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[Borys]

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[The Fake Shemp]

Nobody plays PC games anymore

[Howard Alan Treesong]

awesome, now I can get 150 fps in Starcraft II instead of just 120

[The Fake Shemp]

No, you play console games ported to the PC.

[demi]

look at that ether burn

btw, does this come with a free game? why dont video cards come with free games anymore. i got Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness with my Radeon 9700 when I bought it.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

No, you play console games ported to the PC.

[MrAngryFace]

who cares, fault for the death of PC gaming can easily be laid on the lap of Gamestop, a store that leaves CD Keys in open cases on the rack.

[The Fake Shemp]

It's part of a person who believes in the development and protection of a Jewish nation conspiracy to bankrupt the PC gaming industry.  Civilization is on a console now, even.  Next up: non-crappy Blizzard products!

[MrAngryFace]

yup

[The Fake Shemp]

Don't worry, Borys - Frag will be in soon to reference some obscure spreadsheet game that was made in Yugoslavia. Only available on PC! 

[MrAngryFace]

The new cards are going to a new numbering scheme? 

This is getting crazy

280 > 8800. 

I get confused by what's the best/worst cards until I'm actually in the market for a new GPU.  I can't imagine the average joe would know wtf to buy. 

they'll be more confused from the number drop of 512 to the number 1. OH NOES!

[demi]

PC gaming is still alive, I plan on catching up on all the hot titles from the past 4 years I missed out on

I think thats like, 10 titles total

[MrAngryFace]

PC gaming is still alive, I plan on catching up on all the hot titles from the past 4 years I missed out on

I think thats like, 10 titles total

Its like being a Nintendo fan!

[Fragamemnon]

Nice screenshot! I just finished my first grand campaign game of EU3: In Nomine today (1399-1821), took Mecklenburg from a two province minor in the Hanseatic League into a powerhouse Germany that directly controlled all of the area  of today's Germany, most of northern Italy, all of modern Benelux, half of the Balkans, and had vassal states for all of Scandanavia. Serious fun to be had, especially dismantling the Holy Roman Empire.

All of the Paradox strategy games are made in Sweden, not in the Czech Republic. Bohemia Interactive (makers of Operation Shot in the Face and Arma: Armed Assault, the latter of which is supposedly really good after like over ten patches). So not so spreadsheety there. If we're willing to jump a bit to the Southeast we can mention Ubisoft Romania's Silent Hunter games, which are to my knowledge the only games out there where you can kick your opponent's ass with hardcore trigonometry. Boner-rific!

[MrSingh]

I love spreadsheet games. Borys hook me up.

[MrSingh]

Double post.

[Fragamemnon]

I love spreadsheet games. Borys hook me up.

Are you looking for historical grand strategy (specify time period/geographic region/war(s) of interest), squad level tactical warfare, operational level warfare, economic simulation, traditional 4x turn based(space, conventional, or fantasy!), naval simulation, or sports management/simulation? I can make recommendations for any of these, I adore my spreadsheet gaming.

Role playing games could also work, as could well-desgined card-based titles.

[MrSingh]

Are you looking for historical grand strategy (specify time period/geographic region/war(s) of interest), squad level tactical warfare, operational level warfare, economic simulation, traditional 4x turn based(space, conventional, or fantasy!), naval simulation, or sports management/simulation? I can make recommendations for any of these, I adore my spreadsheet gaming.

Role playing games could also work, as could well-desgined card-based titles.

Economic simulation and turn based games!

I enjoyed MoM, MoO back in the days. Thanks!

[Don Flamenco]

Depending on the word, I might upgrade my GTS 512 to one of these later this year.  Would I be able to use it on my 965P mobo?

[pilonv1]

europa universalis
hearts of iron
football manager

all better than console shit

[MrAngryFace]

Sins of a Solar Empire!

[CajoleJuice]

Dawn of War II soon

[Rman]

I can never understand why some PC gamers spend so much money on hardware, but never spend a dime on software. 

SMH at

[MrAngryFace]

I havent upgraded in like a year. Console jockeys overestimate money put into PCs because they look to the Smooth Grooves as the standards.

[The Fake Shemp]

PC elitists undervalue, uh, the VALUE of consoles.

[MrAngryFace]

wah wah, keep guttin those pc games and shoving them in the furthest corner.

[Fragamemnon]

Are you looking for historical grand strategy (specify time period/geographic region/war(s) of interest), squad level tactical warfare, operational level warfare, economic simulation, traditional 4x turn based(space, conventional, or fantasy!), naval simulation, or sports management/simulation? I can make recommendations for any of these, I adore my spreadsheet gaming.

Role playing games could also work, as could well-desgined card-based titles.

Economic simulation and turn based games!

I enjoyed MoM, MoO back in the days. Thanks!

For economic sims, you should check out something like 1701 A.D. (which has "city-building" elements but is at its heart a game of trade networks wrapped in an extremely slick package), Frog City's underappreciated Trade Empires and Imperialism 2, or either of the two recent Ascaron games (Patrician III, Port Royale 2).

For a game like MoO, I would actually say take a look more at Sword of the Stars w/ expansion than anything else. It had a rocky release but has turned the corner through heavy patching, and offers IMO the more lightweight MoO experience than GalCiv2-totally more of a MoO2-styled game-does. For something just rocking in between 4X and RTS in space, you shouldn't miss out on Sins of a Solar Empire.

Master of Magic styled games have had two stellar entries over the past few years-Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic and (especially, IMO) the Fall from Heaven 2 modification for Civilization 4: Beyond the Sword. More info on the mod here :

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=171398

[Smooth Groove]

Ironic, isn't it?  The system, where shitty looking Blizzard games are most popular, keeps getting more powerful while next-gen consoles prove ever more unable to run their graphically intensive games at stable framerates/HD resolutions. 

Borys, those specs looked kinda suspect.  I think I'll check out how ATI is doing before deciding which GPU I"ll be getting.  Hopefully, NV wins though so that I don't have to upgrade my motherboard as well in order to use a 2 GPU configuration. 

[MrAngryFace]

Smooth Groove: Givin PC gamers a bad name

[Smooth Groove]

Blizzard:giving PC gamers bad graphics since 1990!

[CajoleJuice]