Right, and a 3 monitor setup makes sense in a racing simulator as they’re used for peripheral vision. They might make sense in other vehicle based games for the same reason (flight simulators, I think, get fairly good use out of 3+ monitor setups as well), though I, personally, really don’t understand how people can tolerate the gaps generated by bezels and whatnot. That would drive me nuts.
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I feel someone needs to mention EVE Online in this thread, as that game can easily use up two full monitors for potentially relevant UI elements, with the third (central) one being necessary if you want to be able to see the game at the same time.
But yeah, other than EVE I personally find that around 2 megapixels provides a good balance of detail and performance in most modern games. Sure, it’s nice to have a second monitor to keep track of who’s talking in TeamSpeak and what-not, but personally I prefer using either overlays (which are closer to my centre of vision) or laptops (which are cheaper when considering framerate) to do that.
oh I know! I guess I could see it more easily tolerated by someone like you or I in a racing game by justifying the gaps as a cars windshield frame xD
I have exactly the same problem, I wouldn’t be able to cope with the bezels.
Bored of DotA? Try League of Legends 
Joke aside, there’s plenty to do around IMO. Depends what’s your taste.
Have you tried Portal? Kind of 3D puzzle with some robots … and a piece of cake 
The first opus is good enough story-wise, the second is even better. I doubt they’ll make a third one though.
In the puzzle area, there’s Mirror’s Edge too. Havent finished it yet (bought it during Steam’s Black Friday), but just as refreshing as Portal. You don’t get to see that many games go AAA on such a different concept than the usual “FPS”.
You like turn-based strategy ? You might have a go at “Civ : Beyond Earth”. I’m still sceptical as what the hell they tried to do with the game exactly. Not only for gameplay, but for the general UI as well. There’s no real tutorial, a lack that infuriates me the most for a modern game. However, if you liked previous Civs as I did, it both keeps some mechanics and introduces new ones that ain’t bad. And it’s in the future ^^
But I’d rather advise you to try “Endless Legend”. It’s like Civ 5, but not as simplified. Much more refreshing, IMO, than “Civ : BE”. It keeps the classical “medival fantasy” with a lot of interpretation and magic.
And if you’re more into the combat-turn, you might wanna try “Heroes of Might and Magic”. The n°5 is definitely worth the play, though the campaign is too lengthy for me (not playing at it though currently).
But as for now, I’ve just finished “Wolfenstein : The New Order”. Pretty nice overall. The end is more about sorrow than being bad, I don’t get why people get upset about it and always expect a happy ending.
Now I’m into “Shadow of Mordor”. A “beat them up” oriented game, good fun killing orcs, anxious as what the hell they produced as scenario, being a LOTR book fan.
EDIT : as a recommandation, you might wanna try “The Stanley Parable”. It’s more of an “art game” than anything else, but you’ll have some guaranteed laughter and there’s some serious reflexion about “what’s a game really”. There are several paths. Try as much as possible to make most on your owns, then see a guide to discover the hidden (and sometimes hard to find) ones.
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I’ve just finally managed to play through The Witcher 2. So good, better in every aspect compared to the first one. Even though it is already a few years old it still looks absolutely gorgeous. It is currently the best RPG I’ve every played.
Other than that I’m working on my backlog. I’ve tried playing the first Bioshock but it hasn’t really caught my attention. I’m having way more fun with the first Borderlands due to playing it in coop with a friend.
After that I think it is time I give both Portals a play.
ended up playing kerbal for a while. induced some fear about how hard infinity may or may not be
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Probably not as hard as KSP.
Definitely not as hard as Orbiter
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I haven’t played Skyrim much since release and I’ve been getting excited reading about the mods that are out for it now.
I’m in the process of reinstalling Skyrim and going ham on all sorts of mods and game overhauls to play a basically entirely new game. The most important ones will be Requiem and Frostfall. Requiem fixes the leveling issues and overall makes the game much much more difficult and more akin to older RPGs where the world is the world and it’s hard as hell. Frostfall essentially adds weather that can kill you, so you need to have a tent, cloaks, warm clothing, etc to live through blizzards or heavy ran without freezing. There are a few more overhauls I’ll be running but mostly minor details when compared to what Requiem and Frostfall will change.
I’m excited to try it out but I have so few time in between classes, homework, sports, and soon to be work that I will only be able to get in an hour here or there. I’ll get there some time! Maybe I should spend less time on forums and more time gaming…
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Skyrim is a nice enough game indeed. Some people point out that many aspects (specialization-wise) are not as evolved as the older “Elder Scrolls” (no pun intended ^^), especially “Morrowind”. The simplified system is mostly due to the console adaptpation.
Due to this, you might not consider Skyrim as a “real” RPG. If you’re more into creating your own character sheet, having some randoms thrown at you, secrets not at all obvious and quests with no markers on the map, I’d strongly suggest to you “Legend of Grimrock 2”. First one is nice, but the “all dungeon” type wasn’t that good IMO. Plus they improved a lot of things in the n°2.
Nonetheless, I consider “Skyrim” a good game.
If you’re looking for some extra mods, you may want to look at those who add armors / weapons / items. The vanilla game isn’t diversified at all, and the extensions didn’t bring that much overall.
Also, I strongly suggest “SkyUI” mod if you want the GUI to be more PC-friendly. Should be easy to find on the site “Nexus Mod”
Try not to go overboard with the mods. Last time I played Skyrim I couldn’t help but install hundreds of them (seriously, though most of them were graphical), and then spent a week weeding out the incompatible ones before I could start a proper playthrough.
I know. I’m about to say I did play Oblivion, but I never played anything before that. I fell in love with Oblivion when I was younger. It was the greatest game I had played at the time and I loved all the options you had to do…whatever you wanted! I was super stoked for Skyrim(also It was my freshman year in college, so I was able to upgrade my pc to run it) and I was a little disappointed with what it had. I could see where the console port parts of the game got in the way of gameplay and what it would be like on the pc.
I have turned all of this off in my current playthrough, as well as added the survival mods and other mods that change the way the game is played and makes it MUCH harder. I consider it an RPG only because I’m choosing to play through like one, with all the difficulty and thoughtprocesses behind it instead of just following the questline.
Having said that, I’m always looking for new games and I will definitely look at Legend of Grimrock 2. Thanks for the heads up!
I have SkyUI and many graphical mods
Too late…
According to my Mod Organizer I have only 44 installed. I haven’t had any conflicts. I did a lot of research between what mods worked with others and built it from the ground up to ensure I wouldn’t have many, if any, conflicts. I do have quite a few graphical mods, but they are just apart of the major overhauls that make the game look awesome.
There’s a utility called BOSS that should help weed out incompatible plugins and optimise load order and stuff for you. If you have more than 4 or 5 major content mods I’d consider using it, as it helps resolve incompatibilities and the like.
In addition to this, if you use Mod Organizer as opposed to Nexus mod manager, it has BOSS built it and will let you know if you have any incompatibilities and take care of that for you.
Yeah, but I like that NMM has good support for other games now too. I want to limit the amount of specialised modding clients I have floating around on my PC, especially now that the Steam Workshop can easily take care of most mods these days.
It’s a shame KSP haven’t added Workshop support yet, and that their mod developers have mostly gone with Curse rather than NMM. Though some have also got Github pages, which I prefer.
I don’t have too much time to play a wide variety so I can handle a separate manager for ksp, skyrim, and planetary annihilation.
Agreed(for ksp), I don’t think they ever will support it either. I know you just said you’re opposed to specialized mod managers but ksp has one called CKAN and it makes installing mods significantly easier and less time consuming…you just select what you want and click apply!
Edit: alot of modders put their stuff on kerbal stuff as well.
I always preferred the extra control that Wrye Bash gave for mod managing but perhaps other mod managers have caught up in features now. One of most useful features was the compatability patch generation. It wasn’t a magic button, mainly just merged leveled lists and a few other things, but along side other compatabilty tools like BOSS it helped.
Yeah. I prefer Github though, as I get emails when the developers push a new release out.
I would not recommend BOSS at the moment as it’s been superseeded by LOOT (same people, better system).
Having just (last week) set up 216 mods and made it all compatible (gosh, that was a 2 day binge) I had the pleasure of learning how to mod “right”…
Google S.T.E.P and start there, it explains from scratch (as if you knew nothing) how to mod Skyrim “correctly”… It was a massive help, if only I knew about it earlier.
Try out Space Engineers! I think you would like it!