I love Torchlight, played it modded on Windows (completed the MQ, delved into the SV) and now Vanilla on OSX as mods kept making it crash (damn .amd files kept re-appearing).
Consider it's easily the best Diablo clone in a starved genre (sacred 2 was ok, but D3 is a while off as is DS3) and very very cheap. It's got great art direction and well put together combat, the infinite dungeon just adds more value.
I love Torchlight, played it modded on Windows (completed the MQ, delved into the SV) and now Vanilla on OSX as mods kept making it crash (damn .amd files kept re-appearing).
Consider it's easily the best Diablo clone in a starved genre (sacred 2 was ok, but D3 is a while off as is DS3) and very very cheap. It's got great art direction and well put together combat, the infinite dungeon just adds more value.
Apparently Dungeon Siege 3 is supposed to be hitting before D3. Eurogamer had a preview which made it sound promising. I am mildly amused by the fact that they may very well have released all three of the titles in that franchise in the space between Diablo 2 and Diablo 3.
I love Torchlight, played it modded on Windows (completed the MQ, delved into the SV) and now Vanilla on OSX as mods kept making it crash (damn .amd files kept re-appearing).
Consider it's easily the best Diablo clone in a starved genre (sacred 2 was ok, but D3 is a while off as is DS3) and very very cheap. It's got great art direction and well put together combat, the infinite dungeon just adds more value.
Apparently Dungeon Siege 3 is supposed to be hitting before D3. Eurogamer had a preview which made it sound promising. I am mildly amused by the fact that they may very well have released all three of the titles in that franchise in the space between Diablo 2 and Diablo 3.
Indeed, it has an early 2011 date pegged in but I have not actually see it as yet, it did sound good though. I wonder if that being multi platform (and Torchlight coming to XBLA) will encourage Blizzard to see that consoles are just fine and dandy for ARPG's as long as you nail the interface.
I love Torchlight, played it modded on Windows (completed the MQ, delved into the SV) and now Vanilla on OSX as mods kept making it crash (damn .amd files kept re-appearing).
Consider it's easily the best Diablo clone in a starved genre (sacred 2 was ok, but D3 is a while off as is DS3) and very very cheap. It's got great art direction and well put together combat, the infinite dungeon just adds more value.
Apparently Dungeon Siege 3 is supposed to be hitting before D3. Eurogamer had a preview which made it sound promising. I am mildly amused by the fact that they may very well have released all three of the titles in that franchise in the space between Diablo 2 and Diablo 3.
Indeed, it has an early 2011 date pegged in but I have not actually see it as yet, it did sound good though. I wonder if that being multi platform (and Torchlight coming to XBLA) will encourage Blizzard to see that consoles are just fine and dandy for ARPG's as long as you nail the interface.
Interface can only go so far. I'm not sure I believe that Diablo 3 would work flawlessly on a gamepad, you'd need to make some fundamental changes to the gameplay mechanics in order to accommodate for that. But whatever the case actually is, I don't think that's really the main issue.
The thing is that Diablo 3, like Starcraft 2, is fundamentally tied to Battle.net. As in that whole infrastructure is very much a core part of the gameplay mechanics, at least for online. And that's a system I don't see Microsoft giving the freedom to allow onto the 360. Even when it comes to something simple like updates, if you don't allow a game like Diablo to be updated regularly, quickly and freely, it gets broken fast, and you just end up with an upset playerbase screaming in your ear about how much you clearly despise them.
cf. Team Fortress 2.
I would've said Sony as well, but I was pretty surprised when they announced that Steamworks was coming to the PS3 and that this would be how Portal would be updating (amongst other things). So I guess it's not completely outside the realm of possibility there.
EDIT: Although I do think that going to consoles is probably Dungeon Siege 3's biggest advantage. If Diablo 3 becomes a phenomenon, then DS3 is ideally positioned to be the alternative to anyone that wants to play a western style ARPG on the consoles. I wouldn't be surprised to see it sell on that fact alone.
Heck, I remember back when Diablo 3 was first announced, all of a sudden Titan Quest jumped right back into the Steam top 10.
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Anyone ever played this Madballs game? Seems like some mindless multi-player fun.
It's 50% off and I'm thinking about getting a 4 pack and gifting it to a group of my friends for our mini lan parties.
I have a very important question...
Anyone ever played this Madballs game? Seems like some mindless multi-player fun.
It's 50% off and I'm thinking about getting a 4 pack and gifting it to a group of my friends for our mini lan parties.
I played it when it was BaboViolent, pretty solid top down twin stick shooter fun. Mindless fun wholly dependent on how populated the servers are.
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edited July 2010
So, everything in Torchlight on my Mac seems to have this weird sheen to it. How do I turn this off?
I have never bought anything on steam before and so I decided to grab GTA4 for 5 bucks.
3 hours later I'm about ready to uninstall this piece of shit software.
I cant tell if this game just plays like ass or its my my system. I'm told that some patches are supposed to make it play better. Even with everything turned down I can barely control the car. (With everything on, I get one frame every two seconds.. I shit you not).
So I'm supposed to install patches with some "games for windows" bullshit?
What with this "social" crap too.
How can I tell what version of GTA4 I'm running? Can someone just point me to the stupid patch so I can install it myself. It took me almost a day to download of steam. I hate to think of this as a waste of time.
I just wanted to say that, at this point, if you don't own Torchlight, you're a soulless shell of a human being.
I own it, but as a terrible unbalanced knockoff of a game that you have to spend a bunch of time getting mods for to make it playable, I am not a fan.
Is that alright? I own it, so I'm still good?
Yep, you're fine.
While I think "knockoff" is a pretty fair criticism, I'm not sure where you're getting unbalanced. I have precisely zero mods and the game plays perfectly fine. I also think the difficulty ramps up nicely, and that the classes do some pretty interesting things in and of themselves. Also, lots of nifty mechanics that I would like to see incorporated into similar games within the genre, and that are worthwhile expanding upon. The pet and its functionality in particular are pretty awesome.
But hey, that's me. I like games within the Diablo genre, but it's not to everbody's taste.
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Knockoff of what? Diablo? You know Torchlight is made by the original creators of Diablo, right?
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Aaaaanddd.... uninstalled. Thanks a lot Steam, you've been a blast, and to Rockstar, Fuck you! Evidently you don't want me playing your shitty game and I'm glad I only lost $5 from the deal.
Its a s shame really. Read Dead Redemption looked kinda fun. If this is the kind of bullshit I have to go though to play a game on my PC, no thanks.
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Aaaaanddd.... uninstalled. Thanks a lot Steam, you've been a blast, and to Rockstar, Fuck you! Evidently you don't want me playing your shitty game and I'm glad I only lost $5 from the deal.
Its a s shame really. Read Dead Redemption looked kinda fun. If this is the kind of bullshit I have to go though to play a game on my PC, no thanks.
Whilst GFWL is a horrible service, that shouldn't really put you off of Steam itself.
In general though, yeah the port they did for GTA4 for the PC was beset by any number of problems. Poor performance for anyone not running a quad-core for a start, and even poor performance then.
After that, well the whole Rockstar community thing was daft, but they patched that out eventually. Only problem is that GFWL is absolutely terrible when it comes to patching things.
You ever wonder why Fallout 3 made use of GFWL, but New Vegas is going with Steamworks? It's because half the time GFWL just doesn't work. It often makes updating and patching an outright chore. Singleplayer games are usually fine, but trying to do anything online based with it can often be pretty frustrating.
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Aaaaanddd.... uninstalled. Thanks a lot Steam, you've been a blast, and to Rockstar, Fuck you! Evidently you don't want me playing your shitty game and I'm glad I only lost $5 from the deal.
Its a s shame really. Read Dead Redemption looked kinda fun. If this is the kind of bullshit I have to go though to play a game on my PC, no thanks.
GTA IV is a horrible port by all accounts I've seen. Don't give up on PC gaming because of GTA IV. Just play good PC games, which Steam has tons of for way cheap.
On the other hand I'm not sure I really mind him gone from PC gaming forever. I mean, GFWL is bullshit and everything but if you let one game destroy your interest in an entire system, then I think I can go without you clogging up my Team Fortress 2 or something. I can't imagine he's much fun to play with.
On the other hand I'm not sure I really mind him gone from PC gaming forever. I mean, GFWL is bullshit and everything but if you let one game destroy your interest in an entire system, then I think I can go without you clogging up my Team Fortress 2 or something. I can't imagine he's much fun to play with.
WTF, I thought Shadow of the Serpent Riders was the sequel. God damnit, I could've been playing Heretic all this time! I always did think it was odd that the sequel was on Steam and the original wasn't.
I've never played the sequel. The shift to 3rd person seemed odd to me at the time.
On the other hand I'm not sure I really mind him gone from PC gaming forever. I mean, GFWL is bullshit and everything but if you let one game destroy your interest in an entire system, then I think I can go without you clogging up my Team Fortress 2 or something. I can't imagine he's much fun to play with.
Hahaha, wow you sound bitter there dude.
He's kind of got a point, though. Is it an inconvenience? Yes. Is it worth that dramatic of a proclamation? To most people, I would think not. There are better injustices in the world to rage against.
On the other hand I'm not sure I really mind him gone from PC gaming forever. I mean, GFWL is bullshit and everything but if you let one game destroy your interest in an entire system, then I think I can go without you clogging up my Team Fortress 2 or something. I can't imagine he's much fun to play with.
Hahaha, wow you sound bitter there dude.
I suppose a lot of it is from years of seeing people shit all over PC gaming because they don't have the two neurons it takes to rub together to produce the ability to Google a problem and solve it in 10 minutes. Somehow people have grown so entitled that anything more difficult than putting a CD into the console and hitting play is some sort of ridiculous torture that can't possibly be put up with. I mean, back in the old days you had to type crazy things into the DOS prompt just to get a game to run, and pretty much every other hobby on earth comes with strenuous physical exertion, hours of preparation, extensive research into the necessary equipment, travel time, chance of injury, or something like that. The craziest thing I've had to do to get a PC game to run lately is mess around with DOSBox, and even that is only because the game was old as hell. If someone can't figure out Games For Windows Live + Steam + Rockstar Social Club (which is, of course, bullshit, and most games aren't anywhere near that bad), I think I'm fine if they go take a hike and dick around with their 360 until it red rings again and they can stop paying monthly for XBOX Live.
WTF, I thought Shadow of the Serpent Riders was the sequel. God damnit, I could've been playing Heretic all this time! I always did think it was odd that the sequel was on Steam and the original wasn't.
I've never played the sequel. The shift to 3rd person seemed odd to me at the time.
I have never bought anything on steam before and so I decided to grab GTA4 for 5 bucks.
3 hours later I'm about ready to uninstall this piece of shit software.
I cant tell if this game just plays like ass or its my my system. I'm told that some patches are supposed to make it play better. Even with everything turned down I can barely control the car. (With everything on, I get one frame every two seconds.. I shit you not).
So I'm supposed to install patches with some "games for windows" bullshit?
What with this "social" crap too.
How can I tell what version of GTA4 I'm running? Can someone just point me to the stupid patch so I can install it myself. It took me almost a day to download of steam. I hate to think of this as a waste of time.
You realize these are all issues with GTA4 being a crappy console port and not actually problems with Steam, correct?
I remember watching my friend play Heretic II, or maybe the demo to it. Looked pretty good. Back around that era there were some really great FPS games that have sort of fallen through the cracks: Strife, Heretic, Hexen, Shadow Warrior (JUST KIDDING)...
I just wanted to say that, at this point, if you don't own Torchlight, you're a soulless shell of a human being.
I own it, but as a terrible unbalanced knockoff of a game that you have to spend a bunch of time getting mods for to make it playable, I am not a fan.
Is that alright? I own it, so I'm still good?
Soulless husk.
I own Torchlight, and I've probably put 3-4 hours into it, but for some reason the game just doesn't grip me. I haven't had much motivation to go back and play it. With Diablo 1, you knew that as you were ever descending through the catacombs, caves, and all of that, that you were drawing ever nearer to Hell and Diablo himself.
That sense of ominous foreboding is not present in Torchlight. I have no idea why I'm continually descending deeper into the mine and I don't have a lot of motivation to do so, other than a vague plea for help from a bunch of uninteresting townsfolk.
Bah, The Guild pack on sale when I already bought it. Well, I could have waited. No big deal.
So, my 320 gig SATA disk seemed to be dying on me (during heavy load it randomly stopped working for 5-20 seconds, freezing the entire system until it got back to work), so I picked up a 2 terabyte disk today. Moving my 146 gigs of Steam folder over right now.
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I just wanted to say that, at this point, if you don't own Torchlight, you're a soulless shell of a human being.
I own it, but as a terrible unbalanced knockoff of a game that you have to spend a bunch of time getting mods for to make it playable, I am not a fan.
Is that alright? I own it, so I'm still good?
Soulless husk.
I own Torchlight, and I've probably put 3-4 hours into it, but for some reason the game just doesn't grip me. I haven't had much motivation to go back and play it. With Diablo 1, you knew that as you were ever descending through the catacombs, caves, and all of that, that you were drawing ever nearer to Hell and Diablo himself.
That sense of ominous foreboding is not present in Torchlight. I have no idea why I'm continually descending deeper into the mine and I don't have a lot of motivation to do so, other than a vague plea for help from a bunch of uninteresting townsfolk.
I don't see why I have to buy yet another Diablo style dungeon hack just to retain something I'm not really using anyway.
I have never bought anything on steam before and so I decided to grab GTA4 for 5 bucks.
3 hours later I'm about ready to uninstall this piece of shit software.
I cant tell if this game just plays like ass or its my my system. I'm told that some patches are supposed to make it play better. Even with everything turned down I can barely control the car. (With everything on, I get one frame every two seconds.. I shit you not).
So I'm supposed to install patches with some "games for windows" bullshit?
What with this "social" crap too.
How can I tell what version of GTA4 I'm running? Can someone just point me to the stupid patch so I can install it myself. It took me almost a day to download of steam. I hate to think of this as a waste of time.
You realize these are all issues with GTA4 being a crappy console port and not actually problems with Steam, correct?
GTA4 takes a beast of a rig to run well. The machine I run it on is a Core 2 Quad 3.0, 8 gigs of ram, 2x 9800 GT's. The video cards are old and dated which slows me down but I pull a playable 25-30 fps with decent settings and res at 1920 x 1200. Games for Windows Live allows you to sign into your Xbox Live account to rake up achievements and have Live access like friends and so on. Click here for Social Club details
I didn't play much GTA IV, but my friend bought it back when it came out and it ran fine on his PC (8800 GT, Quad Core something, 4 gigs of RAM) and on my PC (8800GTS, E6700 [dual core 2.6 GHz), 2 gigs of RAM) at 1280x1024. He bought Episodes from Liberty City or whatever and he says the performance is even better.
Like I said I didn't play much but my 8800GTS is pretty old and I was getting 30 FPS with everything on high, I think.
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Bluerg, I was going to try and get away with just watching a Let's Play of The Void but then I remembered that LP's of any first person games make me motion sick. The only thing I wasn't able to discern from the LP is, can you just save at anytime and does it allow multiple saves?
Knockoff of what? Diablo? You know Torchlight is made by the original creators of Diablo, right?
Your assertion assumes that a creator cannot copy himself, which I believe is a fallacy. I present Michael Bay and every single one of his movies as my evidence.
And besides, knockoff or not, it's still a damned enjoyable game.
Now that we've ended that conversation, let's get back to the topic at hand. So I hear Valve has some kind of digital distribution service? Wow, I love living in the future.
I didn't play much GTA IV, but my friend bought it back when it came out and it ran fine on his PC (8800 GT, Quad Core something, 4 gigs of RAM) and on my PC (8800GTS, E6700 [dual core 2.6 GHz), 2 gigs of RAM) at 1280x1024. He bought Episodes from Liberty City or whatever and he says the performance is even better.
Like I said I didn't play much but my 8800GTS is pretty old and I was getting 30 FPS with everything on high, I think.
Mine seems to hate my guts. Random commands don't seem to want to work, important things like 'getting your cellphone out' seems to simply not function. Oddly enough, the game lets me remap the keys for that, but when I press those keys, Nada. On top of that I had to use a third party prog to make the game reconize my gamepad... just all around this purchase is turning into the most frustrating modern game purchase in many, many years. WTF, Rockstar.
Oh, add in the requirement to log into TWO different goddamn services I DONT WANT just to play the bloody thing. Gah.
I didn't play much GTA IV, but my friend bought it back when it came out and it ran fine on his PC (8800 GT, Quad Core something, 4 gigs of RAM) and on my PC (8800GTS, E6700 [dual core 2.6 GHz), 2 gigs of RAM) at 1280x1024. He bought Episodes from Liberty City or whatever and he says the performance is even better.
Like I said I didn't play much but my 8800GTS is pretty old and I was getting 30 FPS with everything on high, I think.
Well they recently patched it to run better on systems in general. For all the shit people gave it, it runs smooth as silk on my 2.4 Core i5, 4 gigs of Ram, and Nividia GTS 360M. Only thing it needs is more AA, which is apparently just a problem with the port in general.
Bluerg, I was going to try and get away with just watching a Let's Play of The Void but then I remembered that LP's of any first person games make me motion sick. The only thing I wasn't able to discern from the LP is, can you just save at anytime and does it allow multiple saves?
No, yes.
However you can save a lot of the time. The game is made of many rooms, you can save whenever you're between rooms, in the "world" map.
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Consider it's easily the best Diablo clone in a starved genre (sacred 2 was ok, but D3 is a while off as is DS3) and very very cheap. It's got great art direction and well put together combat, the infinite dungeon just adds more value.
Apparently Dungeon Siege 3 is supposed to be hitting before D3. Eurogamer had a preview which made it sound promising. I am mildly amused by the fact that they may very well have released all three of the titles in that franchise in the space between Diablo 2 and Diablo 3.
Indeed, it has an early 2011 date pegged in but I have not actually see it as yet, it did sound good though. I wonder if that being multi platform (and Torchlight coming to XBLA) will encourage Blizzard to see that consoles are just fine and dandy for ARPG's as long as you nail the interface.
Interface can only go so far. I'm not sure I believe that Diablo 3 would work flawlessly on a gamepad, you'd need to make some fundamental changes to the gameplay mechanics in order to accommodate for that. But whatever the case actually is, I don't think that's really the main issue.
The thing is that Diablo 3, like Starcraft 2, is fundamentally tied to Battle.net. As in that whole infrastructure is very much a core part of the gameplay mechanics, at least for online. And that's a system I don't see Microsoft giving the freedom to allow onto the 360. Even when it comes to something simple like updates, if you don't allow a game like Diablo to be updated regularly, quickly and freely, it gets broken fast, and you just end up with an upset playerbase screaming in your ear about how much you clearly despise them.
cf. Team Fortress 2.
I would've said Sony as well, but I was pretty surprised when they announced that Steamworks was coming to the PS3 and that this would be how Portal would be updating (amongst other things). So I guess it's not completely outside the realm of possibility there.
EDIT: Although I do think that going to consoles is probably Dungeon Siege 3's biggest advantage. If Diablo 3 becomes a phenomenon, then DS3 is ideally positioned to be the alternative to anyone that wants to play a western style ARPG on the consoles. I wouldn't be surprised to see it sell on that fact alone.
Heck, I remember back when Diablo 3 was first announced, all of a sudden Titan Quest jumped right back into the Steam top 10.
Anyone ever played this Madballs game? Seems like some mindless multi-player fun.
It's 50% off and I'm thinking about getting a 4 pack and gifting it to a group of my friends for our mini lan parties.
I played it when it was BaboViolent, pretty solid top down twin stick shooter fun. Mindless fun wholly dependent on how populated the servers are.
I have never bought anything on steam before and so I decided to grab GTA4 for 5 bucks.
3 hours later I'm about ready to uninstall this piece of shit software.
I cant tell if this game just plays like ass or its my my system. I'm told that some patches are supposed to make it play better. Even with everything turned down I can barely control the car. (With everything on, I get one frame every two seconds.. I shit you not).
So I'm supposed to install patches with some "games for windows" bullshit?
What with this "social" crap too.
How can I tell what version of GTA4 I'm running? Can someone just point me to the stupid patch so I can install it myself. It took me almost a day to download of steam. I hate to think of this as a waste of time.
Not seen any kind of sheen in Windows or OSX version...what settings do you have ticked? there are not many at all.
Yep, you're fine.
While I think "knockoff" is a pretty fair criticism, I'm not sure where you're getting unbalanced. I have precisely zero mods and the game plays perfectly fine. I also think the difficulty ramps up nicely, and that the classes do some pretty interesting things in and of themselves. Also, lots of nifty mechanics that I would like to see incorporated into similar games within the genre, and that are worthwhile expanding upon. The pet and its functionality in particular are pretty awesome.
But hey, that's me. I like games within the Diablo genre, but it's not to everbody's taste.
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That music? You know the in-game music that sounds so reminiscent of Trinsic from Diablo 1? Guess who did that.
Aaaaanddd.... uninstalled. Thanks a lot Steam, you've been a blast, and to Rockstar, Fuck you! Evidently you don't want me playing your shitty game and I'm glad I only lost $5 from the deal.
Its a s shame really. Read Dead Redemption looked kinda fun. If this is the kind of bullshit I have to go though to play a game on my PC, no thanks.
Whilst GFWL is a horrible service, that shouldn't really put you off of Steam itself.
In general though, yeah the port they did for GTA4 for the PC was beset by any number of problems. Poor performance for anyone not running a quad-core for a start, and even poor performance then.
After that, well the whole Rockstar community thing was daft, but they patched that out eventually. Only problem is that GFWL is absolutely terrible when it comes to patching things.
You ever wonder why Fallout 3 made use of GFWL, but New Vegas is going with Steamworks? It's because half the time GFWL just doesn't work. It often makes updating and patching an outright chore. Singleplayer games are usually fine, but trying to do anything online based with it can often be pretty frustrating.
Soulless husk.
GTA IV is a horrible port by all accounts I've seen. Don't give up on PC gaming because of GTA IV. Just play good PC games, which Steam has tons of for way cheap.
Hahaha, wow you sound bitter there dude.
WTF, I thought Shadow of the Serpent Riders was the sequel. God damnit, I could've been playing Heretic all this time! I always did think it was odd that the sequel was on Steam and the original wasn't.
I've never played the sequel. The shift to 3rd person seemed odd to me at the time.
He's kind of got a point, though. Is it an inconvenience? Yes. Is it worth that dramatic of a proclamation? To most people, I would think not. There are better injustices in the world to rage against.
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I suppose a lot of it is from years of seeing people shit all over PC gaming because they don't have the two neurons it takes to rub together to produce the ability to Google a problem and solve it in 10 minutes. Somehow people have grown so entitled that anything more difficult than putting a CD into the console and hitting play is some sort of ridiculous torture that can't possibly be put up with. I mean, back in the old days you had to type crazy things into the DOS prompt just to get a game to run, and pretty much every other hobby on earth comes with strenuous physical exertion, hours of preparation, extensive research into the necessary equipment, travel time, chance of injury, or something like that. The craziest thing I've had to do to get a PC game to run lately is mess around with DOSBox, and even that is only because the game was old as hell. If someone can't figure out Games For Windows Live + Steam + Rockstar Social Club (which is, of course, bullshit, and most games aren't anywhere near that bad), I think I'm fine if they go take a hike and dick around with their 360 until it red rings again and they can stop paying monthly for XBOX Live.
Heretic 2 was a sweet game.
You realize these are all issues with GTA4 being a crappy console port and not actually problems with Steam, correct?
I own Torchlight, and I've probably put 3-4 hours into it, but for some reason the game just doesn't grip me. I haven't had much motivation to go back and play it. With Diablo 1, you knew that as you were ever descending through the catacombs, caves, and all of that, that you were drawing ever nearer to Hell and Diablo himself.
That sense of ominous foreboding is not present in Torchlight. I have no idea why I'm continually descending deeper into the mine and I don't have a lot of motivation to do so, other than a vague plea for help from a bunch of uninteresting townsfolk.
So, my 320 gig SATA disk seemed to be dying on me (during heavy load it randomly stopped working for 5-20 seconds, freezing the entire system until it got back to work), so I picked up a 2 terabyte disk today. Moving my 146 gigs of Steam folder over right now.
I don't see why I have to buy yet another Diablo style dungeon hack just to retain something I'm not really using anyway.
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GTA4 takes a beast of a rig to run well. The machine I run it on is a Core 2 Quad 3.0, 8 gigs of ram, 2x 9800 GT's. The video cards are old and dated which slows me down but I pull a playable 25-30 fps with decent settings and res at 1920 x 1200. Games for Windows Live allows you to sign into your Xbox Live account to rake up achievements and have Live access like friends and so on. Click here for Social Club details
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Like I said I didn't play much but my 8800GTS is pretty old and I was getting 30 FPS with everything on high, I think.
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Your assertion assumes that a creator cannot copy himself, which I believe is a fallacy. I present Michael Bay and every single one of his movies as my evidence.
And besides, knockoff or not, it's still a damned enjoyable game.
Now that we've ended that conversation, let's get back to the topic at hand. So I hear Valve has some kind of digital distribution service? Wow, I love living in the future.
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Mine seems to hate my guts. Random commands don't seem to want to work, important things like 'getting your cellphone out' seems to simply not function. Oddly enough, the game lets me remap the keys for that, but when I press those keys, Nada. On top of that I had to use a third party prog to make the game reconize my gamepad... just all around this purchase is turning into the most frustrating modern game purchase in many, many years. WTF, Rockstar.
Oh, add in the requirement to log into TWO different goddamn services I DONT WANT just to play the bloody thing. Gah.
Well they recently patched it to run better on systems in general. For all the shit people gave it, it runs smooth as silk on my 2.4 Core i5, 4 gigs of Ram, and Nividia GTS 360M. Only thing it needs is more AA, which is apparently just a problem with the port in general.
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No, yes.
However you can save a lot of the time. The game is made of many rooms, you can save whenever you're between rooms, in the "world" map.