Crazycrab

I think comparing a PC to a Mac is more like comparing a Jaguar to an Aston Martin. A Jaguar does everything the Aston can but Aston charge double the price... purely because they can.

*DISCLAIMER* I started writing this post before @Shaggerposted his, so I'll be touching opon allot of the same points on Oblivion's leveling system, but since I have some stuff to add I have decided just to finish and post as is rather than take a bunch of stuff out and re-edit. The main difference from Oblivion and Skyrim is the leveling system, it can be very unforgiving if you level your character wrong... but's it's also more expoitable and even without mods you make a character who's almost invincible if you get it right. I'll start by addressing some of the points in you OP and then I'll a brief leveing guite that might help you. Now onto leveling, I'm running under the assumption of a legit playthrough with no mods or console commands to assist. For starters, when creating your character you want to pick either a Breton or a High Elf as for your race and The Mage as your birth sign, even if your intention is to be a hairy, naked, club weilding, screaming Barbarian! Any other combination is a waste becuase the spell making facility allows you to do everthing that the greater powers of the other races can do VERY easily. So the Mage is the only one that adds a legitimate stats benefit with no drawbacks. When picking/creating you class you might think that it's best to pick the skills you use most often as your major skills since they get a boost. Like in Skyrim if you want to raise your smithing and sword skills quickly you pick the Warriors stone in the beginning. This however, is a beginner's trap and truth is you want to do the opposite and assemble your class with (as much as possible) skills you never/rarely use in addition to avoiding skills which can rise spontaneously like athleticism. You also need to avoid picking all 3 governing skills for one attribute since the way to level up an attribute by the maximum step of 5 is to raise its governing skills collectively 10 times. For example, if you make your class up with Heavy Armour, Block and Armorer raising endurance by 5 will become extremely difficult since you will have to avoid raising any other major skill even once at that level. When you start leveling It's important to work on endurance. It dictates how much health you have and how much your health raises each time you level. So the quicker you raise that Endurance to 100, the more health you will ultimately have. As you touched upon earlier the other thing you will want to do as quickly as possible is join the Mages Guild and get into the University not just to make that charm spell of 100 (which I can confirm is REALLY easy to do) but also to make training spells for all the magic skills for raising Intelligence and willpower. Here are some other tips and tricks I've picked up: Light Armor is better than Heavy and that is a fact! You can easily carry more than one set of light armor for varying situations and at Master level skills a full set of light armor will perform exactly the same as it's heavy counterpart also at Master level. Raise your Illusion skill to 100 ASAP, there's no point in waiting since you don't need personality and with a skill of 100 you can create a Chameleon 100% spell. Cast that without wearing armour and you can attack, stealth kill and steal all completely undetectable, literally no one will stop you! Short of cash? Without spoiling too much once you complete the Mages Guild questline you get an item that allows you to reanimate dead NPCs. There is another questline called "Order of the Virtuous Blood", when that is completed an NPC will give 250 gold for each piece of Vampire Dust you give him. By reanimating a dead vampire then killing it over and over you can spawn literally dozens or even hundreds of them 🤑. That's about all I can think of for now, hope this helps.

I prefer the lockpicking mechanic in Skyrim but never had that much trouble in Oblivion. In fact it seems expert at it judging by what some people say about their struggles, one of the first things I usually do is loot the lockbox outside the Arena and that's a master lock 😁. The mechanic is all about timing, you need to hit the button the instant the pin hits the top of the lock for each one, the harder the lock, more pins you have to secure AND the faster the pins move. What's maybe not so obvious at first is the pins don't respond the same way or retract at the same speed every time, occasionally they will even bounce around that the top and if you try to hit the button then you're guaranteed to fail. There is a trick to this and that's listening, there are audio clues that give you a clue as to what the pin is going to do. Here is a video that explains this better than I can with the written word: With this knowledge and a bit of practice you should get the hang of it. Also look around the barrels and crates in the Imperial City market as you can usually find a few lock picks there and they at least should be on sale in the general stores. If you still can't get the hang of it there are some alternatives, Alteration magic has spells that can open locks and at level 10 you can do the quest at Nocturnal's shrine which rewards you with the Skeleton Key, which is essentially an unbreakable lockpick so you can auto attempt past your way any lock. Hope this helps!

BULLLSHIT! Not only is the top end £1000+ 2080Ti not even cable of 4K at 120FPS, the Novatech PC you just posted there has no dedicated GPU at all! Why are you lying? On top of that I can build pretty much the exact same machine for around £50 less:

I think what people need to understand is that you unlike the PS4 and XBox One which featured AMD Jaguar based cores which were originally designed for low power products like micro servers and tablets, not gaming consoles. The PS5 and what's now apparntly just.... the XBox (fuck you Microsoft, why do you everthing so damn confusing) feature SSD's and proper desktop based AMD ZEN 2 CPU's. So I think they will be around the $500 to $600 mark and that would actually be fairly reasonable.

Considering that the XBox One series X and PlayStation 5 are right round the corner... Neither

I accully did have this issue a night or two ago but i put it down to my connection, maybe it wasn't.

A little correction here, it's Postal 2 not Portal 2.

Ok, I realised a bit to late to edit that I was looking up the specs for the s340 rather than the l340 and now I feel like a idiot. The top end models of that feature a laptop version of the Nvidea GeForce GTX 1650 which is MUCH more capable.

I've looked some gaming benchmarks for the Lenovo Ideapad s340. The top end model rocks an Nvidea MX250 GPU which at 720p on low genealy tops out at 40 - 60 FPS occasionally nudging 80 FPS, in other words it's crap. My advice, save up more and get somthing decent, it's better to spend $800 than waste $400.

I'd like to extend the similar sentiments to EVERYONE in that bloody game! Lightning is a bitch! Hope is a wimp! Fang is a genocidal maniac! Sazh is an idiot! Finally Vannile is the Disney Princess edition of Jar Jar Binks!

The Sims and most other games with that kind of RTS isometric design are better suited to a PC interface. The experience on console can feel a little cumbersome. In case of Skyrim and similar games (especially from Bethesda) you can use debug consoles and/or mods to bypass certain issues or make the game easier. Beyond those two situations and bad ports aside (like Arkham Knight on PC for instance) I can't really think of any other situation where playing on a PC (or a console) makes the game any easier. For the most part it doesn't make any difference.

Once after you've connected the controller physically the first time after the update it should work wirelessly after that.

I definately remember witnessing and, admittedly, being in some heated argumnets about consoles way back in the 90's and early 2000's but I've never seen it actully getting physical. I've long since grown out of it, I mean it's poinless championing any of them! Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft and the pardae of compaines involed in whatever PC setup and games you might have don't care if you die tommorow, your just one of a ton of numbers that supplies them with revenue.

I don't hate platforms... But Fanboys and White Knights of platforms really bring my piss to a boil sometimes! Yeah I despise that to, but even there it's not exactly the platform that's to blame. Especially when you consider how many of these cash cows are on PC and consoles as well now.

I thinks it's becuase somtimes the update overwites the part of the system software that effects peripherals including controllers, so they need to be reconneted physically to register. I've seen this happen on the PlayStation 4 as well.

My set up is probably way more complicated than most. It includes an XBox One, PS4, Gaming PC, TV (which the PC is also connected to), two monitors (one of which my consoles are also connected to) and a surround sound system. I use switch boxes so for audio and video so I can choose for both my PC and console whether I want to sit a my desk in front of my monitor or sit on my couch in front of my TV. I don't think having a second console should be to much trouble, you can get small units like this where two consoles will sit quite easily and even small TV's have 3 or 4 HDMI ports these days.

I used to play allot of Destiny and Raids require allot of teamwork and co-ordination. P.S Stranger Things Does kick ass!

It's not "Cheat Codes" per se but I often use the debug console commands on games like Skyrim. In particular for crafting materials if I can't be bothered to go round the map visiting multiple merchants to find what I'm looking for. It's also useful for getting around certain bugs.

As the title suggests (or at least of the time of produce) the race for 9th gen supremacy has officially began with not only the official announcement of the next Microsoft Console, the XBox Series X but with the announcement of it's first game from it's acquired first party studio Ninja Theory. It is a sequel to it's critically acclaimed Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (which I love), Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2. Microsoft have officially fired the first shot, and it's got to be said from a fan of single player, story driven games like me... It's a 50 calibre. Your move Sony...... I can't wait!

I've never tried it but in some games it can be done by hitting the home and start button at the same time.

The Borderlands Series comes to mind, great looter shooters with a tons of weapon types and great comedy. There also the Far Cry series and although more of an RPG than an FPS I'd also consider Fallout 3, 4 and New Vegas.

I could name a bunch, you got any prferences in terms of gameplay style or platform?

Buffy has always been a favoutite of mine, along with some others already mentioned like Fresh Prince of bel Air and PInky and the Brain.

I'm not so sure, I think allot of the PS5's initial "exclusive" line up is going to be ports of 2020 PS4 games like The Last of Us Part 2 and Ghost of Tsushima and we won't see many TRUE exclusives until the following spring and summer. I think this because initial reports from Sony actually had their release date in 2021 but they pulled it forward to react to Microsoft's announcement that their system was coming in holidays 2020. They can push to get the hardware out faster than initially planned but it doesn't mean the games will necessarily be ready by then and we've seen far to many times what can happen when game development gets rushed. I think that Microsoft shifted their focus onto next gen a bit quicker than sony did because, and let's be honest, this gen hasn't gone so well for them and may have the initial advantage as a result.