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  • #362
    gimli2112
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    In fairness overall Destiny has saved me a fortune as I haven't bought anywhere near as many games in the past two years. I did buy some silver for stupid dances and the sparrow manual but I'm certainly better off financially because of it.


    Alien Isolation is way too scary for me. Had a game years ago on the pc that was Alien based. It was very basic but it had that scanner from Aliens that beeped faster the closer they got. Still freaks me out.


  • #363
    Kimbot
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    gimli2112 wrote: »
    In fairness overall Destiny has saved me a fortune as I haven't bought anywhere near as many games in the past two years. I did buy some silver for stupid dances and the sparrow manual but I'm certainly better off financially because of it.


    Alien Isolation is way too scary for me. Had a game years ago on the pc that was Alien based. It was very basic but it had that scanner from Aliens that beeped faster the closer they got. Still freaks me out.

    Just get an adult nappy youll be grand :P


  • #364
    Hail 2 Da Chimp
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    gimli2112 wrote: »
    In fairness overall Destiny has saved me a fortune as I haven't bought anywhere near as many games in the past two years.

    My Backlog:
    1. Fallout 4 - played a good bit, but still only very early in the story.
    2. The Division - Level 12..
    3. The Witcher - played the first campaign.
    4. Star-Wars Battlefront - unopened.
    5. Bloodborne - unopened.

    To be fair, the one reason I keep coming back to Destiny: I have very little time to myself in the evenings, so even if I have 30 mins - 1 hour, I can get a lot done in Destiny and usually have a bit of craic doing it.

    It's hard to pick up a game like The Witcher and get totally immersed in the game, when you know you've only got 30 mins.
    It's very easy to pick up bounties and play 2 games in the Crucible if you only have 30 mins.

    That doesn't even take into account the social aspect of it, you know if you're skipping the raid you're going to be missing out on some serious craic.


  • #365
    gimli2112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,426 ✭✭✭✭gimli2112


    Ah yes Fallout 4 was a significant casualty too. I am however playing a fair bit of the Division and have two characters levelled up to 30. The second character felt painfully grindy which coming from a Destiny player you'll know means something.


  • #366
    Hail 2 Da Chimp
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    Fallout 4 is a huge game in fairness, I've spent a lot of time just wandering the Wasteland, killing things. It's one of those games I may never finish (I've never finished Skyrim, etc.).

    I found with the Division, it was very hard to get get it started / get into the missions.
    I'd log on, with an hour or so to play and find that I was a level 8 - but the next mission was level 10. So I'd have to run around looking for encounters to rank up.
    While I enjoyed the missions, I just felt like I should at least have been able to go from mission to mission to rank up, without having to grind side missions.

    Sure it wasn't a big deal really, but when you know you don't have much time to play a game and have to make a choice - a few games in the Crucible, or grinding side missions?


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  • #367
    SolvableKnave
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    Since Destiny, I've bought, and returned, F4 (Fell asleep playing it) - Witcher 3 - Bloodbourne - D3.

    Have yet to complete Batman Arkham whatever

    Have yet to open Borderland HJC.

    Have given up on The Division. Game looks great, just cannot get into it. Think I've 1 char at 25/18 or something like that. The DZ was good idea, just didn't work out as intended, and then the ongoing coc-ups they're having fixing $hit that should have been caught in QC, all the exploiters and lack of action to relevel the playing field. I just wish I hadn't got the season pass. Learnt my lesson there.


  • #368
    Generic Dreadhead
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    SolvableKnave wrote: »
    Have yet to open Borderland HJC.

    Great game, I'll be going back to this tonight. Handy in terms of being able to just lob it on for an hour or whatever too when I'm not playing Destiny


  • #369
    SolvableKnave
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    Cormac... wrote: »
    Great game, I'll be going back to this tonight. Handy in terms of being able to just lob it on for an hour or whatever too when I'm not playing Destiny

    Had B3 on the PS3. Loved it. The art style. The Humour. Game played brilliantly.


  • #370
    Riesen_Meal
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    My backlog includes :

    Bloodborne (mocks me daily on my PS4 menu screen)

    Tearaway (will start it eventually)

    Arkham Knight - got bored with car parts

    The Order - got it for 6 quid on US store, 38GB download putting me off!

    @Solvable - yeah you can pop in that 2TB sucker from Argos and put your old one into the caddy, just pop the sides of it with a knife ..



  • #371
    SolvableKnave
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    Fieldog wrote: »
    @Solvable - yeah you can pop in that 2TB sucker from Argos and put your old one into the caddy, just pop the sides of it with a knife ..


    I think mammy's staff discount will be coming in to play here.


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  • #372
    Mitch Connor
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    I bought the division and never even opened the box - the beta was ok, but the more I heard about the DZ the less I want to play it - feels to late to get started with it now, just not arsed! I may buy the Uncharted collection (never finished 3) and uncharted 4 - when I can get them both a bit cheaper.


  • #373
    SolvableKnave
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    SolvableKnave wrote: »
    I think mammy's staff discount will be coming in to play here.

    My weekend is now kinda sorted. Have the young lads 2nd birthday to organise too, so defo by next weekend I'll have either a working 2TB PS4, or a very expensive collection of materials.

    So, download the firmware to a flash drive, save ps4 data to the cloud, swaparooney, load firmware, download the cloud, Destiny, profit.


  • #374
    Hail 2 Da Chimp
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    SolvableKnave wrote: »
    so defo by next weekend I'll have either a working 2TB PS4, or a very expensive collection of materials.

    :D


  • #375
    SolvableKnave
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    2TB drive no longer on sale. Back up to €97. Might just splash out the extra €30 for the 4TB version.


  • #376
    sniper_samurai
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    SolvableKnave wrote: »
    2TB drive no longer on sale. Back up to €97. Might just splash out the extra €30 for the 4TB version.

    Ps4 doesn't work properly with HDDs over 2TB, causes problems with rest mode. Also that 4TB HDD won't fit in a PS4, its 2mm thicker than a standard 2.5'' drive.


  • #377
    SolvableKnave
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    sniper_samurai wrote: »
    Ps4 doesn't work properly with HDDs over 2TB, causes problems with rest mode. Also that 4TB HDD won't fit in a PS4, its 2mm thicker than a standard 2.5'' drive.

    Back to the 2TB it is so


  • #378
    OptimusTractor
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    SolvableKnave wrote: »
    Back to the 2TB it is so

    A vicious circle, isn't it.


  • #379
    Generic Dreadhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    I just delete games. Keeping it slim and trim at 500GB
    #StorageGoals #CountingTerabytes #LeanLivingPS4


  • #380
    PlainP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 714 ✭✭✭PlainP


    Cormac... wrote: »
    I just delete games. Keeping it slim and trim at 500GB
    #StorageGoals #CountingTerabytes #LeanLivingPS4

    What about all those montage clips you have. I'm sure your HD is stuffed to the gills with them at this stage :P


  • #381
    Generic Dreadhead
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    PlainP wrote: »
    What about all those montage clips you have. I'm sure your HD is stuffed to the gills with them at this stage :P

    Yeah.... about like 40GBs :/

    To be fair, most of that is before I figured out you could reduce the record time from the default of 15 mins.

    Plus back a year ago I would have been like "Yeah I got 3 guys on the Heavy Ammo, I'm gonna record that"

    It'll probably be pretty cringe when I go back looking at them


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  • #382
    OptimusTractor
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    PlainP wrote: »
    What about all those montage clips you have. I'm sure your HD is stuffed to the gills with them at this stage :P

    No excuses anymore now that you can upload directly to YouTube.

    To be honest I don't think the clips exist.


  • #383
    SolvableKnave
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    Cormac... wrote: »
    Plus back a year ago I would have been like "Yeah I got 3 guys on the Heavy Ammo, I'm gonna record that"

    It'll probably be pretty cringe when I go back looking at them

    Now it's only the Seventh Columns and Lighthouse trips.


  • #384
    Generic Dreadhead
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    OptimusTractor wrote: »
    No excuses anymore now that you can upload directly to YouTube

    I didn't know that
    SolvableKnave wrote: »
    Now it's only the Seventh Columns and Lighthouse trips.

    I probably didn't even record the lighthouse trip.

    The Seventh Column I went and got a bloody USB Flash Drive to get it off the PS$ cause I doesn't recognise any of my many external drives :/


  • #385
    nocal
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    Wow. Did you get a Seventh Column. I never knew that.


  • #386
    Kimbot
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    Cormac... wrote: »
    I didn't know that



    I probably didn't even record the lighthouse trip.

    The Seventh Column I went and got a bloody USB Flash Drive to get it off the PS$ cause I doesn't recognise any of my many external drives :/



    Probably the formatting was wrong on them for the PS4?


  • #387
    sniper_samurai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,045 ✭✭✭sniper_samurai


    jonnycivic wrote: »
    Probably the formatting was wrong on them for the PS4?

    Yeah, the PS4 can't read drives formatted in NTFS, it needs to be in the archaic FAT32 or exFAT formats.


  • #388
    Generic Dreadhead
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    sniper_samurai wrote: »
    Yeah, the PS4 can't read drives formatted in NTFS, it needs to be in the archaic FAT32 or exFAT formats.

    Tried that, even those won't be recognised if they are over over 32GB (I think) and I didn't have anything that small.


  • #389
    Kimbot
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    Cormac... wrote: »
    Tried that, even those won't be recognised if they are over over 32GB (I think) and I didn't have anything that small.

    OH look at me with my big thing :P


  • #390
    SolvableKnave
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    jonnycivic wrote: »
    OH look at me with my big thing :P

    You know what those Corkonian Langers are like.


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  • #391
    SolvableKnave
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    Turn based strategists, Civilization 6 arrives October 21st this year. Here's the announcement trailer. No in game footage just yet, just quite a nice monologue from what sounds like Sean Bean?



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