Random Video Games/News Thread

[Tom Servo]

In a sort of odd tribute to Notre Dame, Assassin's Creed: Unity is free to purchase for the next week on UPlay. I think that may only apply to the PC version.

https://news.ubisoft.com/en-us/artic...-dame-de-paris

[Tom Servo]

Yech. Dunno if the game gets any better, but I had had enough about 10 minutes into it.

[drew]

I've only played Origins and Odyssey. Have thought about going back to some of the earlier ones, but I'm undecided

[GreatScawt]

As an FYI, Burnout Paradise Remastered on Xbox is $5 for the Spring sale. That particular deal stood out for me so I nabbed it.

[SportWagon]

Was anyone else silly enough to buy the new toy Playstation Classic?

https://www.playstation.com/en-ca/ex...ation-classic/

I'm glad it was, I believe, half-price ($39CDN at Wal-Mart in Canada).

I felt sort of like I had stolen Barbie's PlayStation, or something. Well, alright, it's not quite that small, but...

So far I've verified it works, and played a little Ridge Racer R4.

And also discovered that small (<=12") HDMI monitors/TVs are hard-to-find. It seems it might be suited to a small display device, but that's not an option. One set of wires needs to cross the floor to a main TV. I used a long HDMI cable, and kept the box close to me (the controller cords aren't particularly long, anyway).


I'd seen and ignored rumours earlier, I think. Supposedly the release date in Canada was December 3, 2018, but I don't remember seeing it anywhere. Certainly not prominently. At the original suggested $129CDN you'd expect to get a full-sized fully-functional console. Or I would, at least.

[MR2 Fan]

I thought about it, but still can't justify it.

It's not like they got one thing wrong...they got several things wrong. Maybe for $20 I'd get it

[drew]

I got the NES Classic by way of Australia (thanks RWA!) two years ago, and have turned it on precisely twice.

[JoeW]

All I really want is to have City of Heroes back. I could ditch everything for that one game.

[SportWagon]

The PlayStation Classics are back to $79 again now. Seems way too much.

I think the Wal-Mart must have had the C64 emulator for much less then $99, too. Because I don't remember that much hesitation regarding eventually buying it, although I did in fact delay, thinking I could think about it for a couple of weeks. At $49 I might get one, and maybe one for the tireless underpad installation guy in the next office, too.

But $99 seems too much.

[Alan P]

All I really want is to have City of Heroes back. I could ditch everything for that one game.

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