Video Games

Anyone play Rust? Got a tidy little duo with a friend of mine wouldn't mind a trio/full on zerg for the shits n giggles.

Let a brotha know!

Steam: mitchellllh
Discord: on1uk #1773

I have one that looks very similar though has a slightly different code (UE43RU7400) - tis good, probably nowhere near as good as the higher priced TV's but for a relatively cheap one it performs well enough for me. Can't say I've ever noticed any adverts in the menu's but perhaps that's how they get you.

Not that I play games on it anymore, since the partner moved in & selfishly wants to watch TV during my [very slim] gaming time, I've been demoted to the screen work IT sent me for working from home!

Anyone want to sell PS4 Tsushima?

Just bought an LG OLED CX for living room gaming
4k 120hz hdmi 2.1 Nvidia gsync

Was annoyed to realise my GTX 1080 wasn't supported for g-sync though -.-

Eyeing up the new 30series anyway

Here's what my TV looked like prior to switch...

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£70 RRP though.

Crazy

Am I alone here in thinking that £70 for a AAA game these days isn't ridiculous?

Considering the increase in size, mechanics and fidelity you see in games now vs paying £40 for a PS1 game (or similar for a SNES game) a few decades back.

Personally I'd be happier with devs making the game how they want and selling it for that sort of price instead of the various nefarious money-milking schemes put forward by publishers to get more money out of a £40 game.

never forget street fighter 2 on SNES was 70 knicker

It'd be fine if they didn’t ship needing a day patch, with broken features, loot boxes and micro transactions or being lazy copy pastes of existing franchises etc.

I paid £70 for a Japanese import Street Fighter II Turbo almost thirty years ago...

I know it's probably justified but I struggle enough with paying £50 for one. I think I've only bought 1 game at full RRP this year.

CS:GO anyone?

Considering I've paid £42 for day one Death Stranding and £48 for Last of Us 2, a sudden jump to £70 is quite "shocking" to me.

Not sure why Demon Souls got such a price tag, but new Spider Man is still at regular £50.

Not ideal!

Great TV that - same panel as mine.

A bit annoying that the 2.1 ports only support 40gbps rather than 48gbps like the C9 but still...

Don't really get a next gen feel from that. Stiff animation, ropey collision detection, blurry
low detail particle effects.

thats the point though right - trying to ship an (quality[?]) AAA title for 40-50 sometimes necessitates it being a loss leader for micro transactions/DLCs/content packs? No data to back this up, just a hunch. Obviously not true for Fifa-esque shovel ware.

Guaranteed the next CoD after this cold war one will be £70 and immediately have a £15 season pass to buy

Well yeah, that's my point. Publishers are moving to these sorts of schemes in order to recoup the increased development costs of modern games, presumably as they're aware of how much resistance there is to upping the price tag..

I'd rather pay up front for the game and not have to worry about which DLC bundles are worth picking up and which aren't. Or whether I'm going to get to a point in a game where I'm at a disadvantage because I haven't bought some additional item. Or having to grind to achieve something they want to you take cough up some extra money for once they've got you hooked.

Day one patches are more to do with the move to digital and not having to worry about 'going gold' anymore. Day one DLC is a different matter altogether though.

If you're talking about sports franchises then that's always been the case and I think a more transparent model would be to release a yearly DLC pack with an actual new game coming out every few years with a proper update to the game itself.

It's probably easier for me to admit as I'm a hipster indie game player so new releases for me are usually going to be around the £20 mark for a decent one. But if BOTW2 came out at £70 I'd happily pay it. If MGSV, Assetto Corsa or Alien Isolation were that price again I'd happily pay it.

This is part of the reason why I don't get all excited at the fancy graphics demos that get pushed out every year or so. Yeah they look great and everything, but is it worth the additional cost? Bigger budgets means less risk-taking which leads to the regular pre-winter onslaught of annual instalments of updated games from last year.

Right, I'm going back to playing Snake Pass...

Truth is, when I'm not playing Apex Legends, I'm playing some indie game on one of my consoles.

I've started Horizon few weeks back, but got bored of it pretty quick. Doesn't happen with indie games so often.

Yesterday finish Carrion which is on Game Pass. Absolutely loved every bit of it.
Today started Gato Robot (again on Game Pass) and already put 4h into it.
Last week finished Minit. So much fun again.

My Switch is used mostly for exclusives and indie games.

Also just found out that Cyberpunk is scheduled for 19th November release, which is a release date of PS5 in UK.

Also, developers confirmed that Cyberpunk will be part of the free next gen upgrade program which is cool as you can preorder PS4 version for £50.

That's a great launch title, which should keep me occupied (hopefully) for few weeks.

EDIT: It's actually £44.50 at ShopTo

I got the impression that ps5 spiderman was more along the lines of standalone dlc rather than new full game. Might explain the 'cheaper' price.

Left 4 Dead 2 update for the first time in ten years. 20 new maps!

@giles337 @mmccarthy

If you believe that the higher price will stop these practices then I feel sorry for you.

EA, Ubisoft, Activision etc will 100% continue these practices and Sony have just given them the perfect excuse to gouge the price on that console. It’s already happening...

^ includes “full game” + London dissident pack. How lucky to have the chance to have receive such wonderful cosmetic gifts.

These are the launch editions of watchdogs:

Standard Edition
• Watch Dogs: Legion (Game).

Gold Edition
• Watch Dogs: Legion (Game).
• SEASON PASS.

UPLAY+ Edition
• Watch Dogs: Legion (Game).
• SEASON PASS.
• ULTIMATE PACK (except VIP Status).

Ultimate Edition
• Watch Dogs: Legion (Game).
• SEASON PASS.
• ULTIMATE PACK.

The “ultimate pack” includes playable characters and items you can’t unlock in the standard game as well as a four week momentary boost to the single and co-op game. Pay. To. Win.

1st party developers will also do exactly the same.

This isn’t pro-consumer move by Sony. It’s the way they’re able to recoup their losses by under pricing their digital edition (And probably even the disc edition) to match Microsoft. The digital edition will just lock people into a miserable existence of price gouging for the entire generation.

At least Xbox have game pass with over 100 completely free games at any time, including all first party releases. Any game on game pass is also 20% cheaper if you want to buy it when it’s leaving game pass. This is a pro-consumer move and makes a digital edition Xbox a viable console of choice.

TLDR: Sony are cunts and people continue to make excuses for them