Absolutely worth it. Don't let people discourage you. It is a good story with good characters, fun gameplay, and great mythology/setting. Total win and a great franchise to enjoy.Â
Best bet would be to get a wireless kb/m, i have a wireless 360 controller for windows which i use for racing and fighting games.
Goodluck!
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Yeah I have an overclocked i5-2500k, 2gb 6950, and 8gb of ram. I figure I can eek the CPU and Mobo out 2 or 3 more years, add an SSD next year, and buy a next gen (8000amd or 700 series nvidia) next year and still spend less than a new console plus games.
I am thinking about scrapping the next gen of consoles and just putting my PC in my living room. I want to use Steam big picture and GOG to play my games but I am unsure as to what I should buy to acheive this. I usually play with a kb/m but mine are wired. Will I notice a huge difference with casual gaming? What about controller support? How do you it?
I have been using it since the developer preview and I have a few thoughts. The way it is set up for me, every time I re-log in or restart my computer it automatically bypasses metro and goes straight to the desktop. I don't know if something is messed up(I am using a roughly 5 year old Dell Insipron 1525 laptop) but I rarely deal with metro or even see it. I am not a power user. I surf the net, use word and open office at work (it's my personal computer I use at work), and run miscellaneous programs like Skype, etc. Out of the box I have had only a few problems. I will say that W8 runs much faster than Vista and OSX leopard (yes this laptop I'm typing on nowwas a hackintosh at one point too). Printer drivers (I print to a large Xerox company printer and a smaller laser printer) has been easier to set-up than Vista and the same as OSX with a one click sort of endeavor. Some of the new features like the added info on file transfers (which are sped up and more accurate thank god!) are palpably better. As I use it I "pin" my top three programs to the task bar and pretty much run it like normal windows 7 that I have on my home PC. When I need a program I don't use often I go to metro which doesn't take much longer than using a start menu. Occasionally I have to find something (like in control panel from Win7 or Vista) and I use the search which works surprisingly well. The metro store is similar to Google Play or Apple App store and you all have used those enough to know what I'm talking about. I don't see myself using it a lot. Metro is like steam (in that I can add non-MS store app tiles like I can add launchers for non steam games) so I can make tiles (and hide them!) for anything I need which has been pretty easy to be honest. You have to relearn some things but once you do it's not really drastically different than the first time you fired up Windows or OSX. I think they needed to bridge the gap between home PC and Tablet and they took a slightly heavier handed approach than they needed too but the core underlying portion (minus the UI) is even better than Windows 7. My 5 year old laptop with 3GB of ram (32 bit OS lol) is pretty darn fast. In fact it's the fastest I have ever seen this laptop run.
EDIT: I forgot - it boots up,updates, and shuts down extremely fast. This one one of the most impressive things I noticed. It is twice as fast as OSX and about 6 times faster than Vista lol
Yes. I skipped Diablo 2 (actually I bought it 5 years after it came out and the bots/ads were so annoying I never played it much) so I was a little worried about this game but to be honest I really really like it. The gameplay is pretty much good old diablo with a few tweaks. People bag the story a lot and I think its fine. Nothing too great but it's definately not the worst. I really like the ambiance of the game and the dungeons, fields, graveyard, etc. are cool. It's a light game graphically so most people can crank it to 11 and while visually it might not blow you away the style is great. I would give it a solid 9/10 so far. Easily worth the $60 to me as I only get to play 4 or 5 games a year.
Buy one small (and cheap) game at a time and eek it out until the summer sale. You will get maybe close to 4X as many games by waiting a month or two. Fallout 1 and 2 are great cheap games that will give you a lot of value for your money. You could play TF2 (which is free) for a while also. It is a great game.
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