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[madwilliamflint]

If you're an FPS team guy, Brink is really quite intense. Unfortunately it's not quite my style. Very solid game though. I can highly recommend it if your genre matches.

[VirtualSmitty]

Originally Posted by madwilliamflint

If you're an FPS team guy, Brink is really quite intense. Unfortunately it's not quite my style. Very solid game though. I can highly recommend it if your genre matches.

It is different. I like it, but it is certainly more akin to Team Fortress than COD. Wish the player base was bigger though, I don't think it sold very well, half the time i'm playing with bots.

[Apoco]

Originally Posted by VirtualSmitty

It is different. I like it, but it is certainly more akin to Team Fortress than COD. Wish the player base was bigger though, I don't think it sold very well, half the time i'm playing with bots.

I heard Brink was SUPER buggy, and that the AI was terrible. I didn't bother to pick it up for those reasons.

[VirtualSmitty]

Originally Posted by Apoco

I heard Brink was SUPER buggy, and that the AI was terrible. I didn't bother to pick it up for those reasons.

It has had a few patches post release, to be honest aside from some frame rate issues I didn't notice anything game breaking before. The AI is indeed crap though, which is frustrating given how few people are playing it. Stalemates aplenty because the AI is too stupid to act as a team. If you are looking for a good team based shooter Team Fortress 2 is still the better choice.

I also picked up the Witcher 2. Agree with the Bill, the combat sucks but the story is kind of interesting. Still on the fence about it, don't think i'll finish it but it is kinda fun in small doses.

[yachties23]

Playing L.A. Noire.

And enjoying it very much.. Story is very good, gameplay has both some shooting and a bunch of puzzles, plus you get to beat the crap out of suspects.

Its not quite the action of a GTA or a Red Dead Redemption, but it adds a whole new element to the game engine.

[madwilliamflint]

Originally Posted by VirtualSmitty

It has had a few patches post release, to be honest aside from some frame rate issues I didn't notice anything game breaking before. The AI is indeed crap though, which is frustrating given how few people are playing it. Stalemates aplenty because the AI is too stupid to act as a team. If you are looking for a good team based shooter Team Fortress 2 is still the better choice.

After noodling with it a bunch this weekend I may warm up to it.

I haven't encountered any playtime bugs at all after about 3-4 hours of play.

The only thing I suspect might be a bug is that the weapon selections don't have descriptions. There's a list of stats for each, which is fine for selecting one, but there's no text. Tough to tell if there's supposed to be, having never seen it.

I may re-buy Crysis as I can't find the dvd. But then I might just pick up C2 and go with that.

The new gaming rig I got on Friday is a hot piece of kit. I keep going back to older stuff, maxing out the graphics and watching what I'd been missing.

[Apoco]

Originally Posted by madwilliamflint

The new gaming rig I got on Friday is a hot piece of kit. I keep going back to older stuff, maxing out the graphics and watching what I'd been missing.

What are the specs? Did you build it yourself or buy it already configged?
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[madwilliamflint]

Originally Posted by Apoco

What are the specs? Did you build it yourself or buy it already configged?
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Half and half. I bought a barebones rig that I love. (high end motherboard, mid-range cpu designed for overclocking. Lots of upgrade potential.) With a 1T drive and a big old vid card. So I didn't really have to do much.

Here's the breakdown:

• Barebones kit
• The video card is a: "XFX Radeon HD 6950 800M 2GB DDR5 Mini DP/DVI PCIE"Oddly I can't seem to find it on the Tiger Direct site. (I can find 1g cards all day. But the 2g card I'm having trouble with.
• Hard drive
• Bought a plain old dvd burner and win7-64 professional.

Just plugged it in, put the win7-64 dvd iand go. (No keyboard, mouse, monitor or speakers with that. I've got all that silliness.)

Installed steam and had it go get all my stuff while I went to work

[Bill86]

Originally Posted by VirtualSmitty

I also picked up the Witcher 2. Agree with the Bill, the combat sucks but the story is kind of interesting. Still on the fence about it, don't think i'll finish it but it is kinda fun in small doses.

Eh, I'm still playing it...I can say one thing though. This game has some decent time to it. Too bad quite a bit of it is spent walking around the REALLY annoying terrain.

I really think that if they released it a year later with some better testers and less annoying gameplay...it could have been a solid 8.5-9/10. For me now it's a 7.5-8