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by Published on March 29th, 2012 06:00 PM- Categories:
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Occasionally I come across a console gamer looking to make the change to PC gaming. They're interested primarily in better graphics and mods. What holds them back are a mix of legitimate concerns, and a vast amount of false information invented by anti-PC gamers. I felt that I should clear up the benefits and disadvantages to PC gaming. I've been gaming on consoles since 1996, and have extensive experience with all consoles since NES and Sega Genesis. I built my first gaming PC in 2008, and since then I've developed many modifications for games as well as designed quite a few levels. So this will be a purely informative and non-biased post.
Below are some of the common questions asked by console ...by Published on March 1st, 2012 04:00 PM Number of Views: 3386- Categories:
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GND Presents: Skyrim Modding Guide!Okay. With this guide we'll be showing you what mods to get in order to make Skyrim a much more beautiful and enjoyable experience! We'll go over mods that will make Skyrim look better than real life....mods that will enhance the gameplay...and mods that aren't really needed, but just fun or cool to have. Remember that the Creation Kit has only just come out so there is still much to come..We will try to keep this guide updated, we'll do a recap every month hopefully.
1. Skyrim 2k Texture Mod by Nebula1
We'll start off with Graphical Mods. I'll go over all sorts of graphical mods on this page, all the way from full on Texture mods to Lighting Overhaul mods!
*Click the images to view full size!
This mod is a huge mod which is in the process of redoing every texture in Skyrim and making it 4-8x better than it's stock counter-part! This mod will make the average look extraordinary! Right now it covers every landscape texture, Windhelm, Whiterun, and Solitude. It's still WIP so more and more is being added in each update! Beware this is for top end PCs!
2. RCRN HDR- Realistic Colors and Real Nights by aLaa
This mod is alot more powerful than it seems, it will transform Skyrim into a seriously beautiful game. It totally redoes the lighting and coloring of the game, making for much brighter days, beautiful sunsets and sun rises, dark nights and best of all..Dark Dungeons! This mod even makes most of the armors look much nicer due to the special plugins it has. This mod is a serious must have because it does all this without any FPS drop.
3. High Res Face Maps for Men by Geonox
This mod may not seem like much but it takes the facial detail in Skyrim to the next level! With this mod, all male characters get extremely detailed face maps...You will be able to see their pores...Wrinkles are more defined and you can even see the facial stubble. It also evens out the Normal Map so you're not left with a blocky nose. This is one mod you'll just have to try for your self, it's another must have for me!
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The website allgamesbeta.com posted some leaked screenshots of what it claims to be Doom 4. If the images are true, this is reason to believe that that the rumors of Doom 4 being cancelled are untrue. There are about a dozen of these screenshots linked below so feel free to judge for yourself.
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by Published on February 28th, 2012 12:40 PM- Categories:
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Yay! a new trailer for Mass Effect 3 released a few days ago. It shows Shepherd fighting to take earth back. Enjoy!
Mass Effect 3 is scheduled to be released March 6, 2012 for Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and PC.
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Today we'll be looking at Serious Sam 3: BFE, Croteam's latest addition to the popular Serious Sam franchise. This 16-player cooperative FPS is a prequel to Serious Sam: The First Encounter, and combines the fast-paced, gory, old-school FPS gameplay with new technology and features. Lets see if it is a worthy addition to the franchise!
I purchased Serious Sam 3: BFE through Steam and the download/installation period was normal. Much to my surprise, there are two executable files: a standard one, and a "moddable" one in which you can play custom content. Once you launch the game, you'll find lots of options in the main menu....
So you have key bindings, gamepad support, and general game options which include the following.
Voice options are a nice addition. By default push to talk is enabled and you can adjust voice receive volume, voice transmit volume, and mic sensitivity. There is also a mic test.
Visual options are all basic such as resolution and color options. Advanced options has game specific features as well as an FPS reader.
I suppose the Performance Options has something to do with visual quality. I recommend leaving it on the autodetected settings. Unfortunately, there are no specific graphics options in game. Serious Sam 3 auto detects your hardware as seen in the AutoDetect.lua file, and you can adjust all of the graphics related cvars in the Serious Sam 3\Content\SeriousSam3\Config folder, so you can configure everything to your liking... just not in game. It seems to have a lot more graphics cvars than even the Crysisby Published on November 28th, 2011 09:00 AM- Categories:
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Well, Skyrim has been out for a bit over 2 weeks now and I've logged over 110 Hours on it. I think it's time for a GND Review.
Skyrim is the newest game in The Elder Scrolls series developed and published by Bethesda. It's the latest and greatest RPG by Bethesda and follows Bethesda's previous style of giving you a huge world to do what ever you like instead of following a tight story.
So lets get this review started...
Let's start with Gameplay. Gameplay is typical of all modern Bethesda games, so if you've played Oblivion, it will feel very similar or even if you've played Fallout 3 or New Vegas, you'll recognize the style.
While gameplay is similar, it's been much improved. With new features such as Finishing Moves!
Other improvements ...by Published on October 28th, 2011 10:30 PM- Categories:
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Greetings, my dear readers! Today GND has something special for you all - a Battlefield 3 review. We look exclusively at the PC version. GND does game reviews like no other site; we are extremely detailed and the review will be full of depth, and we're also quite critical. How will the most hyped game 2011 score? It's time to find out!
For this review, I will be looking at the Limited Edition (disk model). The PC used for the review includes the following hardware.
- Windows 7 Professional 64-bit w/ SP1
- EVGA P55 FTW Motherboard
- Intel Core i5 760 @ 4.2 GHz
- G.SKILL ECO Series 2 x 2GB DDR3 1600 @ 7-8-7-24 2T
- EVGA GTX 480 @ 800/1600/1000
- OCZ Vertex 3 60GB (OS boot drive)
- Western Digital Caviar 320GB (storage, BF3 is installed here as well as Origin)
- Dell ST2310 Monitor (HDMI mode, 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz)
- Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5.1 Headphones
Battlefield 3 will be set to Ultra settings at 1920 x 1080 for the entire review, including all images. Drivers used are 285.62 WHQL for most images.
Battlefield 3 Limited Edition comes shipped in a normal game case, and there is no real complete manual. Inside you'll find two disks and the papers needed to get the game started plus CD key activiation. In order to play Battlefield 3, you must install EA's Origin and the Battlelog web plugin. PunkBuster is used for anti-cheat, unfortunately.
First you pop in disk one, and after the installation reads 50%-60% in Origin, you have to pop in disk 2. However, for some odd reason, the installation period is somewhere around 40 minutes to 1 hour after reading comments on various forums. For me, it was one hour. This is absurd really, and I don't know why this occurs.
After it finally installs, you'll see that your BF3 folder is 11.1GB which is quite large for an FPS game. Origin is really plain and has almost no features. It's a bare program that EA forces you to run. Feature wise, you can add friends and it should auto ...by Published on October 27th, 2011 11:48 PM- Categories:
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Patrick Bach, executive producer for DICE told PC Gamer that PC help make games on console look the way they do today. According Bach “It has forced us to push the limited technology of consoles compared to the PC to a new level, because we set the bar with what we wanted to create on PC and said, ‘How the heck ...
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