I put a good 250 hours on UT3. Just recently stopped playing it. I'm now back to UT2k4 and having much more fun that UT3. Hit me up on Xfire if you want to be my game buddy or something:
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I also plan to play UT2k4, until Quake Live. When that shit goes up it's gonna be amazing!
Actually, I think we are still very behind in the GFX department. Engines like UE3 just slap tons of bloom on their UE3 based games and call it Next-Gen. Crytek is at least pushing us forward.
Have you seen Dark Sector? That game is incredibly realistic looking, and it's on a CONSOLE! Anyway, I agree with the 15 years statement. 5 years until it's capable, and 10 year refinement sounds realistic.
Wow. That's an extremely limited HDD, spacewise. The GPU is good, but I'm not too sure about the CPU. You will at least be able to play everygame on Medium-High settings.
Crysis is quite overrated,but STILL it looks amazing. The story is utter shit, but sometimes when I'm bored I just crank it up and walk around the jungle and blow up stuff with a trainer on. :D