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The Ultimate Hi Def Next Gen Console thread (internet connection required)
ackblom12:
E3 2013, Next Gen and PC's Bizarre Invisibility Problem
"After sitting through nearly all of E3′s press conferences (and catching up on Microsoft’s, which I skipped to marvel at my super cutting-edge next-gen loft sink), I came away with two raucously growling gut reactions: 1) new Mirror’s Edge yes yes yes yay yes mmm-hmm yes good indeed and 2) did I just step into an alternate dimension where PC never emerged from the primordial gaming ooze? I don’t mean that in the sense that PC’s not the focus at E3 either, because frankly it never really has been. But come on: our platform of choice has spent years in the deepest waters of areas where Microsoft and Sony are only just beginning to dip their piggy toes. Free-to-play, DRM, cloud, servers, indies, problematic communities, etc, etc, etc. So why does it seem like nobody’s even tried to learn from PC gaming’s mistakes?"
More after the link of course.
Cire27:
--- Quote from: K1dmor on 13 Jun 2013, 23:16 --- Microsoft engineer on xb1, trying to justify some of the console aspects (there's a couple he doesn't like too)...and he kind of accomplishes it:
Here's the link.
Nothing technical; you'll read things as sh*t, F+ck, etc.
PS: There's a chance of this been fake.
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Ah, /b/, my favorite source of xb1 engineers.
Sorflakne:
--- Quote from: RedWolf4 on 12 Jun 2013, 23:22 ---And maybe, just maybe, they might even learn a valuable lesson.
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Won't happen. They intend to drain their loyal customers for every cent they have.
Lupercal:
--- Quote from: Parkour Lewis on 14 Jun 2013, 00:23 ---
--- Quote from: Lupercal on 13 Jun 2013, 14:12 --- Going to keep charging £35 a year for multi-player privileges that have no other benefit for the money being spent when rivals do it for free?
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Actually if I'm hearing it right, Sony's saying that you'll need a Ps+ account or whatever it's called to play games online on the PS4, that'll cost around 6 bucks a month, and I'm glad they're doing it. I've always held to the adage that you get what you pay for, and never liked Sony's play-online-for-free service because I thought that it'd lead to bad things - like service going down for weeks at a time, or shoddy security that lets someone break in and steal loads of account and credit information, things like that. I'd much rather they charge for it and offer a better service.
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Yes, currently you can techincally buy about 15 months of PS+ so it equals out to $3 a month or so. PS+ also, as I understand, 'gives away' a lot of free games, in that you techinically rent them indefinitely while you still have a subscription. Without owning both consoles I don't know if you get a better service on the 360, apart from the PS3 crash that happened two years ago or whenever. They seem like they are much more capable of rewarding gamers and keeping them interested - as opposed to giving away Halo 3 and Fable III for free. (Granted, some people will appreciate it. I just think giving away something so old that so many people have is a bit...silly)
LTK:
--- Quote from: Lupercal on 15 Jun 2013, 03:21 ---(...I just think giving away something so old that so many people have is a bit...silly)
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Fable 3? Old?? Ha!
Okay, I think I can adapt this old joke...
What's the difference between a PC gamer and a console gamer?
A PC gamer thinks a $30 game is expensive.
A console gamer thinks a game released 3 years ago is old.
:laugh:
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