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I was debating on whether I should start a thread on this since I didn't want it to be self promotion :p

My completely biased take: Yes, it's like TF2. But more characters, classes, and unique powers. As a shooter fan, I'm excited. :)

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I put it here simply because it's PC-only (so far) and this forum is console-centric.

Looking forward to it, I signed up for the Beta.

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I'm really looking forward to Elite: Dangerous when it comes out soon. Am cautiously optimistic about Dragon Age: Inquistion. Loved the first one, not so much for the second one.

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While console centric, bigger PC titles tend to get threads. I think this qualifies as a bigger PC title.

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I'm planning on buying a Saitek X52 Pro for Elite and Star Citizen. Really looking forward to both of them.

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Make one and we can continue our comments there. :D

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Overwatch looks pretty cool. I'm amazed they kept it under wraps until Blizzcon. I signed up for the beta. I started playing WoW again on the weekend too (they sent me a free week of wow email)

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FYI, i'll see what I can do for friends and family invites if/when I can for Overwatch :)

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excellent!

I liked after the cinematic trailer at blizzcon, still no one knew what it was, "its a game right? or a movie?" haha. I'm glad blizzard is going into the team FPS genre

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That'd be awesome Stan. I definitely want to give it a try.

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I'm going to get Evolve and GTA 5

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GOG.com huge fall sale is live. Two daily bundles, flash sales every 40 minutes, free Mount & Blade today, free Witcher 2 and a movie if you visit 7 times spread over the week of sales.

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Very impressive Diablo-like game from Korea called Lost Ark Online. Doesn't go into beta until next year and who knows if it'll ever release here, but here's hoping!

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I am posting these on another forum also, so I don't know what is still active and what isn't....


Monaco: What's Yours is Mine
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=nCtkXTGXZw4Wn!rz
Replace the ! with lowercase M


Metro 2033
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=RcG7qwSfd!DXxtvq
Replace ! with a two


The Lord of the Rings Online: Steely Dawn Starter Pack
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=!m2ePFyzVkvbvXa8
Replace ! with a seven

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Tried Monaco, already used.

Thanks anyways!

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That looks awesome. Can't you just change your VPN to play?

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Free "MMO" update to Goat Simulator on the 20th. I think I'll now need to buy this game, :lol:...

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This is amazing impressive:

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http://www.polygon.com/2014/12/12/73...s-time-to-talk

Hope they have a better vision and push for PC Gaming.

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From what I've read it's basically having the same framework for Xbox/Windows PC/Windows Phone, so people can code for one and have apps/games ready for the other two pretty quick.

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Had some "classic" PC fun yesterday.

I was playing The Evil Within and the game had a hard crash, that it restarted my computer completely. Took a break and came back with my PC from 3-4 years ago. It was loading an old version of Windows, well, it was actually using the Ubuntu loader that I had at that time, where I had a screen where I could select what OS to start.

So I loaded Windows, looked around and found out that my SSD drive had disappeared. So it was actually loading an old drive that I kept there when I upgraded to an SSD drive. That old hard drive was the one with the old Windows and Ubuntu. So I enabled the SSD drive. Then went to BIOS and put that as my first boot selection. For some reasons that boot selection looked different from the last time I checked hmmm.

So I start from the SSD drive and of course it says that it can't find the boot manager or something like that. That I needed to use my rescue drive. So now I need to find my Windows 8 DVD. Thankfully it wasn't that hard. Now repair, fix problems, etc. but yeah, that didn't work. At the end I had to do a restore. Thankfully, for some reason, I removed a program last week, so that was the one available.

And that brought back my PC! This is the short version of course.

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:whofart:

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That could mean that your PSU can't handle the load.

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One year later:

• Worth: $3079 ($914 with sales)
  
• Games owned: 277
  
• Games not played: 140 (51%)
  
• Hours on record: 536.9h

Damn, almost 100 new games. At least I got my not played percentage down.

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I'm scared to look at my profile. Probably 500 games and 490 unplayed.

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My current count is 131 games, 60% unplayed. However, I have at least a couple of dozen games at Humbe and other bundle sites that I haven't even redeemed on Steam so it's probably closer to 70-75% unplayed.

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Emulated DOS games in your browser. A shit ton.

https://archive.org/details/software...msdos_games/v2

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They have Jazz Jackrabbit! :)

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Beamdog, the makers of Baldur's Gate/Icewind Dale enhanced editions, is planning to release this year a new game that takes place between Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, using the Infinity Engine.

http://www.beamdog.com/beamblog

I don't know whether they've released anything original yet, or just done these remakes, so it'll be interesting to see if the quality is up to snuff.

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Heroes of the Storm goes closed beta today. If anyone is interested that wasn't in the alpha, let me know :p

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its a lot of fun. I played the alpha a bunch last month.

I'm still hyped for Overwatch

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i am definitely interested :)

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Size:

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I never understood why anyone wets their pants over these non-real world scenario tests that require a ridiculous cooling system no average end user could ever afford (or even want). Just give me the specs of what it can achieve with normal cooling solutions under real world scenarios for an end user.

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There are people who do this kind of thing, and there'll be someone out there trying to beat that record.

This isn't a review, just someone boasting a record. Don't really understand why it bothers you.

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It doesn't bother me. I simply find it silly. It's like "yeah, it can do this (given extreme measures)! You won't ever need to push it this far, making the stats meaningless, but we did it! Meaning this tech is awesome!"

Besides, if you have to cool it the way they did, it's not much of a boast either. If you feel the need to show me how much it can do under stress, show me with normal cooling solutions that don't require the end user to leave the PC case open and hook up a constant stream of liquid nitrogen to it. Then I'd have a better assessment of what it can really do.

It'd be like attaching a rocket to a Prius and boasting about how the car doesn't fall apart going 500 mph.

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People have fun doing it, just like some folks have fun doing all that tinkering with cars :shrug:

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I suppose I see your point (not that I tinker with cars).

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Tinkering with cars generally gives you real life results, I'm curious what the real life results are for this.

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More performance, obviously :shrug: I attribute something like this to being more like the stuff they do on a show like Top Gear (i think, i'm not a car guy at all so it might be a bad comparison). It's just for fun, marketing, and showing off and less to do with real world practicality. If you're just talking about regular tinkering, that's no different from the standard overclocking and cooling that people do on their computers.