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Sorry for checking out without saying anything last night. Wife was talking to me, and then my headset died...and then I remembered we were playing NHL, lol.

Anybody got anything in mind for tonight?

 
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Damn. I have Worms and Worms Blast, but not Armageddon.

In case anyone was curious, I ended up having to wait on the graphics card/controller, so that was one reason I didn't get on Saturday.
 
I must say, It looks really good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2xLW0NZCLw&feature=youtu.be

Surprisingly, if NHL looks and plays anything like FIFA, it would be great. You have almost over 30 celebrations for Fifa it's insane.

 
All right...I think I might have my "scheme" drawn up for how to buy a next gen console without using my own money, haha. I know Gary went the "trade everything in" route...but I've found a few reliable ways rack up Amazon giftcards with minimal effort. And of course, the logic here is if it doesn't appear like "additional spending", my wife won't kill me, lol. Plus, it'll make me feel better...knowing that I'm really only getting one for like 4 games (UFC, Madden, NHL, Kingdom Hearts 3)...if I'm playing with house money (and not my house, lol) 

I'm leaning PS4 just because the prices have been so low through Warehouse Deals lately (they had a few up for $250 earlier today). Anybody have a reasonable argument for why to not go PS4 other than Halo and Forza? TV passthrough means nothing to me, so don't waste any energy there. PS4 would also give me a baseball option...and make exclusives like Uncharted and Last of Us possible.

Either way, I'll probably wait till E3 anyway just in case either company has something up their sleeve. I've seen some people predicting that Sony is going to drop the price of the PS4 to $349 just so they can still say they're cheaper...but with a substantial lead in sales already, I'd be surprised if that happens.

 
Yikes...after seeing that video Gary posted, maybe I should already reconsider, lol. Is it just me or do the movements look twitchy as hell? On second watch...it does look like the stamina starts to affect them with about 1:30 left in the round...but having them both swinging for the fences like that right off the bat looked awful. Just too much arcadey, Street Fighter-ness.

The commentary also seems kind of stiff. Mike Goldberg, specifically. I mean, he's reasonably lame in real life...but his delivery is pretty awful here. Even Joe Rogan seems a little off. It's like you can tell that they're just inserting short one liners dependent on the situation...and they don't really flow well. The THQ games seemed much more conversational.

 
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It certainly looks good, but the gameplay seems weird...I want to say it seems like they are fighting with pillows. At 5:06, Aldo lands a crazy head kick flush to Pettis' head...Pettis doesn't react. A lot of other strikes, one fight winds up for a hook, the other lands a quick jab that should disrupt the hook, but the hook still lands, neither fighter acts like they got hit.

 
Exactly. That's why I'm nervous we're just going to get more of the same from EA with their sports games. I feel like they're always going to have things that "look so cool", but if you actually take the time to ask "Does life work like that?", the answer you'd come up with would be "No. No, it doesn't", lol.

Even some of the escapes off the ground...it was like, "ok...why did he just get up suddenly?" like the other guy just let him up for no reason. And I guess that happens in MMA, but it just looked random here. Where are the legit sweeps? Where is the fighter on bottom scooting back to the cage and wall walking to get back to his feet? I really hope this is just a poor example and the full game will have all that stuff. But it's EA... It's just so frustrating because the polish they always put on their games is amazing. But so many times it ends up being style over substance.

I still have EA MMA...and never put as much time into it as I meant to. I might play it a bit just to see how much looks similar to this new game...especially since I remember hating the striking in that game.

 
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I really like the xbox one. I was quite skeptical but now I love it. You could however, run your pc through the hdmi. I did it with my 360 actually and I'm thinking of going with a splitter for my cable box. The Kinect really works flawlessy and is worth the money. The snap chat is really nice for multitasking.

 
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I really like the xbox one. I was quite skeptical but now I love it. You could however, run your pc through the hdmi. I did it with my 360 actually and I'm thinking of going with a splitter for my cable box. The Kinect really works flawlessy and is worth the money. The snap chat is really nice for multitasking.
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Even that wouldn't be of great use for me since 99.9% of my gaming now is done at my desk on a 26" tv/monitor...while our 60" screen in the living room (where the HTPC is connected) is occupied by my wife and/or daughter. I never thought I'd be ok with that...but there really comes a time when ease and convenience trumps everything...sometimes the most enjoyable thing is whatever causes the least amount of grief, lol.

But yeah, most of the media features on the One don't interest me much since I feel like anything that I'd have use for can be done better with PCs anyway. And my PS3 is still the best media streamer I've ever seen. Anything that we can't get OTA and use the HTPC to DVR, I just download and stream from my PC.

So, it may sound odd, but I'm really just looking at it from a "games I can't get on PC" perspective. So, there's UFC, Madden, NHL, and Kingdom Hearts 3 (which are on both...and I've read that KH3 might actually come to PC...but we'll see if that happens). Then for exclusives, we're basically talking Halo, Forza (which I can do better on PC now), and Gears of War (never really liked) vs. MLB: The Show, Uncharted, God of War, Last of Us, and whatever the next Quantic Dream game is going to be.

I appreciate the opinion though. Much like butt sex, it helps to talk about it. :lol:

 
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So... good news is that I'll be a future Oculus Rift owner, bad news is that their ship estimate is now August.

The UK station I always listened to in ETS hadn't been working for two weeks and I couldn't figure out why initially. Turns out they were bought out and changed their name. Spent an hour last night learning this and finding their new streaming URL to add lol. Just wasnt the same listening to a different station.
 
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So... good news is that I'll be a future Oculus Rift owner, bad news is that their ship estimate is now August.

The UK station I always listened to in ETS hadn't been working for two weeks and I couldn't figure out why initially. Turns out they were bought out and changed their name. Spent an hour last night learning this and finding their new streaming URL to add lol. Just wasnt the same listening to a different station.
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Woohoo! Congrats! Haha. Honestly, it's pretty much what I said when I first ordered mine. You're getting in line...and you've gotta get in line at some point. And it definitely looks like the consumer release is further away than most people thought according to this article:

http://www.kdramastars.com/articles/21436/20140507/oculus-rift-consumer-version-release-date.htm

A lot of people have raised some interesting arguments about VR technology. Obviously, you want it to be as well done, polished, and complete as possible. But at the same time...if they push the limits too much, it's going to demand a crazy PC to be able to run it...which will really turn it into a niche product. That's one of the things I actually liked about the first Rift. Sure, it's only 720p...but it doesn't ask too much either.

The more extra things that get added...higher resolution (some people are demanding 4K :roll:), positional head tracking, peripherals for hand/leg tracking, etc. the more beastly of a PC you're going to need. That's honestly one of my biggest concerns with Facebook and Oculus "thinking big"...that they could overshoot the mark and turn this awesome, reasonably accessible technology into something that not many people can afford/have the ability to use. Sure, GT-R's are awesome...but I'm pretty sure Nissan sells more Altima's, haha.

The other "dream" I've read about though is basically eliminating the PC requirements altogether and having the Rift do all of the rendering on its own (ie. you'd be basically strapping a console to your face). To me, when you consider weight, heat, noise, etc...that technology seems a long ways away. Not to mention, I can't imagine what it would do to the cost of the unit.

 
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Yeah, the consumer version release rumors, plus the fact that they might lose money with the Zenimax, lawsuit made me decide to jump on it...if they end up losing a lot of money, it might get delayed very, very far into the future. As long as the consumer version doesnt come out within a year or two of DK2, I wont feel like I wasted my money. My only other concern is that they might make some kind of change to the system that makes the DK2 obsolete moving forward, but we'll see.

 
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Yeah, the consumer version release rumors, plus the fact that they might lose money with the Zenimax, lawsuit made me decide to jump on it...if they end up losing a lot of money, it might get delayed very, very far into the future. As long as the consumer version doesnt come out within a year or two of DK2, I wont feel like I wasted my money. My only other concern is that they might make some kind of change to the system that makes the DK2 obsolete moving forward, but we'll see.
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Yeah, there's definitely a few wild cards at play. I would hope having Facebook's lawyers at their disposal will help though. I really don't buy all thees claims against Oculus though. The timing just looks very questionable. The Rift has been shipping for over a year now...and was covered in the press even before that. Waiting this long to be like "Hey! They stole our idea!" just looks awfully convenient.

I also call BS that other companies had something "in the works" for years. Even 3 years ago, who the hell would have placed a bet on VR becoming a viable industry? They really want us to believe that huge companies like Bethesda and Sony were beat out by some guy working out of his parents garage? That's crazy.

Not to mention that several Youtube breakdown videos show that the DK1 Rift really isn't that complex. It's a phone screen, some lenses, relying on a powerful PC that can do 3D at a high frame rate. The only real "neato" part of it is the head tracking and reasonably low latency. But there are people all around the internet now making DIY Rifts. Alleging that these were "trade secrets" seems like a stretch.

As for changes that might make the DK2 obsolete, that would be surprising. They've already updated the SDK a few times recently in anticipation of the DK2...and even those changes have offered some improvements for the DK1. It's kind of cool having it and seeing things grow with the development. Definitely the most exciting tech I've seen in a long time.

 
Also, in case anybody hasn't looked today, that Race The Sun game is in the $1 tier in Humble's daily "bundle" today. People rave about that game...so I might throw $1 at it.

http://www.humblebundle.com

That Cynical Brit guy even liked it, haha.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4hb3XRuSUM[/youtube]

 
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Of course I just bought it on that GOG sale.

And by obsolete, I meant some kind of drastic step in the tech. For example, not that it was "gamebreaking," but the jump from DK1 to DK2 is an example. With the IR tracking, if devs start programing their games where it's required, it will in essence phase out the usability for DK1.

 
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Of course I just bought it on that GOG sale.

And by obsolete, I meant some kind of drastic step in the tech. For example, not that it was "gamebreaking," but the jump from DK1 to DK2 is an example. With the IR tracking, if devs start programing their games where it's required, it will in essence phase out the usability for DK1.
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Ha...a lot of people in the Humble thread had that same problem. I played a bit of it. It's a neat game. Pretty cool that there's like an assigned level for each day too, in addition to teh community made levels. And then with the power ups and ship add ons, I started getting an addictive FTL vibe. Pretty awesome what can be done with 100mb.

And yeah, I guess that makes sense with the Rift. But I would hope that with PC games being such an open platform, developers wouldn't program themselves into a corner like that or limit previous generations of the hardware. I guess if they had some game mechanic dependent on being able to lean or bend over or something...and it couldn't be faked with a controller, then yeah, you'd have a problem.

 
I have been watching so many people on  the Xbox one Twitch app play Papers, Please that I think I might buy the game. Looks so intriguing to me for some odd reason.

 
That bundle looks so good for 3 bucks.

Papers, Please is definitely a good "game". Cart Life is also similar. I recommended both in my Pc game recommendation post a while back.
 
Yeah, I've had Papers, Please on my wishlist for a while. Just never got around to buying it and kind of surprised it hasn't been bundled. It seems to go on sale on the Humble store fairly often. It was $4.99 like 3 days ago and $3.99 a week before that.

 
Just a personal favorite lol. I remember back in the day I got that game for free by sending in 10 UPCs from Totinos frozen pizza boxes and played the crap out of it.

Thanks for the heads up, still a lot of keys left.
 
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Have you guys seen the video of Bruce Buffer announcing Michael Bisping's wedding?
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Nope, haven't seen it.

Another free game giveaway...this time for Company of Heroes 2. I must have missed this one earlier this afternoon. There's not many left, and Alienware's giveaway system is really weird (last time, I was in the queue when it said there were like 2,000+ keys left...but the email I got said I was too late). Not expecting anything this time, but it's worth a shot.

http://na.alienwarea...ss-key-giveaway

 
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYPgRV85c5g[/youtube]

Also, that Bisping video is pretty good. The only thing that would make it better is if Dan Henderson was there at the end to knock him out, lol.

 
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fuck me sideways, that's a great deal. I have Lego Marvel for PS4 (and shared with me on Steam) and it's the best Lego game I've played. The sheer amount of of content is staggering. The fan service is ridiculous. Gary would like it since Deadpool is a big part of it. But if you liked any of the Lego games before and/or you're a Marvel nerd, you'll love it, especially for that price.
 
$3.74

http://www.gamestop.com/pc/games/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-out-of-the-shadows/111555

Anybody want to buy this and play the co-op? I know the game is supposed to be awful...but it's Ninja Turtles. And well...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0XXmVts1y0[/youtube]

EDIT - I think I'm going to grab it regardless. Apparently, it's been patched and is much better than when it was originally released. The Steam reviews are actually pretty favorable now.

This game get's BAD reviews for no reason here on Steam. They say No Co-Op Play... but It DOES have Coop play. However, when the game first came out, you needed to do a bit of troubleshooting to get it to work. Now, Coop Play is in full effect and working correctly. All and all, It's the best Ninja Turtles game to date. Comes with a Throwback Local Coop Arcade mode, a Story mode with internet Coop play, as well as challenge and fighting modes. It's worh the $15... at least it is now, after the bugs we're resolved. :)
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The Euro Truck multiplayer got updated for the new version. They're making some pretty decent upgrades too. They added 2 more servers so people can play according to their region, and not have to deal with the awful ping and seeing other players stuttering down the road. Here's the full changelog.

* Added 2 new servers (Europe #2 and United States #1)
* Added a lot of useful admin tools.
* Added support of 1.10.1s version of game.
* Added player id to nametags and scoreboard.
* Added nametags to detached trailers.
* Added new launcher.
* Added support for new paintjob DLCs. (Metallic and flags)
* Added testing version of authentication.
* Fixed kick code.
* Fixed some stability issues.
* Changed AFK time. (10minutes = kick)
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Newest version can be downloaded here:

http://alpha.ets2mp.com

 
Yay, curious to see how the US Servers perform.

Just bought Turtles. I got an email to go to my order history to get the code...but there is nothing in my order history...so...yeah?

Edit: NVM, wasnt logged in when I ordered it so I had to manually look it up through the order number

Also, any interest in Guns of Icarus? It's PVP only, but concept looks cool.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/209080/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWOwLnR5Hrw

And Killing Floor is today's daily. Dont know if you guys like L4D, but its like that, with more gore and a stronger horror theme.

 
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I would give Guns of Icarus a shot at that price especially if we get the 4 pack collectors edition.

And the gamestop prices are changing too.  Arkham Origins is up to 7.50.  Still good but not a good as yesterday.

 
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I have Guns of Icarus already (got it in a bundle somewhere). I'd be up for trying it some time.

And yeah, I saw the Lego Marvel price went up to $4.99 too. Not sure how they're doing these deals, but it doesn't seem like a very structured system.

Turtles is still $3.74, so if anybody is considering it, I'd say go for it now just in case the price doesn't hold.

 
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Ah, if only two of us need to buy it, I'll probably wait till it hits another bundle
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Yeah, that was basically my thought with Killing Floor. I've passed it up several times, and it's been bundled before. If it comes back around again, maybe I'll think about it.

I played a bit of TMNT before I went to bed last night, and I can see what people complained about with the camera. It's got that thing where like when you're near a wall, the camera has a tendency to whip around in a non-smooth way. When you're in an open area, it works just fine though. You kind of notice it right away with how the game starts out...but it does get better. There are some great opportunities for parkour in the game too, lol :lol:

 
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I tried to get TMNT but kept getting an error on the gamestop website when it tried to process.  It keeps saying your order was not processed, please try again later.

Edit - finally got it to work.

 
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Yeah, Gamestop's digital fulfillment process is pretty awful (which they really need to step up if they don't want to turn into Blockbuster in a couple years). I didn't even have problems when I ordered mine, but my confirmation email said my key would be emailed separately...and then I didn't get that email until like 45 minutes later. Just not very timely when you consider the alternatives out there.

Anyway, like I mentioned to Brandon last night, holiday weekend, so I'll be around tonight if anybody wants to play anything. Actually, this coming week is the last week of school down here, so my availability will be opening up more with my wife home for the summer.

 
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