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Hey Nowcry. I've merged your accounts and given you your original username. Let me know if there's anything else I can help with.
While dancing, did any met this goofy guy in Yakuza 0? The horniest man in the game, known as Mr. Libido.
I would love the choice to punch him, he's too irritating.Done his quests though.
I think this is where Michael Nakazowa from AEW got his gimmick from, wtf.
TheAssist
Member
Its funny that during console and new PC hardware hype phase I always learn so much about hardware. Not even sarcastically (well, not entirely), but there is so much content out there that tries to explain stuff to common folk that at the end of the day I have learned something.
I learned much more about how I/O influences cpu and gpu performance, what role the API has, how teraflops work and in what scenarios clock speed is important. I actually think thats really cool. You hast have to find trustworthy sources, which is the hardest part.
I learned much more about how I/O influences cpu and gpu performance, what role the API has, how teraflops work and in what scenarios clock speed is important. I actually think thats really cool. You hast have to find trustworthy sources, which is the hardest part.
Leo_Barcellos
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I dont know why so many people didn't like HZD... Maybe because the facial animations? Well, i loved the game, and i'm waiting the sequel.
GRIEVEZ
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3liteDragon
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Thought that was an actual person for some fucking reason lolHype
MasterCornholio
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3liteDragon
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ONE MORE DAY. (Ik I can't stop saying it, but controller looks futuristic and sexy af)
BadBreathOfTheWild
Banned
It's the same for me. The hype and wait leads to binge reading and a renewed interest.
I think rather than trying to find a single trustworthy source it pays to read from as many different sources as possible. The things they agree on are likely pretty accurate. The things they might contradict each other on tells you where to focus your research. Everyone has biases. Literally everyone. And that's OK so long as you can recognise them, and also recognise your own and are aware of them if your goal is actually to understand something instead of just convincing yourself and your tribe of what you/they want to hear.
It's much more useful to learn how to find things out than to find some oracle(s) to do it for you.
You always need to find the source of any claim being made to see if it's being presented accurately or not. No end of times a careful reading/listening to the source of information can actually show it makes the opposite point someone was quoting it for, because they only half understood it but felt compelled to make a YouTube video or article on it anyway.
It's also critical to pay attention to the words being used and not jump to conclusions or make assumptions about what is being said, as when Linus was told "PS5's storage architecture is ahead of anything on PC", but instead heard "PS5's SSD is faster than anything you can buy for PC".
The Dunning-Kruger effect is real, and the people often most confident and passionate in telling you how something is are typically the ones that know the least about it. They know just enough to now think they're an expert. Some people get off on imagining people thinking they're an expert and will try to make what they write as jargon filled as possible to put some more weight behind what they don't really understand.
If your only interest is to genuinely try to learn more about how things work and what to expect then hype and speculation threads like this are full of these kinds of snares. Some people care more about what others might think than finding out what is really the case. Some people care more about how their tribe is perceived than any kind of interest in how things really work. I even think some people—on some level—believe that if they argue some technical point hard enough, and convince enough people that they're right about it, that reality will morph to fit what they believe.
There's a lot of cool information floating around about next-gen, and what advances we might expect to see, but to get to that information you need to brush aside and deal with some bizarre people that ultimately don't really care about that information—even if they superficially seem like they do—but ultimately care more about how they appear to others, and how their "team" appears to others.
Always find the original source of some information and check it. Always have as many different varied sources as possible.
It was just a known fact for some that PS5 has some expensive and cutting-edge cooling going on. I was even given a source for that claim recently, but the source didn't say anything of the sort. It merely said that typically console cooling solutions have a cost price of around a dollar, and that Sony could be spending more than that.
"Expensive and cutting-edge" cooling conjures images of water cooling or something, but in the context of the original source article that only really hinted at "expensive" in the context of it usually being $1 worth of basic fan and heatsink. Even $5 worth of multiple smaller fans would be 5x more expensive than typical, but is hardly "expensive and cutting-edge" in the world of cooling in general.
i’m intrigued by what Cerny has done with the audio.He says you only need headphones to experience it.Dolby Atmos listening on headphones is already mind blowing ,so if he has beaten that ,then it will quite literally sound astonishing,can’t wait to find out soon.
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ToadMan
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You know I tried to pick up HZD recently after buying it at launch - HZD2 might be a launch game after all.
But I just don't enjoy it. That USGamer review that was linked earlier sums up my thoughts on it. The story just doesn't grab me, I don't feel connection to the characters or their plight and I don't really like the enemy design - I find the whole tech mismatch post apocalyptic setting a bit labored.
That, coupled with the graphics - I didn't love them that much. I can see they're technically impressive but it felt like an open world where there wasn't much "space". For me RDR2 was a good open world - I like the idea of a wilderness and the "role playing" that comes from happening upon strange events, friends and enemies, wildlife and so on..
I just didn't get that from HZD - there were the robots, boars, foxes and the occasional brave who didn't have much to say.
Maybe I didn't get far enough into it - but I do remember one point where I decided to put it down again recently. I think I was going into mothers crown - I'd taken a strider and sprinted to the place and on the way a couple of robo-wolves got agro'd and chased me. They chased me right to the bridge entrance to Mother's Crown where there's a sentry post.
I go off my "horse" and prepared to be attacked - but the wolves didn't cross the bridge (fair enough) but the sentry, right there above them did absolutely nothing too. I thought the sentry would at least fire a few arrows or pretend to comprehend the world.
To me that kind of things just breaks what role playing and immersion I could feel for it - in that moment it's obviously a game to play, not a world to discover. I saved and switched off and I don't have much interest to return...
I'm not that interested about HZD2 unless it's a much better experience. As it stands if that's the PS5's only notable launch game I probably wouldn't pick one up at launch.
T-Cake
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I've never really bothered about sound in games - still using my tinny TV speakers - but it sounds like I'm going to need to get a decent pair of headphones for next-gen.
thurnishaleygw
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Bang & Olufsen? Expensive stuff, for sure, but they know how to make audio devices. I'm guessing it's going to be some kind of headset, speakers, or something along those lines.
Chankoras
Member
Housemarque maybe preparing to show something https://www.videogameschronicle.com...tedly-preparing-an-ambitious-ps5-launch-game/
zaitsu
Banned
still their wireless headphones are worse than Sony's XM3. But B&O speakers are top notch.
ToadMan
Member
Well at least it isn't Bose...
I love it when MS tries to go "apple premium". I predict one badged product (gaming headset or some surround system) and then never heard of again...
Neo Blaster
Member
You don't have much technical knowledge, do you? Because if you had, you'd know you've just compared apples to oranges.
zaitsu
Banned
i think its time to learn something about hardware architecture if you want to post here anything
lepermessiah
Member
This post needs to be nailed to every gaming site in the land. Fantastic and informative. I knew Cerny was a genius but this just cements it further. It's like 36 trucks not having to stop and throw out a lil fishy caught in their cargo. Each truck will be full and reach their destination faster and more efficiently on average. This thing is TIGHT.
thurnishaleygw
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Oh, on the headphone front of things I agree, they tend to overdo the bass, but their speakers are absolutely magnificent.
pasterpl
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yeah, we can be sure that it will be something expensive, they even mention “high end segment“ within gaming, so probably it will be $999 headset
Neo Blaster
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I loved the game, I've got the platinum trophies for the main campaign and Frozen Wilds. Story, graphics and ranged combat are amazing, but I didn't enjoy melee combat and the climbing. I hope they get improved in the sequel. Oh, and we need flight, of course.
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T-Cake
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thurnishaleygw
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Well, the H9 (their best wireless headphones) retail for around $500, if I remember correctly, so, maybe not that much, but still...yeah, we can be sure that it will be something expensive, they even mention “high end segment“ within gaming, so probably it will be $999 headset
Alot of headphone partnerships usually end up just being branding. You see it with a lot of mobile phones partnering with headphone companies. They claim all this and that, usually just ends up being branded headphones with custom audio profile on the phone. I imagine this being much the same. I dont even know why they bothered partnering with them anyway, dont microsoft already make a good set of headphones.
thurnishaleygw
Member
Well, Bang & Olufsen have a certain gravitas in the world of audio, and they're catering to the high-end segment, meaning most likely expensive price, so, they're probably not gonna be direct competition to anything Microsoft has out there. I don't think anything revolutionary it's gonna come out of this partnership, at all, but it's not a bad idea, in my opinion.
pasterpl
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lepermessiah
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I'm still wondering why there are fish in the pools though!
Truck driver gets horny and has a cheeky dip, let's the fish out.
thurnishaleygw
Member
The H9i are a bit older than the 3rd gen H9, though, right? I'm not sure, confusing branding makes me mix the date of release of thingsi have got h9i from their website for £245 during Black Friday sale
TBiddy
Member
Just the right reaction. There's stupidity, and then there's posts like the one you're responding to. Jesus christ.
Gamernyc78
Banned
Don't know what this even means. My tcl six series 65inch has great HDR, full gamut, dimming etc and only cost 750 and I out it against tvs tht are 2000 and rtngs will tell you the same. Pound for pound it is a beast. My games look sublime.
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TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
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