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Dig Dug wrote:

DaddyBrown wrote:Just popped into Game. Their post Christmas sale is rather poor this year. Hardly any genuine bargains to be had. I would have thought a tonne of old last gen back cat would be much cheaper given how much they have.

They don't have a post christmas sale, in fact those prices have been up for over a week so you already missed everything worth having.

There's still loads of quality titles with sale stickers on in our branch, all over priced.

Pretty crap all in all.

Does anyone else remember PS3 games taking ages to delete off HDD? That's how I remembered it but I am currently deleting games to make space for Yakuza 5 on PS3, and even the 13 GB large Tomb Raider file deleted in in 45 seconds.

I think it used to depend on size, yeah. But even then it was never a certainty. I was having a browse through mine the other day, and you realise even more how much of a huge step up the PS4 is in terms of general...use-ness.

Yup. From responsiveness in the store (though that could still be improved upon) to the lack of icons hiding menu lists, PS4 interface is a huge step-up from PS3.

Oh and while deleting may be faster, installs still go at a glacial pace. Almost as slow as the downloads. Not exaggerating.

The PS Plus auto-patching they put in there was possibly the greatest feature they ever implemented given how terrible that whole process was
It's just as bad this gen - it's called 'owning an Xbox One'.

Auto-patching is cool, but best upgrade for me has to be install and download speeds. They're like complete opposites on PS3 and 4. If someone told me PS3 was actually in dial-up mode when downloading I would think Ah, yeah, that explains it!

It's done! After over 4 hours of downloading and installing.

Along with Rainbow Six, got Dragon Quest Heroes for PS4 from Boomerang today. I think it can be best summed up as "Ok".
It seems like it's trying to emulate Hyrule Warriors, but is inferior in almost every way. The maps aren't as big, battles aren't as grand, there's less going on, the gameplay is much shallower and the story isn't as interesting. The only real advantage that Dragon Quest has so far is full voice acting for the protagonists.

That video explains why Saturn emulation is so difficult.

Seega.

Good video though. It makes you realise just how clever some of the people in the mod/emu scene are. That guy for managing to crack and document it all, and the emu guys for managing to make a functioning emulator with such large pieces of the puzzle missing. I'll need to keep an eye on that actually as I could do with a USB plug in for my Saturn.

Has anyone else ever played Boom Street (/Fortune Street) on the Wii?

It's rigged, right?

I love boom street

...but I have no idea how the mechanics of it work, the stock market is madness.

Cheeky Devlin wrote:Seega. ...

Man, I am convinced that "See-ga" is the correct way of saying it; when the Master System launched in the UK, everyone was saying See-ga. But then, thanks to Sonic on the Mega Drive, most folk switched to "Say-ga". Nowdays it's nearly all "Say-ga".

Unite, SEE-GA crew!

In addition to my US PSN account being compromised this week, I was downloading Hitman last night and the download was going far too slow to believe. A couple of megs at full throttle, then zero, then hours of 300Kb/s with long pauses. So I deleted the install and went to put it on another drive. Full speed all the way. And then I benchmarked the problem drive and it was at like 19IOPS for writing. NINETEEN.

So that drive's failing, and I had to order a replacement.

Went to bed seething at the unexpected cost. Lifted my Vita to take my mind off it, and it told me I shouldn't have removed the memory card while it was in use (didn't even touch it). Reboot it and it won't start up. Remove the memory card and it works fine. Put it back in and it's bricked again. Run the recovery menu, go to format the card, and it tells me there is no card in. So that's a super-expensive 64GB Vita card strawberry floating fried too.

What a week.

jiggles wrote:In addition to my US PSN account being compromised this week, I was downloading Hitman last night and the download was going far too slow to believe. A couple of megs at full throttle, then zero, then hours of 300Kb/s with long pauses. So I deleted the install and went to put it on another drive. Full speed all the way. And then I benchmarked the problem drive and it was at like 19IOPS for writing. NINETEEN.

So that drive's failing, and I had to order a replacement.

Went to bed seething at the unexpected cost. Lifted my Vita to take my mind off it, and it told me I shouldn't have removed the memory card while it was in use (didn't even touch it). Reboot it and it won't start up. Remove the memory card and it works fine. Put it back in and it's bricked again. Run the recovery menu, go to format the card, and it tells me there is no card in. So that's a super-expensive 64GB Vita card strawberry floating fried too.

What a week.

Damn, thats some bad luck you've had this week. Fingers crossed thats the last of it!

I've not played anything so far this month, i'm stuck in regards to what I want to play next. I've got tons to play but i'm not really in the mood to play most of it (The hot weather hasn't helped)

OrangeRakoon wrote:I love boom street

...but I have no idea how the mechanics of it work, the stock market is madness.

The Wii version?

I find that on any given game, at least one computer player will always role the exact dice role they need to land on the next favourable spot, every single time, without fail.

Yep, wii version. I've only ever played it in multiplayer though so we've always had at least 3 human players and only ever 1 computer. They never did particularly well!

OrangeRakoon wrote:Yep, wii version. I've only ever played it in multiplayer though so we've always had at least 3 human players and only ever 1 computer. They never did particularly well!

If you get chance try it in SP and let me know what you reckon. I'm convinced the game is rigged from start to finish.

jawafour wrote:

Cheeky Devlin wrote:Seega. ...

Man, I am convinced that "See-ga" is the correct way of saying it; when the Master System launched in the UK, everyone was saying See-ga. But then, thanks to Sonic on the Mega Drive, most folk switched to "Say-ga". Nowdays it's nearly all "Say-ga".

Unite, SEE-GA crew!

I've always said it as Say-ga.

I'm not sure there actually is a 'correct' pronunciation as it's a contraction of Service Games (the companies original name).