-
Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!
Xbox Project Scorpio Announced - 6TFlops, 320GB/s - Fall 2017
- Thread starter wachie
- Start date
- Status
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Especially given that no one really watched the Wire. I only knew he was in the Wire from Quantum Break threads mentioning it before release. I never watched the Wire and I'm 36.
What? Seriously? No one watched the wire but, everyone played Quantum Break?
There's a whole world outside of Xbox games, you should occasionally come up for air.
I'm on season 3 so far, pretty good show.
I almost feel like if you're a frequent GAF'er its an even better experience because you suddenly realize where a bunch of reaction gifs come from and its kind of surreal
Hesemonni
Banned
Not giving Reach the MCC treatment clearly has consequences.
Theonik
Member
Make me.There are people here who haven't watched The Wire?
Sorry, couldn't resist. Go watch it!
Bits N Pieces
Member
At least we found something we can all unite over.
The Wire is fucking amazing and you're lesser for not having seen it.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
I know you're trying to be clever with this post, but think a bit more.
We're on a Gaming forum. In an Xbox related thread. The assumption would be that when you post a gif of Lance in here, more posters are probably going to recognise him from an Xbox game than a TV Show that didn't set the world on fire.
I know the Wire. I tried to get into the show a couple of years back. Didn't grab me. But the Wire was hardly a show that had an impact in the TV zeitgeist of its time. Lance Reddick isn't a big name actor.
Guess what? Nolan North was on TV Before Uncharted!!! Shocking I know. But guess where 99.99% of GAF members will know him from if you asked?
CassidyIzABeast
Member
onemanasylum
Banned
At least we found something we can all unite over.
The Wire is fucking amazing and you're lesser for not having seen it.
Best show ever imo.
This is totally wrong, the wire's impact was massive......it took awhile but people caught on, the show got it's due after it aired, and is mentioned/referenced all over the place. The Wire is one of the most ordered shows in HBO history, right up there with sopranos....
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Hence why I said "of its time". Like other shows, it's populatrity grew after the fact.
It's not like Breaking Bad which exploded straight away and turned Cranston into a household name. Point is, I can completely understand why a gamer on a gaming forum in an Xbox thread would recognise Lance Reddick as a Quantum Break actor as opposed to the Wire.
That was ultimately the point.
onemanasylum
Banned
Ok I get ya, but FYI, BB never exploded, it was nearly cancelled several times, it was not until S4 people caught on, gen pop slow lol.
In Service
Member
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
By the time real news about this damn machine pop up, I won't know because the thread sticking to the front page tells me jack shit.
onemanasylum
Banned
1. The Wire
2. Breaking Bad
3. The Sopranos
going back to a question that I posed earlier, do we have any idea if this will output games in Dolby Atmos or is that done by the publisher directly? I'm upgrading my Home Theater reciever soon and will get some Atmos / Ceiling speakers shortly.
2. Breaking Bad
3. The Sopranos
going back to a question that I posed earlier, do we have any idea if this will output games in Dolby Atmos or is that done by the publisher directly? I'm upgrading my Home Theater reciever soon and will get some Atmos / Ceiling speakers shortly.
Jaguar Victory
Member
Breaking Bad was complete shit compared to the wire.
I would imagine like any source for sound, the developers are going to have to code their games to actually support Atmos. I'm sure the Atmos receivers can do some auto processing to use those height speakers like Dolby Pro Logic did with center and surround speakers but that's not really what the people who have these systems want. Hell, people get mad when their receivers DTS-HD lights don't come on.
onemanasylum
Banned
Nah, The Wire is amazing but season 5 was full of poor storylines that did not fit with the rest of the show, first half of season 2 is not great either, it's not perfect. BB had some of the deepest characterisations and best acting you will ever see. Sure its not deeply realistic like the wire, but it's TV.
The Wire still the GOAT though
Sorry man, I'm just joking around. This is my "You've never seen Goodfellas?!!" post.
I really feel The Wire had a huge impact. I consider it to be the single best TV show ever made, and I'm not the only one that feels this way. I think you will enjoy it.
Dee Dah Dave
Member
if there is ever any actual news there will most definitely be a new thread about it. we got a thread when a slide showed up at an AMD booth for fucks sake
Breaking Bad doesn't even enter the equation with those other shows. Come on.
Captain Zyrain
Member
AfterTheFall
Member
There's got to be some big games at launch to entice consumers to part with what's likely to be a lot of cash.
I'm hoping for some big guns other than Halo, Forza and Gears.
Get Rare to create a couple of games like we had at the Xbox 360 launch and I'm all set.
I'm hoping for some big guns other than Halo, Forza and Gears.
Get Rare to create a couple of games like we had at the Xbox 360 launch and I'm all set.
onemanasylum
Banned
Disagree....BB is fantastic, i'd put it over sopranos which was great in 1999....because the rest of TV was way behind, but it had a lot of poor episodes, heck you could miss 3-4 episodes in Sopranos and miss nothing, plot was not great. Characters and dialog were awesome though.,
Zeuanimals
Member
Well, they need to announce stuff for later so we can play that later. And then when we're playing that stuff that was announced 1 or 2 years ago, they're announcing stuff 1 or 2 years from now again. The trick is to actually release the games, that way it won't be dry and we can look forward to something in the future.
I don't even watch E3 for the games, necessarily. It's more the hype. It's an event and a thing of its own that's fueled by game announcements, demoes, interviews, etc.
Platform holders can't pull Fallout 4 type reveals often. They're being watched with magnifying glasses and need to constantly wow people every year or else people won't buy their systems. Bethesda can stay dormant for years and not say anything until they feel like it. Sony, Nintendo, and MS would need to publish dozens of more games every year to be able to wow people with announcements of games that are releasing in that very year.
Amen. Sopranos > The Wire
Both are excellent. Agree that Breaking Bad isn't in the same league, the acting and subtle nods to established character traits is unbelievable, nothing comes close to the writing in these 2 shows.
Mad Men belongs with these giants. I love Braking Bad, but no.
IncognitoPanda
Member
Add Deadwood to that list, imo. I didn't think Mad Men was that great, although I enjoyed it.
Probably similar to 900p to 1080p comparisons.
Crayon
Member
Hmm. That's probably right. Especially since you would need to look at like a quarter of a 4k screen to properly inspect it on a 1080 monitor.
visiblemode
Member
And yet it's on every "most influential" and "greatest all time" TV show list? It's a major influence.
The Wire didn't grab me until about half way through season 1 then I couldn't stop watching. It's takes a bit to get settled in the groove of the characters which is why I think I didn't care for it at the beginning. Definitely persist and it will get you.
Bobnob
Member
I'd be happy with a disk driveless digital only version of scorpio, i think the amount of sales(not that long after games release i add,bf1 tf2 just recently) we've seen on X1 make this option apeal to me.
I doubt a diskless version would happen but it would be nice to have the option.
I doubt a diskless version would happen but it would be nice to have the option.
hanspampel
Banned
Fess
Member
No UHD drive? As an alternative, sure. But for me it would be seriously bad, PS4 Pro is bad enough, Switch is not helping me either, Scorpio too without UHD drive would honestly piss me off, especally since XB1S have one.
What's this?
In Service
Member
Caught between a rock and a hard place on this one.
Would love a diskless Scorpio in theory but if I get one then my XBO-S then has to stay under the TV for UHD purposes. Torn.
- Status