Author: Panagiotis Vagiakos
Editor: Charles Oliver
Date: August 23rd, 2012
Is it a blog? Is it my rumblings? Is it Stuff That Are Entirely My Opinion And Do Not Reflect That of Rage3D™? Guilty as charged on all accounts. Enjoy and comment away :)
So I took the plunge and installed Windows 8. RTM.
This is definitely one of the most controversial Operating Systems ever. The Metro Windows 8 UI that Microsoft decided to bestow upon us has drawn criticism, praise, more criticism (to the point of doom and gloom predictions, like Gabe Newell), and more praise. I had installed the Developer Preview, and skipped the Consumer preview in order to be surprised by the changes of the OS once it hit RTM. And it did surprise me (but not always in a good way). So here are some thoughts that quickly come to mind.
Geforce GTX 680 - the short "I have it for two months now" review
I think the best way to summarize my daily routine with the new Geforce is impressed. nVidia has a killer combination in their hands and they know it. The card is quiet, performs like a monster, and there's even room for more; you can tell the card isn't even breaking a sweat. Aided by a 2600k overclocked at 4.7GHz and a Z77 Asus motherboard, the card really flexes its muscles in all of the games I've thrown at it. You really have to see Crysis 2 with the DX11 High resolution texture pack at 2560x1440, it's amazing.. Even Diablo 3 is :p Which reminds me ...
Diablo III - or how to make a great game, a great chore
I had pre-ordered the game from Amazon; I had found a sweet deal and only paid £28.61 - hell of a deal. So I grabbed my hands on it, I wouldn't let go. Built myself a Barbarian, and off I went. Diablo 3 is probably one of the best games I've ever played - has enough to hook you, and complete the game again and again. And this is where it gets interesting.
I finished the game in all difficulty settings, in the process getting better weapons (not via loots, mind you, which are utter crap, but via the Auction House) and I was ready to go to the most difficult setting, Inferno mode. And that's when I got my ass handed on a plate. Again. And again. And again. The difficulty just increased 50-fold. I went online (a figure of speech, since the game demands that you are online all the time, and ends your game if your line drops; something my scumbag ADSL never forgot to remind me again and again) and after a few talks I realised that I had built my character "wrong". So I sold all my gear, and tried to get new stuff to survive. Which wasn't easy, when you pay 20k gold all the time for repairs. I finished Act 1 on Inferno, and went to Act 2, where the difficulty AGAIN increased by a lot. At that time I was getting frustrated time and time again by the meaningless SLOW farming of gold and objects (you see, I wanted to play a game, not some market simulator where you buy cheap, sell expensive and gain profits. Game. As in hack and slash, you know the sort of thing Diablo III is supposed to be). The game I loved was turning into a chore. So I stopped completely and haven't touched it for the past month. Patch 1.04 just came out with some improvements (especially the Paragon Levels), but it still feels inadequate.
So in one sentence: great game, but there aren't stuff inside to keep you playing, like Diablo 2. Maybe an expansion will fix stuff that is broken, and then I'll reconsider it. But for now, I am patiently awaiting Torchlight 2 :D
More stuff no one cares about but me next week!
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