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...I'm glad Psychonauts is coming out on PC.

Thats absolutely Kwazy. I guess they were fed up with movie theater costs and decided to branch out into their own occult ampitheater...thing.

I guess you can't have a japanese surgery sim without the requsite and bizarre victorian mystery man....

I clicked on every single one of those.

Its more insulting that all the people who got that memo were fired.

Well, supposedly the changes to Source, HL2 and its mods will be far greater than most games in the past...almost like a constant update to support new graphics abilities in the old game, refinements to gameplay, etc. Of course these balancing changes are more or less for the multiplayer aspects (like Counter Strike, Day of Defeat and Team Fortress 2, if its ever released), but for ongoing updating processes (as well as the ungoing fight against piracy), steam makes sense.

Yeah it was a pretty abrupt ending, the show was pretty buzarre all-around, because it was more of a montage of some footage and no real insider look into Lucasarts. It was just that annoying announcer wasting time.

No, I think all patches and whatnot will be Steam based. But its better to have an automated system...if it works. And wel'll have to wait and see if Steam improves from its current shaky state.

I'm not sure about buying over steam if there is no incentive....if its cheaper (which it really should be) then things might be different. The Steam feature that has me excited is that after you've purchased the game and registered with Steam, you can play it on any computer anywhere, as long as you sign into Steam. That way you'll never feel screwed if you misplace a CD. I think the HDR lighting (an example would be the sun kind of over-taking the power lines in the light house picture) goes a long way to making everything more believable. Also, in some other screens I saw some glass deformation that looked very awesome, like doom 3's. I love the little details.

G4 is the kind of thing you'd watch only at 5:30 in the morning when your red, watery eyes can't stand to watch another infommercial. Plus, the proliferation of $tr33t-WiZ3 asian hosts makes their connections to actual gaming seem tenuous at best.

DMT

Oh yeah, I forgot about Chris Remo testing it. I guess the NDA is probably very strict....but give me a sign Remo! Give me a sign! ? ? ? On an unrelated note Chris Remo is the kind of name you're kind of compelled to usually say both parts of. Like Thomas Edison or Che Guevara.

Its for PS2, it will never come to Xbox because it sold quite poorly and most people don't know about it. It also happens to be my favorite game for the system. Its a puzzle-solving platforming game with some light combat. Its got a pretty good story too, even though its underdeveloped. Has a great art style and great graphics. It was really under-rated by gamespot, but if you want a general idea bout the story read the IGN review. It sums things up accurately in my opinion.

Godspeed you black emperor

Well I'd say the connectivity feature is much different than the DS because the touch pad comes with the intital hardware and requires the user to pay nothing more to experience the games. I mean the thing has wireless capabilities and a microphone...there's really not much Nintendo could create to "add-on" and dilute their fan base with (for certain games atleast). This lets developers change the once exclusive add-on aspect into something any one can use and enjoy.

Character, plot, style and theme wise they don't change at all; the gameplay has evolved however, and been revolutionary at times, like Super Mario 64 and Zelda on N64. But the core concepts in those franchises are leveling off, waiting for the next big shift in how games are played. But until that shift the small steps they take in betwen games now is good enough. Besides, how a game is actually played may not have anything to deal with its greatness. Grim Fandango is in most ways exactly like any other adventure game, but it's different where it counts, and is therefore the best game of all time. And actually, with the DS, nintendo is the first platform-maker that's really trying to evolve rather than leaving it to the developers. So Nintendo's pretty great all over.

Yeah you're right. Thats a pretty cool lookig world, running aroud on ammo belts and what not.

Please accept my apology

Well the Xbox runs at TV resolution which is like 380xsomething or other, and it still looks kind of wonky at that resolution. After enabling the FPS counter, I see the game is more erratic than I percieved through normal play. There were a few occasions where I went down to around 15fps. But just walking around halls is atleast 30 and usually more like 40-50, on medium 1024. I've also found that disabling the effects on my set-up basically does nothing for frame rates, all advanced-options disabled is like a 4fps boost. Another wierd thing is that setting between medium and low made the frame rate slightly more consistent, but just by 2-5 fps. And changing the resolution from 640x480 to 1024x768 made almost zero difference....pretty bizarre. And I forgot to mention I'm running the Catalyst 4.9 drivers. Which you should download...maybe thats the main problem . If that doesn't work, which it should, then try this. Go the Doom config file in Doom3/base. And make the following 3 paramters like mine: seta image_useCache "1" seta image_cacheMegs "128" seta image_cacheMinK "20480" I think that would get rid of your video/audio loading problem and make all of the levels load faster. Tell me if its succesful!

Vice City was a big improvement from the first (it also had that light bloom off of the windshielf effect, which was nice), but I was thinking more along the original GTA3's "I'm a stroke victim in Las Vegas" visual filter. I think it was either to mask the frame rate or the aliasing.

The minimum req for RAM for D3 is like 400mb. I have 768MB DDR PC3200. My guess is that your memory is being drained by something else or maybe you just don't have enough to begin with? Does the game crash at medium setting?, does it play like a slide show or just experience bouts of slowdown? Otherwise, my specs are more or less equal to yours.

Whats the story there? I've got my 9600Pro on Medium 1024x768, I don't have the FPS counter displayed but it runs pretty smoothly with everything on. Maybe you're not meeting the minimum RAM or CPU requirement?

I wonder what kind of nauseating filter effect they'll cook up for this outing. I remember how rockstar was bragging how GTA 3 was the end of the playstation 2's capabilities, that they'd reached the limit. Looks like they changed their minds.

I can't wait to hijack a combine and then spend 6 hours driving it back to the city! Total Mayhem!1!!

The other rumors on that list looked like complete bullshit, so how much credit can we give this?