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Soygen

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Nice. I haven't played Dragon's Dogma before. I hope the two PS4 games are decent.
 

Sean_sl

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Nice. I haven't played Dragon's Dogma before. I hope the two PS4 games are decent.
Dragon's Dogma is a great RPG. I can't wait until Capcom makes a PS4 sequel for it.

Not sure about Contrast, but Resogun looks great if you're into shmups. Resogun also looks awesome on a technical level. Crazy amount of voxels and the shitty youtube quality videos don't do it justice.

 

Noodleface

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On a totally tangentially related note, does anyone have some articles or technical documentation or something about how optimization works for consoles, and how the switch over to x86 is going to affect that in the long run (if it somehow makes it so that there is less of potential gap between launch games and end of cycle games)? Or even like an educated explanation.
I think with an x86 instruction set we're going to see developers having an easier time developing games for the system as it's something they are pretty familiar with. I think the main benefit is just that. I don't have any links to documentation, but my guess would be the games are better optimized given x86 is so common.
 

Lenwen

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Wow, great month for psn+. Just the other day I was thinking about purchasing Soul Sacrifice and Dragon's Dogma, glad I held off on the purchase.
 

Noodleface

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Seems like the xboner is being shit on in every aspect, and rightfully so. What does it actually have going for it?
 

Vorph

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Binary Domain is a great game, but the PC version was much better and is very often on sale for $5. Dark Arisen will be cool, since I refuse to buy it again and GameFly never carried it, but EU gets MGR: Revengeance and Remember Me.
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(Edit: NM, that was this month... it says November on the EU blog but those games both were given on 10/23)

Pretty surprised to see Soul Sacrifice on PS+ already though--in NA anyway, usually just EU gets games that are only 6 months old. My Vita collection is getting to the point where I'm strongly considering buying one, especially since PS4 isn't even worth looking at for 9-12 months minimum.
 

Malakriss

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They'll have to switch to metric so they don't associate themselves with boners and five
 

Ritley

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I am pleasantly surprised by the NA PS+ offering. I probably bitch the most about how Europe always gets better free games, but this month is a good one. Probably to coincide with ps4 release, but hopefully it will stay strong into December.
 

Xarpolis

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So, does a 7200 RPM hard drive really get that warm? I've never noticed it in the past, but people have mentioned that putting a warm HDD in their PS3 caused it to brick. I doubt similar issues would happen with the PS4, especially with how much venting it has in the rear, but you never know.
 

Ritley

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Lol at one of the comments on the PS+ blog about a 2 player co-op game

The only game I was interested in is Ibb & Obb, but since my wife just left me, it's not really going to do me any good. But I suppose I have bigger problems right now than figuring out what game to play.
 

Sean_sl

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So, does a 7200 RPM hard drive really get that warm? I've never noticed it in the past, but people have mentioned that putting a warm HDD in their PS3 caused it to brick. I doubt similar issues would happen with the PS4, especially with how much venting it has in the rear, but you never know.
No, HDD heat is a total non-issue. Anyone claiming that one bricked their PS3 is completely full of shit and just had an old PS3 that was dying anyways.
 

sebur

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I mean I personally know people that work for a large electronics retailers that has a microsoft funded store in it and they constantly bad mouth the xboxone so if that is anywhere near the same across the company then ya....also last I heard from them they had double the ps4 preorders at their store than xboxone. Point being if you don't think the word will get out and if you don't think there is a constant laughing at microsoft in the public right now then you would be mistaken.
 

Phaenos_sl

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Wow, November's PS+ offerings are fantastic. I was very close to buying Soul Sacrifice in October to take advantage of the $10 for $50 spent deal and ended up not in the 11th hour. Really kind of worked out for me this way. It's crazy, my Vita game collection is massive now and the only game I've really spent money on (outside of the PS+ sub) was P4G. If you've been a PS+ member for awhile, the free game library alone over the course of the last year and half has made the cost of the Vita worth it in spades.

I've always wanted to play Dragon's Dogma as well. Heard amazing things about it.