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All I know is that I'll be buying a pair of PS4s as soon as GT6 is released. Here's hoping that my existing force feedback wheels/pedals are compatible.
Something else to consider.... nVidia only has an ARM license (no x86 license), so anything paired with an nVidia GPU will be limited to a more traditional PC-like setup (irrespective of the CPU cores being used) or they'll have to use an ARM derived CPU (ARM is great for low power, but at the higher end - not so good), ...
“The servers are not handling any of the computation done to simulate the city you are playing. They are still acting as servers, doing some amount of computation to route messages of various types between both players and cities. As well, they’re doing cloud storage of save games, interfacing with Origin, and all of that. But for the game itself? No, they’re not doing anything. I have no idea why they’re claiming otherwise. It’s possible that Bradshaw misunderstood or was misinformed, but otherwise I’m clueless.”
“It wouldn’t take very much engineering to give you a limited single-player game without all the nifty region stuff.”
Apparently the new Xbox is going to require an internet connection for any and all applications. The latest rumor is that it'll stop working if it's disconnected for more than three minutes. Hope you don't live someplace with lots of 2.4GHz interference, gamers.
Cowboom.com has some pretty good deals on refurbished current generation consoles, by the way.
I don't like the idea of "always online" in part because the time I most want to game is when "online" is least accessible. I'm more apt to fire up something if my internet connection is already being as fully abused as it can be or during times when my service is down for some reason. I'm really not too keen on the idea that I need someone else's permission to play a single player title with no online component in the first place, and even less enthusiastic about a requirement that I keep authenticating with a content distributor or paying for a subscription to use online capabilities that are already built in to games and hardware in the first place.
And all of those things seem like the direction games are heading.
I tried League of Legends last week, but after having to repair the install every time I wanted to play, I decided that it's not worth bothering with it.
I did play some Dead Island on Xbox over the weekend. I still don't like console controls, but it was enjoyable to have an old fashioned co-op game with an actual storyline. Dead Island had a really cool, tragic trailer and I had hoped that the whole game would be like that, but alas it appears to suffer from the Dead Rising "Combine Items to Make Ridiculous Super Weapons" syndrome if you get far enough into the game.
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I'm actually planning to do a table top gaming night on Friday. I play Magic occasionally with a bunch of young ladies and that's a lot of fun, but it's contingent on them not having anything else to do. Our games get spoiled often as not.
So my plan right now is to get a group of people together for Cards Against Humanity, Gloom and... something else. Munchkin or Say Anything or Sentinels of the Multiverse.
I'm kind of inspired by Wil Wheaton's Tabletop series on Youtube, along with the fact that I know quite a few people who WANT to play games, but don't want to commit to collecting trading cards or full-on role playing. Tabletop has a format that is very similar to a reality TV show, but unlike a reality TV show, it's actually entertaining. Penny Arcade's Strip Search, a show about finding a talented webcomic artist, is also surprisingly engaging.
I don't know all the people who are coming, so I think it's important at first to play games that don't have an involved rule set or complex set up. My hope is that I'll be able to do this every few weeks if I can get a group of regulars to play with.
One of my friends is a huge fan of Heroscape and Heroclix, but neither of those games is ideal as a starting point and she'd be the first to admit it.
One of the biggest problems with the tabletop games is that it's very difficult to judge what you're buying sight-unseen. My comic shop carries a lot of that stuff, but no one buys it because in a lot of cases it's a tough choice between investing $40 in a game that might or might not be any fun or too complicated to play regularly, versus getting another D&D manual or set of Warhammer minis, things that are known quantities.
You're not a Gamestop customer in the first place. The people who are buying and selling used games are for the most part young people for whom a $40 expenditure represents a significant chunk of income rather than the weekly sum of the value of their workplace bathroom breaks.
Don't the various consoles have inexpensive online delivery now? I don't really know. I've never paid any attention to that.
With much sadness, I must report that my very first dual-shock controller finally died whilst my son was playing Gran Turismo. (GT on a first gen PS1 - the big grey box - with a first gen dual shock controller). It was 15 years old... RIP.In the console wars, the only thing I care about is Gran Turismo 6. I own two PS3s, and two copies of GT5. What surprised me was that they announced GT6 for PS3 and not the PS4.
Cards Against Humanity works well for a few rounds and then it gets kind of old if you keep playing with the same people.