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Honestly? If you aren't going for VR, or a limited 4k resolution. Pretty cheap right now if you get a version that's out right now. Especially if you are getting it for RDR because by then the 4k one will be out so the price for a "normal" PS4 shouldn't be that high. (I think it's something like $375 CAD right now, with a bundle.)

@tragedyjones Yay Canada, I guess!

Anyway RDR2 will only get GOTY if it works better than RDR and Undead Nightmare did. I like Rockstar, and sure it looks pretty but past game launches and continued issues mean I won't be pre-ordering it. It could be my spending 3 hours yesterday trying to get them working again, so maybe I'm bitter, but given all the complaints I read through trying to fix the issue and all the other games coming out in 2017 I would say it's WAAAY early to be calling GOTY just yet.

I just want to shoot Western Zombies for Halloween, is that too much to ask?

@Arkandel said in General Video Game Thread:

The preview trailer for the Nintendo Switch is out. According to Slashdot it's a 'hybrid mobile and home console with a tablet element and detachable controllers.

The tablet itself (which Nintendo calls "the Switch Console" is thin and pretty attractive. It looks to have a screen measuring around 7 inches, of unspecified resolution. At home, it'll plug into the "Switch Dock," which in turn plugs into your TV. In the trailer, a gamer plugs in what looks to be an SD Card-style cartridge, meaning games are likely to be distributed both digitally and physically. It's powered by an unspecified custom Nvidia Tegra processor.'

Also it looks like you will be able to play with friends on the mobile; prop it up and each person uses one half of the controller. And there are a ton of third party partners signed up, rather than just first party. Also Skyrim. No idea if it's the updated port coming out soon or not though.

March 2017.

(Also Civ 6 drops today, not tomorrow).

So much pretty.

John Cleese recaps The Walking Dead.

@Arkandel Netflix was slightly cheaper, until recently. Now they are on par with each other. But Rogers tossed Shomi free with a lot of things; get a new plan, get Shomi for 2 years. Shomi actually had more to offer than Netflix did too (Canada's Netflix content is number 30 on the list, below Bahamas, Panama, Ecuador, and Paraguay with Canada 623 tv shows which is 53.85% of US TV shows and 55.78% of US movies. But hey, we got the Force Awakens a year before the US? Go Canada!

Add to that... catalog issues and loading and people not even being able to watch Shomi on the TV and enough people canceling it, and it was not competitive enough for the money coming in. Rogers really didn't anticipate the expense of it all. And Bell has Crave; Both Shomi and Crave started as service provider only and then branched out to Canada-wide. They've both had a couple of years to catch up with Netflix content. (Which really isn't too hard when you look at the numbers.) Crave and Shomi both only work inside of Canada, and Netflix has cracked down on VPN's that allow people from Canada to watch US content too.

People didn't have to organize though, there were a lot of ways it wasn't cost effective.

@WTFE People have been doing it, a little here; Rogers tried to start up Shomi, which was basically Canadian Netflix, it's closing in November. Not enough people using it, too expensive to run.

Rogers is very compartmentalized. There are things people can do and things they can't. For example if you have been trained to look at and explain a bill, you can't do that in cell tech. I would call and ask, as I'm pretty sure there are channels you can get without having to get all TSN. It might have hockey and some others too, but I'm pretty sure there is an NBS only channel option.

The big thing with sports only channels is that you have to pay upfront for 3 months which puts some people off because it seems really expensive, but it stops people ordering a channel for a big game and then canceling it later.

@arkandel You should be able to buy the channels individually, but yeah, they are rolling it out slowly. Did you speak with customer service, or technical support? They can put different channels on your plan. They also have different deals they can give you in regards to free months.

Also those new packages also add up to be about $1 more per channel than the standard packages.

Cute Demon Crashers is a VN you can get for free. It's a sexgame, but the difference is you can give consent. And if you turn the demons down they don't give you shit for it.

Playstation NA store flash sale - lots of games up for less than $10. Have a list!

@Derp People get away, I guess? The game was originally just a generic horror game where 4 people escaped a killer, they got the licence later. They've filmed over 300 death animations with Kane Hodder doing the motion capture. (He was Jason for several of the movies.) It's all about the 80's camp-counselor slasher movies. As far as i understand it there are 5 people per game and it's random who gets to be Jason.

But I mean, Jason doesn't loose. (Freddy winking doesn't count. Neither can be killed.)

Bundle Stars has another contest going. FPS!

Friday 13th game delayed, adds single player.

I am squeeing and crying at the same time.

Also, Steam is working on getting PS4 controllers to work with it without having to go through a third party.

Yeah I'm going to go 3D, nothing to see here.

@Misadventure It's a relative new thing for Steam, GoG does it as well.

I would suggest getting it on sale and trying it; Steam has an under 2 hour / 2 week owned policy. That should be enough time to try it. Then if you like it, go back and buy the rest of the bundle if you really want it; the key won't be included if you already have it.

Is this going to be using the Supernatural RPG books?

Germany spent $136,000 on a sex-education website specifically targeted to foreigners.

And also the expansion is out today!