Star Citizen is an actual game people play now and not just a magic box you can deposit money into?
Newbie Question.
If I was just interested in buying GTA 4 for PS4, is there a better way, cheaper way than going down to Gamestop and paying $35? Is there like a playston.com other website/program/something to where you can rent/buy games?
Edit: that wasn’t directed to you, War. Wrong btn.
Until you run across something that card (gtx 1080) can’t handle, and I can’t imagine there’s much atm, I wouldn’t bother upgrading but I’m a late adopter budget guy when it comes to video cards so ymmv
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Thanks.
An employee at Gamestop told me that the re created GTA4 for PS4 but I couldn’t fin anything on the internet to confirm that. The PS online store is perfect.
I was under the impression the OS loads everything it needs into main memory, but I could be way wrong.
Cool fact, there are top of the line ssd’s that are nearly as fast as RAM. It’s really awesome stuff. But those are industrial grade and cost 10’s of G’s. I got to play with those at my old job. I miss that.
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Oh man I’d love to see one in action. Seems like at some point they’d get so fast that more speed would just be redundant. PCIe 4.0 is already like ludicrous speed
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finished chapter 1 of Tell Me Why, chapter 2 is out tomorrow and then 3rd on the 10th.
Its fine, I’m interested to continue the story. I only made it through a couple hours of Life is strange and still plan to go back to play that.
also played a few hours of the new battletoads game if anyone ever played those growing up its a pretty solid redo of it. The hoverbike part is very nostalgic for me.
also gamepass is legit, playing all of this on gamepass including crosscode, going to try wasteland 3 as well.
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I only played the dam mission so far but wasteland seems really good, not too deep on the rpg side it seems and very manageable.
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Free on Uplay: Far Cry 3
I’d buy this just to play Mario 64 on the Switch. This will be an instant purchase.
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My hands are too big for the switch controller. Seriously the only thing that’s stopped me from buying one.
No Super Mario Bros 2?
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They are releasing Super Mario All stars 1 as well which includes Super Mario Bros, 2, 3, and lost levels.
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Yah they are doing a ton of Mario stuff to celebrate the 35th anniversary
So has anyone been playing CK3? I put in a few hours last night, it’s definitely more streamlined and user friendly than CK2, but it’s still got a lot of depth.
I started my dynasty as the Duke of Moray in northern Scotland. After some minor expansion, picking up neighboring counties and isles, and the untimely death of King Malcolm III, I somehow ended up with a claim to the Kingdom of Scotland. Waited until the new king overextended himself fighting Norway and England, and struck. I’m now the King of Alba, a new Gaelic nation formed from Scotland’s ashes. I’ve spent some time consolidating power, developing my holdings, and controlling factions formed against me, and am now starting to pick off Irish counties. At some point I’ll conquer England as well, but I think a war of that scale might leave me vulnerable to an attack from Scandinavia.
On that note, Norway currently holds about 60-70% of the land area in Scandinavia but is super weak and my son married a nice Norwegian girl which afforded him a claim to the Kingdom of Norway. I can basically take it at any time, but then I’d have to deal with Denmark/Sweden constantly fighting me across the sea and it just doesn’t seem prudent at the moment.
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Once an MMO launches, it takes very little population to keep it going. Look at the link Chuck posted, you’ll see there are MMOs that are still going with fewer than 10k active players. Even making expansions only takes a skeleton crew of developers.
I think what you saw is that for a while the industry , short-sighted as it is, kept trying to make a “WOW-killer”…which all basically ended up being WOW clones. A lot of those died or quickly went to a free-to-play model. Monetization/payment models for MMOs is a huge factor in their continued lifespan, and once new games stopped trying to launch as subscription-only, the genre stabilized.
It seems the equilibrium is a hybrid subscription and F2P model where most features are available F2P and a sub gets you “premium” stuff. Unless you’re WOW which doesn’t need to do that, or FF14 because you’re not a US developer and you can do whatever the fuck you want and still be popular because it’s Final Fantasy.
Disclaimer: I play FF14, and am biased. The subscription is $14.99/month, which is a fucking steal for the $/hour of entertainment ratio it gives.
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A lot of mmos banked money by offering everything for pre-ordering or early backing and then failed miserably or are still in development as well. Another thing is that most everyone expects a company to put out a “wow-killer” like you said right at release. WOW has been fixing bugs, making game play better and adding expansions for like 16 years or something. That’s a pipe dream.
Best mmo of all time was star wars galaxies. I got the rank of jedi knight after about ~10k hours played.
Yea…it really took that much.
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