What video game are you playing?

[ACamp1900]

Not unless you beat the game. That's the point. It's called Rouge Legacy because it's a Rouge-like where you create a legacy because each character is a descendant of your last. The upgrades transfer from character to character so every time you start over you're a little bit stronger.

Hmm, okay, ill dive into it... Thanks for the help.

 

[koonja]

The Last of Us: No multiplayer on this? You have to buy the remastered version or what? Wish the guy at Gamestop would have mentioned that if true.

Edit: Have to have the online pass. Does anyone know if the online pass allows for coop play? My google search says it doesn't, but I thought that it did.

Edit: No coop. Sucks.

 

[nlroma1o]

I am really close to going and buying one of those new Nintendo 3DS XL. I currently dont have a hand help gaming consoles, other than a GBA emulator on my iphone, which freezes up all the time. And I'm looking at buying one since i ride the bus to and from work everyday. So i think i ll get a decent amount of use out of it.

Has anyone bought one yet?

 

[Huntr]

Guild Wars 2 75% off this weekend. $10, no sub fee. It's pretty fun. It looks great and has some neat gameplay. Worth it.


Also, I'm looking forward to this WoW token. I haven't played since before pandas, but I have a fuck ton of gold on my characters. Might bust that out when the token goes live.

 

[ACamp1900]

Red dead redemption,.... Again....

 

[bkess8]

Anyone getting Battlefield Hardline tomorrow?

 

[greyhammer90]

Anyone getting Battlefield Hardline tomorrow?

No way I'm buying at launch from a company that has repeatedly shown that their games do not work at launch.

Did they ever get the last Battlefield game to work?

 

[Whiskeyjack]

I received all three Uncharted games for Christmas, and started playing the first one last night. Very cinematic, like playing a movie. I can see why there's so much hype around Hollywood picking this up.

Really disappointed in the combat mechanics, though. Utilizing cover is wonky, enemy combat AI is annoying (the pirates flail in weird ways when shot, which conveniently prevents me from lining up head shots), and the guns are stupidly unrealistic. I can often drop pirates peeking out from behind cover with a single 9mm head shot, yet the AK frequently requires 4-5 bursts to drop someone at medium range.

Hopefully the combat mechanics were improved for 2 and 3.

 

[Henges24]

Since this is my first time visiting this thread, I'm not sure if it has been discussed but the next CoD is rumored to be World at War 2.

WaW was my absolute favorite CoD and I've been glued to it for the past 3 months playing Hardcore TD after a three year hiatus.

 

[Irish Storm]

I'm playing Dragons Dogma on Xbox 360 right now. I'm 70 hours into it and not even close to beating it. It's a great role player.

 

[IrishLion]

Since this is my first time visiting this thread, I'm not sure if it has been discussed but the next CoD is rumored to be World at War 2.

WaW was my absolute favorite CoD and I've been glued to it for the past 3 months playing Hardcore TD after a three year hiatus.

I'd be jacked up to see WaW come back. That was my favorite CoD by far, as well. I played MW2/3 a lot, but didn't quite like them as much. I did not like Black Ops or Black Ops II at all, and haven't even given the newest installment a look.

If World at War returns, I'll return to the franchise to try it out.

They can have all of my money right now if they give us the original Nazi Zombies. Give me three rooms and the mystery box with a shot at the ray gun and I'm set for life.

 

[Henges24]

I'd be jacked up to see WaW come back. That was my favorite CoD by far, as well. I played MW2/3 a lot, but didn't quite like them as much. I did not like Black Ops or Black Ops II at all, and haven't even given the newest installment a look.

If World at War returns, I'll return to the franchise to try it out.

They can have all of my money right now if they give us the original Nazi Zombies. Give me three rooms and the mystery box with a shot at the ray gun and I'm set for life.

I'm 110% with you. I played the MWs and BOs but they just were not the same. I have only seen my roommate play the newest CoDs. It's too futuristic for my liking, but I'm sure if I had bought them that I would have enjoyed them. Just not as much as WaW. There's just something about the jungle and older setting with some old style guns.

Rumors are saying a May 4th announcement for WaW 2.

 

[NDFan4Life]

Looking to buy a new gaming PC. I mainly play FPS games, but the system I currently have is too slow and the graphics suck royally. I'd like to spend less than $1,000.

I've been looking at these recently, but have no idea what the best graphics card is:

Intel Gaming Systems - Gaming Systems - Gaming - Cybertron International, Inc.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[RyCo1983]

Looking to buy a new gaming PC. I mainly play FPS games, but the system I currently have is too slow and the graphics suck royally. I'd like to spend less than $1,000.

I've been looking at these recently, but have no idea what the best graphics card is:

Intel Gaming Systems - Gaming Systems - Gaming - Cybertron International, Inc.

Any help would be appreciated.

Check out Tom's Hardware: Hardware News, Tests and Reviews
Post in their forum.
They'll built you a beast for your budget.
Build your own. It's easy, and it's cheaper. Much cheaper.

 

[ulukinatme]

Looking to buy a new gaming PC. I mainly play FPS games, but the system I currently have is too slow and the graphics suck royally. I'd like to spend less than $1,000.

I've been looking at these recently, but have no idea what the best graphics card is:

Intel Gaming Systems - Gaming Systems - Gaming - Cybertron International, Inc.

Any help would be appreciated.

I think it's typically cheaper to build your own, either through a website or get the parts yourself, although depending on where you shop you don't always save that much these days. I've been building my own rigs for the last 12 years or so, although I only upgrade every 3-4 years. I find it's more fun to do it yourself, and it's kind of nice deciding what goes in and what does and doesn't get installed.

That being said, I typically buy parts that are "last year" and save big money. A year and a half ago I built an 8 core AMD machine with an nVidia 660 GTX Ti Boost along with 8 GB of RAM. You don't need much more than 8 GB these days for most games, no matter what kids in Steam say. RAM is easy to upgrade later anyway. If you're thinking to the future you could go with 12-16, but anything more than that and you're overpaying big.

For the video card I would go with an nVidia in the $130-150 range and you should be fine, probably one of the 700 models as the 900s are too pricey still. I like EVGA's nVidia cards myself, they've always done well.

For a processor you'll save if you go with an AMD, but I wouldn't get an 8 core like I did. Some stuff can support all those, but not a lot yet...I bought it mostly hoping that they'll get better utilized once Star Citizen gets optimized more. A Quad core AMD would save you some money and run perfectly fine, or if you want to go Intel you can actually do pretty well with some of the dual core i5s. Supposedly benchmark testing with some of the i5s have outperformed a lot of the quad cores in single threaded tasks. I'd stay away from the Intel quad core i7 unless you want to pony up the cash. I had one in a laptop and the damn thing wouldn't run cool at all, even after having the thermal past redone and a better fan installed.

As far as a motherboard, I typically get an Asus or a Gigabyte, they've always done well for me. Don't buy the cheapest model, but you don't need the most expensive. Just find one that's got good reviews and has all the expansion slots you're going to need/want in the future: available RAM slots and maximum allowed, 2x PCI express & SLI capable, SATA slots, IDE slots if you still have any drives that use them, etc.

Good luck!

 

[NDFan4Life]

Check out Tom's Hardware: Hardware News, Tests and Reviews
Post in their forum.
They'll built you a beast for your budget.
Build your own. It's easy, and it's cheaper. Much cheaper.

Cool. Thanks, I'll check them out.

 

[NDFan4Life]

I think it's typically cheaper to build your own, either through a website or get the parts yourself, although depending on where you shop you don't always save that much these days. I've been building my own rigs for the last 12 years or so, although I only upgrade every 3-4 years. I find it's more fun to do it yourself, and it's kind of nice deciding what goes in and what does and doesn't get installed.

That being said, I typically buy parts that are "last year" and save big money. A year and a half ago I built an 8 core AMD machine with an nVidia 660 GTX Ti Boost along with 8 GB of RAM. You don't need much more than 8 GB these days for most games, no matter what kids in Steam say. RAM is easy to upgrade later anyway. If you're thinking to the future you could go with 12-16, but anything more than that and you're overpaying big.

For the video card I would go with an nVidia in the $130-150 range and you should be fine, probably one of the 700 models as the 900s are too pricey still. I like EVGA's nVidia cards myself, they've always done well.

Thanks. That definitely helped me a lot.
For a processor you'll save if you go with an AMD, but I wouldn't get an 8 core like I did. Some stuff can support all those, but not a lot yet...I bought it mostly hoping that they'll get better utilized once Star Citizen gets optimized more. A Quad core AMD would save you some money and run perfectly fine, or if you want to go Intel you can actually do pretty well with some of the dual core i5s. Supposedly benchmark testing with some of the i5s have outperformed a lot of the quad cores in single threaded tasks. I'd stay away from the Intel quad core i7 unless you want to pony up the cash. I had one in a laptop and the damn thing wouldn't run cool at all, even after having the thermal past redone and a better fan installed.

As far as a motherboard, I typically get an Asus or a Gigabyte, they've always done well for me. Don't buy the cheapest model, but you don't need the most expensive. Just find one that's got good reviews and has all the expansion slots you're going to need/want in the future: available RAM slots and maximum allowed, 2x PCI express & SLI capable, SATA slots, IDE slots if you still have any drives that use them, etc.

Good luck!

Thanks. This will definitely help me a lot.

 

[ulukinatme]

Sure, if you do decide to either buy the parts yourself, or build a rig on a website, just shout out any questions you may have. When stuck between one model and another I typically go by customer reviews, it's hard to go wrong there. The last time I really tried to save I went for a cheap Power Supply for my parent's computer and I disregarded the "mixed" reviews because I figured "It's just a Power Supply, and more people get online to complain than the people that have good, working parts." Well, as it turned out I rolled the dice and had to RMA it for a different Power Supply

 

[Jasher]

Check out Tom's Hardware: Hardware News, Tests and Reviews
Post in their forum.
They'll built you a beast for your budget.
Build your own. It's easy, and it's cheaper. Much cheaper.

pcpartpicker dot com is a good site too.

I had a blast building mine.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Can't endorse Tom's Hardware strongly enough. If you don't get around to posting for customized advice in the forum there, they publish a Budget Gaming PC build every quarter as part of their System Builder Marathon. You can't go wrong just using their most recent recommended build.

 

[ACamp1900]

Picked up the show for vita and ps4 good as always but it is getting to the point where they pretty much perfected and have no where else to go...

Been playing cbb 2k8 a bit, I do this every now and then, it's still a flat out great sports game too bad CFb never got a game this good....

 

[IrishLion]

It looks like the next Call of Duty will be Black Ops III.

Count me out haha.

 

[Henges24]

It looks like the next Call of Duty will be Black Ops III.

Count me out haha.

You've gotta be five finger f***ing me.

 

[notredomer23]

COD needs to do a new WWII version.

 

[ACamp1900]

COD needs to do a new WWII version.

Yeah, that's dissappointing... I thought bo1 was the best CoD ever, but I've been waiting for a new WW2 shooter for a while, it was apparently BO3 or a new WW2 game so......

 

[IrishLion]

Black Ops is when I started to get disappointed with the series. It just didn't do it for me. The zombies arcade game on the CPU in the interrogation chamber was cool though.

Maybe it has something to do with how good Modern Warfare 2 was (IMO), and the fact that I could never quite get that 25-kill streak to drop the tactical Nuke and end the match...

 

[ACamp1900]

MW 2 was boss... Def up there, maybe the fact that I didn't play the black ops series for a long time helped... I didn't play them after MW2...

 

[RyCo1983]

MW 2 was boss... Def up there, maybe the fact that I didn't play the black ops series for a long time helped... I didn't play them after MW2...

I can vividly remember my first AC-130 call in...Afghan map...about 3:30 AM EST on launch night...I took a vacation day...

Heavenly experience. I was on cloud 9. One of those unforgettable experiences.

 

[Jackalope1977]

Sure, if you do decide to either buy the parts yourself, or build a rig on a website, just shout out any questions you may have. When stuck between one model and another I typically go by customer reviews, it's hard to go wrong there. The last time I really tried to save I went for a cheap Power Supply for my parent's computer and I disregarded the "mixed" reviews because I figured "It's just a Power Supply, and more people get online to complain than the people that have good, working parts." Well, as it turned out I rolled the dice and had to RMA it for a different Power Supply

Hey ulukin, (or anyone else for that matter) I just saw these posts and figured you might be the guy to answer a computer game question for a dude who's clueless. I want to be able to play my old Civilization games on my laptop when the kids or maybe even my wife are dominating TV time. The problem is I think my laptop is too "new" to install them. I figured it would be easy to install a 10 or 15 year old game on a newer computer but alas, I can't play any of them. So here's some questions. 1) If I were to buy them from Steam would they work or would they be just like my discs? 2) Is there something I can do to make the discs install properly? Help a brother out if you can.

 

[Saint Shamrock]

Battlefield 4 on the PS4 .

Thought I was done gaming but just bought the PS4 and it is a jolly good console .