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Jocephus wrote:(and another post from me)

battlefront definitely looks awesome. i am a little burned out on FPS's but i do think switching it to a star wars theme could make it a lot more fun. and i've seen so many funny clips online of hilariously crazy things happening online, like this (i think he swears so NFSW)

Jocephus wrote:i got 1TB (which clearly will be needed) xbox 1, gears ultimate edition, rare replay and ori and the blind forest, for 400.
I got the 500gb. Hoping I don't regret that. I typically don't buy many games though. Around 2 a year. My oldest son rotates between Minecraft and a couple other games. I don't see myself using the recording feature very much, which I assume will take up a lot of space.

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there's a 2GB download when you start her up (or i suppose, assuming its connected to the internet as you start for the first time)

and games install automatically, it appears, which kind of annoys me (i didn't see a preference for that). and i think, even if you have the disc, it still has to/will install the game to the harddrive. but its easy to manage the game library. the only thing i can think the 500TB might mean is a little more library management (i.e. delete something out to play a new game)

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I looked up the game sizes and GTA is by far the biggest I'll have. 49GB. FO4 and Battlefront are 28 and 20gb. So I should be good.

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There are only two video games I ever purchase and play: FIFA and Halo. This year I skipped Fifa 16 (keeping my copy of last year's version around to play) and opted to buy Halo 5: Guardians. Today is Halo's release day and it's downloading to my console right now. I love that I don't have to leave my house to get the games anymore.

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For about the 10th time since the first goddamn day it was released, I tried re-installing Fallout 3. It has been plagued with crashing problems for years. I hardly ever even played the third game in my second favorite gaming series of all time. Very depressing.

This attempt was the worst. Went through the same five or six long-ass, techie fixes I always find. Found a very detailed guide that had a few steps beyond that. At about two hours in to reading about ini files, codecs, dll tweaks, etc, I clicked some stupid download link that looked like the innocent file. Went straight down the malware wormhole, and spent another hour and a half now digging out of that [expletive] hole. Finally got the game seemingly running, bypassed the intro tutorial, and *poof* game freezes on me again. Rage.

God damnit Fallout 3. My steam is laughing at me - "12 hours played" - My ass. I've heard Liam Neeson's stupid ass voice intro about 100 times trying to get that [expletive] game to load correctly. Hurry the [expletive] up, Fallout 4.

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I pre-ordered Fallout 4 from the online store, and I didn't know this, but I guess you can go ahead and download it. It just won't work until the hour of the release. It's weird. I mean, it's right there.

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ghostrunner wrote:I pre-ordered Fallout 4 from the online store, and I didn't know this, but I guess you can go ahead and download it. It just won't work until the hour of the release. It's weird. I mean, it's right there.
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My copy of Halo 5 was delivered yesterday, but I couldn't play it due to a 9 gig D/L.

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ghostrunner wrote:I pre-ordered Fallout 4 from the online store, and I didn't know this, but I guess you can go ahead and download it. It just won't work until the hour of the release. It's weird. I mean, it's right there.
gah...part of me wants to do that, but i want a physical copy. i'll buy it tuesday after work. i meant to take tuesday off but i have something scheduled. so i took friday off! will binge for 3 days straight i imagine next weekend.

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