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They were about the best looking games of their time. MechWarrior 2 came as an optimized edition with the 2MB ( yes, 2MB! ) ATI Rage 3d + graphics card in the first PC I ever bought in 1996.

233Mhz Pentium w/MMX
48MB of RAM ( paid extra from the 32MB that came standard )
6.4GB HDD
2MB ATI Rage 3d + graphics adapter
The 28.8k modem that i was able to later successfully flash to 56k!
15" 640 x 480 resolution monitor included

It had an internal 3 1/2 floppy drive and I think a CD ROM

 
Playing through AC Unity again, and the Dead Kings DLC.

It's a shame such a beautiful game is plagued with such bugs and performance issues. Brutes rattling across the floor as their corpse has contact issues with their axe, now and then artifacts after a certain session length that cause me to quit game and reboot, NPCs getting stuck walking/running in place, NPCs popping in, walking up over tall objects, or not seeing very well, and Arno often getting momentarily frozen on certain objects. Then out of the blue the sound will sometimes cut out too, like certain pistol or phantom blade shots.

The navigation animation in itself is one of the biggest let downs. They added some things to try and give it more flow, like the auto twirl move when aiming Arno in a non straight line while negotiating objects, and the controlled descending and long jumps he can do, but it also has some of the worst movement hang ups of any AC game. Arno seems to get slowed down by every little surface feature, like if I keep leaping through crowds to get through quicker, he'll always eventually target an object well off his forward line to cling to. In fact in general this has got to be THE worst AC title for accidental object grabs.

When you manage to hit a line just right, rooftop running can feel pretty good, but it's more the exception than the norm.
 
I never played it. I tend to avoid games that have issues from the start at least until the issues are all fixed. Although I can probably brute force a decent experience with this 980 Ti 😛

 


Actually it DOES run better on Nvidia, and a 980 Ti would run it at 1440p very well.

Performance improved even for me quite a bit on my 7970 when AMD came out with better drivers for it. I used to dip to 20 FPS and less just in the training room that never has more than 3 NPCs at a time, but now it runs very smoothly there.

That said, Ubi really didn't do much to improve upon the condition it released in, which is odd because they are a French and French Canadian based team, so you'd think a game about the French Revolution would really matter to them.

I guess it only mattered as far as eye candy and not QC and wide scale system accessibility though. Black Flag and Rogue both run beautifully for me.

 
I have AC: Unity and it's not a bad game at all. I love the graphics in this game. They really are next-gen level and the sheer amount of people in this game is ridiculous but it makes the city lively.
The bugs really do break immersion. The entire NPCs changes once in a while, sometimes! The whole dress, their accessories ..etc all just vanish and a new set appears right in front of our eyes. It's a shame because this really is a good game despite all the bugs.
 
Metal Gear Solid games have very confusing storylines, but they're good nonetheless. I believe the direction is what's best about them, in my opinion.

Witcher 3 did an amazing job at telling Geralt's story. Among upcoming titles, Fallout 4 seems like the best one to give a good story.
 
Just started Murdered: Soul Suspect and Hitman: Absolution. Both seem promising so far although I'm only about an hour into each.

I think I'm going to wait until I upgrade to Skylake in a month or two before I put Windows 10 on my desktop. Too much trouble to do it now and then do it again. 10 is running fine on my laptops and seems good so far for gaming.
 


I enjoyed Absolution while it lasted. Fairly good for what it is, but it left me wanting more. What's strange is the DLC packs are very weapon centric, many overt combat type weapons, yet the game is practically void of a true combat pillar like SC Blacklist has, and DE Mankind Divided will have.

After playing up through Purist via the normal stealth tactics, I recently actually tried playing a Purist playthrough with a kill all hostiles method, while trying to score as high as I could. I was going for all headshots and trying to use stealth as much as possible, which is hard at a certain point due to a forced plot device.

The problem is, you run into some levels where you're not even sure if you've killed all hostiles. The place will seem empty, but then you stray from your vantage point to loot or check for more hostiles, and the game will do silly things like just out of the blue spawning in new random NPCs where your vantage point was.

Then you've got some levels that are just not at all conducive to going loud, due to both lack of good vantage points AND being largely outnumbered.

The game is great for stealth, but regardless of what style you play with, it has a few annoying quirks.

1. The random spawns I mentioned
2. Player activated checkpoints if reloaded after blown stealth or death will spawn back in ALL NPCs you knocked out or killed prior to it
3. You have to make it all the way through a chapter before quitting a session, or you will spawn where you left off with a different set of clothes. This makes it annoying if you want to keep a certain disguise or play suit only.
4. Great weapon effects, esp powerful ones like shotguns with slow mo, yet the game doesn't really facilitate overt combat well throughout.

Overall I enjoyed SC Blacklist more. There was a lot of ways to use stealth, a lot of ways to use combat, and a lot of routes and tactics you could use.

I'm waiting until I see some decent Dx12 performance advantages in games before I go W10, and after seeing how the Skylake CPUs and DDR4 really don't help for gaming, I'm waiting until 2016 to decide on CPU.

I want to look at Zen before I make my decision.

 
Hey maybe somebody can recommend me good story line games? I liked hitman absolution, prototype, batman arkham, prince of persia: the forgotten sands, some need for speed games, and etc. I know it's old games, but I don't have time to play few years ago, and also have weak laptop with i5-2430m and gt525m :)
 
wwe 2k15 coz i love wrestling games not the tv series is for kids.i always wished it coming to pc under thq this was a pipe dream under 2k it happened.my pros about it wud 1st wrestling game on pc since 2002.not bad game,ot bad graphics ,ai is good.cons ai can be really DAFT at times like im getting pinned in a ridiculuos way and cant kick out in time it just stares doesnt even try to break pin.....pisssed me offf many times and submissions are IMPOSSIBLE/VERY HARD TO GET OUT OF.
 
The upcoming Mad Max game looks great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSeudN-hpgk

I think it'll get pretty good reviews. I can't help but get that Shadow of Mordor- esque lore feel though, especially after showing the map.
I quickly became a fan of the Mad Max series after I saw the first two when I heard so much about Fury Road. I didn't watch the third one with Mel Gibson as Max, as I heard it's the weakest of the lot.
 


Something odd about the way you worded that. You DO realize Mel Gibson starred in the first two as well don't you?
 
The third one will always be Beyond Tina Turner Dome. 😛

I haven't seen Fury Road yet but the first 2 are among my favorite sci fi movies. I try to forget Thunderdome.
 
It's not that bad but it's not the first 2 movies either. Fury Road can't be a prequel as there was some remaining civilization in the first movie. It really is my favorite even though the badass V8 police interceptor had a totally fake supercharger that could be turned on and off.
 
Okay, so I suck at combat in Fallout: New Vegas. I can't seem to hit them were I try to aim at. When I thought one was going to be a headshot, it wasn't and when I did, it didn't even kill the guy and sometimes the bullets just fly past them even if I have the the crosshairs right on the enemy.
I remember having the same problem with Fallout 3. I think I turned down the difficulty. But I don't want to do it for this one too, unless I can get any better at it.
Any tips?
I'm shooting with a 9 mm pistol if anyone would be asking. It's condition is moderate.
 
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