Comments on: DiRT 2: Dirty Videos

By: no

no — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:13:10 +0000

It’s just not worth maintaining a gaming rig anymore for the very rare PC game that comes out and is worth playing. It breaks my heart to be ringing the death-knell of PC gaming, but… short of little indie trinket games (World of Goo, random freebies, etc)… it’s just a red-headed step-child of gaming.

By: A Delicate Balance

A Delicate Balance — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:25:42 +0000

…damn no edit: 8-year-old OS, but, my point remains.

By: A Delicate Balance

A Delicate Balance — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:24:40 +0000

@Howard: I’ve been running Windows 7 for a while, first in beta, then RC1 and I’ll be buying it when it’s available for purchase – I prefer it to Vista and there’s no way I’d go back to a 10 year old OS that doesn’t even support my previous graphics card (XP).

By: alset

alset — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:44:32 +0000

jalf, I recommend you try Total Commander for your file management. I’ve been using it starting with windows 2000 and I haven’t cared about explorer since.

By: Howard

Howard — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:59:21 +0000

@jalf
Ah right.
Okay, but:
-The up button is gone but instead you have the entire DNC address in selectable blocks at the top of the screen. Much better as you can go “up” to any level of the hierarchy you choose.
-The folder hierarchy pain shows eactly what you say it doesn’t…errmm?
-And the status bar contains, if anything, MORE info than the one in XP.

This is why I didn’t understand what you were saying… =)

As to arguing the stability or lack there of of a given OS I am not just arguing from my own experience. While I do have more PCs than most (7 at current count, excluding business machines) I am a self employed custom PC builder so I will, on a normal week, build, repair or upgrade something like 8 – 15 PCs. It is the experiences of these PCs that I am talking about and, when taking them into account, Vista wins hands down in the stability battle.#

@DerangedStoat
Yeah, I gotta agree. The actual “Rally” has kinda fallen by the wayside. I suppose I have to be honest and say that DiRTs rally sections were, while far from realistic, actually pretty fun so not all hope is lost but the other vehicle classes (bar the hill climbs) left me cold.

By: DerangedStoat

DerangedStoat — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:20:44 +0000

Ugh, the series formerly known as Colin Mcrae’s Rally, is no longer…
It is now Travis “Xtreme!1!!” Pastrana’s DiRT.

The man is a walking exercise in branding, marketing & self promotion (did I mention he’s XTREME!!1!). Sure he can drive a bit, but I’m not sure that many people outside of the US would be all that aware of him when compared to someone like Loeb.

Won’t someone please think of the WRC fans!

By: Coombs

Coombs — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:04:31 +0000

@Guhndahb

I recently picked up DiRT from game for £10 and found it to be a real blast.

By: jalf

jalf — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:47:07 +0000

I’ve no idea what you are on about with the explorer by the way

1: The ‘up’ button is removed. I used it a lot to navigate folders.
2: The folder hierarchy pane no longer shows the current folder or its subfolders, making it needlessly difficult to do something as simple as browse to a sibling folder.
3: The statusbar at the bottom contains almost no useful information. Try selecting a number of files in XP and see how much info it gives you just there. Even if you deselect everything, XP puts relevant information about the partition in the statusbar.

It is entirely possible that most people are not bothered by this. It’s likely that I use Explorer more than most, and more often need to navigate up and down my folders. But for me, the “new” Explorer is a pain, and has caused a major decrease in my productivity when managing files.

And of course some people had stability issues with XP. Just like some people have stability issues with Vista. That’s pretty much my point, it’s not quite that simple to determine which is most stable. You certainly can’t do it just by looking at your own experiences (or at mine).
For you, Vista was a compelling upgrade because XP ran like shit. For the rest of us, who’ve had rock solid XP installations for 5+ years, what do we care about “better stability”?

As to “simply not liking it”, fair enough, but I still say that this is juyst hyperbole

No. It would be hyperbole if I exaggerated it. I’m not. I’m saying precisely why the worst aspects of Vista annoy me, while the best aspects of it are no better than XP.

@Tetracell: Amen to that.

By: Guhndahb

Guhndahb — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:07:59 +0000

Thanks to GOG, I just got my first taste of rally racing w/ Colin McRae Rally 2005. I really liked it. I was thinking about picking up Dirt based on my positive experiences with 2005, but I’ve seen a number of comments about the arcade-y-ness of it both here and looking around at reviews. And in those searches I read a lot about how even 2005 was arcade-y next to, say, Richard Burns Rally.

I think 2005 was just about right for me in the sim:game ratio as I’m not as hard core into racing as I am into flight sims. If so, given what we know so far, does skipping Dirt and waiting for Dirt 2 seem prudent for one such as me? Am I screwed either way? Or am I asking a question for which it is too early to speculate?

By: Tetracell

Tetracell — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:06:11 +0000

Howard it would be cool if you could not use “M$” in the future because it basically makes you look retarded.

By: alset

alset — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:32:57 +0000

@eli just
I’m looking forward to the windows 7 release, and using that starter version, the one for EEEPCs for my gaming if it’s faster than xp.

By: alset

alset — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:26:21 +0000

jalf, yeah you said everything I meant and I feel exactly the same. Why they ruined something so simple and efficient is beyond me.