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I don't know if ATI is doomed. Doesn't most graphics cards market profit come from more budgety cards?

Right now I could steer this thread into tha path of gayness, but I won't.

All of this looks great and all, but I particularly like the new interface art for Purgatorio.

Replaying Silent Storm. Fallout 3 should be made with this engine. Or any 3D X-Com engine with destructible environments and awesome physics. + destructible bodies with localized damage.

Rosbjerg is all kinds of awesome.

On the fly casting was next to impossible, and the pre-casting thing only really worked if you already knew what was up ahead (reload). And anyway, wasn't there a limit to how many spells one could pre-cast? P.S.: We're helping Max Tale not Taks...

I guess we have to diasgree on that point.

That's like a super power. Your grandma is a superhero!

Arx is pretty good, especially If you are a Ultima Underworld fan. The only real problem with it was the magic system. I guess you'd need a wii controller for magic to work properly.

Cool! Alothough it reminds me of the awfulness of DnD art...

It's kind of silly how a lot of posters giving dead developers lists, don't mention Origin or SSI.

King Missile - Gay^not gay

Unfortunately, that's not saying a whole lot...

Self-righteous Jedi are always asking to get slaughtered. Even if they're kids. It's not by chance that the whole massacre thing is Episode III's saving grace.

Not lives, just missing limbs. I mean, considering the difficulty of wielding a lightsaber, Jedi academies must have a huge dropout rate due to injury...

One copy, standard edition as well. I usually find special editions to be a waste of money. Bioshock is the first game with a special edition that is actually interesting me. Even if the figurine is kind of pointless.

B.B. King - Live At The Regal Just awesome.

No, but they argue that 7600GT was a much better card because it gave much better performance than a 6600GT for the same price point. Except, of course that that is only true if you compare the 7600GT's price on its release with the 6600GT's price on it's release. At the time the 7600GT was released you could get a 6600GT for much less than $200. As such, by their reasoning, the 7600GT should be considered as a bad a card as the 8600GTS. Graphics cards are always too expensive at the point of release, and to criticize Nvidia's new cards while praising previous cards which suffered from the same problem is dumb. And this doesn't even take into account DX10 issues. Edit: Note that I'm not arguing that the new cards are good cards. I'm arguing that that specific review is a bad review.

The 7600GT is considerably cheaper than $200. The 7600GT is in the $120 range. There really isn't anything worth buying around $200 at the moment. The X1950 Pro and the 7900GS Are pretty even and can both be found in the sub $200 range. I know. But it wasn't at that price when it was released, which is what matters in context of this specific review.

Correct me if I'm wrong but the card they should be testing against the 7600GT is the 8600GTS, as it is the card that is in the 200$ price range. The 8600GT costs about 150$, which I guess makes it equivalent to the 7600GS. Also, those benchmarks seem strange as I get a lot better that 30 FPS in F.E.A.R. at 1280x1024 with my 7600GT. Edit:I just read their update at the end of the review, however they're still wrong. They have to compare the prices of the new cards with the prices of the other cards on release. Of course, if you have a 7600GT, you shouldn't upgrade to a 8600GT (or even a GTS), but I don't need a review to tell me that.

Tomorrow is my birthday and it will probably suck. I have a massive cold, and a test on Thursday for which I have to study. So I'll spend the day alone studying, fighting the cold, and perhaps gaming a little.

I'm more interested in seeing what happens to Nvidia's prices when these babies get released.

This is one game that makes me wish I had a console. How hard can it be to do a stupid PC port?

Dark Waters mod for NWN2. I'm having fun, although it's more like an adventure game than an RPG. The voice acting is almost universally awful. Death's understudy (Discworld anyone?) is one of the exceptions.

http://www.dailytech.com/ATI%20Radeon%20HD...article7043.htm Benchmarks for the 2900 XT.