So the Video Card came yesterday, looks great but I haven't actually put it in yet because my PC was a bit past due for a cleaning and way past due for a backup & format, I've been putting it all off but I'm finally doing them now that I have more incentive, and the backup is taking forever. I started backing up at 12:17 PM yesterday (it's 3:12 AM now) and I'm a couple hours away from being done with everything but my Steam data, one step closer to seeing if the new Video Card fits and works, etc. I do have a Full Tower case and it looks like the Video Card takes up a little over half of the case so hopefully I won't have any problems with the Card's length. I also have a 750W PSU with Quad +12V rails and the right connectors for the Card so hopefully that won't be a problem either.
An update on my Video Card
Submitted by smacker626 on Sat, 06/21/2008 - 3:21am. Not tagged yetI love you too Windows, Assassin's Creed and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas reviews, plus, new Video Card finally!
Submitted by smacker626 on Thu, 06/19/2008 - 1:45pm. Not tagged yetI love you too Windows:

I actually beat Assassin's Creed and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas days ago and just haven't gotten around to writing the reviews, they'll be coming sometime soon, but I am going to play through both of them again soon (see the next paragraph for the reason) and I also have a lot of other games I want to beat, so I don't know when they'll actually be written.
New Video Card finally! (ETA: Tomorrow :D)
Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition, pre in-game impressions
Submitted by smacker626 on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 10:36am. Not tagged yetEdit: Please read the edit at the end of this post for important information, basically the game was running too fast because I hadn't installed my AMD CPU's Drivers and a Windows update.
Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition ($49.99 on Steam).
By the way, I bought AC during Steam's last deal so it was 10% off or something.
First off let me explain something, there's the Intro and there's the Pre-Intro as I'll call it, and something there's multiple of either and or both, now, the Pre-Intro is logos and other things that we try to skip every time we see them because they're annoying as hell.
Registering a Ubisoft game
Submitted by smacker626 on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 10:15am. Not tagged yetSo, Assassin's Creed and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas are registered, the problem? They didn't ask for a CD-Key or anything that would identify a specific copy of the game, so what was the point other than seeing who would actually take the time to register? Maybe they just want people to get their newsletter? I "unsubscribed" from their newsletter a long time ago so they haven't gotten anything from me, oh well.
I wish that wasn't a Wall of Text.
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One Demo
Submitted by smacker626 on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 6:59am. Not tagged yetPenny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One ($19.99 on Steam).
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One Demo.
I played the Demo on Steam about 40 minutes ago and it looks really good.
The game is a simple point-and-click adventure game with RPG elements (and I love adventure games), the combat is fun and the story seems interesting though you don't get a lot of it from the Demo.
Prey
Submitted by smacker626 on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 6:48am. Not tagged yetSo I finished Prey around 5 AM, I'm not going to write a big review but I have a few things to say about it.
Rating: 5/6. I paid $19.99 for Prey on Steam and it was well worth it.
Length: My completion time was about 7h 54m, and Steam says I played for 13.9h (I'm obsessive and reload a lot).
The Portals: Some of them were "just there" while others were awesome for various reasons, i.e., realizing a doorway was really a Portal in a Door that just moved to another room because you pressed a switch, and corridors experiencing a "Spatial anomaly" (this corridor holds a not so hidden easter egg, I assume it's an easter egg anyway, a really strange one at that).
