COD and WoW/Diablo IP sell by the millions but Diablo's been released

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There was an adventure game for Dune back in the early 90's, not an rpg as such. But it was back in the days of Creative and Cirrus Logic GPU's lol

Firstly its not right to suggest to someone to buy a new case or a new PSU, when the original problem hasnt be identified.

Its easy enough to say "its the case" or "its the PSU its not powerful enough". But what if someone at your recommendation went and bought said case or PSU and then still had the problem? Well im sure most of you wont lose sleep over the fact someone spent money on something that didnt fix the initial problem.

I trust PCGamer reviews and general opinion on the boards infinitely more. Even those have let me down, but they're a lot more competent than the crap that GS puts out. GS is only a decent site for previews and often silly forums.YourOldFriend

Dont mean to be rude, but for someone thats not happy with the GS "crap" you sure love to hang about :)

Well one thing most people dont realise is people will like things others dont.

Although im sure the GS staff review things fairly and unbiased, there is that element of doubt now and again.

If one loves World of Warcraft and in the future reviews the Wrath of the King addon that will get released they will sub-conciously give it a higher rating than they would have because they like WoW.

So ratings is a guildline, what I do is take the mean score of other reviews from other sources to get an average score. At least then you have a good idea then :)

It doesnt mean overheating always.

Can be faulty ram, where it accessed the bad area of memory and bam restart.

You have a Ring0 Debugger present, causing the game to force a -shboot onto it.

Incompatible driver with the game, or in general.

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Onemic.. the dreamcast just looked crisper is all... Take for example Code Veronica, Dreamcast vs PS2.. sure the PS2 had the game on one disk.. (due to DVD) but It just looked a tad crisper on the Dreamcast.. dunno.. maybe its just me. The PS2 may have had a better graphics processor.. (obviously, since Dreamcast was a full year behind it) but, at release.. the dreamcast had (for me) crisper looking graphics than the PS2.. Maybe its not true now.. but then it gave the PS2 a run for its money, just the lack of games killed the Dreamcast.. one year in and the amount of games paled in comparison with the PS2 (a year after release).

Also, the Dreamcast was still using a CD-ROM based medium.. so the PS2 seemed like a better buy due to the DVD movie playback feature. I know I used my PS2 for years as a DVD player.

Anyways.. You can say that the Atari Jaguar sux compared to the PS1.. but the point was that the Jaguar suffered from the same fate as the Dreamcast. The Jaguar was more powerful (64bit) .. but Sony (32bit) beat Atari.. through the amount of games available.

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I 100% agree with you when at release games on dreamcast looked better on the ps2. No doubt about it. I'm just arguing against what one person said that the dreamcast just had better looking games than the ps2 during its time that it was alive which is untrue. Sure in 2000 dreamcast games looked better, but in 2001 devs finally got used to the ps2 and titles began looking better on the ps2 in comparison to the dreamcast from that year.

Perhaps if you stop arguing and read that I didnt say the DC had better looking games, it had some, Shenmue being an example. I said the DC was a better machine hardware wise.

I asked why you think that, and you gave an example of a game instead of hardware. So I returned in kind and mentioned Shenmue.

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[QUOTE="19chevelle72"]It will probly take a Sega Dreamcast to run it.onemic

Did you know the dreamcast was a much more superior console to the PS2. Its true. Just the developers believed the hype Sony threw at them. Shame too.

lol, it really wasn't.

Tell me why it wasnt?

Do you really think the dreamcast could produce graphics like those seen in metal gear solid? Or god of war? I don't think so. Just look dreamcasts best looking games and look at PS2's games made in 2001. (Gran turismo and GTA3 to name a few) The dreamcast just can't keep up.

Not to say that the dreamcast sucks, it was a great system and it was very unfortunate that sega couldn't pull a profit, but to think that the dreamcast was technically better than the PS2 is laughable. It's like me trying to say that PS2 games look better than xbox games.

You missed my point about shenmue. Everything in that game was real time rendered. Have you actually seen any movies or pictures of Shenmue running?