The Computer/Console Gaming Thread

[Mythirax]

I've been gaming a very long time, been through many pads and very expensive mice. I've spent probably about $2000 on mice alone in the past 10 odd years. And with all of them nothing has beat this...



Probably isn't the exact one I have, but the general good gel support pads. Don't go cheap though (like this image), I get the ones that are around $30 - 50.

[philby]

I'm going through Wolfenstein: New Order at the moment. I'm actually liking it a fair bit and enjoying the attempts at plot and story plus collecting crap.

I think next on my to do list will be Pillars of Eternity. I got up to the final battle and just couldn't get through it after about 10 attempts. I think I need to load an earlier save and change my party and craft some food but I can't be bothered right now.

[kup]

'Pillars of Eternity' - Why does that sound so familiar. Was that the name of the original Wolfenstein 3D expansion?

[5FDP]

I've spent probably about $2000 on mice alone in the past 10 odd years.

[kup]

I bought a $60 gaming mouse like 7 years ago and still being used and in excellent condition. Only in the last couple of years did I start using it less and less for games due to the living room transition but still used it for mouse driven games like RTSs and turn based.

Before that, I was buying cheap mice and they didn't last more than 5-6 months.

[Mythirax]

One that I'll say, _every_ single razor product I've ever bought. I've had to return from it breaking or being faulty. I've not had a single item from them yet that has done me any good. I don't know if it's just been bad luck, or if they truly makes terrible crap. Same goes for ATI/AMD graphics cards. When I was doing graphics programming, I went through about 10 video cards in 2 years. I was using multiple machines and blew up every single ATI card I was using, to this day I've still yet to kill any Nvidia card, no matter how hard I thrash it. But not a single ATI card from the past 10 - 15 years in my life is working now So one might say from experience I absolutely hate Razor and ATI

[philby]

'Pillars of Eternity' - Why does that sound so familiar. Was that the name of the original Wolfenstein 3D expansion?

no it was the obsidian kickstarter rpg. good game, but man this last boss battle is ridiculous. i think you need a really well optimised party for it.

One that I'll say, _every_ single razor product I've ever bought. I've had to return from it breaking or being faulty. I've not had a single item from them yet that has done me any good. I don't know if it's just been bad luck, or if they truly makes terrible crap. Same goes for ATI/AMD graphics cards. When I was doing graphics programming, I went through about 10 video cards in 2 years. I was using multiple machines and blew up every single ATI card I was using, to this day I've still yet to kill any Nvidia card, no matter how hard I thrash it. But not a single ATI card from the past 10 - 15 years in my life is working now So one might say from experience I absolutely hate Razor and ATI

my mouse is a razer death adder i think, i've had it for about 4 to 5 years i think so far, love it

[kup]

'Spear of Desitiny' is the Wolf3D expansion, I remember now

[DELTAprime]

One that I'll say, _every_ single razor product I've ever bought. I've had to return from it breaking or being faulty. I've not had a single item from them yet that has done me any good. I don't know if it's just been bad luck, or if they truly makes terrible crap. Same goes for ATI/AMD graphics cards. When I was doing graphics programming, I went through about 10 video cards in 2 years. I was using multiple machines and blew up every single ATI card I was using, to this day I've still yet to kill any Nvidia card, no matter how hard I thrash it. But not a single ATI card from the past 10 - 15 years in my life is working now So one might say from experience I absolutely hate Razor and ATI

I have been using Razor mice on and off for years, I actually just got a new one last week. I either ware them out after years of use, or buy a new mouse just because I want a new one because I've had the old mouse for so long.

As for ATI/AMD. The days when they could build a card that was both cheaper than Nvidia's and performed as well or better are behind them but I've always found them reliable. I've never had a video card "blow up". Cheap crappy PSU's yes, but silicon, no. I actually had a run of bad luck with Nvidia cards over the years causing random crashes and BSOD's. It really was random luck as to if you would get a good or bad card. These days both Nvidia and AMD's partners make good cards, especially if buy from someone like Asus, EVGA or Gigabyte. The only issue with AMD cards are driver support, top end performance and performance per watt.

[DELTAprime]

Playing Street Fighter V on PC tonight, or at least trying to. Why I need to log into servers for single player is beyond me.