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I have diverted my attention from all other games the last week playing nothing but Max Payne 3. I find it quite exhilarating and dynamic in everything from the many ways you can dispatch enemies to...

My neighbor just got a 60" LG plasma 3D TV. We watched Harold and Kumar's 3D Christmas on it and it was simply amazing in stereoscopic clarity, gamma and depth of 3D effects. Every other 3D movie he...

Actually no I hadn't clicked on the link, as I thought it was yet another before after shot. However having done so just now I read, "The Mod is 2GB big and replaces 530 textures and normal maps". So...

The HD addon is 2000 textures total from what I've read. I don't see how Skyrim HD could be anywhere near that, since it wasn't long ago that it only covered two towns. I'd rather have a pack that...

Do the HD mods cover as many textures in the game as Bethesda's 3GB pack though? Like I said, when I first started playing the game I looked at the Skyrim HD mod, but read that it only covered two...

I've read some people actually prefer the HD mod, and as far as I recall they refer to it as 2k, though I don''t know why. You seem to be implying the dev one is annoying mostly due to download time...

Cool, sad though for the maker of the Skyrim HD mod that they released it before he could even begin to complete converting the whole map. I'll have to pass for now though since my GPU doesn't even...

Yeah, well, I may have wasted that skill point on the Dwarven smithing. There's always a way to avoid having to arm yourself to the hilt it seems. I went into Azura's Star to get those 3 Daedra...

Well I had slain some more dragons so I had enough scales and finally improved my Dragonscale armor. With the all light armor and matching set perks, combined with minor squire ring and amulet, it...

It's not horribly bad. I lucked out and found a heart on a corpse just lying out in broad daylight near the western watch tower by Whiterun earlier in the game. I also just found another on the quest...

Saw another elder dragon on my way to one of the bigger thieves guild missions and felt a bit under equipped for the battles within it. Lots of Draugr Deathlords and a Dragon Priest, OMG. Then again,...

Yeah I don't pay for skill training much, unless the trainer is positioned so I can easily pickpocket the fee back. Had fun doing that with Aela in the Companion camp for Archery training. It got...

Yeah I have like 9 extra dragon bones in case I want to make some Dragonplate armor, but I'm toying with the idea of making Daedric instead. Oddly enough on the way to slay some dragons for more...

Well like I said, I may leave it on Master, esp after I complete the Dragonscale armor set. I have the Matching Set perk unlocked too, so a full set will give me bonus protection. There's no short...

If it has to be that big they clearly didn't design the game with DX11 in mind. Then again, a game with a world this big being only 5GB total is kinda strange considering today's graphics and the...

I've seen the release notes for the upcoming 1.4 patch, which is currently in beta, and it's a pretty big patch, but still no mention of the Esbern bug.

Spent last night power leveling my Smithing...

Yeah I made the mistake of Googling for Diplomatic Immunity workarounds instead of fixing Esbern, so I only found the console command and shout tips.

On the one hand, at least Bethesda are...

LOL, oh crap, wish I'd read your post about the Esbern fix before using the moveto command at his lair door and shouting at him. I managed to load a save near the end of Karthspire that revealed some...

Silly me, I forgot it probably wouldn't show anything if there was no current bounty. I've never noticed the small text in the upper corner of the screen unless I'm looking up though. If you're not...

Well I checked and it doesn't indicate if there's a bounty on your player as you said. It only shows a history of lifetime bounty and largest bounty. Since the game is so horrid at indicating whether...

So it actually says if there's a bounty on you? Does it say what for too? There was 3 guys with horned helmets that attacked us after fast traveling to Riverwood. It was a contract hit. I know...

Been playing this game after beating the others I've played recently. It's pretty good for the most part. Dragon slaying is good fun. I'm only level 15 or so thus far, but have one handed up to 50,...

I read somewhere that someone made a way to bypass Origin for those whom bought the game legitimately and don't want to have to play via it. I don't know if it's true or if it works though.

LOL, sounds like filter bots coded by trained chimps.

OMG your GPU driver is ancient. The first driver that worked well for BF3 on older cards is the 285.79 beta. The new 290.36 may work OK too though, haven't played BF3 since installing it. I have a...

All it took to kill the great warrior Achilles was an arrow in the ankle, if you believe in that kind of thing.

After seeing all the recent Cadillac TV commercials saying Ferrari employs their MagneRide technology, I looked into this a bit because I often hear Brits on race game forums wax on about how...

I've been playing this the last couple days, there are some pros and cons I'll go through contained within a rather extensive categorized review. I've not completed it quite yet. I've progressed to...

LOL, where did I ever mention BF3? All I did was state the truth. Lets look at the facts. You not only posted a thread bragging about unimpressive stats in an easy game, you bumped it after getting...

Maybe because A) MW3 is more a game for fun than seriousness, what with all the noobs, and B), those KD ratios aren't anything to write home about, and there's very little improvement bewteen the...

Holy crap, anyone playing this on a pre 400/500 Nvidia GPU needs to try the 285.79 Beta driver that came out yesterday. No more stutters, no more corrupt shadows, and better performance. The game is...

Someone on the EA BF3 forum said the previous driver had no hitchy movement but shadow problems, and now with 285.62 shadows are very bad on many objects. I seem to have both problems. I am not...

I fired up BF 3 last night and have only played sp so far. Can anyone that has the game tell me if you're having problems with hitchy movement when near the squad AI? If I so much as get within 15'...

Check out this video of Aaron Paul playing a modified version of Rage in the intro of Breaking Bad's 7th episode of season 4 last Sunday night. This is perhaps THE most popular show on television,...

Well I just got the game yesterday and played a fair bit last night up through the first boss fight. I have to say although at first I was enjoying sneaking around knocking guys out with the non...

OK, thanks, I'll delete the vid and edit the post.

The GameTrailers.com review of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It's less glowing than those of most other sites, but might be more realistic. http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-deus-ex/719502

If it weren't for the fact that it was such a let down, I probably could have even gotten a good laugh out of that ending, but they kinda advertised the game as you going in and taking down The...

Agreed, I was thinking when I read that, are we talking the same games?

FC2 was underwhelming for me, but I did enjoy some aspects of it. The graphics are great, the gunplay isn't bad, it has...

Doom3 and Far Cry were the two games that inspired me to buy my first serious gaming PC. The graphics in both were pretty good for their time and each had it's own unique flavor of atmosphere to...

You must realize of course Activision owns the rights to the name, so it will be called something else. I like the direction United Front Games is taking it. It sorely needed improvement.

Great news came a couple days ago from Gamasutra. Square Enix jumped in and saved the day by buying the rights to True Crime: Hong Kong from Activision following their having canceled the project...

Bummed that we have to wait till 9/6 to sample Dead Island. The original release date was 8/1. The game looks intriguing though.


"I got a zombie on me...who do you voodoo b!tch!" :grin:
Dead...

Yeah I have to say I would have passed even on the free Steam trial, were I to participate in such things, after looking at the trailer. The graphics suck and the gameplay looks ridiculous.

I tend to agree with Dragon. Pillars on real cars are practically a non issue. Most of the time your vision is focused through the windshield, and when it's not you swing to the side to look at the...

Yeah I don't for the life of me get why they thought the handling changes in Shift 2 would go over well considering there's still a fair bit of AI aggression at times and you still have to fight your...

Of their pure arcade games, I like Most Wanted and Underground 2. Of their arcade/SIM hybrid games, I like Shift.

Shift 2: Unleashed had the potential to be the best NFS arcade/SIM racer, maybe...

The news of L.A. Noire coming to PC is straight from Rockstar themselves:

http://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/17161/la-noire-is-coming-for-pc-this-fall.html

I agree Swmeek, RDR is a...

I checked out Gun when people were playing it and from the video trailers, reviews and fan made movies I'd seen of it, decided to pass. It has very dated graphics for a 2005 game, looks more like...

Periodically I peruse GameRankings.com to see if any of the latest game releases have slipped under my radar. Low and behold I saw that the console versions of a Call of Juarez installment I was...

Yeah some are upgrading helis and using those for the races that give you a plane. I might have to try that. I had 100% on one of the Panau City districts with no checkmark, but it turned out I was...

LOL, along with, "You basterd!", and "You piece of crap!"

I've pretty much only got races left to do and a nagging 3% completion left on the Panau City Financial District that's driving me nuts....

This game can take a LONG time to achieve 100% completion with, and one thing near the end that can cause many a player frustration are some of the base jumps that require a steep downward angle on...

A LOT of things can be construed as degrading to women these days. People (including lots of women) loosely use the phrase "you guys" when referring to a group containing women, women are usually...

I stuck it out and played all the way through it in one session last night before posting this, and IMHO it's clearly not as good a game as RFG. Like musicians, game developers seem to reach a peak...

LOL, I don't have enough fingers to cross to hope that much.

LOL, it's just a video, it won't likely look any different regardless of system spec, other than type of display maybe, and I happen to be viewing it on a Dell Trinitron CRT monitor, so it certainly...

Don't know about you, but what's insane is them expecting us to believe that in such bright conditions with so much glare, they wouldn't be using polarized combat desert goggles. In other words, it...

Yes I know, I was just clarifying it's still going to be in a constant state of catch up regarding even mid range gaming rigs. Also, the CPU is virtually the same type the 360 uses.

It IS quite a...

I haven't seen FC 2 on my new rig yet, so I'll reserve judgement on that. Original Far Cry was probably the most graphically advanced game for it's time though, even compared to today's games for...

Same res as the one I linked to actually, but I agree. Even if the PC version looks a bit better than the trailers as with Crysis 2, it still won't likely look as good as Far Cry 2. Maybe not even as...

Every indication so far is that the gameplay is more like the 2nd, only worse. Anyways, it's going to be a while. Sounds like originally it was planned for end of 2011, but has been pushed back to...

More like the definition of most modern day PC games, that would be shoddy console ports. IF it even comes to PC, though I'm guessing it will.

I really liked original Far Cry, Far Cry 2, not so...

This is more of a preview than a review. At the very least it should have been titled Demo Review.

Just another heads up, one person on the DiRT 3 forum found a screenshot of the Shibuya track in Japan from DiRT 2 in the game's PSSG files, along with several Shibuya track layout diagrams and some...

Except there's no tracks with the heavy sepia tones DiRT 2 had. Also there's weather effects, both snow and rain, and night races too, so it definitely has a different look. The cars seem to be a bit...

Well I checked out that mod and unfortunately it's just the same thing someone did with the DiRT 2 lighting. It just makes it look more bland with desaturated colors.

Here's the example vids that...

Not all the graphics are good IMO, as many have said. Some areas look rather plain and washed out, others incredible. Even with Med post processing there's over use of bloom and ambient occlusion...

I spent a little time sampling the latest version of the Ryder PSSG Editor and Paint.NET and managed to make a mod that removes the DiRT3 watermark from the replays for more realistic, uncluttered...

A few more from Finland and Monaco:

Rally Stage 1 at Finland in the RS200
Rally Stage 2 at Finland in the RS200
Gymkhana Freestyle at Monaco in the EVO X

Well after playing it some more I can honestly see why so many are shocked at the content. There are minimal places to race and no choice of vehicles in Landrush. Feels more repetitive than DiRT 2...

No problem, and thanks. Yeah the graphics are great. Some are griping a bit about the looks, claiming it's a bit washed out in colors. I say they're too used to DiRT 2's heavy desert sepia tones and...

Well the wait for DiRT 3 is finally over and of what I've seen the game is looking pretty good. I've only just sampled a bit of it, but here's my brief review thus far:

Pros:
Excellent graphics...

That doesn't necessarily mean anything. There could be custom cases made to their security spec and licensed by MS.

Not sure we're talking about the same thing. I was under the impression the 360s had chassis intrusion sensors too, to detect hardware modding. Some of the mod videos I've seen for instance talk...

So he's building a whole new case for it then? Isn't that a bit hard to do since MS has sensors all over to detect modding?

I was referring to this comment from Dragon, and assumed he meant it was modded to WC.In retrospect, I could see how it could have been meant as a fan mod on the existing cooler, which is a vacuum...

Yeah I'm sure there's better fixes out there, but one has to stop and ponder first if a 360 is even worthy of the expense of WC. I'd probably be done with it at that point and move on to a PS3.

As...

Well anyway you cut it, they're not made very well. I've heard some people say a simple LT cooler can go long way toward avoiding RROD, but I'm not sure I buy that a 70k reflowing machine is...

You have to wonder with all the man hours MS spends replacing parts and/or shipping back out replacement models, why the heck they didn't just mandate such a permanent fix themselves, esp after it's...

Good tip there, I'm sure it could help lots of 360 owners. Would have been better had you supplied some links showing how it's done though. I'm sure there's probably pictorial guides on it by now.
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Here's mine:
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/8421/desktopvb6.jpg

Well I guess this clears up the doubts I had about people saying modding was OK. Any chance of XFX offering already modded water block cards like BFG does? Seems to me it would be the next step and...

The closest I got to being banned I think was when I got an email back from the staff after asking why my registration didn't go through. They said there was an error where it said I was banned....