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    Fire Emblem: Three Houses (26th July 2019)

    in Nintendo Gaming

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    The more I play this the more I'm shocked by the presentation. The blurry stitched-together screenshots used as the background during "cutscenes", the lazy animations like any archer beyond the starting class putting an arrow into a non-existent quiver. It's just sloppy and not the polish I expect from Nintendo.

    Collections

    in General Chit Chat

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    I was once building a budding retro games collection, but when I bought my own house and space became limited that all got shuffled away to the garage. Now that I have less room to put my stuff, and I'm awareness of the stress of tidying and moving house etc, I kinda have this desire to let physical collections be a thing of the past. I have nothing against those with a collect hobby, and I'm envious that you have somewhere for it all to live, but for me having less stuff is a huge feeling of relief, so I don't see myself ever being a collector of anything again.

    Unless of course I become fabulously wealthy.

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    Fire Emblem: Three Houses (26th July 2019)

    in Nintendo Gaming

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    2 hours ago, Glen-i said:

    Why is PS2 always the go to for people to rag on for visuals?

    I wish PS2 games looked that good.

    I just plucked out an era, it's not that the PS2 was better or worse than anything else at the time, just that we're several years beyond that level of tech now and I'd expect more.

    We've just got these really flat textures, boxy buildings, bland skyboxes, poor draw distances. In an era when I'm used to hub worlds that look much more alive, the monastery looks like a fan game. Even anime-themed games from the last generation looked much better, like the Naruto games.

    PlayStation 4 Console Discussion

    in Other Consoles

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    Don't be so sure, the people buying brand new PS5s within the first 6 months are probably not those that have the heaviest affect on figures. You can see on that graph most have shallow starts then plenty of jumps later on at holidays etc. When the PS5 comes out the PS4 will drop in price and become an option for many thousands of new households and young new gamers.

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    House buying is the worst

    in General Chit Chat

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    On 4/15/2016 at 10:30 AM, Shorty said:

    Man, the house I could get around here for 250k.... Dunno why anyone would live in London, honestly.

     

    My long term dream now is basically to live in an average corner of my city for a few years, saving up money, paying off my mortgage, and then putting that down on a house back in the area I live in now.

    Just put an offer on a house back in the area I used to live :D

    Probably won't get it, but pretty sweet that I'm able to take a shot at it. Aww yea long term goals.

    Also: back on the topic of house buying being the worst, blimey the anxiety of waiting to hear back about this house is killing me.

    Edit: Didn't get it, but at least now I can go back to breathing normally.

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    Report a Bug! [Read OP first]

    in Board News & Issues

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    Sorry, I was out of the country when that was happening. However, there's monitoring software on the server, if things go down the people at my office should be notified and look into getting it back up and running. Still intending to move to new hosting and maybe a new system sometime which should help.

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    3D Printing

    in General Chit Chat

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    I recently up/down/side-graded to an Ender 3. Fantastic little printer and more suited to my needs (lots of miniatures!)

    I plan on selling the CR-10S but stupidly I did not keep the box.

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    Virtual Reality

    in Other Consoles

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    @bob your experience echoes exactly my first feelings on the Rift 18 months ago, I'm glad to hear the quest is powerful enough to recapture that. I really think the Quest is perfect not only for introducing people to VR through them buying it, but sharing it with their friends etc. Which will hopefully spread the word, increase the userbase and increase the quality and quantity of content.

    If this is available on Quest, get it to play as a co-op game because I think you and your wife will really enjoy it: Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. Superhot is also one of the best VR experiences as the closed spaces and short burst experiences lend themselves so perfectly to the technology.

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    TV Endings

    in General Chit Chat

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    On 5/18/2019 at 1:40 PM, Hero-of-Time said:

    I loved the endings to both Smallville and Star Trek: Voyager.

      Smallville (Reveal hidden contents)

    Spending 10 years with Clark and then finally getting to see him unleash his powers, fly, wear the suit (no matter how brief) and have the Superman music kick in was something very special.

     

    The only thing more shocking to me than that ending was the fact that so many people seemed to like it. I grew up absolutely loving that show, and then basically just about bearing it/waiting for the end when it lost all its money and dignity and kept remaking the same filler story on the same street corner set week after week.

    And then that ending?

    Spoiler

    I can't understand how anyone can accept it, "no matter how brief" is an understatement, he never really wore the suit, it was a shoddy cgi shot of him in space from a distance, blurry and nondescript. He never talked to a human as Superman, there was no clear daylight scene, no interaction with another human, he didn't talk to Lois or anyone. It was a quick, crazily overpowered supermove and then it was over. The final shirt-rip shot was the best we got and even that small glimpse was masked by what had become Smallville's trademark shoddy "dusk" lighting that was used to patch how cheap and tacky everything looked.
    And don't get me started on erasing Lex's entire incredible relationship with Clark that they built up over seven years just to fit in with some pre-existing notion of Superman vs. Lex, despite them having trashed many other avenues of traditional Superman canon along the way.

    I can still remember how empty and disappointed I felt after that aired, no piece of media has done that to me before or since

    Virtual Reality

    in Other Consoles

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    On 5/18/2019 at 1:10 PM, Hero-of-Time said:

    I went out this morning to pick up A Plague Tale but I seen Argos had Move controllers in stock! I've been after some for ages so I decided to pass up on buying what intended to and instead purchase the controllers and Ghost Giant, a game I've been eager to play.

    Its a bit stingy that the controllers don't come with a USB charging cable. Using the PS4 one isn't ideal, there's only 1 of them and you get 2 controllers.

    I've played through the first four stages of Ghost Giant and it's as colorful and adorable as I had hoped for. I'm looking forward to playing some more of it later this evening.

     

    You mean you don't just have 30 spare USB micro cables lying around the house by this point? :p Cos I sure do. They can be picked up very cheap on amazon or even at poundland.

    Anyway good to see Move controllers back in stock, hope that's going to be part of a growing trend. Otherwise Move controllers are going to scupper the PSVR the way memory cards did for the Vita.

    Cuphead (18th April 2019)

    in Nintendo Gaming

    Posted

    2 hours ago, MindFreak said:

    Hollow Knight is harder.

    Really?? I beat Hollow Knight relatively easily (some challenges and optional bosses not so much), but my eyes widened at the punishing nature of Cuphead in the first level and to be frank I never gave it a second chance.

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