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Dumping some screenshots of the Spintires tech demo which has some pretty sweet mud physics
You can check out the demo and kickstarter over at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/358753914/spintires-the-ultimate-off-road-challenge
 

Does it just turn down the game volume? or the system volume?
 
The only thing I can think of is going to Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Change system sounds > Communications tab > click on "Do nothing"
 
I had a similar issue with Skype turning down system volume whenever I joined a call.

GRID Autosport
 

 

I think if the game was revealed with the 2014 graphics back in 2012 then people wouldn't have been so angry. 
The problem is that we were originally promised this gorgeous "next-gen" looking game and then when it was time to deliver, we were given a downgraded mess. You could almost call it false advertising. 

I think if the game was revealed with the 2014 graphics back in 2012 then people wouldn't have been so angry. 
The problem is that we were originally promised this gorgeous "next-gen" looking game and then when it was time to deliver, we were given a downgraded mess. You could almost call it false advertising. 

I think if the game was revealed with the 2014 graphics back in 2012 then people wouldn't have been so angry. 
The problem is that we were originally promised this gorgeous "next-gen" looking game and then when it was time to deliver, we were given a downgraded mess. You could almost call it false advertising. 

Dumping some screenshots of the Spintires tech demo which has some pretty sweet mud physics
You can check out the demo and kickstarter over at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/358753914/spintires-the-ultimate-off-road-challenge
 

You know I'd honestly be fine with that. Call it NFS Street and make it a spiritual successor to NFS Underground. That way they don't end up butchering the Underground name with a (most likely) mediocre game.

The worst part is that there are people who actually defend EA's practices.
 
We can't even rely on game critics/journalists to warn people because video game journalism is a joke right now. I mean just look at places like Kotaku and Rock Paper Shotgun. Loads of click bait and useless articles.

I asked that because your argument against one of his complaints was
 
Which basically says that the bad performance is excused because other console ports also don't perform well, therefore it is okay.
 
That's what I got out of it at least.
 
All I wanna say is a console-ported game that performs badly shouldn't be excused just because other console ports perform badly too.

I asked that because your argument against one of his complaints was
 
Which basically says that the bad performance is excused because other console ports also don't perform well, therefore it is okay.
 
That's what I got out of it at least.
 
All I wanna say is a console-ported game that performs badly shouldn't be excused just because other console ports perform badly too.

Are you implying that it's okay because everyone else does it?

What are you talking about? BF3 did have a beta.

Man it sucks that games aren't being released in a finished state anymore.
So all in all it looks like it improves on everything except for map size, which we most likely have consoles to blame.
 
Fair enough. Looks like I might actually get this game.

Generally when you increase resolution, textures start to look worse because the higher resolution allows the user to see all the individual pixels that the textures are made of.
 
For an extreme example, you could run a PSX or N64 emulator and set them to run games at 1080p and you can start to see how the textures just weren't meant to be seen in high detail. This probably also works for older PC games too like Half-life 1. Heck, even Half-life 2 starts to show its age at 1080p.

I mostly hate EA for charging money for Battlefield 3 DLC where in previous Battlefield games, the DLC was free. I also like to believe EA is responsible for Battlelog which never needed to happen.
 
A lot of other people hate EA for acquiring developers and then milking them out as much as they can. Whether or not you agree that their games are mediocre compared to before is up to you.

I mostly hate EA for charging money for Battlefield 3 DLC where in previous Battlefield games, the DLC was free. I also like to believe EA is responsible for Battlelog which never needed to happen.
 
A lot of other people hate EA for acquiring developers and then milking them out as much as they can. Whether or not you agree that their games are mediocre compared to before is up to you.

Yeah maybe I exaggerated a bit too much.
I've also had some games that hooked me in with just the story.
 
I'm actually playing through The Witcher right now and while I consider the gameplay to be mediocre (specifically the combat) and the graphics okay, the story is enough to hold me through it.

If I remember correctly, Dark Souls 2 is being developed with PC as the lead platform. As in they are developing for PC and then scaling it down to port to the consoles, which is very good news.

That would be fine if most developers didn't half ass it and change health and damage values at higher difficulties, at least in shooters.
I'd really love it if the AI changes with higher difficulties and not just health values.

That would be fine if most developers didn't half ass it and change health and damage values at higher difficulties, at least in shooters.
I'd really love it if the AI changes with higher difficulties and not just health values.

How about get rid of Origin and move all the EA stuff to Steam just like how it used to be?
Is there a justifiable reason for Origin to exist when Steam already does a fine job?

Why would you do that? I mean why would you purposefully leave yourself uninformed about a video game and then just buy it? Wouldn't it make more sense to get other's opinions before investing in something you know almost nothing about?

http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/06/19/bungie-wants-destiny-on-as-many-platforms-as-possible/
Seems like they're still undecided on it, but I'd say there's a pretty decent chance that it would make it on PC.
 
 
 
If I remember correctly, the Marathon series were only released on Mac.
Myth was released for both Windows and Mac platforms.

This was from about 2 months ago. Hasn't changed much because I'm holding off for those summer sales.