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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Puyallup, WA
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They said it's only in preproduction so definitely 2020ish. |
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: The scorched Desert
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No word on XCom 2 expansion?
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#103 |
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Join Date: Nov 2013
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I don't think E3 starts properly until tomorrow so we'll see.
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#104 |
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Colorado
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I take it as positive news that Elder Scrolls VI is a thing. Can't assume anything these days.
I guess this is as good of a place to ask a long standing question. I built my current PC in 2010 and it is still working very well (e.g., playing modded Skyrim or Enderal on medium-high, Assassin's Creed on high, etc.). But there will come a time where I would need to build a more modern box. So the question is how to people do this nowadays (do people even do this??). I checked the usual sites, at least the ones that are left, and I don't really see any customization or build-it-from-scratch options. Even NewEgg starts with something that you can only tweak. Help an old guy out, where and how to build a new PC? |
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#105 |
Death Herald
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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NewEgg and Amazon still sell individual components that you can build up yourself completely from scratch.
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#106 | |
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
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Wait, so there is no single player mode anymore? I'm somewhat cool with a Borderlands style game where you can play alongside someone if you want (which in turn increases the difficulty of opponents). But I don't really want to be on the same map as some random kids who can dedicate 14 hours of their life to the game. The fun of Fallout was exploring the world, doing the side quests, and so on. The last game went away a bit with the whole "build your camp" crap. Also the map felt like a barren wasteland and not nearly as fun as previous versions. My guess is they're going the GTA route where the online mode is where the money is at. Most people won't like it but all they need is a base of people who will pump money into add-on packs to upgrade their players, bases, weapons, etc and they'll make bank. The same bullshit is going on with sports games right now. |
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Dayton, Ohio
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#108 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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FWIW, if you didn't know already, I think Tom's Hardware is a great resource for DIY Tom’s Hardware: For The Hardcore PC Enthusiast |
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#109 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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I think I read there will be single player but you should play multi-player. The implication was the single player experience won't be near as rich. |
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Implied but not stated outright issues include: Lack of NPCs (total absence?) multiple players all with a single Quest (i.e. objective) ... so where's the replay? presumably the end of VATS (coupled with a bad ads, that alone might kill it) the likely end of the modding community (which IMO kept the IP alive during the looooong dev cycles) a "settlement system" that appears to be "build, throw it in a suitcase & plop it down next time you load the game" ... yeah, that's immersive alright likely broken scavving -- either you get 1/12th as much stuff or there's 12x stuff in the universe (based on my belief that it was implied that 12 players was kind of the sweet spot, I'd swear I caught that somewhere) And that's just off the top of my head now, never mind all the shit I realized in the hours after the presentation
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#111 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
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Reddit has a great community for building too.
/r/buildapc - Planning on building a computer but need some advice? This is the place to ask! |
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#112 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Colorado
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Thank you all, very helpful. Right now, I am leaning towards customizing a build to ensure compatibility among the tons of choices. My case, power and hard drives are all good, so all I really need is mb, cpu/fan, ram and a gtx.
I'll make my current build last a while longer or until it fails. I really won't need anything until early next decade when Elder Scrolls 6 comes out. |
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Pro Rookie
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Dayton, Ohio
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Might want to consider a new power supply while you are at it. 8 years is getting into territory that I would definitely not want to trust putting brand new, expensive components into.
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#114 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Oh, I didn't realize that Todd Howard outright confirmed bluntly "no NPCs" in the post-presentation chat. Also confirmed that Vats "exists" but there's no time slow element, it sounded very much like a simple aim-assist. Also claimed "100% committed" to mods but "not at launch".
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#115 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
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Doesn't look like it unfortunately, but it looks like one is being worked on from the games Steam depot. |
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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This sucks. Any chance they have another traditional FO or ES in progress or is all development going into this? |
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#117 | |
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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We got a 10-15 second fly-in "trailer" for ES6. No date, and that same post-show chat described it as being in pre-production. I'd think 2021 or 2022, with Starfield coming before it probably in 2020.
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#118 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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At my age? It's a LOT lol And, really, the dearth of interesting enough to play games is at least a small part of my issue with this. Last ... two years(?) give or take, my most played games are probably Fallout 4 (until the Sim Settlements mod got so wonky), Skyrim remaster, and BF1.
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#120 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Colorado Springs
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Jurassic World Evolution is apparently being summarized as a very good mobile game, and a very shallow and dull PC game.
Disappointing. Not surprising, but disappointing. A dino zoo tycoon game woulda been fun. |
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#121 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Puyallup, WA
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#122 | |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
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Have you played Witcher 3 and it's DLC? I'm guessing yes but that game falls in the same category as the one's you mentioned. |
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#123 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
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The whole shift away from single-player is sad. I get that microtransactions are where the money is at, but I loved having those franchises I could come to and get 100+ hours out of on my own.
I'm at an age where I can't dedicate 30 hours a week to remaining competitive online. The games that do have some kind of currency system eventually get riddled with hackers on the PC. I'm sure the new Fallout will be a huge success. Maybe it doesn't sell as many copies up front, but they'll be able to bring in way more than $60 a sale. |
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#124 | |
Resident Alien
Join Date: Jun 2001
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The reviews I read were positive enough that I think I'll give it a go. I love dinosaurs, and I had fun with Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis years ago. The kids liked it when I would knock down all the buildings and let 20 T. rexes loose on our park visitors. If this is a prettier version of that, I'll be satisfied. Last edited by Kodos : 06-12-2018 at 03:50 PM. |
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#125 | |
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Both me & the kid describe W3 as "quite possibly the best game I've ever played". Unfortunately, for whatever reason(s), it was the most fun game either of us has played. I truly think it's as well executed as anything I've seen, I just never could get quite ... into it. I probably got, I dunno, 50-60 percent complete maybe?
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#126 |
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Colorado
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Detroit: Become Human - 9.75/10 I just watched the whole playthrough on YouTube (theRadBrad) and was completely blown away by what I witnessed. I loved Quantic Dream's Beyond Two Souls and this was their next game. Even though I am not much of a fan of futuristic stuff or robots, the stories, voice acting/mocap, music, graphics, atmosphere, etc. were so superb that it had me hooked and I can't stop thinking about it, even if I couldn't play it. But what really blew me away was discovering how the choices - even early on - can affect the rest of the game/stories, to the point that an alternate choice can give you a whole new storyline - and there are dozens of such choices. Most cinematic, story-driven games are fairly linear (for good reasons) but this is more of a cinematic, choice-driven game.
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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I saw a brief snippet of the playthrough and knew this didn't belong on my radar after seeing the dishwashing sequence. These games -- or at least the work of this particular dev -- definitely seems to be an acquired taste. (The point of my commenting here is noting the vastly different impact playthroughs can have on people)
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Join Date: Sep 2004
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I'd personally give it an 8, after initially being super hooked on it. Some parts of it are phenomenal, others not so much. The endings feel a little underwhelming compared to previous games, and the story is the least original the studio's ever put out. I'd have to play Beyond: Two Souls again to see, but right now, Heavy Rain is still on top of my Quantic Dreams ranking list. Overall, David Cage is one of those developers there's not much middle ground on - either you love his work or you hate it (I'm talking purely about the games themselves - as a person, he's... got some issues, which is why I think he gets hated so much and his games trashed by some people).
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#129 | |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Colorado
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That is very fair, my score reflected being able to watch the playthrough, which afforded me the luxury of fast-forwarding through the more tedious parts (like finding all the clues in a scene). I think if I had played it, my score would the same as your’s. I wonder, though, if you made even more diiferent choices, whether there would better endings that you had not seen? The ending I saw was the most predictable endings (everyone lived happily ever after) and I felt that was good enough. |
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#130 |
Hockey Boy
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Royal Oak, MI
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I know there was a lot of angst here about the "Fallout '76" announcement, but if there is any truth to the rumors that you can set up a private serve and just play the game with your friends - purely co-operative - this game just skyrocketed up my list.
At this point, the vast majority of my gaming is done co-operatively with friends. It's just so much more enjoyable.
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Here's how Polygon described it (and this jibes with what I heard Fraud Howard say in the interview myself) so I'll just quote them Quote:
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#132 |
Hockey Boy
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Royal Oak, MI
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The "Last Of Us: Part II" game play trailer was amazing. The first one remains one of my favorite games of all time.
The Last of Us Part 2 Gameplay Trailer (4K) - E3 2018 - YouTube
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#134 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Haven't touched it in over a week. Neither has the kid. We're both around in-game Day 9 or Day 10 I believe. And we both, I think, have similar reasons that we're in no rush to go back: -- The repetitive gameplay -- The lack of sense of progress, each time you kill a heart the next one is a little more difficult. Yippie. It starts to feel like you're on rails with boss battles -- The lack of explanation / exposition. You really don't know wth is going on, which is fine IF you feel like you're making progress towards figuring it out. Little sense of that for either of us so far -- The lack of clarity about how the other zones work. You know there's an option to enter one of the other maps ... but there's no clue whether that's worthwhile / meaningful. And I mean none. Would it be starting over on a new map for no purpose? Would it progress the story / provide different challenges? Your guess is as good as ours. -- The cost/benefit of the difficulty. Granted, I'm not the best shooter in the world but I think it's fair to say this is reasonably difficult (at least in the early game). Problem is, that difficulty doesn't feel like it has enough payoff to warrant suffering through it. I believe we'll both eventually either recharge enough or simply get bored enough to dive back in at some point. But in terms of feeling any urgency to do so, there's none here.
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#135 |
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Thanks for the update.
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#136 | |
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Really enjoyed the first one too. Looks good! |
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#137 |
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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If anyone ever comes up with a more convoluted forum setup than Paradox, warn me ahead of time so that I don't even try to buy from them.
Good GOD.
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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I guess I was all hung up on Fallout 76 but there will be an Elder Scrolls 6. Before you get too excited, its a long way off.
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#140 | |
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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In this case the problem was needing a user-created file that might allow me to run HOI3 on a Win10 laptop. Aaaaand the link was only available on the official forums ![]()
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#141 |
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Join Date: May 2018
Location: Earth
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The N. Sane Trilogy (first three games) is now available on other platforms other than PlayStation, you can now get in for Nintendo Switch, PC or Xbox One.
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Some DLC news below. I'm itching to get this even with your commentaries. It may not be as repayable as other games but it'll hopefully give me 30 hours of fun for the $30. Quote:
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#143 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Finally bought SOD2 for the PC. I love the genre and figure it'll give me at least $30 worth of entertainment.
I've not been able to find a control to prevent the character POV from "jumping" around as much. Is there one? |
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#144 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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This sounds interesting.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/201...-date-trailer/ Quote:
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#145 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Some news on Starfield and ES6
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#146 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Beta game video of Pathfinder. Looks promising.
Let's Play Pathfinder: Kingmaker (Beta) - Ep. 01 - YouTube |
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#147 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Colorado Springs
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This might need its own post. My 4 year old *so* wants to play Minecraft (she watches her brother). Anyone know of any simpler Minecraft-esque games out there? A cursory googling didn't really show anything.
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#148 | |
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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fwiw, here's a 2014 article that kinda goes along this line of questioning. Most of the games mentioned are more for ages 6+ but I'm thinking maybe it could at least give you some sort of jumping off point?
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#149 | |
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Somewhere More Familiar
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Terraria is 2D, but probably not any simpler nor as exciting as Minecraft to her. |
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#150 |
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Puyallup, WA
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If you're a fan of Papers, Please then I strongly recommend taking a look at Not Tonight.
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