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Hello,

 

I'm currently looking for a few games to play in the next few weeks and since there has been so much bad press around most triple A releases I was wondering which game you really enjoyed of the past year that runs well, most of the time.

 

 

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Risk of rain and teleglitch are really nice but again indie is in my heart and is a matter of tastes.Maybe tell us what kind of games you like

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Dragon Age Inquisition (i'd advise you to play the previous games first, as this is the 3rd in the series)

Ryse Son Of Rome 

Watchdogs (despite it being a bit of a poo console port, it runs reasonably well and is still a fun game)

Wolfenstein: The New Order

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Far Cry 4

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For games released in 2014, my top 3 according to playtime would be Spintires, Banished, and Shovel Knight. :)

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Stalker Lost Alpha, ok ok its an old game but it feels completely new great work from Dezawave.

 

GTA V, have to say but its a guilty pleasure hope its done properly fro the PC.

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Alien Isolation is the only game that I have picked up that was released this year. So that. 

I cant make a full decision as I haven't been up to date with games this year. 

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Far Cry 4

Honestly if it wasn't so horribly optimized/made by Ubisoft.

 

 

GTA V, have to say but its a guilty pleasure hope its done properly fro the PC.

At that point technically a 2015 game lol

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Just bought The Crew, can't wait to play it once it finishes downloading

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Just bought The Crew, can't wait to play it once it finishes downloading

 

 

apparently the handling sucks :(

 

 

I was going to buy it + a logitech g27 for myself for christmas, but idk.   I may buy myself something else instead O.o

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apparently the handling sucks :(

 

 

I was going to buy it + a logitech g27 for myself for christmas, but idk.   I may buy myself something else instead O.o

It sucks with keyboard/gamepad. With a wheel it's perfectly fine. I have the G25 myself and the handling in the beta was great.

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It sucks with keyboard/gamepad. With a wheel it's perfectly fine. I have the G25 myself and the handling in the beta was great.

 

 

oo ok thnx. I may get one after all.  

 

Although I want a new dac for my new headphones >.< 

 

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oo ok thnx. I may get one after all.  

 

Although I want a new dac for my new headphones >.< 

 

decisions decisions..

Which headphones and what are you using now? Onboard?

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Which headphones and what are you using now? Onboard?

 

 

I'm using HD800's with a Schiit Lyr and the DAC i'm using is a fiio D3, was planning on getting a Schiit Bifrost since it matches my Lyr :3

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I'm using HD800's with a Schiit Lyr and the DAC i'm using is a fiio D3, was planning on getting a Schiit Bifrost since it matches my Lyr :3

IMO not worth it to get a new DAC. Yeah it might match the Lyr but the Fiio is also pretty good. Is it getting power from your PC? I played around with a friend's D3 before and it sounded better off a (good quality) phone charger then my mobo, but that just might be that my mobo is very low end, so it might not affect you if you have a highr end one.

 

I'm thinking of getting a Schiit Fulla for my M40x's. My onboard audio is really nothing special.

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It sucks with keyboard/gamepad. With a wheel it's perfectly fine. I have the G25 myself and the handling in the beta was great.

i tried the beta it ran at 15fps though i have a suspicion that it was running on my intergrated.

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i tried the beta it ran at 15fps though i have a suspicion that it was running on my intergrated.

lol

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lol

at 720p/low too soo 99.99999% sure it was intergrated. i found the physics was a bit floaty though.

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at 720p/low too soo 99.99999% sure it was intergrated. i found the physics was a bit floaty though.

Yeah, when the beta was on I had a Radeon HD 6870 that could max it out at 1080p, so pretty sure you goofed xD

 

I didn't like how nitrous was practically useless on RWD cars until you heavily upgraded the tires though.

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Wolfenstein is pretty fun on high difficulty, Lethal league is a very fun game  to play when you're bored. 

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Yeah, when the beta was on I had a Radeon HD 6870 that could max it out at 1080p, so pretty sure you goofed xD

:P i was a noob then so had no idea how to troubleshoot performance. Evolve alpha had the same problem. So im more vigilant now towards betas/alphas.

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Shadow of Mordor was really good.

 

Watch Dogs was decent after all.

 

I really want to get my hands on The Crew.I really like racing games and enjoyed the beta :D 

 

I also want to try out Dragon Age Inquisition.Looks like another good game.

 

Wolfenstein was another great game.

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IMO not worth it to get a new DAC. Yeah it might match the Lyr but the Fiio is also pretty good. Is it getting power from your PC? I played around with a friend's D3 before and it sounded better off a (good quality) phone charger then my mobo, but that just might be that my mobo is very low end, so it might not affect you if you have a highr end one.

 

I'm thinking of getting a Schiit Fulla for my M40x's. My onboard audio is really nothing special.

It'll definitely be an improvement, I think I'll buy one then try it, and if I don't feel it's a big enough improvement I can return it to schiit, they only take a 5% return fee, then I could buy the g27.

 

Thing is, my onboard sounds almost identical to the d3+lyr combo, so I think the d3 may not be very good.

 

I think I may get an adapter and try to go from my headphone out into the Lyr and see if it improves, and if it does then I'll know the d3 is a bottleneck so to speak.

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I'm using HD800's with a Schiit Lyr and the DAC i'm using is a fiio D3, was planning on getting a Schiit Bifrost since it matches my Lyr :3

 

I thought you have Audeze LCD-2

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I thought you have Audeze LCD-2

 

 

I sold em to buy a pair of hd800's, the LCD-2 were becoming a bit to heavy and bugging my neck. (They weigh 21 ounces)

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