The other version of the same laptop I own is 1TB 7200rpms I believe. How much “better” is that?
They actually just came out with a different video card I believe. The GTX 960M version, the one I bought has the GTX 860M. Thinking about returning the GTX860M 256GB SSD version for the GTX960M 1TB HDD one instead.
I do have an external toshiba hard drive that I could connect with a USB cable… I didn’t realize game installs now could take 20-30 gb per install. Stupid question: is there a big difference between running games off an external hard drive or the normal hard-drive in the laptop?
Running FFXIII-2 on the laptop and the frame rate drops a bit during the cinematics.
finished playing gods will be watching this weekend. interesting game, it’s like a point and click resource management rogue like. the rng aspect of it can be frustrating especially when it’s so out of your control. for example i played the first chapter for 2 hours before beating, which i thought was ridiculous. then i beat chapter 5 which is considered rage inducing on my first try. the story was forgettable, but the pixel art was quite good. if you like heavily influenced RNG resource management then you might like the game but other than that i wouldnt recommend it.
i did start freedom planet after finishing gods will be watching and it’s SOOO good. whoever put this shit together is brilliant.
finished playing gods will be watching. interesting if you are into RNG based resource management type games, similar to a roguelike resource manager, but if you are not you are better off skipping it. the pixel art was really nice though.
started playing freedom planet, holy cow this game is amazing. the studio behind this project is brilliant!
i think what VR tries to do is create a 1 to 1 aspect to immersion, in a sense saying being IN the game is the best way be immersed. however, immersion has so many variables as to how it is achieved that the answer isnt a simple “physically be in it”. what makes a book immersive? would it be better if you could just VISUALLY be in the novel, probably not (see movies). the brain has a big part in creating a sense of being and immersion, it fills in gaps and creates a much more visceral experience in part because it’s in YOUR head. VR removes some of the cognitive functions that allows us to imagine, is that better, maybe…maybe not depends i guess.
but it becomes even more complex because what type of experiences are you looking for? what do you want out of games. part of the experience of a game is the gameplay, shootemup and fighting game players probably wouldnt give a fuck about playing Raiden in VR because they are more gameplay orientated.
in the end what im getting at is immersion is complex and there isnt one answer, i think VR just offers a different experience. I personally dont care for it but im a more gameplay orientated player.
i think what VR tries to do is create a 1 to 1 aspect to immersion, in a sense saying being IN the game is the best way be immersed. however, immersion has so many variables as to how it is achieved that the answer isnt a simple “physically be in it”. what makes a book immersive? would it be better if you could just VISUALLY be in the novel, probably not (see movies). the brain has a big part in creating a sense of being and immersion, it fills in gaps and creates a much more visceral experience in part because it’s in YOUR head. VR removes some of the cognitive functions that allows us to imagine, is that better, maybe…maybe not depends i guess.
but it becomes even more complex because what type of experiences are you looking for? what do you want out of games. part of the experience of a game is the gameplay, shootemup and fighting game players probably wouldnt give a fuck about playing Raiden in VR because they are more gameplay orientated.
in the end what im getting at is immersion is complex and there isnt one answer, i think VR just offers a different experience. I personally dont care for it but im a more gameplay orientated player.
on another note, ive been playing freedom planet and that game is the bomb diggity, brilliant stuff from that studio
i think what VR tries to do is create a 1 to 1 aspect to immersion, in a sense saying being IN the game is the best way be immersed. however, immersion has so many variables as to how it is achieved that the answer isnt a simple “physically be in it”. what makes a book immersive? would it be better if you could just VISUALLY be in the novel, probably not (see movies). the brain has a big part in creating a sense of being and immersion, it fills in gaps and creates a much more visceral experience in part because it’s in YOUR head. VR removes some of the cognitive functions that allows us to imagine, is that better, maybe…maybe not depends i guess.
but it becomes even more complex because what type of experiences are you looking for? what do you want out of games. part of the experience of a game is the gameplay, shootemup and fighting game players probably wouldnt give a fuck about playing Raiden in VR because they are more gameplay orientated.
in the end what im getting at is immersion is complex and there isnt one answer, i think VR just offers a different experience. I personally dont care for it but im a more gameplay orientated player.
on another note, ive been playing freedom planet and that game is the bombdiggity, brilliant stuff from the studio
Did you do anything that would warrant a ban? The only think I heard in that thread was people saying they would torrent Windows for the free upgrade, because that was what everyone was talking about for a bit(which has since been confirmed to be false).
I fixed SRK/KingOfParody. He didn’t do anything to deserve a ban. He was either in the Spam list because some motherfucker abused the Flag:Bot Spam flag or the auto-scanner incorrectly picked him up because it hates PC discussion threads (seriously). Don’t ever use the Flag:Bot Spam flag for anything but bot spam.
There was a fuckton of spam I cleaned up this weekend, and I also cleaned up people (like King and many other actual people) marked as spammers that should not have been. If Vanilla or myself fucked anyone over, PM me and I’ll fix it immediately.