mkreku

I wouldn't call the PhysX PPU a good buy just yet. Not only is it extremely expensive, they haven't worked out the bugs and quirks in it yet. So far only ONE released game supports it too, although that is bound to change. I will take a wait and see approach to this one. Rumours say that Gothic 3 might take advantage of it though, which is when I would consider buying one.

And I assume it was way too much work to head over to these, their own, boards and write the same post. Thanks, Obsidian!

I love how people judge themselves in these tests. Apparently everyone knows how to handle a mini-gun, a 18-wheeler and can build an atom bomb from a gum and a pack of paper clips..

Hey, I would call them babes too.. if I didn't find them so damn uglee.

I actually kind of miss the Project New Jersey spam-fest. Weird. It's just odd that it isn't there when I scroll down..

Stop messing around with the booth girls!!

To my defence I have to add that my work involves reviewing games, so I get a lot of strange stuff sent to me, most of which ends up lost somewhere amidst all the junk on my desktop. The junk on the ugly carpeting (which is part of a student apartment from the sixties!) to the right of the desk is a project of mine where I'm slowly building a Windows 95 computer with a 3DFx Voodoo 5500 video card, just to be able to play my old Glide-games again. The room my computer is standing in is actually quite cozy (and not as barren as that picture makes it seem) but I didn't feel like including my girlfriend's setup and the sofa and bookcase and stuff. Oh yeah, and I hereby proclaim all of you as THIEVES! (except J.E. Sawyer and Kor Qel Droma). Why? Because NONE of you have any visible games! PIRATES, ALL OF YOU!

I love it, shut up! ) It has a nasty tendency to jump down from the router though. I've already had to glue it together once and I don't think it could take another fall. It is brimful with small change.

At least I'm honest and didn't clean my desk at all before taking the picture. Click the picture for a close-up (bigger picture) of the mess. Edit: Fixed a stupid "feature" of Photobucket.

I'm actually surprised at the seemingly low quality of graphics on the Wii games we've seen so far.. I know it's not all about graphics, but man.. that's going to take some getting used to. Imagine graphics like that in 2-3 years from now

Well, the entire forum was just one big spam-fest anyhow. Good riddance, I say! The new, named forums will be much better, especially if the developers of said project decide to partake in the spammi.. er.. discussions.

Nope. There are lots of places to buy second hand games from. I've bought tons of old games from Tradera (swedish auction site). How do you buy a direct download second hand?

Crap

Fixed!

Is it legal to buy (for example) Half-Life 2 via direct download, play it until you are done with it, uninstall it from your own computer, burn it to a CD and then re-sell it on Ebay? I, too, feel that some small reduction in price is warranted if developers switch from retail to direct download. Otherwise, as a consumer, I am getting less for the same amount of money when I am direct downloading since I won't get a shiny box, a pretty set of discs or any cloth maps. That makes me feel cheated somehow. When the company that supplied you with your direct download goes down, you'll lose your investment (unless you've burned it somehow), and the product becomes difficult to acquire. If your CD breaks for a game that's from a company that's gone under, you might still be able to find someone else's copies off of Ebay. I think direct download is great for the development of games because of the lessened pressure from distributors and such, but the coin has a dark backside for the consumer. Of course, technology is always moving, and there are already (super expensive) flash harddrives (and other clever techniques), that basically means storage capacity with ultra-long life expectancy, something which might make direct downloading much more attractive.

It is, but I think they were more referring to the ridiculous strain Vista puts on your system in order to run. Well, if you want to use the Aero interface, that is..

The Nforce motherboard can only do SLI (nvidia dual-GPU) and the Crossfire can only do Crossfire (ATI dual-GPU). Basically, which one you choose is dependant on if you want to support Nvidia or ATI when you buy your video cards. If you're going for a one-card setup, then it doesn't matter much as both motherboards are brand independent on the PCI-X slot. Some say the Nvidia nForce is a slightly faster motherboard solution, but it's usually a negligible difference.

Only? That's like halfway through! )

I wonder what it will take to impress me? I've been completely underwhelmed by the Xbox 360 ever since its debut, and I keep getting underwhelmed by the Playstation 3 presentations.. WHAT WIILL DO IT FOR ME?!

Grr, my screen is just.. black. Nothing's moving, nothing's loading, nothing's showing.

I miss getting cloth maps and tiny anhk's!

But who said anything about equally serious? Is the world black and white to you guys? There are degrees of almost everything, insanity included. Or, as our dear wikipedia puts it: Nitpicking is exactly what you do when you deliberately fail to admit that a word has a common (slang) meaning just because the term also happens to have a medical usage. Or are you trying to imply that you're too intelligent to be able to acknowledge such an uneducated usage of the word "insane"? There's nothing "touch

Now this is something they should have thought about when they made Planescape: Torment.

Civilization is available for mobile phones! I need to get that.

Yeah, that's true. No day is perfect without a certain amount of boobs.