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JordanKai posted:"[...]You can play the entire game without taking a single life, employing non-lethal arrow types[...]" Without having seen the trailer, could it refere to the Water-arrows for putting out torches, or blunt arrows for activating switches?
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Does the PS4 have a "Playstation Plus" section like the PS3 does where you can just pull a list of whatever's free/discounted? I feel like it does, yet whenever I go there there's nothing in the section but advertising about how I should sign up for PS+. This isn't a big deal now as the system barely has any games on it but once there's more it's going to be a pain to have to search out every game individually. Is this a glitch I'm experiencing or is the PS+ "section" literally just there to tell you to sign up for something you already have quite a bit of time for.
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motherbox posted:So last page someone confirmed that a HDMI->DVI converter would work for the PS4. Am I correct in assuming that an HDMI->Component converter would cause some problems because it's a different type of signal? I've got a perfectly fine HDTV that's a bit old, so it doesn't have HDMI output, and I really can't justify replacing a perfectly good television. That TV would definitely be my preferred display to play on... HDMI is a completely digital signal whereas Component is a completely analog signal. You would need an HDMI to Component converter box (EDIT looks like you might be able to find them for $40ish), and would need it to bypass HDCP which might require an extra $20ish box (or waiting for the PS4 firmware patch promising to get rid of it). Each box would need a power source. As for audio, you can get analog audio only by connecting it directly into your controller. The system itself will only output audio through HDMI or optical out (although you can get a converter box for the optical, and the boxes alluded to earlier might have L/R RCA audio output). Ultimately with the cost of what you would need, it might more cost-effective to just replace the TV. univbee fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Feb 5, 2014 |
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The dudes in Outlast are the worst part, most of them are pretty friendly and you can just cruise around them high fiving. It's actually kinda frustrating that there's no real way to tell which ones will hit you - I guess that's the intent, to keep you "on edge" but instead it just makes me want to chill with the nice ones. The part after you get drugged in the beginning (?) reminds me a lot o Demon's Souls Tower of Latria though.
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Neo Rasa posted:Does the PS4 have a "Playstation Plus" section like the PS3 does where you can just pull a list of whatever's free/discounted? I feel like it does, yet whenever I go there there's nothing in the section but advertising about how I should sign up for PS+. This isn't a big deal now as the system barely has any games on it but once there's more it's going to be a pain to have to search out every game individually. I got tired of using the PS4 store. The phone app is way faster, and it shows all the devices
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Iacen posted:Without having seen the trailer, could it refere to the Water-arrows for putting out torches, or blunt arrows for activating switches? Those are there, but the line he is quoting was accompanied by footage of a knock-out gas-tipped arrow and a blunt melee weapon.
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Neo Rasa posted:Does the PS4 have a "Playstation Plus" section like the PS3 does where you can just pull a list of whatever's free/discounted? I feel like it does, yet whenever I go there there's nothing in the section but advertising about how I should sign up for PS+. This isn't a big deal now as the system barely has any games on it but once there's more it's going to be a pain to have to search out every game individually. I agree there is some work that needs to go into this, people bitch about Xbox Live Gold a lot but at least you can get you your new free games each month straight from the front page of the dashboard, it's a bloody chore to find stuff on PSN. This is going to be a right pain a couple of years down the line when the PS4 has a sizeable game collection.
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The best thing about Outlast is how the objective changes for the first time. So far anyway, shiiiiiit. Ghosts n Gopniks fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Feb 5, 2014 |
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Feb 5, 2014 15:51
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PhancyPants posted:I got tired of using the PS4 store. The phone app is way faster, and it shows all the devices Doesn't the phone app just pull up the website?
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Feb 5, 2014 15:52
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Aphrodite posted:Doesn't the phone app just pull up the website? Yup. The web store is the best way to do things anyway, even with the improvements on the PS4 (although that's entirely web-based too I guess).
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Feb 5, 2014 15:57
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Ularg posted:Those are there, but the line he is quoting was accompanied by footage of a knock-out gas-tipped arrow and a blunt melee weapon. There's supposedly an achievement for "Finished the game without a single kill or knockout". So it looks like it's entirely do-able to finish the game with pure stealth.
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Feb 5, 2014 16:00
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PlayStation Now is a joke, says Pachterquote:“PlayStation Now is a joke. There is no publisher that is going to license content that’s less than two-years old because they would be concerned that they can’t sell as many copies if they make it available for subscription or rental. Allow me to rephrase that: quote:“PlayStation Plus is a joke. There is no publisher that is going to license content that’s less than two-years old because they would be concerned that they can’t sell as many copies if they make it available for subscription. Patcher is so consistently wrong that it's pretty much guaranteed that the opposite of what he says will happen.
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Feb 5, 2014 16:42
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Michael Pachter might be right, but there is a 90% chance he is wrong. The dude is wrong often, and he even admits it. I don't know why so many people think he has any sort of credibility as a businessman. He even admits he doesn't understand the video game industry, the one industry he focuses on exclusively.
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Feb 5, 2014 16:46
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Michael Patcher is not aware that Sony has already convinced publishers to literally give away their less-than-1-year-old game for a one-time lump sum, I guess.
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Feb 5, 2014 16:47
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That loving Sned posted:PlayStation Now is a joke, says Pachter Nobody is going to license new games to this service for old games!
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Feb 5, 2014 16:51
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My issue with stuff like Dishonored or Thief touting their 'non-lethal' options is that using Gas arrows is no different to using another arrow to kill the dude you're knocking out. It's got no effect on your actions at all except that you click "Knockout Arrow" in your inventory instead of "Sharp Arrow" and you get +5 Good Points. EDIT: Also, yeah, I think Netflix proved that subscription based content providers don't ever work. Surprise T Rex fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Feb 5, 2014 |
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Feb 5, 2014 16:53
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That loving Sned posted:PlayStation Now is a joke, says Pachter Just like how no 3rd parties will put up free games on PS+ because it'll eat into their sales too! Except Bioshock Infinite, Hitman Absolution, Borderlands 2, Spec Ops: The line, Saints Row 3, Sleeping Dogs, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Bioshock 2, Payday 2..... I'm sure all of them were less then 2 years old when they went free, and a lot of them are less then 12 months old.
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Spalec posted:I'm sure all of them were less then 2 years old when they went free, and a lot of them are less then 12 months old. Sleeping Dogs wasn't even 10 months old when it went free.
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If NPCs can wake each other up when KOed, then there's a practical difference, but a lot of games don't do this.
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Feb 5, 2014 16:56
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univbee posted:HDMI is a completely digital signal whereas Component is a completely analog signal. You would need an HDMI to Component converter box (EDIT looks like you might be able to find them for $40ish), and would need it to bypass HDCP which might require an extra $20ish box (or waiting for the PS4 firmware patch promising to get rid of it). Each box would need a power source. I wouldn't mind throwing down $60 for a converter box that can bypass HDCP; that was my biggest concern. I'm having trouble finding one through Google--any recommendations? It's not too urgent, anyway. As long as the patch is out by the time Ground Zeroes is released, I don't really care.
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motherbox posted:I wouldn't mind throwing down $60 for a converter box that can bypass HDCP; that was my biggest concern. I'm having trouble finding one through Google--any recommendations? It's not too urgent, anyway. As long as the patch is out by the time Ground Zeroes is released, I don't really care. HDCP is kind of tricky because anything which bypasses it officially is technically illegal in the US. There are splitter boxes (1 HDMI to 2 HDMI) that will do it for like $20 but you have to do some digging for comments to make sure it does it (e.g. Sewell used to make one but I think more recently built ones don't). Some HDMI to Component boxes may do it directly without needing an extra box, too, Monoprice used to have one.
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MZ posted:I agree there is some work that needs to go into this, people bitch about Xbox Live Gold a lot but at least you can get you your new free games each month straight from the front page of the dashboard, it's a bloody chore to find stuff on PSN. This is going to be a right pain a couple of years down the line when the PS4 has a sizeable game collection. Don't remember how it is on the console, but on the web store go to the "PlayStation plus" section and then "free games" and voila you get a list of everything available for free (avatars and the other stuff have their own section).
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Hasn't the entire "rental" industry proven since the dawn of the VHS that having things for rent doesn't effect per unit sales at all?
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Well Outlast, I spent more time waiting for you to download than I'll spend playing you. I have just got to a door with a library sign on it and a guy fell from the ceiling I think.. Considering when I was young I'd play resident evil and silent hill even though parts scared the poo poo out of me the older I get the more I can't handle horror.
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What happened to Planetside 2 coming to PS4? I thought that was going to be in January. Has there been anymore updates?
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Planetside 2 is sadly back to "TBA."  xgalaxy posted:Hasn't the entire "rental" industry proven since the dawn of the VHS that having things for rent doesn't effect per unit sales at all? I have to disagree, up until the mid-nineties this was true because VHS prices wouldn't drop down to consumer level affordability until some time after a movie was already out of theaters (in some cases over a year after). Also keep in mind the lower time commitment with movies. With games if someone rents a game and doesn't love it, they're never going to pick it up again after that rental is over. With movies, if you love a movie, sooner or later you'll pay for it either via a streaming service, getting a blu-ray when it's on sale, something. Hell even look at the number of times you hear "Well I saw that movie again and actually..." Like if someone rented Skyrim, played it for ten hours and ended up not liking what they played. Six months later they're not going to think "Oh let me pick up that game I hated and play through the whole 30 hour deal!" Nintendo especially can attest to how they had a deal with Blockbuster Video where a few of their games were released exclusively to Blockbuster to rent out two weeks before they were released to other retailers to sell. I used to have numbers for this but in every case the games that did this ended up not selling so hot.
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I don't know why this guy keeps getting press whenever he makes a comment, he's not the freakin' Warren Buffet of video games or anything. If he knew anything about the industry he'd know that most of a game's sales are done in the first month or so after release then tail off massively after that, after 2 years it would have most likely been heavily discounted to a point where the publisher doesn't make much money off that unit sale anyway so you might as well get a cut of some subscription fee.
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So I saw that the Pulse headsets were added in the 1.60 update. Has there been any mention of the Turtle Beach PX4s? The fact that they are marketed as COMPLETELY WIRELESS EXPERIENCE is starting to annoy me every time I have to plug the chat cable in.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:So I saw that the Pulse headsets were added in the 1.60 update. Has there been any mention of the Turtle Beach PX4s? The fact that they are marketed as COMPLETELY WIRELESS EXPERIENCE is starting to annoy me every time I have to plug the chat cable in. The update targeted only Sony's own headsets because they have special OS integration. They don't actually use Bluetooth. Bluetooth is the problem right now. Apparently Sony has had trouble getting older Bluetooth devices to work with the PS4.
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Aphrodite posted:The update targeted only Sony's own headsets because they have special OS integration.
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Tangentially thread-related at best, but do we know when the "new" PSP Vita will hit the states?
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Samurai Sanders posted:Is this a problem with the Bluetooth protocol that I didn't know about? I expected the newer ones to be backwards compatible with older devices basically forever. I feel like the "problem" was too many people buying a $20 bluetooth piece for their PS3 gaming instead of a Sony or Turtle Beach headset.
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univbee posted:You're fine for the games themselves, but DVD's and Blu-ray will be a problem; the US is NTSC Region 1 for DVD and Region A for Blu-ray, while Sweden is, if memory serves, DVD PAL Region 2 and Blu-ray Region B. MrLonghair posted:It's an intelligent switching power supply so it's plug and play like PS2 and onwards. Being a safety-conscious man I'd say to make friends with somebody in the states in case you need an RMA in the near future of that US PS4. Kosh Naranek posted:Your questions seems to already have been answered, but I'll just throw in a few of my experiences. I personally don't really care about the whole blu ray / dvd playing thing. Still dumb that there are arbitrary restrictions. Then again, I have put a bluray into my PS3 once when we rented a few movies years upon years ago. Playing media from a USB stick or whatever should work just fine right? Or do they have more arbitrary bullshit restrictions on there? Since otherwise it is easily worth it and I have plenty of relatives in the US. But yeah, like Kosh Naranek said, I can just buy it from Amazon US or something (but I'm only there for a week so shipping times might screw me over if it is like Sweden) and have it shipped to my relative's house.
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Samurai Sanders posted:Is this a problem with the Bluetooth protocol that I didn't know about? I expected the newer ones to be backwards compatible with older devices basically forever. No idea, that's just what was said around launch. Torabi posted:I personally don't really care about the whole blu ray / dvd playing thing. Still dumb that there are arbitrary restrictions. Then again, I have put a bluray into my PS3 once when we rented a few movies years upon years ago. Playing media from a USB stick or whatever should work just fine right? Or do they have more arbitrary bullshit restrictions on there? Since otherwise it is easily worth it and I have plenty of relatives in the US. But yeah, like Kosh Naranek said, I can just buy it from Amazon US or something (but I'm only there for a week so shipping times might screw me over if it is like Sweden) and have it shipped to my relative's house. No. The PS4 is not a media player. It might come later.
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Torabi posted:I personally don't really care about the whole blu ray / dvd playing thing. Still dumb that there are arbitrary restrictions. Then again, I have put a bluray into my PS3 once when we rented a few movies years upon years ago. Playing media from a USB stick or whatever should work just fine right? Or do they have more arbitrary bullshit restrictions on there? Since otherwise it is easily worth it and I have plenty of relatives in the US. But yeah, like Kosh Naranek said, I can just buy it from Amazon US or something (but I'm only there for a week so shipping times might screw me over if it is like Sweden) and have it shipped to my relative's house. The PS4 currently won't play media from a USB stick or local network location at all, so no, this won't work, but may be coming in a future patch. The region codes thing is because movie studios are insane and try to make every country its own little world of distribution and releases. It's at least eased up a bit with Blu-ray; there are less region codes and a surprisingly large number of discs that are Region-free or at least A/B cross-compatible.
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Wait what, the PS4 can't play stuff from a memory stick? Isn't this like.. the most basic feature of all. How the gently caress is that not in? Not that it matters all that much either, if I watch a movie or whatever from a usb I just plug it into my fancy smart tv. (it's not that smart) Still, I'm surprised it can't.
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Rinkles posted:Don't remember how it is on the console, but on the web store go to the "PlayStation plus" section and then "free games" and voila you get a list of everything available for free (avatars and the other stuff have their own section). Even easier, just click this: https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-us/free-games/cid=STORE-MSF77008-PSPLUSFREEGAMES
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Torabi posted:Wait what, the PS4 can't play stuff from a memory stick? Isn't this like.. the most basic feature of all. How the gently caress is that not in? Not that it matters all that much either, if I watch a movie or whatever from a usb I just plug it into my fancy smart tv. (it's not that smart) You're not the only one. Surprisingly, Sony's response seems to be that they were surprised it was such a big deal. Hopefully they're being honest and will add DLNA and USB playback functionality at some point.
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So uhh, the new Strider game is coming out in two weeks.  That sure came out of the left field. And with Killer Instinct apparently being legitimately good maybe this game won't be so bad either!
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JordanKai posted:So uhh, the new Strider game is coming out in two weeks. Jeff Gerstmann seemed to like it on a recent Bombcast, though I think he just played a preview. I think Double Helix had some Capcom supervision for this, too.
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