3081

If its any consolation, I will be getting the game on PC and my specs are slightly worse than yours. Based on its ability to handle everything else for the Xbox360 (including Battlefield 3), I am confident that it will run fine. Not with max everything, but fine.

So while I don’t feel qualified to advise you, I will say that if you do get it for PC and it runs poorly, I will be feeling your pain!

3082

Well, the few I can think of off the top of my head that forced me to wait were:

King’s Bounty: Crossroads
Sword of the Stars 2 (which, given the state of its release could very well have been delayed because of other factors.)
Worms: Reloaded

There were a couple other little ones I pre-bought, but I can’t remember what they were. I think one of them might have been some DLC/Expansion for Beat Hazard.

3083

My PC is between min and recommended and I suspect it’ll run fine. I’ll just have to tweak settings, lower resolution, etc but honestly modern PC games look so good I won’t mind at all. Often the difference in looks between “ultra” and “medium” is hard to tell yet the performance difference is huge.

3084

I think everything I’ve ever pre-ordered on Steam made me wait till noonish.

3085

What the hell gives you the idea I can wait that long? I just preordered at Gamestop and I was delighted to see the “Skyrim midnight release party!” sticker on their door. I’m damn well going to be there at 11:30 pm sharp.

Try THAT at Best Buy. Or maybe Best Buy does have midnight release parties, I don’t know. Anyway I like the rabid nerd camaraderie at Gamestop midnight releases.

I don’t generally call in sick on big release days, but Skyrim just might be my first time…

Edit: I preordered the collector’s edition, or I might have just gone with Steam. Steam, after all, could theoretically unlock in less time than it would take me to drive home and start installing. Theoretically. But I will sacrifice those few precious post-midnight minutes in order to have a fucking cool-ass art book to browse through while I wait for the Steam servers to unfuck themselves launchtastically.

3086

My Video Card is the lowest card in the recommend specification (Radeon 4890) and my CPU is higher than the low CPU (Core2Duo 3ghz)

So I am hoping this one of the games that needs the GPU more than the CPU.

3087

Yeah, this has been my experience as well mostly, but there have been some examples of it unlocking at like 2am CST (12am PST) - this is the first I’ve ever heard of 12am EST though.

And some of you saying “midnight in your own time zone” is NOT what Pete was tweeting - they aren’t going to flip a switch every hour, I wouldn’t think.

3088

@SmashDestroys Slated for 12:01 am on 11/11, whatever time zone you’re in.

@MordaxCarnage yes. If a store breaks date, you still have to wait to activate on Steam until 12:01 am, your time, on 11/11.

Gosh, I dunno. Seems pretty clear to me. Don’t see how you could misread that.

3089

Rage did a midnight Eastern release on Steam, as I noted. But that was the first time I’ve seen that.

And Pete Hines did indeed tweet that it unlocks at midnight in specific time zones, though I’m not going to be shocked if that changes later.

3090

I’ll see your tweet/proof and raise you a “Pete Hines doesn’t know wtf he’s talking about” - I think everyone should assume 12am PST like most any other Steam game, and be happy when it comes hours earlier.

If this DOES unlock every hour until it’s unlocked for all time zones, that’s going to be… very bizarre, but at least it will be interesting.

3091

Shrug. Whatever.

3092

I figured everyone knew by now that if you actually want to play a new release at midnight, you’re buying it off the shelf, not on Steam.

3093

It would be a first for Steam, though, to do it that way. Not saying its impossible, but why are they only doing it now? I’m not seeing a similar statement about MW3, which is an equally big Steamworks title.

3094

With Steamworks games it doesn’t matter where you but it - you are stuck with the Steam unlock. You should know that.

3095

yeah but you don’t have to download the install files, or do you?

3096

If you install the game, it will insist on connecting to Steam. No connection, no game (unless you hack it). And I could be wrong, but my assumption is that the disk doesn’t contain all the files anyway, much like a Steam preload doesn’t.

3097

That is the behavior for steam games as I’ve observed them, yeah. It will basically contain the same data on the disc as if you’d done a pre-load through steam. After it installs, you will set up a Steam account (or log into your steam account) and then it will unlock (though it doesn’t decrypt, I don’t believe, which takes FOREVER it seems like). At least, I don’t remember a steam game having to decrypt - the last steamworks game I got in disc form was Civilization V more than a year ago, I may be mis-remembering.

3098

ok great. So then the shelf copy is the better option since you don’t have to wait for 8-9GB download and battle with the hundreds of thousands of other people at midnight.

3099

Since I generally go with the console versions of things for this and many other reasons, no, I don’t know that. 99% of my Steam purchases are sales long after release. On the flip side, preordering Witcher 2 on GoG got me the game in a very timely (and slightly early!) manner.

3100

Well, I salute you lot for being my guinea pigs and being all excited and stuff. Let me know if it sucks!