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I just finished up "Starship Tycoon". I got it in a discount rack at Wal*Mart... and got screwed. The game blows goats.
So, I am back to Total Annihilation. WOOT!!
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quote:Originally posted by Midgard_Dragon: Oh, and I didn't hate Atlantica. I actually enjoyed the sing-alongs.
You know, now that I've gotten to "Under the Sea" I'm realizing that it's not so bad. I think a significant part of the problem is how monumentally bad I am at it. If Ariel was in a funk before, she's got to be suicidal by the time I'm done with the song.
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I don't mind the music games in Atlantica, but trying to move around and such drives me crazy. I'd have rather had the old system, even if it is just for that one room.
I don't have an issue with the songs; SquareEnix just "borrowed" the judgement ring system from the Shadow Hearts series for that part of the game. Though I admit, "Under the Sea" gave me a headache until I figured out how to do it right.
I am soooo glad I have a week off coming up, though I've gotten pretty far in the time I've been able to play.
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quote:Originally posted by Midgard_Dragon: Oh, and I didn't hate Atlantica. I actually enjoyed the sing-alongs.
You know, now that I've gotten to "Under the Sea" I'm realizing that it's not so bad. I think a significant part of the problem is how monumentally bad I am at it. If Ariel was in a funk before, she's got to be suicidal by the time I'm done with the song.
It just takes practice. If you think Under the Sea is hard, just wait until you get to Ursula's Revenge and then the final song after that.
quote:Originally posted by Radical Dory: I don't mind the music games in Atlantica, but trying to move around and such drives me crazy. I'd have rather had the old system, even if it is just for that one room.
I don't have an issue with the songs; SquareEnix just "borrowed" the judgement ring system from the Shadow Hearts series for that part of the game. Though I admit, "Under the Sea" gave me a headache until I figured out how to do it right.
I am soooo glad I have a week off coming up, though I've gotten pretty far in the time I've been able to play.
My only problem with squeenix's adaptation of the judgement ring for Atlantica is all the moving around on screen. >_< It makes it pretty hard when you don't see the ring b/c you're watching ariel flip and the camera bob.
I still loved everything about this game, though. I beat it last night, and now I'm going back and playing through it on normal to get the
quote:Originally posted by Midgard_Dragon: It just takes practice.
And yet, I'm not actually getting better. True, I have eventually completed every song so far, but only after many, many tries. And if I go back to try them again after completing, I'm back to being terrible so I assume clearing them is just a fluke.
quote:My only problem with squeenix's adaptation of the judgement ring for Atlantica is all the moving around on screen. >_< It makes it pretty hard when you don't see the ring b/c you're watching ariel flip and the camera bob.
And the scene switching and captions.
Still, a really fantastic game. I'm surprised just how emotionally invested I've become in it.
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My idea about Colossus 10 turned out to work, so now I'm on Colossus 12. I also finished Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. I found it quite short and easy compared to the later ones.
I bought all the Grand Theft Auto games from GTA III onwards yesterday (I'm a bit behind the times) so I'll be having a go at those in a while... I also have a game called Sniper Elite that I chose from a free selection with a memory card; I thought it might be similar to Splinter Cell in some ways.
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quote:Originally posted by Richard W: My idea about Colossus 10 turned out to work, so now I'm on Colossus 12. I also finished Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. I found it quite short and easy compared to the later ones.
I bought all the Grand Theft Auto games from GTA III onwards yesterday (I'm a bit behind the times) so I'll be having a go at those in a while... I also have a game called Sniper Elite that I chose from a free selection with a memory card; I thought it might be similar to Splinter Cell in some ways.
PoP: Sand of Time is pretty easy, yeah, but I still think it's absolutely the best in the series. At the very least it's tied with The Two Thrones. I won't comment on the abomination that was Warrior Within. :x
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Anyhoo, still playing KH2, I went ahead and beat it and LOVED the ending cinematics. It didn't leave me with quite as many questions as KH1 did, but then, I haven't gotten the secret ending yet. I'm going back and replaying on normal and getting all the proper stuff to get said ending now. I'm still not bored with it, though.
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quote:Originally posted by Midgard_Dragon: PoP: Sand of Time is pretty easy, yeah, but I still think it's absolutely the best in the series. At the very least it's tied with The Two Thrones. I won't comment on the abomination that was Warrior Within. :x
I think I still prefer The Two Thrones, but I won't argue that too hard - they're both great. The order I played them might have made a difference.
I didn't think Warrior Within was that bad. OK, the music is very annoying after a while (and that's speaking as somebody who used to be quite in to thrash metal, and thinks the song itself is OK), and the Prince has suddenly changed from a fairly witty and charming character into somebody whose idea of conversation is "Die, bitch!" (that's much more noticeable after having played the first game, because The Two Thrones Prince seems to be a compromise), and the plot is a downer - especially the ending, which is very abrupt (I'm still wondering if I missed something and got a "worse" alternate ending), and you can get lost by taking a wrong turning in ways that you can't in the others. Oh, and some of the fights are disproportionately difficult even at the start. But the actual game and levels are still good. And the more annoying plot aspects are retrospectively sorted out by The Two Thrones, even if it does mean a jarring discontinuity between the games.
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I'll admit to being a bit of a hypocrite about TWW. I never actually finished the game. In fact, the horrible controls and horrible combat at the very beginning put me off so much that I couldn't bare to finish it. I was very hesitant to pick up TTT b/c of this, but I'm very very glad I did.
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I do think that The Warrior Within was the worst of the three - not least for being so short - but it definitely had it's moments. Some of the bits where you're running round the inside of the tower are great, and the bit with the planetarium is a lot of fun - ranking amongst the best bits of the series.
The original I think is the best in terms of character and story - the prince is likable and the device of it being a story that he's telling is a nifty one. I'd also rate the bit climbing up the outside of the castle at the end as being amongst the best in the series.
The 3rd one is very good, and works a good compromise, but I think there's too much emphasis on combat, and it's far too easy to win the combat as the dark prince (just stand still and hammer on the "O" key). And there's not any sequence in it that I'd say really stands out as particularly memorable. Oh, and the chariot races are nothing but a pain in the arse.
I think the ideal game would involve the more complex and difficult puzzles of the 2nd and 3rd, with most of the rest of it being informed by the 1st.
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Has anyone played the new Harvest Moon game? I'm really curious about it, I love that series.
Also, has anyone played Chibi Robo? I've heard that it's adorable, fun, and strangely reminiscent of Katamari Damacy. I hope to be able to play it soon.
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I'm playing Oblivion (surprise ). My PC is a 2.5 year-old P4 with a Radeon 9800 Pro. The game runs pretty smoothly, although obviously I can't max out all the details. Unlike Morrowind, Oblivion isn't as much of a CPU hog and like most games is GPU-intensive. Thankfully my aging Radeon keeps it clicking at 20-30 fps, which is smooth enough. This thread on the Elder Scrolls site details some fixes for Radeon users, and I found the Flip Queue Size to 1 command in ATI Tray Tools was enormously helpful; mouse lag is completely gone and the game seems to perform better. The savegame loading is pretty brisk and the in-game area loading is barely noticeable save for the loading text. Morrowind area loads could be quite a churn, especially in Balmora or if there were a lot of resource-using mods loaded up. I'm pleasantly surprised since there's so much motion in the landscapes instead of the static plants of Morrowind.
I've already installed a couple of simple "tweak" mods that I've found helpful. Specifically, the BTmod UI mod is very nice and expands the inventory/spell list screens to include 12+ listings instead of the default 6. The color map mod is nice, although mostly cosmetic.
Also, in my attempts to tweak the .ini, I set the BDoSpecularPass setting to 0. This improved my framerate by about 5. However, it does cause blackscreen CTDs at Weynon Priory due to some objects there that actually have specular lighting. Thankfully, someone fixed the glitch so I don't have to change the .ini everytime I want to enter Weynon.
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Have you beaten colossus 10 yet, trollface? I'm feeling smug.
quote:trollface said: ... the bit with the planetarium is a lot of fun - ranking amongst the best bits of the series.
Unless I'm forgetting something I think the planetarium is in Sands of Time - certainly there is a planetarium in Sands of Time and I can't remember one off-hand in Warrior Within.
I like the part where you climb the outside of the castle too, although again I think I prefer the similar part at the end of The Two Thrones - if only because the view over the city in that one actually gave me vertigo while sitting on my sofa!
I also thought the storytelling device was clever. It feels less like cheating when you constantly die and restart if it's made out that it didn't really happen and it was just a mistake in the storytelling. Like knowing that the narrator of a first-person book must (usually) survive. On the other hand, that doesn't apply to the narrator in The Two Thrones...
Midgard_Dragon, I know what you mean about that fight at the start of Warrior Within. If I hadn't already completed The Two Thrones, I may well have decided I was just crap at computer games and given up at that point myself. As it was, I knew I could actually play the bloody thing, so I persisted. But for a "tutorial" to introduce you to the new combat I thought it was absurdly difficult.
I discovered another game I'm crap at last night - GTA III... I'm always bad at anything involving driving. Fortunately, once I realised that trying to drive on the right side of the road (i.e. the wrong side) and obey traffic signals was not quite the point of the game, I stopped caring what I bumped into and started to enjoy it more. And I think I'm getting better. Completed 7 missions and did some random exploring and taxi driving (and tried the other sub-missions), but I still haven't worked out how you take cover and avoid immediately dying during shootouts though. There's certainly a lot to do in there...
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quote:Originally posted by Richard W: Have you beaten colossus 10 yet, trollface? I'm feeling smug.
quote:trollface said: ... the bit with the planetarium is a lot of fun - ranking amongst the best bits of the series.
Unless I'm forgetting something I think the planetarium is in Sands of Time - certainly there is a planetarium in Sands of Time and I can't remember one off-hand in Warrior Within.
I like the part where you climb the outside of the castle too, although again I think I prefer the similar part at the end of The Two Thrones - if only because the view over the city in that one actually gave me vertigo while sitting on my sofa!
I also thought the storytelling device was clever. It feels less like cheating when you constantly die and restart if it's made out that it didn't really happen and it was just a mistake in the storytelling. Like knowing that the narrator of a first-person book must (usually) survive. On the other hand, that doesn't apply to the narrator in The Two Thrones...
Midgard_Dragon, I know what you mean about that fight at the start of Warrior Within. If I hadn't already completed The Two Thrones, I may well have decided I was just crap at computer games and given up at that point myself. As it was, I knew I could actually play the bloody thing, so I persisted. But for a "tutorial" to introduce you to the new combat I thought it was absurdly difficult.
I discovered another game I'm crap at last night - GTA III... I'm always bad at anything involving driving. Fortunately, once I realised that trying to drive on the right side of the road (i.e. the wrong side) and obey traffic signals was not quite the point of the game, I stopped caring what I bumped into and started to enjoy it more. And I think I'm getting better. Completed 7 missions and did some random exploring and taxi driving (and tried the other sub-missions), but I still haven't worked out how you take cover and avoid immediately dying during shootouts though. There's certainly a lot to do in there...
I've attempted to play GTA3 and GTA:VC by obeying the traffic laws before. The problem is: no one else in the game does. At least, in GTA3, I would sit at a traffic light or stop sign, and someone behind me would ram me. These would be the same people who would get ticked when I scraped by them if I didn't obey traffic laws. It was certainly an interesting experience. One that lasted all of 5 minutes before I went back to being a bad boy. I pretty much suck at GTA games myself, once you get into the harder levels, but for some reason I still find myself enjoying games like GTA3 and VC. Haven't tried any of the later ones, but I know I wasn't all too fond of GTA's 1 and 2 plus their spinoffs.
Anyhoo, speaking of games, I can't believe I forgot to mention this! I've been playing the final release of Ultima V - Lazarus ; a remake of the original Ultima V. If anyone played the initial release, you'll know it was buggy as heck. In this release, most of those bugs, and all of the sidequest breaking ones especially, are fixed. I never got to experience the original Ultima V, instead coming into the series at Ultima VII, Serpent Isle, Ultima VIII, and Ultima IX (and Ultima Online), so this remake really really rocks for me, getting to experience one of the best games in one of my favorite series of all time. This I do between long periods of playing, of course, KH2.
quote:Originally posted by Oy vey iz mir: Has anyone played the new Harvest Moon game? I'm really curious about it, I love that series.
No, but I'm wondering about it. I bought the earlier one where you were a girl and was totally irritated to find it was absolutely identical in every other way to the old one.
If you like HM, have you tried Animal Crossing? I have Wild World for the DS. I enjoy it when I need a break from smiting bad guys, exploring the galaxy, and saving the world.
It also takes up time while I wait for Kingdom Hearts II to come to Europe--reportedly next OCTOBER. Grrr.
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quote:Originally posted by Midgard_Dragon: If you think Under the Sea is hard, just wait until you get to Ursula's Revenge and then the final song after that.
Huh. I'm still utter shite at Under the Sea, but I did Ursula's Revenge and the last one on my first try. On the final song, my score was 84,450.
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I finished Shadow of the Colossus - the game designers are certainly good at adding emotional twists and turns to a very simple and minimalist plot...
Spent part of the weekend playing GTA III and I think I've become thoroughly addicted. I've not got out of the first part of the city yet and I'm still quite bad at shootouts, but I'm 18 missions in and starting to discover how to do other things such as the odd "unique jump"... I love the toy car sub-missions; I haven't found the one involving the Triads yet, which I assume exists somewhere.
I'll never need another game again at this rate...
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Since I am currently waiting for the April 20th Mother 3 (aka Earthbound 2) release in Japan, I have been replaying Earthbound. Even after nearly 11 years I still find the game fun. It will be interesting playing Mother 3 when I don't understand Japanese, but I am sure there will be translation guides pretty quickly after the release. The game has a low chance of seeing a North America release, so playing in Japanese may be the only way.
I have also been playing Lugaru whenever I need to blow off some steam. I have never before seen a fighting game done this well on the PC. While it is not without fault, it does manage to pull off the feel of beating the crap out of someone pretty well. Also, I like playing a fighting bunny.
Tomorrow I plan to try out Galactic Civilizations II. I'll comment on it once I have played it.
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quote:Tomorrow I plan to try out Galactic Civilizations II. I'll comment on it once I have played it.
Good choice, it's a terrific game.
I'm currently replaying the random crime levels in True Crime : Streets of LA. The soundtrack is still terrible, the scenery repetitive and the controls broken, but I do admit it's strangely satisfying to race through LA shooting up fleeing suspects.
I'm planning on getting Metroid Prime : Hunters soon.
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I finished Shadow of the Colossus several days ago. I'm suprised, usually I leave almost-beaten games for several months if not years, then either come back and finish them or am unable to remember what I was doing and start all over again. I came back to this one in a few weeks. *shrug* I've also taken a break from Katamari Damacy and We ♥ Katamari. I overplayed them a bit.
Now I'm playing Dark Cloud 2 (which is strange, since I haven't finished Dark Cloud, either, but own them both.) I didn't like this game much at first, and left it alone for ages about halfway through the third chapter. I'm starting to have fun with it, but there are lots of small things which are really annoying
As I feel the need to rant a bit, here are the things I'm finally starting to get around, get used to, or just get over: The only way to organise your inventory is to move the items around one by one; you get assignments for photos which could only be taken before you even had a camera and after one-time boss battles have taken place; the main character's voice is beyond annoying; they took away what I liked about best about the Georama from the first game; even with random dungeons the levels are really repetative; the monster change and ride-a-pod are essentially a waste of time unless you want medals; and leveling up your left hand weapons take far, far too long. Also, you have to repare rips in time and space... by playing golf. I kid you not. As this is quite an extensive list of nitpicks, you can see why I got fed up with the game the first time around and had to leave it alone for a while.
I do like Monica, and it's interesting to see some of the changes you can watch take place in the future when you alter the past. The invention system is a great concept, I'm disappointed that they didn't do more with it. (Fr all of the pictures you take and ideas you can collect, there seems to be little that you can actually build.) I'm finding enough to like about it to keep me playing, but the little things still annoy me from time to time. It keeps getting better, so who knows what's in store? Once I get bored with this or feel like a change, I'll probably play more of Siren and Silent Hill 4 as I haven't played very far into them and haven't touched them in months. I do love the Silent Hill games, but I just haven't felt like horror games at all for the longest time now.
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quote:Originally posted by Oy vey iz mir: I finished Shadow of the Colossus several days ago. I'm suprised, usually I leave almost-beaten games for several months if not years, then either come back and finish them or am unable to remember what I was doing and start all over again. I came back to this one in a few weeks. *shrug* I've also taken a break from Katamari Damacy and We ♥ Katamari. I overplayed them a bit.
Now I'm playing Dark Cloud 2 (which is strange, since I haven't finished Dark Cloud, either, but own them both.) I didn't like this game much at first, and left it alone for ages about halfway through the third chapter. I'm starting to have fun with it, but there are lots of small things which are really annoying
As I feel the need to rant a bit, here are the things I'm finally starting to get around, get used to, or just get over: The only way to organise your inventory is to move the items around one by one; you get assignments for photos which could only be taken before you even had a camera and after one-time boss battles have taken place; the main character's voice is beyond annoying; they took away what I liked about best about the Georama from the first game; even with random dungeons the levels are really repetative; the monster change and ride-a-pod are essentially a waste of time unless you want medals; and leveling up your left hand weapons take far, far too long. Also, you have to repare rips in time and space... by playing golf. I kid you not. As this is quite an extensive list of nitpicks, you can see why I got fed up with the game the first time around and had to leave it alone for a while.
I do like Monica, and it's interesting to see some of the changes you can watch take place in the future when you alter the past. The invention system is a great concept, I'm disappointed that they didn't do more with it. (Fr all of the pictures you take and ideas you can collect, there seems to be little that you can actually build.) I'm finding enough to like about it to keep me playing, but the little things still annoy me from time to time. It keeps getting better, so who knows what's in store? Once I get bored with this or feel like a change, I'll probably play more of Siren and Silent Hill 4 as I haven't played very far into them and haven't touched them in months. I do love the Silent Hill games, but I just haven't felt like horror games at all for the longest time now.
I felt like Silent Hill 4 was the weakest of the series, but it's still certainly worth playing through. It didn't creep me out quite as much as the first couple of games in the series did at any point, though.
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I wish this thread would move quicker; I like talking about computer games. Here I am, now entertain me, darn you all!
I'm getting on with GTA III - I know I am several years behind the times have a deep appreciation for timeless classics, but it is fantastic really. I still haven't managed the street race mission (the first for the Diablos) or got out of Portland but I'm up to Salvatore's missions for the Leone family (I've not tried any of them yet) and I managed some "perfect double insane stunts" yesterday so I'm definitely improving.
This is probably a silly question but how do you shoot while driving? One deficiency is that although the manual is well designed and funny and in keeping with the atmosphere of the game, it doesn't actually tell you which buttons you need to press to play the bloody thing, which is a bit of a drawback in a way. I seem to remember an on-screen tip saying it only worked in first-person view, but that doesn't seem to do it. Just found an on-line tip for the PC version saying it's the side view that you need to use - is that it? How are you meant to drive while using the side view? I think several missions (and the vigilante sub-missions) would become a lot easier if I could work this out.
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quote:This is probably a silly question but how do you shoot while driving?
If it's the same system as Vice City, you need to use a submachine gun or higher, look through the side window (left or right), and press fire. You can't shoot dead ahead (unless you're on a motorcycle but there aren't any of those in III)
It's true that you can't look ahead while shooting; but imagine that in real life the same would be true.
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I haven't played Vice City yet...
I guess "look out of the side window" means "press L2 or R2" in PS2 terms. It makes sense that you can't shoot straight forwards through the windscreen. The submachine gun or Uzi is probably right because when you get into a car, the weapon you're holding sometimes switches from one to another, and it normally seems to end up on the Uzi.
Thanks - I'll try that this evening.
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quote:I guess "look out of the side window" means "press L2 or R2" in PS2 terms.
Yup. I thought you were using the PC version, and with the configurable controls I thought it best to give general instructions
quote:The submachine gun or Uzi is probably right because when you get into a car, the weapon you're holding sometimes switches from one to another, and it normally seems to end up on the Uzi.
IIRC you can use the Uzi and at least one heavier machine gun, but no pistols or novelty weapons.
ETA : you know what ? I'm going to dig up the disc and install GTA III too. I never finished it, now might be the time.
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Still haven't finished FE: Path of Radiance or DQ8. Not only that, I need to finish Kingdom Hearts (1st one). I'm almost at the end anyway. Then I want to finish Skies of Arcadia: Legends. Not to mention starting Resident Evil 4.
I'm still gonna get Tales of Legendia.
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Damn, now I feel like reinstalling GTAIII, but my hard drive is getting a bit on the full side. I'll need to clear some stuff out to be able to do it.
In other news, I have gotten myself hooked on this game called Albatross18. It's a free multiplayer golf game that seems like Mario Golf with RPG elements. I normally hate golf, but this game makes me forget all that and have fun with it.
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It doesn't work. Or rather, I can't find the second disc.
Richard : You can try the RealGTA mod if you like. It replaces all signs and cars with their real-life counterparts, plus it adds some more graphical glitz. Observe.
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Hmm, looks interesting. How do you use mods on a Playstation though? (I don't have a net connection for it at the moment, and am not really planning on getting one.) I assume it would involve downloading the file onto a PC, unzipping and converting it somehow and burning a new CD - sounds a bit involved. Presumably you'd need special software to burn a CD in PS2 format? Or is that mod for the PC? I can't see anywhere that it tells you.
I think I'll stick to the original for the time being; I think the differences from reality add to the satirical feel of the whole thing, and to me, making it more real would detract from the game.
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You can't mod the PS2 version. The PC version is the only one that can run third-party mods (like most games).
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That's what I'd assumed - I just didn't want to accuse Bug of forgetting I had the PS2 version, in case I was wrong!
(PS Welcome to the boards, Icon0clast...)
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Argh, sorry, I keep forgetting you're using a PS2.
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quote:Originally posted by Cure the Blues: I'm playing Oblivion (surprise ). My PC is a 2.5 year-old P4 with a Radeon 9800 Pro. The game runs pretty smoothly, although obviously I can't max out all the details. Unlike Morrowind, Oblivion isn't as much of a CPU hog and like most games is GPU-intensive. Thankfully my aging Radeon keeps it clicking at 20-30 fps, which is smooth enough. This thread on the Elder Scrolls site details some fixes for Radeon users, and I found the Flip Queue Size to 1 command in ATI Tray Tools was enormously helpful; mouse lag is completely gone and the game seems to perform better. The savegame loading is pretty brisk and the in-game area loading is barely noticeable save for the loading text. Morrowind area loads could be quite a churn, especially in Balmora or if there were a lot of resource-using mods loaded up. I'm pleasantly surprised since there's so much motion in the landscapes instead of the static plants of Morrowind.
I've already installed a couple of simple "tweak" mods that I've found helpful. Specifically, the BTmod UI mod is very nice and expands the inventory/spell list screens to include 12+ listings instead of the default 6. The color map mod is nice, although mostly cosmetic.
Also, in my attempts to tweak the .ini, I set the BDoSpecularPass setting to 0. This improved my framerate by about 5. However, it does cause blackscreen CTDs at Weynon Priory due to some objects there that actually have specular lighting. Thankfully, someone fixed the glitch so I don't have to change the .ini everytime I want to enter Weynon.
I am playing Oblivion now, too. I just upgraded my beast, so I had to get something new. [brag]I'm currently using the Radeon X1800 with an AMD 64 processor and the new motherboard for the pci express slot for the X1800.[/brag] I am loving it, but my only issue is RAM. I am still running on 512 MB, so I am noticing some lag. I want to push the graphics to the limit because I really can, but I have got to do something to stop the occaisional hangs. Any thoughts on this?
As far as Oblivion vs Morrowind, I am having to get used to playing with the (slightly) different controls. I don't like that I can't utilize all 400 buttons on my mouse to cycle through weapons and spells. With all the FPSs that I play, I am pretty mouse reliant. I do find though, that I am able to relate to the world, and that was always an issue for me with Morrowind. Everything, plants, animals, landscape, ect, was so foreign to me that I had a really hard time getting into the game.
Also I like that I can ride horses, and I just discovered that my horse will kick back when attacked! I like that.
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I managed to find a copy of GTA: Vice City, so I have been playing it lately while my wife hogs the SNES (she has started replaying Earthbound as well). I'm noticing that Vice City seems a lot easier on the PC than on the PS2. I'm guessing it's thanks to better aiming controls.
Also, please excuse this post if it is incoherent. I need sleep badly and can't really tell if I am making sense or not.
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