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Mod Note: In all of my benevolence (and the fact I'm tired of cleaning gag posts out of the BA thread) I have created a new (did we ever have one??) Off Topic thread for all your randomness and IT-related humour! The rules are: there are no rules. Although posting on-topic stuff here or stuff that belongs in Hardware Discussion etc. better may be moved randomly with extreme prejudice!! It will also make you look silly

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Gbear

Gameplay-wise it's solid. It is the most astonishing game to look at that I've ever seen.
Some of the scenes are literally breathtaking.

I think the multiplayer is basically dead at this point (although haven't tried in a while).

I spent a lot of time at it when it first came out. Took a while to get to grips with it - played at a mental pace - but it was seriously addictive.

I enjoyed it quite a lot and will probably play it through again but I'd wait until you spot it in a sale.
There's seldom any good reason to buy games at full price these days. Origin doesn't quite give you the number of sales but nevertheless..

BloodBath

I was thinking far cry 3 for some reason.

Crysis 3 looks amazing but it's a pretty run of the mill fps.

There are more open areas but it's still pretty linear.

Headshot

I can get it for 25 euro on g2play but that is a tad high for me because of what crysis 2 was

BloodBath

I think it's pretty good to be honest. If you like open world fps games it's one of the best.

It should be up for half price on origin soon enough.

Watch out for the sales.

Gumbi

Headshot wrote: »

ugh im half thinking of getting crysis 3 just to see how the new monitor will perform but the last one was ****ing awful

It's a toughie. I paid 55 *cking euro for it (on Origin, FFS). Absolutely gorgeous game. But sh*t. Utter sh*t. I played through the campaign once, got worse and worse as it progressed. Multiplayer is very meh.

Headshot

ugh im half thinking of getting crysis 3 just to see how the new monitor will perform but the last one was ****ing awful

Nolars

kevovek wrote: »

Did anyone else who bought a never settle reloaded bundle just get an email saying that they are sending you a free code for far cry 3 blood dragon? I got tomb raider and bioshock infinite with mine but this is a nice added bonus!

Yea it was apart of the bundle

kevovek

Did anyone else who bought a never settle reloaded bundle just get an email saying that they are sending you a free code for far cry 3 blood dragon? I got tomb raider and bioshock infinite with mine but this is a nice added bonus!

Tea_Bag

OMG THEY UPDATED WINDOWS INDEX EXPERIENCE FUUUUUUUUU

brb

Burgo

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I think you could get custom made "Iron maiden" case for that sort of money, which would be an AWESOME case.

Go on, do it

ShadowHearth

Burgo wrote: »

Yeah, especially when they cost so damn much. Hell if you want something expensive you can pick up a murderbox for that much.

I think you could get custom made "Iron maiden" case for that sort of money, which would be an AWESOME case.

Burgo

Headshot wrote: »

I must be the only one but that Thermaltake cases to me look awful

Yeah, especially when they cost so damn much. Hell if you want something expensive you can pick up a murderbox for that much.

Serephucus

You're not; I've never liked that case at all.

Headshot

I must be the only one but that Thermaltake cases to me look awful

Burgo

Who wants a grands worth of limited edition aluminium case:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-153-TT

Gumbi

Good stuff!!!

You selling the card or the games?

Serephucus

Thank ye postman.

That's the one from the BA a couple of days back. Apparently I managed to snag it before it got reduced to only including two free games. That said, I only got two games with it. (FC3 and Sleeping Dogs, oddly) but I've emailed Aria, and they're apparently going to send me codes for Bioshock and Tomb Raider, so all in all, win.

Deano12345

So after it got lost, second card finally arrived this morning !

Wossack

Wossack wrote: »

blah..

have it in from of me now, so just to expand on this slightly

yep, Quartz skin is what I use - find it nice and clean, and not too fussy. Nicely configurable, without being over the top. Can hide weather, pictures, addons, and sub categories very easily etc

you can set the start screen to something other then 'home' but not 'movies' unfortunately. Probably best keeping at home though, as you can hold back/backspace to go back to home, and that sorta acts as 'root' of the system. Starting them at 'videos' and then hitting back accidentally, might get them confused (perhaps)
Settings > appearance > Startup window

attached a screenshot of my movies page. I have it sorted by 'date added', and you can see the little blue dot actually indicates if something is new rather then watched - but thats pretty skin dependant. I couldnt find where this setting was set, so could now be on and always on (or at least is the case for Quartz)
No coverflow option with Quartz sadly, though my htpc might struggle with it - so no biggy

gis a shout if theres any questions, or issues with it. I found the official forums pretty terrible, and the nature of xbmc (free, loadsa versions, installs on loadsa platforms, constantly updated/forked etc) makes searching up stuff very difficult..

beno619

Serephucus wrote: »

Some preliminary info on 8-series chipset boards (Haswell):

http://vr-zone.com/articles/intel-s-own-8-series-lynx-point-desktop-boards-publicly-sighted-b85-h87-q87-z87-/19891.html

What niche will Q87 boards accommodate ?

Does anybody think we will see a slight drop in modo prices since VRM's ect are integrated onto the CPU's now ?

Serephucus

Some preliminary info on 8-series chipset boards (Haswell):

http://vr-zone.com/articles/intel-s-own-8-series-lynx-point-desktop-boards-publicly-sighted-b85-h87-q87-z87-/19891.html

Gbear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CBPmcoS910

A quick rundown on what anisotropic filtering does.

Bazzo

Have to say, thought his was pretty cool.

Wossack

big user of xbmc myself (openelec specificially)

trying to remember the name of the skin I use... im pretty certain its Quartz, but not 100%

As mentioned, you can typically set it mark things as watched, and even hide them (it considers items watched over 50% as 'watched' afaik). The watched icon is there by default (but by default is set off iirc), but the hide watched is prob skin specific

Not too sure if you can get it to boot directly into a certain menu item. I know with the skin I use, you can customise the layout of the home screen alot - so I removed a load of superflous stuff from it to streamline, and increase its GAF (girlfriend acceptance factor).

by default xbmc should cache everything alright - so should be fine with no net connection

ED E

I use RDP to work on a box on my LAN, just started throwing a warning about its Cert being dud(bad authority). What would cause that to start?

TerrorFirmer

FlyingIrishMan wrote: »

Perhaps look into OUYA? Has the ability to play full HD videos, and has an XMBC app.
Thats what I'm planning on using one for.

Nah I already built them a dual core machine for purely HD video, so hardwise wise I'm sound, just looking for options to make XBMC as child-friendly as possible for them!

Dr Silly Bollox MD

FlyingIrishMan

Perhaps look into OUYA? Has the ability to play full HD videos, and has an XMBC app.
Thats what I'm planning on using one for.

Serephucus

I've been wanting to set up something like that from my parents for a while, but I haven't yet. AFAIK, XBMC will check video files as watched, as long as the file has been watched to completion.

TerrorFirmer

Does anyone use XBMC? My parents have been using a machine I set up for them years ago to watch movies on, hooked up to the tv, but they keep forgetting which ones they have and haven't seen, so on and so forth, so I figured I'd get something a little bit easier for them - any suggestions on the simpliest, most straight forward xbmc skin for extreme novice users? Is it possible to boot straight into the movie folder? Does xbmc retain all info gathered online when offline? As in I'd have it connected online at my place, but it'd be offline at theirs, do it still keep all the cover/plot info? This would be a perfect skin if anyone knows what it is, and if its possible to boot directly into this screen?

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