Origin - General Discussion

[ivrognard]

I am still gathering my cash for a new PC. I am close, but it will take another two months to have the whole sum. I am not big on borrowing money from banks for personal stuff. My old PC coped with a lot until last year, when the system requirements skyrocketed. And it's kind of hard to just upgrade as the parts are kind of hard to find. So, a new one it is. 

That also means that i have to postpone playing many of the 2015/2016 games for next year. Meanwhile, i watch my brother playing those new games (he has a pretty decent rig). 

P.S.: maybe EA Tom can sticky this General Discussion thread, so it would be easy to find?!

[DarkBanishing]

@ivrognard @Straatford87 @yahel_1

Hi all, I'm back from the dead (work actually ). Pfff, I'm glad I'm back cause it seems I missed a lot!

My favourite game on origin: BATTLEFRONT (I'm a very, very (and I mean very) big star wars fan from back in the eighties (yes, I'm that old )

Other favourites are the dead space games (not owning them yet , borrowed them from a friend a few years ago and still waiting for a full triology pack to come out with origin to buy at once!!!!!!) Best space horror game EVER!

Also elder scrols I, II, III, IV, V fan (again yes, I'm that old)

Baldur's gate I, II, Neverwinter Nights I, II

Quake, Duke nukem, Doom, Shadow warrior etc.: the golden oldies

In fact, I only don't like to play sports games... I'm more of a fantasy, SF man myself.

I'm from Limburg in Belgium, so yes, I feel akin to the Dutch people in the south who also share a province named Limburg

And who said I love Dutch beer? Belgian beer is the best! (sorry EA_Tom)

Ivrognard and yahel, we may have good beer, but you will always have Dracula! How cool is that!

[ivrognard]

@DarkBanishing so, let me guess: born in the seventies, around 40 by now?!

[DarkBanishing]

Wrong, I was born in the early eighties. So not that old...

[Straatford87]

@yahel_1

Yes, a pleasure as well Yahel - nice to get a discussion going on here with all of us.

I sincerely hope that you will enjoy Battlefield 1 and Inquisition as much as you did Counter-Strike! 

@ivrognard

I've recenty upgraded my PC as well - though I did make sure to save up for a while because as you mentioned, buying a new system is a big investment. In the end I decided to go for a GTX 1070 and 6700k.

What am I looking forward most in the PC development scene? Definitly for 4K to be mainstream and running well on most systems. Though I can imagine that we will be another 1/2 years in the future in terms of having it like we have 1080p now.

I would love to have more people jump in here an discuss with us so I will throw it up as a sticky.

@DarkBanishing

Welcome back! I was away for my weekend as well so didn't have a lot of time to jump in here either.

Ah, a huge Star Wars fan I see - I can imagine that you are loving Battlefront then. Have you seen Rogue One yet, and if so, did you enjoy it? I have yet to see it myself but everyone around the office was super hyped..

Also glad to hear that you love Baldur's Gate - it's one of my all-time favorites as well! 

I actually lived for a while in the Dutch part of Limburg (Roermond / Swalmen), so not that far away. One of my favorite beers is Palm (amber beer), so I don't mind handing that title over to you..

P.S:

Forwarded a PM to all of you, so check your messages when you have the time.

[DarkBanishing]

@Straatford87

I know Palm, as a matter of fact it is one of my favourite beers too. My all time favourite is Bush christmas beer. A "real world" healing potion! Better then the "in game" ones!...

PS: I have the geforce gtx 1060 6GB edition and also an intel i7 6700k. Those things make your games fly like rockets!

@Straatford87, @ivrognard, @yahel_1

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

[ivrognard]

@DarkBanishing,@Straatford87,@yahel_1

Merry Christmas, people.

And yeah, the 1060 is on my list, as the prices are kind of inflated around here. CPU 6700k, 32gb Corsair Vengeance, SSD 850EVO from Samsung, a storage HDD from Seagate (3TB). Those are just a few of the components.

[DarkBanishing]

@ivrognard

I ripped out my SSD out of frustration Gaming on SSD can be such a fuzz...

Luckily I could use it in my laptop which I use for professional reasons.

With the gaming I do, 250 to 500 GB drives are not an option!

When SSD 1TB become cheaper, I will get back to gaming on SSD. Now, I can buy three 3TB HDD's for the price of one 750 GB SSD.

[ivrognard]

True

Unfortunately, the SSD are damn expensives. Even the 250GB has the price of a 3TB SATA3 HDD. And the SSD that will be the standard will be probably the one that can be mounted on PCIe slots. And those are highly expensive right now

[DarkBanishing]

Indeed, but those SSD's on PCI-e slots are very fast. Hopefully, for  gamer's sake, they will get cheaper in the near future.