Favorite PC Game

[Mertex]

Playing Mafia game 2 here on USMB. Played Mafia Game 1 and got suckered into thinking Mafia was Townie and ended up getting killed. Hope Game 2 goes better.

 

[XPostFacto]

Since I was last here, I have played a lot of old games that I bought from Amazon. I tried Dead Space, but didn't like how I couldn't map my right mouse key to make my character move. Instead I was forced to use the W key, which made the game much more difficult for me. I eventually just put it aside.

I went back to Grand Theft Auto 4 and gave it another look. I finally like it, but some of the missions are just plain impossible, and I get sick of repeating them. I put it aside, just like I did with Assassins Creed III.

I just finished Wolfenstein, the New Order, and I must say it was a lot of fun, albeit a bit too short, though. The game designers said you need at a minimum a Core I7. Well, that's total bullshit. I played it just fine with my Intel Q9400 Dual Quad Core 2.66 Ghz processor with 8 gigs of DDR2 RAM. I may not have all the latest bells and whistles, but when I built my PC back in 2009, I built it way ahead of itself.

Now, I'm playing Watchdogs. It's just like Grand Theft Auto, but with a twist, you can hack people's phones and steal their money. Just withdraw it from any ATM. The missions tend to be rather difficult though, so much that on several, I have had to change my game difficulty to Easy, and I'm still having problems.

Now, I don't play online, but you have to be online to start Watchdogs. I didn't know it at the time, but my game was configured to automatically be played in multiplayer where other online gamers could come in and hack my game information. I was able to stop one and steal his information in the game (not in real life). Every time I moved, someone would be after me. There is a quick solution, though. Just disconnect off the Internet, and they go away. I don't like multiplayer and am sick and tired of game designers forcing that on me.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

You can easily escape ANY police chase by simply jumping in a boat and going outside the search radious. They don't follow in the water.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Since I was last here, I have played a lot of old games that I bought from Amazon. I tried Dead Space, but didn't like how I couldn't map my right mouse key to make my character move. Instead I was forced to use the W key, which made the game much more difficult for me. I eventually just put it aside.

I went back to Grand Theft Auto 4 and gave it another look. I finally like it, but some of the missions are just plain impossible, and I get sick of repeating them. I put it aside, just like I did with Assassins Creed III.

I just finished Wolfenstein, the New Order, and I must say it was a lot of fun, albeit a bit too short, though. The game designers said you need at a minimum a Core I7. Well, that's total bullshit. I played it just fine with my Intel Q9400 Dual Quad Core 2.66 Ghz processor with 8 gigs of DDR2 RAM. I may not have all the latest bells and whistles, but when I built my PC back in 2009, I built it way ahead of itself.

Now, I'm playing Watchdogs. It's just like Grand Theft Auto, but with a twist, you can hack people's phones and steal their money. Just withdraw it from any ATM. The missions tend to be rather difficult though, so much that on several, I have had to change my game difficulty to Easy, and I'm still having problems.

Now, I don't play online, but you have to be online to start Watchdogs. I didn't know it at the time, but my game was configured to automatically be played in multiplayer where other online gamers could come in and hack my game information. I was able to stop one and steal his information in the game (not in real life). Every time I moved, someone would be after me. There is a quick solution, though. Just disconnect off the Internet, and they go away. I don't like multiplayer and am sick and tired of game designers forcing that on me.

Boy, talk about impossible missions though. I have a mission in Watchdogs to take a car from police impound, which has the cops instantly on me. Once I elude them, then I'm supposed to go through some checkpoints, that put the cops instantly back on me. I've done the mission several dozen times, thinking it is not possible.

 

[Uncensored2008]

You can easily escape ANY police chase by simply jumping in a boat and going outside the search radious. They don't follow in the water.

In what game? GTA IV they sure do.

 

[XPostFacto]

Since I was last here, I have played a lot of old games that I bought from Amazon. I tried Dead Space, but didn't like how I couldn't map my right mouse key to make my character move. Instead I was forced to use the W key, which made the game much more difficult for me. I eventually just put it aside.

I went back to Grand Theft Auto 4 and gave it another look. I finally like it, but some of the missions are just plain impossible, and I get sick of repeating them. I put it aside, just like I did with Assassins Creed III.

I just finished Wolfenstein, the New Order, and I must say it was a lot of fun, albeit a bit too short, though. The game designers said you need at a minimum a Core I7. Well, that's total bullshit. I played it just fine with my Intel Q9400 Dual Quad Core 2.66 Ghz processor with 8 gigs of DDR2 RAM. I may not have all the latest bells and whistles, but when I built my PC back in 2009, I built it way ahead of itself.

Now, I'm playing Watchdogs. It's just like Grand Theft Auto, but with a twist, you can hack people's phones and steal their money. Just withdraw it from any ATM. The missions tend to be rather difficult though, so much that on several, I have had to change my game difficulty to Easy, and I'm still having problems.

Now, I don't play online, but you have to be online to start Watchdogs. I didn't know it at the time, but my game was configured to automatically be played in multiplayer where other online gamers could come in and hack my game information. I was able to stop one and steal his information in the game (not in real life). Every time I moved, someone would be after me. There is a quick solution, though. Just disconnect off the Internet, and they go away. I don't like multiplayer and am sick and tired of game designers forcing that on me.

Boy, talk about impossible missions though. I have a mission in Watchdogs to take a car from police impound, which has the cops instantly on me. Once I elude them, then I'm supposed to go through some checkpoints, that put the cops instantly back on me. I've done the mission several dozen times, thinking it is not possible.

Oh, I remember that one. I did it the first time. I headed down underneath the Interstate to where the homeless hang out and just sat there until the helicopters just got tired of looking and left.

I'm really having a problem with the Angelo Tucci mission. I just can't get that one, even on easy mode. I even watched a couple of videos about it, one in English, and the other in Italian. The Italian guy was having as much trouble as I was having, and I just kept laughing at his attempts, the same as mine.

There is a fixer contract where you have to do a timed run to deliver a motorcycle without damaging it. I don't worry about damage. I can't get past the obstructions, cars pulling in front of you, pedestrians walking out in front of you. I'm just playing on the Normal level. I switched to Easy, and still couldn't do it. I finally just quit the mission. That's the good part of a game like that.

 

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You can easily escape ANY police chase by simply jumping in a boat and going outside the search radious. They don't follow in the water.

In what game? GTA IV they sure do.

No, that's Watchdogs, a very similar game to GTA. As in Assassins Creed 2 and subsequent others, jumping in the water helps you elude who is chasing you, unless the helicopters are after you, and you are in open water. I don't know why you are not allowed to dive under the water. To elude the copters, I swam under the Interstate bridge, and they couldn't find me.

 

[Uncensored2008]

No, that's Watchdogs, a very similar game to GTA. As in Assassins Creed 2 and subsequent others, jumping in the water helps you elude who is chasing you, unless the helicopters are after you, and you are in open water. I don't know why you are not allowed to dive under the water. To elude the copters, I swam under the Interstate bridge, and they couldn't find me.

If you get out of your car on a mission in Watchdogs, you instantly lose, so I'm not sure how the water would help.

I'll try lowering the difficulty to easy, and maybe that will help.

EDIT:

What video card do you have? My HD-7990 is suffering under the load. I have an R290 that I'll put in this coming weekend, but Watchdogs appears to thrash system resources like nothing I've ever seen.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

You can easily escape ANY police chase by simply jumping in a boat and going outside the search radious. They don't follow in the water.

In what game? GTA IV they sure do.

GTA is overrated garbage. I don't play that trash.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Right now I'm in the Destiny Alpha.... Impressive game

 

[XPostFacto]

No, that's Watchdogs, a very similar game to GTA. As in Assassins Creed 2 and subsequent others, jumping in the water helps you elude who is chasing you, unless the helicopters are after you, and you are in open water. I don't know why you are not allowed to dive under the water. To elude the copters, I swam under the Interstate bridge, and they couldn't find me.

If you get out of your car on a mission in Watchdogs, you instantly lose, so I'm not sure how the water would help.

I'll try lowering the difficulty to easy, and maybe that will help.

EDIT:

What video card do you have? My HD-7990 is suffering under the load. I have an R290 that I'll put in this coming weekend, but Watchdogs appears to thrash system resources like nothing I've ever seen.

If you get out of the car during a fixer mission, you lose because those missions are timed. If you are trying to escape a gang or the police for some other act such as a vigilante act or if you stole somebody's car, you can drive right into the water and swim away. Often hugging the sea wall will help you to elude the cops because for some reason they just continue to drive up and down the sea wall. The gang members will get out and jump onto the rocks to find you. You also need to beef up your perks such as your resistance to bullets and blasts as well as get the hack to disable helicopters. Just that helicopter perk saved my bacon last night when I was escaping South Chicago in a boat.

My video card is an NVIDIA Geforce 660 GTX with 2 gigs of RAM, and I have the automatic driver search that alerts me to whenever a new driver is available. Maybe you need to update your video drivers if you haven't already. I started with all my settings on high, but during the driving sequences, I noticed every now and then a lag, which was affecting my steering. I turned down the settings to medium, and the game plays much better, and I don't notice any change in graphics quality. You might also want to turn off blur as well. I had that on and started feeling nauseated. The good part about that game is that in stead of driving, you can run anywhere you want if you don't mind how long it takes. I especially love Aidan's ability to hack and run.

 

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If anyone playing Watchdogs wants an impossible mission, do the fixer contract where you have to steal a car off the showroom floor. For the life of me, I can't get away from the cops and I wreck every vehicle. I just quit the mission. It's not crucial to the story line, anyway, but is training for how to drive, or not. Oh, your customer wants the car in mint condition. Really? I don't know how that's possible when you have to drive the car right out the show room window.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Are you using your hacks when trying to escape? Street blockers, traffic lights, steam pipes, black outs? Using those to break line of sight and then hack a garage to hide in.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

You can also hack the police chopper

 

[Uncensored2008]

You can easily escape ANY police chase by simply jumping in a boat and going outside the search radious. They don't follow in the water.

In what game? GTA IV they sure do.

GTA is overrated garbage. I don't play that trash.

I liked GTA IV - well worth the $4.99 I spent on it.

 

[XPostFacto]

Are you using your hacks when trying to escape? Street blockers, traffic lights, steam pipes, black outs? Using those to break line of sight and then hack a garage to hide in.

I'm using my hacks to turn the traffic lights, but the cops just bust through them and ram me. I have never seen such homicidal cops, but it's only a game. I know there is a Ctrl key where you can use slow motion, but I can't see any use for that one, since I am also moving just as slow so I don't use that. I tried that with the little side shell game, but couldn't make it work during the $100 bets. Right now, I am just playing around with the side missions trying to figure out how to use hacks and different perks. I suppose I am having trouble coordinating my fingers on the keyboard. I am a touch typist, but you don't use touch typing when you play a game. Therefore, I don't know where the keys are, but my fingers do, provided they are placed on the home keys, and that's not possible with a game.

 

[XPostFacto]

In what game? GTA IV they sure do.

GTA is overrated garbage. I don't play that trash.

I liked GTA IV - well worth the $4.99 I spent on it.

GTA IV is the only GTA I ever played. I bought it at Walmart for $19.95. Now, I got Dead Space for $5, and that was $5 wasted. What a horrible game. What gets me is they made 2 more sequels.

 

[Uncensored2008]

If you get out of the car during a fixer mission, you lose because those missions are timed. If you are trying to escape a gang or the police for some other act such as a vigilante act or if you stole somebody's car, you can drive right into the water and swim away. Often hugging the sea wall will help you to elude the cops because for some reason they just continue to drive up and down the sea wall. The gang members will get out and jump onto the rocks to find you. You also need to beef up your perks such as your resistance to bullets and blasts as well as get the hack to disable helicopters. Just that helicopter perk saved my bacon last night when I was escaping South Chicago in a boat.

My video card is an NVIDIA Geforce 660 GTX with 2 gigs of RAM, and I have the automatic driver search that alerts me to whenever a new driver is available. Maybe you need to update your video drivers if you haven't already. I started with all my settings on high, but during the driving sequences, I noticed every now and then a lag, which was affecting my steering. I turned down the settings to medium, and the game plays much better, and I don't notice any change in graphics quality. You might also want to turn off blur as well. I had that on and started feeling nauseated. The good part about that game is that in stead of driving, you can run anywhere you want if you don't mind how long it takes. I especially love Aidan's ability to hack and run.

The 660 is way behind the 7990. I do have it set to ultra. I'm running the Cat 14.4 drivers that AMD released specifically for Watchdogs.

What I'm running is;

XCLIO 2000 Black & Titanium Case
KingWin Gold Certified 80+ 1000 Watt PS
Asus P8Z77-V Premium Motherboard
Intel Core I7 3770K @ 5.0 gHz
Corsair CWCH70 Hydro Series H80 CPU Liquid Cooler
CORSAIR Vengence 16GB
PowerColor Radeon 7990 6GB
OCZ Vertex 3 SATA 3 SSD
1TB WD Black Edition SATA 3 + 3TB Seagate SATA 3
Panasonic DVD
Windows 7 Ultimate - 64 bit

I pull off 3 SATA 3 drives because the OCZ is a PCIE card based drive. It gives me the 6gbps pipe.

Like I said, I picked up an R290 that I'll put in over the weekend. This puppy here;

SAPPHIRE VAPOR-X 100362VXSR Radeon R9 290 4GB 512-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support TRI-X OC (UEFI) Video Card - Newegg.com

I would expect it to smooth out the frame rates.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Are you using your hacks when trying to escape? Street blockers, traffic lights, steam pipes, black outs? Using those to break line of sight and then hack a garage to hide in.

Traffic lights, which don't seen to help much. I haven't progressed enough to get the other hacks.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Are you using your hacks when trying to escape? Street blockers, traffic lights, steam pipes, black outs? Using those to break line of sight and then hack a garage to hide in.

Traffic lights, which don't seen to help much. I haven't progressed enough to get the other hacks.

Stop trying the car missions till you get your other hacks. Without them you will have tons of problems. Eventually you get an upgrade that highlights hacks that will help you as you play in real time. Also MASTER slow motion. You can destroy the cops once you have that. And hacking garages during pursuits is gold.