abomunist

@pw2566ch said:

Give it some time. Nintendo is doing the right thing by taking its time and not trying to push things.

Six months is too soon to play the leak/tease game. HW is locked. One would want a large launch. It's one of the key metrics success is gauged by the powers that be. Judging by the tech and the specs, this one's most likely a wash. Maybe a big enough one to get them out of the hardware game.

I would love to be wrong.

Adblock. Ghostery.

Just finished building mine. I'd second the i5 sandy. Currently OCed to 4.5 super stable w/liquid cooling. I'd also drop a bit more into the GPU. Check here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107.html

Personally, I don't like the compression. as much as I've never seen the old, apparently horrible, podcasting room, It became a character with their constant complaints. The lack of compression on the old podcasts left an auditory impression of space. People being too quiet or too loud only added character to the show. The new compression makes it feel flat in a purely aesthetic sense. It's not a huge thing. The podcast is there, so I am happy. But it doesn't sound nearly as good to me. It sounds like a FM morning show.

Mordin

Trying to think of genres PCs do really well:

Company of Heroes

Civilization V

Portal or Portal 2

Skyrim does a great job of matching visuals and music to create a really subtly motivating environment.

I can also remember Assasin's Creed II really pulling me in. All the AC games do atmosphere really well. When you examine them for accuracy, it's balls out wrong. But when you're just in the world acting like some sort of god-like spring loaded sociopathic murderer, you can really appreciate how different things were.

I will play a game because of the atmosphere. For me, that's the thing that, if it's combined with mild-to-great play mechanics, really nail a game.

Mine:

Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 Motherboard

i5-2500k OCed and liquid cooled to 4.5 GHz

16gb Corsair Vengeance 1600 ram

Nvidia Geforce 560ti

Corsair 700GS PSU

2x1tb Barracudas in a RAID, 1x 80gb Intel SSD

I had that disc. StarCraft came with a short video demo of the game. Even then I was thinking that Blizzard would be foolish to release it. For those interested in the mythology, it would have been interesting enough. But just looking at the animation quality and hearing the voice acting makes me think that my initial impression holds up. It takes courage to cancel something when it's well into the dev cycle, but they made the right call. This game looks amateurish. Compare this to Day of the Tentacle, which came out in 1993. Blizzard did the right thing. This looks like a bad 80's cartoon.

Representing an open world in a game is always troublesome. Shenmue tried to do it by representing the more intimate portions of life and using a sense of narrative scale to lift the greater story by contrast. GTA, while not a completely fair comparison, attempted the feeling of reality by the ability to sidetrack and deviate. The difference is in the sense of accomplishment. If you consider the point of a game to be the completion of an objective then Shenmue has an intrinsic flaw. Its contrast works in two directions; not doing the Big Thing makes me aware of the bullshit branded figurines I've been pointlessly collecting for hours. If collecting virtual figurines is your thing, great. But it's small. GTA, on the other hand, makes me feel that I can represent alternative goals that really might fuck with the supposed world I inhabit. It's not the Big Thing, but, shit, I just blew up 50 cops and jetpacked myself to safety. It's a fleeting thing, sure. No in-game narrative is going to comment on the 15 pedestrians I slaughtered to get to the trigger point of this cutscene. No save will appreciate the human terror I've inflicted on Liberty City. But humans are creatures of the short-term as well as the long. Hit both notes. Let us test our freedom through defiance. Give us the reward for responsibility and chuckle at the mayhem we needed to obtain it. Games aren't real. That's the fucking point. Shenmue, to me, was boring as shit.