[Loki Laufeyson]

profiles are pointless bullshit
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[Talbain]

[Broco]

The PC component industry is cutthroat, so I would not expect that markups above core production/distribution cost form a large portion of the price (with a few exceptions, like Intel's markup on their CPUs, and the RAM cartel from a few years back).

If you buy a 1000$ PC today, you get hardware that's a *lot* more powerful than a PS3 or 360. Back in 2006 when they came out, those consoles were somewhat more powerful than a 1000$ PC, but they were also being sold at a big loss.

[Toptube]

[Broco]

I can still blame Sony for not letting me delay system updates until when it's convenient, and for not bundling in patches in the initial download of downloadable games. What's more, the only game I've played on my PS3 that involves anything like online multiplayer is Demon's Souls. I could care less about the minor bugfixes that most patches include for single-player games, and there's certainly no reason to force them except control freakery.

I realize patches are in principle an improvement over the previous no-patch world we used to have, but the way it's done right now just isn't what it should be. The way Chrome does it is the gold standard: it does it entirely in the background and loads the new version whenever you happen to restart, never mentions it with so much as a popup or corner icon, and also applies clever patch compression algorithms so that they are generally far less than a megabyte. By all means, do your patching, but I as a user/player don't care and it's a UI failure if it ever interrupts me.

Also, one hardware gimmick I've been wishing for is for systems to be able to do background downloading while in sleep mode. It seems like given a bit of flash memory and some clever decoupling of the network chip and the CPU, this could be made to work. That way, I could turn on my PS3 and find the system update already downloaded.

[Toups]

I mostly value the used games market because it's often the only way to find obscure and out of print games.

of course if everything goes downloadable (which I imagine it will 5 years from or so) then that will not be a concern... I rarely buy current gen games used but it's really the only option for anything pre-PS2. which gamestop doesn't sell anyway so I guess there's really no point in me ever setting foot inside one except for the vain and dying hope of finding a copy of ninja 5-0...
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[Rud31]

SONIC HAT

SONIC HAT!

SONIC HAT!!!!
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[cake]

Broco, automated downloading of updates is available with the Playstation Plus subscription.

[SuperWes]

[Teflon]

[firenze]

Fucking cocksuckers at Fry's wouldn't let me buy Gunblade NY/LA Machineguns for Wii last night. They had like a dozen of them sitting on the shelf, the confused Korean kid at the counter said it wouldn't ring up because the game wasn't out yet... but his computer also said it had a release date Tuesday 8/24. Manager looked at it too and got confused, then told me too bad. But they could hold a copy of it until 8/31 for me. Screw that. It's for sale and shipping now from Best Buy (online, not in my local store) and Amazon now. Gamestop does list it as 8/31.

Now, I know that stores might get in trouble for stuff like breaking release dates on major games (Halo, Madden, etc.) or consoles... but COME ON, it's an obscure Wii game. It had probably been sitting on the shelf since Tuesday, and I was obviously the FIRST person to try to buy it on Thursday night since this confusion was new to everyone. Really people, you're not gonna get in trouble for selling a game that none of your customers (except me!) even give a shit about buying.

So yeah I'll be buying it somewhere else. Now that I think about it, the two games I DID play last night (Dodonpachi Daioujou and Ace Combat Zero), if they were blended together, do have a little bit of the same vibe as Gunblade. I must have been compensating. Still, it's just not the same and I still feel angry at Fry's.

[analogos]

grr dudes trying not to lose their jobs and shit fuck fuck fuck

[Loki Laufeyson]

i don't think he's annoyed at the employees as much as the mindless store policy that forced them into that situation
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[firenze]

[Broco]

This kind of thing has been par for the course for me whenever I've tried to buy new stuff at retail game stores lately, they're just bizarrely unreliable, inconvenient and rude all around. That whole industry is gonna get annihilated by online stores of various kinds pretty soon I bet.

[analogos]

[Toto]

policy at ebgames here in aus is that if a competitor breaks the street date, and you can provide proof (they usually ring up to find out), then they are able to do the same.
it kinda makes sense that they could do that, no?

[Predator Goose]

There should be a thread for noteworthy steam sales because both flavors of Mount & Blade are on sale right now.

If there is such a thread, I'm sorry, I'm lazy.
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I can no longer shop happily.

[Talbain]

So we all expected this, but... man.
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[Rud31]

Didn't think G4 would actually be critical.
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[Lance Boyle]

[Loki Laufeyson]

[Ymer]

Childhood trauma can be a real bitch


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[Knurek]

I've recently decided to jump on the whole chronogaming wagon, and with a friend of mine we started a weekly blog concentrating on the GBA games (the whole system is almost 10 years old, so kind of retro, I guess. Plus, as a bonus, almost no fugly 3D to be had there).

Hope at least some of you will find it worth the read. :)

http://gbaweekly.wordpress.com/

[Dracko]

[firenze]

[Talbain]

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

[Dracko]

How is that, DAIS?

The only possible way Other M could be considered of any worth whatsoever is if it was actually about Samus Aran's struggle with overcoming her crippling autism, and even then that would only make it slightly more awful than a Lifeline movie.

Oh, and it plays like garbage too.
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[firenze]

How do all of you know how Other M plays? Have you spent a lot of time with the (not yet released) game? Do you all have review copies or pirated copies, or what? Or is this speculation?

[Mr Mustache]

Actually sounds like it's pretty cool to play.
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[Ymer]

Telltale Games is making something. There is no information at all about it, not even a title, except a trailer that said "Bet you never thought these guys would get together" then showed this:


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[Toptube]

[glossolalia]

here's a decent example

[oh my god immaculate]

[RobotRocker]

[oh my god immaculate]

so more chintzy looking junk from them :/

[Sniper Honeyviper]

Dual-core PCs to be housed in authentic Commodore 64 shells.

[cassievania]

I guess the telltale thing is better then thinking it'd be an adventure game with all those characters involved.
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[The Troops]

is that the tf2 heavy

[loempiavreter]