Anyone here play video games?
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^ i've had a couple of mates say that too. but i haven't had the time to look for someone/ somewhere selling rdr1 to play on my old ps3. so we'll see how that goes..
i'm not too fussed about gameplay with rock* stuff. i wouldn't be able to tell the difference. so the storyline really holds it together for me with arthur..
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If you like ninjas and samurais, the Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild, and video games that are video-gamey, Ghost of Tsushima is really great. It kind of feels like an indie game with AAA graphics. I don't know if it the game of the generation like I was hoping for. But it succeeds in being fun and making you feel like a bad-ass samurai.
I really enjoyed the Last of Us 2 also. I didn't care for the story [at first]. But it really grew on me. I also go my first platinum trophy playing it, and actually played through the story 3 times. There's an accessibility option that lets you add slow motion aiming, so the game kind of can be Max Payne 3, super fun and addictive. The game is brutal and violent…
The resource management in the game is great because you're always low on ammo, you have to try and plan out your attacks. But there's always more ammo just around the corner. There are these flashbacks in between the chapters that are kind of boring and it would be cool if you can skip them in new game +, but you can't. Other than that, this was my favorite game in a long time.
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I bought an LGCX OLED TV several months ago with my stimulus check and hotel points, and had instant buyers remorse when I read the HDMI 2.1 ports could only support 10 GBPS and not the full 12. They released this information roughly 31 days after I bought the TV and I was mad because I wanted to return it but I was outside the window. LG had said that the TV supported full HDMI 2.1 at CES but then backtracked so they could increase the internal processing memory for their AI upscaling engine…
But specs for the Xbox Series X were just leaked today and I feel a lot better because the Series X will have a maximum output bandwidth of 10 GBPS anyway. So the LGCX will support full 4k/60 and HDR with variable refresh rate (VRR). I feel very relieved.
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@Giles kind of broken English. I'm only like semi-literate.
But it means that the new devices and ports on devices need more bandwidth (packet size) because the resolution is so high and the image frequency (Hertz or frames per second) is higher.
But these new game consoles aren't always able to display a consistent framerate. When the framerate of the xbox doesn't consistently match the display frequency of the TV you get what's called screen tearing.. . it looks like this:
So there is a language my TV can use to display the same exact framerate the xbox is able to send out. So this requires more bandwidth than a regular HDMI port/cable can transmit. Since there are no available devices that can output HDMI 2.1 this is all completely theoretical. But I had hoped that my new TV would be future-proof (at least until affordable 8K OLED TVs are available).
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You know way more about this stuff than I do, but would this be of any use to you?
https://www.hdfury.com/product/4k-arcana-18gbps/
I’m getting one so that my Sonos system will play nice with my sources.
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@Flannel thanks but my TV is already eArc compliant. I think it will work great now actually.
@AdamJ yes they use the VRR as I have mentioned. But your TV or monitor will have to have a display port or HDMI 2.1 to take full advantage of VRR. The LG CX OLED does Freesync, Gsync and VRR. It's just the speed is 10 instead of 12 gbps per lane for the above stated reason. Now that I see the xbox specs I am satisfied. It will be pretty unusual for anything to use a full 12 bit signal. Maybe Dolby Vison will with HDR on. But if you look closely the xbox has DSC so it is a moot point anyway. So you still will be able to get true 4:4:4 chroma with compression.
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I was discussing my TV with one of the guys from HDTV Test and he pointed out that most TVS especially OLED ones have 10 bit native display panels. So pretty much any TV you can buy now that's not $40k can only display 10 bits. So full HDMI 2.1 bandwidth really isn't necessary. So far Dobly Vision 12 is the only 12 bit HDMI source.
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@Filthy not related, but glad to see you back.
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@neversummer thanks man. I lurk sometimes. But I don't always posts because I don't have anything to say or I feel like garbage.
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If you want to see something genuinely disturbing… check this out:
Usually games like this aren't my cup of tea but the Dungeons and Dragons aspect of this is fascinating to me because I never had any friends to play it with. I had a few manuals and game books because I thought the art was cool in them. But I never had the rules to try and figure out how to play. This was in the early 80s before the internet...
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Yeah I was expecting the brain to come alive and spout legs and tendrils. The narration is very unsettling too.
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Did you ever play Dragon Age? There was some pretty grim stuff in that too…
I played one of them. Wasn't my cup of tea. The Bethesda RPGs kind of ruined games like that for me. Oblivion was a high water mark for high fantasy RPGs in my humble opinion.
