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Official Video Games Thread VII: The 7th Generation Comes To A Close

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For whatever reason, I started playing Red Dead Redemption again (from the beginning since I still haven't transferred my save file off my other PS3 went all "YLOD" on me). What a spectacular game.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
For whatever reason, I started playing Red Dead Redemption again (from the beginning since I still haven't transferred my save file off my other PS3 went all "YLOD" on me). What a spectacular game.
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I just started replaying Final Fantasy VII. No idea why.
 
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I just started replaying Final Fantasy VII. No idea why.
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Aerith dies.

Really Sony? A share button? Does EVERYTHING have to be tied to The Almighty Social Media now?

Although the live feed is kinda neat. It would make Let's Plays a lot easier.
 
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x86 architecture, 8 gb ram, unnamed pc gpu (supercharged) for the video... consider me underwhelmed by PS4 already.
 
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x86 architecture, 8 gb ram, unnamed pc gpu (supercharged) for the video... consider me underwhelmed by PS4 already.
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If the last gen has taught anything it is that hardware is secondary to actual games and game experience. A lesson that was harshly taught to Sony and one they have learned it seems. It seems.
 
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If the last gen has taught anything it is that hardware is secondary to actual games and game experience. A lesson that was harshly taught to Sony and one they have learned it seems. It seems.
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True, they don't want to lose $350 per machine again. But they aren't even using recent standards. They started talking about this new machine 5 years ago, and it seems like they are still using the standards from then.

Are devs so whiny you couldn't do a 64-bit machine? I know devs didn't like the cell processor, so I get changing that. Also, 8 gb ram? RAM is dirt cheap. Why not do 16 and make load times non-existant?

One positive, they are staying with removable HDD for storage. Good on them for not moving to proprietary storage.
 
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I like the "boot up and immediately start playing" feature as well.

One of the things that drove me from the 7th gen consoles was booting it up only to face a 20 minute firmware or game update before I could start playing. Sometimes both if I haven't played in a while. To put that in perspective: a competent player can BEAT Super Mario 1 in 20 minutes. (I'd often load up a speed run of Contra alongside the update and see which finished first.)
 
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MLB 13: The Show in hand! :D
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I don't usually play online, but this year has only 1 online trophy. So I played an online Home Run Derby. Ended up being 3 of us (mid day on a weekday I guess thats what you get). I took Jose Bautista, and the other 2 took Eric Hosmer and Yadier Molina.

I ended up posting a come from behind win in my first try thankfully. Online trophy complete! :D

@ Citi Field (NYM)
Round 1: Hosmer 25, Bautista 22, Molina 13
Round 2: Bautista 17, Hosmer 16

Everyone bats at the same time, and after your swing you go to an overhead view where you see a different colored line for each batter showing the balls hit trajectory. On the right side is the current HR derby standings with HR and Outs recorded.
 
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There's a copy of SimCity sitting on my dining room table. Probably won't even bother installing it for a couple weeks.
 
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Does anyone know when Sony is actually going to give details of the PS4?
 
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Pro tip for RTTS in MLB 13. Don't let the CPU draft you. Pick a team.

I got drafted by the Cubs (who are dreadful), and played for their Double-A team the Tennessee Smokies (who were dreadful), then got traded in mid-July to the Miami Marlins Double-A team, the Jacksonville Sun (who were dreadful). Then was promoted in August to the Marlins Triple-A team, the New Orleans Zephyrs (who were dreadful). Then at the start of the 2014 season I made the Miami Marlins (who are a dreadful 2-13 as I type this) as their starting 1B. :( :D

All of that said. I made the Double-A all-star game with the most votes, and also played in the futures game at Citi Field in 2013. I believe i ended up hitting .499 with 99 RS, 67 HR, 165 RBI and 22 SB (or something like that) in two-thirds of a season.

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Does anyone know when Sony is actually going to give details of the PS4?
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Not sure, but I expect it will be soon since they want to release it within a year.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
Pro tip for RTTS in MLB 13. Don't let the CPU draft you. Pick a team.

I got drafted by the Cubs (who are dreadful), and played for their Double-A team the Tennessee Smokies (who were dreadful), then got traded in mid-July to the Miami Marlins Double-A team, the Jacksonville Sun (who were dreadful). Then was promoted in August to the Marlins Triple-A team, the New Orleans Zephyrs (who were dreadful). Then at the start of the 2014 season I made the Miami Marlins (who are a dreadful 2-13 as I type this) as their starting 1B. :( :D

All of that said. I made the Double-A all-star game with the most votes, and also played in the futures game at Citi Field in 2013. I believe i ended up hitting .499 with 99 RS, 67 HR, 165 RBI and 22 SB (or something like that) in two-thirds of a season.
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And if you're playing any other mode, stick a spork in your eye. It will be less painful than trying to play a game that stutters more than a Tourette's patient.
 
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I believe i ended up hitting .499 with 99 RS, 67 HR, 165 RBI and 22 SB (or something like that) in two-thirds of a season.
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Perhaps it's time to turn up the difficulty and turn down the sliders...?
 
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Perhaps it's time to turn up the difficulty and turn down the sliders...?
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Nah, thats just how Double-A is. The pitchers are horrible.

Once you get to the majors its a bit more realistic. If I hit .400 there, i'll know the difficulty is too low. Right now I am on Veteran setting as I get used to the game.

Priceless said:
And if you're playing any other mode, stick a spork in your eye. It will be less painful than trying to play a game that stutters more than a Tourette's patient.
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With the 5GB install I was only getting the occasional stutter and only when the pitchers were pitching to me. I'm doing the 10GB install to see if that eliminates that. I haven't noticed much else. Though I've probably only played a half-dozen regular games.
 
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Nah, thats just how Double-A is. The pitchers are horrible.

Once you get to the majors its a bit more realistic. If I hit .400 there, i'll know the difficulty is too low. Right now I am on Veteran setting as I get used to the game.

With the 5GB install I was only getting the occasional stutter and only when the pitchers were pitching to me. I'm doing the 10GB install to see if that eliminates that. I haven't noticed much else. Though I've probably only played a half-dozen regular games.
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Been following it over at Operation Sports. It's a known issue, but there is no solution yet. Doesn't seem to matter if it's 5 or 10 GB, what the settings are, what camera you use...For me, it's nearly every pitch I face, and sometimes it stutters twice - during the windup and again when the pitcher is about to release the ball. It makes it near impossible to hit the ball.
 
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This seems like as good a place as any for this question I'm thinking of building an SFF desktop PC to supplement my laptop, which is out-of-date for a few games I'd like to run but great for portability; a laptop of comparable size with the capabilities I'm looking for would easily cost $1500 or $2000 and I don't really want to drop that much on it at the moment. I've settled (I think) on a Micro ATX because it seems to give me better processor and GPU options than mini-ITX, and at the moment I'm trying to decide on a case. I've found one that I like, the Apevia X-Qpack2, which seems to fit my needs well (small, nice-looking, reasonably priced with power supply included), the only down side is that it has USB 2.0 ports, not USB 3.0. I've been hunting for a similar case with USB 3.0, and the cases that I'm finding seem to be bigger and more expensive and don't have bundled power supplies which make them even more expensive. So my question is, how badly do I need USB 3.0?

Edit to add: BTW, it's looking like I can do this whole thing for ~$550, exclusive of peripherals, if I hold out for price drops on the components I'm looking at.
 
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