@ThanosReXXX Yeah, I won't say he's likable now...but he did come across as genuine for what might mark the first time, ever. The show was, overall pretty good. Games. Basically no mention of Battlefield other than "we're working on it for next gen" and little mention of sports at all beyond a montage snippet advertising "EA Sports" brand in general. Excessive play time for SW: Squadrons but as an old fan of the old X-Wing series it looks decent....I hope the campaign is decently long because it's of course promoted for its online mode mostly, but it looks like it could be a good game if it does. We haven't had a real decent campaign driven starfighter game since Freespace 2 and Independence War 4 which is....an acquired taste given its brutal difficulty and adherence to real Newtonian physics. There's the big real simulator games that I can't even land the darn ship in the tutorial, but that's another level.
Sony's presentation....I mean it wasn't bad. I love some of the games. Ratchet & Clank (and anything Insomniac) is a sure-fire win to get excited about. But a lot of that was prototype stuff that didn't show much, HzD2, and, yeah, good looking multiplats or timed exclusives. They opened with GTAV which makes zero sense. They showed the physical console, which is nice. @Zuljaras got his hands on an early model...looks slick....show T your new PS5!
Neither new console is exciting me too much right now with the storage costs involved until the "slim" editions emerge. But I'm also looking forward to the XB event. With that slight damper added by the whole Facebook Gaming partnership. Keep Zucker the err...Bucker off my Xbox!
I already played "They Lied To Us Part III". And it is amazing! You play as the kid of the first military guy that Tommy killed in the first part! There are tons of flashbacks from another characters as well! IGN gave it 999/10 "would buy again"!
@BabyYoshi12 Thanks.
On a side note, and no offense intended, but I do have to say that I'm ever so slightly weirded out by the adopted quote in your profile, though...
Oh, great... it was a joke, and I stepped right into it. Way to go, taking advantage of a man still recovering from the slowly subsiding mists of infernal headaches...
And they opened with GTAV because... PS5? Sound marketing, in their eyes, possibly...
As for the new consoles: yeah, agreed. I am a bit more excited than you, but still not in a rush to get the new box. And totally agreed on those probably pretty hefty added storage prices. And so little storage, for next gen consoles. It does make me wonder how much space they'll save on supposedly not having to have duplicate files in a game's data bundle which is often the case on today's disc-based media, and also on conventional storage solutions.
I also share your sentiment on Facebook on Xbox. I just leafed through the articles on PureXbox, and saw that they are saying goodbye to Mixer in favor of Marc "I have the stoic face of a serial killer" Zuckerberg's "wonderful" social platform, which I'll absolutely NEVER use, so we'll have to see how that pans out.
I can vividly imagine that the whole Mixer community isn't exactly over the moon about it either, so I do have to wonder what the ultimate consequence of it is going to be.
@BabyYoshi12 You saw other people putting quotes of others in their profile tag line?
That's a first for me. I've seen people put their OWN quotes in it, but not other people's, or their names.
@Zuljaras I'm looking forward to Unfunded 5: Deeper over the Shoulder. That along with "Spider-Man 2: Psyche" (On Twitter 24h later, it's just stand-alone DLC).
(And yes, I did just use dated slang...)
@ThanosReXXX I don't get the emphasis on "data duplication" to justify just about enough storage space included to fit.......Fallout76. Alone. PC should give a pretty good clue as to what the sizes are without "data duplication", and the sizes are....about the same? Even if they can chop the language packs and lower resolution assets, it's the smaller data elements they're purging, while making the full res ones bigger than ever. I'm holding my breath to watch how the gen unfolds over time. They want an all digital world, but when they offer so little storage, I think there's going to be a ton of frustration, and the costs don't look set to catch up with them in time. I'm guessing when they put this stuff on the drawing board they were expecting a price crash on SSD by the time they launched. But the prices have generally been holding steady.
As for Mixer, yeah, that's kind of like saying "We're sorry, but Neiman Marcus will be closing our doors forever. We've gone ahead and forwarded your previous shopping preferences, and your credit accounts to Walmart for future business."
I suppose games should install a lot faster, at least, which might help with the downloading as well as doing it from disc Maybe wait until there's a few big games out, that aren't cross-gen, to see if they do actually get smaller?
Along with seeing how much the storage options are & then wait for sales....
@Zuljaras Kinda reminded me of these ones:
Then again, they're all basically alike...
@BabyYoshi12 Ah, @ogo79... Yeah, that's different: he's a forum legend, so he's already earned his stripes, so we give him some leeway here and there.
@NEStalgia As I understood it, the data reduction was not about language packs or dropping lower res items, but especially on disc-based games, it is supposedly so that entire parts of levels/worlds/stages are on the disc multiple times, to facilitate faster loading, depending on where you are in a game, so the laser doesn't have to move back to the start or end position of the disc, to grab that bit of data that is then needed again, so we're potentially talking about several GB's in total here, per game.
And the same goes for conventional storage solutions: installed games on normal hard drives apparently also have these duplicate files in several locations, because obviously, we're still talking about spinning discs here. With the newer storage media in the upcoming consoles, that problem should be entirely gone, which would mean less storage space needed per game. I've no idea how that's going to work or if it's going to work with cross platform/cross-gen games, though, but I guess we'll find out eventually.
Concerning Mixer: I still have to read that article. I only browsed titles, because between NLife and PureXbox, there was just too much to catch up on in one evening. For now, I'm just kinda mystified as to why they'd stop collaborating with a highly popular and profitable service, that is SO very much a part of the gaming community, which Facebook totally isn't, and that makes it a far less suitable partner, even besides my personal dislike of Darth Zuckerberg.
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@ThanosReXXX Ah... well, I wouldn’t know, I only joined last month. There was one other who did it, but I can’t remember who.... Well, if it feels weird, I’ll change it if you want!
Heigh Ho Heigh Ho. It’s off to work (from home) I go.
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