morning

@mccraigmccraig comments are lies we'll tell in the future?

😉

moin moin

@yogidevbear I own one, and soon the VR too

@yogidevbear I bought the teen a PS4 a few years ago… which basically became a way to watch YouTube videos on a big telly.

I play games….

@jasonbell well in that case: https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/grid/STORE-MSF75508-BLACKFRIDAY17PS4/1?smcid=pdc%3Aen-gb%3Apdc-buy-playstation-store

I just purchased Horizon Zero Dawn

It was between that, Titanfall 2, or Uncharted 4

it can go either way @jasonbell - my teen is rather good at the FPS thing now

my son is getting an X-box... to play minecraft on.

My wife has the XBox. I game on the PC generally

She's currently running around Egypt stabbing people

in game or irl @carr0t?

@yogidevbear Horizon Zero Dawn is very good

I've played it through now. I enjoyed it quite a lot.

@thomas Depending on his age, he might prefer playing it on a PC. There's more stuff, and the model isn't "pay for skins" it's free skins & maps.

A bit more wild-west 🙂 Far less "app store"

Also, the mods are an amazingly open world

@dominicm he has played it at friends on x-box. and having him play on our (work) laptops isn't ideal either.

@mccraigmccraig Hah. Assassin's Creed Origins 😉 Although she grew up in Cyprus and went to Egypt once, to me knowledge she has never stabbed anyone

She is Scottish though, so maybe if she got proper angry sometime 😉

Dishonored: Death of the Outsider was on offer on Steam last night. £9.99. Picked that up, loved Dishonored 1 & 2

Would quite like Shadow of War, but I object to the lootboxes even if I don't need them, and it's currently still £27 even on offer. I'll pick it up when it's sub-£20

@thomas I thought Xbox was double the price it is, oops

If I had £450 to throw away, I'd have bought the Xbox One X

But I don't 😆

@yogidevbear Titanfall2 is okay, but bored me after a bit. I love the Uncharted stuff, Lost Lagacy was a little wonder.

But I always, and I mean always, go back to The Last of US

Yeah, that was my thinking too. Titanfall 2 looks cool, but probably a lot of the same ol'

I like the concept of getting engrossed in a story line in gameplay so Uncharted is definitely appealing

@yogidevbear U-4, U-Lost Legacy and Last of Us are story filled joy.

I love the Naughty Dog stuff, though TLoU2 is looking a lot darker and brutal from the trailers I’ve seen

@yogidevbear it's £450? Oh maybe I'm looking at something old, amazon had it at £250. Maybe that's a black friday deal though.

Never heard of LoUS before. Looks good

@dominicm I hope not

Otherwise I wasted my money on a PS4pro

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Xbox-500GB-Forza-Horizon-Wheels/dp/B076DHRXWL/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1511434599&sr=1-1&keywords=Xbox&th=1

Apparently the single player of Titanfall2 is surprisingly good, so I'll probably buy it eventually for that. I play very little multiplayer, apart from kinda Elite

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Xbox-One-X-1TB-Console/dp/B01GVN15IA/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1511435505&sr=1-1&keywords=xbox+one+x

Is the S the old one or something?

Yeah

Yeah

The new one is the X

The X is the new one

Beast of a gaming machine

Especially for the price

Well in that case @thomas a £500 PC can run minecraft very well.

If I could buy a laptop with those specs for that price I'd be very happy

XBox One -> XBox One S (smaller, lower power, slightly more powerful) -> XBox One X (absolute beast)

hahaha

But the point is any game should be able to run on all of them. Devs aren't allowed to release 'X only' games or whatever. X is mainly for higher res, so a game that only runs at 1080p on the S might do 4K on the X

X is basically not relevant unless you've got a 4K TV, IMO

Of course this being consoles it's '1080p' and '4K', but still

I think we are getting him an Xbox One S... when I looked at the X my wife vetoed it straight away 🙂

Haha

We have the original XBox One. It's a brick

I have an original PS4, I am wondering if I should get the Pro to go with my VR

I am actually kinda surprised. I know Sony did the same as MS in that you're not allowed to release 'Pro Only' games yet, but I was expecting VR to require the Pro

I'm waiting for the next gen of VR on PC

I'm slightly worried about the performance

We will see

Happy Thursday to my homeland buddies!

So I may have taken the PS4pro out of the box. But only to get it all setup for Christmas day. Really.

Yeah, of course.