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Old 06-16-2020, 01:50 PM   #2581
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LOL


I couple of things, I need to see if my PC will handle it. It sounds like the game with be about 40 bucks which is a good price.


I love fan reaction videos, there's this girl on youtube, that just recently got into Star Wars and has done reaction videos for the movies, rebels, Clone Wars, original Clone Wars, and she also did a play through of Star Wars games. Its kind of see that I'm not the only uber nerd out there when it comes to Star Wars.



She's actually a fun watch, though she bawled her eyes out at the end of Clone Wars.


Her reaction to the game was pretty classic.


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Old 06-16-2020, 02:12 PM   #2582
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I've been wanting a proper Black & White follow-up for over a decade now. I really hope this actually gets made and doesn't suck

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Old 06-16-2020, 02:16 PM   #2583
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God I was such a big fan of Black and White in its day, and it showed that I had deep character flaws.



I would find the jerkiest solutions to people asking their gods for help. I'd be the wholy hell out of my pet and completely abuse it to create my own version of a city stomping godzilla.



What a great game.
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Old 06-16-2020, 02:33 PM   #2584
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1...ARS_Squadrons/

Pre-order looks to be about 55 CDN$

Full live gameplay review is thursday June 18 4PM PDT (5PM MTN)

at https://www.ea.com/ea-play-live

They are probably going to be slammed so it'll be fun just trying to find a stable stream.

I wonder if they'll also be showing the medal of honor vr as well.

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Old 06-16-2020, 06:50 PM   #2585
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I've been wanting a proper Black & White follow-up for over a decade now. I really hope this actually gets made and doesn't suck


Yeah, I'm almost thinking that's going to be a must have game.



I was thinking about Black and White. I still remember the thought process. I had one worshipper who was crying and praying because her sick father had wandered into the woods. With my infinite eye I could see him. It would have been easy to pluck him up and carry him back to his daughter. But then she was going to start expecting that every prayer was going to be answered.


I could leave clues to her father so through a miracle the villagers would find him, but again, I wanted a strong self reliant people, not people who think that I'm going to provide miracles all the time.



So instead, I picked her up and dropped her in the woods beside her father, so they could die of starvation together, and I sent my monster to destroyer her house. Then I randomly killed some villagers with lightning because they didn't help her find her father and thought that their god would do it.


Then I decided to be merciful, and hit the daughter and father with lightning so they wouldn't suffer.


That night the villagers sacrificed some of their own to me to apologize for not doing onto themselves.


I love games like that.
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Old 06-17-2020, 09:37 AM   #2586
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Hardspace: Shipbreaker came out on Early Access ($26 CDN) yesterday, and early reviews are raving about it.

Looks like a real solid relaxing time of ship scavenging.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1...e_Shipbreaker/
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FYI, Shipbreaker is the brain child of a Calgary-born game developer (who is the Artistic Director on the game) and is a good friend of mine from way back. The guy was destined to design video games since he was a kid - he was knee deep in gaming all the time and still is today.

I downloaded it yesterday and gave it whirl. Now I want to skip work and just salvage ships, it's fantastic.
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Old 06-17-2020, 10:28 AM   #2588
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My best friend is also friends with one of the guys on the dev team for Shipbreaker and he gifted me a copy. Haven't had a chance to give it a spin yet but it looks cool.
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Old 06-17-2020, 07:18 PM   #2589
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Very cool looking game, I don't think I'll be able to play it even the video was tugging on my vertigo, but very cool.

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Very cool looking game, I don't think I'll be able to play it even the video was tugging on my vertigo, but very cool.

looks pretty good... combo of first gen Borderlands cell shading, a diablo axonometric view and devil may cry jumping/gun play.

getting Ron Perlman to do the voice acting is very cool tho
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Old 06-18-2020, 11:57 AM   #2591
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Cyberpunk 2077 delayed, again, to November 19th. One has to think it's basically a next-gen launch title at this point, I know I'll be moving to playing it on PS5 instead now.
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Anyone know how I get better upload speeds on PS4? I have it wired to my modem but I still don't get very good/consistent upload speeds when I test the connection.
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Anyone know how I get better upload speeds on PS4? I have it wired to my modem but I still don't get very good/consistent upload speeds when I test the connection.
Power cycle modem and check if ethernet cable should be replaced with a better/faster one? Ensure PS4 isn't overheating?
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component load out looks to be an idea from Ace Combat (infinity had component load outs for fighters that could compensate or enhance inherent strengths and weaknesses of fighters, and is repeated again in ace combat 7 multiplayer) so boom and zoom a-wings could be a strategy in a battle.



Cross play (ps4/xbox 1/ pc /pc vr) enabled. also probably why it's only 5v5. Gotta make sure those 7 year old consoles will work.

Battlefront 2 engine - probably why there is relatively quick turn around.

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Old 06-18-2020, 06:17 PM   #2595
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Damn, I really wanted to see that rumoured Mass Effect trilogy remake/remaster tonight. Oh well.
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Old 06-18-2020, 06:54 PM   #2596
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component load out looks to be an idea from Ace Combat (infinity had component load outs for fighters that could compensate or enhance inherent strengths and weaknesses of fighters, and is repeated again in ace combat 7 multiplayer) so boom and zoom a-wings could be a strategy in a battle.



Cross play (ps4/xbox 1/ pc /pc vr) enabled. also probably why it's only 5v5. Gotta make sure those 7 year old consoles will work.

Battlefront 2 engine - probably why there is relatively quick turn around.

Yeah. its beautiful to look at. Its a bit limited in whet your doing with the two battle modes.


I would think you'd want to be careful in terms of mixing craft as well as load outs.
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Old 06-18-2020, 07:00 PM   #2597
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Certainly there will be those squadrons consisted entirely of u-wings/y-wings vs TIE-interceptor battles.

Entire EA Plays 2020 stream, Star Wars Squadrons coverage starts at about minute 29:30

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Old 06-18-2020, 07:22 PM   #2598
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EA announces a new Skate game and we’re sitting here talking about space planes???
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There’s literally nothing to talk about with the Skate announcement. Not even a logo. Why even bother? See you again in... 2 years? More?
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Old 06-18-2020, 07:54 PM   #2600
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Just knowing that the franchise isn’t dead is enough for me.
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