The Computer/Console Gaming Thread

[GoktimusPrime]

I got Street Fighter IV on PS3 this morning. The first time I've bought a Street Fighter game since PSX. :p I realise that this game is old, but it's new to me. Anyway, I wasn't aware that the game was default set to English dub, and went ahead and started playing. The dub voices were as blissful to me as hearing nails running down a chalkboard, but I decided to keep on playing and switch the language to Japanese later. I was playing Ryu, and when I executed the Cyclone Kick, instead of the dub actor attempting to approximate Tatsu-maki-sen-puu-kyaku, he just grunts! :eek: Wow. He could've at least grunted, "I-mixed-some-FRUIT-cake!" or something. :rolleyes:
#noteventrying

[DELTAprime]

If anyone is interested Humble Bundle has most Transformers games on sale at the moment.

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/search/search/transformers

Thanks to the falling Aussie dollar they are not exactly great deals.

[Gutsman Heavy]

humble store is crap, I do recommend getting xcom for $1 from the bundle

[prjkt]

i did generally enjoy playing in the beta but competitive or even casual online only just doesn't really appeal to me much any more. if it goes on sale i might bite. i think there was a trend among reviewers that there might not be enough 'game' to it to last and keep people happy, especially for the price so that's holding me back.

i took a few more screens but imgur is having a fit at the moment so i cant link the gallery.

Yeah the multiplayer only design is the reason I haven't bought it yet, don't play online much at all. Ah well, I know it's got some vs. Computer options so I might grab it on sale one day.

[kup]

If anyone is interested Humble Bundle has most Transformers games on sale at the moment.

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/search/search/transformers

Thanks to the falling Aussie dollar they are not exactly great deals.

Would be better to wait a bit more for an actual bundle where you can pay whatever you like.

[DELTAprime]

I'm using Humble a bit these days. They have separate deals to Steam so if I want a game and it's not on sale on Steam but is on sale at Humble I have no issue.

Also there is no issue with them not being "legit" like all the other keysellers. I've noticed there have been devs saying not to use any of them including GMG because they are stolen keys.

[Gutsman Heavy]

Also there is no issue with them not being "legit" like all the other keysellers. I've noticed there have been devs saying not to use any of them including GMG because they are stolen keys.

I don't understand where this comes from in regard to GMG, they have a list of official partners (http://www.greenmangaming.com/publishers-developers/#b)

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I got Street Fighter IV on PS3 this morning. The first time I've bought a Street Fighter game since PSX. :p I realise that this game is old, but it's new to me. Anyway, I wasn't aware that the game was default set to English dub, and went ahead and started playing. The dub voices were as blissful to me as hearing nails running down a chalkboard, but I decided to keep on playing and switch the language to Japanese later. I was playing Ryu, and when I executed the Cyclone Kick, instead of the dub actor attempting to approximate Tatsu-maki-sen-puu-kyaku, he just grunts! :eek: Wow. He could've at least grunted, "I-mixed-some-FRUIT-cake!" or something. :rolleyes:
#noteventrying
Even HeliCOPTER Kick! would do.
Lol, yes know EXACTLY what you're talking about there. Later on you change each individual character voice in the options. I left a few of them in English, Zangief's is a riot, as is Rufus. But Ryu. But Man hearing "Hadouken" in english, just with the different pronunciation, made me wanna cry.

[DELTAprime]

I don't understand where this comes from in regard to GMG, they have a list of official partners (http://www.greenmangaming.com/publishers-developers/#b)

The fact that devs like CD Projekt Red have said they get no money from GMG sales because they are stolen keys.

[Paulbot]

Did you like Transformers Devastation but think it needed more mutants, more ninjas and more turtles? Then you're in luck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO_jtTw87kw

[davieanix]

Anyone know if Target or Big W have PS4 Resident Evil Origins cheaper than $79? Wondering if I have to make a trip to JB or not.

[Gutsman Heavy]

Did you like Transformers Devastation but think it needed more mutants, more ninjas and more turtles? Then you're in luck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO_jtTw87kw

A must buy for me

[DELTAprime]

Did you like Transformers Devastation but think it needed more mutants, more ninjas and more turtles? Then you're in luck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO_jtTw87kw

Saw that announcement. I haven't even found time to play Devastation yet and now I have to add a Ninja Turtles game to my growing pile of unplayed games.:o

[philby]

Saw that announcement. I haven't even found time to play Devastation yet and now I have to add a Ninja Turtles game to my growing pile of unplayed games.:o

how big is your pile?
my steam stats:

$2265
Current account value

$592
Total cost with sales

8
Steam level

$14.52
Average price

$8.24
Average price per hour

156
Games owned

1,213h
Hours on record

18.4h
Average playtime

90
Games not played

58%
Games not played

[DELTAprime]

how big is your pile?

Not sure. I buy a lot of console games and PC games from places other than Steam like Origin and GoG so it would take me a while to figure out mine.

For those of you with an Xbox One, Red Dead Redemption is coming to backwards compatibility. It's rolling out now, if you want to jump the queue and own a digital copy of RDR you can follow these instructions: http://www.icxm.net/x/red-dead-redemption-backward-compat-install.html

[kup]

This is my documented experience with using the Steam Controller for those interested:

Intro

I have been following the development of the Steam Controller since it was announced a couple of years ago. I was greatly interested in it because it coincided with my then transition from the PC desk to a PC lounge room. Since just a year before that, I had become a late comer to modern Console gaming as I got a PS3 rather cheaply. My last console before that was an N64 and had been an exclusive PC gamer since. Although I only had the PS3 for the exclusives and playing blurays at the time (the latter has now become its main use along with Netflix), it did show me how much better a modern game can look on a big TV and how much more comfortable to play and immersive it can be as a result of that. From then, I was convinced that Lounge room PC gaming was a must and since PC versatility allows you to use any peripheral on it (from Atari Joysticks to Wii remotes and PS3 Controllers) it was worth a trial. Overall once I started playing in the living room on a TV, it didn't feel as good to come back to the small desk.

However there were a few compromises I had to make for this transition. First was that although I had gotten very used to using a PS3 controller for FPS and adventure type games, the thumbstick was nowhere near as accurate or graceful as a mouse. Games are playable within reason without being frustrating but there was a definite handicap. This was alright with me as I don't generally like playing competitive online games and as mentioned, it is good enough once I got the hang of it. The second compromise and possibly the most damning was that games made with the intention of using a mouse as the primary interface (RTS, RPGs, Turn based, etc.) were shockers with a traditional game controller like the PS3. Moving the thumbstick as a mouse is a mess, specially for quick actions or trying to precisely click at a small item or icon on screen. Even new turn based games that natively support controllers such as XCom were rather awkward. For this type of game, I simply had to go back to the desk or use a wireless mouse with an annoying plastic lap board as a surface which is not a comfortable set up.

I was really concerned about not being able to play mouse based games so I started looking at alternatives. And behold, I found out that Steam was already working on a solution for all the mouse related problems with the newly announced, Steam Controller.

The Steam Controller

The Steam Controller was designed to bring PC gaming to the living room. By design, it aims to be a controller that offers mouse like accuracy and compatibility with any type of PC game, from FPS shooters to Mouse interface based games such as Baldur's Gate, Civ or Stracraft. Yes, I mentioned older games because one of the highlights of the Steam Controller is that it is fully backwards compatible with any game.

To achieve mouse like accuracy, it uses two large (owl eyes) haptic feedback interfaces. On the original prototype, that is all it had aside from the shoulder buttons as their intention was infinite customisability. Basically the haptic feedback is supposed to 'simulate' the feel of button presses, scroll wheels, and even trackballs through timed vibrations. Even thumbsticks are supposed to be emulated in the haptic interface. However the bizarre look of the prototype without anything resembling traditional controls scared a lot of people away and received negative feedback. To compensate for this and regain greater gamer interest from the mainstream, they have now included in the final release a traditional thumbstick and buttons. They also molded the left Haptic feedback with a 'D-pad' cross to further appeal to players intimidated by the design.

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Although fan reactions and companies trying to compensate for them often is detrimental to the final product, I have to agree that it was a good idea to also include traditional controls, specially during this transitional/adoption period . The haptic feedback interface require some getting used to and the Steam controller is highly reliant on user customisability through Steam - This is both its biggest strength and weakness as I will detail below.

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Steam Controller - First impressions


I received the Steam Controller at my workplace, my first instinct was to plug it into my work laptop which does not have Steam or any games on it. To my surprise, Windows natively detected the controller as a mouse with all the features you would expect although without steam, it is not customisable. The right haptic feedback served as the mouse 'pad' and controlling the cursor with it was extremely smooth and accurate with not much of a learning curve (if any). It is worth mentioning that in this 'native' mode, the right haptic feedback interface is configured to be a trackball and you can feel the 'rolling' as you interact with it. The only strange thing is that for some reason, Valve decided to use the right trigger button as a 'left click' and the Left trigger button as the 'right click'. This was a bit odd to me but got used to it rather quickly. The left haptic feedback is used as a scroll wheel with a similar effect. I started to use the controller as a mouse while in the office, simply by opening applications, moving the cursor on word and even had a go at dragging selection squares on items, all worked really well, about as good as you would expect from a standard mouse.

When I got home, it was time to try the controller as it was meant to be used with Steam - First thing to note that the only way to get the most out of the controller is to run Steam in Big Picture mode. The regular mode will only give you basic functionality and you would not be able to change things while in game. Switching between modes is hardly an effort so this is not really a deterrent but can be a bit odd as I prefer the normal mode. In big picture mode, you can go and configure the controller as you wish, the customisability is truly endless - You can set up the haptic feedback panels to behave however you wish (joystick, mouse, buttons, etc) and also map keys to any button. Interestingly enough, if you are playing a game that requires lots of buttons, you can assign one of the buttons as a 'shift' type key that will give you a second set of customisable functions while you have it pressed similar to a keyboard - Great for games that have a lot of keys although I don't know any that has that many. Another very interesting feature is that the Steam controller has gyro mechanisms. You can enable it by simply pushing a button or touching one of the haptic feedback panels and physically moving/turning the controller in the air. You can also assign whatever action you wish to the Y and X axis such as mouse movement, scrolling, etc. For any action or feature you can also assign the sensitivity, speed, etc. In short, everything on this controller is customisable. One of the things that I enjoyed was that you can update the firmware of the controller wirelessly (which I did). This was a nice and easy process. Another thing that I also liked is that the controller as a beeping speaker (similar to old PCs) and you can change the start up and shutdown sound beep tunes - Useless but rather cool, I set mine up with what sounds like an Atari version of the Portal end game credits song 'This was a triumph..'.

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I decided to leave the control configurations as default to try them out. I noted that the right haptic controller was already configured as 'Joystick Camera'. First game to try is Fallout: New Vegas. I was previously playing it with a PS3 controller rather well and since it was fresh in my memory, it was a good comparison point. Upon bringing it up in my Steam Library, I got a notice saying that the game is not natively supported in bright yellow. That was fine which just means that this game was not made with the Steam Controller in mind. However playing games that were not directly designed for the controller is a feature that I was the most eager to try. Upon starting the game in Big Picture mode, it went to the New Vegas loading window. This was annoying as it placed Steam in the background and wouldn't let me click on 'Start Game' on it's interface - I had to use an actual mouse to start the game but I can forgive this as the game is not aware of Big Picture mode or the controller and I can always configure the game to bypass the startup window in the future and go straight to the game - However from a casual gamer/Newbie perspective, this is jarring.

Once in the in-game intro menus, the game responded very well to the controller which it seems to have detected it as a game controller, Xbox controller to be exact. That was fine with me as the physical buttons matched that and my main interest with the game was the accuracy of the camera. I loaded a level that had me just outside the Think Tank in Big MT and tried to look around...It was horrific. The camera movement was jerky and all over the place - Totally unplayable and very disappointing first game experience. I most definitely see a casual gamer or someone with little patience throwing the controller away and declaring it as shit without a second look. You can see these people all over the internet furiously complaining about the controller after their first few goes. However I don't give up that easily..

Configuring the Controller

I pressed the centre 'Steam' logo button on the controller and brought up the Big Picture interface and into the game controller configuration options. I changed the 'Joystick Camera' option on the right haptic interface to 'Mouse' and went back in the game. This made a world of difference, I was now able to control the camera more accurately look but still super slow and not smooth, not very useful if I am in frantic combat and the jerkiness was off-putting. Went back into the configuration settings and ran into an unfortunate bug in which a Steam loading screen appears and doesn't go away. This seems to be a software bug as you can cancel the loading screen, go back to the game and then try again and it will work. However this happened enough times to be annoying and should be fixed as it can turn off users. I went into the controller's advance mouse settings and started changing mouse smoothness and sensitivity. The configuration options also provide hints on the setting you are changing and one said to also increase the mouse sensitivity to maximum within game. After a few trials and probably 20 minutes of tweaking, I got the right balance and the mouse movement on the controller was remarkably smooth, accurate and fast. It was time to give it a real test!

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Actually Playing an FPS game!

As anyone who has played the 'Old World Blues' Expansion of Fallout: New Vegas, this game is super hard. You can easily get jumped by multiple high level enemies and your VATS meter can quickly evaporate. Several of the confrontations end up in chaotic running, shooting and bashing in which the ability to accurate spin around while moving and attack is a must. As I was walking through Big MT (the large area where Old World Blues takes place) while using the controller to look around and getting used to the button functions, I got jumped by 4x Y-7 Trauma override Harnesses (a freaky automated body suit that carries a corpse inside), at the best of times, this is a difficult battle as everything in Big MT is levelled up and the AI is surprisingly good. I quickly exhausted my VATS meter on just one guy so it was up to me to manually fight the others while it generated. I was able to very accurately shoot them as I was running and turning around, something that a traditional mouse is best at and the Steam Controller felt just as capable. Then one of them came at me with a shishkebab (a flaming sword) so I went into melee combat with my own. It worked great, once again I was able to turn around quickly and accurately to attack as I was moving from cover to cover to avoid the remaining shooters. Once the melee guy was killed off, I used my generated VATS to kill the other and then tricked the other to get close and got it with a shotgun blast (no vats). Overall, I survived and the controller performed superbly, much better than the PS3 controller, specially with accuracy on smaller more accurate aiming and turn around actions. I will also add that for sniping, you can use a combination of the haptic pad and gyro for greater precision which is great.

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FPS style combat was a great success with the Steam Controller and that's on a game that was never designed for it! I continued playing as normal until I came across a locked door. I tried to pick it but unfortunately the haptic pad was very unresponsive when turning the lock which requires careful precessions. However I quickly discovered that it was infinitely easier to use the Gyro control on the lock so I was able to lock pick by simply turning the controller physically in the air which was a more satisfying experience - Another success!

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I continued playing the expansion all the way to conclusion. Finished several of the Sink AI retrieval quests and even fought Dr Mobius' Giant Scorpion. All very smooth and more accurate than the PS3 controller. The only drawback that I could see was that it can get tricky to get used to the physical button placements as they are down further and centre than other controllers. However this is by no means un-ergonomic, just needs getting used to.

Extra features & Conclusion

I have not tried the controller with any other game yet but all FPS games play similarly, that means that I can always use the configuration I made for New Vegas for other games without spending more time tweaking. Steam also allows you to set up multiple configurations for different games and share them with your own games or online with other users. Next, I will probably try a more mouse 'point&click' oriented game such as an RTS or XCOM. Maybe to keep the theme, I will use the original Fallout. :)

For games that require actual keyboard typing input, the controller software features an onscreen keyboard that can be interacted with the two haptic feedback pads at the same time and looks very useful. Much easier and faster to type with than on a PS3 controller. As Valve promised, pretty much every aspect of PC gaming is covered by the controller. However it has too much of a learning curve to be inviting to new users and the need to tweak it and configure out of the box for optimal functionality can be a turn off. However if you persists, you would be greatly rewarded. Strangely enough, I suspect that people who already use traditional PS3/Xbox controllers would have a harder time adapting while people who use Mouse & Keyboard setups may find it easier. PC gamers like to customise and that is certainly on offer. The mouse style responsiveness is also there, may not be 100% but it is close and I noticed that the more I played, the more I got used to it and the better I got. The Steam Controller has now supplanted the PS3 controller as my preferred gaming option on PC and I don't see that changing, in fact I see it as improving as the Steam controller is so versatile and customisable that future software updates could make a huge gradually progressing difference.

[DELTAprime]

Did anyone else buy Xcom 2? It's gotten 100% positive reviews from the press but there are lots of end users with technical problems. I have a Samsung 950 Pro, the fastest consumer SSD in the world, and I'm often having to wait 2 or 3 minutes for missions to load. Also I have a decent graphics card, a GTX 970 and I'm dropping frames all over the place. I want to love the game, but the technical issues are frustrating.

[kup]

Did anyone else buy Xcom 2? It's gotten 100% positive reviews from the press but there are lots of end users with technical problems. I have a Samsung 950 Pro, the fastest consumer SSD in the world, and I'm often having to wait 2 or 3 minutes for missions to load. Also I have a decent graphics card, a GTX 970 and I'm dropping frames all over the place. I want to love the game, but the technical issues are frustrating.

Mainstream gaming press is known to be very well 'looked after' by publishers.

[DELTAprime]

Mainstream gaming press is known to be very well 'looked after' by publishers.

Please don't bring up gamergate BS like that here. We don't need to descend to that level. There is no conspiracy. Reviews are not paid for.

Far more likely that because everyone reviewing 2K's PC games has to submit system specs the game has been optimised for much of the hardware used in the reviews. Like how Batman Arkham Knight is only optimised on a very small set of hardware.

[Gutsman Heavy]

Please don't bring up gamergate BS like that here. We don't need to descend to that level. There is no conspiracy. Reviews are not paid for.


It's not paid as much as its given fancy parties and cushy junkets and sponsorship deals, it's pretty well documented like the Kane & Lynch 2 fiasco. Hell even Hyper did a piece on it back in the day.

[kup]

It's not paid as much as its given fancy parties and cushy junkets and sponsorship deals, it's pretty well documented like the Kane & Lynch 2 fiasco. Hell even Hyper did a piece on it back in the day.

Yep, this is an awesome example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMtajiLLGWM

You can't tell me that game journalism/news sites is not 'influenced' by sponsorship.

[Gutsman Heavy]

Yep, this is an awesome example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMtajiLLGWM

You can't tell me that game journalism/news sites is not 'influenced' by sponsorship.

That zoom in killed me :D:D:D

[kup]

That zoom in killed me :D:D:D

Me too :D I am surprised that 3 adults of what I assume to be reasonable intelligence did not realize how bad it is to criticize a reviewer who gave an 'alright' review for a game while being decked out in free merchandise from the publisher. :rolleyes:

[1AZRAEL1]

DOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!

That is all hahah. Cannot wait for this to come out

[kup]

DOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!

That is all hahah. Cannot wait for this to come out

I am ready to play it with the Steam Controller! There is no greater test of quick mouse reactions without it!

It would be funny however if it had a 'Ctrl, Alt, Space and Arrow keys' set up :p

[Gutsman Heavy]

I hope DOOM is on par with New Order, love seeing classic FPS updated well.

[TAAUBlaster]

how big is your pile?
my steam stats:

$2265
Current account value

$592
Total cost with sales

8
Steam level

$14.52
Average price

$8.24
Average price per hour

156
Games owned

1,213h
Hours on record

18.4h
Average playtime

90
Games not played

58%
Games not played

Sorry for asking a stupid question, but how did you find all that info? I'm interested to find out how many hours, and how much I've spent over the years.

[MEEEGGGAAATTTRRROOONNN!!!]

Me too :D I am surprised that 3 adults of what I assume to be reasonable intelligence did not realize how bad it is to criticize a reviewer who gave an 'alright' review for a game while being decked out in free merchandise from the publisher. :rolleyes:

When they get given free shit all the time, i'm quite sure it goes to their heads.

But that sloooooooooowwwwwwww zoom! Could you make it even more obvious?

[DELTAprime]

Rooster Teeth are not journalist, they are clearly paid to advertise games. Game Informer always protest their innocence but they are clearly not journalist either being owned by Gamestop (Gamestop is known as EB Games in Australia).

Giant Bomb, Gamespot, IGN, the now defunct Game Trailers and Polygon are are real journalist and not paid off by publishers for reviews. Do not confuse ads for journalism.

The reason for Gerstmann-gate back in the day was the firewall between the ad sales people and the journalist, which every journalistic organisation has in place, broke down and ad sales people were able to get the journalist punished, which in Jeff's case resulted in his firing since he was EiC.

Now lets never bring up ethics in journalism again please.

[DELTAprime]

On a lighter note. Anyone ever use a "gaming" mouse pad? I need a new mouse pad and want something better than a square piece of wetsuit material.

[TAAUBlaster]

On a lighter note. Anyone ever use a "gaming" mouse pad? I need a new mouse pad and want something better than a square piece of wetsuit material.

My brother is pretty keen on the Razer stuff. He's been using their mats for a few years now.

[twincobra]

My brother is pretty keen on the Razer stuff. He's been using their mats for a few years now.

Just got a razer one, it's great, I don't recommend steel series as mine fell apart rather quickly.

[philby]

Did anyone else buy Xcom 2? It's gotten 100% positive reviews from the press but there are lots of end users with technical problems. I have a Samsung 950 Pro, the fastest consumer SSD in the world, and I'm often having to wait 2 or 3 minutes for missions to load. Also I have a decent graphics card, a GTX 970 and I'm dropping frames all over the place. I want to love the game, but the technical issues are frustrating.

every review i've read has mentioned technical issues are present. i really want it but I'll wait a bit to try and justify the expense to myself more hehe.

have you tried turning caps lock on and off?? (seriously lol):
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/how-to-improve-xcom-2-performance-and-maybe-skip-t/1100-6434730/



This is my documented experience with using the Steam Controller for those interested:



cool write up! i already have an xbox 360 controller which i sometimes used with my laptop plugged into the tv so i'm probably not going to get one but i appreciate the detailed review! i played xcom quite a bit with and thought it was fine, what issues did you have? also, testing something new and different with an obsidian game? #YOLO haha


Sorry for asking a stupid question, but how did you find all that info? I'm interested to find out how many hours, and how much I've spent over the years.

someone on another forum mentioned a website that will find it for you:

https://steamdb.info/calculator/

[philby]

On a lighter note. Anyone ever use a "gaming" mouse pad? I need a new mouse pad and want something better than a square piece of wetsuit material.

i also have a razer one, with dragon age 2 art on it. it's quite nice! (the pad, not the game haha)

[Mythirax]

I've been gaming a very long time, been through many pads and very expensive mice. I've spent probably about $2000 on mice alone in the past 10 odd years. And with all of them nothing has beat this...

http://www.chinatraderonline.com/Files2/pic/2008-8/14/cloth-gel-wrist-rest-mouse-pad-16213715700.jpg

Probably isn't the exact one I have, but the general good gel support pads. Don't go cheap though (like this image), I get the ones that are around $30 - 50.

[philby]

I'm going through Wolfenstein: New Order at the moment. I'm actually liking it a fair bit and enjoying the attempts at plot and story plus collecting crap.

I think next on my to do list will be Pillars of Eternity. I got up to the final battle and just couldn't get through it after about 10 attempts. I think I need to load an earlier save and change my party and craft some food but I can't be bothered right now.

[kup]

'Pillars of Eternity' - Why does that sound so familiar. Was that the name of the original Wolfenstein 3D expansion?

[5FDP]

I've spent probably about $2000 on mice alone in the past 10 odd years.

:eek: :eek: :eek:

[kup]

:eek: :eek: :eek:

I bought a $60 gaming mouse like 7 years ago and still being used and in excellent condition. Only in the last couple of years did I start using it less and less for games due to the living room transition but still used it for mouse driven games like RTSs and turn based.

Before that, I was buying cheap mice and they didn't last more than 5-6 months.

[Mythirax]

One that I'll say, _every_ single razor product I've ever bought. I've had to return from it breaking or being faulty. I've not had a single item from them yet that has done me any good. I don't know if it's just been bad luck, or if they truly makes terrible crap. Same goes for ATI/AMD graphics cards. When I was doing graphics programming, I went through about 10 video cards in 2 years. I was using multiple machines and blew up every single ATI card I was using, to this day I've still yet to kill any Nvidia card, no matter how hard I thrash it. But not a single ATI card from the past 10 - 15 years in my life is working now :D So one might say from experience I absolutely hate Razor and ATI :D

[philby]

'Pillars of Eternity' - Why does that sound so familiar. Was that the name of the original Wolfenstein 3D expansion?

no it was the obsidian kickstarter rpg. good game, but man this last boss battle is ridiculous. i think you need a really well optimised party for it.



One that I'll say, _every_ single razor product I've ever bought. I've had to return from it breaking or being faulty. I've not had a single item from them yet that has done me any good. I don't know if it's just been bad luck, or if they truly makes terrible crap. Same goes for ATI/AMD graphics cards. When I was doing graphics programming, I went through about 10 video cards in 2 years. I was using multiple machines and blew up every single ATI card I was using, to this day I've still yet to kill any Nvidia card, no matter how hard I thrash it. But not a single ATI card from the past 10 - 15 years in my life is working now :D So one might say from experience I absolutely hate Razor and ATI :D

my mouse is a razer death adder i think, i've had it for about 4 to 5 years i think so far, love it :)

[kup]

'Spear of Desitiny' is the Wolf3D expansion, I remember now :)

[DELTAprime]

One that I'll say, _every_ single razor product I've ever bought. I've had to return from it breaking or being faulty. I've not had a single item from them yet that has done me any good. I don't know if it's just been bad luck, or if they truly makes terrible crap. Same goes for ATI/AMD graphics cards. When I was doing graphics programming, I went through about 10 video cards in 2 years. I was using multiple machines and blew up every single ATI card I was using, to this day I've still yet to kill any Nvidia card, no matter how hard I thrash it. But not a single ATI card from the past 10 - 15 years in my life is working now :D So one might say from experience I absolutely hate Razor and ATI :D

I have been using Razor mice on and off for years, I actually just got a new one last week. I either ware them out after years of use, or buy a new mouse just because I want a new one because I've had the old mouse for so long.

As for ATI/AMD. The days when they could build a card that was both cheaper than Nvidia's and performed as well or better are behind them but I've always found them reliable. I've never had a video card "blow up". Cheap crappy PSU's yes, but silicon, no. I actually had a run of bad luck with Nvidia cards over the years causing random crashes and BSOD's. It really was random luck as to if you would get a good or bad card. These days both Nvidia and AMD's partners make good cards, especially if buy from someone like Asus, EVGA or Gigabyte. The only issue with AMD cards are driver support, top end performance and performance per watt.

[DELTAprime]

Playing Street Fighter V on PC tonight, or at least trying to. Why I need to log into servers for single player is beyond me.

[TAAUBlaster]

Has anyone played Rise of the Tomb Raider on PC with the minimum specs? I'm running a GeForce GTX 660 and it's done me well for everything so far (the minimum is a GTX 650.) But I know the new Tomb Raider is pretty intensive, and Steam is recommending a GTX 980 or something.

Don't really want to upgrade the card if I can avoid it (even then I could probably only afford one of the mid range ones) but I really enjoyed the last Tomb Raider and I don't really want to play the new one on sub-par settings for fear it might ruin it . :(

[DELTAprime]

Has anyone played Rise of the Tomb Raider on PC with the minimum specs? I'm running a GeForce GTX 660 and it's done me well for everything so far (the minimum is a GTX 650.) But I know the new Tomb Raider is pretty intensive, and Steam is recommending a GTX 980 or something.

Don't really want to upgrade the card if I can avoid it (even then I could probably only afford one of the mid range ones) but I really enjoyed the last Tomb Raider and I don't really want to play the new one on sub-par settings for fear it might ruin it . :(

I've only played it on Xbox One but I have been keeping up with what's going on with the PC version. If you turn up the graphics settings it really pushes your hardware's limits. Kotaku has a bunch of benchmarks (http://kotaku.com/rise-of-the-tomb-raider-pc-benchmarks-steep-demands-1756350619), keep in mind that they only tested on high and very high, if you turn down your settings the 23 fps they got on your card will be higher for you. The game looks great on Xbox One, which is a low end PC, so don't be too worried about how it will look if you turn everything down.

[TAAUBlaster]

I've only played it on Xbox One but I have been keeping up with what's going on with the PC version. If you turn up the graphics settings it really pushes your hardware's limits. Kotaku has a bunch of benchmarks (http://kotaku.com/rise-of-the-tomb-raider-pc-benchmarks-steep-demands-1756350619), keep in mind that they only tested on high and very high, if you turn down your settings the 23 fps they got on your card will be higher for you. The game looks great on Xbox One, which is a low end PC, so don't be too worried about how it will look if you turn everything down.

Cool, thanks for the link. :)

[DELTAprime]

For those of you with current gen Nintendo gear. Nintendo is now taking registrations for their replacement for Nintendo Network ID's, the Nintendo Account. So if you want to go sign up at https://accounts.nintendo.com/ and remember to sign up using your NNID so you don't loose access to your current purchases, etc.

[twincobra]

I've had my Razer mouse for 6 years at least, still going strong.

[CBratron]

For those of you with current gen Nintendo gear. Nintendo is now taking registrations for their replacement for Nintendo Network ID's, the Nintendo Account. So if you want to go sign up at https://accounts.nintendo.com/ and remember to sign up using your NNID so you don't loose access to your current purchases, etc.

About time they did away with the console locked purchases and moved toward an account based system.

[Gutsman Heavy]

About time they did away with the console locked purchases and moved toward an account based system.

Better late than never I guess, just don't start charging for online!

[Kazza]

I played some Diablo 3 RoS and was grinding on hardcore to level 70 with Demon Hunter, got mob rushed and died at level 60:mad:

[5FDP]

Fired up the PS3 for the first time in a long time and had a play of GoW3. Forgot how epically awesome that game was. Tonight I'm going to dust-off the PS2 and play some RE4.

[Raider]

PS2 had some cracking games on there. I have mine all boxed up in the garage but will bust it out one day when I have a place big enough to build a man cave :p

The missus did get me the Sega Megadrive reissue console that is floating around now. Kinda disappointed. The games are great, and a lot harder than I remember, but the controllers are terrible. They are wireless (I would have preferred wired) so there is a very noticeable lag between button pressing and response in game which is a killer on old school games. Not to mention that the technology in the controller requires perfect line of sight to operate. That is impossible when my 2 year old is running around and constantly going between the controller and console.

It was great fun though playing games like original Sonic, Mortal Kombat and Golden Axe again.

[kup]

For those of you with current gen Nintendo gear. Nintendo is now taking registrations for their replacement for Nintendo Network ID's, the Nintendo Account. So if you want to go sign up at https://accounts.nintendo.com/ and remember to sign up using your NNID so you don't loose access to your current purchases, etc.

Thanks, I registered with my NNID. Nothing much happening yet but prospects are very exciting.

[DELTAprime]

Just saw this video on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOoRvBtpoco). If you are finding your PS4 controllers thumb sticks are degrading you can replace them with Xbox One sticks.

[DELTAprime]

I played some Diablo 3 RoS and was grinding on hardcore to level 70 with Demon Hunter, got mob rushed and died at level 60:mad:

And that's why I don't play Hardcore Mode.

[philby]

I finished Wolfenstein New Order and have gone back to South Park The Stick Of Truth. It's hilarious, I don't know why I let myself get distracted and left it for so long.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Playing Street Fighter V on PC tonight, or at least trying to. Why I need to log into servers for single player is beyond me.

Capcom seem to like that now. I bought Final Fight off of the PSN and I have to be logged in for that as well. Bloody annoying, as I PAID for the damn game, but can'T play it if I'm too lazy to update my PS3, which I was for a long time up until yesterday.

Bloody online business is crap.

[DarkHyren]

For the Pokemon players, March is the Celebi distribution event.
This time you don't have to go to ebgames at 9am otherwise pray to Primus that they have some later, you just need to go to mystery gift at the start menu and download from the internet.
They really should always do it this way, puts a stop to all the scumbag scalpers and no one has to miss out. Yay! :D

[Paulbot]

For the Pokemon players, March is the Celebi distribution event.
This time you don't have to go to ebgames at 9am otherwise pray to Primus that they have some later, you just need to go to mystery gift at the start menu and download from the internet.
They really should always do it this way, puts a stop to all the scumbag scalpers and no one has to miss out. Yay! :D

Much better. Took me five stores to find a Mew last month. On the positive side getting the game out made me start playing Omega Ruby again after it got neglected for a while.

[philby]

ok finished stick of truth, it was brilliant. not sure what to go for next on my list. maybe the monkey island games to keep going with comedy

[prjkt]

I finished Wolfenstein New Order and have gone back to South Park The Stick Of Truth. It's hilarious, I don't know why I let myself get distracted and left it for so long.

One of my favourite games. Sends up the whole genre so well, yet it's also a really good, involved game.

[i_amtrunks]

Yay for the internet downloadable content!

Bought Pokemon Yellow as well, no idea when I'll get a chance to play it, but I played through red about a dozen times while in high school, so hopefully my memory jogs a bit and I can breeze through.

I am getting lazy, I bought Yellow as it is the easiest way to get all three starters.

[Paulbot]

Yay for the internet downloadable content!

Bought Pokemon Yellow as well, no idea when I'll get a chance to play it, but I played through red about a dozen times while in high school, so hopefully my memory jogs a bit and I can breeze through.

I am getting lazy, I bought Yellow as it is the easiest way to get all three starters.

I got my start as a Pokemon Trainer with Yellow but not sure I could go back and play first gen again though.

Hopefully they've removed the "There is already a save file. Are you sure you want to overwrite?" prompt.

The game has far too many prompts. Even in the latest games, I wish there was a way to turn off the confirmation prompts for "Do you want to give a nickname for the Pokemon you just caught" (no I never do!) and the "Are you sure you want to give up learning X move" prompts" (Yes I'm sure I don't want that move).

[DarkHyren]

Hopefully they've removed the "There is already a save file. Are you sure you want to overwrite?" prompt. They haven't. The games are 99.9% unchanged from the originals, they even still have missingno and the mew glitch in them

[Paulbot]

That's probably a good thing for the fans that want to play the original games again - but I'm happy to stick to the newer ones and remember fondly playing Yellow back in my Uni days.

[i_amtrunks]

They haven't. The games are 99.9% unchanged from the originals, they even still have missingno and the mew glitch in them

Hunting down that Mew!

Bad thing is that the TM's are back to single use only. Means I have to be careful what I teach my Mew!

[benny444]

Anyone else preorder the Playstation VR today?? :) I can't wait for October :D

[kup]

Anyone else preorder the Playstation VR today?? :) I can't wait for October :D

The SteamVR has made everything else look obsolete. It detects your physical movements like arms and leg motion and instead of using a PS4/XBox controller, you have dedicated hand grips that help you interact with the world in a more natural way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyjSRGJdd7o

I was blown away by just the act of stepping closer to the edge and and reaching out to touch the whale. To me, Oculus and Sony VR are merely supplanting the TV and camera controls with a VR headset. SteamVR seems to be more forward thinking of what can be done with the technology when it comes to immersion.

[Gutsman Heavy]

If VR survives the initial boom I'll consider it, but I'm sceptical. I'm honestly more excited about potential other uses, like the possibility of streaming ringside seats to a VR headset etc

[kup]

If VR survives the initial boom I'll consider it, but I'm sceptical. I'm honestly more excited about potential other uses, like the possibility of streaming ringside seats to a VR headset etc

Yep, full use of the technology that I feel HTC is more ready to accomplish given their demos - Basically a 'You are there' experience. The rest seem a bit too 'Mega-CD' in the sense that they are using VR technology as a gimmick without any real substance or taking potential of what the technology offers.

I will not be an early adopter for this technology. It is too much of an investment to simply jump in without any real consumer test. It could easily end up as a Virtual Boy or more precisely a 'Wii Fit' in the sense that it has wide spread interest and may even have great sales but ultimately becomes nothing more than a gimmick and forgotten shortly after.

[DELTAprime]

I considered the Vive for a split second and then realised I don't have a room I can dedicate to walking around in VR. The idea of walking around in VR is cool but lets face it, how many of us have a spare room we can use just for VR.

Anyway the reason I popped in this thread tonight is to let you PlayStation fans know right now Sony doing a 25% off PlayStation Plus till the end of the month. Not sure if you can use this to renew or if it's just for us that don't have an active subscription, but anyway have a look and see if your eligible.

https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-au/reward_game/playstation-plus-1-year-subscription-25-off/cid=IP9102-NPIA90006_01-PSPLUSSUBS12MDIS?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=ps%20store&utm_campaign=PX+-+PlayStation+-+Brand+-+UK&EMCID=GM300000_store

[DELTAprime]

Found another deal. Today I bought the 3 Disney Infinity Light FX figures that Target stocks. Instead of the ticked 25ish dollars I found that they are only $12 at the register. I got this from Target Rockhampton.

[philby]

i decided to go for the last few achievements left in xcom enemy unknown/within so i started a new game. first one with the slingshot dlc which wasn't too bad but i'm playing on easy to try and get through it relatively quickly hehe.

[kup]

I have been playing Lost Eden which is an old 'point&click' adventure DOS CD game. I have been using the Steam Controller which has become awesome at all mouse games on the couch. Also took me back as that game was released when I was still at school, DOS BOX is awesome.

[DELTAprime]

i decided to go for the last few achievements left in xcom enemy unknown/within so i started a new game. first one with the slingshot dlc which wasn't too bad but i'm playing on easy to try and get through it relatively quickly hehe.

Which version of X-com are you playing? I kinda wish there was a console version for X-com 2 just so I could play it from a more comfy chair.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

DOS BOX is awesome.
Yes, Yes it is.

I've been playing the Ultima games on the old Dos box. Mmmm, Ultima.

I downloaded Borderlands, something something stories, an episodic game majigger from the PSN. Just Ep1 so far as it was free. While it has very a interesting story (so far) I find the *ahem* gameplay (used rather loosely here) somewhat non-existent. It's sort of like a cross between a crap point and click game with some quick time events. Sure the conversation arcs are an interesting outcome, but the QTE and other bits of game just aren't enough to hold my attention.

Glad I didn't pay for it.

Also the PSN interface is crap.

[philby]

Which version of X-com are you playing? I kinda wish there was a console version for X-com 2 just so I could play it from a more comfy chair.

i'm on pc/steam, playing enemy unknown/enemy within. when my laptop decides to work i have tried it on the tv with an xbox controller and it does look fantastic on the big screen with max settings :D


Yes, Yes it is.

I've been playing the Ultima games on the old Dos box. Mmmm, Ultima.

I downloaded Borderlands, something something stories, an episodic game majigger from the PSN. Just Ep1 so far as it was free. While it has very a interesting story (so far) I find the *ahem* gameplay (used rather loosely here) somewhat non-existent. It's sort of like a cross between a crap point and click game with some quick time events. Sure the conversation arcs are an interesting outcome, but the QTE and other bits of game just aren't enough to hold my attention.

Glad I didn't pay for it.

Also the PSN interface is crap.

i haven't tried any of the telltale games apart from the monkey island series, i think they all are basically point and click style adventure types focussing on plot so not that surprised. have you played any of the other borderlands games? i'm partway through the first one, another game i need to go back and finish at some point!

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

i haven't tried any of the telltale games apart from the monkey island series, i think they all are basically point and click style adventure types focussing on plot so not that surprised. have you played any of the other borderlands games? i'm partway through the first one, another game i need to go back and finish at some point!

I played a fair whack of Monkey Island something or the other. That felt way more engaging than that Borderlands thing I'm doing...

I played the first Borderlands for a bit. It definitely tickled my fancy. Sadly I was borrowing it from a friend, so didn't get too far

[DELTAprime]

I know Telltale, and Double Fine for that matter, are both darlings of the industry but I really don't like much of what they make. Just not what I'm looking for in a game. Maybe if I found a way to run the original Psychonauts on a modern PC with modern controls I'd feel better about Double Fine. But nothing will make me like Telltale if they keep recycling their formula over and over with every game they make.

[Gutsman Heavy]

I like some of the Telltale "games" calling them games is a stretch IMO, more like interactive stories, or extreme choose-your-own adventure

[1AZRAEL1]

DOSBOX is great, used to use it alot.

Currently I'm kicking it back old school too. Recently bought Wizardry 6 7 and 8 from Good Old Games for just under $4. Loved playing 8 in my younger days. Still a whole lotta fun

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Saw that PSN has a special on, so splurged 8.95 and got my hands on Just Cause 2. Only started messing about for half an hour and then died during the opening mission thing, and got respwned somewhere, I have no idea where to go, but have been messing around causing havoc, zipping about with my parachute and stuff, but what a blast.

So far, very happy I bought it. And I haven't been in that many gun fights either!

One hilarious thing is the crappy accents in the game, I first noticed with the main character, "Is this a joke?" I thought to myself, "His accent is TERRIBLE" abut then everyone elses is too. I guess it must be the theme. Kinda ridiculous 80s action movie style!

[The_Damned]

been playing subnautica awesome game nearly clocked 100hrs

[DaptoDog]

Saw that PSN has a special on, so splurged 8.95 and got my hands on Just Cause 2. Only started messing about for half an hour and then died during the opening mission thing, and got respwned somewhere, I have no idea where to go, but have been messing around causing havoc, zipping about with my parachute and stuff, but what a blast.

So far, very happy I bought it. And I haven't been in that many gun fights either!

One hilarious thing is the crappy accents in the game, I first noticed with the main character, "Is this a joke?" I thought to myself, "His accent is TERRIBLE" abut then everyone elses is too. I guess it must be the theme. Kinda ridiculous 80s action movie style!

I have it on my PC and it's a blast!!!

[kurdt_the_goat]

Some recent pickups - relishing the opportunity to hunt used game stores again! With a little modern stuff for good measure :D

Top left is a game called Odama, a cross between pinball and strategy/war game that you play with the obscure Gamecube microphone peripheral. As new for 700Y! MGS Twin Snakes was only 2500Y compared to $100+ it goes for in Australia, and even has english audio! Bottom middle is Puyo Puyo Tsuu... responsible for proving conclusively that i'm not very good at Puyo Puyo!

http://i.imgur.com/NPGhMIYl.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/NPGhMIY.jpg)

[philby]

been playing subnautica awesome game nearly clocked 100hrs

i'm up to 265 hours of xcom so far. started another game to try and win on impossible difficulty. it's such bullshit lol. save scumming like a mofo :/

[philby]

Some recent pickups - relishing the opportunity to hunt used game stores again! With a little modern stuff for good measure :D

Top left is a game called Odama, a cross between pinball and strategy/war game that you play with the obscure Gamecube microphone peripheral. As new for 700Y! MGS Twin Snakes was only 2500Y compared to $100+ it goes for in Australia, and even has english audio! Bottom middle is Puyo Puyo Tsuu... responsible for proving conclusively that i'm not very good at Puyo Puyo!

http://i.imgur.com/NPGhMIYl.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/NPGhMIY.jpg)

is biohazard japanese for resident evil?

[kurdt_the_goat]

is biohazard japanese for resident evil?

Sure is! I almost bought RE Remake 1 & Zero for Gamecube as well, but will probably get the HD versions some time instead.

[DELTAprime]

Woohoo, Star Wars Rogue Squadron 3D just went up on Steam last night. I'll be playing that before I goto work today.

EDIT: Grrrrr, the games launch will not recognise my video driver. Well hope it gets patched or else I'll be getting a refund.

[philby]

Woohoo, Star Wars Rogue Squadron 3D just went up on Steam last night. I'll be playing that before I goto work today.

EDIT: Grrrrr, the games launch will not recognise my video driver. Well hope it gets patched or else I'll be getting a refund.

cool! what card do you have? some people find that if good old games store has the same older title as steam it may run better with their version.

[prjkt]

GOG is great, so much fun stuff there

[twincobra]

Jp Gamecube games, nice :D

[kurdt_the_goat]

I wasn't planning on buying many... Until i tried my PAL cube here and while it works for games with 60hz modes, it displays in black & white :( There aren't many JP exclusives worth buying (that I don't have already) but a now I've got a few games i have to rebuy!

[DELTAprime]

Running a GTX 970. This version of the game is a newer update than what GoG has so if the new Steam version has an issue I bet the older GoG version does too.

[twincobra]

Oh so your in Japan, makes sense then :D

[CBratron]

GOG is great, so much fun stuff there

I've picked up some old gems from them before. Syndicate, Syberia 1 + 2 and maybe the enhanced editions of the Baldur's Gate games.

[prjkt]

Running a GTX 970. This version of the game is a newer update than what GoG has so if the new Steam version has an issue I bet the older GoG version does too.

Interesting, I've been playing the GoG version using a GTX 960 with no issues, and it's basically the same architecture.
GoG do tend to work on games to make them more compatible with modern systems a little bit better than Steam does.


I've recently had to re-install windows since my previous install shat itself in epic proportions, not a single restore/reset option would work.

And due to my system being a Mac Pro, it was a rather convoluted process.

Remove GTX960, replace old GPU to access EFI/boot menu as the 960 isn't properly supported.
Backup documents/steam folders.
Straight install of Windows 10. Oops, no valid serial for Win10 (I'd upgraded from Win 7 originally) and Apple don't support Windows 10 on my machine (not a major issue, just a pain with dual booting configs without the Apple software).
Install Win 7 Ultimate I'd burnt the iso for. Oops, serial number is for Pro
Install Win 7 Pro.
Install Apple's Bootcamp software.
Reboot.
Activate Windows.
Serial not valid for activation.
Call 1300 number to activate.
Install Windows 10 (finally)
Install drivers for audio interface, Steam and GoG Galaxy.

Next step (probably tomorrow now) will be to swap the GPU's over again, and I might be finally able to play my games again.

Then I'll have to continue my childproofing/cable routing.

[philby]

lolmac

[1AZRAEL1]

GOG is great, so much fun stuff there

GOG is great indeed. I have a number of games from there. Some of the old games have more replayability than most new games

[prjkt]

I did just reinstall Deus Ex

[DELTAprime]

Interesting, I've been playing the GoG version using a GTX 960 with no issues, and it's basically the same architecture.
GoG do tend to work on games to make them more compatible with modern systems a little bit better than Steam does.


I've recently had to re-install windows since my previous install shat itself in epic proportions, not a single restore/reset option would work.

And due to my system being a Mac Pro, it was a rather convoluted process.

Remove GTX960, replace old GPU to access EFI/boot menu as the 960 isn't properly supported.
Backup documents/steam folders.
Straight install of Windows 10. Oops, no valid serial for Win10 (I'd upgraded from Win 7 originally) and Apple don't support Windows 10 on my machine (not a major issue, just a pain with dual booting configs without the Apple software).
Install Win 7 Ultimate I'd burnt the iso for. Oops, serial number is for Pro
Install Win 7 Pro.
Install Apple's Bootcamp software.
Reboot.
Activate Windows.
Serial not valid for activation.
Call 1300 number to activate.
Install Windows 10 (finally)
Install drivers for audio interface, Steam and GoG Galaxy.

Next step (probably tomorrow now) will be to swap the GPU's over again, and I might be finally able to play my games again.

Then I'll have to continue my childproofing/cable routing.

Your adding in some extra steps there. First you can jump straight from Windows to OSX through the Bootcamp settings in Windows, no need to swap cards to see the UEFI. Second you DO NOT have to reinstall Windows 7 to install Windows 10. Microsoft updated Windows 10 so that it accepts Windows 7 and 8 keys as activation for Windows 10.

Starting with the November update, Windows 10 (Version 1511) can be activated using some Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 product keys. For more info, see the section Activating Windows 10 (Version 1511 or higher) using a Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1 product key in this topic.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows-10/activation-in-windows-10

[lancalot]

For all you VR early adopter.... !!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbOLCdc6aeg



:D:D:D

[prjkt]

Your adding in some extra steps there. First you can jump straight from Windows to OSX through the Bootcamp settings in Windows, no need to swap cards to see the UEFI. Second you DO NOT have to reinstall Windows 7 to install Windows 10. Microsoft updated Windows 10 so that it accepts Windows 7 and 8 keys as activation for Windows 10.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows-10/activation-in-windows-10

Bootcamp software won't install directly on Windows 10, doesn't support Win10 on my machine (trust me, I tried) - that means I'd have no boot into Mac option, requiring a UEFI compatible GPU to access the boot menu upon reboot, hence the install Win 7, Bootcamp, Win 10 procedure.

I really do make things hard for myself.

As for the serial key thing, I guess I hadn't run the latest updates at that stage.

[DELTAprime]

Ok so I see here (https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT204990) that Apple doesn't support Windows 10 on any Mac Pro other than the trashcan Mac Pro.

I used to have a Mac Pro also and used it for Windows gaming. When a new version of Windows came out I would have to install the Apple software by running the installer manually via the CMD. There is a hardware version check built into Apple's app you are meant to run, but the actual work is done by a secondary app, I believe it's a .msi app. If you run that .msi via the CMD you will be able to install drivers in an unsupported version of Windows.

But really I would recommend you give up using a cheesegrater Mac Pro. The last hardware rev before the trashcan was released in 2010 with a minor speed bump in 2012. A cheap gaming PC like this one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2L1-k9Z3uI) will be much faster than a 6 year old (or more) Mac Pro. Apple has abandoned real gamers in favor of iPhone gamers. Much as I love their products I do not recommend their hardware for any gaming.

[prjkt]

Agreed, though I don't game enough to warrant an entirely new machine, and this Mac is my main photo processing workstation in OS X so I can't really replace it completely yet. For a machine released in 2008 it's handled anything I can throw at it with only a few small upgrades along the way.

[DELTAprime]

Just got an interesting email from Oculus.


Hi Nik,

We know you're anxious to receive your Oculus Rift and apologize for not updating your order status sooner. We've been working through an unexpected component shortage, and unfortunately, that issue has impacted the original shipping estimates for some early customers.

We're working hard to get up-to-date ship windows, and you should expect to see your order status updated on oculus.com by Tuesday, April 12. Although many Rifts will be arriving on schedule and in line with original estimates, we'll be covering shipping and handling costs for all orders placed through today.

We're shipping rifts everyday. Don't hesitate to reach out to the Oculus support team if you have additional questions.



The Oculus Team


Need Help? Oculus Support Center
Oculus VR Ireland Limited

So I'm guessing that I will get my Rift even later than June, but I won't have to pay the stupidly high shipping charge. So good and bad news???

[DarkHyren]

Reminder for the Pokemon players, April see's the mythical Pokemon Jirachi available to download through mystery gift (no code needed).
Limit one per save file blah blah you know the drill.

Unfortunately next months mythical, Darkrai, will be using the code system so it will be another desperate rush to all the ebgames stores to try and get one before the scalpers do. sigh

[i_amtrunks]

Reminder for the Pokemon players, April see's the mythical Pokemon Jirachi available to download through mystery gift (no code needed).
Limit one per save file blah blah you know the drill.

Unfortunately next months mythical, Darkrai, will be using the code system so it will be another desperate rush to all the ebgames stores to try and get one before the scalpers do. sigh

EB never have them anyway, they arrive late then mysteriously disappear... :rolleyes:

[kup]

EB never have them anyway, they arrive late then mysteriously disappear... :rolleyes:

Staff gets the first pickings.

A couple of years back, when they were selling Wii Us really cheap, staff got them before they even reached the shelves as they had limited numbers.

[1AZRAEL1]

Staff gets the first pickings.

A couple of years back, when they were selling Wii Us really cheap, staff got them before they even reached the shelves as they had limited numbers.

Which can be dodgy because some will on sell them for more

[1AZRAEL1]

Just found about $100 worth of games I wanna buy off Good Old Games. Alot of old school games that were, and still are, really fun to play. I will buy a few in the morning. A few Lucasarts games (Dig, Outlaws, Day Of The Tentacle, old Star Wars games too)

[CBratron]

Just found about $100 worth of games I wanna buy off Good Old Games. Alot of old school games that were, and still are, really fun to play. I will buy a few in the morning. A few Lucasarts games (Dig, Outlaws, Day Of The Tentacle, old Star Wars games too)

Abandonia.com archives an extensive range of old titles. If it's an old gem and the license hasn't been picked up they probably have it. And if they don't they can point to where you can buy it.

[DarkHyren]

Another bit of Pokemon info I just found, if you missed the Hoopa event (which was easy to do as it was another code card event) from now till the 30th of April you can get a Hoopa through mystery gift by entering the code HOOPA2016
This is a global code so it will work as many times as you like, though only once per save file

[philby]

EA's Origin store has some games on sale, I bought SW: Battlefront at half price. 36gb download lol


Just found about $100 worth of games I wanna buy off Good Old Games. Alot of old school games that were, and still are, really fun to play. I will buy a few in the morning. A few Lucasarts games (Dig, Outlaws, Day Of The Tentacle, old Star Wars games too)

nice one :D

[DELTAprime]

Anyone have any suggestions for spending $500 at EB Games without buying a disk or consoles?

[i_amtrunks]

50 pop vinyls

[BruiseLee]

Anyone have any suggestions for spending $500 at EB Games without buying a disk or consoles?

$500 of World of Warcraft game time :p

[BruiseLee]

Just found about $100 worth of games I wanna buy off Good Old Games. Alot of old school games that were, and still are, really fun to play. I will buy a few in the morning. A few Lucasarts games (Dig, Outlaws, Day Of The Tentacle, old Star Wars games too)

Ah, the Lucasarts point and click adventures were my favourites! Also recommend picking these up if you haven't tried them and if they are a decent price:

Secret of Monkey Island series
Full Throttle
Sam & Max
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

[Gutsman Heavy]

Anyone have any suggestions for spending $500 at EB Games without buying a disk or consoles?

steam credit

[DELTAprime]

steam credit

Great idea, I ended up doing that.

[Gutsman Heavy]

Great idea, I ended up doing that.

Feel free to gift me Dark Souls III Mr. Moneybags. But seriously I can't believe how high the system requirements are for DSIII it doesn't look like a massive visual upgrade. Guess I'll retire my 670 when the new series comes out.

[DELTAprime]

I think graphics are never From's strong point. Bloodborn might be a great game but the graphics look crappy for a PS4 game.

[kurdt_the_goat]

I've got to give Bloodborne another shot. I started playing late one night and by about 3am i still hadn't finished the first level lol. Each time i restarted my patience was going down and down which only made it worse. I think the art direction is good but i came to it after playing MGSV, so the slower frame rate was quite noticeable.

Have had some luck at the bargain bin recently, picking up Blazblue Continuum Shift Extend and Metal Gear Rising for 100Y each, both on PS3. Blazblue i already have on PS Vita (as well as a newer version) but for that price, couldn't resist. MGR I have wanted to try for a while.. will have to wait though, i just finished Devil May Cry 1 and starting 2 on the HD collection that i picked up last week. Probably my affinity for these kind of games is why i suck at Bloodborne :o

[philby]

Devastation is 50% off on Steam right now.


Feel free to gift me Dark Souls III Mr. Moneybags. But seriously I can't believe how high the system requirements are for DSIII it doesn't look like a massive visual upgrade. Guess I'll retire my 670 when the new series comes out.

i'm assuming it's poorly optimised console port, but i've never played any of them.

[DELTAprime]

i'm assuming it's poorly optimised console port, but i've never played any of them.

"Poorly optimised" is one way to put it. Giant Bomb had the PC version crash the PC on every PC they tried it on when they walked up to the first Bonfire (save point). They reported it to the devs but they didn't fix it for launch and there is now a very long thread on the Steam forums about it.

[Gutsman Heavy]

"Poorly optimised" is one way to put it. Giant Bomb had the PC version crash the PC on every PC they tried it on when they walked up to the first Bonfire (save point). They reported it to the devs but they didn't fix it for launch and there is now a very long thread on the Steam forums about it.

Shame since DSII had a great PC version (other than the 60fps durability bug that took ages to fix)

[philby]

"Poorly optimised" is one way to put it. Giant Bomb had the PC version crash the PC on every PC they tried it on when they walked up to the first Bonfire (save point). They reported it to the devs but they didn't fix it for launch and there is now a very long thread on the Steam forums about it.

nice haha
I bought Devastation. Game starts windowed, no option for 1440p, graphics options are presets only, no mouse in the main menu, good job.

[DELTAprime]

I get the feeling XCOM 2 is never going to be fixed. It's still has as many annoying delays in loading and between moves as it did day one. Zip mode doesn't help, it just speeds up the animation.

[philby]

I get the feeling XCOM 2 is never going to be fixed. It's still has as many annoying delays in loading and between moves as it did day one. Zip mode doesn't help, it just speeds up the animation.

oh really? damn. i haven't bought it yet. what are your specs? none of the patches did anything?

[DELTAprime]

oh really? damn. i haven't bought it yet. what are your specs? none of the patches did anything?

Intel 6600k, Nvidia 970, Samsung 950 Pro, 16gb DDR4, Windows 10 Pro. Unless there is an odd comparability with one of my parts hardware is not the issue.

[1AZRAEL1]

Ah, the Lucasarts point and click adventures were my favourites! Also recommend picking these up if you haven't tried them and if they are a decent price:

Secret of Monkey Island series
Full Throttle
Sam & Max
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

Funny you should mention those hahah. Classics. Have the first 2 Monkey Island games Special Edition, work great. Couldn't get my cdrom of Curse to work as it was scratched :( My cdrom of Full Throttle still works on Windows 8 so I'm set there heh. Sam and Max is always one of my favourites, Hit The Road still works too, and the new ones by TellTale were great. Indy games are fairly cheap too, gotta pick them up

[philby]

Intel 6600k, Nvidia 970, Samsung 950 Pro, 16gb DDR4, Windows 10 Pro. Unless there is an odd comparability with one of my parts hardware is not the issue.

Ah damn that sucks...hopefully when I get it some of the issues will have been fixed...have you checked other forums and reddit etc for any tips?


Funny you should mention those hahah. Classics. Have the first 2 Monkey Island games Special Edition, work great. Couldn't get my cdrom of Curse to work as it was scratched :( My cdrom of Full Throttle still works on Windows 8 so I'm set there heh. Sam and Max is always one of my favourites, Hit The Road still works too, and the new ones by TellTale were great. Indy games are fairly cheap too, gotta pick them up

cool! i loooved Full Throttle when I was young :)

[BigTransformerTrev]

Oh yes! Oh yes yes freakin yes!

They have finally released DOAX3!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7pgXZshj4E

Apparently this is only getting an asia release because some US prudes dont like it (typical, you can rip someones spine out or have completely topless girls in GTA as long as you kill them and steal their car, but girls playing volleyball is apparently offensive :rolleyes::mad:) so I am wondering before I run out and buy a PS4 if games from asia will play on an Australian console. Does anyone know?

[christalcase]

Oh yes! Oh yes yes freakin yes!

They have finally released DOAX3!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7pgXZshj4E

Apparently this is only getting an asia release because some US prudes dont like it (typical, you can rip someones spine out or have completely topless girls in GTA as long as you kill them and steal their car, but girls playing volleyball is apparently offensive :rolleyes::mad:) so I am wondering before I run out and buy a PS4 if games from asia will play on an Australian console. Does anyone know?

Yes it will, all PS4 games are region free. Just cannot buy DLC unless it's from the Asian PS Store.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Yes it will, all PS4 games are region free. Just cannot buy DLC unless it's from the Asian PS Store.

Cheers for that mate :)

(Given the reviews of the game, I may hold off a while yet though until PS4's drop that bit more in price)

[G1Optimal]

Spec rumours of the ps4.5 or codename neo



http://au.ign.com/articles/2016/04/19/rumor-playstation-45-codenamed-neo-specs-revealed

[DELTAprime]

Trev, I loved the first DOA Xtreme Beach Volleyball, still a great sports game. The second one was ruined by minigames and other BS between the volleyball matches, I just want to play Volleyball.

This new one tho seems to have little to do with Volleyball and more to do with just being creepy. Having the girls including Marie Rose who looks like a tween and not an adult do striptease really makes me think the target audience for this game is perverts and not guys that like a sports game with a little eye candy. Also apparently the amount of new content compared to recycled content is disappointing for a full priced game.

I was going to order it from Play Asia but the actual criticism of it and not the sensationalist criticism of it really put me off. If they made a pure Volleyball game with the DOA girls I'd be all over it, but this isn't it.

[DELTAprime]

Spec rumours of the ps4.5 or codename neo

There's an FCC listing for a new piece of hardware from an applicant that happens to be using the Xbox teams FCC ID number and it's under NDA at the FCC till Microsoft's press briefing at E3. I bet new consoles coming from both companies this Christmas. I am disappointed to see Sony is using the AMD Jaguar architecture again instead of AMD's new Zen architecture that's going to be out by the end of the year. I guess I should go to EB Games and preorder tomorrow. With the current consoles that they released 3 years ago EB Games had them in the computer months before E3.

[G1Optimal]

There's an FCC listing for a new piece of hardware from an applicant that happens to be using the Xbox teams FCC ID number and it's under NDA at the FCC till Microsoft's press briefing at E3. I bet new consoles coming from both companies this Christmas. I am disappointed to see Sony is using the AMD Jaguar architecture again instead of AMD's new Zen architecture that's going to be out by the end of the year. I guess I should go to EB Games and preorder tomorrow. With the current consoles that they released 3 years ago EB Games had them in the computer months before E3.


It just a guess but the upgraded system is probably for psvr

[kurdt_the_goat]

Trev, I loved the first DOA Xtreme Beach Volleyball, still a great sports game. The second one was ruined by minigames and other BS between the volleyball matches, I just want to play Volleyball.

Do yourself a favour and track down Beach Spikers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Spikers)!
Girls are still pretty hot but mostly volleyball :)

http://i.imgur.com/YuHePdA.png

[BigTransformerTrev]

Trev, I loved the first DOA Xtreme Beach Volleyball, still a great sports game. The second one was ruined by minigames and other BS between the volleyball matches, I just want to play Volleyball.

This new one tho seems to have little to do with Volleyball and more to do with just being creepy. Having the girls including Marie Rose who looks like a tween and not an adult do striptease really makes me think the target audience for this game is perverts and not guys that like a sports game with a little eye candy. Also apparently the amount of new content compared to recycled content is disappointing for a full priced game.

I was going to order it from Play Asia but the actual criticism of it and not the sensationalist criticism of it really put me off. If they made a pure Volleyball game with the DOA girls I'd be all over it, but this isn't it.

Yeah I loved the first game as well. It was a perfect wind-down game and since you could have your own music playing in the game (if you had uploaded it to your Xbox) I would just sit in the beanbag for hours casually playing and listening to some upbeat jams. :)

I never bothered with the second one as I didn't buy an Xbox360 (went the PS3 route for WFC) and apparently the boobs independently jiggling made you seasick :rolleyes::p

The more I read about this new game the more dissapointed Im feeling. Apparently the volleyball itself sucks and yeah - I'm totally not keen on them having a tween character like Marie Rose in it. Thats ok for the perverts I guess, but if you perfer your DOAX characters to be actual women (and of the.. ahem... full figured upstairs persuasion) its an odd inclusion. Im digging the other new character though, Honoka - she looks awesome! :D

But it's all a moot point at the moment because I cant afford a PS4 anyway :o


Do yourself a favour and track down Beach Spikers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Spikers)!
Girls are still pretty hot but mostly volleyball :)



But... but... where are the photo shoots? And those girls look like they are playing in suitable attire for the sport - thats not what I'm after at all! :p

[kup]

Oh yes! Oh yes yes freakin yes!

They have finally released DOAX3!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7pgXZshj4E

Apparently this is only getting an asia release because some US prudes dont like it (typical, you can rip someones spine out or have completely topless girls in GTA as long as you kill them and steal their car, but girls playing volleyball is apparently offensive :rolleyes::mad:) so I am wondering before I run out and buy a PS4 if games from asia will play on an Australian console. Does anyone know?

If it's Japanese, it won't play on a consoles as they are US region locked. However if on a PS3/4, I believe it's region free when it comes to games.

Also the games were always made for pervs, let's be honest here ;)

[kurdt_the_goat]

For the current gen, only Wii U & 3DS are region locked. DOAX3 is for PS Vita and PS4, so you're good to go. If you buy the Asia version it has English text too, Play-Asia has it here http://www.play-asia.com/search/Dead+or+Alive+Xtreme+3

The only thing is, if you want to get any of the paid DLC, you need to be logged into a PSN account for the region the game is from. You can still download patches regardless of what region PSN account you're using.

On PS4, you can setup different profiles to use different region PSN accounts easily. On PS Vita it's possible but too much hassle, you have to do a format each time you switch.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Oh yes! Oh yes yes freakin yes!

They have finally released DOAX3!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7pgXZshj4E


I remember the days when DOA was about fighting.

and bouncing boobs.

But seriously, the first DOA had a great counter mechanic at the time! Even DOA 2 was nice.

[DELTAprime]

And on region locking Xbox 360 had optional region locking for the developers to implement. Mostly for licencing and region restrictions. There are tons of 360 disk that are region free tho. But the Xbox One is not only region free for disk but you can easily buy digital games from other regions with very little effort. I have several indie games that have never been released here (thank you Aussie government for insisting all games have to be submitted for ratings and only enforcing it on Xbox) that I bought digitally over Xbox Live.

As for DOA fighting games, I love fighting games and this generation I have put many more hours into DOA5LR than MKX or SFV. I found MKX is great but it grew old fast. SFV has some major issues still (patch it Capcom!). But DOA5LR despite being an uprezed verson of a 360 game I played some time ago has stuck with me because the combat is really fun and I feel that even tho I can't pull of their more insane moves I can still do well at it.

[DELTAprime]

I'm persevering with XCOM 2. It is a great game in spite of the loading/pauses. I'm actually using a mod that stops the AVATAR Projects clock from ticking upward so I can fly around the world and do random missions without worrying about the time constraint that's a normal part of the game.

[DELTAprime]

There's a Nintendo Humble Bundle going on right now and this time it's available outside the US.

https://www.humblebundle.com/friends-of-nintendo-3ds-wiiu

[philby]

I'm persevering with XCOM 2. It is a great game in spite of the loading/pauses. I'm actually using a mod that stops the AVATAR Projects clock from ticking upward so I can fly around the world and do random missions without worrying about the time constraint that's a normal part of the game.

I'm doing alright in a classic/ironman game on XCOM 1. How are you finding that mod? The ticking clock seems to be a big part of the new game.

[kup]

There's a Nintendo Humble Bundle going on right now and this time it's available outside the US.

https://www.humblebundle.com/friends-of-nintendo-3ds-wiiu

Awesome! Thanks for the news! :)

[DELTAprime]

I'm doing alright in a classic/ironman game on XCOM 1. How are you finding that mod? The ticking clock seems to be a big part of the new game.

I'm at the end of the campaign and I just want the game to continue. I have every upgrade for my team and they are all Colonels because they have the best tech to keep them alive. I just want the game to continue so I can do missions with my guys because IF you can get a team of all high level operatives with the best upgrades it really becomes a different game where you are not stressed that you might loose people you care about and instead you are going to have a bit of fun flanking some aliens.

Note that I only played on easy. I didn't want to stress out too much over a game, but even easy is freaking hard.

[Kazza]

For all the Pokemon players, Zygarde is available to download over wi-fi for free in X, Y and ORAS. Also be sure to attend your local eb games to get your Darkrai code between 1st-24th of May.

[DELTAprime]

So, this years Call of Duty? Good or bad so far?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeF3UTkCoxY

[DELTAprime]

EA is giving away a BF4 expansion and a BFH expansion for free. Polygon has the details for those of you that want them. http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/3/11584132/battlefield-4-hardline-dlc-free

[DELTAprime]

So funny thing with XCOM 2, after a format and reinstall it's running better, not perfect, but better.

I'm mostly playing Overwatch at the moment, anyone else playing it? If anyone wants to add me on Blizzard's social network to play Overwatch, D3 or WoW when I'm subed my username for Blizzard is Dreden#1177. I refuse to believe that there are 1176 other people that go by Dréden in WoW.:p

[BruiseLee]

TF Devastations is on sale at Big W for $25.

[Facepunches]

The Overwatch beta is in full swing. Playing on PS4, you can dl it for free from psn. Hit me up for a game if you see me online. PSN name... Facepunches (creative I know right).

[DELTAprime]

Preordered two games last night. Uncharted 4 on PS4 and Stellaris on Steam.

I'll give my impressions on Stellaris on Monday if it unlocks at 12:01am on Monday. As someone that loves the Civ games but have never quite found a 4X game in space that I liked I'm hopeful this one will be the one. If it isn't, Steam return policy FTW.

[ILikeSoundwave]

Battlefield 1 looks incredible!!!

[Fungal Infection]

Need some advice from anyone with a custom built arcade cabinet. Look to build one myself but not sure what I'm going to use as my base - PCB board, pc or raspberry PI. Anyone have any experience, suggestions as to what they consider to be the best option or why I shouldn't use one over the other. Which front end/software to use etc.. , any info would be appreciated.

[DELTAprime]

PC gives you more options on what you can play on it because Windows runs more emulators than anything else and it has a ton more power than a Pi. But of course a Pi uses far less power and therefore cooling is not an issue. If you go PC I suggest Mameui for Arcade games, if you want more recommended emulators for other platforms let me know.

[DELTAprime]

Disney Infinity is no more. :(

http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/10/11652866/disney-infinity-ending

[Golden Phoenix]

Disney Infinity is no more. :(

http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/10/11652866/disney-infinity-ending

I hope this means they will let Lego put some Star Wars and Marvel stuff into Lego Dimensions.

[i_amtrunks]

Disney Infinity is no more. :(

http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/10/11652866/disney-infinity-ending

Not too disappointed, the first one was brilliant, but the Marvel series was garbage and the Star Wars one had no replayability. Not being able to use whoever, whenever was the killer.

Wonder if this will improve sales for Dimension and Skylanders, or if they're next?

[DELTAprime]

Not too disappointed, the first one was brilliant, but the Marvel series was garbage and the Star Wars one had no replayability. Not being able to use whoever, whenever was the killer.

Wonder if this will improve sales for Dimension and Skylanders, or if they're next?

News of this broke just before the Giant Bombcast was done recording this weeks episode. Jeff Gerstmann said that when Lego Dimensions entered the market last year the revenue of the Toys To Life market didn't expand, it just shrank the share of the market that Skylanders, Disney Infinity and Nintendo Amiibo had. Might have been room for Skylanders and Infinity but not for Amiibo and Lego also, someone had to loose.

I wonder if we will see a new Skylanders at E3 and if Nintendo will continue the Amiibo with the NX. At work I sell far more Infinity figures than any other Toys To Life stuff, but really sales of all of them have plummeted off a cliff.

[prjkt]

Picked up my Doom preorder today from EB Games, anyone else with the game want the Multiplayer "Demon" Pack? (Demon themed armour, six metallic paints, three ID logo patterns and six hack modules)

First to PM me gets the Steam key as I don't play multiplayer much at all

[CHILENO20]

Just clocked Uncharted 4. Man that was awesome!!!!! Love the series!!! :D:D:D

[DELTAprime]

Picked up my Doom preorder today from EB Games, anyone else with the game want the Multiplayer "Demon" Pack? (Demon themed armour, six metallic paints, three ID logo patterns and six hack modules)

First to PM me gets the Steam key as I don't play multiplayer much at all

Hope you price matched to Big W. We had the game (till it sold out) for $59, I paid $56 for it with staff discount so I really wasn't expecting anything great going into the game because if a brand new $100 game can be had for $56 how good can it be??? But I was really happy with the games campaign, it feels great killing Demons leaping around.

For those of you that have a gaming PC you might be surprised that it can get great frame rates at high settings without having a Titan X. I have a GTX 970 and I'm getting 60fps with dips to 55fps on Ultra settings at 1440p.

[Hursticon]

For those of you that have a gaming PC you might be surprised that it can get great frame rates at high settings without having a Titan X. I have a GTX 970 and I'm getting 60fps with dips to 55fps on Ultra settings at 1440p.

Truth!

I'm only running it on 1080p, but it's otherwise maxed on my GTX970 and it runs like a dream! :cool:
(Given this game, and Carmageddon, was my justification for a new PC last year I'm feeling pretty pleased! :D)

[Mythirax]

I hope this means they will let Lego put some Star Wars and Marvel stuff into Lego Dimensions.

Exactly what I'm hoping for!

[Golden Phoenix]

Exactly what I'm hoping for!

It is also exactly what my wallet fears :p

[DELTAprime]

Need some advice from anyone with a custom built arcade cabinet. Look to build one myself but not sure what I'm going to use as my base - PCB board, pc or raspberry PI. Anyone have any experience, suggestions as to what they consider to be the best option or why I shouldn't use one over the other. Which front end/software to use etc.. , any info would be appreciated.

Check this out there's a segment on Pi gaming is part way through the show.

https://twit.tv/shows/new-screen-savers/episodes/53?autostart=false

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Is there a GOTY version of Arkham Knight kicking around yet? that'll be the catalyst for me moving to the PS4 Methinks
And Uncharted 4....:p

[Gutsman Heavy]

Is there a GOTY version of Arkham Knight kicking around yet? that'll be the catalyst for me moving to the PS4 Methinks
And Uncharted 4....:p

Not yet. Bafflingly they are releasing Asylum & City on Ps4 though

[Fungal Infection]

Check this out there's a segment on Pi gaming is part way through the show.

https://twit.tv/shows/new-screen-savers/episodes/53?autostart=false

You know, I actually watched most of the show, and not just the raspberry pi segment - these guys are actually rather entertaining!! :)

[DELTAprime]

I know it's a long shot but does anyone here either have a contact they could ask or just straight up knows when the GTX 1080 is going on sale globally (as in preortder not the release date)? I really want one for my gaming PC and Oculus Rift but when I ask the big Aussie PC parts stores they tell me they don't know when I'll be able to order one. Since it is expected to be in short supply I really want to make my preorder as soon as it goes on sale.

[TAAUBlaster]

I know it's a long shot but does anyone here either have a contact they could ask or just straight up knows when the GTX 1080 is going on sale globally (as in preortder not the release date)? I really want one for my gaming PC and Oculus Rift but when I ask the big Aussie PC parts stores they tell me they don't know when I'll be able to order one. Since it is expected to be in short supply I really want to make my preorder as soon as it goes on sale.

It sounds like NVIDA has a lot of embargos on this card at the moment (price, pre-order date, etc.) Kotaku are speculating that pre-orders and prices will probably be known by the end of next week.

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/05/and-the-first-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-price-is-a-lot/

[philby]

I thought I read may 27 somewhere...that might have just been embargo date or something though...

**edit
this article suggests may 27 as release date for 1080 and later in june for 1070:
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/new-product/pc-components/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-gtx-1070-release-date-price-specs-new-confirm-3639751/

I've had a 980ti for about 12 months or so and I love it so I don't think it needs replacing just yet, although the "ooh shiny and new and fastest" aspect of the 1080 is tempting hehe.

[DELTAprime]

Yeah it's going to ship on the 27th, but they still haven't said when orders go live other than some vagueness that there will be preorders. Looks like I'm going to be going with importing one from Amazon. PCCG accidentally listed one momentarily (Founders Edition) and the AU price is $1300AU. The US price is $700US by comparison. So I'm estimating $250 to $300AU savings by buying from Amazon. Great job Australian retail!

[DELTAprime]

I'm waiting for confirmation from Silverstone but it looks like my small form factor case doesn't need a blower GPU and instead works best with fan based coolers. That should lower the price of my 1080 a lot since I won't have to use a Founders Edition. Now if somebody would hurry up and announce their non-reference design that would be great because I need new shiny!

[Gutsman Heavy]

I'm waiting for confirmation from Silverstone but it looks like my small form factor case doesn't need a blower GPU and instead works best with fan based coolers. That should lower the price of my 1080 a lot since I won't have to use a Founders Edition. Now if somebody would hurry up and announce their non-reference design that would be great because I need new shiny!

I hear ya man, I'm hanging for details on the 1070, my 670 is getting on a bit

[kup]

I'm waiting for confirmation from Silverstone but it looks like my small form factor case doesn't need a blower GPU and instead works best with fan based coolers. That should lower the price of my 1080 a lot since I won't have to use a Founders Edition. Now if somebody would hurry up and announce their non-reference design that would be great because I need new shiny!

I have a small form factor Silverstone case and it is like the best case I ever bought. Fits most full sized Graphics cards, two 3.5" HDD drives and a DVD/Bluray drive. Cooling is awesome as all air vents out through the sides and since it's small factor, you can place it anywhere as long as the sides are not obstructed which is easy to do due to small size.

[DELTAprime]

I've been busy in the last 24 hours buying PC games I already own on other platforms. Origin versions of Star Wars Battlefront, Battlefield 4 and Steam version of GTA V which is currently 33% off. Those games should be useful for benching my system.

[DELTAprime]

Anyone have any thoughts on the quality of the Lego games on PC? I normally buy them Xbox, but I'm thinking about getting Lego SW TFA on Steam instead of Xbox.

[philby]

Yay, Blood and Wine expansion for Witcher 3 is here. Loving it. Also decided to get back into Star Wars: The Old Republic.

[Gutsman Heavy]

Anyone have any thoughts on the quality of the Lego games on PC? I normally buy them Xbox, but I'm thinking about getting Lego SW TFA on Steam instead of Xbox.

Super basic ports but they do run at 60fps and often go on sale for super cheap, go for it.

[1AZRAEL1]

I know I'm late to it, but Wolfenstein New Order is a great game, with alot of fun and nostalgia nods to longtime fans. Ending was quite a downer, but great story. The concept that the Nazis win WW2 is always fascinating to me. Currently playing through on a bonus mode I unlocked, will have to play through on Über difficulty next.

[Gutsman Heavy]

I know I'm late to it, but Wolfenstein New Order is a great game, with alot of fun and nostalgia nods to longtime fans. Ending was quite a downer, but great story. The concept that the Nazis win WW2 is always fascinating to me. Currently playing through on a bonus mode I unlocked, will have to play through on Über difficulty next.

Great game, the expansion left me a little cold though. Hope DOOM 4 is as good.

[DELTAprime]

I know I'm late to it, but Wolfenstein New Order is a great game, with alot of fun and nostalgia nods to longtime fans. Ending was quite a downer, but great story. The concept that the Nazis win WW2 is always fascinating to me. Currently playing through on a bonus mode I unlocked, will have to play through on Über difficulty next.

Both New Order and New Blood are sitting on my Xbox One hard drive and I've never played them. My digital pile of shame is out of control, at least I've gotten through most of my physical pile of shame.

[philby]

I went through New Order not too long ago and was pleasantly surprised. I don't know if I can be bothered going through again to find all the bonuses right now though.

[DaptoDog]

Picked up Overwatch for PS4 yesterday. Haven't gotten to play it yet but from everything I've read it's meant to be fantastic.

[kurdt_the_goat]

Local game store Tsutaya in Japan is constantly restocking this 100Y/$1 bin with games!
So far i've picked up:


PS3 Metal Gear Rising Revengeance
PS3 Lost Planet 3
PS3 Dead or Alive 5
PS3 Super Street Fighter 4
PS3 Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale
PS3 The King of Fighters XII
PS3 Blazblue Continuum Shift Extend
Batman Arkham Asylum
PSVita Freedom Wars


It's old stuff to be sure (and half of them i just bought for the sake of having other versions of shit i already have... lol), but damn, at 100Y each, what a steal.
They've got me going back every day to see if something new is in there!

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Was looking for a cheap Ps3 game, just for giggles and picked up the new Strider game on a whim (well, slightly... I do love the first Strider) and damn I am loving it. Nice references to the earlier games, incredibly fast gameplay and wonderful platforming challenges. there are some funny bits though. In one section, I had to climb a wall with a moving saw on it, yet in the background, there was an unreachable flight of stairs that led exactly to where I wanted to go!

Having a blast. I really miss awesome side scrolling platformers.

Speaking of which, I also managed to find Rayman for my Saturn as well. That's an infuriating beast, but I haven't yet gotten to the point of frustration. Sure, it's hard, but you can always see the way through, you just have to practice. About my only complaint would be that sometimes the only way through is through memory.

[kurdt_the_goat]

I've never actually played the original Rayman, that too was on my list for Saturn one day. It looks like it'd be hard because it's so zoomed in?

A good(relatively speaking!) platformer along those lines from that era was Gex... at least i remember it being kinda funny with lots of pop-culture one-liners!

I'll tell you what i'd like to try though... Quake on Saturn! After watching this retro analysis by Digital Foundry (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUZ436FXB4U)
Did you have that in your bunch of PAL games Tets, i can't recall.

The other week i did find Doom 64, and apart from making my eyes bleed after a few levels...:eek: it's very well designed!

[1AZRAEL1]

Great game, the expansion left me a little cold though. Hope DOOM 4 is as good.

The ending for New Order left me cold lol. Yet to play the expansion yet. Doom, I can't play yet because my laptop is crap/just shat itself, and my wife's pc isn't good enough to run it lol


Both New Order and New Blood are sitting on my Xbox One hard drive and I've never played them. My digital pile of shame is out of control, at least I've gotten through most of my physical pile of shame.

I keep buying games from GOG when they are in discount, i have alot to play. And my laptop dead atm doesn't help


I went through New Order not too long ago and was pleasantly surprised. I don't know if I can be bothered going through again to find all the bonuses right now though.

It was great, I'm flying through it on the second attempt because of infinite ammo. Makes using the rockets and grenades alot of fun with explosions haha

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I've never actually played the original Rayman, that too was on my list for Saturn one day. It looks like it'd be hard because it's so zoomed in?

A good(relatively speaking!) platformer along those lines from that era was Gex... at least i remember it being kinda funny with lots of pop-culture one-liners!

I'll tell you what i'd like to try though... Quake on Saturn! After watching this retro analysis by Digital Foundry (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUZ436FXB4U)
Did you have that in your bunch of PAL games Tets, i can't recall.

The other week i did find Doom 64, and apart from making my eyes bleed after a few levels...:eek: it's very well designed!
The 2d Gex was Ok, I liked the game mechanics of him sticking to the walls and stuff. The one liners got a bit tiresome, iirc. Man that takes me back, I had that on the Ps1 ages ago. The 3d ones were ok and I found them rather interesting for the time, but I think they probably suffer the "early polygon platforming" issues if played now.

As for Quake, I did have it, and it was super impressive for the Saturn, but in a moment of um, something related to insanity, I sold it. Sad, I know. Rayman's big sprites and zoomed in look is OK as most of the time you can take the game at your own pace.

I was game hinting the other day and bumped into a game called Nanatsukaze no shima (http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/nanatsukaze/nanatsukaze.htm) (7 Winds Island's Story). While the back of the box doesn't look like much, its got some very impressive sprites and is incredibly charming. Also all Japanese, which is making life interesting. I do need the practice reading though, so that's a good thing. One of those chill games that while you play, you actually relax.
The only other game that has had that effect on me would have to be Flower.

I dig Duke nukem, which appears to be the one Saturn game I've never seen in Japan. I wonder if it actually got released?

[Jaxius._]

Was browsing through free games and i found a game called Warframe. 3 weeks later and i am loving it! Recommend it to anyone on a PC

[philby]

I know it's a long shot but does anyone here either have a contact they could ask or just straight up knows when the GTX 1080 is going on sale globally (as in preortder not the release date)? I really want one for my gaming PC and Oculus Rift but when I ask the big Aussie PC parts stores they tell me they don't know when I'll be able to order one. Since it is expected to be in short supply I really want to make my preorder as soon as it goes on sale.

did you get one?

[DELTAprime]

did you get one?

Still don't have one. I'm holding out for a good board partner card. I'm either going to get the EVGA GTX 1080 FTW because of EVGA's great customer service or the Asus GTX 1080 Strix OC because of it's ability to boost up to 2050mhz without an overclock. That said overclocking a video card is super easy so I'm sure I'll have the EVGA running over 2000mhz with little effort.

[1AZRAEL1]

For gamers of old FPS, GOG has Doom, Doom 2, Final Doom, all 3 Quakes, Wolfenstein 3D and SOD, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, all for about $25. I'll be buying them on Friday :D

[DELTAprime]

For gamers of old FPS, GOG has Doom, Doom 2, Final Doom, all 3 Quakes, Wolfenstein 3D and SOD, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, all for about $25. I'll be buying them on Friday :D

It might be a sign that I'm lazy or that all the various launchers are just overwhelming. Even tho I hate Valve as an entity I just prefer to buy my PC games on Steam and tend to skip GoG releases. It would be great to have my Uplay, Origin, Battle.net, GoG and Windows Store games all in Steam.

[DELTAprime]

Any of the day -1 announcements from E3 get anyone here excited? I was underwhelmed by most of it, tho Titanfall 2 looks cool and Dishonoured 2 looks great but not my type of game. Hopefully tomorrows announcements from Microsoft, Ubisoft and Sony will be more exciting.

On a personal level I bet Microsoft's will be good for me since their franchises really appeal to me, but there's going to be tons of crap thrown at them because they have up to 5 hardware related announcements to make and people seem to hate Microsoft hardware announcements.

For those not following the industry as close as me they are expected to announce an Xbox Chromecast competitor, an Xbox Apple TV competitor, an Xbox One slim, a next generation Xbox One currently codenamed Scorpio and possibly Xbox games (as in the actual Xbox version not a port) running on PC as part of Project Helix.

Sony has said they will not talk about the PS4 Neo so no new hardware from Sony other than the already announced PSVR so they will hopefully have tons of first party games coming this year because I was disappointed how few they released last year.

[Gutsman Heavy]

Any of the day -1 announcements from E3 get anyone here excited? I was underwhelmed by most of it, tho Titanfall 2 looks cool and Dishonoured 2 looks great but not my type of game. Hopefully tomorrows announcements from Microsoft, Ubisoft and Sony will be more exciting.

On a personal level I bet Microsoft's will be good for me since their franchises really appeal to me, but there's going to be tons of crap thrown at them because they have up to 5 hardware related announcements to make and people seem to hate Microsoft hardware announcements.

For those not following the industry as close as me they are expected to announce an Xbox Chromecast competitor, an Xbox Apple TV competitor, an Xbox One slim, a next generation Xbox One currently codenamed Scorpio and possibly Xbox games (as in the actual Xbox version not a port) running on PC as part of Project Helix.

Sony has said they will not talk about the PS4 Neo so no new hardware from Sony other than the already announced PSVR so they will hopefully have tons of first party games coming this year because I was disappointed how few they released last year.


Massive meh, the only thing I like so far is the Berserk Musou. Making a Prey game that isn't a sequel to the first really pisses me off.

[kurdt_the_goat]

I think this will be a pretty boring E3. Not even really excited for Zelda anymore. All i'm really looking forward to is a release date for Tekken 7.

Anyone else into fighters much? The King of Fighters XIV comes out in a few months and is shaping up pretty nicely. I whipped up a quick website with the characters' moves so i can reference them on mobile while playing instead of going into the menus: http://the-king-of-fighters-xiv.australian-postcodes.com/ Will have a new domain name for it soon, that's just one i had floating around doing nothing :o

[DELTAprime]

Well I'm rather happy with the Xbox press conference. The rumours were true that Forza Horizon 3 is set in Australia. We haven't seen the map yet but it has locations from Victoria to Queensland in it.

Gears 4, Halo Wars 2, Dead Rising 4 and Recore all look great to me.

As someone with a high end gaming PC but all my IRL friends are on Xbox it's great to see Xbox Play Anywhere coming together. Hopefully they can get all the 3rd parties onboard. I would by the Xbox Play Anywhere versions of PC games just because of my IRL friends being on Xbox.

Also I preordered the Xbox Scorpio, but I will cancel it if Xbox Play Anywhere gets 3rd parties onboard because gaming PC trumps console.

Also it didn't get announced but earlier today Xbox One and 360 digital games started showing up on people ready to install list on Windows 10 for a little while, so they may still be bringing Xbox game support for existing games to Windows 10.

[philby]

new south park game looks good and hilarious. dawn of war 3 alpha footage looks....interesting. new voice actor for the main character and change of art direction so far are definitely negatives for me but i like the gameplay style of moving closer to DoW1 type. I haven't bothered paying much attention to anything else.

I bought Starcraft Legacy of The Void today on sale at JB HiFi and got XCOM 2 on sale on Steam the other night too so some more games to add on to the pile.

[DELTAprime]

Am I the only one here that most (not all) of Sony's exclusives don't appeal to?

I feel like Gran Turismo is second rate to Forza and the various Codemasters racing games.

Killzone has always been just another brown coloured shooter to me.

Much as I love the stories for Naughty Dog's Uncharted and Last of Us I feel like the gun play is not as satisfying as other games and the movement doesn't feel fluid like Assassin's Creed.

Each God of War gets old for me after a couple of hours of gameplay of doing the same attack over and over.

The very Japanese stuff they have like Last Guardian, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus don't appeal to me either.

That said I do enjoy the better Ratchet and Clank games, I just wish they went for quality and not quantity with how many of them they make. Also I really love the 4 Infamous games. I actually bought my PS4 for the two PS4 Infamous games.

[Gutsman Heavy]

That new Zelda looks great :eek:

[Bato]

I defo need to buy a PS4 now :(

http://i.imgur.com/qCX4fX5.jpg

[Mythirax]

I defo need to buy a PS4 now :(

Haha, you got the game before the console?

[1AZRAEL1]

Haha, you got the game before the console?

I bought Arkham Asylum before I had a ps3. Took me about a year to get it hahah. If there is a game wanted, makes you go out and get the console eventually lol

[Mythirax]

I bought Arkham Asylum before I had a ps3. Took me about a year to get it hahah. If there is a game wanted, makes you go out and get the console eventually lol

Dahmn son. That would of killed me. I've never had a game before the console :D

[1AZRAEL1]

Dahmn son. That would of killed me. I've never had a game before the console :D

I wanted the special editiin with the batarang. Was totally worth the wait though haha

[Mythirax]

I wanted the special editiin with the batarang. Was totally worth the wait though haha

Oh for something like that, it makes sense.

[1AZRAEL1]

The game was totally awesome. The batarang though is kinda poxy lol. But looks nice on my shelves between the Batman chess pieces. I like to buy special editions of most games i love. Like Death's mask from Darksiders 2. Another great game I love revisiting.

[Bato]

Yeah, this one is the story book edition, the ones that comes with the artbook, litograph and tshirt.

I already had the ps2 version so I was quite excited since they announced the HD remaster :D

[Mythirax]

The game was totally awesome. The batarang though is kinda poxy lol. But looks nice on my shelves between the Batman chess pieces. I like to buy special editions of most games i love. Like Death's mask from Darksiders 2. Another great game I love revisiting.

Everything has been put into perspective. :D Now I'm going to waste more money :(

[DELTAprime]

Back when I was a teenager I bought PSX games before I had the console. I knew I was getting the console for Xmas so I bought games in the months leading up to it. I had about 5 games to play when I get the PSX.

[Paulbot]

I bought Arkham Asylum before I had a ps3. Took me about a year to get it hahah. If there is a game wanted, makes you go out and get the console eventually lol


Dahmn son. That would of killed me. I've never had a game before the console :D


Back when I was a teenager I bought PSX games before I had the console. I knew I was getting the console for Xmas so I bought games in the months leading up to it. I had about 5 games to play when I get the PSX.

I currently own three PS4 games (including the most recent Arkham game and the latest TF game) but do not have a PS4 :o

[1AZRAEL1]

I currently own three PS4 games (including the most recent Arkham game and the latest TF game) but do not have a PS4 :o

I bought the Batman PS4 to upgrade. Don't have alot of games on it yet, but E3 had some promising reveals. Don't feel bad, it can be an expensive purchase

[kurdt_the_goat]

I've got you all beat... Months before i left Aus, i bought 7 PS4 games ahead of buying the console once i got to Japan. None of them were the main reason i wanted one either (Street Fighter V, which wasn't out at the time). Also i'm yet to even play one of them since getting the machine (Dark Souls 2). I shouldn't be proud of this :o Oh and i also got an anniversary Dual shock 4 (a cool backup only, no one to play with) and Hori Joystick too!

[Paulbot]

At this point I'm waiting to see what the release of the PS4.5 will bring.

[DELTAprime]

At this point I'm waiting to see what the release of the PS4.5 will bring.

I kinda surprised that Sony didn't make a peep about the Neo at E3. Even when Andrew House said in the interview the week before E3 they wouldn't talk about it I was thinking "yeah, SURE your not going to talk about it". With the deadline for games to support the Neo coming up in September it can't be far off being talked about.

I am a little concerned tho after listening to the Giant Bomb E3 show that Neo support might not be well implemented in the first batch of games. Apparently devs have had to scramble to get Neo support into their games because Sony literally only told them at GDC and apparently it's not enough time to implement support by September.

Forcing everyone to have support for the Neo might not be the best idea. But then again Microsoft's approach where only one game supports HDR on the Xbox One S might not be good either.

[DELTAprime]

For those you that insist that key resellers are legitimate you might want to read this article.

http://www.polygon.com/2016/6/20/11982544/indie-dev-says-grey-market-key-seller-cost-them-450k-in-sales

[Deonasis]

Its all about motivation, in the past I've bought the console before the tv. That made me save and hurry up for a boring tv.

[kup]

What's this thing about Microsoft selling games compatible with both XBONE and Windows 10?

Are they trying to get out of the console hardware business and re-establishing the Windows gaming platform?

[DELTAprime]

What's this thing about Microsoft selling games compatible with both XBONE and Windows 10?

Are they trying to get out of the console hardware business and re-establishing the Windows gaming platform?

It's called Project Helix. Stage one is the 12 games announced at E3 this year as Xbox Play Anywhere games. You buy the Xbox digital version and you can download it to Windows 10. I have already bought Forza Horizon 3 Digital Ultimate Edition for Xbox One. When the game unlocks on Xbox I can then download it on Windows 10. So I plan to start downloading it on PC the second it unlocks, but I'll play the Xbox One version while the PC version downloads. Windows 10 does not have preloading yet, hence the wait for release to download.

As for later stages of Project Helix. Microsoft is trying to get everyone from the big guys like Activision, Bethesda, EA and Ubisoft to support it, right down to the little one person indy devs. So hopefully every new game that is on Xbox One will have a Windows 10 Store version included if they make a PC version of the game. But unlike the version you download from Steam it will have Xbox Live as it's social back end. Which is great for me because everyone I know IRL is on Xbox, so I can play with them from my PC. Of course there are people who don't want Xbox Live as the backend so they can still buy the Steam or GoG version. I think most people will still buy the Steam version but the Xbox version is an option. Note that it appears PC players don't have to pay for Gold to play online.

As for the final stage of Project Helix. It appears Microsoft plans to allow all Xbox One games (including backwards compatible 360 and Original Xbox games) to eventually be playable on PC. There is a lot of talk from industry insiders that Microsoft is planning this. There was even a moment a the day before E3 that Xbox One and Xbox 360 games temporarily showed up as installable games in peoples Windows 10 Store.

Microsoft want more people to buy Xbox games, remember they get a $10 cut of every $60 USD game sold and an extra cut if it's a digital Xbox One game. So they are basically taking the Xbox One install base from 20 million or so consoles to the nearly 1 billion Windows 10 devices. They will keep selling consoles for people that want that experience, but if you want to play games on PC they got you covered there too.

[Gutsman Heavy]

For those you that insist that key resellers are legitimate you might want to read this article.

http://www.polygon.com/2016/6/20/11982544/indie-dev-says-grey-market-key-seller-cost-them-450k-in-sales

After MKX I'll be getting all my WB games from keysellers. eff em.

[Bato]

It actually makes more sense to get it from steam since now you can get refunds....

[kup]

It's called Project Helix. Stage one is the 12 games announced at E3 this year as Xbox Play Anywhere games. You buy the Xbox digital version and you can download it to Windows 10. I have already bought Forza Horizon 3 Digital Ultimate Edition for Xbox One. When the game unlocks on Xbox I can then download it on Windows 10. So I plan to start downloading it on PC the second it unlocks, but I'll play the Xbox One version while the PC version downloads. Windows 10 does not have preloading yet, hence the wait for release to download.

As for later stages of Project Helix. Microsoft is trying to get everyone from the big guys like Activision, Bethesda, EA and Ubisoft to support it, right down to the little one person indy devs. So hopefully every new game that is on Xbox One will have a Windows 10 Store version included if they make a PC version of the game. But unlike the version you download from Steam it will have Xbox Live as it's social back end. Which is great for me because everyone I know IRL is on Xbox, so I can play with them from my PC. Of course there are people who don't want Xbox Live as the backend so they can still buy the Steam or GoG version. I think most people will still buy the Steam version but the Xbox version is an option. Note that it appears PC players don't have to pay for Gold to play online.

As for the final stage of Project Helix. It appears Microsoft plans to allow all Xbox One games (including backwards compatible 360 and Original Xbox games) to eventually be playable on PC. There is a lot of talk from industry insiders that Microsoft is planning this. There was even a moment a the day before E3 that Xbox One and Xbox 360 games temporarily showed up as installable games in peoples Windows 10 Store.

Microsoft want more people to buy Xbox games, remember they get a $10 cut of every $60 USD game sold and an extra cut if it's a digital Xbox One game. So they are basically taking the Xbox One install base from 20 million or so consoles to the nearly 1 billion Windows 10 devices. They will keep selling consoles for people that want that experience, but if you want to play games on PC they got you covered there too.

Thank you for your in depth explanation. It still sounds as if they want to get out of the console Hardware business but still maintain the Xbox brand as software.

[Gutsman Heavy]

It's called Project Helix. Stage one is the 12 games announced at E3 this year as Xbox Play Anywhere games. You buy the Xbox digital version and you can download it to Windows 10. I have already bought Forza Horizon 3 Digital Ultimate Edition for Xbox One. When the game unlocks on Xbox I can then download it on Windows 10. So I plan to start downloading it on PC the second it unlocks, but I'll play the Xbox One version while the PC version downloads. Windows 10 does not have preloading yet, hence the wait for release to download.

As for later stages of Project Helix. Microsoft is trying to get everyone from the big guys like Activision, Bethesda, EA and Ubisoft to support it, right down to the little one person indy devs. So hopefully every new game that is on Xbox One will have a Windows 10 Store version included if they make a PC version of the game. But unlike the version you download from Steam it will have Xbox Live as it's social back end. Which is great for me because everyone I know IRL is on Xbox, so I can play with them from my PC. Of course there are people who don't want Xbox Live as the backend so they can still buy the Steam or GoG version. I think most people will still buy the Steam version but the Xbox version is an option. Note that it appears PC players don't have to pay for Gold to play online.

As for the final stage of Project Helix. It appears Microsoft plans to allow all Xbox One games (including backwards compatible 360 and Original Xbox games) to eventually be playable on PC. There is a lot of talk from industry insiders that Microsoft is planning this. There was even a moment a the day before E3 that Xbox One and Xbox 360 games temporarily showed up as installable games in peoples Windows 10 Store.

Microsoft want more people to buy Xbox games, remember they get a $10 cut of every $60 USD game sold and an extra cut if it's a digital Xbox One game. So they are basically taking the Xbox One install base from 20 million or so consoles to the nearly 1 billion Windows 10 devices. They will keep selling consoles for people that want that experience, but if you want to play games on PC they got you covered there too.

I'm more likely to buy an xbone after this announcement. Play the games on PC, get a cheap bone to do multi on the TV. I think it's a genius move.

[DELTAprime]

did you get one?

Got my 1080 finally. Not going 100% smoothly. Got some graphics corruption earlier today, but an uninstall of the Nvidia drivers and reinstall seems to have fixed it. Got some odd slowdown in GTA V. The map screen on GTA V has never loaded 100% smoothly on console or PC, but the map screen really seems to chugging now. Also areas of the game world that really chug on other platforms seem to be an issue on the 1080. It's really funny to go from 100+fps down to a momentary 0.

Doom runs silky smooth sometimes hitting the 165fps limit of my monitor.

That's all I've tested properly so far, but did try a little Overwatch and it seemed silky smooth also.

It will take a couple of months for Nvidia to squash every bug the can in the drivers and then devs might still have to patch their games on top of that depending on the issue. That's what you have to put up with on the bleeding edge of PC hardware.

[Gutsman Heavy]

Doom runs silky smooth sometimes hitting the 165fps limit of my monitor.


Noice, what res are you running at?

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Dahmn son. That would of killed me. I've never had a game before the console :D
I bought Sonic The Hedgehog the movie on DVD before I had a DVD player....

I currently own three PS4 games (including the most recent Arkham game and the latest TF game) but do not have a PS4 :o
I remember buying my ps3 so I could play Arkham Asylum. I think I bought a PS3 with it as a free game. Ha ha ha.

Looking very closely at buying a PS4, but wifey says no PS4 unless I get rid of the PS3. But then how do I play Okami???? And many other PS3 games I like to dabble in occasionally. :(

[kurdt_the_goat]

Man she can't do that! PS3 is a goldmine of cheap stuff atm, well worth keeping around. But if all else fails, you can send me those games and i'll give them a good home!

[DELTAprime]

Noice, what res are you running at?

2560x1440

[kup]

Man she can't do that! PS3 is a goldmine of cheap stuff atm, well worth keeping around. But if all else fails, you can send me those games and i'll give them a good home!

I totally agree. You should say "You go before the PS3, thank you" ;)

That's how I would handle it anyways ;)

[DELTAprime]

Man GTA V on PC is a mess. It keeps pegging all my CPU cores at 100% which apparently is a common issue. The better the graphics card you have the better CPU you need because apparently the more pixels the game pushes the more CPU horsepower it needs. For those of you not technically inclined that shouldn't happen, normally the CPU load for a game caps out at a point and the GPU takes all the rest of the load and if you have enough GPU horsepower these days you can get frame rates up to 200hz on high end displays.

I am actually thinking of using this as an excuse to buy a 6700k or even a CPU on the X99-3 platform just for GTA V. I know this is insane, but gadget lust is just as strong for PC builders as plastic crack is for Transformers collectors.

[DELTAprime]

Today's Game Ready Nvidia driver seems to have fixed the graphics corruption issues I was having and also a couple of little niggles with the Windows desktop. I get the feeling that Nvidia pushed out the 1080 before it was 100% ready. I hate being an unwitting beta tester.

[Gutsman Heavy]

damn medibank screwing up my tax info means I have to wait even longer for a 1070 :(

[snaketales]

Good to see Dead Space 2 multiplayer team-balancing is still FUBAR'd... I was in a 2vs1 match (I was the one) and a fourth person joined, making it 3vs1 :rolleyes:

[prjkt]

over the last few days I've been replaying Dreamfall Chapters now that Book 5 was released, to refresh my mind and make sure I was choosing the "right" choices.

And damn what an ending to the series... Some closure, throwbacks to the earlier games and hints to the next...


In other news, finally getting a new monitor to replace the pair of aging Dell SE198FPW's sitting on my desk. Getting a Samsung 29" 21:9 monitor (2560x1080) and hoping my GTX 960 is enough to drive it.

[millhouse]

not sure if this is the right section but I've been playing around on a Microsoft Surface Book the past few days (the i5/8gb/128gb/no dGPU) that i won through a retail training competition. currently really enjoying it, even if i do prefer OSX.

[Paulbot]

Anyone want to step back in time? Nintendo releasing a new version of the NES with 30 built in games (http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/14/12187296/nintendo-nes-classic-edition-announced-price-games)

[prjkt]

Anyone want to step back in time? Nintendo releasing a new version of the NES with 30 built in games (http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/14/12187296/nintendo-nes-classic-edition-announced-price-games)

That is so tempting

[DELTAprime]

There is one major problem with this Mini NES. You can only play the 30 included games. There is no way to buy more games for it or the ability to use old cartridges. If it wasn't for that I would buy one.

[kup]

There is one major problem with this Mini NES. You can only play the 30 included games. There is no way to buy more games for it or the ability to use old cartridges. If it wasn't for that I would buy one.

It probably has Flash storage which someone will find a way to hack open.

[millhouse]

There is one major problem with this Mini NES. You can only play the 30 included games. There is no way to buy more games for it or the ability to use old cartridges. If it wasn't for that I would buy one.

Mate, for the price, I am happy to drop the coin on it, regardless of the limitations.

[CBratron]

It probably has Flash storage which someone will find a way to hack open.

Probably. It's already an enclosed emulation machine. Why not?