What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

Quantum Conumdrum. It's cool.

Edited August 18, 2014 by Friendly Foil

Just downloaded Puppeteer (PS PLUS YO) and looking forward to that tonight. However it does remind me that I need a PS3 with a bigger HD: downloading a 11 gig game requires 22 gig of space and my 80gb one barely has the room, what with other games / GTA V's massive install on there. Oh how I envy the 500gb PS3!

 

Also, replaying Surgeon Simulator on PC. Not a PC gamer at all but man it's fun.

  On 8/18/2014 at 1:12 PM, Bechuga said:

Just downloaded Puppeteer (PS PLUS YO) and looking forward to that tonight. However it does remind me that I need a PS3 with a bigger HD: downloading a 11 gig game requires 22 gig of space and my 80gb one barely has the room, what with other games / GTA V's massive install on there. Oh how I envy the 500gb PS3!

FYI - the hd is easily swappable on all PS3 builds. You just buy a standard 2.5'' laptop HD and it'll format the drive good to go !

  On 8/18/2014 at 1:41 PM, mcbpete said:

 

  On 8/18/2014 at 1:12 PM, Bechuga said:

Just downloaded Puppeteer (PS PLUS YO) and looking forward to that tonight. However it does remind me that I need a PS3 with a bigger HD: downloading a 11 gig game requires 22 gig of space and my 80gb one barely has the room, what with other games / GTA V's massive install on there. Oh how I envy the 500gb PS3!

FYI - the hd is easily swappable on all PS3 builds. You just buy a standard 2.5'' laptop HD and it'll format the drive good to go !

 

Yeah, a friend at work asked me how easy it was and I was surprised to find out even a luddite with no hand control like me could do it quite easily. Y'know, now might be as good as time as any to take the plunge.

 

If I wasn't so lazy...

If you are gonna do it, look for a hybrid SSD - you get a big performance boost from a regular drive at a little extra cost. No idea how they work but I've one on my laptop and it made a huge difference (N.B. this is different from a normal SSD which are still pretty darn expensive - this is a regular spinning disk but with a magic chunk of SSD that does some kind of witchcraft to cache frequently used files)

  On 8/18/2014 at 1:08 PM, Friendly Foil said:

Quantum Conumdrum. It's cool.

Someone silenced you about Dark Souls?

  On 8/18/2014 at 3:06 PM, mcbpete said:

If you are gonna do it, look for a hybrid SSD - you get a big performance boost from a regular drive at a little extra cost. No idea how they work but I've one on my laptop and it made a huge difference (N.B. this is different from a normal SSD which are still pretty darn expensive - this is a regular spinning disk but with a magic chunk of SSD that does some kind of witchcraft to cache frequently used files)

 

Duly noted! My old ps3 needs all the help it can get.

  On 8/18/2014 at 3:40 PM, NorthernFusion said:

 

  On 8/18/2014 at 1:08 PM, Friendly Foil said:

 

Quantum Conumdrum. It's cool.

Someone silenced you about Dark Souls?

No. I decided my post should be about a good game only. Dark Souls isn't good. At all.

  On 8/18/2014 at 5:37 PM, Friendly Foil said:

 

  On 8/18/2014 at 3:40 PM, NorthernFusion said:

 

  On 8/18/2014 at 1:08 PM, Friendly Foil said:

Quantum Conumdrum. It's cool.

Someone silenced you about Dark Souls?

No. I decided my post should be about a good game only. Dark Souls isn't good. At all.

 

lol. you're a funny guy, I like you.

Preorder DLC for Hyrule Warriors has been broken down by vendor:

 

Amazon - Twilight Princess DLC

GameStop - Ocarina of Time DLC

Best Buy - Skyward Sword DLC

Club Nintendo - unspecified free DLC

 

I'm kinda disappointed Nintendo is already playing the DLC aggravation game. No doubt it will be made available later for all players, possibly free.

  On 8/18/2014 at 4:09 PM, Bechuga said:

 

  On 8/18/2014 at 3:06 PM, mcbpete said:

If you are gonna do it, look for a hybrid SSD - you get a big performance boost from a regular drive at a little extra cost. No idea how they work but I've one on my laptop and it made a huge difference (N.B. this is different from a normal SSD which are still pretty darn expensive - this is a regular spinning disk but with a magic chunk of SSD that does some kind of witchcraft to cache frequently used files)

 

Duly noted! My old ps3 needs all the help it can get.

 

An SSD won't help a PS3 much at all - the interface is SATA I, and to see the speed benefits of a SSD, you need SATA II (ideally 3 - even the PS4 isn't SATA II and putting an SSD in that makes a nominal difference in load times).

Hybrid SSDs work on caching, but again the bottleneck on the PS3 is the bus (SATA I), so caching won't gain you much either.

  On 8/18/2014 at 12:03 AM, autopilot said:

 

  On 8/17/2014 at 11:20 PM, Gocab said:

seriously though, show me a $299, sleek gaming rig that runs games as well as the ps4, where all the future games are optimised for the hardware I'm sitting on. Please, because I'd probably buy that.

 

For $100-$200 more you could have one with considerably better hardware that's 100% backwards compatible, runs DAWs & Photoshop, doesn't have a monthly online fee, and has most AAA titles for $20 or less if you exercise a little patience.

 

You forgot to mention all the viruses, driver issues, and hardware incompatibility issues you get with a PC as well - not to mention having to buy a new video card ever few years so you can run the latest and greatest games as they were intended. Oh, and the fact that new video cards cost as much if not more than a PS4...

  On 8/19/2014 at 12:02 AM, Joyrex said:

 

  On 8/18/2014 at 4:09 PM, Bechuga said:

 

  On 8/18/2014 at 3:06 PM, mcbpete said:

If you are gonna do it, look for a hybrid SSD - you get a big performance boost from a regular drive at a little extra cost. No idea how they work but I've one on my laptop and it made a huge difference (N.B. this is different from a normal SSD which are still pretty darn expensive - this is a regular spinning disk but with a magic chunk of SSD that does some kind of witchcraft to cache frequently used files)

 

Duly noted! My old ps3 needs all the help it can get.

 

An SSD won't help a PS3 much at all - the interface is SATA I, and to see the speed benefits of a SSD, you need SATA II (ideally 3 - even the PS4 isn't SATA II and putting an SSD in that makes a nominal difference in load times).

Hybrid SSDs work on caching, but again the bottleneck on the PS3 is the bus (SATA I), so caching won't gain you much either.

 

 

Thanks for more info! The note I made duly before has been unnoted lol

 

 

Yeah I forgot to mention them because they haven't been problems since Windows 7 & Steam. Not that you'd know.

 

Anyone smart enough to set up a messageboard account is smart enough to be able to read system requirements & download/install a driver.

 

As for the games 'as they were intended' argument, most console games that aren't console exclusive are about Low-Medium graphical settings/resolution on their PC counterparts, so that doesn't really hold up either. A top shelf video card's life cycle is about as long as a game console, and only a select few are as expensive as a new console and you can get better than console graphics easily on a 2nd or 3rd tier model.

Edited August 19, 2014 by autopilot

My vidja game system is cooler than your vidja game system.

  On 8/19/2014 at 12:06 AM, Joyrex said:

You forgot to mention all the viruses, driver issues, and hardware incompatibility issues you get with a PC as well

This has seriously not been the case for a long time man - Had this lappy for over three years now: Not a single virus, not a single issue with drivers and not a single hardware incompatibility to affect my gaming setup. It's certainly not gonna play the latest games on the very highest settings nowadays but it's still holding up well !

Defending your preferred video game systems is literally the most interesting discussion I can think of...

Edited August 19, 2014 by Npoess

I'm currently being taught Minecraft by my daughter. I mainly laugh at cows and get excited by finding iron.

  On 8/19/2014 at 4:29 PM, Centurix said:

I'm currently being taught Minecraft by my daughter. I mainly laugh at cows and get excited by finding iron.

Centurix! Where have you been young man!

 

Don't get sucked into the Minecraft world - you time will fly by, and you'll be an old man before you know it.

  On 8/19/2014 at 4:35 PM, Joyrex said:

 

  On 8/19/2014 at 4:29 PM, Centurix said:

I'm currently being taught Minecraft by my daughter. I mainly laugh at cows and get excited by finding iron.

Centurix! Where have you been young man!

 

Don't get sucked into the Minecraft world - you time will fly by, and you'll be an old man before you know it.

 

Joyrex mate, it's been a while. How's Texas?

 

I now work for a company in Noosaville that doesn't block WATMM. Blocked for 8 years. Now I can poop, read WATMM and get paid to do both!

 

I see you're thinning the collection a bit, making room for CAT023 and CAT002 I assume...

 

  On 8/19/2014 at 4:35 PM, Joyrex said:

 

  On 8/19/2014 at 4:29 PM, Centurix said:

I'm currently being taught Minecraft by my daughter. I mainly laugh at cows and get excited by finding iron.

Centurix! Where have you been young man!

 

Don't get sucked into the Minecraft world - you time will fly by, and you'll be an old man before you know it.

 

the dude buys CWLP from you and then you tell people not to play his game

 

rude

Edited August 19, 2014 by triachus

Notch should ask for his money back.

I have been playing a lot of shmups and Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike in the last few months. Does anybody want to challenge me to the latter through PSN or GGPO?

 

N-N-N-NOW! FIGHT A NEW RIVAL!

 

Watch with headphones!

  On 8/19/2014 at 6:28 PM, Roksen Creek said:

 

Watch with headphones!

DANG this looks good. It's such a shame it's only on PS3/4 for now, although the texture size looks pretty good so not too much of a loss. That being said it was very noticeable how much the frame rate dropped at 5:25, but I guess it wouldn't be a From Software game without accidentally rolling into a barrel and experiencing what feels like 10 years of 2 fps. It sounds like it uses a lot of sound assets from Demon's/Dark Souls, which isn't too bad, but it does rub me the wrong way a little. The designs looks phenomenal, I love the fantasy 1800s London look they've gone for, could lead to some really nice areas to gawp at. If I had enough money to get a PS4 I'd be quite excited!!