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#1 eregol
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Wow.

That's typical John Romero thinks he's better than everyone else stuff right there!

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#2 eregol
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We've had threads where people have had their say on the moments that they really loved their hobby, so I think it's time we had one for those bad times.

Moments like that project you had been waiting ages for had been canned, to when your favorite developer got disbanded.

For me it would have to be either the demise of Sega as a console manufacturer as the Dreamcast finally put the final nail into a grey square shaped coffin

or

The backlash to the Resi 5 debate regarding the original trailer. Not from the media, but from the fans reaction to the media.

You?

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#3 eregol
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http://www.gamestation.co.uk/product.asp?id=101294578375863&P36=9PVCY5&R36=43HF

Gamestation are selling this brand new for £12.99 with free P+P. Check the link above.

daftdog

Hmm, might be worth checking that out after pay day.

Still, it puts Sony's pricing on PSN under even more scrutiny considering the DL doesn't have packaging, booklet or any sort of physical distribution.

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#4 eregol
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Considering it's a glorified demo I still think £24.99 is a decent enough price for a boxed release. There's a lot of content there.

What I don't understand is why Sony are pricing it as £24.99 on the UK PSN store. No box, no instruction manual. So why does it cost the same as a retail product?

Especially considering that Curry's are selling it at £19.99, £5 cheaper than the PSN store.

I think £14.99 would be a better price for the PSN store, if not then at least match Curry's store price.

Rant over.

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#5 eregol
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I just have to ask.
In wake of the recent anouncement of the Samsung boss saying that Blu-Ray will not last the length of the PS3 life span of 10 years I am left asking the above question.
Considering how big games are getting (They had to dual layer a Blu-Ray disc for MGS4 for chrissakes) can digital downloads ever really be taken seriously?
I downloaded Quest for Boot from the PSN a couple of weeks ago, a fairly healthy 3.5gb download, took the best part of a day. In that time I could have wandered into town and bought a game, got back and still had time to make dinner, have a shower and then play the game for a couple of hours.
Considering the game itself is only like 4 hours long, I could have completed it by the time it had finished downloading, of course, I would never expect a full retail release to only last 4 hours though.

Then there's episodic content, which breaks the game up into bit (or byte) sized chunks for download, now, I haven't DLed any of the Siren episdoes from PSN, but guess they are similar in size to QfB and as such would take just as long, considering that all 12 episodes are split over 3 chapters that would take me like two days to DL. Not an amount of time I would like to spend waiting. Could anyone enlighten me as to how long it took to DL the entire game instead of the episodes? I know it wouldn't have taken up as much as 24Gb, but it must have been at least 8Gb surely?

Then there's MMOs, sure, you don't need the disc to play them, so digital downloading makes sense, but the sheer size of them (Warhammer online is like 12Gb) would take a hell of a long time to download. And then if at any point you had to reformat your hard drive you then have to re-download it. If you had the disc an install would be the only thing you'd have to worry about.

I can argue a case for them, we know that discs make loading times longer, hence installs have become common place on PS3 to decrease loading times (not on 360 because not every console is guaranteed to have a hard drive). So digital downloads make it easy to load and stream data without having to load from a disc.

I'm a physical media fan, and a bit of a clutterbug. I love having stuff, and cannot really get behind digital downloads in the long term. I would need hyper speed broadband (Currently on Virgin media's 20Mb) to make these huge amounts do-able and I prefer to read through an actual instruction booklet than reading a pdf or notebook typed one, a much more interesting read that I can actually take to bed without printing out.

Can we leave digital downloads to small manageable games like Everyday Shooter and Geometry Wars?

I want my big releases on discs thank you
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I always take them out and put them carefully back in their cases. Bit of a fuss pot when it comes to my games me.

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#7 eregol
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I have a question.

MLB '08: The Show apparently supports 1080p. I have a 1080p tv, yet it always automatically goes to 720p and I can't get it to go to 1080p. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

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#8 eregol
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GTA IV hands down.

I would say Assassin's Creed, but the magazines that I read and trust rated it quite low. So I cannot count it as being over-rated.

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#9 eregol
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When they release the game, should they make some of the old GH tracks available as DLC?

Now that other instruments of the track will be playable it would be the perfect time to play them again. I've missed some of the older songs not being able to play them on my PS3 and not having a PS2.

So, what songs should they bring back?

For me it would have to be

Beast and the Harlot: Avenged Sevenfold

Bark at the Moon: Ozzy Osbourne

Ironman: Ozzy Osbourne

Cochise: Audioslave

No one Knows: Queens of the Stone Age

Any others I've missed that would be good for them to include?

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#10 eregol
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The GeoW pic and the constant stream of problems has me thinking he's a troll.

His profile is completely empty apart from his avatar, and this stream of problems seems to be all to conincidental considering no-one else on this forum has the same problem.

The XMB does take a little longer to load in game, and with a multiplayer game the CPU would be a little slower due to all the calculations it has to make.

But I doubt it's really happening.