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  1. Raid
    This is a perfect moment for the NSA to gain a bit of good publicity by helping Sony with finding the hackers.
  2. Raid
    Not at all. PC is a shit platform for gaming due to a wide variety of issues as outlined above in my previous posts. It is indeed cheaper and easier to develop a game with a specific locked framerate. And last but not least, 30 FPS wasn't a problem before for anyone. There weren't massive online discussions when people found out that the battles in Final Fantasy 8 were going to be 15 FPS on PC too, and very few complained about the sub-20 FPS some N64 games had.
  3. Raid
    I was thinking from more of a consumer point of view. If a game box has the PS3 logo I can fairly safely assume it'll work on mine. A PC game has absolutely no such guarantee, if anything there's a higher chance of it not working than anything else. Driver-side optimization ends up being mostly an issue from a legacy point of view. A year or so ago NVidia started removing some older optimizations from their drivers resulting in some rather interesting issues some of which could very easily be resolved just by renaming the file due to other games which require the same optimization still having theirs in the drivers. Carmageddon is a bit of a bad example on your part considering the Windows version doesn't even install natively on 64-bit systems since the installer is a 16-bit executable.
  4. Raid
    My point is that PC is a shit platform regardless of whether the games are 30 FPS or not. Besides, not like low FPS bothered anyone before. And yes, there is a case for 30 FPS only. It makes development easier and cheaper.
  5. Raid
    Every game which relies on specific hardware. For example, Metal Gear Solid 2 which only ran on certain Geforce-series of cards, and absolutely nothing else. Most Capcom games prior to the last couple years with their amazingly awful keybinding. Every 3D Win32 game with extremely limited resolution support of either 1024x768 max or 640x480 only (this includes nearly everything released prior to 1998). Games with dependencies that are old and either completely non-functional or extremely hard to get working on modern computers with massive amounts of conflicts. This includes everything that use strange video codecs or old PhysX. Games with shit DRM. Games that rely on driver-side optimization to work (most modern AAA titles). That, along with the previously mentioned hardware incompatibilities covers most PC games from the last 30 or so years. Very few PC games, and especially ports, are well made so it's fairly safe to say that all developers make shit ports and not just Ubisoft. Exceptions do exist yet are so rare that from a consumer point of view it could very well be a reason to stay away from PC gaming entirely.
  6. Raid
    Every developer makes shit ports. The too fast one I used as an example was Saints Row 2 where if your CPU is too fast the character runs at super speed. Bought a copy for PS3 later and it runs just fine, no problems.
  7. Raid
    At least when I buy a console game I can fairly safely assume that it'll work as intended. Not the same with PC. It might not run on my PC at all due to newer software or older hardware. It might run but not properly due to hardware that's too fast! I might need to fuck around with file names and config files just to get it to start in the first place.
  8. Raid
    I don't really see a market for this. Gamers with insane amounts of money don't have any use for 10gig ethernet, and server builds need more than just fast lan connections. Maybe for the ultimate ricer rig?
  9. Raid
    I don't see how this is all that revolutionary or even impressive any more. Intel's had up to 15 core processors since the beginning of the year. And you stick 8 of those in one machine! What's a few more cores if there's less overall CPUs?
  10. Raid
    Neither Lords of the Fallen or Fifa 15 have a proper scene crack yet. Lords of the Fallen has a broken attempt at a crack by 3DM which doesn't work for basically anyone and FIFA 15 has absolutely nothing. Protip: Just because the torrent name says it's functional doesn't mean it is.
  11. Raid
    Sometimes the graphics are nicer and games are cheaper. There's also some games that either aren't available on other platforms or just play better on PC due to being designed for mouse and keyboard. That's about it I think. PCs also have worse DRM, worse support and things breaking far more often.
  12. Raid
    Being able to hear your data being loaded into the memory.
  13. Raid
    Curious to see how this will compare to other similarly sized and priced coolers like the Ashura. Though something I must already fault Cryorig for, 160mm will not fit in most cases.
  14. Raid
    Postal meets Shadow the Hedgehog
  15. Raid
    So? Plenty of large games these days. Even some PS3 games are over 40gb. This isn't notable anymore.
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