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    Xbox 720 Reveal

    in Computer and Console

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    A little further down in that article:

     

     

    The PS4, in comparison, has an 8-core Jaguar AMD CPU, with a GPU that’s around the same level as the Radeon 7870 (which is significantly more powerful than the 7790).

     

    The 7870 is $200 on a good day, which would be half of the PS4's cost alone. Of course, you would also have to add a physical case to your system, plus input devices, a blu-ray drive, and an operating system--all of which are included with the console. Not to mention the PS4 finally comes bundled with an HDMI cable. Yay!  By now you're up to at least $800 for a similarly spec'd PC. 

     

    Anand has some good write-ups on the new hardware, even though he's resolutely a CPU champion. 

    Xbox 720 Reveal

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    Next-gen consoles are stupid cheap, for what you get. This is truly the apex in the history of price-to-performance.

     

    I can understand why that nutty MS exec claimed to be delivering "thousands of dollars in value," if you compare the power and price of the newest hardware to even just the last generation: the PS4 will have 600% more power than the PS3, at a cost of only +33%. And that's including a wireless input device. The new Xbox is still a good value, too, it just comes with an unavoidable camera caveat that I don't want anything to do with.

     

    If you guys find value in your 680's and 7970's ... kudos on the multiple monitor setups.        

    Oculus Rift?

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    Okay, so there have been some development leaps since the Rift's debut. This month at E3, the device was shown using Epic's Unreal Engine 4 tech demo in HD 1080p. Until now, I have been totally ambivalent and ignorant of the potential of the Rift. I assumed it was merely a monitor that sits on my face. Turns out, I was wrong. Some quotes from this article ...

     

     

    In it players fly a spaceship using an Xbox 360 controller while the Oculus Rift tracks their head movements. This works incredibly well because just like when you're controlling a vehicle in real life, you can look around and move independently.

     

    The sense of space in this demo (no pun intended) was simply astounding. Tilting our head down, we could see our knees in the game; we found ourselves moving our arms and expecting our in-game avatar's arms to move as well.

     

     

    Imagine the depth of immersion at being able to move your head view independently of forward control ... 

     

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    RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS

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    Posted · Edited by ManifestedISO

    That looks fun. I do prefer shaders dressed in black, however. Maybe a nice red for Tomb Raider 2 bundles in 2015. :)

     

    This interview with Bioware's Jessica Merizan is a fun tap to the gaming vein if you're collecting for Dragon Age and Mass Effect, but more importantly, a new IP. I love being teased like that, but I'm hoping it's for an Episode VII Star Wars single-player open world on Frostbite 3. If you watch Jessica carefully, you can almost read her mind when she mentions the new IP ... *STAR WARS* :)  No, but seriously, at the end, she mentions SWTOR and, "giving back to the fans."  

     

    Also, one of the questions specifically alludes (if that's possible) to Project: Eternity, as far as Kickstarter, new-old games, and their influence, if any, on the new DA.

     

    Speaking of Tomb Raider, if you haven't seen Chloe, the interviewer, cosplay as Lara Croft ... she nailed it, and I mean with a hammer.  :thumbsup:   

    Has Project Eternity been silently delayed?

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    Maybe we should start a forum pool for when the game will actually be officially available/released.

     

    Dibs on Friday, June 13th, 2014!  :biggrin:

     

    I call Monday night at midnight, July 8, after Friday's July 4th launch party weekend.  :woot: There will be booze. And hot dogs. 

     

    I am totally going to buy P:E at launch, even though I pledged for digital and hard copies. I'll gift the other code and lovingly caress the boxed version--er, I mean, you know, put it on display with KOTOR2, et. al. I like physical media.  :geek:

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    Xbox 720 Reveal

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    I would love to know exactly how large corporations "read comments and listen to feedback." Do they have dedicated research teams (like the ones EA just pink-slipped) or do project directors et. al read reddit (readdit?) and Shacknews ... but then what. Do they call a meeting, talk about options ... who makes the final decision. What I am certain of, however, is that a potential loss of revenue is the only thing that makes a company change anything.

     

    Still not loving the mandatory Kinect. When gaming, I prefer to remain as still as possible ... having to wave my whole hand around, using my entire forearm, lifting my upper arm, rotating my shoulder cuff ... gads I'm tired, I just want to play and relax. :) 

    Good old Games

    in Computer and Console

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    I'm kicking myself for buying a PS3 this close to the various summer sales on PC. If I don't control myself, I'll have a huge backlog by the start of University classes

     

    I'm seriously almost wanting to buy a PS3 just to play The Last of Us. 

    Xbox 720 Reveal

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    Ahaha! Never gonna give ... never gonna give ... you up. Never gonna say goodbye! ;)

     

     

    It is so strange, this turn of the tide. Not six months ago, MS was, more or less, inoffensive, with some big surprises up its sleeve ... and Sony was a pitiful hydra of worthless stock prices, in-fighting, too many SKU's, and unplayable versions of Skyrim. Now ... they're the scrappy underdog, sticking it to an empire. If this movement revitalizes Sony as a company, it will be thanks to us gamers. I'll take a new 4K TV, if you're listening, SCEA. :)    

    X-Box One

    in Skeeter's Junkyard

    Posted · Edited by ManifestedISO

    So, why exactly...when you use so much of other DRM mediums...are you suddenly against one?

     

    Consoles are just different. They come with different expectations, independent of mass market reality. I have Origin, Steam, and Uplay, and an Xbox 360, but I just pre-ordered a PS4 because Sony exposed a nerve inside my gamer's psyche that says consoles shouldn't be all-digital, always-connected platforms. Not yet. PC games, yes ... consoles, no. 

     

    I can't really explain it, but a crazy-fun magic happened at Sony's E3 press conference ... also independent of reality. But that's what made it great. It was as if the underdog manufacturer gave us a way out, a better option: a more powerful machine at a much lower price. The irony is about perception ... the Kinect won't actually spy on us, but it seems like it will. An always-online connection isn't that big of a deal, either, but it seems like it will be, especially to the underdog consumer. Never in all my life have I seen such a wave of momentum for any product.       

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    POST YOUR SPECS

    in Skeeter's Junkyard

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    Yeah, one of the few AMD users left 

     

     

    We may be few, but our passion is great. ;)

     

    Tried some new vendors this time ... ASRock and MSI, in particular. Got a true quad-core Llano (A8-3850) right as Trinity launched, with the A75M chipset, HDMI and v3.0 of USB and SATA. Sniped 8GB of Corsair DDR3 1600 right at the bottom of the market, $40. The most exciting new part, is the SSD. Got the 830 128GB for $80 right when the 840 series launched. It is fast ... fast, fast, fast: Win7 boot time is ~15 seconds. Skyrim is the only game I put on the SSD ... all the others are stored on a 10k rpm Velociraptor. Load/save times are measured in 0-3 seconds, even with HD texture packs. Graphics are a Pitcairn, MSI Twin Frozr 7850 2GB. Tomb Raider and Lara Croft's TressFX hair rendering completely changed my priorities in life. :)  Oh, and Viewsonic. I took PC Gamer's advice and went for the 23" LED IPS panel ... it really is beautiful. And a very reasonable $160. For 1080p gaming, this system is ultra-satisfying. The whole reason I built it, was to get ready for Project Eternity. Woot!  

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    What are you playing now?

    in Computer and Console

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    Would love to play The Last of Us ... would not love to pay $359 for the privilege, now, on a console with 256MB RAM ... am currently playing the very confusing and poorly-written game of Amazon Pre-order: Launch Day PS4 ... can't wait to stream The Last of Us via cloud to a console with 8GB of RAM. :) 

    E3 Thread - 2013 Edition

    in Computer and Console

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    Well, MS snatched all exclusives.

     

     

     

    all i saw was ryse, that digital-only killer instinct remake and dead rising 3.  does microsoft have more exclusives than those?

     

    They have exclusive Big Brother spying technology.  Does that count?

     

     

    Which is exactly why I don't want the One, and is exactly how Sony can sell the Four for less, since their camera is optional. Sony is not going out of business, they're doing this launch right, finally. It's shocking for me to be a current 360 owner and be successfully wooed by a Playstation. $400 for 7850/7870-level graphics with 8 gigs of RAM and a 500GB HD ... insane. 

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