powersurge
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Oct 1, 2005
- Messages
- 311
I'm not a tinkerer or overclocker. I like it when things just WORK without having to fiddle with things. With that said PC's offer a different experience over consoles which is why I still have both.
Outside of Crysis (which IMO should of been left in the oven and optimized more for real world pc's) the upgrade cycle isn't as bad as some of you guys make it out to be. The rig I'm gutting now is 3 years old and it has a 4400x2 (dual core) 2gigs of ram and originally had a 7800gt (upgraded to a 8800 later) and if it wasn't for the fact that it is a shuttle pc with a dead psu I would still be using it for another year most likely.
Maybe I got lucky when I decided to go with the dual core chip (at the time pc games didn't really use it) but if it wasn't for the fact that I'm swapping cases (which is forcing a mobo change and therefore an upgrade) I'd still be using it and playing games like CoD4 and Supreme Commander at 1680x1050. I do know this time I'm going with a Quad core cpu betting that in the next 2-3 years games will take advantage of it just like I did with the dual core chip.
As for Assassin's Creed I thought it was a great base for a game. The stuffs all there but the one flaw is in the repetitive missions. Its the same thing over and over. I have more fun just free running roof to roof pushing guards off and goofing around. Hopefully the 2nd AC game offers more variety in the missions.
Outside of Crysis (which IMO should of been left in the oven and optimized more for real world pc's) the upgrade cycle isn't as bad as some of you guys make it out to be. The rig I'm gutting now is 3 years old and it has a 4400x2 (dual core) 2gigs of ram and originally had a 7800gt (upgraded to a 8800 later) and if it wasn't for the fact that it is a shuttle pc with a dead psu I would still be using it for another year most likely.
Maybe I got lucky when I decided to go with the dual core chip (at the time pc games didn't really use it) but if it wasn't for the fact that I'm swapping cases (which is forcing a mobo change and therefore an upgrade) I'd still be using it and playing games like CoD4 and Supreme Commander at 1680x1050. I do know this time I'm going with a Quad core cpu betting that in the next 2-3 years games will take advantage of it just like I did with the dual core chip.
As for Assassin's Creed I thought it was a great base for a game. The stuffs all there but the one flaw is in the repetitive missions. Its the same thing over and over. I have more fun just free running roof to roof pushing guards off and goofing around. Hopefully the 2nd AC game offers more variety in the missions.