TerraDraconis

Yep that is why Andy is still helping to hold the Sheriff's station against the hoards of undead.

And that is why ultimately I don't wind up black balling the various publishers. Because if I did I would soon have nothing to play.

Frankly GW2 is a pretty fun fantasy MMOG. But there is nothing wrong if you don't want to play it.

Got a chance to briefly check on this last night. I had already switched to DX9, but taking the veg and shad down to .2 each was amazing. I didn't get to stay in long but I had been getting frame rates of 12 - 15 with occasional bouts of 1 or just frozen. Last night for the bit of time I had to check I was getting framerates of 29 - 32 with the occasional slowdown to 15. I'll have to give this a longer term run and maybe I can bump one or the other up a notch but thank you very much for the specific slider adjustments that I had missed.

I do like TSW and what was keeping me from enjoying it was the bad framerates and lockups in combat.

I was surprised it went away at all. But pleasantly surprised. In the old days when I had to walk up hill five miles in the driving snow to school the moderators would have removed it within hours of it first appearing....

I've tried some of the settings lower but I'll go ahead and lower those other ones as well. Thank you for the suggestion. I do like the secret world if it just wouldn't freeze up regularly on me. ::Sigh::

It wasn't just that he made the claim about how rude we all where, it was that he went on and on in post after post about how mean and cruel we all where to the poor OP.

So I went back to double check and then I simply posted the notes I had been taking. Result Posts 2 - 64 pretty much unsympathetic but generally helpful and aside from 1 or 2 nonsequeter posts all were ok. Post 65 is a mocking picture and post 66 is the OP giving everyone in the thread the finger. Post 72 is EL dropping on everyone about how horrible we had been to the OP etc, etc, etc. And posts 73 - 91 are mostly EL complaining about how horrible the COX community is.

Sorry about all that but I figure having done the research ....


Oh and thank your for the award of The Internet Forbin_Project.

Now on to Secret World. I wish it worked a bit better with my graphics card. I hate dieing to the game freezing up. ::sigh::

Pepper doesn't look to happy.

Because they both aimed to be console games.

No seriously I blame it on the limitations of the console controller. You have to limit powers and commands and menus and all that in a console controller. I've noted that ever since a couple of Elder Scrolls ago. The first one moved to a console showed definite signs of the dumbing down of the interface. The same with other games I've seen go from PC only versions to the next version having a console version. Because of the limitations of the console controller the entire play experience changes.

Mind you not always in a bad way but it usually winds up somewhat limited compared to what you can do with a full keyboard.

Both DC Heroes and Champions Online aimed to be console/PC games. In DC Heroes case they succeeded in Champions Online's case Microsoft changed their mind at the last minute and didn't allow the planned Xbox version to release. But since the game that became Champions Online originally started as a Marvel Heroes product and then had to be rebranded to another IP it had been planned as an Xbox/PC game. as late as 6 months post launch of Champions Online Cryptic was still trying to get Microsoft to approve the Xbox version.

So in answer it's because they are designed to be console games and I'm not certain that a proper super hero game can be built using a console platform.

Lets put it this way.... I wouldn't be shocked to find out that is Arcanaville. I don't think it is. But I wouldn't be shocked.

It maybe your video card. I have a GeForce 8600 GTS and it barely works for me. I definitely need to upgrade my video card to play it well. I usually have around 15 FPS but after a while it can drop to 1 FPS and lock up on me. Not fun but when it isn't doing that it is great. I've explored Kingsmouth town itself and have just started the areas nearby. Just took the Kid in the skate parks missions.

It is definitely a fun game.

Oh I agree something doesn't add up. I have my own pet theory that somehow they gain a short term positive benefit from shutting down a game and or studio. But I have no idea what and my attempts at a coherent reason get shot down by people who say that it doesn't work that way. Maybe yes maybe no. But I'm convinced that NCSoft learned from their first shutting down of a game some trick that makes them a short term profit. And they keep going back to that well.

Anyway yes there is something fishy about it but what? I don't know and I suspect you would have to be an NCsoft Korea insider to know.

Yup, Fury lies more than The Doctor.

I didn't either and for a moment I wondered if I should feel slighted about it. Nah... Not going to bother feeling slighted.