oh and my gravatar works now. yay me :)

I don’t trust demo’s as 9/10 times the demos are gimped to a) run better b) look better c) feel better so I’d much rather trial the full version thank you.

However if I do like a game I do buy it.. I know a lot of people don’t, but hey am better than them :)

Also the only game people need is Codename Eagle, so there.

Especially now, as i no longer live near an EB with their lovely return policy.

Oblivion ran like a dream on full settings… STALKER, smooooth…. WiC, no problems… ditto with bioshock and CoD4. Not a hitch with The Witcher… And so on and so forth….

However, the big titles in my ‘currently playing’ list?

System Shock 2, Tiberian sun, Deus Ex, and UT99.

It seems newer games just dont give me any reason to replay them whatsoever. Obviously the market just needs more compelling products. not just Look At Me!!! showcases, which are good for a blast, but then you’ve seen it all.

And the non-specialty stores simply don’t have the space or the interest to carry more than a handful of AAA titles and a splash of niche.

I don’t think digital distribution is so inherently superior that it’s capturing the market by that dint. (I for one find it rather alarming, not exciting, thanks to the inflated prices and ridiculously unfriendly policies most digital distribution services offer.) But when one’s choices are to hunt all over one’s city or town for a retailer that might have a copy of the game you want, to order online and receive it an indeterminate number of days later (or pay outrageous sums to receive it “quickly”), or simply enter one’s credit card number and start downloading….

Well. I think you get the picture..

Well, SupCom is different, M2: TW is a good game but scale-wise I don’t think the largest M2:TW map would even fit into the smallest SupCom map, it does have thousands of gorgeously detailed units (no flying units though:p) but they are all grouped together in 10-14 squads or so which means it’s a lot softer on pathing. So, not even that is a fair comparison.;)

But sure, SupCom doesn’t look good on low settings (you should really see it in Cartographic View for a surprise:p) but even then I can still understand why it’s so performance-draining, because the tech-bloat is a lot more than some added shaders, it’s just another (with the zoom literally higher) level of gameplay. While TA has its awesome close-up Michael Bay-like explosions which never seem to get boring and those gritty, carved out maps, SupCom has the controls/interface commands of a real, massive wargame. I can’t go back to those manual single-load Atlasses, I want my Ferry command.:p

Just saying: you’ll get by perhaps if you can play it with all options in the coming years. TA had me hooked me on even the smallest maps and from then on things only got better once my hardware catched up.