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games your going to grab

Done it now, though.

zaphod79 wrote:

games your going to grab

Zaphod. Really.

I did get the GTX970 last year for GTAV and that appears to have given the PC the boost it needs to keep it going until it drops.

Where I'm really saving cash on gaming these days is:

1) No need to buy consoles or constantly upgrade PC to play the snazziest games.

Just like how people who read Playboy for the articles.

Is the PS4 headset due this year? If so, that will bump me up by quite a bit, though I tried an Oculus Rift recently and didn't get on brilliantly with it.

Hearthly wrote:

I did get the GTX970 last year for GTAV and that appears to have given the PC the boost it needs to keep it going until it drops.

Price: approx £260 or the same as a console.

Quote:

Where I'm really saving cash on gaming these days is:

1) No need to buy consoles or constantly upgrade PC to play the snazziest games.

Ah, the old 'I own a gaming PC to save money' argument. Just like how people who read Playboy for the articles.

If you buy every console day-one (which is a rather profligate thing to do) you're spending about £350-400 three times every six to eight years. That's not much. Or to put it another way, if you amortise console cost over its lifetime, you'd spend less on a PS4 per year than you've budgeted for Steam and GOG sales this year.

Dr Zoidberg wrote:

Is the PS4 headset due this year? If so, that will bump me up by quite a bit, though I tried an Oculus Rift recently and didn't get on brilliantly with it.

WAIT WHAT?

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Hearthly wrote:

I did get the GTX970 last year for GTAV and that appears to have given the PC the boost it needs to keep it going until it drops.

Price: approx £260 or the same as a console.

Quote:

Where I'm really saving cash on gaming these days is:

1) No need to buy consoles or constantly upgrade PC to play the snazziest games.

TBH Doc I wasn't making any money saving arguments for the PC as a gaming platform versus the consoles or anything else, just that my overall gaming spend is lower because the PC upgrade cycle is slower now (and I'll cite my 7+ years old CPU+mobo+RAM again!), and in my situation the consoles have become largely redundant, especially if your chums are on the PC platform as well.

Last gen I got a 360 as it did stuff PCs of the time couldn't do, whereas now I don't see anything that makes me want an XBone or PS4, so I'm spending less cash on gaming overall in that regard for example.

The Wii-U I got specifically for a small number of games that are exclusive to the platform, Mario Kart 8 and DKC Tropical Freeze were damn near worth the price of entry alone. (And Rayman Legends, although that's on other platforms now.)

Mobile gaming spend is less now too, whereas in the past I'd have something like a Nintendo DS with expensive games, now I just use my phone or a £150 tablet where the games cost buttons. (The £150 on the Shield missed this year's spend as it was a December purchase.)

MaliA wrote:

Dr Zoidberg wrote:

Is the PS4 headset due this year? If so, that will bump me up by quite a bit, though I tried an Oculus Rift recently and didn't get on brilliantly with it.

WAIT WHAT?

The motion tracking was very good, but it did strange things to my sense of balance and I could only use it for a few minutes.

<949.98> PC Specialist Vanquish Elite II Gaming PC

Lonewolves wrote:

<949.98> PC Specialist Vanquish Elite II Gaming PC

Traitor. What kind of hipster takes that to a coffee shop?

Saturnalian wrote:

Does it play CD's?

Yes!

Mr Dave wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

<949.98> PC Specialist Vanquish Elite II Gaming PC

Traitor. What kind of hipster takes that to a coffee shop?

Yeah because I often took my MacBook to my local independently-run coffee emporium for a London Fog and a few laps of Indianapolis.

Funny story about the Steam Controller. In my mind, i've been using it like a mouse even for first person shooters so up is up and down is down but when I go back to the PS4 controller suddenly I can't play a FPS with invert, which is my norm.

Crazy.

Saturnalian wrote:

Related story: I used to be an invert Y person - then I played World War 2 Online which didn't have the option. So I trained myself to use it the normal way. And then I couldn't go back.

If you like fiddling with stuff you'll enjoy fiddling around with this stuff. If you don't, you might find messing around with it a bit of a chore as it ain't exactly plug-n-play (although you can, for all intents, plug it in and it works) (after downloading some firmware and, hnnngh, using Big Picture).

And I didn't even realise how to engage the gyroscope until I read about it on Reddit. Stupid thing has this stupid symbol on big picture. Stupid. Anyway, that's quite good.

So, yeah. I kinda like it.

£30 for Mario Party?! Cor.

<9.99> on Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.

Bamba wrote:

<9.99> on Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.

spoiler: Everybody has gone to the rapture.

(It's obviously a gripping story, given I can no longer remember why everyone vanished)

Author:	zaphod79 [ Sat Jan 02, 2016 11:10 ]
Post subject:	WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2016
So how much do you think your going to spend on gaming in 2016 Are you going to enter the next generation with a PS4 / Xbox One or whatever Nintendo's new console is ? Are there big games you are going to grab on day 1 - or will you wait for the magic £20 mark ? Post your estimate here and try and keep track of just how much money you are throwing away when instead you could be outside ! 2011 thread : viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6653 2012 thread : viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8199 2013 thread : viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9209 2014 thread : viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9879 2015 thread : viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10294 Post your prices inside <> symbols and Grim...'s magic tracker will total everything up for you : http://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/c ... sh2016.php You can also put negative values in if you've sold items back

Author:	Bamba [ Sat Jan 02, 2016 12:48 ]
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I'm going for £1200-£1500 this year purely because with my PC getting on a bit and the Oculus out soon I suspect this'll be the year I bite the bullet and upgrade. Given that I'll want something nicely future proofed and I'll buy an Oculus headset and I'll probably spring for a new monitor while I'm at it £1500 might end up being conservative.

Author:	Grim... [ Sat Jan 02, 2016 17:01 ]
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zaphod79 wrote: Post your prices inside <> symbols and Grim...'s magic tracker will total everything up for you : http://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/c ... sh2016.php I thought for a glorious moment that I was wise enough to do 2016's counter when I did the 2015 one. Alas, I was not.

Author:	Grim... [ Sat Jan 02, 2016 17:04 ]
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Done it now, though. zaphod79 wrote: games your going to grab Zaphod. Really.

Author:	zaphod79 [ Sat Jan 02, 2016 18:01 ]
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Grim-beard... the noisy wrote: Done it now, though. zaphod79 wrote: games your going to grab Zaphod. Really. Cut n paste from last thread - I will change it now so next years will be correct :-)

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Author:	Hearthly [ Sun Jan 03, 2016 21:40 ]
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WoW account will be £120. (There are three accounts for the family which is £360, but only one of the accounts is my personal expense, and Mrs Hearthly and Hearthly Jnr would still have theirs even if I didn't have mine, so I'll just count £120 there). (Did the pre-orders for the next expansion last month otherwise that would have been another £35, or £105 overall.) Other than that I'm not expecting to spend much at all. I've already got my console for this generation (Wii-U) and the only game I can really see on the horizon for that is Zelda, so that'll be £50 I guess. XBone and PS4 are pretty much a zero-interest proposition for me, can't see any spend there. I keep thinking I'll buy a new PC but the Saturday night sessions with the guys where my current PC cheerfully kicks BF4 around all maxed out (2560x1440@60FPS@ULTRA) constantly pulls me back from dropping the best part of £1500 on a new PC that'll basically, erm, just do the same thing. I did get the GTX970 last year for GTAV and that appears to have given the PC the boost it needs to keep it going until it drops. I'm not right fussed about 4K, so I can see this old PC lasting another year. (CPU, mobo and RAM now over seven years old, and I bought them second hand for £180. Case is now ten years old.) Beyond that maybe a few quid on mobile games for my Shield. Hearthstone I'm largely freeloading now apart from the adventure expansions so let's allow £40 for that. Usually chuck a few quid at stuff that comes up in Steam/GOG sales, maybe another £50 there. Might grab the last bit of the Starcraft 2 campaign (Protoss) when it turns up cheap, which it will do. There'll probably be another couple of seasons for Pinball Arcade and they'll be insta-purchases, so I guess around £60 in total there based on previous pricing. Overall I'm going to say £300-£400. Where I'm really saving cash on gaming these days is: 1) No need to buy consoles or constantly upgrade PC to play the snazziest games. 2) The major 'franchises' pretty much leave me totally cold or have turned to shit, I certainly wouldn't pre-order the deluxe edition of a SimCity game ever again, for example. Also BF4 was effectively broken for a year, so the smart money there would have been on waiting for that period of time and snagging it in a sale. (Me and the guys have had fuck all to do with BF Hardline and the Star Wars FPS game.) 3) The endurance of really good games like Hearthstone, WoW, Pinball Arcade. And also fruit machine emulation and MAME and suchlike. i.e. Low cost or free.

Author:	Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Jan 04, 2016 14:15 ]
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Hearthly wrote: I did get the GTX970 last year for GTAV and that appears to have given the PC the boost it needs to keep it going until it drops. Price: approx £260 or the same as a console. Quote: Where I'm really saving cash on gaming these days is: 1) No need to buy consoles or constantly upgrade PC to play the snazziest games. Ah, the old 'I own a gaming PC to save money' argument. Just like how people who read Playboy for the articles. If you buy every console day-one (which is a rather profligate thing to do) you're spending about £350-400 three times every six to eight years. That's not much. Or to put it another way, if you amortise console cost over its lifetime, you'd spend less on a PS4 per year than you've budgeted for Steam and GOG sales this year.

Author:	MaliA [ Mon Jan 04, 2016 14:21 ]
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I think i will get No Man's Sky and 3 more PSN subs.

Author:	myp [ Mon Jan 04, 2016 14:22 ]
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Author:	Grim... [ Mon Jan 04, 2016 15:37 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Just like how people who read Playboy for the articles. What else would you want Playboy for?

Author:	myp [ Mon Jan 04, 2016 15:46 ]
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I've not been very consistent with my spending. In the three years I've participated I've spent £400, £1300 and £1000. I'll go for £1000 this year as I'm sure I'll get a new PC and some form of VR headset.

Author:	TheVision [ Mon Jan 04, 2016 15:56 ]
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There's no way I can spend as much as last year so I'm going for £800-£1000.

Author:	Dr Zoidberg [ Mon Jan 04, 2016 16:25 ]
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Is the PS4 headset due this year? If so, that will bump me up by quite a bit, though I tried an Oculus Rift recently and didn't get on brilliantly with it.

Author:	MaliA [ Mon Jan 04, 2016 16:29 ]
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Dr Zoidberg wrote: Is the PS4 headset due this year? If so, that will bump me up by quite a bit, though I tried an Oculus Rift recently and didn't get on brilliantly with it. WAIT WHAT?

Author:	Hearthly [ Mon Jan 04, 2016 18:27 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Hearthly wrote: I did get the GTX970 last year for GTAV and that appears to have given the PC the boost it needs to keep it going until it drops. Price: approx £260 or the same as a console. Quote: Where I'm really saving cash on gaming these days is: 1) No need to buy consoles or constantly upgrade PC to play the snazziest games. Ah, the old 'I own a gaming PC to save money' argument. Just like how people who read Playboy for the articles. If you buy every console day-one (which is a rather profligate thing to do) you're spending about £350-400 three times every six to eight years. That's not much. Or to put it another way, if you amortise console cost over its lifetime, you'd spend less on a PS4 per year than you've budgeted for Steam and GOG sales this year. TBH Doc I wasn't making any money saving arguments for the PC as a gaming platform versus the consoles or anything else, just that my overall gaming spend is lower because the PC upgrade cycle is slower now (and I'll cite my 7+ years old CPU+mobo+RAM again!), and in my situation the consoles have become largely redundant, especially if your chums are on the PC platform as well. Last gen I got a 360 as it did stuff PCs of the time couldn't do, whereas now I don't see anything that makes me want an XBone or PS4, so I'm spending less cash on gaming overall in that regard for example. The Wii-U I got specifically for a small number of games that are exclusive to the platform, Mario Kart 8 and DKC Tropical Freeze were damn near worth the price of entry alone. (And Rayman Legends, although that's on other platforms now.) Mobile gaming spend is less now too, whereas in the past I'd have something like a Nintendo DS with expensive games, now I just use my phone or a £150 tablet where the games cost buttons. (The £150 on the Shield missed this year's spend as it was a December purchase.)

Author:	Dr Zoidberg [ Mon Jan 04, 2016 18:42 ]
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MaliA wrote: Dr Zoidberg wrote: Is the PS4 headset due this year? If so, that will bump me up by quite a bit, though I tried an Oculus Rift recently and didn't get on brilliantly with it. WAIT WHAT? The motion tracking was very good, but it did strange things to my sense of balance and I could only use it for a few minutes.

Author:	Bobbyaro [ Mon Jan 04, 2016 20:25 ]
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Hearthly wrote: Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Hearthly wrote: I did get the GTX970 last year for GTAV and that appears to have given the PC the boost it needs to keep it going until it drops. Price: approx £260 or the same as a console. Quote: Where I'm really saving cash on gaming these days is: 1) No need to buy consoles or constantly upgrade PC to play the snazziest games. Ah, the old 'I own a gaming PC to save money' argument. Just like how people who read Playboy for the articles. If you buy every console day-one (which is a rather profligate thing to do) you're spending about £350-400 three times every six to eight years. That's not much. Or to put it another way, if you amortise console cost over its lifetime, you'd spend less on a PS4 per year than you've budgeted for Steam and GOG sales this year. TBH Doc I wasn't making any money saving arguments for the PC as a gaming platform versus the consoles or anything else, just that my overall gaming spend is lower because the PC upgrade cycle is slower now (and I'll cite my 7+ years old CPU+mobo+RAM again!), and in my situation the consoles have become largely redundant, especially if your chums are on the PC platform as well. Last gen I got a 360 as it did stuff PCs of the time couldn't do, whereas now I don't see anything that makes me want an XBone or PS4, so I'm spending less cash on gaming overall in that regard for example. The Wii-U I got specifically for a small number of games that are exclusive to the platform, Mario Kart 8 and DKC Tropical Freeze were damn near worth the price of entry alone. (And Rayman Legends, although that's on other platforms now.) Mobile gaming spend is less now too, whereas in the past I'd have something like a Nintendo DS with expensive games, now I just use my phone or a £150 tablet where the games cost buttons. (The £150 on the Shield missed this year's spend as it was a December purchase.) Boo, you aren't supposed to provide a reasonable response! Get a 360!

Author:	MaliA [ Mon Jan 04, 2016 20:26 ]
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Dr Zoidberg wrote: MaliA wrote: Dr Zoidberg wrote: Is the PS4 headset due this year? If so, that will bump me up by quite a bit, though I tried an Oculus Rift recently and didn't get on brilliantly with it. WAIT WHAT? The motion tracking was very good, but it did strange things to my sense of balance and I could only use it for a few minutes. I am now considering that enhanced paternity leave stuff. If it works with no mans sky

Author:	romanista [ Tue Jan 05, 2016 12:03 ]
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mmm more than 2015 i'm afraid...

Author:	myp [ Wed Jan 06, 2016 18:55 ]
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<949.98> PC Specialist Vanquish Elite II Gaming PC Go big or go home.

Author:	Satsuma [ Wed Jan 06, 2016 18:58 ]
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Does it play CD's?

Author:	myp [ Wed Jan 06, 2016 19:54 ]
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Saturnalian wrote: Does it play CD's? Yes!

Author:	Mr Dave [ Wed Jan 06, 2016 20:02 ]
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Lonewolves wrote: <949.98> PC Specialist Vanquish Elite II Gaming PC Traitor. What kind of hipster takes that to a coffee shop?

Author:	myp [ Wed Jan 06, 2016 20:05 ]
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Mr Dave wrote: Lonewolves wrote: <949.98> PC Specialist Vanquish Elite II Gaming PC Traitor. What kind of hipster takes that to a coffee shop? Yeah because I often took my MacBook to my local independently-run coffee emporium for a London Fog and a few laps of Indianapolis.

Author:	MaliA [ Wed Jan 06, 2016 20:13 ]
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Lonewolves wrote: Saturnalian wrote: Does it play CD's? Yes! <mutters>

Author:	Mr Dave [ Thu Jan 07, 2016 1:02 ]
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Lonewolves wrote: Mr Dave wrote: Lonewolves wrote: <949.98> PC Specialist Vanquish Elite II Gaming PC Traitor. What kind of hipster takes that to a coffee shop? Yeah because I often took my MacBook to my local independently-run coffee emporium for a London Fog and a few laps of Indianapolis.

Author:	Bamba [ Mon Jan 11, 2016 12:45 ]
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<1.44> on The Room 3 for Android.

Author:	myp [ Mon Jan 11, 2016 12:52 ]
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<39.99> Steam controller

Author:	JohnCoffey [ Mon Jan 11, 2016 12:55 ]
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I started off the year quite well. I bought Just Cause 3 on the 4th for £21 (g2a) and then two days later BLOPS 3 for £21 also (g2a) I've put £100-£200 because tbh looking around there's about 4 PC games I want this coming year.

Author:	Satsuma [ Mon Jan 11, 2016 13:03 ]
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Funny story about the Steam Controller. In my mind, i've been using it like a mouse even for first person shooters so up is up and down is down but when I go back to the PS4 controller suddenly I can't play a FPS with invert, which is my norm. Crazy.

Author:	myp [ Mon Jan 11, 2016 13:04 ]
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Saturnalian wrote: Funny story about the Steam Controller. In my mind, i've been using it like a mouse even for first person shooters so up is up and down is down but when I go back to the PS4 controller suddenly I can't play a FPS with invert, which is my norm. Crazy. Related story: I used to be an invert Y person - then I played World War 2 Online which didn't have the option. So I trained myself to use it the normal way. And then I couldn't go back.

Author:	DavPaz [ Mon Jan 11, 2016 13:06 ]
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Lonewolves wrote: Saturnalian wrote: Funny story about the Steam Controller. In my mind, i've been using it like a mouse even for first person shooters so up is up and down is down but when I go back to the PS4 controller suddenly I can't play a FPS with invert, which is my norm. Crazy. Related story: I used to be an invert Y person - then I played World War 2 Online which didn't have the option. So I trained myself to use it the normal way. And then I couldn't go back. Same here, different game.

Author:	Mr Dave [ Mon Jan 11, 2016 13:40 ]
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Saturnalian wrote: Funny story about the Steam Controller. In my mind, i've been using it like a mouse even for first person shooters so up is up and down is down but when I go back to the PS4 controller suddenly I can't play a FPS with invert, which is my norm. Crazy. Aye. I now use non inverted mouse after using inverted controller having originally learnt on inverted mouse Is controller any good?

Author:	Satsuma [ Mon Jan 11, 2016 13:57 ]
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If you like fiddling with stuff you'll enjoy fiddling around with this stuff. If you don't, you might find messing around with it a bit of a chore as it ain't exactly plug-n-play (although you can, for all intents, plug it in and it works) (after downloading some firmware and, hnnngh, using Big Picture). And I didn't even realise how to engage the gyroscope until I read about it on Reddit. Stupid thing has this stupid symbol on big picture. Stupid. Anyway, that's quite good. So, yeah. I kinda like it.