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Great news that Valve did something about the FOV issue. I'm really looking forward to the game!

How the hell am I supposed to play Quake Wars, Team Fortress 2, and this thing here? :p

Oh please, those are all early reviews. The game was just released a few days ago, and because the game is so hyped all the gaming sites are pushing out the reviews as soon as they can. When that happens, the initial impression of the game dictates the score and not enough time is spent thoroughly ...

I'm looking forward to seeing benchmarks for this on the PC. It's an Unreal Engine 3 game, so I fear it'll need a 8800GTX for smooth framerates at max details. >_<

Upgrading PCs is so expensive. :(

Maybe I'll upgrade around Christmas. The only soon-upcoming game I could use a better PC for ...

Why didn't you buy Forza 2? That's like the only good game which came out in the last 6 months or so. :p

Yay for console-to-PC ports! We all know they always rock!

I like the graphics in Supreme Commander, actually. The graphics style is generic sci-fi, but being able to zoom in and out freely is very cool. The interface is also very powerful, and the unit AI is good.

Overall, I don't really like the game, though. Defending is way too easy - playing ...

[quote]FEAR's got a crap engine which runs at fairly low framerates at high resolutions, even on the newest hardware. :P
That only really applied when FEAR was released, and a few months after that. :) To be honest, I thought FEAR's engine was pretty good - lots of games have worse ones, after ...

FEAR's got a crap engine which runs at fairly low framerates at high resolutions, even on the newest hardware. :P

As for vsync, I'd try running games without it by default, and only see if it improves things if you're noticing serious tearing. If vsync seems to be seriously reducing your ...

Although I love the Colin McRae Rally games, I didn't bother downloading this one due to StarForce. I don't want that sh!t f***ing up my system.

And the game probably won't run all too smoothly on my system anyway. If I had a 360 or a PS3, I'd probably want to buy it though.

How is the ...

I've heard some good shit about this game too. Best MMO you say. Alot of people say the same thing about Vanguard.

I want to start up playing an MMO again something totally new. I'm kind of on the fence on LotR's and Vanguard.

You're kidding about Vanguard, right?

One of the main ...

Seriously, I don't get why any PC gamer would want to buy Halo 2. Even Doom 1 is a better game than Halo on the Xbox, and the PC port of Halo 1 really sucked, it probably won't be much different this round.

Strange that I haven't yet replied to this thread. Anyway...

I hate Oblivion too. I think it's totally overrated, just like Halo, and only did so well due to all the pre-release hype, and being released at a time when there was a lack of games in its genre, on its platform.

In short ...

Warcraft 3 & The Frozen Throne: excellent single-player campaign. Definitely worth checking out if you haven't ever done so.

Max Payne (1 & 2): unfortunately they don't have widescreen support, but these are still some of the top single-player shooters.

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I didn't like FEAR ...

Guild Wars is just an online game on proprietary servers. It's not a "massive" online game where you play with hundreds and thousands of other placers in the same environment at once. It's more like Diablo, really.

If you just want to play some games for the "zomg grapfix" effect, don't bother ...

Wow... I was going to write something about RTS games, but this thread has been completely hijacked so I'm not gonna bother...

If you want to chat about anime, take it to the appropriate forum. :p

Halo is the most over-rated game ever. PC gamers should know that Halo sucks compared to nearly every FPS game on the PC. Half-Life, Quake, Counter-Strike, Enemy Territory, Unreal, Deus Ex, Team Fortress, Tribes, Battlefield...

If game developers make the game zoom in one step each time the resolution is changed, then the game will be hor+. It seems to be so easy to me. But why would they do it, when the gameplay experience doe not feel discriminated (vert-)?

1) Because they probably don't care about WSGF's broken ...

As your screenshots clearly show, the angle of view is very different for each resolution at the same zoom level.

...Oh really? The widescreen shot shows more area at the sides than the non-widescreen, exactly as one would expect. And the angles don't seem "very different" at all to me. After ...

The fact remains, that if you dolly all the way out on a 4:3 and a 16:10 monitor, you see more on a 4:3 monitor as it has a larger FOV and larger viewing area. This has been proven in the screenshots.

No. Those screenshots merely show the default zoom level for various resolutions. One does ...