Question: Aside from all the DRM bull, how is the performance? I heard some really nasty stuff about it, meaning horrendous no matter what.

Note how Bok doesn't show the frame rate in those pictures. It's shame.

Graphics were never a strong point for GTA games anyway. Its all about the sex, blood and violence.

 

My poor mount. I felt sorry for it having to carry around giant blue woman instead of normal me.

That's some awful looking game there LC.

Graphic 'ho.

It's 4 years old after all, using an engine that's probably even older. I remember when Dungeon Siege1 came out 6? 7? years ago and how everyone thought it was so gorgeous for an isometric perspective. lol

 

It's slow to really get going, but the game is fun...unless you just hate hack n slash on principle, of course. As I often say, no such genre game will do anything to change anyone's mind on that. Anyway, w/gamma darker and video higher it can look a smidgen better. Contrast washes out badly if you turn the gamma up to see, the textures seem soft overall, and up close, chrs./monsters have what I call chunky-butt polygon syndrome. But I still like it.

 

 

Since it doesn't have ingame AA and AF options, you have to turn them on with your videocardcontrolcenter. Most people don't though, which make the graphics look worse than they are. Even then, the AA doesn't show on screenshots.

 

Do you use Broken World?

 

Ah... no I am forced to post my own, no?

 

No, I'm not using BW yet. I bought it since it was cheap, but I heard it changes levelup/power/chr. formulas or something - plus I'm a little worried about the inn-bug if you import your party I heard about - so I'm waiting till I finish the original game at least once. I'm almost there.

Aye... Ironically that dreaded Inn-bug only appears when you import a DS2 save, a save (through the DS2 campaign) using BW doesn't have that risk...

 

And yes, it does nerf all skills and certain item attributes (lower armor). Oddly enough they forgot to do that with the pets, making them far more viable than NPC teammates. Ah... bugs...

Note how Bok doesn't show the frame rate in those pictures. It's shame.

 

It actually runs good most of the time (30-40 fps) although there's the occasional hiccup. I'll post some fraps shots in a bit

2560X1600 resolution Bok with 35FPS on average? damnnnnnn

 

I wonder how it would play on my rig at 1024X768 resolution with shadows and stuff at minimal but textures and draw distance nearly maxed.

 

I have

C2D E6600

2gigs 800Mhz Ram

8800GT (new drivers came out for Forceware that help GTA4 everyone!)

XFi SOundcard

Running Windows XP SP3

 

Think i could get the same fps rate Bok? Bah 35 on average would be playable for me.

Bok is that with the Dynamic replay on?

Edited December 7, 200817 yr by Theseus

DS2 has an easter egg level that, among other things, is filled with game-maker persona chrs standing around in many rooms, most with things to say if you click on them. It was kinda cool.

 

The most fun, tho, was "meeting" Chris Taylor, who wa very busy having a pillow fight....and then "stealing" his pillow.

 

 

Now time to try Broken World. After doing all the stuff to avoid the inn bug (no mods needed, either), I decided to start from scratch anyway, cause I got PO'd at the way BW's lvl 39 npc's are built, compared to what I'd turned them into.

 

Miss Archer is a cutie

 

I imagine this looks great in movement.

I've downloaded Dragensang demo. And first thing I tried was installing it on my old computer. It runs great on a legacy hardware like this:

 

P4 3.0 GHz

Radeon 1650 Pro

1.5 GB ram

Windows XP

 

I managed to get Prince of Persia to run at 7-10 FPS at the lowest settings.

 

And promptly ran into a bug..

 

The graphics in Prince of Persia are pretty sweet. And in a good away.

This woman gets her point across...

 

WoW, a frozen battle straight from norse legend

Rise of the Argonauts is out?

Rise of the Argonauts is out next week in Sweden.

 

What game is that? Looks like Oblivion.

Edited December 13, 200817 yr by julianw