They wrote themselves into a corner. That's what went wrong with the plot. The gameplay? They never really made it anything more than a solid shooter with some powers. jg4xchamp

Let's not overstate things. The game was excellent until the ending. But that ending was beyond lame ... it was catastrophically bad. You spend 3 games fighting the Reapers and at the last minute some all-powerful ghost-kid shows up out of nowhere and finishes them off for you. It couldn't have been any more anticlimactic if they tried.

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[QUOTE="reggy72"]Well the Hot chips event has started, I'd expect a few leaks from those attending with a bigger picture of what's discussed, tomorrow at some point. Hopefully it will be all about the core tech of the xBoner and not an hour and a half of Kinect related tech.reggy72

I doubt they'll say anything meaningful at all.

Sure, they might explain how it works but they ain't gonna get specific with numbers cuz they are behind PS4.

Well the Hot chips event has started, I'd expect a few leaks from those attending with a bigger picture of what's discussed, tomorrow at some point. Hopefully it will be all about the core tech of the xBoner and not an hour and a half of Kinect related tech.reggy72

I doubt they'll say anything meaningful at all.

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Mass Effect 3?

Bioware definitely fixed the ending with the add-on they released

LegatoSkyheart

Are you fargin kidding me? The extended cut was worse than the original! At least the original left something to the imagination, left room to say "This bullshit can't be true!" The extended cut turned the bullshit into indisputable fact.

Extended cutscene at least made Joker and your team less of an A-hole.

Seriously original ending just made your team look bad. Why were they running anyway?

To me the original ending was just some messed up hallucination. Then the extended cut came along and said "No it's not, nah nah!" I like to pretend the extended cut never happened.

Mass Effect 3?

Bioware definitely fixed the ending with the add-on they released

R3FURBISHED

Are you fargin kidding me? The extended cut was worse than the original! At least the original left something to the imagination, left room to say "This bullshit can't be true!" The extended cut turned the bullshit into indisputable fact.

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[QUOTE="ttboy"]Ya I agree. The guy is crazy but also knows his hardware. His english is really bad but his devotion to Xbox is legendary. I thought people on here were rabid fans! I read his stuff because even though he's insane I like that he talks about hardware more than other forums. He's like the beyond3D forum guys but much more entertaining!! I'll probably get a PS4 but what really bothers me is that we really don't know whats in the Xbox One. I need to see the real hardware specs before pulling the trigger on the PS4 ... Microsoft has a lot of amazing hardware designers and they spent a crazy amount of money making that system. I don't think they would just come out with a 1.2TF off the shelf GPU with ESRAM slapped on! We shall see! Thats what makes me excited. I want to see who is right. You should follow that blog for the jokes :) ttboy

What they did is technically impressive in a way ... but it's an embarassing blunder in another way. As far as I know they pretty much created those data move engines themselves. But what's so stupid about it is that they aren't needed because 8 gigs of GDDR5 is doable. They didn't think it would be so went out of their way to make DDR3 usable. They created custom tech to enhance the DDR3 which is eating up valuable space on the die, hence the reason the GPU has less CUs and ROPs than the PS4 does. It's kinda like a company spending a lot of time and money creating the ultimate coal power plant and then someone else coming out with a nuclear power plant before they get to reveal it to the world. They were probably patting themselves on the back for being so brilliant while making it but then went "Doh!" when Sony announced 8 gigs of GDDR5.

Yes but these guys are not stupid. I've worked with MS engineers and they know their stuff. They spent over a Billion to have 1.2TF and not think about 8 gigs of GDDR5 ram? I don't buy that! 

Lol, then why do we have 1.2 tflops (Excuse me, 1.3 tflops) and no 8 gigs of GDDR5?

Why do you guys care? I thought all cows thought Titanfall looks like crap.

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:lol:

Hey, you still haven't answered my question. Is PS4 HSA compatible and what about Xbox ONE?

PCGamingIsOver

They both have HSA solutions, although the PS4's setup for it is better. To put it simply, the PS4 uses a system designed by AMD itself modeled after hUMA and what that will eventually end up becoming on AMDs new line of motherboards next year. The just don't call it 1.00 because wouldn't want to declare the tech 1.00 in a non-commercial chipset.

MS also has a HSA reminiscent setup, technically, although its more intricate, far more complicated, and in my opinion, no where near as effective.

Going from details from VGLeaks, NeoGAF and other sources, Microsoft spent well over $3 billion in R&D, which I'm sure is far more than SONY has spent for R&D for their console. Also, both companies had their internals designed by AMD.

How the hell did SONY end up with the better deal from AMD?

Because MS spent a lot of money on a bad decision: DDR3. They spent a lot making custom hardware; data move engines, the ESRAM, etc., to prop it up. All that time and money for something that shouldn't even be in there because the capability for 8 gigs of GDDR5 became available in 2013. The worst thing about it is the way it gimps the GPU; space on the die that should have went to beefing up the GPU went to the DDR3-aiding custom hardware instead. The whole thing was a cluster**** and in my opinion they should have come to terms with their mistake and bit the bullet: delayed it for a year and redesigned it. Heck, a year's delay would possibly enable them to get Volcanic Islands architecture in there instead and that would give them a clear edge over PS4.

But anyway the ultimate proof that Xbox One is weaker is Microsoft themselves. They've been mum on the specs for a reason. If their box was more powerful they'd be singing it from the treetops.

I don't believe a word this guy says based on his blogging history. However, it would make sense that AMD is under some form of a NDA by both Microsoft and Sony (more so Microsoft considering its GPU is the weaker of the two).EXLINK

AMD has already let slip a few times that Xbox One is weaker. Months ago they said that PS4's APU is the most powerful one they've ever made. Then not long ago someone there said PS4 is even more powerful than Xbox One than people think because of hsa or huma or something like that (I forget exactly what it was).