I hated GRID, I can't remember if I ever bought a DIRT game and if I liked it or not. I can't wait for a Burnout Paradise type racing game or Twisted Metal racing game - maybe I should get Distance since it's a little surreal.

My eyes are open, I'm so glad I spent the same price of a PS4 on a GTX 970 - The PC Gaming Age has arrived, and it's awesome :)

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I think it's good this article lets people know to wait a little bit for better performance.

Seeing as how Storm United and ARK are both built on the Unreal 4 engine and that Storm United runs well, It seems like they just need to do some debugging performance optimizations.

I'm still going to buy a 3rd copy though for my brother, and it is on sale for $5 off so come on in if you don't mind waiting for the optimizations.

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Quoting: scaineSomeone doesn't like Portal 2. So that's a thing? Okay.

If you didn't like the new mechanics in Portal 2, ElectricPrism, you might as well not play Mel. It's fantastic, but it's clearly not for you.

Unlike you, though, I like variety in my gameplay. Simple things are fine, but the interplay of diverse, surprising, interlocking puzzles - that's a beautiful thing. Oh - and stay away from the Talos Principle. That's also not for you.

You're likely correct, notice however that I didn't critique any Portal 2 Mods - the primary disappointing element of the game was the poorly written story and tryhard attempts at "humor" which are as bad as recent Adam Sandler films suchas "Jack and Jill".

It's simply that some people go crazy when their pet project gets big and they start letting the audience effect the interior universe of a story - eg: the Villian is so cool that the writers want to capitalize on their "coolness" and make them into a Hero. They completely forget that we loved them because they were evil. Darth Vader (becomes whiny child Anakin Skywalker), Queen of Blades (becomes Sarah Kerrigan - commits genocide against the human race, alien dictator { The Hitler of Space} becomes Space Jesus who now is prophecied to save the universe), GladOS [a Pshyco Sadistic Computer with severe morality issues who kills humans in the thousands by performing experimentation] (Becomes the poor victim of a Data Transfer and a Helpless Potatoe who makes jokes in poor taste about turkey dinner and my fat ass.) WTF? Seriously WTF? Nowhere in System Shock 3 should Shodan ever reform and run a Child Daycare.

Unlike you I like good stories and meaningful character development m8 ;) Just Kidding Bro, but my point is that when you go to Mc Donalds and order a hamburger it should not try to compete with Taco Bell and include Beans, Taco Sauce or Pizza - everyone knows a Hamburger should not contain watermelon or Yogurt - in the same that Way Portal 1 !== Portal2 - they messed with the formula and now to me the Story and character development of GladOS ruined the character and forever ruined the Portal Series in my eyes. If a game is about gameplay only it should not include a story, or the story should not suck. Maybe I can pretend that Portal 2 doesn't exist and close my eyes or drink some bleach to forget about Portal 2 and then GladOS can still be evil. At least Shodan isn't ruined yet.

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Quoting: melkemindI've been loving this game for quite a while. It's one of my top 10 on Linux.

You suck, I really want this game and your positive reinforcement has caused my wallet to get all giddy to go grab a $20 Steam Card at the store. Now I have to reinforce wallet rehab and listen to my wallet beg me to let it go get this beautiful game for me.

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My biggest issue with Portal 2 was that puzzles generally only had 1 solution. In Portal 1 some Puzzles allowed placement of portals in areas that had no relevance and you could create odd solutions sometimes which made the game feel expansive instead of locked down.

Also, GladOS spoke much more eloquently in "Portal 1", eg: "You will be missed" meant she was going to kill you.

In Portal 2 - she has no tact, no intuition and no evil she simply calls you "fat" straight out - there is no whitt. Sure the dumb masses will get the joke - but it comes off much more prude and football cheerleader dumb. GladOS was a evil mastermind - In Portal 2 she becomes a ally and a Potatoe - Picard would triple facepalm as did I when I played through Portal 2.

But it all makes sense why the story is so terribly "forced" - they never intended to make a sequel at all - a lot of the assets during production were meant to make the game a Portal Prequel - and management couldn't justify "wasting money on all that Aperture Laboratories level design and models. So they pointlessly shoehorned it into the Sequel to save a buck and adapted the story to accommodate, eg: Maximize Profits. Portal 1 on the other hand was started in some guys dorm as a passion project. Very differen't spawning pool environments for a Portal game.

Additionally I didn't like the new puzzle mechanics - speed goo and jump goo - I mean seriously? The Formula to make games "Fun" is to keep the game mechanics simple - we don't need light bridges and speedy jumpy goo - it's like when you take a classic like Super Mario Bros 1 and ask - why was this so fun? You literally run to the right and jump, and you can duck slide - the game has no other major mechanics.

Portal was well - Portals. Now Portal decided to get whacky since they "made it big" from Portal 1. It's like bears or candy bars where they pointlessly add all this extra shit in an attempt to make it "better" and "20% more peanuts" or whatever. The Candy bar should literally be Choc-late, and peanut-butter and maybe caramel max - then you read the nutrition facts and get a stroke from them deviating from a very simple recipe.

Portal 2 should be called "P.J.S.L.B" for Portals, Jumping, Sliding, Lasers & Bridges - Hey guys you play the latest PJSLB? Yeah it was great!

It's like "I can't believe its not butter! [External Link]"

And in reality there's like 1% butter max.

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I would love to run StarCraft BroodWar on this via WINE. Also, it seems like a excellent streaming device - but if so then it should certainly be priced to sell.

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Wow that CPU is x86 in a hand held device. What a oddity. I wonder if the battery life is really low considering. I would instantly install snes9x and play some ALTTP on that thing.

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Awesome, now I can take Unity3D seriously as rebooting to Windows is a serious turnoff.

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This game keeps coming up on my "to-get" list - the only thing is that in my latter steam days I'm really cautious about making sure I love a game before I'm willing to buy it. $20 could be worth it, the other "watch" on my watch is Road Redemption (which sure is taking its sweet time) and Might No.5.

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Quoting: Segata Sanshiro@ElectricPrism - what kind of framerates are you getting at what settings?

I get 26 - 36 FPS outdoors on Epic. I get 45 FPS indoors on Epic. A average of 30 FPS outside.

I would assume that it should do at least high on a GTX 960, it seems that motion blur helps smooth the millions of vertexes rendered on the grass, trees, etc...

Any other questions?

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