No way...2016? I agree with you on most things PC shio, but the 4870, or the new Nvidia 280s or whatever will hardly even be playable for new games in 2016.

8 years ago the absolute bleeding edge card was like the ATI Rage Pro.

Rage Pro is much older than that. 8 years ago was released the Geforce 2 GTS.

I think the oldest card capable of running most modern games (at low or mid settings) is the Geforce 6800GT that was released in late 2004.

Use Steam and you won't have to "go out" shopping

Get Mass Effect!

Than tell me how it is.  I don't want to spend $50.

gratz, yay etc

now that im done with formalities, BUY THE ORANGE BOX and play Team Fortress 2 :)

I apparently forgot to you know, review this thread after I posted it. Well done me.

Anyway, yeah, old LCD Monitor, and it still hurts my eyes. Oh well, it works, minus the fact it actually has a tiny ass resolution, but I never had better, so I don't hate it that much.

And currently am playing TF2 quite a fair bit, and if you happen to play Demoman a lot, screw you and your broken crit ways! IF you see a "Fuzzmosis", I'm going to wager it's me, since no one else online uses it.

Also, though, a sad note, I am disappointed with Unreal Tournament III. I absolutely love games with fluid movements, and they took away or radically changed the timing on the dodge + jumping that made Unreal it's dodging and hectic joy.

Still, glad to be back.

You should join the VGC steam group, I'm often looking for people to play with.

I fully agree with you on UT3. It's not just the double jumped that make the game weird. The shock rifle has a slight delay after you press the button for it to shoot, it's hard to notice but if you play enough UT2004 and swith immidiately to 3 you will see it. Also the Flack cannon sucks, horrible primary with huge spread and low damage and awkward alt-fire trajectory, I have to look at my feet to hit someone in front. Rockets can now 1 hit kill you but their splash area is significantly reduced. They basically took what was a perfect weapon balance, minus the BioRifle, and changed it without the original developers and hoped they would get something perfect again. Well they didn't. Also I haven't played since the 2nd update but the whole game screams at you "CONSOLE" from the horrible menus, I couldn't set my sensitivity to decimal numbers, to the fact there were no video options and I had to modify the .ini to get what I wanted. With this sloppy game Epic went from the near top of my game developer list right onto the "i don't give a damn" developer list.