Browsing all posts from November, 2009.

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New Customs

Although most of my gaming has taken place on either the Amiga or PC, I’ve never actually ventured into the murky forest of modding games or even customisation in any way.  It wasn’t a conscious decision, it was merely how it played out over time and so I’ve never enjoyed Fallout 3 with pornographic propaganda posters or Left 4 Dead with Teletubbies.  In fact, the closest I have ever come…

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The Price of Passion

As mentioned in a previous blog, my current system was struggling to play even a demo of the new Risen RPG game on what I would call “acceptable” quality settings.  To most, that would simply be medium texture quality, zero antialiasing and maybe 1680 x 1050 screen resolution but, to me, that means 1920 x 1080 with everything up as high as it’ll go whilst still maintaining a playable frame…

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Oops, I didn't it again

I promised I’d blog today, and it’s now too late to even start it.  It’s not like I’m capable of writing short and sweet blogs, so why waste my evening doing so when I could waste it in front of 2009’s final episode of V.

All going well, the new gaming PC should be ready tomorrow.  Believe it or not, that will prompt me to write about the ups and…

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Risen – First Look

Risen was first recommended to me as being better than Two Worlds but not quite as good as Oblivion.  To some gamers, the reaction would instantly be something akin to “well, it’s BOUND to be better than Two Worlds” but to me that was an incredibly positive reaction.  I loved Two Worlds and so a game which sat somewhere between Two Worlds and Oblivion, which is my most played game…