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The pretty much only GOOD that I saw in the game from the visual standpoint is NPC's animations (Faith's first-person view and reflections animations are bad).

Tried during the free trial and I'm at a loss of words. The graphics are horrendous. They're simply on par with ME1 (2008!) on 360, and I'm not exaggerating. Even the resolution seems to be the same (720p. Maybe it's 900p, tops). One thing that may be better than the 360's game is environments SOMETIMES, in SOME places having higher polycount (things like pipes, that are supposed to be round). Textures are actually blurier in many places, compared to the first game (as hard as it is to believe!).

After that E3 Demo that had the audacity to say "in-game graphics" I'm incredibly disappointed. Turns out, they lied so bad about the visuals. I'm sure even the PC version on the highest settings doesn't have any graphics like in that footage. And if you think about, there's absolutely no reasonable explanation for this - both Xone and PS4 could do so much better in terms of visuals (and it's not like this game is a launch title or something).

Don't say anything about "necroposting". This is as relevant, as it always was.

I think about this often. Japanese are wholly on another planet. In absolutely everything. Games is just one aspect. Japanese are 100% detached from all things Western (US, EUR). ABSOLUTELY COMPLETELY DETACHED. How they can still manage this in this globalized world, I've no idea.

I've just thought about not ever seeing Playstation Blog for their JP audience and decided to look into it. Turns out, Japanese PS Blog was only started in 2015! Try to visit it, it's a ghosttown, nobody is there, no comments, no nothing!! JP gaming community is supposed to be massive. PlayStation community (PS4 and Vita) should be around 10 million. How come nobody needed this blog communication channel before 2015? I could understand if this was Xbox JP community...

Point is, do you EVER hear so much as a peep about JP gamers OR anything from JP gamers? How can they live in this parallel universe? All of this because of the language barrier? Will this ever change?

The only month that is not jam-packed with highly-anticipated games is July.

Couple games added.

Suspend simply does not work properly on Xbox One.

Wanted to get some advice from the people in the know.

Been thinking about getting a capture card for a long time now. Never used one in the past, don't understand many things.

1. The first and the main one - don't want to spend a fortune on one. It was quite a revelation to me that these devices are so expensive. I do not understand for what reason they are, really. Should be cheap as crap, IMO.

2. The best ones, AFAIK, at least for non-professionals, are Elgato's, correct? Should I even try to search for anything, BUT Elgato? Is everything else just a waste of money and time? eBay has a lot of noname Chinese ones, but common sense says they're crap.

3. IDEALLY I'd want to be able to capture all consoles - old AND new. Meaning it has to support composite, component and HDMI. But that's probably a tall order, if I don't wanna break a bank..? If such a card (a decent one) is too expensive (how much, by the way?) then how much would a card that's only able to capture PS3/X360/PS4/XO cost, at the minimum?

4. How do these cards even operate? I was under the impression that they just save the video to the SD card (you then unload the video from time to time off it). But now I read in all the eBay listings that these capture devices go directly into your PC and your PC has to be beefy on top of that. What? PC has to do some work as well? Wow, these cards seem worthless. And if your PC is 30 feet away? You'd need that long of a USB cable? Doesn't make sense to me.

5. LAG. Wasn't able to find info on this. Elgato says they introduce "little to no lag". Considering modern TV's themselves already introduce lag, having the card add up to it even a little bit would ruin the experience of gaming for me. So do these cards introduce lag? Do all people who capture just tolerate this lag???

For the second:

Contra: Hard Corps?

Innovation (fundamentally new ideas) vs evolution (refinement). There was a lot of refinement, but no true innovation. I get that this thread is basically about refinement.