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Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

AshburnerX said:
I wouldn't be surprised if they want to get back to something like Armored Core or King's Field.
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Miyazaki said they're already working on a new IP. We may even find out what it is in E3.

I accept that they couldn't and shouldn't make these forever, but the wannabes from other companies just aren't the same and only with these last two entries have they really hit their stride popularity-wise. I suppose with Dark Souls 3 they finally have a blend of all the right mechanics from different entries in a single title, though I'd have liked to see one other title where the game world corkscrews around itself like the first Dark Souls.

Guess I'll have to really really enjoy the Dark Souls 3 DLC releases this fall and next year.

EDIT: I apparently read this article late at night and missed some things. Miyazaki emphasizes that "personally" the series is over "for him" but doesn't rule out more games of this nature. I'm guessing he means if Bandai-Namco insists on more stuff, but in that scenario it might mean more like Dark Souls 2, and it'd probably be best to just let things lie rather than a bunch of mediocre games flood the franchise. But I shouldn't just assume that someone besides Miyazaki would do a bad job just because of those two guys.

Also, he said "several" DLC are planned, though I'm not pretending that's set in stone. He's changed his mind with that stuff before.
 
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GasBandit

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Frank said:
Mixture of both. Squad tactics of 2 with a grander scale and base building. Also, titans.
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Base building good. Titans good. If "Squad tactics" means micromanagement, not so much. I am not a fan of battles hinging on me selecting individual units to tell them when to use the WIN ability. I mean, to a degree. I liked the Commisar "shoot somebody to restore morale" type thing, but, say, not so much of "click here to do more damage for 10 seconds on a 60 second cooldown, and all combat is balanced around your constant use of this ability" type thing.
 
Frank

Frank

If the battles are larger scale, then I doubt it'll be as micromanagey as DoW2. Relic is good. I trust them.

I liked DoW2 and 1 though.

My only bummer is the first three playable races are Marines, Eldar and Orks AGAAAAAIN.

Bring on Tau, Necrons and Mechanicus.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

GasBandit said:
Base building good. Titans good. If "Squad tactics" means micromanagement, not so much. I am not a fan of battles hinging on me selecting individual units to tell them when to use the WIN ability. I mean, to a degree. I liked the Commisar "shoot somebody to restore morale" type thing, but, say, not so much of "click here to do more damage for 10 seconds on a 60 second cooldown, and all combat is balanced around your constant use of this ability" type thing.
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This was ESPECIALLY dumb when you had the same commander attached to each squad but still had to trigger their effects one by one instead of simply having them all go off at once like you wanted. It's one thing to make me click my psycher to use his magic, but it's another to keep me from using all my priests or all my commissars at the same time.

I wouldn't mind athe smaller scale of 2, because 2 was still quite fun, but yes... I want base building back.
 
GasBandit

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Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

BErt said:
So is it too much to hope it's at least something like playable E3 Zelda is Wii U and their live stream will announce some of the differences the NX will feature? I'm hesitant to get excited with the dual release thing again :/
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Allegedly they will have playable Zelda U ... and that is the only playable game Nintendo will have.

There's still going to be announcements of other games, trailers online beforehand, either in a digital presentation or a Nintendo Direct, but their entire E3 presence and focus is the next Zelda.

I expect the NX version isn't going to be a big boost above the Wii U one, so when they say open world Zelda, I'm not sure what that means anymore. Twilight Princess was okay, but not a classic like Link to the Past, Ocarina, or Wind Waker. With Zelda U being in this developmental mire for so long, I don't know what to expect, except that the next console Zelda game will likely be at the end of the NX's lifespan like Skyward Sword was for the Wii.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Nintendo released Super Punch-Out on the N3DS VC. This is only significant because they didn't announce it previously, meaning any time we could get surprise SNES titles on the N3DS. Which I'm totally okay with.
 
GasBandit

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You guys see this mindblowing shit?

New Nvidia cards: the 1080 and 1070, faster and cheaper than the Titan

Check down near the bottom of the article.

And if that wasn't enough, Huang also unveiled the GeForce GTX 1070, which he stated is faster than the $1,000 Titan X. This is impressive since Huang revealed that the card would retail for $379
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Jesus pogosticking Christ. What a time to be alive, and I think that's the first time I've used that statement without irony.

Guess I found my next video card!
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Terrik said:
Would it be better than 2 980 ti's SLI'd? Hmmm....
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You know, I've never really been a fan of SLI. I'm always hearing about how prone to problems it is, it makes case cooling THAT much more of an issue, reduces your available selection of motherboards, takes up twice as much room in your case, and all for a performance increase which, when it works right - and it doesn't always, will still probably be eclipsed by a single card of the same price point next generation. SLI is dumb. Instead of buying twice the cards, just buy one card that is more expensive, IMO.

But you don't need to. You're not going fucking 4k, you're not doing oculus rift so you don't need 120fps, and right now even my crappy $200-3-years-ago ATI card gets 60fps at 1080p in just about everything, as long as you turn the stupid shit off (like ambient occlusion, which is a huge power drag for a shitty visual effect which makes everything look worse, IMO) and don't fool yourself into needing x16 samples of whatever the latest flavor of antialiasing is.
 
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PatrThom

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
You guys see this mindblowing shit?
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Jesus pogosticking Christ. What a time to be alive, and I think that's the first time I've used that statement without irony.
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Yes, and it's about time the GPU people finally started getting their gains again from architecture improvements rather than just process shrinks (though also this is going to be the first GPU in a loooong time that's finally smaller than 28nm). Also, what with the dismal DX12 performance from even their latest cards, NVIDIA was gonna have to do something soon or else they were gonna get creamed.
Terrik said:
Would it be better than 2 980 ti's SLI'd? Hmmm....
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NVIDIA says it will be about 23% faster than 980ti but at only +15% power budget.
What's important is not how any of the SLI'd 9xx cards compare to the 1xxx-series, rather what's important is that the new "HB" SLI bridges for a pair of 1xxx-series cards are also going to be twice as fast...hmm...

--Patrick
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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PatrThom said:
What's important is not how any of the SLI'd 9xx cards compare to the 1xxx-series, rather what's important is that the new "HB" SLI bridges for a pair of 1xxx-series cards are also going to be twice as fast...hmm...

--Patrick
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Talk about buying a Bugatti to drive to the grocery store.
 
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