Recent content by jRaskell

Honestly, the best thing to do would be to NOT support exclusive games in any form. Sadly, that's just never going to happen on a large enough scale to put a stop to it. Too many !!!!!!s and gullible consumers out there (and that statement was NOT directed at members of this forum, but the...

That's definitely my biggest annoyance so far. Second would be the graphical performance, or lack thereof. I haven't noticed any significant pathfinding issues either.

0.0 Alliance membership can be very demanding. It's unforgiving out there, and for Alliances to survive and thrive, they require ALL members to contribute. I was a member of Eve Defence Force for a while, which is part of the Ascendant Frontier alliance. Contribution to the Corporation and...

I haven't purchased a single EA game in years. I won't purchase any EA game, period. A lot of people talk about talking with their wallet, but until more actually do, nothing with change. Don't complain. Just walk away. Once you've purchased the game, you've done all the talking EA cares...

Luck plays a role in virtually ever aspect of the game. Attacking, defending, casting, sneaking, lockpicking, stealing... Virtually every skill check in the game is affected by luck (so it's kind of ironic that no skill-ups affect it's attribute bonus). Most people greatly underestimate the...

IF your goal is to absolutely min-max your character, than that is the way to do it. If your goal is just to enjoy the game, then just play your character and make sure your primary offensive skills don't fall behind your character lvl. That is really the only thing you HAVE to do to keep the...

Ok, I'm gonna try to keep this short, but it's rather convoluted, so I'm probably not going to be all that successful. First, some history of my hardware upgrades.... Few months ago I upgraded my mobo/cpu to an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ and I went with an ASRock Dual board that has both AGP and...

Disagreed

Any 16x10 resolution is going to scale better on the 2405 than non-16x10 resolutions. I have the Gateway FPD2185, 21" 16x10 monitor with a native res of 1680x1050. I run several of my games at 1440x900. Try resolutions of 1680x1050 and/or 1440x900. These will scale better than other...

The Vampire bit is pretty disappointing if it's true. All the rest though, doesn't seem all that bad on the surface. I'll judge the game as a whole when I finally get to play it, because that's all that really matters. You can expect modders to fix any of the dumbing down that seriously...

I've got AoE3, and I've played it quite a bit, but not nearly as much as I played AoE2. It looks far better, but it still feels way too much like AoE2. No real new gameplay has been added. Just feels like a prettier AoE2, a game I've already played to death. I kinda wish I'd never played...

Nothing like beating a dead horse. This damn horse is just a pile of bloody pulp these days, doesn't even resemble a horse anymore, but people just continue to beat on it. Go ahead if you want. I'm just gonna go continue enjoying my HL2, CS:S, UT2k4, Civ4, WoW, and WC3.

The 2005FPW is a 16:10 format LCD display with a native 1680x1050 resolution. As with ALL LCD displays, running anything other than native resolution will either result in image degradation as it's scaled to fit the native resolution or result in an image displayed across only a portion of the...