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redd214

ThanosReXXX wrote:

@redd214 I have a long standing grudge against Sony, for them screwing me over three times over quite a period of time.

Well this explains it all lol. 😉

redd214

ThanosReXXX

@redd214 Well, not ALL. But that in combination with my annoyance at the wibbly-wobbly 3D graphics did make it easier not to choose for them...

'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.'

Nintendo Network ID: ThanosReXX

NEStalgia

So I fired up MGSV:TPP briefly to test it. I can say for sure that's the first game to give me a true WTF experience in a long time. That....is a WEIRD game. Not that MGS hasn't always been weird and getting weirder....but I feel like Kojima has finally lost what was left of his marbles. It's playing like a survival horror game. It looks and sounds like a survival horror game. I know it becomes "Assassin's Gear" at some point....but this whole hospital sequence is just bizarre, nonsensical, annoying, oddly placed and presented, and to make it all the more WTF there's a freaking fire demon. I can assume this is somehow Mantis related, but still.....just......what is with this game?!

I played the Demo....(a.k.a. Ground Zeroes) and while the end of that one was weird and nonsensical enough, this is just a whole other level of weird.

Also anyone notice the Forza 3 sale page showed $30 but goes to the full $60 page. Not really my kind of game, but I found that odd.

@ThanosReXXX Oh and when I complained about the way the PS3 represented graphics (that X1X compat mode shares) I was "wrong"

@redd214 Yeah, Thanos has a thing against Sony on a similar level to how Anti-Matter as a thing against M-rated games

NEStalgia

ThanosReXXX

@NEStalgia Not quite: mine is just a grudge, his is a mental condition, no sane grown man I know has such a strong, exclusive taste for only girly or kiddie things. And people like that who are sometimes mentioned in the news mostly end up in prison under a certain category...

And I'm not really the no, no, no, never type either: I'm quite open-minded in general, and as I've told you before, there certainly are a couple of games that I actually would like to play, just not enough to buy yet another console for. And me having/holding that grudge obviously isn't helping them either, in that regard...

I don't get the comment you directed at me personally, though. A bit too short on info as to what I supposedly said, other than "Hear, hear! Death to disposability", which obviously has nothing to do with graphics whatsoever.

'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.'

Nintendo Network ID: ThanosReXX

redd214

ThanosReXXX wrote:

@NEStalgia Not quite: mine is just a grudge, his is a mental condition, no sane grown man I know has such a strong, exclusive taste for only girly or kiddie things. And people like that who are sometimes mentioned in the news mostly end up in prison under a certain category...

I have thought the same way, the fact that he apparently works in a school with kids is quite frightening as well js..

And I'm pretty much where you are. There are a few xbox games I want to play but doesn't make sense to have a console for 2 or 3 games sitting there gathering dust.

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redd214

Grumblevolcano

The infamous XB1 reveal is now 5 years old.

Grumblevolcano

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NEStalgia

@ThanosReXXX I figure he's alright, and I kind of admire his absolute conviction to his principles in the face of all the peer pressure the rest of us give him. Slightly odd or no, if everyone stood on their convictions so defiantly instead of washy pandering and go-along-to-get-along which has lead to every great calamity in history, the world would be a better place. He's just a little too keen on reminding everyone his tastes non stop, unprompted. So....do you ever plan to get a Sony console?

Oh my comment to you was in response to what you said about disliking the PSX's graphics rendering compared to N64. Like how I didn't like PS3's graphics rendering compared to X360.

NEStalgia

ThanosReXXX

@redd214 @NEStalgia Well, just in case neither of you know, and to be fair to him, his mental condition falls under the autism spectrum: he has a milder form of Asperger's, which can definitely account for his fierce defense of his opinion and the strong way he voices it against anything that he deems to be wrong.

But my wonder, besides his taste, is how someone within the spectrum can be a teacher, especially considering his strong opinions. How would that influence young children? He definitely wouldn't be my first choice for a teacher. But in any case, now you know what's up with him, and although it doesn't make his incessant hate comments towards adult games any less annoying, you at least have some more perspective on where it's probably coming from.

Anyways, getting too far off topic, so back to the Xboxen...

@redd214 Yeah, wanted to add that we are actually not that far apart sentiment-wise when it comes to reasons for buying/not buying a console, but I still can't get over how you sold your Xbox One that your (in my eyes) amazing wife bought you. I sure never received any gift that big from any better half I've ever had...

Nah, just kidding. I'm over it. Still: if that was me, I'd kept it, since your wife saved you the trouble of having to contemplate buying it or not, so there wasn't any loss involved on your part in keeping it. And E3 is only a few weeks away, so I hope for your sake, that it isn't going to show a lot of interesting stuff coming to the Xbox One, otherwise you may come to seriously regret having traded it in...

@NEStalgia But did I say that you were wrong about PS3 graphics being worse than the Xbox 360's? That almost makes it sound as if I was defending Sony, and I know for a fact that is something that I would never do. In fact: considering your exact statement here concerning that difference, I completely agree with you, so I'm still a bit at a loss here...

And that picture: Don Mattrick - didn't last nearly long enough to even come close to a hat trick...

'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.'

Nintendo Network ID: ThanosReXX

redd214

@ThanosReXXX I plan on getting a pc as I mentioned before, so anything revealed at e3 that would be exclusive to the Xbox would more than likely come to pc so I highly doubt there would be any regret on my part. After almost 5 years on the market there are only a handful of games on the Xbox that I'm interested in and can't get elsewhere so it would literally be gathering dust most of the time. I'm not a collector and don't like having things around that I don't have a use for. Not just with games/consoles but with just about everything else as well (besides books). And to clarify, it wasnt a trade in it was a straight return so what was spent on that is going to said pc so not a really a big deal. In addition instead of just sitting in my entertainment center only getting turned on a few times a year, perhaps it can go to someone who will use it much more than I would have, seems like a better deal imo. Lastly, yes my wife is awesome!

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redd214

NEStalgia

@DarthNocturnal I never get the "gold mine" of trading consoles. They give you pennies on the dollar and then sell the darned thing for close to MSRP....

@ThanosReXXX Yeah, I do recall hearing about that, though I heard it second or third hand, much as I believe you did. True or not (and certainly believable) I'd rather not make assumptions about random people on the internet based on second or third hand knowledge, so I'll trust only the direct conversations I've had with a....persistent, but otherwise pleasant person.

As for schools....heck, someone like you describe would be a dream for deal with kids compared to the faces of evil in my school as a kid! At least A-M would seem like a big kid to the kids. My teachers were either all militant social revolutionaries, angry LGBT's with chips on their shoulders using the classes for political games with the management, or people who simply just hated children through and through, and made sure the children were aware of it. (Most of them, unsurprisingly, stopped being teachers within that decade.) Little shop of horrors. A-M would have been a dream teacher

"And that picture: Don Mattrick - didn't last nearly long enough to even come close to a hat trick... "
#dealwithit

BTW, I was looking up some of those CD keys places you pointed out....I did get my memberships from cdkeys but some of them seem kind of iffy. They're reseller marketplaces not direct stores, many of them including CD keys may ask you for a copy of your ID, etc, etc. Not stuff I'd do with anonymous stores located in Hong Kong and Dubai The sourcing of the keys is therefore sketchy, sometimes coming from simply being purchased in cheaper regions, sometimes bought with stolen CCs, sometimes just stolen codes, etc. Bigger ones like cdkeys are likely buying cheap region imports. Others like G2A that are marketplaces...who knows where people get them. Some are Humble bundle scalpers etc. So just as a PSA....ethical issues aside, sometimes broken keys happen sometimes from those sites...sometimes publishers kill the keys.

NEStalgia

ThanosReXXX

@NEStalgia I actually read the topic in which he himself explained it, but forgot about it for some reason, and was then later redirected to it once again, so I got the info from the horse's mouth, so to speak.

Concerning him being a "dream teacher": I'd say anything but, although law and life is more strict over there where he lives, so his extreme convictions probably fit in quite nicely. It's not so much his own preference for kiddy and girly games that worries me, but his close-mindedness in general to other stuff and other games/game genres, that might actually be really good or entertaining.

Just imagine one of the kids in his class bringing a DS/3DS with him with a game that falls outside of his own allowed types of games: I can already imagine him raining fire down upon that kid, giving him a sermon about the evils of non-cutesy games and how it will ruin that kid's childhood...

Thanks, but no thanks. That actually sounds like the kind of teacher who's head I'd put in a toilet bowl to flush all the silly ideas out of him...

As for those digital keys: I've been buying and using them for years, ever since I stopped buying my subscription in a store (that was actually only in the first year, and after that, I always scoured the web for cheaper options). I never had to give any ID card or credit card details or whatsoever on any of those sites either.

That would also have been an insurmountable hurdle for me, seeing as I don't even have a credit card, so I just use PayPal, which is linked to my bank account. That's also what I use on my two Xbox consoles if I buy DLC or other stuff.

And lastly, and most important: I would never, and I do mean NEVER send people links to or redirect them to a sketchy website or reseller, much less to one that I haven't tested myself, and tested with success, so I don't agree with any of the concern at ALL. And I would be hard pressed to believe that I've been extremely lucky all these years, ever since the Xbox 360...

'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.'

Nintendo Network ID: ThanosReXX

Dezzy

So they've taken down the page where you vote for backwards compatible games. Used to be here:
https://xbox.uservoice.com/forums/298503-backward-compatibility

Now redirects to general feedback stuff.
I hope that doesn't mean they're stopping adding new backwards compatible stuff. While they've already done most of the essentials, I'm still waiting for FF13-2 and Tales of Vesperia thank you very much.

It's dangerous to go alone! Stay at home.

ThanosReXXX

So, I just received an email from Microsoft, stating the following:

"The biggest day in gaming is coming. On Sunday, June 10th,
Xbox will bring exclusive new game announcements, demos, interviews and more.

Broadcasted Live on Sunday, the 10th of June at 22:00 (CEST)"

And for all you "other regioners", that would be either 13:00 Pacific Time, 21:00 British Standard Time or 15:00 Eastern Time.

Here's a handy map of the world to calculate any other time zone:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Sta...

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'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.'

Nintendo Network ID: ThanosReXX

DarkRula

Was the date already known for their conference, or is this the first announcing of it?

DarkRula

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ThanosReXXX

@DarkRula Could be, but it's the first time I've heard of it, in any case.

'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.'

Nintendo Network ID: ThanosReXX

Octane

@DarkRula @ThanosReXX I'm positive we've known about it for a while, otherwise I wouldn't have added it to the time table in the E3 thread!

Octane

redd214

@DarkRula they announced it back at the end of April. They say it's going to be about 2 hours long, can't wait to see what they show!

redd214

ThanosReXXX

@Octane Well, I'm definitely not part of the "we" who've already known about it for a while, and I only received this email today, so it's truly the first time I've heard of it, and as such, I thought it a nice gesture on my part to share this news with my fellow Xbox owners. Silly me...

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'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.'

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