System Wars Lounge v48: The College Season Starts Again!

I'm sorry about borderlands 2 my duder, I do hope we can still be friends. And I totally will, I don't post in the lounge nearly enough.

I shouldn't neglect any parts of this lush land my incandescent glory, it's not right.

still not sure if I want to spend my money on one or not.

Does not sound expensive 0_0

/end sarcasm btw

I would guess thats around £500. I paid £560 for 780Ti. You want the best, you have to pay for the best.

@clyde46: I think that 560 you spent on a gtx 780 is something like $914 in US dollars :/

I'd imagine that 4gb GDDR5 would be more than a 780?

I also pay %20 VAT on top of the original price and given the low exchange rate for the $v£. Not sure what the exchange rate was last year when I bought. I think without VAT it would of cost me £448.

Yes, the 780 and the TI only have 3GB of VRAM but there were a few 6GB models of the 780 floating around at one point.

My other eBay order is late. Well, in the meantime, the games in my sig + Nightfire + Rogue Leader are holding me up.

I think Persona 4 (PS2 version) took me about 85 hours to complete.

@Slashkice said:

^One of the better RPGs on handhelds right now. Felistella deserves props for turning the first Neptunia into a good game.

almost platted this game, got a few more trophies to go.

Probably the same haha.

The core Persona 3 took me about ~75 hours too. Though, I pretty much blitzed the end of the dungeon in that one.

Spent about 10 hours on the Answer Expansion for Persona 3, but gave up halfway since it was just a dungeon crawl and fuse fest with no S.Links. So I just YouTubed the ending for it.

And here's my third order to arrive:

Here is the start of a future PlayStation One collection.

Any prices confirmed or speculated? Will the 700 series drop in price when they come out? HALLELUJAH

They announced a week ago that they're skipping the 800 series and going straight to 900 and they'll be launching mid September.

http://videocardz.com/51426/nvidia-to-skip-geforce-800-series-geforce-gtx-980-and-gtx-970-mid-september

15 characters at level 99 doesn't sound too bad. Unsure about benched characters, but back-line characters get full XP even if they aren't switched in, so you could bring the weakest to high-level areas and toughen them up in no time.

Looking at that PSX list brings back so much memories.

Holy shite. That's the first time I've seen the game Raystorm mentioned in ages. Almost forgot about that game. I was actually trying to remember that PSX game that the recent Astebreed game that released on Steam reminded me of, but the name completely escaped me. It was Raystorm.

Missing some key PSX games:

Ape Escape
Wipeout 3
Chrono Cross (abit overrated, but was still enjoyable)
Syndicate Wars
Fear Effect
Soul Reaver
Colony Wars
XCOM: TFTD
Trap Gunner
Threads of Fate
Suikoden 2 (doubt you'll be able to find this, at least at an affordable price. The used copy I sold a couple years ago is still the pricest game I've sold on eBay)

There are other great games too, but the others have been rereleased in some form. Like Castlevania: SOTN, Vagrant Story or Valkyrie Profile

Also, You're probably thinking Soul Blade or the original Soul Edge. Soul Calibur was the Dreamcast game. :P

I love fantasy setting with magic and fairies in pink purple color. i love it

i hate hardcore FPS like Stalker and Doom. because my mind was blown when i actually try to play them. i dunoo guys. i will stick to pink JRPGs.

So still working my way through Final Fantasy IX, on Disc 3 and I actually just got the airship and can use that to fly around (really want a new Final Fantasy with airship travel again).

I really love the game as a whole, and most of the elements, but man is the game suffering from a very formulaic approach. It's weird. Get to a new city after leveling up, the party splits, you go search for them, each one was their own ATE, you watch, then you do the things you need to do to bring them all together. Dungeon crawl, go across the overworld, rinse and repeat. I know a lot of games follow a formula, but it's really weird for a lengthy RPG to do so; couple that with the slow combat and it's quite the chore to get through.

Anyone else have this problem with Final Fantasy IX?

Well, as stated earlier, it -is- a remake of the first game. It's safe to assume you don't. :P

As for the story, it's no Trails in the Sky. In fact, the plot's probably the last reason you should play the game. What little plot there is though is backed by strong character writing with a great sense of humor and a fluid combat system, setting itself apart from most RPGs.

Can you reccomend me any game please? should i play neptunia?

please dont call my husband moron. he is so good hardcore gamer. he even care about my love of JRPGs and Anime.

You have to look at it this way. Do I need 8 cores? Do I need all those PCI lanes? Do I need all those storage options? If the answer to anyone of those is no then you don't need 2011V3. For games? Sure its a silly choice but when you are dealing with stuff like 4K video and CPU intensive workloads then 2011V3 makes a ton of sense. Its very much like the Titan. A poor choice just for gaming as the 780Ti is about £400 cheaper and does a better job of things but for everything else the Titan is king. Its a workstation grade card at consumer level pricing. Sure its not Quadro but it still is better than using a Geforce card. The same goes for the 2011V3 range. Its for people who need those extra cores and features that aren't on the 1150 line.

You can't say that its an illogical thing when its clearly not aimed at you. Up until this point if you wanted to do content creation you either suffered on the 1150 socket or you used the much older and lacking in features X79 chipset. The X99 for the prosumer, its for people who don't have the means, money or need for a high level Xeon chip.

@parkurtommo said:

@clyde46 said:

GTX 980 confirmed with 4GB of GDDR5?

Any prices confirmed or speculated? Will the 700 series drop in price when they come out? HALLELUJAH

$600-800 is rumoured.

Many people are thinking it will happen at the Game 24 event thing.

Oh, I have played a PS One (how else would I play the likes of Tekken 3, the game to introduce me to the franchise, as well as being one of my favorites?), but I never owned any games or the console (I do own a PS2 though; two different ones as a matter of fact due to region encoding). Fear Effect 1 just happened to be my first pick up for that platform (while I order mostly GameCube games like Nightfire and Rogue Leader).

@ReadingRainbow4: Sorry about Borderlands? What? Make sense man.

That's cool, post in the lounge more. We care. We do.

@clyde46 said:

@parkurtommo said:

@clyde46 said:

GTX 980 confirmed with 4GB of GDDR5?

Any prices confirmed or speculated? Will the 700 series drop in price when they come out? HALLELUJAH

$600-800 is rumoured.

I was looking around and saw $399 for the 970. That would be... amazing. The price you're talking about is for the 980 right?

hello system!! i saw my hubby here and though i swing by and support him.

im not much into games lol but i love when my hubby plays drake uncharted forutune because it intense it make me feel like im watching a steven speiglberg epic in game form. i pretend my hub is drake while im lana. it amazing

@ReadingRainbow4 i got the feeling my hub dont like you from overhearing the text from steam machine

Internet grudges, they be cereal business.

I honestly don't remember what I did to make him so angry, I make a lot of people upset here so it's kind of hard to keep track.

This lounge just gets more and more interesting.

pretty sure the ROG Ares cars are always dual GPUs. So it's dual 290x GPUs in a single slot water cooled card. And they are limited quantity. It apparently has 8GB GDDR5 VRAM (and we all know how important that is) and they boast it beats the Titan Z by 33% in BF4 at 4K

Its basicly a supercharged 295x2.

Did @Blabadon tell you about his second family yet? @blab_husband

I'm not sure of the price but I'm sure it will be rather expensive. Unless you're an enthusiast in need of all that power, it's not worth it. I wouldn't really consider it a cash grab though

Its not really worth it. Dual GPU cards are normally worse than a SLI or Crossfire setup with two cards.