I am curious, and if it is what I think it is then yes I will be getting it.

I have 4 TV's in the house in different rooms, (in addition to my gaming PC) I have some 220 games on Steam currently. If I am able to use the steam box to play any of my steam library on any of those TV's whenever I want (or even at the same time) picking up from my last save game, and if it is also a streaming HTPC that will also stream to those TV's in a slick HTPC interface (like XBMC) from my NAS whenever I want, then I cannot wait for it.

The biggest investment in gaming is in that actual games themselves, the hardware is the cheap part. So to have the ability to have my library of games available anywhere-anytime in the house is a no brainer to me. To play on my PC, then go play in the home cinema room, then go to bed and play on my TV in my bedroom ... all with the same content available to me without me having to move my PC or console every time I want to do this, would be friggin awesome.

That is, if it is what I think it is of course.

already owned a console when it came out - I enjoyed the game, but all the way through it I was constantly thinking to myself how much better it would have been on a PC. Just having a higher resolution than the blurfest on PS3 would have made the game better.

Oh and yeah I made sure I bought the game secondhand so Rockstar did not get any money directly from me and I will do the same for GTA5 if it does not come to PC.

I am certainly not going to reward those asshats for making a decision to not put a popular multiplat on PC!

1. No One Lives Forever

2. System Shock

3. RollerCoaster Tycoon

4. Thief

5. Tenchu

6. Halflife

7. SWAT

8. Baldurs Gate

9. Icewind Dale

10. Vampire the Masquerade

Thief is the game series with the best stealth elements.

NOT going to have those pics in this thread :evil:

AA

Blade Runner ... man it was hard to get working but totally worth it

Valve is the most exciting company in the world right now ... pity you cant buy shares!

But not answering to shareholders is also the reason why they can explore high risk markets that other companies only wish they could.

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Sounds like a hard to believe conspiracy theory :P

Modern PC graphics cards are up to 10-times stronger from the consoles. If there's no games showing it doesn't mean they aren't.

nismo8000

hate break it to you, but there are plenty of games that show how beastly PC's are compared to console. even multiplat games that actually have pc in mind like skyrim and crysis 2. skyrim 2 after mods with the high res texture packs and the realistic lighting and fov mods at 1080p at 60 fps is so different from any console that it may as well be comparing xbox to xbox 360.

if you look at the mathmatics of it, you're pushing twice the pixels as a console and you're pushing them twice as fast. and that is just my midrange pc. imagine skyrim running at 90-120fps on a 120hz 1600p monitor...i'll let that settle in. that's easily 8 times the performance of a console right there.

lets talk about pc exclusives that take advantage of the power of a modern cpu like starcraft 2 and shogun 2. while not technically that amazing (even though shogun is dx11), these are examples of games that would melt the cpu in a console. i had a shogun battle the other day that was 2400 units vs 2100 units and it was running at 45fps or better on max graphics with no AI. i must say, that game is AT LEAST a generation ahead of anything on ps3 or xbox. or how about a 4v4 with 8 maxed out armies? are you telling me there is a game even close to intensive that on xbox or ps3?

the truth is: the next gen has already happened. pc gamers have been playing "next gen" quality graphics for a while now. probably around 3-4 years.

I try to avoid these type of stupid threads, but you have summed it up nicely (however given that your comment is longer than two sentences , it is unlikely to be read by the majority in this forum).

There is more to "next gen" than just graphics, you have to take into account the CPU's and GPU's ability to deal with advanced AI multiplied by many, and other real time effects. There is a huge difference beyond just resolution and texture size which is all that some seem to be fixated on nowadays.

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System Shock 2 and PlaneScape Torment are both near to perfect games that could do with a remake - better graphics is all they really need ... the story, gameplay and atmosphere are already leaps and bounds above the vast majority todays offerings.

spookykid143

Really?

I thought it captured the AD&D ruleset fantastically and it was classic Black Isle/Bioware "Baldurs Gate/Icewind Dale/Neverwinter nights" style gameplay through and through. If your opinion is that the gameplay of the classic CPRG's was terrible, then good luck to you!

System Shock 2 and PlaneScape Torment are both near to perfect games that could do with a remake - better graphics is all they really need ... the story, gameplay and atmosphere are already leaps and bounds above the vast majority todays offerings.