LadyCrimson

Care to elucidate a little on why not? ... outside of the fact buying one in my case was not neccesary and likely a "waste" of money? I can't really decide. There is some difference in visual quality (when 8 feet away) but I'm not sure if I care. Either that or I could buy a cheapish "4k" TV for this room while we wait on the OLED's for the living room.

FFXV on a PS4 Pro with a 1080 40" and 50" TV ... main differences I notice (for this game) are: a little better AA/smoothing, better texture draw distance, particularly 'floor' textures that don't blur 10 feet away from your chrs. feet, more high contrast lighting (less washed out looking in some situations), a somewhat smoother/faster "feel" (from higher fps I'd guess?) overall. But some things I'd noticed didn't improve/were apparently just the game itself, like this weird half to 1 second freeze when AI players load into the meeting camp , in Comrades DLC. Or maybe a SSD would be needed for that. It'll allow me to pick "4k" for screenshot size (not that I need them that size), and 1080 for video recording size, instead of 720. Video playback definitely looks somewhat better that way which for me is probably the most desirable thing. Anyway ... there are some noticeable differences but all fairly minor, for this game anyway. Sometimes depends partly on game dev's implementation, as I understand it. Probably not worth $400 in my case but dang it I was curious to know with my own eyeballs. Now I know. And hubby's shaking his head at me again.

Never mind the image itself. If you check the resolution *size* of the image. That's the thing. Yeah, I did it. I bought a Pro. For almost no other reason/benefit other than I became intensely curious about testing a few things. I can always return it. Like that's going to happen. I blame you guys! (well, and the 'net in general this past week)

^ I don't know the game, but Imma taking that funny/adorable picture with me.

Punisher. I wanted to check it out because I do like the actor and his bit in Daredevil season 2 was good (I never finished Daredevil season 2 tho). Well done, nicely crafted if you like angry/brooding anti-heroes that aren't superpowered. The first episode initially had me going "45 minutes to tell me he's a messed up guy, for reasons." I mean, in terms of all the waking up in bed, brooding while eating, brooding while hammering, over and over etc. But it did make the end of the episode contrast nicely/more intense I suppose even if I wasn't at all shocked/you knew it was coming. Episode 2 and 3 were more interesting. It'll stay on my watch list, at any rate. Although ... I was kinda happy to see one of my 80's actors C. Thomas Howell in it, but then...oh well.

Yeah, it rather was. I only rented Dr. Strange for Cumberbatch and Chiwetel Ejiofor. I still enjoy the superhero/Marvel films in a generic popcorn chuckles kind of way but it doesn't do tons for me and even renting them has become not much of priority.

^ I'll rent this movie purely to listen to and watch Cumberbatch do that circle-hands stuff some more.

My problem is I don't like Dark Souls or Doom like action. :/ And I love companion-based real-time rpg combat which is so rare now. Since I have no FF history, I'm just one of those who sees it as a stand-alone game. I've come to realize that my ability to like previous or future installments in a game series (after I've discovered/played whatever one, first) is very low so I just view all games like that now, part of a series or not. Borderlands 2 surprised me because I thought I'd find it really "meh" or "been there done that" like I usually do when I try a sequel or an older game in a series etc. but cases like that are really rare for me. The whole idea of putting out these kind of features in dribs and drabs and DLC's still annoys me however. But I guess I'm still glad it eventually gets put in. After Ignis DLC/this patch I'll probably put it down after Xmas, for another 4 months, and see what happens again.

A year later and I can still sometimes get excited about upcoming changes to FFXV. Damn you, Square. This is probably my fave game since FO:NV, maybe more. It just suits me. Now if there would just be a good Borderlands 3 made I could die happy. Also, after years of saying "I'm going to get a kitchen apron one day," I finally did. From Amazon of course. And it's also ... of course ...

FFXV's "last" ATR was today and ... I didn't think they were ever going to do it, but they are. I liked the original combat system in the main game well enough, personally, but being able to switch between party members and control their actions (using their sets from the chr. dlc's looks like) while in combat will be a game-changer. If it works as well as it looks, it'll likely make combat so much more fun/interesting. Hopefully. Might even make me replay the game again, or at least parts of it. On the other hand, this is becoming more and more of an action-rpg game than anything else. Which is great for those of us that liked the combat but sucks for those that want a lot more in-depth storytelling. But, but ...that action is so sweet!

The most recent King Kong type movie was on HBO. Kong: Skull Island, I think? First half hour: "Why are they focusing so much on intro-ing these people when half are likely to be dead soon?" 2nd half hour: "See?" When Samuel L Jackson first encounters Kong: (me shouting) "Ahab has found his white whale! bwhahaha" Had some fun action and requisite humor bits (and Tom Hiddleston was lookin' good if I may say so) but eventually even the popcorn-entertainment value wore off what with all the "we don't own the world, *they* do" nonsense. That said, it's the first "Kong" movie where the attempt to make Kong sympathetic kind of worked on me. A tiny bit. It's lonely being one of a kind.

Comrades is so "muddy/brown" toned most of the time that (1080) screenshots (outside of the chr. creator) don't look as good as ones from the main game with its brighter colors/lighting. Curiously, if I record 1080 video via Elgato capture, screens lifted from that often look better. Does Elgato run it through my PC's GPU or something? I have no idea. Anyway...too lazy to Elgato most of the time. Let's see ... what sorta fuzzy FFXV-Comrades pics can I pester the forum with this time...

Went to a jewelry fair. Saw this cool silver bracelet that was maybe 3.5 inches long (not a skinny bangle). Asked how much it was guy weighed it and said $275. Yeah, no. Was fun however. Haven't been to one in a long time and you can definitely find good deals from low to high priced. I think I'll stick to Amazon however, it's easier to browse thru than crowded booths.

Turned on TV, saw movie called Jonah Hex. Thought hmm,Josh Brolin, I'll check it out. 1st scene after animated intro I lol'd. Warped supernatural western seems like my thing. Then I saw Michael Fassbender. Cool! Settled in. 10-15 minutes later I was frowning, 10 more minutes I was net surfing with it still on. Then I turned it off. Sometimes a first impression is way off the mark.

Is this weird/random/interesting, or music? Ah well, I'll put it here.

Level 27 or so in FFXV Comrades DLC now, probably getting close to the end of the new-quests questline/full map exposure. After you beat whatever the final boss-encounter is, what's left is just repeating any individual combat missions you like doing and grinding for special monster drops that allow you to max out the best weapons with highest stats possible etc. Some shops you have to buy items via barter instead of gil/cash, too, with the barter for the best base items for upgrading being some of those rare drops. Those special monster drops are a lot of RNG and being lucky at "breaking" specific appendages. Not sure if I'll farm for all of those, it can be seriously aggravating trying to get those specific damage-breaks for a small chance then producing the rare item vs. the common item. So probably a decent 35-45 hours of time to be had if you do almost "everything" and then stopped - shorter if you just beeline to the end fight. There's a NG+ mode but like in the main FFXV game it's rather lame/useless since it isn't a total do-over, just resets the map-node progression (keep all your gear/items and all your avatars can share/use the same gear so...). Only reason to do it is if you made a certain wrong "pick A B or C" choice, which would mean you'd miss out on special item shops. The combat difficulty overall isn't too tough - again, it's kind of like the main game, where there's a few/several that can be quite tough but most aren't very demanding if you're taking time to upgrade gear. Anyway, I'm still having fun. If they ever add in more areas/missions etc. I'd be there.

Lots of tattoos in this game (face, arms, fully body includes legs). I'm not interested in most but I did like this one. My male avatar, who unintentionally (no, really...at least at first, haha) ended up looking a little like this actor from some K-dramas... He thinks he's so cool that he just dances and makes the others do the work. (every MP game has to have a chr. dance right) (there's a pair of daggers you can equip to make chrs. dance and get an extra stat buff when they cast a heal spell on themselves)

I was more into Shaun Cassidy. Hardy Boys forever! RIP to David, the older brother.

Ditto. No turkey for us, per usual. Too much food for 2 ppl and a cat (not that the cat would mind). I had wonton w/extra pork slices soup, kimchi/rice, and some ice cream for lunch, however.

Checked Netflix this evening which I haven't in a while, and there was all kinds of "recently added" I wanted to watch. Including the S. Korean film Prison, but that's another night. There was this 20 minute long animated short called Golden Time, however, where the picture still for it intrigued me. My style of animation. Directed by Takuya Inaba, 2014 I think (not really clear on that...). I'd never seen it before. "In the 1980s, a recently discarded television set from the 1960s refuses to accept its fate and tries to break out of the junkyard." It was wonderful. No dialogue at all. Sad and sweet.

There are some slight performance reasons for the Pro but it didn't sound like in action it would make a major difference for most users for that alone. But I suppose that depends how picky you are. Slight is a big understatement in terms of performance. I mean, that's not saying it's worth it to get for less than a 4k TV, but you make it sound like a pallid shade of what it actually is. Well, I'm not saying there's zero difference. Like I said, depends how picky you are. I don't own one, obviously, so it's all what I've heard/read from those that have both or review articles. --certain types of loading and processing will be faster, which makes a difference in something like timed-quest/leaderboard things (ppl in FFXV were pretty salty about that re: unfair advantages on leaderboards, even with no SSD, since they didn't have separate Pro/non-Pro ladders), or like you said, heavy action or MP gaming. But isn't something I'd notice with the type of gaming I generally do. Maybe occasionally in super busy combat moments I'd notice that difference. --certain graphics will look better, like maybe lower/middling settings vs. high settings? Lighting effects, some textures, that sort of thing? Fair enough. I tend to just buy what I need at the time and if needs change I buy something new. Not everyone's like that tho. Don't get me wrong, I was tempted to get the Pro last year, just couldn't justify it for me quite yet. :D And yeah, we were looking at the OLED tv's in the store the other day. Some of them look very nice, at least with the demo vids they play in the store. Although I have a feeling Comcast's cableTV broadcasts (that become more and more compressed around here from overselling their bandwidth) wouldn't look quite as spectacular. HaHa.

Since Cat Quest (PS4 version) is the only game I bought this year I guess for me it's ... Cat Quest? Meow. I mean I did play the FF-XV DLC's but I paid for those last year via season pass + they're not full games.

Loved FF-XV? More importantly, did you adore all those lovingly rendered food images? Wish you could cook those yourself? Well now you can, thanks to this game-fan recreating all of them and sharing how they were made. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u6BtakpOV3kLsR16TeedOHBNfl2uUSSg/view If you don't have a .pdf reader in your browser, this article has a bit: https://mothership.sg/2017/11/final-fantasy-xv-hong-kong-fan-recreated-all-100-recipes-from-the-game/ Now that's fandom. Also, I'm hungry.

^ I remember reading the book (and liking it a lot) when I was a kid, but that was maybe 35-40 years ago and I barely remember it now. It'll be interesting to watch it this way ... where I'm familiar with the concept but don't remember enough to have a lot of notions about what a filmed version "should" be.

I've seen: 12 years a Slave - good movie but I barely remember him in it. I know the role he plays but I mean he sorta disappeared from my memory after, vs. other performers. Centurion - I saw this one before I knew who he was. I enjoyed it as a weird action film and I recall I thought he was adequate for the role, but ofc not exactly an Oscar-nom type of role, heh The Counselor - Bored. Steve Jobs - My main thought was "Sure is a lot better than that horrid Ashton Kutcher film." He was decent in the role but I could feel him "trying" to be Jobs and I dunno, it just fell flat for me. Some of this however could be that I'm really not all that into the whole Job's mythology so... Assassins Creed movie - I turned it off after 20 minutes. Anyway, I'm in no way saying he's terrible in other roles. He just kind of becomes invisible/doesn't stand out enough for me to form a big, lastingimpression most of the time, for some reason.