jakonovski
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Yea, I can't play Dota because it makes me froth at the mouth, so Dad I mean Brad needs to take one for the team so we can all live vicariously through him!
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Giant Bomb #6 | You'd be hard pressed to find 10 better threads this year.
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EvilKatarn
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I just watched last week's UPF and they need to do a playthrough of a real man's visual novel. I think that just like Persona 4 they'll grow to appreciate yet another thing a bit more.
I'm just ER begging, right?
Inferno313
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Hey Brad,
You're pretty great.
You're pretty great.
Except when it comes to playing Sonic games. 
-System-level game invites, voice chat, and party system
-Universal hard drive installs
-Better achievement and social hooks
-Vastly superior save and DRM management per my previous post
Hopefully that's enough ignorant BS for you?
Also I'm not sure the auto-updates are actually much of a selling point since the feature was only introduced to alleviate the system's atrociously long patching times. MS had the sense to limit title updates to 4mb early on to prevent that specific problem until broadband became more saturated.
That's kind of the difference. In general the 360 at least felt from the beginning like a platform designed by people with experience building software (and granted, plenty of Microsoft software is pretty awful). The PS3 feels like a system designed by people who make entertainment devices, who were suddenly tasked with building a broader platform with a more robust variety of features. It often feels about as elegant as a VCR.
Hot Coldman
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Katawa Shoujo for UPF pls
shadyspace
Banned
As much as I love Vinny I wanted a Brad/Drew Bombcast because that would be really weird and awesome
For what it's worth, I think it might be better in that situation to hold off because it can tend to give a misleading view of the game. It makes the controls seem sluggish, when it might just be your guys equipment.
He totally does mention it, but the way Jeff laughed at him about it immediately after I thought he might have just been making up excuses.
Auto-updating cloud saves refers to game saves that automatically upload to the cloud. They are a very useful feature independent of the size of system updates, which is why Microsoft also added them eventually.
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/08/09/ps3-system-software-update-v3-70/
You just listed some things you think the 360 was better at than the PS3. It's hardly every conceivable level as you claimed on the last page. As for the PS3 being less elegant than the 360, which of the bloated, ad-filled 360 dashboards fits that description? Because I don't prefer any of them to the elegance of the XMB.
Why does recording introduce greater latency? The recording can't be intercepting the consoles functionality, it has to be post-rendering anyway. Or is just because it's recorded before it's displayed? In which case, there must be a recording post-display alternative.
The XMB is a much more elegant design, but the way the actual features are laid out among the various categories is arbitrary and borderline nonsensical. It doesn't help that they keep moving things like trophies and Netflix from one column to another.
I barely see the 360 dashboard because all of the meaningful functionality is one or two button presses away via the guide or the top-left buttons that are highlighted by default on each page. Sure it's rotten with ads, but they don't actually impede access to the things that matter, and I'll defer to the machine with the better functionality every time.*
*except Netflix, that Xbox app is utter garbage
EmCeeGramr
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i heard that brad is literally hitler and dracula irl and he spends his days in his nazi castle deliberately not doing his super easy podcast work and being bad at games
Thanks for your support! I made this just for you.
yay!
Also, I have... no words for how pissed I am about the changes to Treant Protector.
What meaningful functionality is hard to get to on the XMB?
I can only recall them moving the Trophy placement once, from Game to Network. Surely that's not too big of a change to deal with.
I should add that I do love the universal hard drive installs on the 360 for reducing disc access noise & wear and tear on the drive, and for improving load times. Hell, I even installed Halo 3 even though it made the load times longer.
I can only recall them moving the Trophy placement once, from Game to Network. Surely that's not too big of a change to deal with.
I should add that I do love the universal hard drive installs on the 360 for reducing disc access noise & wear and tear on the drive, and for improving load times. Hell, I even installed Halo 3 even though it made the load times longer.
ThreePiMatt
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I think the people who believe Giant Bomb has some bias against Sony/PS3/PS4 are some of the most misguided and sad individuals in the community. One might say... they live a life of perceived slights.
One of these is factually correct.
Well, a couple of things, none of the three people in the last couple of pages that alluded to Brad being a fanboy said anything about some sort of institutional fanboyism, Brad is not 'Giant Bomb'. Nor did they suggest being a fanboy extended to any sort of bias whatsoever. They've even had a Sony GotY winner.
Hot Coldman
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also he kicked a baby in the stomach
Quick someone send them a box of twinkies to save this thread.
Chinner is that you?
I think it's dangerous to get upset about a generalization while generalizing yourself. It makes sense they prefer the 360, especially considering the save file shit they have to deal with, with the 3DS. Why would anyone mind that they prefer things that make their job easier? That'd be stupid.
Brad over the past few months has downplayed the technical advantage between the PS4 and XBO. Again that's fine, the jury is out even though the raw numbers are in. I just thought that Watch Dogs comment was bizarre.
Truly I'm sorry I even brought it up because I would rather not stress a dude out that's obviously dealing with BART being assholes.
SteveWinwood
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How new are you to dota?
ShaggsMagoo
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I liked it when they actually did mailbags. i miss seeing the office.
Ok, I'll admit it. That sounded creepy.
A pregnant baby, no less.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Oh god, that would be glorious. I wish there was a way to patch in HAM radio audio into a mixer!
Brad, did you see Gravity? I know Drew did because of the movie podcast, but I don't think you've brought it up. As a fellow Space nerd, do you think it's a great movie, or the GREATEST movie? (Just ignore all the inaccuracies!)
MiniBossBattle
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"Its tuesday and the kids are gone, finally. What should we do?"
"I think we should break up"*
*Bombcast music kicks in. End of this week's podcast.
Quite funny how certain people are retrospectively damning the 360 just because Microsoft have thus far ballsed up the X1. The 360 was, without a doubt, a better console for the majority of this generation. I am not a fanboy - I owned both consoles and if I do buy a console this gen it will likely be a PS4 - but anyone who doesn't admit that the 360 was easily the better console this gen has their blinkers on.
firehawk12
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The fact that I lost three 360s while I'm still rocking an original, backwards compatible, PS3 colours my whole perspective on the generation.
And of course, in the later years, I just played more games on my PS3 because of the combination of Sony first party and Japanese games. My most played game on my PS3 is still probably Persona 4.
Maybe but at least on the XMB you don't have to wait 3-4sec everytime you do something in the front end. The 360 dashboard is so bloated and slow that even if you only want to use guide it stills takes forever to move and load.
Hot Coldman
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To be fair that baby had it coming for being a Nintendo fanboy.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
The XMB is terrible if you have lots of downloaded games. The fact that you STILL can't sort alphabetically is pretty idiotic.
I have about 20, but I'm OK with having the most recent at the top since most of the time that's what I'll be playing. I manually created PS1, PS2 and PS3 folders but you can do that automatically by pressing [ ].
On the 360 I pinned all my downloaded games, and there's no way to automatically sort them in the "My Pins" menu. But if you move each game to the front in reverse alphabetical order then you can get them to display in alphabetical order.
There's a bunch of strange shit still on both systems that should have been corrected in the first update. Can you even manage downloads on 360 yet? On Steam too actually, you can't throttle bandwidth for downloads. Strange.
firehawk12
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I have like 200 games and demos and they're all just there under the PS3 category. It just got worse ever since I started downloading all the PS+ games.
Let's not even talk about all those horrible PSP/PSV installation bubbles because they changed how PSP games worked on PS3!
Yeah, the sad part is that I presume none of this shit will get fixed on either console once the new ones launch.
Oh, no doubt that the RROD problem was a big deal - I lost one myself - but I still used my 360 far more than the PS3. PS3 did catch up towards the end, I thought, with some great exclusives and PS-Plus functionality; just thought that it was all a bit too late.
I can't think of a really great segment though to show-off on screen
Maybe Rin and Hisao getting fucking high as shit, but that's pretty deep in.
firehawk12
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I agree, if only because I got the 360 first and it's where I bought the bulk of my games. But as time went on, I started going PS3 for third party games. I feel like the first half/two-thirds of the generation were defined by 360, but the last two or three years have been much more in the PS3's favor.
Exclusives wise, I'd agree, but Sony still hasn't delivered the online infrastructure MS did. And multiplatform wise, there have been much more PS3 versions that have been better in the last year or two, but it's still pretty much parity.
EDIT: Obviously PS+ has been incredible though.
i always knew shoemaker was a dracula. aint nobody that damn sleepy during the daytime
Hot Coldman
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What about the scene with legless girl being you-know-whatted in the you-know-where
that's fairly early
EvilKatarn
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The goal is to get them into visual novels, not them wanting to desperately run away from them thinking they are products for insane people.
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