System Wars Lounge V47: The 60FPS 1080P Edition

I don't follow sales very closely at all but wouldn't it be more reasonable to assume if you were to put numbers on it that out of 100 people less people own both consoles than people who own one console or the other? This is also suggesting that both the Xbox One and Playstation 4 audiences are equal in size, of course you said as much in your critique of it.

I might be missing something or misunderstanding a little bit but wow that just seems wrong in its perspective.

@Ballroompirate@mems_1224 ok time to get fantasy football sorted out, can you guys remembered who played last year?

No doubt. It's definitely one of those that could display how juvenile and terrible journalism for the gaming industry is.

And this was a late reply since notifications are down. I mean come on, Gamespot's notifications go down on me more than my wife does. BAZINGA!

Please don't tell my wife I said that.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1528100/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_3

@blue_hazy_basic: I have no idea, I know mems was in it cause he beat me in the championship -.-

@Desmonic What makes gaming journalism so BS now is it's ether turning into click bait with bs articles or you actually got a "supposedly" none biased system turning into fanboys.

LOL

I think this might sound dumb but if people could come up with a site made by users for other users it would be cool. The only problem is it needs proper advertising and some web developers. Something like this site where the users make the website instead of using smf and wordpress.

Hnng can't wait for the Warlords of Draenor Cinematic. I don't give 2 shits about WoW but Blizzard make some killer cinematics.

Ah, the dad jokes begin. :P

8 min tell it's released >.>

Aw shit that looked great.

Pretty disappointed actually :/

Obligatory: video games journalism has always been atrocious. It has always had its shadier aspects, it has always had people who fundamentally don't do any investigative journalism (Leight Alexander and Cara Ellison are exceptions to this rule), and the writing was always pathetic. For every decent writer like Jeremy Parish or a Patrick Klepek, there are plenty of writers who frankly suck, and have always sucked (Love Jeff Gerstmann, horrible writer). They have no range in terms of being able to actually articulate a nuanced thought outside the basic realm of video games and all too often they use video game buzzwords/terminology in blanket statements with no detail.

It's why that field is most effected by the popularity of youtube (compare that to actual journalism be it in politics or other entertainment mediums), because no one really wants to actively engage with how video game writers, frankly write. Youtube personalities have the benefit of being actual personalities and being devoid of jive. The "artificial" aspects of their work is the "character" stuff they do on camera, and the extra pizazz and shit. But the fundamental opinion and how they express themselves is genuine, and doesn't give you a hint of corporate spoon feeding. Plus where as all these high and mighty video game sites say that youtube is filled with people being "contrarian ", I'd argue it's the part where they don't sugar coat it. They are up front about the fact that Gearbox is a shady company, which after Alien Colonial Marines, every publication has every right to attach that label to Gearbox.

Also note, that I'm talking about the journalsim, NOT the critics side of things (because that's not journalism). That's actually somehow worse than the journalism.

Wat. How could it have been better? If it were longer? :P

Maybe once an uncompressed 1080p version is ehre then it will look even better.

Mmhmm.

The funny thing is the internet piled on Geoff Keighly for being a "shit journalist" or whatever, and it's like...he doesn't present himself as a journalist. He is a media personality, he runs a fucking tv show, but the few times he has done journalism, he got us Portal 2's final hours. Like that guy is actually good at his job when he needs to be, but let's bitch at him and not the actual shitty people, makes sense. The best thing I've seen is the Polygon Mk8 thing, because I like mocking Nintendo as much as the next guy, but those mother fuckers don't know how graphs work.

I like how Crash 2 was kicking my ass today, but just a few days ago, I 100%ed Crash 1 with almost no trouble (except for Sunset Vista and Cortex Power because **** those levels).

It really did nothing for me compared to the BC and Wotlk cinematics

Also hate how Grom looks like a pig

Well, most of my deaths have been suicides. I don't want to go back into the level and get the gems later.

Hnnnnnnnnnnnnnngghhhgghhh

@Desmonic said:

Hmm, Sony Portugal actually trying... even though they have an iron grip on the local market as far as home consoles go. Not bad. Kinda of ugly though. I suppose the fans of each club may find them nice :P

What the **** that looks terrible.

Every once in a while I see a car that is COVERED in Sporting stuff (like the scarves, flags, etc). Fuckin geez isn't there already enough green?

Just bought it

still getting used to 3 monitors :P

lol :P
sounds like something Alli would say

Needs more >.>

>.>>.>>.>>.>

I could really eat some ice cream right now >.> >.>

Azure Striker Gunvolt, that other thing Inafune and Inti-creates is doing, comes out at the end of the month for $15.

Didn't think this was thread worthy, but i am HYPE!

Just called direct tv and threatened to cancel, got $40/month off bill for a year, a $200 prepaid visa and sunday package max for half price. Pretty happy with that call :P

My heart bleeds :P #jealous

Just needing something to yell about without any kids on your lawn? :P

Damn that sounds like a nice deal.

So what games have you tried yet, and how's the performance?

I think most are lol :P I wanna try a racing game or something with this. I need a steering wheel and stuff.

I'm lucky to be able to have three.

Crysis 3. I've only tried high so far. Here are the settings. High, no AA, AF x8, motion blur disabled. I avg around 45 - 55 fps.

Maybe not the best shots but I took two. And jeez the file size of pics are around 11MB. I think imgur compressed them though. I take shots in png and they look like jpg on imgur.

http://i.imgur.com/SeRxe93.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/xhsNBjG.jpg

Skyrim was a bit tough setting it up, but it worked.

The enb I use though packs a punch and hits the fps hard. On 1920x1080 I get 30 fps (one card) solid 60 with both. Though my mods are at max on the mod manager 254. So theres a lot those. :P

Might have to put a OC on my cards lol. But using both @5760 I only saw around 22 fps with the enb on. With it off, I avg in the 50's. But the skyrim enb hates CF and I have depth of field problems. Gonna try a different enb soon. But a shot of a random char I have.

http://i.imgur.com/IarCEk2.jpg

Oh, Tomb Raider 2013. It was very playable at ultra with tress fx, but I have a studdering problem, and not sure why. I can tell you the avg fps a bit later. Trying to see if there is a reason for the problem. I'm also gonna try out crysis 2 and some others.

@Desmonic: Played a round of Nosgoth, it has potential.

Sounds good. And the screenshots look really nice too. Have you tried a multiplayer game yet where the 3 monitors can give you some advantage?

Polygon is alright.

Just read a good piece on the CAA's (a top Hollywood talent agency) division for videogames.

Thanks. :) Not yet. Some friends want me to play payday 2 and they even gifted it to me. O_O I never played it, but I will soon. I can tell you how that goes.
I want to try a CoD game with it. But now I need to save up. Also I just when half and half with my roomie and we have a ps4 now.

You reached the mod/esp limit? lol

Surely you wont need most of those mods. I started a fresh playthrough and filtered out alot of useless stuff. Sitting at 185. Currently playing as a thief/assassin and disabled dragons and the main quest. My modded Skyrim is a surprisingly robust Stealth game now.

As for ENBs, most will hit really hard. Some ENBs just have enabled effects that are alot more taxing. Shadow Quality, SSAO settings, Subsurface scattering and reflections hit particularly hard. With the last 2 being effects that are particularly subtle but have performance hits that are rather significant.