Thread: Any Gamers amongst us?

Originally Posted by tekbow

mmm i find it's not so much the sensitivity, it's the smoothness and precision of controllers, that and i think a hand controllling a mouse is way more accurate than a thumb on a joystick. In fact for certain games i'll still use the Dpad, like tekken, and i think driving games, although i can't say for sure on that one lol

thanks for the link though, checking that out now. If only you could get mouse and directional type pad thingys for xbox.

Edit: Interesting.. i may give those a go.. but i still think mouse and keyboard for FPS is king.

Yeah, PCs are better for FPSs. They did some cross platform thing a while back where they linked up a game that was on a console and on PC--like say on the XBOX network (I dont remember what network or game was actually used) and mediocre PC players were slaughtering top ranked console players.

Originally Posted by Pete_S

Yeah, PCs are better for FPSs. They did some cross platform thing a while back where they linked up a game that was on a console and on PC--like say on the XBOX network (I dont remember what network or game was actually used) and mediocre PC players were slaughtering top ranked console players.

I probably would still have gotten my ass kicked. I'm used to that though.

Originally Posted by TrilliumLT

Battlefield 3 release tonight. Im going to be sick tomorrow.

PC BF3 player here. Game/Origin name is "commiecat".

Graphics are sick.

Originally Posted by commiecat

PC BF3 player here. Game/Origin name is "commiecat".

Graphics are sick.

PC BF3, too. Game/Origin name is "Logistics34".

I prefer ranked, PB and hardcore servers with mostly Conquest maps. Rush maps are just insane!

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Has anyone noticed in BF3 for PC you cannot take screenshots or videos? They all come out black.

Originally Posted by Logistics

PC BF3, too. Game/Origin name is "Logistics34".

I prefer ranked, PB and hardcore servers with mostly Conquest maps. Rush maps are just insane!

::EDIT::

Has anyone noticed in BF3 for PC you cannot take screenshots or videos? They all come out black.

I go by TrilliumLT for BF3 on the PC. If im LvLing a weapon you can fined me doing Team Death Match or for fun im doing Conquest. I try to stay off the clan severs. Ive been on a few that will reset the mission if they are losing badly (AoS).

Anyone got (or finished) COD - MW3 yet?

I picked it up on the release date but haven't played it yet, but, it may be my task for the weekend

yea, it rocks

Originally Posted by Logistics

PC BF3, too. Game/Origin name is "Logistics34".

I prefer ranked, PB and hardcore servers with mostly Conquest maps. Rush maps are just insane!

::EDIT::

Has anyone noticed in BF3 for PC you cannot take screenshots or videos? They all come out black.

Forgot to check back on this thread. Just added you on Battlelog.

Think I'm going to hold off on MW3 until it's on a Steam sale, or at least marked down sometime after the holidays. Really enjoying BF3 still (hopefully more after the first patch) and got a ways to go on leveling up.

Anyone get Skyrim?

Originally Posted by commiecat

Forgot to check back on this thread. Just added you on Battlelog.

Think I'm going to hold off on MW3 until it's on a Steam sale, or at least marked down sometime after the holidays. Really enjoying BF3 still (hopefully more after the first patch) and got a ways to go on leveling up.

Anyone get Skyrim?

I got Skyrim. Amazing!! They changed it up a smidge. You start off like Oblivion, in jail but this time you are going to be executed but a GIANT black dragon saves your hide and you escape the guards. Sound familiar?

What I like is you can choose your race and some from previous games have popped up again, once you escape the dragon you can select from 3 stones, thief, mage or warrior. They have changed a few things that was easier in Oblivion such as repairing. When you repair you can use a grinding wheel, table for armor and coals for forging but you have to find a blacksmith and can't do it on the fly like in Oblivion. You need specific items for it to work such as lead, steel, wood... etc. Also, lock picking is more difficult. It used to be you could manually do it or just auto pick but it's all manual now. Move the mouse and use "A" to twist. The mouse moves the position of the pick and "A" turns the lock.

The magic is awesome with better graphics. I got my butt handed to me by a mage that made everything around me glow then set me on fire that illuminated all around me... as I burned to death. It was cool for about 5 seconds.

The map is MASSIVE. One guy did a video of it and takes about 30 minutes even using sprint to make a full lap around with no stopping. The map is more 3D. You can see the terrain and clouds over Skyrim on the maps.

The kill view, cutaway scenes are a nice touch. I have a screenshot of me impaling an enemy with a broadsword but those images are stuck on my Steam account.

The Proud PC Gaming Master Race will have the last laugh over the unwashed console masses. The "death" of PC gaming has been predicted as many times as the end of the world in the last decade. But the real thing is this: I'm not just playing ported and emulated games from just about any console I want, but I'm playing PC games that date back two decades. Let's see any modern console pull that off.

...why yes I did recently build my first new PC in 8 years, thank you for asking.



I started off with a budget-conscious, ultra-quiet build in mind so I put an i5-2500k on an ASRock z68 board with a Mugen 2 heatsink, an 8 gig set of Ripjaws and a single 3-fan Gigabyte 6950. Enermax case was a sweet deal for $45 with USB 3.0, about 57 fan mounts and water-cooling ports that make for great cable routing. I need to make some internal air ducts and sound blocking, plus program my fan curves but it's pretty damn quiet already. Apparently onboard sound is still crap so I added a cheap Auzentech 7.1 card. Now I just need to cut the faults out of my speaker wires and solder them back together.

I picked up a dirt cheap 27" LED monitor to go with it. Horizontal viewing angle is rubbish, but it is a TN panel after all. Massive improvement over my old monitor in every other way. Wish I could've found a 16:10, though. Unfortunately one of the chokes for the backlight dimmer circuit makes an annoying 600 Hz tone when I turn down the brightness, so I've been working on silencing that. Goodbye warranty!

Finally, my old Logitech wireless set had to go, so a nice Black Edition 3500 dpi Deathadder and a Rosewill mechanical keyboard with NKRO and Cherry MX Red switches rounded out the ensemble.

By the way, anyone who values their keyboard should try out a modern mechanical. They're pricy, but infinitely more worth it than gimmicky backlighting, programmable macros or media keys. I was looking for a gaming keyboard and every design I've seen is incredibly stupid, so instead I've got a plain, very high-quality board with a steel plate in and I'm much happier.

Of course, the ironic part? With my PC under construction, the game I've actually been playing is Gears 3. Story and characters are incredibly stupid, and still painfully pretentious, but I'm utterly addicted to the online Horde mode, along with my roommate. Once we sat down and played through the whole 50 waves with just the two of us. Pretty sure that added up to about 500 kills each and for every boss wave we had to run circles around the map to keep from being cornered and killed (we died every time anyway). Now, though, the fall Steam Sale is over and I've got a genuine backlog brewing.