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Borderlands 2 via same steam sale. Woop!

Wii U with Splatoon and Smash Bros is $249 for African American Friday.

For Monument Valley fans, they have some nice MC Escher style merchandise in their store:

http://store.iam8bit.com/collections/monument-valley

eh... picked up splatoon and gta v for $27.99/each

will add to enormous backlog and probably get a couple of things from steam sale...

  On 11/26/2015 at 10:43 PM, luke viia said:

ahh steam sale

 

bought witcher 3 and my pc can actually play it, YEAH

The controls can be a bit frustrating at times. I thought maybe it's just because I'm using Keyboard & Mouse, but when switched and played it with my Xbox controller, nope, still frustrating, but again, only sometimes. Overall, this is an amazing game. I just wish they would bring back/update the console mod. There's a ton of amazingly fun things that you can do with it. For instance: http://www.pcgamer.com/witcher-3-mod-adds-free-camera-and-unlocks-console/

Anyway, I'm still playing Fallout 4 a ton. I passed level 50 the other day. I haven't died in a long time. Next play-through I'm gonna go above Normal difficulty, I'll probably try the hardest difficulty, actually. I always do my first play-through of games on normal, because that's usually the developer's intended experience.

I logged into WoW last night to do some garrison stuff on all of my characters. Man, this really is the worst WoW expansion so far. I still play it cause it's still fun in ways, but all of the other expansions I've played were definitely better. The new expansion "Legion" looks like it'll fix things up quite well. I can't wait.

I have an embarrassing amount of hours logged on Rust. Rocket League.. thats about it at the moment.

bloodborne dlc is so good.

largely just more of the same. doesn't reinvent the bloodborne wheel or anything but does add large amount of new content to play with in core game. the new areas are just (is just, i haven't gotten too far) sooo good. the location works really well for a couple-months-down-the-line DLC. feels like a half stitched together memory.

and yeah. it's super hard. haven't felt this level of intimidation from the game since maybe the very initial learning curve in central yarnham or maybe again at rom. it's just.. super hard... feels like running around boletaria palace for the first time and giving up thinking "this stupid game is impossible".

the Ghost in the Shell VR project is progressing nicely, it's like GITS predicted its own future. Besides a Star Wars VR project, this would be the kind of thing to get me to buy an Oculus.

  On 11/25/2015 at 5:00 AM, DorkingtonPugsly said:

Bloodborne dlc is fulfilling me.

miyazaki from e3 2014 ..

"If you remember the Tower of Latria level in Demon's Souls, that's the kind of atmosphere we want to create with Bloodborne."

Nintendo NX looking likely to ship in Fall 2016. Hopefully with Zelda and Star Fox Zero, makes sense now they held them back for a decent launch lineup.

http://nintendoinquirer.com/blog/2015/11/30/nintendo-nx-rumored-start-mass-production-next-year/

  On 12/1/2015 at 1:57 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Nintendo NX looking likely to ship in Fall 2016. Hopefully with Zelda and Star Fox Zero, makes sense now they held them back for a decent launch lineup.

 

http://nintendoinquirer.com/blog/2015/11/30/nintendo-nx-rumored-start-mass-production-next-year/

Star Fox Zero comes out in April for the Wii U

  On 11/30/2015 at 12:40 AM, bitroast said:

bloodborne dlc is so good.

largely just more of the same. doesn't reinvent the bloodborne wheel or anything but does add large amount of new content to play with in core game. the new areas are just (is just, i haven't gotten too far) sooo good. the location works really well for a couple-months-down-the-line DLC. feels like a half stitched together memory.

 

and yeah. it's super hard. haven't felt this level of intimidation from the game since maybe the very initial learning curve in central yarnham or maybe again at rom. it's just.. super hard... feels like running around boletaria palace for the first time and giving up thinking "this stupid game is impossible".

Aye, with you on that - the boss on the beach (to avoid spoilers) or the reskinned Cleric Beast are making Elbitras look like a cakewalk...

  On 12/1/2015 at 5:51 PM, Joyrex said:

 

  On 12/1/2015 at 1:57 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Nintendo NX looking likely to ship in Fall 2016. Hopefully with Zelda and Star Fox Zero, makes sense now they held them back for a decent launch lineup.

 

http://nintendoinquirer.com/blog/2015/11/30/nintendo-nx-rumored-start-mass-production-next-year/

Star Fox Zero comes out in April for the Wii U

  On 12/1/2015 at 5:54 PM, Joyrex said:

 

  On 11/30/2015 at 12:40 AM, bitroast said:

bloodborne dlc is so good.

largely just more of the same. doesn't reinvent the bloodborne wheel or anything but does add large amount of new content to play with in core game. the new areas are just (is just, i haven't gotten too far) sooo good. the location works really well for a couple-months-down-the-line DLC. feels like a half stitched together memory.

 

and yeah. it's super hard. haven't felt this level of intimidation from the game since maybe the very initial learning curve in central yarnham or maybe again at rom. it's just.. super hard... feels like running around boletaria palace for the first time and giving up thinking "this stupid game is impossible".

Aye, with you on that - the boss on the beach (to avoid spoilers) or the reskinned Cleric Beast are making Elbitras look like a cakewalk...

 

cant stress how much the DLC has amped up my appreciation for the game as a whole : )

it really beefs up the game in a way i wasnt expecting.

  On 12/1/2015 at 1:57 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Nintendo NX looking likely to ship in Fall 2016. Hopefully with Zelda and Star Fox Zero, makes sense now they held them back for a decent launch lineup.

 

http://nintendoinquirer.com/blog/2015/11/30/nintendo-nx-rumored-start-mass-production-next-year/

Hmm, wanted to buy a Wii U for Xmas, guess it's kind of a bad idea then ?

  On 12/2/2015 at 2:46 PM, StocKo said:

 

  On 12/1/2015 at 1:57 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Nintendo NX looking likely to ship in Fall 2016. Hopefully with Zelda and Star Fox Zero, makes sense now they held them back for a decent launch lineup.

 

http://nintendoinquirer.com/blog/2015/11/30/nintendo-nx-rumored-start-mass-production-next-year/

 

Hmm, wanted to buy a Wii U for Xmas, guess it's kind of a bad idea then ?

 

I dunno about that - there are a LOT of great games for the Wii U, and it will be interesting to see how long Nintendo supports the platform after the NX launches.

That being said, they will be showing it at E3 in 2016 - I would be REALLY surprised if it came out for Christmas 2016. I'm betting 2017 (Summer) will be the launch window.

Then again, if the NX is more akin to a PC-based console like the PS4/XBONE, developers might be able to ramp up and actually have decent 3rd party support for it by Fall 2016.

Like Rubin, I bet the next Zelda game will either go exclusively to NX, or be like Twilight Princess, where there will be a Wii U version and an NX version - but, considering how integral the gamepad potentially could be in the game, what does that mean for the NX? Will it just be a super-powered Wii U with a gamepad too?

didn't they confirm on the last nintendo direct like 50 times that zelda was definitely still coming out for wii u in 2016? so more than likely another twilight princess situation

You're probably both right. The patents that have emerged recently, if they are indeed for the NX, show a shrunken down Gamepad/3DS single screen unit that might dock to your TV for hi def gaming, rumored to be sold as two separate devices, at least initially:





hmmm...looks a little like Sony's portables, huh?

only they swapped the stick and pad/buttons positions which will probably suck.

Yeah I was thinking that maybe the NX would be kind of a standalone Wii U gamepad, since I remember reading somewhere that Nintendo said it wouldn't replace neither the Wii U nor the 3DS. But I don't really know what to think of it !

I can't really see them pushing current gen graphics through such a tiny device at an affordable price, what about storage? SD card? Can't fit too many games on there. Let's wait and see.

Considering Wii U is last-gen graphics it shouldn't be too hard. Unreal Engine games on iPhones look just as good as current Nintendo games.

But the Wii U is just streaming video from the console isn't it? This is supposed to be standalone.

Right, but I'm saying getting Wii U quality graphics on a handheld device in 2016 with modern tech isn't going to be hard at all.

Several developers have said the Wii U is about as powerful as the Vita, so the tech isn't too futuristic, plus I'm sure they're just trying to hit 60fps @ 1080p, not bleeding edge PS4 or PC graphics cards.

The CPU/GPU architecture will be interesting to see, it has to be divided between the two pieces somehow, but if anyone can pull it off i'd bet it's Foxconn.