@Ubiquitous: Why not get it through dell, I believe if you buy one from them you can pay it off monthly like you would one of their computers. 300/18 = monthly pay. I'm just guessing here tho.
What games have come out for PC that can't run well on a 8800? I bought mine last year and for the most part it has run everything at great frame rate(should preface by saying I have a quadcore). It's disheartenin to hear that my investment last year is already being outpaced. Let alone hearing that 170 is budget price.
There's either 3 things you're referring to. The double jump, the transolocator gun, or the hoverboard. The character animations won't be noticeable to you because you're in first person view. You need to hit the second jump at the height of the jump to get the most height. The transolocator gun is the weird gun that looks like someone is walking with a portable turn table. You can use this gun to shoot out discs that help you reach great heights. (Example, shoot it at the roof of the building , left click, then right click and you'll be on the roof) The hoverboard if all else could be what you're referring to, but I found it to be a stupid addition to the game, so I never used it making me incapable of giving you the breadth of possibility behind that hoverboard. Or for all we know, it could be a mutator.
I feel the quick look might come probably in a week or so. Generally, they tend to get far enough within the game where they have a firm grasp of the play mechanics. As a person whose gotten insanely frustrated, but constantly comes back to demon's soul, I feel that might take quite a bit. But Vinny has been known to chug through a game for long play sessions (Fallout 3). So he could easily be at 4-1 by monday, with Pure Black World Tendency. May God bless his soul.
I feel that this could be changed easily if people tried as hard as they did on consoles. Like I recently picked up Rise Of Nations, which is an amazing game, but I get the feeling that the multiplayer scene is pretty desolate outside heaven games.
I was thinking if a group of people started doing localized games nights people would start flocking back to it. I aways see stuff like "Play With The Devs" on such and such date for console games, maybe PC games do it to and I'm not aware, but I've neverheard it advertised.
(I'll preface by saying, I don't use steam or gfw, I just go straight from the game browser). Which is where I feel the current consoles succeed because they allow people to know what their friends are playing, and makes it easier for them to just join up. PC games since they're not as centralize, makes it harder to promote upcoming games or multiplayer sessions.
So unless certain factors are fixed, PC gaming will be the slow monolith to change for better or worse.
I did when I bought it the first week, then the next weekend I signed on and there were only 6 human players available scattered between several games, at that pointed I decided to return to UT2k4. Epic really left that franchise out to die.
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