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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.

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.

Yes. Not a lot of games use it, but some do, and from the reviews I've read Gorogoa is one of them.

<19.99> Shenmue I & II pre-order

<15> Skyrim VR (PSN)

Where was that from Devilman?

Ah right, Steam!

Thanks. I did wonder why it was so cheap.

<7.99> The American Dream for PSVR.

<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.

<53> Switch Pro controller

<4.97> on PS VR Worlds.

< 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!

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?

<9.99> Destiny 2 PS4

<24.99> PSVR Killing Floor thing

<9.99> Resogun for PS4.

Yep, but as discussed elsewhere it's an HDD so I'm not installing games onto that.

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'.

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?

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.

It’s also also worth noting that when gaming online you should open your nat.

It's also worth noting that you shouldn't turn off your machine when the save indicator is showing.

It's also worth noting that you shouldn't run with scissors.

Loading times just give you a period to admire the vast array of LEDs in your rig. That's what they're there for, right?

They artificially added by old developers because they had to put up with loading from tapes and multiple floppy disk swapping. If they wanted to, all games would load in less than a second. But they want you to suffer as they did.

<3.99> Part-time UFO for Android.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... egg.nazcaf

I'm glad you included the link because that looks brilliant. What's that? Hal Laboratory inc? Sold!

I've played a few levels and it's pretty good fun, though I suspect the difficulty could curve pretty sharply.

<12.79> Guacamelee! 2 - PSN

https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/pro ... REORDERBUN

Noice. Loved the first game a lot.

I’ll definitely be plowing this one hard.

<4.49> Hollow (Switch)

The Last Of Us remastered <18.16>

<39.99> No Man's Sky - XBox One X Enhanced

<14.99> No Man's Sky, enhanced for PS4 Pro and my wallet.

I possibly should have checked how much it cost for PS4 Pro but the XB1X was already turned on.

Anyway, I got to experience REAL 4K NO MAN'S SKY for all of two minutes before turning it off because the framerate was shit, and switching to 'performance' mode.

Well worth an extra £25, I think.

Modern gaming, right there.

The frame rate is shit on a boggo PS4 too, if that makes you feel any better.

<4> holedown (iOS)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/holedow ... 70249?mt=8

<14.99> Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

<49.99> Mario Tennis Aces for Nintendo Switch - installing now for me and Trousers to joust in a gentlemanly fashion over the weekend. (I won't play it until he gets here, so we're both going in blind.)

<11.99> Infinite Minigolf for XBox One. Me and Trousers agree it's fucking shit.

Do not buy Infinite Minigolf.

<2.49> Returner 77 for Android.

I bought Infinite Minigolf for the Switch, and can concur that it's shit.

First thing I noticed after starting it up was that on the menu screen it says something like "31,508 holes left to play" - that's not fucking infinite, is it?