That's a really nice lighty uppy keyboard there, if anyone's interested. I have one and it's great.

nah, I'm using a Corsair H20 thing which was on offer at scan. Quite a well made bit of kit concidering it never going to be seen.

The official specs of the processor state that the max temp is 100*c

That's a really nice lighty uppy keyboard there, if anyone's interested. I have one and it's great.

Teehee:
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Depends how much you like CoH.

It bears a fair few resemblences to DoW2, as it's by the same people, and CoH had a fair few things taken from it for DoW2.
I tend to prefer DoW2, as it's much smaller scale, but both are worth getting (for the correct price, obviously. Try the demo)

As for the mouse part of the equation, pointing and click to score instant headshots is the most satisfying feeling in the world, because when you're shooting a gun, you definitely want to perform the same actions that you do when filing your tax returns.

Aion, the latest Korean grind-fest, has built in macro support (as opposed to you having to haxx0r this in) so as to enable you to largely automate your grind. At the push of a button, your winged avatar will kill the diseased boars, loot the corpse... simples! And so the MMO steps even closer to the entirely uninteractive watching-a-bar-fill action of Progress Quest.

Star Wars Galaxies

the absolutely ridiculous field of view. I tried to change it with online guides, but it never works

Split-screen on 360 is better left unmentioned, of course.

RAGE.

You get used to it, but it is severely annoying, and the menu system is seriously lazy.

Really? I had no issues whatsoever with FOV on the 360 version - is it different?

Been playing a bit of borderlands. It's good fun except for the absolutely ridiculous field of view. I tried to change it with online guides, but it never works

It's probably a good thing that they changed the graphics to make it look the way it does. We think this could be the only thing that saves this game from obscurity.

Best bit of original IP this year

Dimrill's so fucking awesome and sexy. I want to have his babies, but I am just several pieces of paper crudely scrawled on in crayon and am thus unable to bear fruit.

It's an RPG, not an FPS. In Fallout 3 you can shoot people repeatedly in the head and they fail to die.

Quote from my magazine:

Oh. I can't say it seemed any less usable than any other first person game I've ever played.

I don't like it at all tbh.

I was being pessimistic because I had read opinions of it before release but the gist to me goes like this.

Go to someone. Go off and play space invaders style shoot em up with waves of enemies. Poor aiming system, can shoot people in the head numerous times and they fail to die.

Repeat ad nauseum. It has no soul really, just predictable and boring.

If it is an RPG then it needs to be an RPG with some kind of combat system put into place. Like VATS, or something like the turn based systems used in Paper Mario and FF.

Too bad about the FOV though

Why does it need to be? There's plenty of examples of this style of play. Basically any realtime RPG. VATS is fine, but would you completely dismiss the F3 combat without it? Also, I don't see why pausing the game a-la VATS changes anything - there's still a mathematical hit and damage calculation being performed, based on the weapon you're using and your skills. Which is exactly the same as how Borderlands does it.

A lot of PC gamers seem to get upset about widescreen displays having a horizontally expanded FOV, compared to 4:3 screens. This gives a "zoomed in" feeling, apparently, although I studied the screenshots of Bioshock and couldn't fathom what they were complaining about.

Because RPGs do not have the aiming systems that FPS do. If you're going to do an RPG with an FPS aiming system it needs to be good.

one in particular saying he wanted to redo the game without VATS but gave up shortly afterwards.

Knowing you you probably set the res to your desired res *and* set the settings for the res too? for example, most of the games I have installed recently not only have resolotion settings (IE- 1680x1050 which is what I use) but also 4:3, 16:9 and 16:10.

I don't even think I know what this means. Every realtime RPG pretty much has the same aiming system. If you're pointing at the target, you have a chance to hit. You then apply modifiers to that based on character skills and weapon characteristics.

It's like any FPS, but taking skills into account. Hence the RPG bit.

I don't understand. Surely you just don't press the VATS button? I must have only used VATS for 50% of the game, max.

No, I game on the 360.

No I don't *just* press the VATS button. But without it the game would have been pretty bad. I use it mainly up close to save on ammo because without using it you tend to use about ten times the ammo falling enemies.

Well the aiming system was so poor that all I seemed to be doing was running backwards shooting things until I was pretty much at the point I had left from. Then when they were all dead I had to walk all the way back to where I had been. Boring and ultimately incredibly predictable.