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SteveWinwood
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F.E.A.R. was super awesome. I will put people on my ignore list who say otherwise.
Blue Ninja
Member
Norton Mapes isn't exactly the thing I remember when I think about F.E.A.R., either.
That helicopter landing at Armacham headquarters, though... Damn. That's badass.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Oh yeah, that thing was the epitome of making the player feel powerful.
Monolith deserves more love in general. F.E.A.R., NOLF, Shogo, Tron 2.0 (arguably one of the best licensed games ever made, and a damn good game in its own right)...
Just finished the 3rd stage of Castlevania, and it's a strange game. The combat feels great, but the camera is beyond terrible. And I feel the game doesn't reward exploring, because although there are a few sections where the path branches, if I take the right one first it won't allow me to go back and explore the one I missed. And that really sucks, because I don't want to have to replay levels later, I like exploring it all the first time (unless I need a specific item/power-up/skill to access, that is).
Oh, and according to Aida64, the CPU temperature is normal during the massive slowdowns (around 50°C), but the GPU reached 96°C or so, which I think is pretty high. Unless the sensors aren't working well, I may be on the road to have a toasted graphics card. I have no idea why, because I cleaned it less than 3 weeks ago.
Oh, and according to Aida64, the CPU temperature is normal during the massive slowdowns (around 50°C), but the GPU reached 96°C or so, which I think is pretty high. Unless the sensors aren't working well, I may be on the road to have a toasted graphics card. I have no idea why, because I cleaned it less than 3 weeks ago.
maneil99
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GPUS can handle high temps however most GPU's have awful fan slops, manually set your fan to a higher %
maneil99
Member
I have a guy that sells those AMD GPU Gold Bundles, was wondering if anyone wants to split it. He normally sells them for 10-15$. I already split with someone else and got SR4 for my 5$ share. Was looking at DMC or Dirt Showdown or maybe we can save it for new games ie BF4? PM me, maybe we can get 3 people to split it? I just need 1 game.
How can I do that? From the Nvidia drivers?
maneil99
Member
What GPU are you using
Atraveller
Banned
MSI Afterburner?
maneil99
Member
I have no idea, things went horribly wrong
It's a GeForce 9800 GTX+. Old, but good (or at least it is whenever it feels like working properly).
I use the regular Nvidia drivers, and my card's brand is XFX. No idea if that changes things.
Never had to deal with something like this. Usually things started working fine after I gave them a proper cleaning.
maneil99
Member
MSI afterburner works with all GPU's, either use that or EVGA Precision X. Both allow fan control. By Default Nvidia cards target 80c. If your GPU is old it will get higher, I am confident cranking the fan up will drastically help
Uh-huh so you managed to miss a double post, which was only 3 minutes ago then you realised that you were at the bottom of the page so the only logical solution was to post it again and fake ignorance?
Atraveller
Banned
AC3 in the summer sale's price was pathetic, do Ubisoft really expect people to buy that at 24 dollars?
BoosterDuck
Banned
good
There's people that bought it at full price (not me, I couldn't stand it after 3 hours, glad I got it for 'free' with PS+). It takes all sorts, man.
maneil99
Member
No, what happened was instead of editing the post I quoted my own post and edited it there, then I deleted the first post once I realised
Atraveller
Banned
Fans preorder or buy on launch, but for the rest of us that waited for sales, 24 is hardly appealing.
And that's just the standard edition, Ubisoft have gone crazy with their pricing.
I got it for $11 a few weeks ago.
Assassin's Creed 3 is such a chore. My brother bought it (he's not really well informed on games) for $40 on PS3. It really is a huggeeee drag. He bought Revelations with it and he played that, which is when he noticed Revelations was getting stale. AC3.....I watched him play it and holy crap, it's janky, unoptimized, boring.
Don't bother until it's at most $10.
Don't bother until it's at most $10.
So you totally ignored the first post you did then.
Look you know you are not supposed to trade here, the rule is listed in the OP.
Atraveller
Banned
Steam version? Or just Uplay?
Yeah, I played for that long and I barely got to the New World, playing a total douchebag the entire time and when I finally get there, I'm still in the tutorial? Also, there's almost no verticality, even in the first town, so I figured I'd best bail before I lost more time on it.
Agreed, needs more Sorsha Ronan gifs/talk to be relevant to the thread
Atraveller
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Bought Revelation for 10.20 a long time ago, it was ok, and I'm not going to pay more for an AC game.
What I liked most about Revelations was the refreshing colourfulness and setting of Istanbul. AC3...oh man, just so pale, there was no life. Also, the redesigning of characters was grossly unnecessary.
Atraveller
Banned
Wilderness is boring? I actually prefer Italy over Istanbul, more historical buildings to scale and see.
When do you even get to the wilderness? All I got were like, little wooden houses spaced far apart and a wide open wood/dirt fort, which is really not what I signed up for in an assassin's creed.
Were you playing as the white guy still?
Yep. I'd just... gotten back from the fort where I got the... whatever it was, with the random dudes that spawned on roofs on the way back. That's about the point where I said "yeah, okay, I'm done"
Gonna try this if it keeps happening. Hopefully it'll help.
Uplay D:
That's why lol. You didn't even get to interesting plot point, which leads you to play as the native guy, but even after that, it all just dies down.
Atraveller
Banned
Dude, I'd been playing for like, 2-3 hours as a total douchebag that I knew wasn't the main character in a stupid boxed off tutorial with little areas that went "And now you are going to learn to do <whatever>" which usually came down to "PRESS X NOW".
My time is more valuable than that.
Quite a few hours. Like, it draaaaaaaaaaaags.
The entire time I was saying to myself, "When are they going to get to the fireworks factory?" That's a Simpsons reference btw. Basically another way of expressing the anticipation of reaching the good/exciting part of something, but it never comes.
That plot point is probably the best thing in the game lol.
Its literally like a 6 hr tutorial. You don't get out of it until like sequence 5 or 6 and you play some other douchebag for first 4 sequences. Mind you its not as bad as FF13.
I"M THE COOLEST DAWG IN TOWN
While the tutorial is indeed 6-8 hours long, it's maybe the best part of the game, so, yeah.
Atraveller
Banned
That sounds...sad.
It's probably a sign for things to come. Like honestly, did Ubisoft play this game from their best selling and most popular franchise? How could this have gotten past QA?
It isn't really, it's not a particularly bad tutorial, and there are genuinely beautiful set-pieces, but like pretty much every AC the game gets more and more boring as you play it...
The British guy is a total asshole, though, and the zones you get to play in, while beautiful, are pitifully small and linear.
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