Computer games.

[Dylan]

VR depends on the game; Elite is meant to be absolutely incredible with it (and thats with the Oculus Dev kit ones, not the higher spec commercial release model).

I have tried Elite on Oculus DK2 and OH MY GOD!!! I need to upgrade my computer so I can handle the consumer version. Until then I will do with TrackIR5.

 

[neil999]

anyone got 'everyones gone to the rapture'? looks intriuging

 

[Dylan]

You knew your place or just not where the body armour was hidden. Been promising myself Alien for a while - is it one of the best theres been? I was gutted about New Vegas because theres a good solid game in there but the time wasnt spent to iron out the kinks and get it as smooth as Fallout3. Love boshing deathclaws.
What other PC games have been marvellous in the past 18 months and what rig are you running?

We knew the Goldeneye maps inside out, it was just my skill level was 85%. Almost good enough, but not quite.

I enjoyed Fallout 3 more than New Vegas, but NV was still pretty darn awesome.

I am running a gaming laptop. i7-4720HQ (Haswell), 16GB, GTX850M. Thing is, I got it for work (will be running 3 VM's simultaneously and need enough resources for them all), and I needed a machine with a great processor and bags of RAM, which put me into the 'gaming' category Too bad for me eh?

In the meantime I am slowly (buying piece by piece) a new spiffy desktop to run at home.

I love Eliteangerous almost as much as life itself. Other good shouts Rust, The Long Dark, ARK (I am on a survival game kick right now).

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

VR depends on the game

Exactly, that's why it'll never be truly "essential", as that was the basis of conversation at the time.

 

[Heathcliff]

We knew the Goldeneye maps inside out, it was just my skill level was 85%. Almost good enough, but not quite.

I enjoyed Fallout 3 more than New Vegas, but NV was still pretty darn awesome.

I am running a gaming laptop. i7-4720, 16GB, GTX850M. Thing is, I got it for work (will be running 3 VM's simultaneously and need enough resources for them all), and I needed a machine with a great processor and bags of RAM, which put me into the 'gaming' category Too bad for me eh?

In the meantime I am slowly (buying piece by piece) a new spiffy desktop to run at home.

I love Eliteangerous almost as much as life itself. Other good shouts Rust, The Long Dark, ARK (I am on a survival game kick right now).

Did you play through the fallouts along the differing game patterns (melee ranged survivor explosives knives bombs etc...)
Bit-tech reckon the VR headsets were practically invented for halflife2. So far as your piece for piece home rig desktop I suspect (hope) its PSU first then case then SSDs then bespoke soundcard then the final 50% (mobo psu ram gpx) in one go.
I used to have absolute faith in Abit but it got closed down then Asus seemed to take up the gauntlet I just look around the market now and dont see a clear market leader like I once did.

Question - who wins PC FPS maestros or Console FPS maestros?

 

[Dylan]

Did you play through the fallouts along the differing game patterns (melee ranged survivor explosives knives bombs etc...)
Bit-tech reckon the VR headsets were practically invented for halflife2. So far as your piece for piece home rig desktop I suspect (hope) its PSU first then case then SSDs then bespoke soundcard then the final 50% (mobo psu ram gpx) in one go.
I used to have absolute faith in Abit but it got closed down then Asus seemed to take up the gauntlet I just look around the market now and dont see a clear market leader like I once did.

Question - who wins PC FPS maestros or Console FPS maestros?

Start from the bottom.

PC FPS players kill console ones. Back when Shadowrun was released by MS for the Xbox and PC for the only crossplatform play (until November with Xbone Win10) an average PC FPS player would go to town on expert console players often leading to claims of 'Hax hax hax0rz!!!!!' being shouted out.

Case, PSU, MOBO, RAM, CPU, HDD/SSD, GFX and then sound card (if I even bother with a soundcard).

Fallout, I always did guns, science and sneak as my primary skills to level.

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

Did you play through the fallouts along the differing game patterns (melee ranged survivor explosives knives bombs etc...)
Bit-tech reckon the VR headsets were practically invented for halflife2. So far as your piece for piece home rig desktop I suspect (hope) its PSU first then case then SSDs then bespoke soundcard then the final 50% (mobo psu ram gpx) in one go.
I used to have absolute faith in Abit but it got closed down then Asus seemed to take up the gauntlet I just look around the market now and dont see a clear market leader like I once did.

Question - who wins PC FPS maestros or Console FPS maestros?

Abit...Christ, you're going back a few years. Gigabyte make some decent boards, although I haven't checked lately...haven't built a new PC in about 4 years.

 

[Baines' left foot]

Boss little game, I loved the arcade version with the two handles.

Couldn't help but have a look at how much one of these would be. The answer is about £2,000, which goes right the way up to £20,000 if you want Time Crisis 5!

A future man cave item, I think.

 

[Philw]

Alien - Awesome. Make sure you play it late at night, headphones on, turned up to maximum, lights out.

I remember playing the original AvP this was at uni. Soo tense! Is it as good as that?

 

[ijjysmith]

New Pro Evo demo out on PS Store (so I assume Xbone too).

Gonna give it a whirl later.

 

[longers]

VR depends on the game; Elite is meant to be absolutely incredible with it (and thats with the Oculus Dev kit ones, not the higher spec commercial release model).

VR still has a long way to go until i could class it as incredible, i have used a DK2 a fair bit at a mates and the image quality is really bad, the resolution is so poor you can see the individual pixels. The low resolution makes games look like they are 10 years old. The full customer release will have an improved resolution but it still won't be able to come close to matching the image quality of a monitor. Over the next few years the technology will improve a lot as will the resolutions it supports... you have to remember that 1080p on an oculus is not the equivalent to 1080p on a monitor, it looks considerably worse.

I also think VR is best suited to 'simulator' type games such as racing sims, flight sims etc... basically games where as a player your physical position in the world is static but you'd move your head around to look out windows etc.

 

[neil999]

anyone got 'everyones gone to the rapture'? looks intriuging

anyone?

 

[jayden28]

New Pro Evo demo out on PS Store (so I assume Xbone too).

Gonna give it a whirl later.

Very surprised how good it is actually,wasn't at all impressed at 2015 but this is easily the best version since the ps2 days,I've the ps4 demo btw.

 

[ijjysmith]

Very surprised how good it is actually,wasn't at all impressed at 2015 but this is easily the best version since the ps2 days,I've the ps4 demo btw.

I'm out at the mo so no chance to get yet. Is it a long download?

 

[LostLegend]

I remember playing the original AvP this was at uni. Soo tense! Is it as good as that?

It's very very good. Very atmospheric and poo your pants scary if played on your own at night. Especially worth a look if you, like me are a fan of the original film, as it is quite faithful to the overall look and sound.

Downside is that it does get a bit repetitive towards the end.