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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    SimBen wrote: »
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    Well he also has to manage the company and everything.

    doesn't the Japanese branch do basically all of that, though?

    Not the actual managing of the American branch of the company. Sure he gets orders from high up but he's still the boss of NOA.

    I'm still not sure that counts as an awful lot of work. It's not like there are any game releases to work out the logistics of.

  • agoajagoaj Top Tier One FearRegistered User regular
    fuck, I could go for an enormous low-grade pizza right now

    Too late
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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    those look suspiciously like fresh, healthy ingredients

    no thank you

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    He has to manage the company. That's what executives do. People come into work in their offices every day and he's the guy that's on top of all of that.

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  • SnowbeatSnowbeat i need something to kick this thing's ass over the lineRegistered User regular
    didn't you get the memo, simben? corporate executives are all lazy layabouts

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    Well now I'm imagining Reggie as a Michael Scott-type figure and he tried out the "play the game" thing in the office one day and thought it was awesome

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    Mr. G wrote: »
    Well now I'm imagining Reggie as a Michael Scott-type figure and he tried out the "play the game" thing in the office one day and thought it was awesome

    You'd be surprised how accurate that is.

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  • Vargas PrimeVargas Prime King of Nothing Just a ShowRegistered User regular
    So, curious:

    Of the PS3/Vita owners in the thread, does anyone get anything even resembling good download speeds from PSN?

    Like, anything approaching 1MB/sec would be passable, even though it would still be slow compared to my downloads elsewhere. But I'm curious if anyone even gets that much.

  • AshcroftAshcroft LOL The PayloadRegistered User regular
    Maybe Reggie is personally making Mario 128 for the Gamecube.

    Reggie wouldn't lie to us about shit like that man.

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  • PwnanObrienPwnanObrien He's right, life sucks. Registered User regular
    Mr. G wrote: »
    Well now I'm imagining Reggie as a Michael Scott-type figure and he tried out the "play the game" thing in the office one day and thought it was awesome

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdCmkEAEoU0

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    So, curious:

    Of the PS3/Vita owners in the thread, does anyone get anything even resembling good download speeds from PSN?

    Like, anything approaching 1MB/sec would be passable, even though it would still be slow compared to my downloads elsewhere. But I'm curious if anyone even gets that much.

    I get comparable speeds on my PS3 and 360. Don't know the exact speeds

    1MB a second? That seems insanely fast. A gig in about 16 minutes? I've never gotten that sort of speed from either console

  • Baroque And RollBaroque And Roll Every spark of friendship and love Will die without a homeRegistered User regular
    So, curious:

    Of the PS3/Vita owners in the thread, does anyone get anything even resembling good download speeds from PSN?

    Like, anything approaching 1MB/sec would be passable, even though it would still be slow compared to my downloads elsewhere. But I'm curious if anyone even gets that much.

    PSN is always just as fast as XBL was for me before I sold my Xbox. Which is to say quite speedy

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  • PwnanObrienPwnanObrien He's right, life sucks. Registered User regular
    Seriously, I don't watch VGCW but if they're not giving Reggie HHH's entrance they're fucking up.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    I just did a test on PS3

    9.0 Mbps
    1.0 Mbps

    It's possible I'm a bad judge of time and also don't know shit about technical shit

  • ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    So I've been under the impression that the wii u is pretty underpowered and probably wouldn't be able to run gta all that well

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    Artreus wrote: »
    So I've been under the impression that the wii u is pretty underpowered and probably wouldn't be able to run gta all that well

    Inaccurate. It's underpowered compared to a PC or next-gen consoles, and it doesn't run Unreal Engine well, but it more than holds its own against the PS3 and 360 (which are the only confirmed GTA5 systems).

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  • HugmasterGeneralHugmasterGeneral Poopmaster General YobuttRegistered User regular
    I could go for one of these slices of my childhood right now


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  • HugmasterGeneralHugmasterGeneral Poopmaster General YobuttRegistered User regular
    I feel like the WiiU is probably more powerful than 360 and PS3, they just haven't figured out all the optimization tricks for it yet. That always takes a few years

  • PwnanObrienPwnanObrien He's right, life sucks. Registered User regular
    The Wii was capable of doing normal maps like the 360 and PS3.

    The only games to use it were made by High Voltage.

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    Unreal Engine is not officially supported on Wii U, so the games that do use it (Arkham City, Mass Effect 3, I wanna say Darksiders 2 but not sure) had to have some programming black magic to get it to run, hence the poor performance. AC3 runs perfectly fine (and as a bonus, the big radar on the controller is really handy), and I heard Black Ops 2's Wii U version is the best console one.

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    Is it weird that I feel like we've seen almost nothing about GTAV but it comes out real soon yet we are being buried by Assassin's Creed stuff and that game is still a while away?

    The trailers Rockstar have released, especially the campaign and multiplayer ones, kinda condense down what makes that game so exciting.

  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    The Wii was capable of doing normal maps like the 360 and PS3.

    The only games to use it were made by High Voltage.

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    Both Mario Galaxies and I wanna say Skyward Sword used it, too.

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    What makes me excited for GTAV is this

    My absolute favorite thing about open-world games is building an empire

    Buying all the business and rebuilding your villa in Assassin's Creed

    Taking over San Andreas

    Taking back Stillwater in Saints Row 2

    GTAV seems to be the biggest and more expansive version of that kind of open-world game to date

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  • T4CTT4CT BAFTA-NOMINATED NAFTA-APPROVEDRegistered User regular
    rfilyaw wrote: »
    I feel like the WiiU is probably more powerful than 360 and PS3

    Yeah, but unfortunately in about three months the 360 and PS3 aren't what's going to compete with the WiiU

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    SimBen wrote: »
    Unreal Engine is not officially supported on Wii U, so the games that do use it (Arkham City, Mass Effect 3, I wanna say Darksiders 2 but not sure) had to have some programming black magic to get it to run, hence the poor performance. AC3 runs perfectly fine (and as a bonus, the big radar on the controller is really handy), and I heard Black Ops 2's Wii U version is the best console one.

    Reggie is the only person saying that

    I've only ever heard reports of slowdown issues in Wii U Black Ops 2

  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    Is that what GTAV will be? It won't be " life still kinda sucks" at the end?

  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    Is that what GTAV will be? It won't be " life still kinda sucks" at the end?

    They seem to want to distance themselves from 4 so I'd imagine it probably ends Ocean's Eleven-style (since heists are the big central thing this time around).

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  • AshcroftAshcroft LOL The PayloadRegistered User regular
    I can see way too far up Jeff's shorts. Far to far to far.

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    Is that what GTAV will be? It won't be " life still kinda sucks" at the end?

    Oh life will still kinda suck

    Michael is miserable at the start of the game, and he's rich with a house in Beverly Hills, a wife, and two grown kids

    You'll have monetary success but likely not personal satisfaction

    But maybe he finds his happiness by the end

    Maybe

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  • PwnanObrienPwnanObrien He's right, life sucks. Registered User regular
    SimBen wrote: »
    The Wii was capable of doing normal maps like the 360 and PS3.

    The only games to use it were made by High Voltage.

    :rotate:

    Both Mario Galaxies and I wanna say Skyward Sword used it, too.

    I'm guessing if the Wii U equivalent will be tessellation.

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  • The BetgirlThe Betgirl I'm Molly! Registered User regular
    Mr. G wrote: »
    Is that what GTAV will be? It won't be " life still kinda sucks" at the end?

    Oh life will still kinda suck

    Michael is miserable at the start of the game, and he's rich with a house in Beverly Hills, a wife, and two grown kids

    You'll have monetary success but likely not personal satisfaction

    But maybe he finds his happiness by the end

    Maybe

    Rockstar?




    nah

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  • HugmasterGeneralHugmasterGeneral Poopmaster General YobuttRegistered User regular
    edited August 2013
    To be fair, Vice City actually had a happy ending! It was pretty gruesome and there were hardships, but it basically ended with the "This is the start of a beautiful relationship" thing between Tommy and Ken. It was definitely an arc that started very low and ended very high.

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    The only reason I have hope there'll be a happy ending is that there are 3 main characters, they can't all get fucked over in the end

    This ain't Seinfeld

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    Mr. G wrote: »
    The only reason I have hope there'll be a happy ending is that there are 3 main characters, they can't all get fucked over in the end

    This ain't Seinfeld

    Three way shootout over a treasure which turns out not to have been real in the first place. Boom.

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  • HugmasterGeneralHugmasterGeneral Poopmaster General YobuttRegistered User regular
    Speaking of video games...

    anyone here like Risen? I've been trying to play it, and man. I'm like 5 hours in, and i've spent all my time in one bandit camp with no armor and a crappy sword, trying to squeeze out quests to get money. Even the most basic gear is a whopping 500 gold (for comparison, most of the quests are giving me like 25 gold each.) I'm not even sure if it's what I was supposed to do, but I ended up splurging on two levels of pickpocket to make one of the quests move along. (Skilling up costs both leveling points and large amounts of gold).

  • Ms DapperMs Dapper Yuri Librarian Registered User regular
    JayKaos wrote: »
    Mr. G wrote: »
    The only reason I have hope there'll be a happy ending is that there are 3 main characters, they can't all get fucked over in the end

    This ain't Seinfeld

    Three way shootout over a treasure which turns out not to have been real in the first place. Boom.

    And it's in a warehouse made to look like the one from Reservoir Dogs.

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  • PwnanObrienPwnanObrien He's right, life sucks. Registered User regular
    Ballad of Gay Tony spoilers:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdkmFOtYLSI

    I'd say this is the "happiest" ending in GTA history.

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    Kiiiiinda hoping Luis and Tony show up in 5.

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  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    I really wish we knew if the launch consoles were stable this time around

    Im really tempted to get one right off the bat

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  • HugmasterGeneralHugmasterGeneral Poopmaster General YobuttRegistered User regular
    In the end, the three protagonists stage an elaborate "We all hate each other!" play for the bad guys to trick them into accepting one of the trio into their badman gang where they can take over and keep all the moneys

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