Quake3World

Anyone played it yet? The first one was great but I'm not sure if my system will handle the second very well.
If you've got an older machine and are playing it, let me know how its running.

what kinda specs ya running?

My specs are pretty poor atm but run the game ok - Intel core2 6600 2.4ghz, 3g ram and a geforce gtx 260. The "low" settings are fine to play, as long as you bump up the textures (no downscaling, higher texture memory size if your card has decent onboard ram) and have vsync enabled.
Most of the other tweakable settings are nice but "fluffy", like bloom, light shafts & the artificial motion blur on your surroundings if you sweep the camera around your character.

Yeah, it is a real system killer, but thankfully very scalable. At max detail, the game looks absolutely amazing. Nothing comes close to it.

oh btw, unless you know for sure your specs will slam this game into the ground, don't enable ubersampling!

Completed it twice now, and the second play-through was an absolute mind-blower story-wise.
The first time through, I followed Roche; second time Iorveth.
Needless to say, there are some massive reveals in the Iorveth story that add a completely new spin to the game if you went with Roche first.

There's a lot of tidying up that needs to be done by the devs, and combat, even though they claim to have been influenced by Demon's Souls, is nowhere near as satisfying as that title.
The interface has blatantly been developed for gamepad and has not been thought through at all.
But the story, characters and ideas are superb. There are so many twists and turns in the story, I can even see myself going back for a third and maybe even fourth time, just to see how different decisions affect outcomes.
It's also incredibly refreshing hearing Welsh and Northern Irish accents in a game

I also imported a Witcher 1 save, but aside from some extra starting gear and cash, it appeared to make no difference to the storyline.

EDIT: Specs-wise, my machine's no spring chicken:
Phenom II X4 Black Edition at 3GHz
4GB RAM
Geforce GTX 275
Yet I was able to run it at 1920x1200 (well, 1920x1080 thanks to no 16:10 support yet).
That was with everything on High, but ubersampling and anti-aliasing turned off.

Witcher 2 on insane deletes your save when you die.

fKd wrote:what kinda specs ya running?

Core 2 Duo 3.2 ghz, Win XP, 4GB, Radeon 4850 (I think) with 512 mb of DDR5...

shaft wrote:Witcher 2 on insane deletes your save when you die.

That's crazy, insane even...

But really, that's hardcore. Never heard of a game doing that before...

I just got this game today as a b-day present and am installing as I type this one-handed...

xer0s wrote:

shaft wrote:Witcher 2 on insane deletes your save when you die.

That's crazy, insane even...

But really, that's hardcore. Never heard of a game doing that before...

I love it.

Happy birthday.

Cheers.

xer0s wrote:

shaft wrote:Witcher 2 on insane deletes your save when you die.

That's crazy, insane even...

But really, that's hardcore. Never heard of a game doing that before...

Wasn't there some mech game which did that as well? The one with the crazy huge-ass controller included.

steel battallion?

also hbd gky