This is the Laws of Physics ... On Drugs [Just Cause 2]

Matthew on 4/3/2010 at 12:00

Indeed, but I was concentrating on the desktop version as that's more germane to the discussion at hand, likewise the use of core support rather than extended support, which is basically nothing more than covering their arses by fixing the critical bugs

Renzatic on 5/3/2010 at 01:22

Quote Posted by Jason Moyer

If Just Cause were Mass Effect 3 or something, I'd consider upgrading to Windows 7 for it. As it stands, I still have no real reason to change my operating system from XP.

You have a very real reason to upgrade from XP to 7: The Superbar. Why the hell do you want to spend all your PC time staring at that boring old taskbar when you can have...GROUPED ICONS.

It's fucking spectacular.

Yakoob on 5/3/2010 at 01:47

You can have grouped icons in XP.

AND THEN RENZ REALIZED HE SPENT HIS WHOLE LIFE LIVING IN A LIEEEEEEEEEEE

Renzatic on 5/3/2010 at 06:42

DON'T YOU CRUSH MY HOPES AND DREAMS! :mad:

To get on topic here...for once...I just got through playing the half hour Just Cause 2 demo. Or as I now like to call it, Bionic Commando Theft Auto Super James Bond 6000 WOOO YEAH! It is nothing more and nothing less than goofy awesome speed junky adrenaline soaked damn fun.

Like blowing stuff up? I blew up at least 3 gas stations, a bunch of cars, a bell towers (which toppled over and took out a gigantic statue), propane tanks galore, and was in the process of blowing up a prison before the time limit ran out. I think this game is what Michael Bay sees everytime he closes his eyes, and has been spending the entirety of his career trying to capture on film.

What about crazy stunts? I start out my career of chaos jumping off a mountain, then spent at least 10 minutes of the demo hijacking motorbikes so I could parachute off them and grapple onto oncoming jeeps and shoot out the baddies inside. I also spent alot of time grappling between trees and buildings just because it made me giggle with glee.

I might have to pick this one up when it comes out.

WingedKagouti on 5/3/2010 at 08:51

Quote Posted by Renzatic

I think this game is what Michael Bay sees everytime he closes his eyes, and has been spending the entirety of his career trying to capture on film.

Sounds like a good enough reason to upgrade to Win7 to me.

faetal on 5/3/2010 at 16:02

Quote Posted by catbarf

I don't see why people complain about games being DX10 only and wanting to stick with DX9. XP is nine years old- imagine someone trying to use Windows 3.1 in 2001. Technology's going to progress and Windows 7 addresses the whole upgrade-is-a-downgrade complaint.

This assumes that O/S tech advancement is a linear progression. I suspect it's rather more logarithmic and that the gap between XP and W7 and not comparable to the gap between 3.11 and XP.

Renzatic on 5/3/2010 at 18:21

Faetal's right. The jump from XP to Vista/7 isn't nearly as big as the huge gulf between even Windows 3.11 to 95. Just about every one of the big OSes out nowadays have long since reached the point of maturity, and each new release is more a refinement than it is a huge paradigm shift that'll make you think of your computer in a whole different light.

So what advantages do you get from upgrading? Far better memory management, a better driver platform, a slightly more solid foundation, and better multi-core CPU support. Tweaks and refinements in other words, and pretty much what you'd expect from a new update. But functionalitywise, it's not vastly different than XP. You can still do the exact same things in about the exact same way on both platforms, though things are a little slicker and smoother in 7 than they are in XP.

The only real reason not to upgrade is price. $200-ish for the Professional upgrade (which is the version I consider to be the defacto 7) is a bit hard to stomach when you've got something still perfectly usable (though a bit long in the tooth) sitting right in front of you.

Course you can always do what I did. Hit up a friend with a university e-mail account and get the Pro upgrade for $65.

gunsmoke on 5/3/2010 at 19:34

Steam's requirements...I won't be playing this for a few months when I build my new PC :mad: Makes no goddamn sense. Isn't this fucking thing on XBOX 360? I mean MINIMUM is an 8800?!?!!?! Give us a 7600/X1900XT minimum, at least

System Requirements
Minimum:

OS: Microsoft Windows Vista (Windows XP is unsupported)
Processor: Dual-core CPU with SSE3 (Athlon 64 X2 4200 / Pentium D 3GHz)
Memory: 2GB System Memory
Hard Drive: 10GB of free drive space
Graphics: DX10 compatible graphics card with 256 MB of memory (Nvidia GeForce 8800 series/ ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro)
Sound: 100% DirectX 10 compatible sound card
DirectX®: Microsoft DirectX 10
Recommended:

OS: Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 or Windows 7
Processor: Intel Core® 2 Duo 2.6 GHz or AMD Phenom X3 2.4GHz or equivalent
Memory: 3GB system Memory
Hard Drive:
Graphics: DX10 compatible graphics card with 512 MB of memory (Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 series/ ATI Radeon HD 5750 series)
Sound: 100% DirectX 10 compatible Dolby Digital 5.1 sound card
DirectX®: Microsoft DirectX 10.1

WingedKagouti on 5/3/2010 at 20:12

Quote Posted by gunsmoke

As far as I've read, it's not a port of the 360 game. The PC version has been built for PC from the ground up.

Renzatic on 6/3/2010 at 04:46

What the hell? The demo is out, I've played it about 5 times now and keep finding something new to do, and yet....yet....this thread isn't hopping for some very obviously horrible reason.

You people allergic to fun or something? The hell, people? The hell?

I'm going back in to crash helicopters into stuff.