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  1. Wombat

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

    In some ways, that's abadthing. Every team that's working on Last of Us, or Puppeteer, or Beyond, or GT6... isn't working on PS4 games. It's a lesser case of why the WiiU has struggled - they had too many teams working on stuff for other systems for far too long. Hell, if we want to get into...
  2. Wombat

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Err, I am fuzzy myself. I thought it was: Book Version- She's drinking something that she thought helps fertility, but in reality keeps her sterile (I believe Tywin is behind the plot). The description of "her" given in a later book has wider hips than before, leading many to think she...
  3. Wombat

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

    Again, it doesn't matter if the file is on a disc or on your hard drive. Original Xbox to 360 was x86 to PowerPC. To get BC, they had to basically recompile them on a game by game basis, it worked for crap, and they only got through a couple dozen before they gave up. 360 to Xbone is...
  4. Wombat

    2013 NFL Offseason and Draft

    Honest question, what do you guys think the odds are of Rivers being in the league a year from now? I think it's likely the Chargers go with a new QB next Fall, so what are the odds Marmalad gets a backup job somewhere else? I just don't see it. Edit: As to the article itself, I think it...
  5. Wombat

    Hannibal

    http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-wat...l-for-season-2 Not too much of a surprise it gets another season somewhere, as the US rights are so cheap there was chatter they could move it to Syfy, but a bit of a surprise NBC kept it. (As it is, NBC has a couple shows that don't even have homes on...
  6. Wombat

    Venturebeat: Blizzard delays unannounced MMO until 2016, resets whole project

    Err, the ancient timeline isn't true. I'm not talking about that. Semi-recently (last couple years) Blizz said that they were aiming for 100 as the end point; Blizz has all but announced Burning Legion is 6.0 (the 5.3 legendary quest line flat out says "You're fighting the Burning Legion...
  7. Wombat

    Venturebeat: Blizzard delays unannounced MMO until 2016, resets whole project

    I wonder what, if anything, this does to WoW. They seemed to have a nice timeline set up with Burning Legion at 95 and the Old Gods / Titans to wrap everything up at an even 100; who knows if/what they pad in between/after.
  8. Wombat

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

    1) Yeah, Garnett, Chris Kohler over at Wired, and even Marcus seem like they've all lost weight / put on muscle over the last few years. Not sure if this is a sign that even the games media is turning into photogenic people only. (Long live the fat bastards at Giantbomb.com!) 2) Yeah, that's...
  9. Wombat

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

    Technically speaking, PCs with more, lower speed cores are what the industry will move to, just from cooling and power consumption standpoints; better integrated video will eat into the low end graphics card sales. That those statements apply to the traditional gaming market that buys "real...
  10. Wombat

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

    Like TCFB said, the legal precedents (in Europe, anyway), suggest that MS' scheme won't be legal there in the long run. Still doesn't mean MS won't implement it for the multiple years until a clear legal ruling is issued.
  11. Wombat

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

    MS' current scheme is that you sell it to Gamestop, etc., and they pay the used fee, rather than the original theoretical of you give the disc to your buddy and he pays it. Either way, there's a fee, it's just whether it is baked into the resell price.
  12. Wombat

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

    According toPolygon, the plan,today anyway, is that someone sells the game (to an authorized reseller only) for X, the reseller then sells it for (X+Y), with MS (and then the publisher?) getting a fixed dollar value of that Y. Of course, as said, MS wants full retail for Y for new games, so...
  13. Wombat

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

    Am I crazy, or A) Hasn't Windows Media Center existed for years, including all the fantasy football integration? Hell, that version even functions as a DVR. B) X1 runs windows apps; all MS really did was port (part of) it to the X1 app OS and add Kinect commands. C) Why was MS' big focus of...
  14. Wombat

    .GIF - Jiff or Giff?

    GIF. I don't care what the inventor says. The acronym is going off of graphics, not joint.
  15. Wombat

    E3 2013 June 11-13

    Yeah, the current / next gen split will be weird to see. MS has pretty much cleared out the current gen; about all I can think of that they are publishing is LocoCycle (for XBLA). Furthermore, almost all of their teams have been working on X1 games since Nov 11 (or earlier). Add in any timed...
  16. Wombat

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

    Back in February, I thought the PS4 system announcement was blindingly mediocre. Now it's the high point of the decade (or whenever the 4DS comes out). Christ.
  17. Wombat

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

    Other shoe drop #4: No self-publishing / indie games.
  18. Wombat

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

    Mark Cerny is completely fluent in Japanese. Dude is awesome. Edit: You do remember that his game, Knack, is made byJapanStudio, right? I don't believe they have any staff outside of Japan.
  19. Wombat

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

    Well, PS4 gamescanlook better - or the devs will just program for the lower spec and call it a day. Many Xbox 1 games looked better than PS2, but not all of them.
  20. Wombat

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

    Because Lenas' argument is that the X1 does everything the PS4 does and then some. Except that we saw no signs of the sharing/broadcasting systems PS4 has (not that I would ever touch it), and (from the rumors that yet to be disputed), virtually every component in the system is worse than the...
  21. Wombat

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

    Other shoe drop #3: MS UK claiming that Kinect does indeed need to be running for the X1. Unknown yet if that's the same space requirements as the original Kinect (if so, cue uproarious laughter here), or if it just needs to be plugged in for the microphone (a bit of clutter, but not a big...
  22. Wombat

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

    That's what I was talking about.
  23. Wombat

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

    What an enormous waste of time. "Yeah, we've carved out CPU and memory time for apps!" Okay, and your specs are higher enough that the game space alone matches a PS4? Wait, there were no specs given? Oh. Honestly, was there anything else?
  24. Wombat

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

    Yeah, I'm pretty sure I died and my soul is in some marketing double-speak limbo atm.
  25. Wombat

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

    It may not be always on, but it does appear to always authenticate. (How exactly does that work anyway? If my system isn't online, does the disc still work the first time? The Nth time? Can I rent/buy a used game if I just don't have the system online while I'm doing that? Do they retroactively...
  26. Wombat

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

    I can't imagine EA killed online passes just because the X1 has it built-in; it has to be both systems. And really, this system is less heinous than I figured. I can play it on multiple X1s I own (or if I upgrade/replace systems); I can even bring it over to a friends house to show him the...
  27. Wombat

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

    Other shoe drop #2: No backwards compatability. (No real surprise.)
  28. Wombat

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

    Other shoe drop #1: extra fee to play used games confirmed. I can't believe anyone thought EA "stopped" the online passes out of generosity.
  29. Wombat

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

    http://majornelson.com/2013/05/21/xb...tecture-panel/ will have hardware details at 3 Eastern.
  30. Wombat

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

    This conference didn't make me pick PS4, but it didn't do much to discourage it either. About all I know now vs. an hour ago is that their DVR stuff looks well made and the Alan Wake guys aren't doing Alan Wake 2 at the moment. E3 is way up for grabs.
  31. Wombat

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

    And how many of those are "People doing the same genre as last time, just with a different name and slightly different mechanics?" Do I care if "Kinect Adventures" is now "Kinect Experience" (or what have you). And are they really making us wait to E3 for ten of them?
  32. Wombat

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

    Err, what? They haven't said anything about the X1 being better than PS4, aside from DVR usage. Nor have they established that their console exclusives are any better than PS4s. They still could by the time E3 is over, but at this point there is no reason to lean towards X1.
  33. Wombat

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

    I dunno about those dynamic achievements as a draw. If nutcases can't catch up with their friends (because they missed Weekend Activity X), will they stop bothering?
  34. Wombat

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

    No mention of the type of RAM suggests it is still DDR3. Those months old specs probably haven't been upgraded.
  35. Wombat

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

    Controller had instead of a back button a little button with two rectangles, I imagine that switches to split-mode / changes active programs if not, if you aren't using voice.
  36. Wombat

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

    Like I'd be anywhere other than Giantbomb. *Disclaimer: Watching a clean stream on another machine.
  37. Wombat

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

    It's on TV, so odds are it will be exactly 1 hour, starting at 1pm eastern.
  38. Wombat

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

    Nintendo's fixed this all up by making the next Sonic games Nintendo platforms only. Crisis averted! That we've run out of people willing to pay $300 for eight year old hardware doesn't say anything about how many people are still willing to pay ~$450 for zero year old hardware. That said, I...