Stand alone complex was my least favourite. I much preferred the 1995 film. It was more serious and philosophical, and cooler. Stand alone complex was like a cartoon for kids.
@Eddie619: I can play at 60 fps 4k and even higher than 4k. All I need to do is lower the graphics settings of a game until I reach 4k 60 fps. However, the more my hardware ages the harder it is to reach 4k 60 fps even when lowering all other graphics settings. But that is also true for consoles. But unlike consoles I don't have to wait 3 to 10 years until a more powerful one is released to play the same games (if lucky to be available on the new console) on higher graphics setting. I can just buy a new graphics card (yes it will not be cheap) only and keep the rest of my components the same and i will have better graphics straight away. Take witcher 3 on ps4: the settings are for the most part on medium and low, and textures on ultra (according to articles online). On pc you have low, medium, high, ultra and a long list of individual graphics settings that can be adjusted. I can run it on ultra at 1440p 50 fps. If i lower some settings to high the frame rate goes to 60 fps. If i increase the resolution to 4k i would have to lower to a mix of high and medium to reach 60 fps. Now with the scorpio out it will be able to either run the game at the same graphics settings (mix of low, medium with ultra textures) at 4k 60 fps or allow the player to chose 1080p 60 fps with higher graphics settings (like a mix of high and ultra). Anyway, despite all that i personally think the scorpio is a great machine. If i didn't like the freedom of pc (i can do much more than just play games and can also upgrade one component at a time) i would buy it on release. Once I had a pc monitor and hdtv connected to my pc at the same time and i was watching a movie on the pc monitor and playing a game on the 32inch hdtv with a controller, while listening to music in the background (on low volume) and chatting with my brother on skype, no kidding. For me even if i stick to pc, scorpio is good news because devs will be pushing graphics settings higher than what they are this current gen. Which means better looking games or they could chose to focus the resources on better gameplay. However, that requires a better cpu than what the scorpio has which is marginally more powerful than what the ps4 has, and which is still about half the power of the cpu in my pc. Anyway: scorpio = a good thing and i can't wait to see the games they will release on it in the coming years. Just please let them not be buggy (Andromeda, watch dogs 2, etc.).
@Eddie619: So I just read the specs today for scorpio and the specs are: CPU: Eight custom x86 cores, GPU: 6 teraflops, RAM: 12GB GDDR5, 1TB Hard Drive. In comparison my pc specs are: cpu: FX8350 8 cores x 4 ghz each core (regular clock speed), gpu: gtx 1070 6.46 tflops, ram: 32 GB DDR3, hard drive: 1TB. So yeah my pc is still more powerful. So we are now the next morning and I don't feel stupid. Sorry to disappoint. I've been gaming on my current pc build since october 2016. So for me next-next gen gaming has been since last year.
@sdecker425: The upgrades i bought for my pc were not cheap for sure. I like consoles, don't get me wrong. I game on pc using a controller and actually don't like RTS and other more pc oriented games. I was actually laughing at the term "mega-powerful" that was used in the article subtitle. I was actually thinking of buying the scorpio for the sake of convenience and having a machine purely dedicated to gaming. This is the list of all the consoles that I have owned and really enjoyed gaming on them: nes, playstation, ps2, xbox, gamecube, ps3 (bought it just to play guns of the patriots when it came out). The best consoles for me were playstation and ps2 because of all the great games (metal gear, final fantasy) i played on them while growing up. When the ps3 came out i had learned how to assemble PCs and make my own builds. And from there I just upgraded invididual parts like gpu, cpu, motherboard, whenever i had the money. I saw no need to go back to console. But to be honest when the scorpio was announced and i read about the components inside and what it would be capable of I was seriously thinking of buying one. I want to see what games are out on it after two years of its release and i might get it.
@jyml8582: Totally agree. Of course they knew before releasing the game. But like all businesses, making money is the priority. By releasing buggy games they are giving themselves a negative reputation which will eventually lead to decreased profit if they keep up that trend. Customers like us are already fed up and we are leaving negative comments on the internet, which are read by others who hopefully will think carefully before buying their buggy games on release day. They definitely need to prioritise releasing an excellent product worth the price they are asking. Although I understand that it can be difficult to balance business demands (paying shareholders, employees, etc. on time) with creativity/development of a game and how long it takes to make and release one. But they should try to plan better, at least give more time in their development cycle for fixing bugs before releasing their game. If they are going to patch it after release, why release it and have the negative publicity impacting their customers' trust and future behaviour, and then patch it? Why not patch it first, then release it, lol? Greed or business necessity, or both?
@Carpetfluff: Yesterday, I did a mission where I had to retrieve something (wasn't paying attention to what it was - it was a mission with the krogans i think) and had to stay within proximity of it while ship after ship would land and attack my squad. I started paying attention when I realised the enemies were invisible. I mean not invisible as a feature in game like those animals (big dogs or whatever) sometimes are but it was a bug where you could not see all the enemies that had landed and were attacking you but you could see the red cursor highlighting them when you are shooting at them. Then when I managed to kill them the freakin timer that was counting down for whatever I had to retrieve reset itself and I had to go through another 3 minutes of ship after ship attacking with "invisible" enemies, with almost no ammo left and I had to stay near that thing I was retrieving and could not get more ammo. WTH!! Also I met some massive enemies in the middle of the overworld and they would not move, no matter how many bullets you shoot in them. They must have forgotten to fill a variable or more in the spawning sub function. Probably a variable which serves as a flag for making the enemy walk and react to you and others in the algorithm. QA, QA, QA (quality assurance) where were you?
@defiler: Na, he'll just be better at BSing others into sleeping with him. Whether it is better dialogue conversations or shorter courting time. Maybe both.
@turfwar10: Good idea. I'd rather they had fixed those issues BEFORE releasing the game. When companies do that it just gives them a bad reputation and people no longer trust them, which you can read about all over the internet now. I wonder when will they realise that this practise is hurting them. I guess when the money coming into their bank account decreases. Games used to be in a much better state from day one of release before consoles could connect to the internet and download patches. Now that they can do it they are abusing of this for every game released. It's like almost all new releases have had articles like this about them. They have to invest in QA more and sit down and fix all these issues before release. They need to take it into account in the timeline of development before announcing release dates. When they sell us something half cooked, it's an insult. But then again if everyone waits for others to buy new games and play them and come up with a review of whether there are too many issues or not, we could be waiting a while. So we rely on reviewers, like this website, to tell us about those issues so we can make an inform decision when buying the game. So instead of saying: "In many ways, Andromeda feels like a vision half-fulfilled. It contains a dizzying amount of content, but the quality fluctuates wildly", maybe reviewers should say: "if you buy the game now these are the issues: cannot skip ahead when travelling between planets in the galaxy map, inventory limits too limited, appearance of eyes for humans and asari characters not appealing, localized voice over lip is out of sync, etc.". That way reviews are actually useful and we, the consumer, can say "well this game is full of bugs, so I am not buying it". Again to avoid all this, they should make sure their games have as little issues as possible before selling it to us.
@livedreamplay: I think new games as they come out will work. The minimum requirements may increase but for most of them they would not go past the requirements of a console if the same game comes out on console. Also when the time comes that your pc can no longer run new games then that should coincide with the launch of a new generation of console because devs will be making games for more powerful hardware. In which case it's time to upgrade and buy new parts. Also by that time you have gotten a lot of use out of the pc in terms of gaming. When the PS4 came out games were still being made for weaker hardware too like old pcs and PS3 etc. Anyway I do agree that a console is a lot more convenient. In my experience playing on pc since 2009 overall I have to agree with you because i have bought 4 graphics card 300£ each since then and console players have just had to buy a PS4 at 300£ I think. But I bought all those cards because I wanted to run games on highest settings. I could have stick with the first card I bought and i would have been fine until the PS4 came out. But I would have been playing games on low settings by the end though. Anyway there are games like mankind divided that is made for future hardware. I mean I have a gtx 1070 and the thing has frame rate drops and stutters like hell on highest settings. So the way I see it is upgrade when you feel like the money you pay is going to get you hardware that will make a difference. Not a 3 frame rate increase :)
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