolutely love how ambitious these Deep Shadows games always are. Half of the features in this game would have been amazing, but they doubled it! Boiling Point was also incredibly ambitious, but failed due to massive amounts of bugs. The Precursors is not buggy at all (except for random crash bugs), but it still couldn't find a publisher outside of Russia. I just don't get it. I hate publishers.

That's some seriously nice looking art! I love it.

Three people, two of them developers, one of them a developer on the actual project, tries to make you understand that it's a tad bit more complicated than "adding a button", at which point you start inventing your own replies instead of reading the ones given. But you think I am the one who "lost scope"? I'm guessing this is your attempt at a witty reply? Wow.

Well, apparently it's complicated enough. And apparently you could apparently not apparently take my apparently advice of apparently not letting your apparently twisted brain make up the apparently replies yourself. Yes, try to cram in a few more apparently in your next dumb sentences, makes you look really clever. And when you're done doing that, feel free to point out where I compared adding a FEATURE (it's not just a button, no matter how simple you try to make it sound or how simple it seems in your simple brain) to rebalancing SPECIAL or whatever crap you wrote next. I'm not surprised. I do know though. Want a hint?

So smaller teams... could make games with more features... than big teams. That's kind of... an interesting logic. Isn't it fun to argue with someone when you can just make up their replies too as you go? Or how in the hell do you translate "in a small team anyone could write it" to "smaller teams could make games with more features than big teams could" otherwise? All he is saying is that in a small team, everyone can change anything on a whim because they're probably all working from the same basement and can just shout at each other, "Hey Bill, I'm adding a new button on interface screen #3", "Ok, Tom", and that's it. In a bigger team, the decision to add a button to an interface screen has to come from the top and be well-planned for, the entire way down to the actual interface coders. Changing something has repercussions throughout the entire team, from coders to designers to QA to manual writers. I don't understand why you're even arguing this? Are you so thick that you think they wouldn't add it if it was as easy as you dream it is? Do you think they're not adding it just to spite you? No, let me guess: you think they're not adding it because evil, evil Bethesda is trying to make all of their Fallout's as far away from the TR00 ORIGINALZ as possible because they're not TR00 FALLOUT FANZ? Right.

Oops, missed this post! Yes, I'd recommend getting a big case. Except for it taking up half of your mum's basement, there are really no disadvantages in having a huge case. Except if you're going to drag it along on LAN parties.. The dual BIOS is a safety precaution, mostly used by overclockers. Sometimes when you overclock your equipment to the point of it breaking, you can actually destroy your BIOS! A single-BIOS motherboard with a broken BIOS is basically worthless, or bricked. To prevent this from happening, some motherboard manufacturers ship their high end motherboards with two BIOS memories, in case the one you're messing with breaks. If it happens, you just overwrite the broken one with the saved non-faulty one. Very neat feature. Yes, SLI and Crossfire are worth it, exactly because of the situation you describe. If you buy a midrange card, you can upgrade it to high end performance by just adding another similar card. Also, almost every motherboard sold these days comes with either SLI or Crossfire.. and if you buy the high end Intel based motherboards, both! Just make sure your PSU also supports SLI/Crossfire though. Two cards demand a lot of power (and cables). USB3 will not be used for anything critical in years to come so don't worry about it. It's just a faster interface for peripherals, nothing else. Same with SATA3, don't worry about it. It's a faster interface for hard drives, but since not even SSD's have topped out the existing SATA2 interface, there's no rush in getting SATA3. If you DO get a motherboard that supports these features, you will probably be future proofed for a pretty long while (hopefully). The point where MHz/GB per dollar increases steeply is constantly changing. But right now I would argue that getting 4 GB of 1600 MHz RAM is the most value for your dollar. It will change though and this tip won't be accurate in one month's time. I don't think you can get a single core processor anymore (unless you're shopping for netbooks), but the advantage of having more cores is that because of the Xbox 360/PS3, more and more games are being developed with multi-cores in mind. In fact, most new games demand that you have at least 2 cores or more to even start up! Having 4 cores gives you extra performance in all applications that support multi-cores, and since that's the direction development is going (parallel computing) it's also more future-proof. I would recommend the Radeon 5770, the Radeon 5850 and the Radeon 5870, depending on your budget. They all give great performance per dollar. Oh, and unless you have three or more monitors, stay away from the Eyefinity versions of these cards. Totally not worth it.

Wait, it's been confirmed? Er.. no :D But that's the rumour that's flying around the official Risen boards!

Bah. I am still looking forward to Arcania (it's being shown at E3) and Risen 2 (Gamescom in Germany this autumn). PC gaming isn't going anywhere.

No, I also think it looks awesome.. but I don't really know why. It just tickles me in the right way. Oh, and it's also the commercial that plays before each and every video on Eurogamer TV for me.. kind of sick of it now.

People are always gonna be "Why are they showing me action?? I only want to see dialogue because I believe that will make me seem intelligent and stuff!!1!", but in reality that makes a crappy and horribly boring trailer that noone would watch. I've been playing The Precursors recently and recorded videos from it. Some of those videos contain me trying to go through dialogue trees and even though I am the one who uploaded the videos, they bore me to death.

So you've made a mod out of a guy who defends torture and is so immature that he actually brags over and over about how much meat he eats every day to seem more manly? Wow. This place just got a lot more right wing nuttier.. I love it! Congrats Gfted1!

No. The hardware will still be designed for DirectX 9, even if you add more performance to it. You need a DirectX 11 compatible card to get DirectX 11, something which only the very latest generation of video cards from both major brands do (again Nvidia 4XX and ATI 5XXX). Depends. If your external hard drive supports e-SATA, you'll get the same performance as an internal hard drive. If it only supports USB, the internal drive will be much faster. SSD's blow all of the other solutions straight out of the water when it comes to performance. And price, unfortunately. I can't whole-heartedly recommend SSD's.. yet. They're still at the point where the cost is really too high to justify the price. But some people are insane enough to pay a huge premium to get that performance advantage (me).

I actually thought NK played well! I've never seen them play before so colour me impressed.

So.. Microsoft conference: 5/10 Nintendo conference: 8/10 Sony conference: 8/10 Woolly Kirby, Epic Mickey and Gabe appearing on stage (and thanking Sony for not getting hit in the face) were the highlights for me. I also liked the Kevin Butler stand-up thing.

Ok, THAT was unexpected!

I know the notion of actually paying for something is offensive to you, but it's still better to have the choice of paying or not paying for the extra bits, instead of being forced to pay an extra subscription fee just to be able to enjoy all aspects of your already paid for games.

I'm pretty sure the original poster can decide that for himself.