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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I have now set my expectations so low that I'm pretty sure it's nearly impossible for them to disappoint me. If they manage to do so I will be fucking amazed.
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    Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

    Should fire and rehire her, I updated her shit. She's more skanky now.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Nintendo only making a ton of money instead of a fuckton of money is clearly the end of times for them. Oh no, they didn't make as much money as last year, FUCKING PANIC. The whole sky is falling shit in the game industry is gettingold. The 3DS is doing quite well and Nintendo's real fuck...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    And none of that is going to drive Nintendo out of the market. Nintendo will still make money hand over fist on their handheld division and their first party IPs will continue to sell as long as they keep up the quality and people will buy handhelds to play them. Will they ever hit the same...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    You're never going to get the same functionality out of a smartphone as a dedicated handheld unless they massively change the form factor on them. The only thing you can do is play shitty touch screen games that are in no way comparable to what Nintendo offers in quality. A need for...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    They'll get a massive boost in sales the moment that the next Pokemon game comes out. Nintendo's handheld platforms are never going to be phased out due to the popularity of the software that they offer. The junk smartphone market isn't even remotely comparable in quality to the games that...
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    Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

    Yeah, I'm on XBL. Her hair's pink actually! You should give her another shot, I had her uploaded with her inclinations messed up somehow. And Death is obnoxious, it instantly one shots anything it touches and disappears after it does so. I'm not sure what the deal is for beating him, but his...
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    Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

    Dark Arisen is basically just the entire first game + all dlc + an expansion pack, there's no need to grab the first release of DD at all.
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    Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

    Melee in general aren't shitty. Assassins and Rangers are both really strong at melee and ranged. Warriors aren't horrible, but they're grossly inferior to Magic Knights who are just absurd as fuck. If you want a tanky class who can do a ton of damage then they're what you want. You don't...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Some people were saying that there wasn't going to be much of an improvement between this generation and the next one. They are grossly wrong, just on how big the jump in texture quality will be alone.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Right, eventually you will hit a diminishing returns on textures, but that sure as fuck isn't happening yet with consoles. Current console textures are flat out horrendous and the difference between them and a high-res texture pack is as massive as any other jump has been. It is an absolutely...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Poly count isn't really important, true. There will be an absolutely massive jump in texture quality though. Current console textures look like someone ate them out of a dead elephant's asshole and then vomited them back up into a cesspool.
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    Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

    Picked this up last night. My god, there are no fucking good Mage or Sorc pawns on there at all (it's basically expansion DLC and still using everyone's regular DD characters for hire). My Pawn, Louise, is ranked #10 over all. She was also by far the best high level Mage on there. I...
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    Homeworld Franchise

    I sincerely hope that Sega has some sort of legal recourse against them. Pitchford basically stole money from them to fund Borderlands 2 while constantly lying to the world about what was happening with A:CM. The guy is a scumbag thief who should be in jail.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    How it's going to compare to PCs is pretty irrelevant to me personally. It's going to be a huge jump over current consoles and that's all I care about.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    God damn dude, I am way more hopeful for this game than I wanted to be. I didn't really want to get into an MMO again anytime soon, but this past beta, for some reason, really clicked with me. If they can deliver on most of that then I may have to actually seriously play one again. Btw, their...
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    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    Burn in is lonnng gone. Temporary IR, image retention, can still be an issue, but only if you watch stuff with a constant logo on the screen for hours on end, but that'll fade after a couple hours in the worst case and there's tools to reduce it. It's never a permanent thing. A lot of units do...
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    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    Blackout curtains! The ones I have were like 10 bucks a piece at wal-mart.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    The beta wasn't capped and there were options to leave it uncapped or cap it at 60 or 30.
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    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    From what I've read light's only an issue with super-bright rooms now (for the higher end Panasonics with the light filters anyways). This is my setup and where'll be putting the TV:http://imgur.com/a/uHYaB That cubby where my current TV is is 59 inches wide and the TV measures at 55 inches...
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    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    Yeah, I'm going to run D-nice's slides before I play any games on it. I'll probably watch some of my shows interspersed here and there though. It'd be a very painful 100 hours otherwise.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Heh, those PS3 videos are running at like 15-20 fps, tops.
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    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    That's too bad, I've heard nothing but good things about them. If something's wrong I'll just make them enforce the warranty until I get a good set, I don't fuck around with that shit.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Oh that's already destroyed. I've been really sick and falling apart.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Yeah, I'm trying to be pretty vague. I think it's too soon to write the combat system off, it's more fun the higher you get and the more stuff you can use + using other classes abilities that you unlock. Plus the advanced class jobs should add a lot to it. And Limit Breaks and multiplayer...
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    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    Because it comes as a standard feature on every high quality TV now? I don't care about it at all. The ST60's insane image quality and black levels for the price is why I got it. From all accounts there's really nothing that compares to Panasonic Plasmas for Price/Performance. Hell, even just...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Which class did you try out? Most of the complaints about it seem to be coming from Lancers while Archers and Gladiators enjoyed it the most.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    That's not entirely true. They do have to keep in mind on how big they design levels and npc and object counts, but the PC and PS3 engines will have a pretty big gulf in image quality (the PS3 version won't have anywhere near the level of texture quality that the PC version currently does)...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    It isn't the exact same hardware you could put in a PC either. Both the specs for the X720 and PS4, that we "know" about, have some additional custom chips on them that certain things can be offloaded to. There's a bit more to it with how it's put together and how it all works together beyond...
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    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    Just bought this (after11 monthsof saving up for it):http://www.abt.com/product/67592/Pan...TCP60ST60.html http://reviews.cnet.com/flat-panel-t...-35566949.html Can't wait for it to get here.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    How is the hardware old? It's using a custom APU based on the AMD Jaguar that's not even released yet and was only unveiled in January.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I think you're overestimating how much it takes to run 1080p and underestimating what the current supposed specs can do.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I enjoyed it. Did all the quests, ran two of the dungeons a few times each too. Played fairly well on a gamepad. It felt like a more friendlier FFXI than it did WoW or anything. Completely different impression than the first beta they had before the game's first failed launch. The engine also...
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    Games that gave you the most bang for your buck

    Xenogears is not only the best game of all time it's also the game I've put more hours into than anything else and one of the few things I have ever replayed (normally I play through a game once and that's it).
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    Newer Poll: Would you like to see an MMO Emulator Subforum?

    I think a sub forum for them would be a good idea, because we can add a lot more than just EQ Emus to it. Stuff that might normally get lost in the shuffle. It could get people interested in server emulators of games that they might not have known about otherwise. We could at least give it...
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    Collector's Editions

    Ireallyfucking like Tales games is why. Plus the statuette looks pretty cool. It's shiny and I want it, there's no deep reason behind any CEs I buy beyond that.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    That's not true, the majority of them are 720p:http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=46241 The PS4 hardware that's been outlined should be able to do 1080p with relative ease. Edit: Oh wow, there's even Wii U games on that list now. What the fuck is up with Black Ops 2's resolutions?
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    The viewing distance to fully see 1080p of detail on a 50 inch HDTV is about 6.5 feet. 10 feet away from a 50 inch would definitely mask a lot of aliasing, but that'd be sitting too far from it. Given what we know of the PS4's hardware though it shouldn't be too hard to run a decent amount of...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    The PS4 is confirmed tonotsupport 4k for gaming and the hardware couldn't handle that resolution at any decent framerate even if it did "support" it. It will, however, play 4k Blu-rays. The X720 will likely be much the same. None of that matters though, because for Normal Human vision there's...
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    Archer

    The one with the convoy ambush. Season 4, episode 11.