Fed up with being let down!

[Tommy B]

Does anyone here look forward to games being released during the summer. For those of us still at school, it's nice to have some games to look forward to for the summer holidays. Especially after working like hell for exams.

UT2007... moved. PREY... moved. STALKER... moved. FAR CRY EXPANSION... moved.

I've had enough of this crap. All those titles were origionally scheduled for release within the next few months; now we have to wait until September at the earliest!

Are there any good games being released this summer?? I'm preying that the HL2 add-on doesn't get delayed!

To top it all off, I bought C&C First Decade thinking we could have a load of classic battles over LAN. It's a typical ****ty EA job. The only game I've got working over the network is Generals. Pathetic.

CRYSIS looks absolutely incredible, but I really doubt my crappy X1900XT will be able to render it at that speed.

 

[Tommy B]

Well UT2007 I'd always have thought would come out closer to 2007, or even in 2007, so I've not got my hopes on it coming out this side of autumn anyway.

Prey and Stalker, they're always being delayed, both have been here and there for the last half a decade, so no suprises there really.

HL2 Episode One has pretty much been set in stone now, so nothing should delay that. Though I don't feel that's it's going to be anything new, or that enjoyable, and far too short for some peoples liking, so I'm hoping to be suprised with that.

Other than that, I've not seen anything that gets me excited still. Neither Stalker or Prey have me wanting to go out and buy them on the day of release yet.

Looking at my system spec; do you reckon it will handle Crysis and UT2007 - Or will I need a DX10+Vista upgrade?

I wonder if the Far Cry expansion will be out shortly?

Cheers

 

[Tommy B]

Havn't the foggiest mate. It should run the game fine I'd have thought on medium, but with any new game that's going to demand the latest graphics card to make it look the nicest, you're going to have to compromise on some image qualities to get the best frame rates, or live with horrid frame rates.

I've always found the Unreal Engines run things a lot nicer than others, and the FarCry engine was quite horrid and rather hungry for power, so at a guess, you'll find UT2007 to run quicker, though they're going to be two different kinds of environments to render really, extreme foliage / landscapes in Crysis, more urban/sharper environments generally in UT.

Tell me about it. UT 2004 runs incredibly on a PCI Radeon 9000! I played it in between my 7800GTX and X1900XT upgrade.

ou know all the screenies and videos, they were run at full settings, smoothly on an X1900!!!!

That would make my day, but I'd need to hear it from someone else too. Or have evidence

 

[Tommy B]

I never played Quake IV when released. Would it be worth picking up cheaply or are the graphics not really that good? I just want a damn game that will blow me away and put my X1900XT to the test.