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30 Greatest Games of 2005

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-a-lot-of-good-games dept.

Next Generation continues its end-of-year celebration with a treatise on the 30 finest games of the year. From the article: "Some may remember 2005 as a year of financial shortfalls, rising game production costs, depleted Xbox 360 stock, political soap-boxing, or over-exertion in Korean Internet cafes. Forget all that stuff for now. 2005 wasn't a year to be remembered for one great gaming breakthrough or innovation, but it did produce some remarkable products. It was a year marked with some of the best games of the fading generation. "

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  1. 30 good games? by guaigean · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I imagine this would have been a difficult task to list, as I can't even imagine 10 games in the last year that even impressed me. Plenty of clones, but very little real innovation. Overall it seems like the game industry is closely mimicking the movie industry; make sequels and avoid risk.

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  2. Re:RAM by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have 2GB in mine since I do work with modern samplers and, damn, talk about RAM hogs. But when you have single instruments that are 3GB in total (yes, really) what do you expect? At any rate I've found that many performance complaints I hear just don't apply on my system, and I have a sneaking suspicion having lots of RAM is a big part of it.

    In fact I've ALWAYS liked to go overkill on the RAM on my computers. I generally seem to have about double what you'd find in a "high end" box, despite the rest of my components being older. Perhaps because of that, I find that I don't need to upgrade my CPU all that often.

    I think the problem is that computer makers tend to skimp on RAM since it's not a stat most people think about. They are worried about CPU speed and maybe HD space, but to hell with RAM. Well, since modern OSes can deal with low RAM fine (though slowly) peoiple don't realise it could be better.

    For comptuers these days I'd say 512MB minimum for office type work, 1GB minimum for games, and 2GB if you want to be nice n' safe. Given that 2GB is only like $180, less than most new graphics cards, I think it's hard to justify having a blazing dual core CPU, a new video card, and then starving your system RAM-wise.

  3. from the that's-a-little-bit-of-overkill dept by schabot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Next Generation continues its end-of-year celebration with a treatise on the 30 finest games of the year.

    Come on now. Treatise?

    That is not a treatise, that is an article. These are treatises.

    treatise a systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached

    I wouldn't call a list of video games a systematic exposition.