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Damn it, I promised my dad and brother I'd wait until Christmas to see it with them so we can take the nephews.  PLEASE don't spoil anything.  I'm staying off Facebook.

 
Thermopyle said:
Why not see it twice?
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That was my plan with the new Bond movie until it sucked.

I will say that impressions here from people I trust are promising. I'm still not going to get too hyped yet, though. I took off work with some friends to see episode 1 at premiere and still remember how it didn't sink in how much it sucked until later after all the excitement about the new movies had died down. I'm not sure if any of you remember that or had the same experience. Back then it was unthinkable that the movies were going to be bad, and there was a lot of cognitive dissonance.

 
simmias said:
That was my plan with the new Bond movie until it sucked.

I will say that impressions here from people I trust are promising. I'm still not going to get too hyped yet, though. I took off work with some friends to see episode 1 at premiere and still remember how it didn't sink in how much it sucked until later after all the excitement about the new movies had died down. I'm not sure if any of you remember that or had the same experience. Back then it was unthinkable that the movies were going to be bad, and there was a lot of cognitive dissonance.
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I remember there were eight of us who went to see Episode 1 together. We had decided to go to a midnight showing at the new stadium-style seating theater, so a few of us went and stood in line for a couple of hours earlier that day to buy tickets. Then we got to the theater an hour or two early to make sure we got seats together. I still remember people cheering during various scenes of the movie. After the initial excitement of it being the new Star Wars movie wore off, I remember being very disappointed. Needless to say, I didn't worry about trying to see any of the subsequent movies day one.

The wife and I are planning to take the kids to see The Force Awakens this weekend.

 
Someone strung up four nuns in front of a Church in Just Cause 3, lol.

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I played a bit of JC3 after the update last night.  I didnt notice any improvement in frame rate when blowing shit up at the big bases.  I died a few times and played one challenge and the load times seemed normal (same as before) to me.  They may have only really fixed the issue with the random long load times.  I guess we will see as I and others play more.

 
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pharmacrest said:
I played a bit of JC3 after the update last night. I didnt notice any improvement in frame rate when blowing shit up at the big bases. I died a few times and played one challenge and the load times seemed normal (same as before) to me. They may have only really fixed the issue with the random long load times. I guess we will see as I and others play more.
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Avalanche said that they're working on the performance issues (mainly the frame rate stuff) for the next patch.

 
Vigilante said:
Avalanche said that they're working on the performance issues (mainly the frame rate stuff) for the next patch.
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Okay fine, but the patch notes for this one said performance issues as well. And in my very limited testing it appears that they didnt fix load times much. If they only fixed the random long load times thats fine and all but those were the least of my concerns. Oh well. Either way as long as they are working on it thats good.

 
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Sigh.
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Gotta love it. Last year they did extend the PSN sale so hopefully they'll do the same if it happens again this time. Luckily I've already got plenty of games downloaded to my PS4 and PS3 to play. I'll have to make sure I've got my Vita selections for the holiday ready as well, just in case.

 
pharmacrest said:
Okay fine, but the patch notes for this one said performance issues as well. And in my very limited testing it appears that they didnt fix load times much. If they only fixed the random long load times thats fine and all but those were the least of my concerns. Oh well. Either way as long as they are working on it thats good.
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Yeah, they definitely didn't address the load time for when you first start the game--I think that was nearly a full minute for me last night.

 
Thermopyle said:
Gotta love it. Last year they did extend the PSN sale so hopefully they'll do the same if it happens again this time. Luckily I've already got plenty of games downloaded to my PS4 and PS3 to play. I'll have to make sure I've got my Vita selections for the holiday ready as well, just in case.
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Yeah, I'll have to make sure to pop in a couple of new games so they can get whatever updates needed so I can be ready to play offline.

 
Thermopyle said:
This isn't a huge surprise. It's not really a justification for not allowing games to be emulated without trophies, but it at least tries to justify the additional cost of games with trophies added in.
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The only gripe about this whole thing that is remotely justifiable, is that there isn't some sort of upgrade fee for PS2 classics already purchased for PS3. The people who wanted disc emulation are insane and should've never expected that to happen. I'll wait on a sale, but I have no problem paying to play these games.

 
pharmacrest said:
I played a bit of JC3 after the update last night. I didnt notice any improvement in frame rate when blowing shit up at the big bases. I died a few times and played one challenge and the load times seemed normal (same as before) to me. They may have only really fixed the issue with the random long load times. I guess we will see as I and others play more.
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Yeah, I'm guessing the patch must have done something with the random extremely long load times. I didn't really notice any differences playing last night or this morning.

Vigilante said:
Yeah, they definitely didn't address the load time for when you first start the game--I think that was nearly a full minute for me last night.
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Tbh, this is the one that I really wanted them to work on. The other loads typically weren't too bad, but it takes forever for the game to first start up.

 
Not sure why you guys are worried about the start up load time.  GTA games always take forever to start.  The real issue is that once its loaded we shouldnt really have to deal with more than a second or two of loading in game.  I would rather they make the load time to start the game take 3-4 minutes and not have any or very quick (5 seconds or less) load times once in game.

 
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pharmacrest said:
Not sure why you guys are worried about the start up load time. GTA games always take forever to start. The real issue is that once its loaded we shouldnt really have to deal with more than a second or two of loading in game. I would rather they make the load time to start the game take 3-4 minutes and not have any or very quick (5 seconds or less) load times once in game.
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fuck that, I don't want to wait another 5 minutes to start a game.

 
I'm trying to avoid Star Wars spoilers too. Might not see it until next weekend. However, some asshole posted a Fallout 4 spoiler in a tweet of Hideo Kojima playing Fallout 4. It was like the 2nd reply. Smh. I only saw it because Bethesda retweeted it.
 
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Played some Battlefront last night. The training missions are a total snooze, but I guess necessary to learn the controls. Then I went into the suggested starting online mode and got myself super frustrated with all the dying. I suck so bad at FPSs. But for whatever reason I kept playing for a few hours. I guess it's alright.

 
pharmacrest said:
Not sure why you guys are worried about the start up load time. GTA games always take forever to start. The real issue is that once its loaded we shouldnt really have to deal with more than a second or two of loading in game. I would rather they make the load time to start the game take 3-4 minutes and not have any or very quick (5 seconds or less) load times once in game.
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Valid point I guess. I don't really play GTA games though, so no frame of reference there. I typically play games with fairly short load times at the beginning so it stands out more. The game itself doesn't seem to have to load much while playing normally and changing locations, and having to load for challenges makes sense to me because they have to add course and mission specific info.

That initial load time makes more sense now though, hadn't really thought about how little loading the game does when going from settlement to settlement or changing islands.

 
pharmacrest said:
Not sure why you guys are worried about the start up load time. GTA games always take forever to start. The real issue is that once its loaded we shouldnt really have to deal with more than a second or two of loading in game. I would rather they make the load time to start the game take 3-4 minutes and not have any or very quick (5 seconds or less) load times once in game.
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If it loaded like GTA did I wouldn't have bitched and probably would have played it after finishing the main story. I guess that is what I get for supporting a developer on release day. Actually If it wasn't for the Gamestop deal on used credit and having the game locally available I would have waited till probably January to play it.

I am glad they are patching it and trying to get it straightened out though.

 
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Hmm, looks like I'm going to have to finish Rogue Legacy on the PS3, this 15 deaths or less trophy with no architect is going to be really hard without easier save scumming on the PS3. The first rune I got on my first run was a damn curse up rune.

Got the last blueprint and finished off NG+ last night.

 
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Backlog_Overload said:
My PS4 fans recently have been loud as hell. Most everything I read online says it's normal. Any of you guys had this happen?
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I can't say I have experienced this with either my PS4s. The disc drive can make some noise when it spins up but even that isn't too bad. It is normally fairly quiet. Then again I usually play with my Golds on so maybe I am just not noticing it. But I don't think so.

 
guardian_owl said:
Hmm, looks like I'm going to have to finish Rogue Legacy on the PS3, this 15 deaths or less trophy with no architect is going to be really hard without easy save scumming on the PS3. The first rune I got on my first run was a damn curse up rune.

Got the last blueprint and finished off NG+ last night.
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Just git gud and plat it on Vita like I did.

 
Those Apple Store bastards won't exchange a sealed Apple Watch without a receipt (from the Apple Store, online or offline). So I just opened it. Maybe at some point down the road I'll get a 3rd party leather watch band for it. Kind of wish it was the larger size watch now, but you take what you can get for free!

Seems cool, though a little confusing how it works at first. I definitely like the basic functionality of it sending alerts to the watch so you can quickly glance at it and access if it's something you want to address. I thought that was going to be obnoxious, but actually it's the opposite. And of course it's a watch and shows the weather and next calendar event and other stuff on there. Other stuff I haven't used enough to decide how useful it is. At least some of the 3rd party apps I have are pretty iffy.

Having a sedentary job and one where I forget to do this, I like the reminders to stand up for a minute every hour. 

 
Did anyone else pick up one of these special Star Wars movie tins last night?

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I got the one on the top right. Kind of wanted the top left, but I really don't need two giant popcorn tins sitting around. They're pretty cool though. #merchandisingwhore

 
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