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10/01/09
Sorry, I'm sure there will be some games to really take advantage of it in a while.
10/01/09
Having just one guy cover PC games by himself results in errors like the 20 people below me have already pointed out.
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2 DX 11 cards that are out on the market.
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I love it and I think that it is a great game- especially considering that you can play through the entire game, new and old content included, for free.
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I'm probably wrong, I've been out of the game for a while now, haven't followed DX11 or DX11 cards whatsoever, but Windows 7 RC lists DX11 on my PC with my GTX 285.
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*Edit* edited to appear less douche'y
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DX11 follows the 'strict superset' approach, just like DX10.1 did with DX10: in theory, any DX11 game would run in DX10 hardware, but with some effects disabled.
One of the new features, compute shaders, actually was planned to work with older hardware, and is divided in multiple levels of features, for all hardware versions since DX9. Not sure how the devs. will handle it tough.
Last but not least, there were software-only changes too, improvements on multi-threading support, that don't deppend on what hardware you're using: as long as the game is programmed with the DX11 API, and you're running DX11 in Vista/Win7, you'll see the benefits.
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What if we even actually broke the speed of light barrier? I know, general relativity would collapse and all, but imagine what computers could do without a speed of light limitation? They would be easily accessible time machines, to say the least..
09/30/09
Also, quantum computers will rule the computing world.
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And even though it's not the fastest speed possible, its the fastest speed physically possible with the current way technology works. When I referenced speed of light I meant c^2, not in vacuum (fuck latency) although even just c^2 would be amazing.
09/30/09
Awaken from thine imaginary world young man. Computers will never replicate the human brain so forget about creating a universe with living beings... best you can do is create immersive games that are more alive with increased computer controlled characters with increased AI as the programmer decides. AI is nothing but a set of rules, it will operate within those rules that are programmed into it.
All these advances in the world yet we will all be dead and our planet depleted before long because we are not utilizing these resources in a responsible way. Everyone is so used to abusing their planet and taking things for granted that to ask any of us to give up these things for the sake of the planet is next to impossible... by the time people start waking up, its likely going to be too late to fix the problem.
09/30/09
Further more, programing something akin to a brain is not impossible, You must just understand more concepts of a brain then we currently do. This study is not entirely impossible, most things aren't, it is just hard. But if we let little things like that stop us, then we wouldn't have half the things we have today.
Lastly the problems in our world are becoming more and more present in our society, as a whole it's not that we lack a initiative to fix it, its that old people do, because it's hard and they will be too dead to feel the consequences of their actions. I think as it becomes more prevalent that the old people don't care how screwed over we are, the more initiative young people will have to do something about it. If only we could stop the propagated brainwashing though saying "THE ONLY WAY FOR THEM TO PROVE SHIT LIKE THAT IS FOR US TO BURN"
09/30/09
C, not C^2, and fibre, not vacuum.
09/01/09
Edit: It's free?! Hmm...
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@televizor: You make your faction out of cards, those cards have different tiers so that a good deck goes from teir 1 to teir 4 well in just the same way that an RTS faction goes from teir 1 units upwards. The game even has resource gathering and defensive structures. To sum it up, it's an RTS where you decide the faction you play as.
Try it out for yourself before dismissing it. It's free to play and you get enough cards to try the game out.
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Whatever happened to the Eye of Judgement?
I can't find any of the cards. :/
09/01/09
Check ebay. I think i will now
09/01/09
I see em at Gamestop.
Other than that, I know nothing of the game.
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[store.steampowered.com]
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Not bashing Steam though, I love it!
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Sims 3 is a prime example of this they give you a few basic in game items and if you want the "nicer" stuff you have to go to the market for it and pay anything from a dollar (such as a new furniture item) or even $10.00 for a whole kitchen/living from set.
It just saddens me that now my $60.00 only gets me part of the game and the rest I have to sell out $20 for each part just to make a complete experience out of it.
I know some of you will say "well you don't have to buy all the other stuff." But where dose this stop? Next thing you know Ill pay full price for a game and to get the ending for it Ill have to shell out more money just to see it.
06/10/09
And are you just hating on expansion packs too? See above statement. No reason to be overly paranoid about everything.
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As I said in my orig post I have no problems paying for a full expansion I just don't want to have to pay for every little thing.
06/10/09
You are comparing a casual life simulation game to a competitive shooting game. apples to oranges my friend.
In the sims it doesn't matter if player A has a cooler looking/better stat stove vs player B.
There are games out there that give you upgraded weapons for pay, but that is their entire business model, free client with microtransactions to support it. Usually those games have servers specifically disallowing upgraded weapons.
this is a very informative interview and very nice look at how a few companies are starting to change with the times.
Also the additional city and "extra content" that is on the sims, you get when you activate your copy online. It is free, but it gives you quite a bit more for nothing more than a few mouse clicks.
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