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Got a warning...
Jeez...sorry for the bad language. This word already made it into internet pop culture and even german news websites frequently use it. It'll be a bit difficult to always remember that this website here has a kids-rating (while the game hasn't), but I'll try, dear moderator.
PS: It's still in the quote though. You might want to edit that as well. Think of the kids! 
GODzilla So, how is that 970 GTX working out for you?
"unremarkable" would be the best word to describe it, because safe for one notable exception it hasn't acted up (as some might have suspected because of the crippled memory), but instead just lived up to the promise of great performance. 
The exception was "Ryse - Son of Rome". Got it cheap during a sale. It's partly the games fault, because it automatically sets the texture size based on how many vram it detects. Naturally it detects 4gigs on my GTX 970...a mistake obviously. But how could the game know, right? So it's also Nvidias fault. A found a ini tweak to lower texture settings and it ran fine afterwards.
Apart from that I really enjoyed a few of the best games of 2015 - GTA V, The Witcher 3 - without any problems whatsoever. Thanks to the card and because both games are almost perfectly optimized for PC I could run them both on almost maxed out settings with performance running at an average of or near 60fps. Been a long time since I could just crank everything up AND expect a brilliant performance. 
Even the infamous botched release of Batman Arkham Knight couldn't stop the card - admitedly after some performance optimization tweaks (read here). Before it was kinda messed up as for everyone else. Well I guess after two perfect releases the universe just didn't allow for a third one lol. 
I even played The Witcher 3 two days ago when the room temperature reached 31°C (87.8°F) due to intensely hot weather outside. I was a bit anxious but my system was running okay and still pretty silent. Final confirmation that I did build a fine machine there.
@GODzilla It sounds like you made a good choice.
Or it could be too early to tell. There are still a few great games to be released this year. I suspect that Metal Gear V will be perfectly optimized, as Ground Zeroes already was. The other games though, like Fallout 4...we'll see. Gamebryo-engine never was a troublemaker though.
GODzilla Ya, they actually call it the Creation engine now but it's Gamebryo modified.
Haven't had a chance to try Skyrim again, I uninstalled mere four month before I got the new card. well I thought...after having it almost constantly since 11.11.11...time to move on. Played it for almost 600 hours, too. Two main playthroughs (if you want to call it that, since I never even finished the main questline), both with a good number of mods and always the "lore friendly" types.
TL;DR: Always ran very good on Nvidia hardware, so I'm assuming that Fallout 4 will too...if they don't screw up the port. I mean nobody really expected Rocksteady to fail after two solid efforts (I mean from the technical side; content-wise the two Batman games where nothing less than excellent)...but there we are. 
Back to Skyrim: Yeah I could...try it with the GTX 970 I mean. Backed the installation folder up before I removed it. But I rather don't. The game has a tendency your lifeblood out...ehrm I mean it's a time killer. If I install it this is a certainty. Many mods are outdated, need to update them / install a few from scratch and then there's this list of mods I collected during the time I didn't play...potential interesting mods. Gnah.
Best not open the box of pandora lol. ^^
yep, you got it right.. It really is a box of pandora..
And I thought this was only a newsstory about obsessed players from South Korea or so. Hey, gotta be careful. A game is not worth stressing your body that much.
And I thought this was only a newsstory about obsessed players from South Korea or so.
I think Developing a game is a different kind of stress. It's a good kind of stress? lol I don't know how to explain it.. It's hard to describe.
wow, exactly 2 shares from facebook on my project. I'm not exactly the most social person but I think this brings it to a new low. lol
I only have a fake facebook account with no friends it in. Use it for competitions were you can win something or the like. ^^
@GODzilla My FB account might as well be fake since I've had more moral support here then in RL.
I'm guessing people have no interest in a puzzle game with no violence in it? Thinking that the direction of the project is going to change soon if there is no opinion one way or a another.
Gonna be honest with you: Personally I have no interest in this game. None whatsoever. BUT...that goes for almost all indie games these days. I dunno how to explain it. In short: I'm a triple-A-game-sucker.
Longer: I never had a console or handheld, I am a pc only player and on pc games were going trough a steady evolution. Back in the days, of course, I did play jump & runs and classic adventures. Graphics had pixels back then, it was state of the art. I also loved Baldurs Gate, but would have a hard time playing it now, which goes for almost all isometric style rpgs. It's just outdated looking at a landscape and people as if watching puppets on the floor...imho.
Excluded from games that more or less never went trough this evolution both in gameplay and graphics - I mean for instance those on handhelds like the gameboy - I watched games grow better and more beautiful by the year. And got used to it.
And that's why I can hardly bring myself to play older games or those made to look old, aka "oldschool" There are some some notable exceptions. For instance I LOVE Faster Than Light and couldn't care less about it's simplistic graphic style. Another game I did enjoy was "Sword and Sworcery". You would think that from these examples I'd be more open towards other games, would be a logical assumption. Well...doesn't work that way for some reason. ^^
So in the end, it brings us back to the beginning: I'm simply a sucker for triple-A games lol.
Oh, don't get me wrong. I walked into this knowing that the idea was niche. I'm just a bit fatigued by the Call of Duty types, and other cloned games. I actually appreciate something different like Amnesia: Dark Descent, or Bastion to cite good examples. The triple A type games have fallen off the radar for me for the most part. DAI was a good example of that. I throughly enjoyed myself in Divinity Original Sin, and Wasteland 2.
P.S Thanks for being honest, btw. Most people these days tend to be too politically correct to say what's on their mind.
I do enjoy games like Call of Duty, but they are snacks. At least that's what I have going for me (at least I hope it's a last straw of having a sense of quality lol), my gaming heart beats for the true gems, gems like The Witcher 3, or Bioshock Infinite, Remember Me and Tomb Raider (from 2013).
Games like CoD I just play for the graphics mostly. It's like going to watch a Transformers movie in cinema. You know it's mindlesly dull in its story, there'll be more american flags than on the green in front of the White House and enough pathos to make a wwII veteran cry, but you watch it for the action nonetheless.
BTW: I'm currently stuck in my usual routine when it comes to great games. But it's worse this time, much worse. I'm nearing the end of The Witcher 3 and it not only feels as if ending a good game, but one of the if not the best game I've played in...dunno...10...15 years? The routine is: I stop. I hesitate to finish it because when it's through...it's through. Gone. And what then, what could possibly follow up to this game, live up to it? So stupid. 
@GODzilla Yeah, I can agree with some of that. There indeed has been some really memorable games. Bioshock, Bioshock Infinite, Tomb Raider reboot, Dishonored, Don't Starve, Legend of Grimrock, Metro 2033/Last Light, Torchlight II, X-COM Enemy Unknown are just a few I can mention off top of my head.
PS I don't want Witcher 3 to end either but there are two expansions in the works..
@GODzilla Yeah, I can agree with some of that. There indeed has been some really memorable games. Bioshock, Bioshock Infinite, Tomb Raider reboot, Dishonored, Don't Starve, Legend of Grimrock, Metro 2033/Last Light, Torchlight II, X-COM Enemy Unknown are just a few I can mention off top of my head.
PS I don't want Witcher 3 to end either but there are two expansions in the works..
And according from news from today they shall be almost as big as The WItcher 2. Devs say it's 10 hours for the first and 20 for the second, which will also feature a brand new location. Good news.
@GODzilla Yeah.. I wish a certain developer would catch a clue..
Nah, no need. Mass Effect 4 just needs to have spectacular graphics, that'll be enough for me. *duck & cover*
Nah, no need. Mass Effect 4 just needs to have spectacular graphics, that'll be enough for me. *duck & cover*
It'll have decent graphics I'm sure.. but how shiny will it be ? No need to duck & cover.
Well at least Mass Effect wont have the harsh competition that DA has. Guess Dragon Age is doomed to be utterly beaten by a competitor time and again, but in the scifi-rpg genre ME rules supreme I guess.
Isn't ME4 coming out right around the time.. Cyberpunk from CDPR comes out?
Tehehe Well it's not strictly the same, but yeah...one will probably be a good game, the other in another league. ^^
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