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This is great!
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A couple days late but what a finale in this game
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$2,000 is a decent budget for an upper mid-range build. He'll need a good monitor and peripherals to go with it but those really do add to the cost especially a good monitor to really get the most out of the graphics card. I recently had to replace my PC with a £1,400 pre-build but thankfully I already had £500+ worth of hardware recently upgraded before I bought just the unit itself. For $2k, he'd be looking at an i5/i7 with a high clock speed 4+ GHz total, GTX 1070/1080, 16gb DDR4 RAM, an SSD plus HDD and a decent cooler. Graphics card prices are mental right now so he may even be best going for a solid pre-build where the price hasn't been bolstered to accommodate the individual hrowing prices of cards. This is what I had to do - spend £1400 on a pre-build or £1,700 with the components separately - usually it's the other way round! In terms of a monitor, a high refresh rate is key to get the most out of the card. Don't want to be rocking a 60hz vintage with a 1080ti for instance.
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Don't get me wrong; I believe the Destiny YouTubers/Streamers have good intentions but I don't believe Activision or Bungie are doing this for the most productive reasons. What usually happens is these targeted people get flown out and get to play and record pre-produced content for their channel to promote with along with a script. I also don't believe any feedback given in this time will be effective and that's if these pampered people even have the balls to do so. Bungie have already blacklisted a string of critics and people who stopped playing so unless they've had an overnight epiphany, I can't see them welcoming damning criticism especially on their doorstep. Real and serious closed testing events like this are usually watertight and done in total private so if this is done as a charade; I'll be very sceptical of any benefit for doing it. This happens every year in COD and we always get broken, unbalanced games that need multiple patches and updates despite the likes of Nadeshot saying it's 'perfect in every way imaginable' so I really have to take things like this with a pinch of salt especially now as Destiny is languishing behind even indie games in popularity. I will follow this carefully but I would expect detailed information and feedback from the visitors given to the community on the content and plans going forward for it to be a deemed genuine and worthwhile exercise. -
Looks like a last-ditch desperate PR move. Pretty much the Destiny equivalent of Ali-A and Tmartn when they get shipped off and pampered for a few days to check out the latest material Activision has to offer in return for biased YouTube coverage to appeal to their subscribers. It's all a load of bullshit anyway - ideas and feedback never get taken into consideration with things like this and if they did; what gives YouTubers and Streamers power over the paying customers? Perhaps if Bungie actually listened to the real community and offered beta events open to all product owners; the game would be in a better place and moving in a better direction. These 'I'll suck your corporate cock and you can suck mine' events are just an outdated and unproductive way of doing things and they always end up being dishonest for the real community members. The script will be; ''Bungie flew me off to their HQ and I got to check out all the upcoming content which was super exciting and from what I saw the game is gonna be better than ever'' and once they've met their scripted obligation; it'll be back to Fortnite for the cheque to clear the next day. How many times did we see this with COD.
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Worth keeping an eye on - comes out around June on PC, PS4 and XB1 and it's made by the team that did the likes of Planet Coaster (excellent game) and Elite Dangerous
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Excellent campaign I thought - multiplayer let down that game severely which was a shame as for all the hate the game got, the campaign was probably the best since the old Modern Warfare days. It's a shame that with 3 different developers on board; they all have differing qualities but none of the studios have the true quality across the board to make an excellent game.
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This will definitely perform better than Sledgehammer and IW's games I bet but even that might not be enough. Fortnite is dominating YouTube and Twitch that nobody is really interested in COD now and that includes even Activision's paid bum-boys. I've seen that content creators and Streamers barely get any ad money for COD-tagged videos now either so the franchise may struggle to capture the widespread audience that it used to. I bet they'll include a Battle Royale mode in a move of desperation and that may draw in more but it's a tiring brand of a tiring series in a tiring genre that's really running out of innovation and ingenuity. If Treyarch can't do it this year; COD is done with I think. I'm really praying that Treyarch do their best though as I'm pretty sick of Battle Royale now.
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I don't play Overwatch anymore but the PC version is a bloody incredible experience. Controls are flawless, performance is remarkable and the community is still buzzing. Highly recommended.
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I actually think Lindsay Lohan has a case here. I don't know too much about the lawsuit but clearly Rockstar created the character Trevor based on her.
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I'm not a fan of Fortnite but its development is far more smoother and impressive than compared to PUBG. It being free, ideal for a variety of people and not too serious, makes it very popular and welcoming game. PUBG on the other hand has had its day - it'll still be successful going forward and be popular, but greed, lousy development and numerous issues really sour the overall experience. Both games have been incredibly successful but on the face of it they are nothing special - just a popular mode (that's been around for 5+ years) that is becoming more saturated by the minute. Neither game has much scope, variety or depth and if it wasn't for the virtual marketplace on PUBG or the Fortnite cosmetics; not many people would care. PUBG was brilliant in the first year but ironically when they 'finished' it; that's when it started going downhill whereas Fortnite goes from strength to strength as the more YouTuber's ram it down people's throats; the more it will continue to thrive until the limited Battle Royale concept fizzles out and people move on to the next big craze whatever that is. I don't think BR will be as prominent as survival was but it's certainly had a bigger and faster impact on the industry. Not sure if either game is deserving of its overall success but they have both proven to be the right games at the right time even if they aren't anything all that defining.
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Spec Ops The Line free on Humble Bundle for 48 hours https://www.humblebundle.com/store/spec-ops-the-line?hmb_source=humble_home&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_1_layout_index_1_layout_type_twos_tile_index_1 Excellent game - kinda like a military version of Gears of War.
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Bad acting. Reminds me of the Oscar Pistorious performance where 'I heard a noise so I did the natural thing and got a gun out and started shooting in the direction of the sound wah wah wah'
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I saw this the other day and thought; it's bascially Dying Light Battle Royale with 94 players missing. It being a standalone and costing money smells of a disappointing cash grab attempt. Dying Light was incredible but I can't see this doing too well especially in the long run. C'mon Techland; you can do better than this.
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Played a bit more today and the vehicles are great entertainment I must admit. Had some great fun in the plane and also discovered the flame thrower also. Almost echoes of Far Cry 3 at times but without the story to back it up. There's been a few highly entertaining missions I've come across also but there's still quite a lot that are bland and repetitive. Hopefully the game maintains this level of enjoyment and I'll be able to get through it without getting tired with it.
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I've managed to get in a few hours today and it's exactly what I was expecting; good fun with a disappointing story and generic, repetitive filler missions. It feels like it's 5% story and 95% side missions in an open world sandbox with the gameplay plastered all over it rather than having a story carefully crafted within the world where secondary missions play second fiddle. Far Cry 3 balanced this well and was perfectly paced. I remember Ubisoft saying a few years ago they wanted to move away from story-based games and focus more on online worlds - so why the fuck do they keep making games like this? The story could have been intriguing if they actually bothered expanding it and gave characters some meaning - the nameless character you play doesn't even talk for fuck sake and everyone else is largely forgettable. I will definitely get plenty of hours out of it and I wasn't expecting much in all honesty but this is such a step back from the likes of Far Cry 3. If you're not a fan of the series or didn't enjoy the likes of 4 and Primal; you will not enjoy this one. This game looks and feels like a last gen game too. Looking forward to the editor though.
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I didn't spend £1400 on a new PC just to play a game that I run on my iPhone when I'm on the toilet
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I shall be playing this tomorrow. Reviews seem fairly positive so far but there isn't much of a story sadly. As long as the game is pure fun though, that's all that matters for me and I'm really looking forward to the editor. Wasn't expecting much from this package but it looks like it could be very enjoyable despite not being anything drastically revolutionary.
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This is an epic compilation
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The Darkness 2 free on HB for 48 hours https://www.humblebundle.com/store/the-darkness-ii
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Yeah, I was still happy with my 770 and probably would've got another 18 months out of it had the PC not broke. I actually didn't think there would be any affordable builds available with the GPU price scaling but luckily there was still some good prices that weren't deliberately bumped up.
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Grrrr! Must be a Madonna fan
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It's black and has lights on it My old PC packed itself in where only a complete reformat and re-installation of everything would fix it and I couldn't be arsed with that shit so I decided to get another one instead. Was gonna build my own over a week but with the prices of graphics cards and as I simply could not be arsed; I just grabbed this instead https://www.chillblast.com/chillblast-fusion-gtx-1070-custom-gaming-pc-3.html That'll do me for the next six years I reckon. Takes 11 seconds to boot, nice and quiet plus a good warranty included. I even get 120fps playing PUBG in ultra which is almost too good to be true
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My availability is horrendous but I hope to join in at some stage as I don't get much of a chance to game with people these days due to work/life commitments. I just spent a fortune on a new PC so I need to get some use out of it
