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How PC gamers can be heard

actually, AMD and Intel no longer have any open lawsuits. all cases have been settled out of court. $$1.25 billion dollars to AMD ought to give its R&D a kick in the pants. the future looks good for fair competition. all evil has been expunged.
- photi
- Post #46
- Nov 30, 2009
- Forum: PC Games
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Which to buy? Left for Dead 2 or CoD:MW2

it is still $50 at steam...anyone want to wager for a price reduction there in the coming days?
- photi
- Post #23
- Nov 24, 2009
- Forum: PC Games
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Need a recommendation

to save you some trouble, why don't you just send your rig to me. i will throw some games at it and post you some gameplay vids on youtube. deal? ...please?
- photi
- Post #11
- Nov 19, 2009
- Forum: PC Games
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The Witcher 2

land walking octopi, how sick is that?! those graphics are stunning
- photi
- Post #45
- Nov 19, 2009
- Forum: PC Games
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Which game to get?

[to the OP] you might also give ebay a shot. i recently bought oblivion goty on ebay, $10+3 (for shipping)=$13 for a whole lotta game. i have not loaded it up yet, but the DVDs haven't a scratch on them. a code is not needed, so i wasn't worried about that. it has been many years since i...
- photi
- Post #12
- Nov 18, 2009
- Forum: PC Games
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5 developers who still love PC gamers

are you referring to civ revolutions? i have not played that iteration of civ, regardless i know it was never meant to be a replacement for the main game. from what i have read, revolutions was developed as a fun, alternative primer to the actual game so that console gamers could get a taste...
- photi
- Post #73
- Nov 16, 2009
- Forum: PC Games
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Direct2Drive - the way digital content should be

ha! wouldn't 30MB/s be nice! i was hesitant about steam at first, but after i have used steam it is now my preferred method of purchasing a game, even if the hardcopy were right in front of me. a little less control for a lot more convenience. there are definitely more intrusive...
- photi
- Post #55
- Nov 16, 2009
- Forum: PC Games
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Civilization 4; I suck

sometimes you want to say yes to open borders to avoid war...if an AI civ is locked in, if he can't get open borders he will eventually declare war. actually, if he is really locked in, he's gonna declare war anyway, but open borders can buy time. as you said, it is also a good strategy in...
- photi
- Post #99
- Oct 27, 2009
- Forum: PC Games
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Civilization 4; I suck

oh, that's right, that was a leftover memory from earlier versions. at any rate, addressing the op, a city does not necessarily need all improvements the moment those improvements become available; depending on one's style of play and other things, some improvements may not even need to be...
- photi
- Post #97
- Oct 27, 2009
- Forum: PC Games
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Civilization 4; I suck

actually, not true at all. civ 4 is still civ, but it has so many more dimensions than the other incarnations of its namesake that it is almost a different game. in civ3, rexing was probably the single best strategy, whereas in Civ4, there is no single best strategy, there a hundred...
- photi
- Post #94
- Oct 27, 2009
- Forum: PC Games
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Civilization 4; I suck

no kidding! this game is so vast that to think you are going to start a thread over here and become a good player is...well, it is just not going to happen. just off the top of my head, you can run a specialist economy, cottage economy, great people economy, i think some players may have...
- photi
- Post #93
- Oct 27, 2009
- Forum: PC Games
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Civilization 4; I suck

no, except for rare occasions, you always want to keep you cities growing. the unhappiness of your citizens means you are not doing enough to appease them. depending on which civics you are using (eg despotism, monarch, republic, whether or not you are running beauracracy etc) as well as your...
- photi
- Post #92
- Oct 27, 2009
- Forum: PC Games
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PC gaming is going down the tubes

that is part of what logistics is referring to. latency is an issue now, but that doesn't mean it always will be. obviously a server half way around the world connected via satellite is not an option as the speed of light is a limiting factor, but with regional servers the speed of light is...
- photi
- Post #54
- Oct 25, 2009
- Forum: PC Games
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PC gaming is going down the tubes

actually, likely the reverse is true. console gaming is doomed. cloud computing is where the industry is heading. at some point, bandwidth will be a non-issue, and once all the logistics of cloud computing are worked out, whichever gaming interface we decide to use will be nothing more than...
- photi
- Post #25
- Oct 25, 2009
- Forum: PC Games
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Civilization 4; I suck

trading is fairly straghtforward in civ4. trade routes are automatically established when you connect to other cities (your own or the AI). the top 3 yielding trade routes are the ones counted each turn and pay in commerce points. you connect to other cities either by building a connecting...
- photi
- Post #63
- Oct 25, 2009
- Forum: PC Games
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Civilization 4; I suck

Hi! Brand new, saw the OP's message and wanted to respond. I have played Civ on and off since 1993. All 4 versions have been fun, but Civ4 is definitely the biggest challenge, both for newcomers and for long time players alike. In my opinion, after the release of the Beyond the Sword...
- photi
- Post #42
- Oct 24, 2009
- Forum: PC Games

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