wow, that game has great art. where did you find it? 

usual web floating with brain shut off 

from irc:
<Lunaran> so, 8bit killer is in fact awesome
<Lunaran> but you can't save
<Lunaran> you can't even warp to a stage you've played up to before
<Lunaran> so playing through 3 and a half episodes and then dying is kind of the last I'll ever play
<Lunaran> because I really don't want to do all of it again

But, you know, try it, if you have a completely uninterrupted 3 hour stretch to burn. 

especially annoying because you're so slow in that game :( 

I have a serious love/hate relationship with this game. The game looks absolutely stunning and plays great. However due to some bug, I am forced to play the game in windowed mode. If I play it in full-screen, it ALWAYS crashes after 2-10 minutes. Looking at the forums, it seems that it's a common issue for many people and the few proposed solutions seem to only work for half the users, sadly I don't belong to that half. Game is patched, Windows and all the drivers are up to date.

Thankfully, there doesn't seem to be much (any?) of a perfomance hit for playing in windowed mode, but it does feel a bit odd to play the game in a 1280x800 window against a 1680x1050 desktop. 

but why dont you set the desktop resolution to 1280 x 800? 

That's a pretty nice game. 

temporarily apply a windows color scheme that turns everything black, and just center the window perfectly and pretend it's letterboxed.

I guess it would be kind of hard to get your old theme back when you were done though. 

About 4-5 hours into this game...

Pro's

+ Amazing city sizes / draw distance
+ Climb anything and go anywhere
+ Animation is simply amazing
+ The story "twist" (dont wanna spoil)
+ Great sound

Con's

- Combat controls are a bit wonky, takes time to get used to it (still not got it down 100%)
- Can get annoying sometimes when you need to walk slowly to avoid detection

Loving it so far though! Its great fun bounding over rooftops at breakneck pace to stab an archer in the face before he see's you. Its a very brutal game also with some adult themes (I don't mean porn!) that are dealt with quite nicely. The twist on the whole story is very intelligently done and adds a lot to the game, Im really interested in finding out where its going, but I dont want to say anything here in-case I spoil it for someone :) 

looked pretty cool on my friend's console, I should check it out now that I'm actually playing some games :)

Finished RoE, decent but a little disappointing. More of the same, which wasnt such a bad thing since I like D3 on the whole, but the Hell level was pretty disappointing and I was hoping they used some of the ancient ruins theme a bit more.

Fable's next. 

Some more infos about Quake Live
http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=917 

Watched it today. While the movie (although good) in its entirety wasn't the 2nd coming the media painted it to be, Ledger's Joker is everything the hype says and then some. He absolutely steals every single scene he is on, almost to the point of turning it into a movie about Joker and his arch-nemesis Batman.

Watch in cinema. 

wrong thread 

http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1792
He is a rhetorical genius. 

I totally agree with him :) im sick of spending a fuckton of cash to play games on my pc.

I think another good example of a AAA game that runs well even on older systems is call of duty 4, and that looks great too.

I probably would have enjoyed crisis more if the framerate was above 30. 

and half-life 2 of course, even when it was released it would run on older hardware, and look at all the money that made :) 

about Crysis justified not making it as scalable as Far Cry. I originally played Far Cry on a PIII 850 mhz with a GeForce 2 card, and it played well. Crysis is not that different in game play. In fact, I preferred the original game's interface more than Crysis. For instance, to climb a ladder in Far Cry you only had to stand beside it and move forward while looking up. In Crysis you have to use an interface. Interfacing GUIs should only be used for things that can't be done any other way to minimize the disruption of the game flow. However, I had the feeling these elements were added to make console and pc versions compatible. 

Anyone else heard of this XBox 540?
Google it... 

http://www.gametap.com/grimm/episode_01.html

All the episodes are free in the first 24 hours after release, how nice. Gonna try it now. 

Great fun, I played ~50 minutes, no challenge but you can speedrun.
Unfortunately (well, no surprise) it runs not very well on my old rig, the graphics look nice even when all settings on low, thanks to the style.
Try it! 

all that is to it is running around painting stuff?

It runs like shit on my rig, and looks like it could easily run fine on q3 tech. The art style is nice, but they're not doing anything q3 tech couldn't do. 

gametap IS pretty evil, isn't it? 

You basically run around and paint stuff. Just like you run around shooting stuff in FPS.
There are objectives, enemies, moving targets and such. Pretty fun!

Try setting the graphics as low as possible (the "visual quality" too). I doubt the q3 engine could do that dynamic world changing.

Dunno about Gametap. But hey, it does not cost a cent. 

it isn't really dynamic, is it? (i only played about 10mins with ~10 fps) it just changes to premade stuff.

All the option don't help at all with my system (and make it look like 320x240 quake). They seem to be really, really cpu bound. 

http://www.fileshack.com/file_download.x/12645

Looks really cool I think. Like the graphics, like the style.

Two major concerns:

1. Integration of driving bits and FPS bits?

2. How on-rails and linear will it be?

(Potential for both of these to work well i.e. natural integration combined with exploration, but I don't have high hopes).

Two minor concerns:

1. How well will it run? (but I'm overdue an upgrade anyway)

2. How easy will the vehicles be to control? (but since it's Id they'll probably keep it easy).