Re: PS, Xbox, Wii, PC and other Gaming #10 : Sun Jan 13, 2013 10:52 pm  

100% Wire wrote:

Only thing i've heard regarding Fallout 4 is a quote from somebody involved with the series, stating that 'the Mojave was an interesting place to visit, wasn't it'?. Maybe 4 will be set in Vegas area too

Apparently they've been looking around Boston and doing research there so it might be Boston based.

Re: PS, Xbox, Wii, PC and other Gaming #10 : Mon Jan 14, 2013 4:13 pm  

Just finished Far Cry 3, fairly enjoyed some of the missions and would recommend it for the reduced price you can pick it up at.

Still got Forza to get on with, and Hitman to start. Having a look at whats coming out in the next couple of months there doesn't seem to be anything I particularly want.

Re: PS, Xbox, Wii, PC and other Gaming #10 : Tue Jan 15, 2013 1:46 pm  

Decided to go retro so I have started a new game of Final Fantasy VII!

Re: PS, Xbox, Wii, PC and other Gaming #10 : Tue Jan 15, 2013 9:56 pm  

I've tried replaying VII but I find the quality of graphics diminishes my memory of the game, which is disappointing. Easily my favourite game of all time though.

Re: PS, Xbox, Wii, PC and other Gaming #10 : Thu Jan 17, 2013 2:01 pm  

Ashley_ wrote:

I've tried replaying VII but I find the quality of graphics diminishes my memory of the game, which is disappointing. Easily my favourite game of all time though.

That's something that really doesn't bother me. I've still got quite a few PS1 and PS2 games that I enjoy playing, even though the graphical quality is crap.

Re: PS, Xbox, Wii, PC and other Gaming #10 : Fri Jan 18, 2013 3:00 pm  

Think I'm gonna give Far Cry 3 a go. From youtube clips it looks in some aspect's similar to red dead redemption. I really liked RDR mainly because i managed to complete it despite being rubbish at games. Is far cry 3 "difficult"?

Re: PS, Xbox, Wii, PC and other Gaming #10 : Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:57 pm  

Robbo wrote:

Think I'm gonna give Far Cry 3 a go. From youtube clips it looks in some aspect's similar to red dead redemption. I really liked RDR mainly because i managed to complete it despite being rubbish at games. Is far cry 3 "difficult"?

Too easy, so in that sense it's exactly like RDR

Re: PS, Xbox, Wii, PC and other Gaming #10 : Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:45 pm  

Any early thoughts on DMC? Considering buying it but can't be bothered forking out those prices for a single player game.

Re: PS, Xbox, Wii, PC and other Gaming #10 : Sat Jan 19, 2013 12:46 am  

Anyone got an opinion on the rumoured specs for the PlayStation 4 and NeXtBOX? According to rumours the PlayStation will have a more powerful processor arrangement with a third more power than the Xbox one. But the Xbox will have double the memory of the Playstation with 40% more memory available to games and three times the memory available to the operating system.

So which of those differences is likely to be significant if any? The current consoles seem pretty similar with the PS3 more powerful than the 360, but they have never managed to exploit that extra power to any meaningful degree up to now and the 360 is arguably the better all round console.

Re: PS, Xbox, Wii, PC and other Gaming #10 : Sat Jan 19, 2013 1:57 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Anyone got an opinion on the rumoured specs for the PlayStation 4 and NeXtBOX? According to rumours the PlayStation will have a more powerful processor arrangement with a third more power than the Xbox one. But the Xbox will have double the memory of the Playstation with 40% more memory available to games and three times the memory available to the operating system.

So which of those differences is likely to be significant if any? The current consoles seem pretty similar with the PS3 more powerful than the 360, but they have never managed to exploit that extra power to any meaningful degree up to now and the 360 is arguably the better all round console.

A third? 50% more powerful.

PS3 now has less RAM which is apparently why they can't have party chat and has an older graphics processor but still manages to churn out better graphics on the exclusives compared to the 360 exclusives and even Skyrim which Bethesda have admitted they can't even code properly for the PS3 looks a lot better.

PS4 will still have more than enough RAM to run what it needs and most places are reporting it has 4 but some developers are saying they got shipped with units that have 8-16gb as opposed to 4 - also don't get drawn in by a simple number, the RAM timings will be more important. The use of an AMD A3 is a bit poor though, that isn't even the best APU AMD do now so by the end of the year it will be massively out of date.

Both consoles should go for more exclusives this time because the ports are what has held both back, churning out COD every year on a 7 year old engine is just boring. It will also give consumers a reason to pick whichever system and will allow devs to work towards tuning a game to specific hardware and not what they do now of design on xbox and just port.

What I can see happening is there being multiple types in different price ranges for both systems with the Xbox as I've said before having a Windows RT version and then a full Windows 8 version, which the amount of RAM reserved for OS seems to indicate too.

The differences with the rumoured spec - PS4 will be able to render maps quicker and keep a higher FPS with multiple characters on screen, Xbox will be able to multitask better (i.e. party chat).