It doesn't take long nowadays.

Hehe, good point. I'm actually eyeing a new PC using next year's tax return money, but it will probably be a slow process, more of a bare bones type thing, i.e. the video card will come much later...

mmmm, looks like my "gaming" pc (more for work but whatever) won't be able to handle the minimum specs requirements even if I can play GTA5 smoothly. I guess it will be the same for Just Cause 3. And in Fallout 4 case, there are already some reports that the game is badly optimized.... Looks like I'm gonna still play GTA Online for a long time (already 220 hours) as AAA sandboxes new games are now too demanding :(

I just watched some few minute long comparison that even bit of a budget PC can run it better than both of those consoles.
Like with gtx 750 ti you could get over 40 fps all the time with decent settings, where as consoles struggled to even keep it in 30.

Breja; Do you build your own computers?
I'm still using XPS 730X Computer (original motherboard that still to this day kicks major ass being an X-58 mobo with socket 1366) With upgraded components and Alienware area 51 bios A11 so I'm able to utilise 24 gb of RAM.
My processor came from Digiconcepts: http://www.digiconcepts.com
The owners are fantastic people and I trust them. I've purchased: I7-980X (refurbished) for around $250 and it works perfectly to say the least! Big jump from my old I-7 940 :D

Not personally, I'm hopeless when it comes to computers. I don't even understand a word of what you wrote there about all those parts :D I think I understand Star Trek technobabble better than real world technology. Fortunately I have a trusted acquaintance who runs his own computer store, and I always turn to him whenever I need to upgrade or fix anything.

Excellent! Great to have friends! :)

Nice to see the old DRM doing its job again then. How many millions brought the game already regardless I wonder?

Quiet a few,I would imagine.

I just watched a gameplay video of a low level player getting wrecked by an alpha deathclaw. That's encouraging. At least Bethesda seems to have to gotten past their leveled enemies phase. So tired of leveled enemies in RPGs.

*resists starting a fight about how much she hates when enemies dont level*


...............

seriously though, if you don't like enemies leveling with you, you play games bad and you should feel bad. XD

That's how I build mine, honestly. I get a nice new case, motherboard, CPU, HDD, and usually some more RAM, then pull parts from my old rig. I got my current CPU, a watercooled i7-3770k, when it was new, but was using an old video card until I upgraded to a proper 4k monitor (which was coincidentally at the same time Witcher 3 was released but in no way did I buy a Titan X just for one game, that would be silly...). I feel like upgrading piecemeal gives you the best opportunity to get exactly what you need and stretch things out. Besides, traditionally a good CPU outlasts a good video card.

>.> Says the lady who's clearly never had to do level design >:E [url= Neither have I =) ][/url]

If you don't want the player to go to Place X right away because of plot, highly-levelled enemies can be helpful in gating access. But if you do want them to eventually get there, you don't want to just slap "player_level + 20" on the monster attribute list.

Level-scaled enemies flatten the challenge curve. If you like flat curves, you're a non-Euclidean heretic!

<points with Cartesian Coordinate Plane and laughs linearly>

hahaha, no I have not!

I understand that and for some types of games this is a good thing, like say MMOs, but for an open world game, no, it's not. The whole point is running around. Now I do like having some enemies smattered around that will kick my butt and be higher lvl than me, in this case say Deathclaws and Super Mutants, but otherwise, no, there should be no "gate keeping'.

My big problem with people not liking enemy leveling is that they want to just grind some easy crap, become god like, and just blow through enemies. I'd rather learn to play the game well and have challenges no matter what lvl I am, no matter where I am. For instance, I am playing ESO now and I hate that I have some low lvl quests to do. I feel like such a dork being a lvl 15 coming back to a lvl 10 quest/zone.

and you said some math-typey things I don't understand fully, so i will throw rocks at you ;) maths. meh.