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| Author: | TheVision [ Wed Jun 20, 2018 9:48 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2018 |
Bamba wrote: Although, what in the name of fuck is this: TheVision wrote: Sea of thieves hard drive It's this. I always need hard drives for my business though so I would have bought one in the near future anyway. This one just looks nicer. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Wed Jun 20, 2018 9:48 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2018 |
*slides foot over 6p* |
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| Author: | Mr Dave [ Wed Jun 20, 2018 12:20 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2018 |
TheVision wrote: Bamba wrote: Although, what in the name of fuck is this: TheVision wrote: Sea of thieves hard drive It's this. I always need hard drives for my business though so I would have bought one in the near future anyway. This one just looks nicer. Did you go for the professional installation? For a usb drive. Purportedly for consoles.... |
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| Author: | TheVision [ Wed Jun 20, 2018 12:30 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2018 |
Mr Dave wrote: TheVision wrote: Bamba wrote: Although, what in the name of fuck is this: TheVision wrote: Sea of thieves hard drive It's this. I always need hard drives for my business though so I would have bought one in the near future anyway. This one just looks nicer. Did you go for the professional installation? For a usb drive. Purportedly for consoles.... Your point being? |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Wed Jun 20, 2018 13:36 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2018 |
<3.79> Gorogoa for Android. |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Wed Jun 20, 2018 13:39 ] |
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TheVision wrote: Bamba wrote: Although, what in the name of fuck is this: TheVision wrote: Sea of thieves hard drive It's this. I always need hard drives for my business though so I would have bought one in the near future anyway. This one just looks nicer. Fair enough, I thought for a minute you'd bought a branded internal drive, which would've been bonkers. Isn't that one pretty over-priced though, based purely on the spec comparison at the bottom of the Amazon page? I'd have thought that when dealing with video files--which are generally chunky--that paying more for a drive with such a properly awful transfer rate is a pretty bad idea. ETA: actually, belay that, it seems the Amazon page is just massively under-reporting the transfer rate of the SoT drive there. |
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| Author: | devilman [ Thu Jun 21, 2018 21:38 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2018 |
<11.99> Earth Defense Force 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair |
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| Author: | devilman [ Fri Jun 22, 2018 8:55 ] |
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<37.45> Steam Link and Controller |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Fri Jun 22, 2018 9:51 ] |
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I thought they were £27? |
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| Author: | devilman [ Fri Jun 22, 2018 9:53 ] |
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That's without the postage. |
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| Author: | TheVision [ Fri Jun 22, 2018 11:02 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2018 |
Gunbird 2 - Switch <6.70> |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Tue Jun 26, 2018 14:05 ] |
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<1.89> Unpuzzle for Android. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Tue Jun 26, 2018 14:07 ] |
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Killing floor 2 ps4 <9.95> |
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| Author: | myp [ Fri Jun 29, 2018 16:42 ] |
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<18.39> DayZ (for Sal) |
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| Author: | myp [ Fri Jun 29, 2018 16:44 ] |
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That's the first game I've bought since February, which must be some kind of new record for me. |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Sun Jul 01, 2018 7:19 ] |
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<7.99> Worms W.M.D. PS4 Pro |
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| Author: | devilman [ Sun Jul 01, 2018 16:43 ] |
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<0.89> Dollar Classics Bundle |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Sun Jul 01, 2018 18:02 ] |
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<29.99> Everybody's Golf PS4 Pro I do like a nice round of golf. |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Jul 02, 2018 15:46 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2018 |
<11.48> Gorogoa - Switch (Thanks Bamba!) |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Mon Jul 02, 2018 16:18 ] |
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote: <11.48> Gorogoa - Switch (Thanks Bamba!) You're very welcome, though I'm not convinced it's necessarily worth ~£12; the mobile pricing was much more appropriate. |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Jul 02, 2018 16:21 ] |
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Bamba wrote: You're very welcome, though I'm not convinced it's necessarily worth ~£12; the mobile pricing was much more appropriate. Yeah, I did notice that, and I know it's short: I don't care. I want to play it on Switch for bigger screen / TV reasons. |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Mon Jul 02, 2018 16:43 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2018 |
Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Bamba wrote: You're very welcome, though I'm not convinced it's necessarily worth ~£12; the mobile pricing was much more appropriate. Yeah, I did notice that, and I know it's short: I don't care. I want to play it on Switch for bigger screen / TV reasons. Fair. Although, thinking about it, I'm not sure how well the controls will translate to a console style touchscreen. Using a mouse on the PC version would be a step down from a touch screen but still work; on the Switch I can only imagine an on screen pointer controlled by one of the sticks which will be usable but definitely less enjoyable. |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Jul 02, 2018 16:59 ] |
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It reviewed well enough on PS4 so it must have pad controls; but of course the Switch has a touchscreen that I plan to play on. (MrsDoc might use the TV though.) |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Mon Jul 02, 2018 17:11 ] |
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote: It reviewed well enough on PS4 so it must have pad controls; but of course the Switch has a touchscreen that I plan to play on. (MrsDoc might use the TV though.) Huh. My only contact with the Switch was once at myp's and he told me the touchscreen isn't used for actual games. I presume now though I've picked him up wrong and he meant only it wasn't used for any games that he actually own. |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Jul 02, 2018 17:36 ] |
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Bamba wrote: I presume now though I've picked him up wrong and he meant only it wasn't used for any games that he actually own. Yes. Not a lot of games use it, but some do, and from the reviews I've read Gorogoa is one of them. |
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| Author: | devilman [ Wed Jul 04, 2018 21:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2018 |
<19.99> Shenmue I & II pre-order |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Wed Jul 04, 2018 21:26 ] |
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<15> Skyrim VR (PSN) |
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| Author: | TheVision [ Wed Jul 04, 2018 22:55 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2018 |
devilman wrote: <19.99> Shenmue I & II pre-order Where was that from Devilman? |
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| Author: | devilman [ Wed Jul 04, 2018 23:00 ] |
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TheVision wrote: devilman wrote: <19.99> Shenmue I & II pre-order Where was that from Devilman? Fanatical |
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| Author: | TheVision [ Wed Jul 04, 2018 23:15 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2018 |
devilman wrote: TheVision wrote: devilman wrote: <19.99> Shenmue I & II pre-order Where was that from Devilman? Fanatical Ah right, Steam! Thanks. I did wonder why it was so cheap. |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Thu Jul 05, 2018 8:14 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2018 |
<7.99> The American Dream for PSVR. |
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| Author: | myp [ Sat Jul 07, 2018 22:02 ] |
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<17.24> FIFA 18 (Switch) |
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| Author: | Joans [ Sun Jul 08, 2018 18:05 ] |
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Lonewolves wrote: <17.24> FIFA 18 (Switch) Let me know what it's like, I'm considering it while it's cheap. |
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| Author: | myp [ Sun Jul 08, 2018 18:53 ] |
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Joans wrote: Lonewolves wrote: <17.24> FIFA 18 (Switch) Let me know what it's like, I'm considering it while it's cheap. I read some reviews and found it's a little stripped back, but for £18 you can't really complain. It's got all the World Cup venues and teams in a free update too! Remember when they were separate full price games? I did think about getting it for the PS4 but Sal would murder me if I monopolised the living room playing football games, as she hates me watching the World Cup as it is. |
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| Author: | myp [ Tue Jul 10, 2018 13:11 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2018 |
<53> Switch Pro controller |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:39 ] |
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<4.97> on PS VR Worlds. |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Sun Jul 15, 2018 0:38 ] |
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< 5.99> Dishonored 2: The Death of the Outsider. Y'know, I honestly can't remember if I've ever bought any DLC for a game before; this might actually be the first time! |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Sun Jul 15, 2018 0:44 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2018 |
Ugh, and with only 20GB left on my SSD I apparently don't have enough space to install it! Granted, 120GB for my main PC drive may just have been a stupid idea in the first place. |
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| Author: | myp [ Sun Jul 15, 2018 1:20 ] |
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Bamba wrote: Ugh, and with only 20GB left on my SSD I apparently don't have enough space to install it! Granted, 120GB for my main PC drive may just have been a stupid idea in the first place. Do you not have a large storage drive as your secondary? |
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| Author: | KovacsC [ Sun Jul 15, 2018 6:22 ] |
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<9.99> Destiny 2 PS4 |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Sun Jul 15, 2018 20:40 ] |
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<24.99> PSVR Killing Floor thing |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Sun Jul 15, 2018 21:14 ] |
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<9.99> Resogun for PS4. |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Mon Jul 16, 2018 10:30 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2018 |
Lonewolves wrote: Bamba wrote: Ugh, and with only 20GB left on my SSD I apparently don't have enough space to install it! Granted, 120GB for my main PC drive may just have been a stupid idea in the first place. Do you not have a large storage drive as your secondary? Yep, but as discussed elsewhere it's an HDD so I'm not installing games onto that. |
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| Author: | myp [ Mon Jul 16, 2018 11:25 ] |
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Weird, I only use my SSD for Windows and install everything else to my 2TB secondary, games and all. Am I doing it wrong then? I've never had any issues, loading times or otherwise. |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Mon Jul 16, 2018 12:14 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2018 |
Lonewolves wrote: Weird, I only use my SSD for Windows and install everything else to my 2TB secondary, games and all. Am I doing it wrong then? I've never had any issues, loading times or otherwise. It depends on the game, how much stuff it loads into RAM, and how it loads it in. The best case for an SSD is something like World of Warcraft. This is a big game and it loads in a huge number of assets from a large number of 1GB cabinet files at the initial game load. Loading from a hard drive is a slow, painful experience, and even when the game has loaded and you're in the game world, you'll see characters popping in around you and it filling in the world detail for a fair amount of time, and the whole thing chugs dreadfully whilst this happens, even on a powerful PC. From an SSD not only is the initial game load massively faster, that 'pop in' phase is completely eradicated as well. At the other end of the scale would be something like Pinball Arcade, this is a small game and each table isn't much data to load in, and each table has its own data file. I actually ran this game from my storage hard drive before I got the new PC with more capacious SSDs. Realistically most games will come somewhere in the middle of course, but generally speaking it's 'Yeah, SSDs are load quicker'. |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Mon Jul 16, 2018 12:16 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2018 |
Lonewolves wrote: Weird, I only use my SSD for Windows and install everything else to my 2TB secondary, games and all. Am I doing it wrong then? I've never had any issues, loading times or otherwise. I believe it's universally acknowledged that running games off an SSD improves load times and whatnot so I'd have to say that arguably you are doing it wrong. Also, if you've never used anything but an HDD for storing games then isn't it difficult to make a statement about loading times either way? |
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| Author: | Cras [ Mon Jul 16, 2018 12:51 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2018 |
It's also worth noting that the location of your windows swap file is very important, because if it's loading stuff into and out of ram instead of directly from the install files, that's the disk where performance matters. |
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| Author: | Satsuma [ Mon Jul 16, 2018 13:05 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2018 |
It’s also also worth noting that when gaming online you should open your nat. |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Mon Jul 16, 2018 13:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2018 |
It's also worth noting that you shouldn't turn off your machine when the save indicator is showing. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Jul 16, 2018 20:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2018 |
It's also worth noting that you shouldn't run with scissors. |
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