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Hollis40

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Anyone make detailed notes about your games to keep track of various aspects? Or even if they are not extensive. Like tweaks for performance or graphics, special keyboard setup, gameplay help, storyline and game character items and so on. Wondered what kind of game docs gamers here make on their own or organize from various sources. For example for me games like HL2, Morrowind, or Max Payne 2 I'll start my notes on how smooth they play and how good they look at certain anti aliasing settings. And whether it's better with in game anti aliasing versus only forced or both on. And then the same with aniso filtering.

And then followied by notes about adjustments relating to sound. Then comments about special areas of the levels that are cool. Maybe even a complete list of the levels with notes describing specific things about each one that I may not find in game guides. And other tweaks, man some of those could take a book to keep track of. I realize many of you may keep all that on only on digital files but I keep hardcopies also although that may seem old fashioned. Some may perfer writing notes in their game manuals but I'd rather keep those clean in case I trade the game to a friend or at a store.

Also some gamers keep all their tweaks and notes only in files on the hard drive and simply switch to them for reference from in the game via alt-tab or similar method. For me that distracts from the immersiveness of the game. So I keep a hardcopy nearby, or maybe I'll get a second monitor soon. Some of you like me may feel a sense of accomplishment compiling all those game notes. It's like your notes can become part of the memories you have from all those past games.
 
I think I first really used in-game notes in Morrowind. In WoW now I keep files for quests and stuff like that. For NWN I used some files for different tweaks to the game, and in HL2 I had a whole file for registry tweaks until I formatted my drive.
 
I've never written any notes except maybe passwords from old school console games.
 
For Orbiter, I find myself forgeting all the numbers and procedures. I do tend to right down keyboard commands, especially for simulator games.
 
Most I ever do is like key codes for storage lockers in Doom3 or passwords for stuff in Deus Ex. I write them on scrap paper (cuz my desk is a mess) and they get tossed when I DO get around to cleaning it off. Seems to me that the process of taking or looking at such detailed notes would detract from the immersiveness just as much as alt-tabbing to a notepad file. I always set my keyboard up in the same general config no matter what game I play and once I find video/sound/etc settings that run smooth and look/sound good, then I leave it alone. I bought theh game to play, not to work on it :)

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I only take game notes when i'm playing RPG's, hacking or when i'm benchmarking. The rest i look up at gamefaqs :)
 
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