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  • Daniel Egger - Thursday, October 3, 2013 - link

    Meh, Windows-only. I'll have to pass... again.
  • techxx - Thursday, October 3, 2013 - link

    You must be a satisfied gamer with whatever the hell you're playing on.
  • BMNify - Thursday, October 3, 2013 - link

    Windows is the PC gaming platform, so you will have to "pass" all your life for almost all the games.
  • zimanodenea - Sunday, October 6, 2013 - link

    You keep on passing mate. After the Amiga (which I loved) I went MS DOS then Windows 95/98/2000/XP/Vista. Being forced to use Windows as a computer gamer has irked me for years. I now have 66 games on the Steam list and all native Linux and I didn't have to buy the OS (not that MS got a single penny from me anyways). After seventeen years of pain Windows finally remove now that I have an alternative. Praise the lord!
  • Sunrise089 - Thursday, October 3, 2013 - link

    Jared,

    You don't zoom in from a tactical view to get to a strategic view. Those terms are reversed :)

    Also your first game list is out of chronological order.
  • Sunrise089 - Thursday, October 3, 2013 - link

    And yes, I note the irony of misspelling your name...
  • JarredWalton - Thursday, October 3, 2013 - link

    Heh. No worries -- strategic, tactical... it's all geek to me. ;-)
  • Klimax - Friday, October 4, 2013 - link

    You may be able to max out graphics in Supreme Commander, but it doesn't mean it won't kill your expensive CPU... (IIRC very large games were reported to be very demanding even quie recently)
    I think SP showed at times troubles too and that was 4-commander at most. (Max for skirmish is 8)

    It was BTW multithreaded, but due to the way some non-graphical loads were done like AI, it was never able to use more then 4 cores. (Also it uses way too much of LUA, which might contribute to the problems)
  • Fergy - Saturday, October 5, 2013 - link

    4 cores? I have only seen it use 1.2 cores. That is with 8 computer players on a large map.
  • JarredWalton - Saturday, October 5, 2013 - link

    Yeah, Supreme Commander was *supposed* to be multi-threaded, but under load I never saw it hit more than one core heavily, and the rest were all very lightly loaded by comparison. It's like most of the "multi-threaded" games, where one core is at 99%, one core is maybe at 25-35%, and everything else is 1-5%. They may have a dozen threads active, but only one or two are doing much work. I have yet to see any game where an snapshot of CPU use on a quad-core system shows more than 50% load.
  • Wreckage - Friday, October 4, 2013 - link

    Spent 10 bucks just to get Darksiders II and put 80% to the Red Cross.
  • Hrel - Friday, October 4, 2013 - link

    What game is the main picture of? Cause that looks kinda like Shadows of Colossus. Does whatever game that is play anything like SOC?
  • JarredWalton - Friday, October 4, 2013 - link

    That's Darksiders II. I don't know much about how it plays relative to Shadows of Colossus, so someone else would have to answer.
  • mr. president - Saturday, October 5, 2013 - link

    It plays more like Legend of Zelda mixed with God of War. I haven't had time to play Darksiders 2 but I found the first game amazing. It's easily in my top 20 for the past console generation and better in some ways than the games that it's based on.
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