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@David187
Hahahaha

@Jeanhenry Very interesting take.

@AdamNovice Fair enough. Not sure why you started banging on about "been treated like some little Englander by a bunch of people moaning at how democracy works cos they lost."
Strictly speaking, there is not, and never has been true democracy in this country or any other. putting a cross on a piece of paper once every few years isn't democracy. Buying a scratchcard gives you a better chance of making a smidgen of improvement to your well-being

@jess3a3 @AdamNovice Brexit was sold to us (by people who are now profiting millions from it) on a whole bundle of lies and misinformation about sovereignty, borders and trade. We always had far more control over our laws than we were told. As for fishing, that's a fraction of a percent of UK economy. On top of that, British fishermen have sold £160m worth of England's fishing quota - That' s now in the hands of vessels owned by companies based in Iceland, Spain and the Netherlands, That amounts to 130,000 tonnes of fish a year and 55% of the quota's annual value in 2019. Plus a little under half of what we caught was sold abroad.
Don't mention the war, Basil.

@PossibLeigh I've been partial to jogging around town myself - from gig to gig. picking up junk. I'm more of a dumpster surfer than a hero

@Wormold
Games where you had more fun on side missions
Games you had most fun just kicking about.

@PossibLeigh
Blimey, that's some bug! So what are you doing, Fast travel?

@deathaxe Sorry to hear that.
One suggestion I found for people using a 4k tv with upscaling was to set graphics to 1440p-60 and let the TV upscale to 4k. This lowers the processing demands on the console/graphics card and allows for smoother play.
I'm no expert on graphics but it kind of made sense.

My Tv is a 2009 1080p Bravia. I'm blaming the limitations of the TV's processor for some of the problems. like the lag that killed my V when a gang member zoomed out of a door, across the hallway and killed me before I could move an inch.

@PossibLeigh What's happening with your game?

It's a good game. I'm having fun with it. I'm not coming across any dealbreaking bugs. On the PS5 I'm using, they are very few and far between. I think some people might be confusing the technological capabilities of the fictional game with what should be expected of real world gaming software/hardware.

No worries , guys. I always check out your reviews whenever they arrive.

This too will pass.

@AshM Same here, I've had Sony TVs since being impressed by an old Sony Trinitron someone gave me about a hundred years ago.

@AshM I read that the Q90T needs serious calibration out of the box. As for the X950H the only issue there is a little blooming and banding. I do see some banding on my current TV thought not noticed it in gaming - probably because I'm distracted by what's going on in the game

@BrbImCarrying Hi. Thanks for responding. Sorry for my late reply. I only just saw your message as it did not have my @NathanSF at the start so I did not get a notification.
The X950H has dropped in price and has become an attractive and tempting offer. I might even wait to see what the next gen TVs are priced at. I suspect the X950H might drop more and be worth buying instead

@AshM I'm good with the 2009 Bravia 1080p. I think the overall graphics is better anyway because of the new hardware in the PS5 so that's a plus. But it is tough waiting
I'm looking forward to CES 2021 that kicks off 11th Jan to see what they come up with and when.
Also see my response to BrbImCarrying.

So now he's backtracking, saying it was all some kind of 'intelligent statement' and expects us to buy it? sure. he's just giving us more rope to hang him with.

@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L What I was going to say, you beat me to it. Is that a pre-crime copyright infringement?

@PhhhCough Never heard of those shows you mentioned and only know the kardashians exist because of the headlines of news articles I never read - damn arts, culture and gaming keeps getting in the way of indulging in trash.

@Alexface My thoughts exactly.

Saw one episode, got the picture; bunch of entitled, shallow, narcissistic imbeciles living in a surreal bubble, completely out of touch with reality.

@Medic_Alert Same here. I've pre-ordered but will try to play as little as possible until I get my 4k TV early next year. Crazy, I know.

I'm still waiting for my Red Dead Redemption 2 + horse and Saddle, stirrups, leather, Ultimate Collectors edition

@BrbImCarrying
Very interested in your experience with the X950h. It was on interested list before I gave up and decided to wait. I've come across the relative redundancy of VRR a few times.
What's your experience of the banding and blooming? or is it restricted to low-res streams and video?

I did a similar thing with a terminal at the local BP garage, got out of the in-house pages via a few clicks and escaped into the interverse

It's a fabulous game, very more-ish.
Visually stunning, immersive story, great characters. Game of the year in my opinion.

@AshM
Yes, the temptation is strong, especially with the sales happening now and the Boxing Day sales too. But I'm very aware that if I buy a 4K now, I'll forever regret it when the new TVs come out next year with better image display proper 4k-120 implementation, ALLM and VRR.
I'll probably go for the best mid-range I can afford. And I'll also have a bit more to spend on the TV

@AshM Yes, I pre-ordered from Game the night of the games reveal, straight after the price was announced. They took the money from my account yesterday so I guess/hope the machine will arrive on time next week. I'm going to hold out from buying a new box and keep saving for a mini-led TV, hopefully after CES 2021

@nathanSF It's why they're offloading the current range of TVs at silly prices.

@AshM
The articles are saying the prices will be on par with current OLED screens. and will be available first half of 2021
It's why they're offloading current gen TVs at silly prices.
https://www.gizmochina.com/2020/11/03/samsung-to-launch-mini-led-smart-tvs-in-the-first-half-of-2021/

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/samsungs-stunning-mini-led-tvs-to-challenge-oled-and-theyre-coming-soon

@AshM agreed. MY TV is an old 40" Bravia HD from 2009.

@AshM
Various TV tech sites are reporting Samsung will be set to deliver several million Mini LED TVs in 2021. Not sure whether they will keep them or manufacture for Sony too. Good news

@AshM Have a look at Quantum TV reviews and comparisons. After watching Rtings, Digital Trends, FOMO and Vincent, I found Quantum to be the most down to earth, straight up and honest. Though he can be a bit ranty at times.

You can tell your advertisers / sponsors I pre-ordered the PS5 disk game based on your review.

I've spent several weeks looking at review and comparison videos and reading articles on all these TV's
Bottom line is wait for 2021.
Every 4k TV has one issue or another, be it blooming, banding, burn-in with OLED, poor implementation of 4k. problems with colour, VRR and ALLM
Samsung are talking about releasing a mini-led TV with loads of benefits over both current gen led and OLED.
I've decided to wait for the 2021 TV's

So, What deficiencies will I see if playing on a regular HDMI 2.0 link with no Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) and No Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM)
I really don't care about 4k - 120

Ugh. Think I'll wait for the entire PS5 VR kit. hopefully it'll be wireless and come with voice recognition and gloves.

If only they were tweaking how a standalone VR 'Brainjack' could be started from within the core game

'In the wild' so they're out there to be hunted down and captured?
What are they up to; scuttling about in parks, burrowing amongst the shrubbery in your garden, hiding in the rafters, forming packs to prey on squirrels?

@darksoul77
It's true about coding - and the fewer lines required the better. But here's my question. Is it worth loading the upgrade of say my digital version of "Destiny 2" onto the PS5 if I'm still using the same old 1080p 200hz TV? Aside from, I presume, the faster load times, what benefits are there?
As for TV, I'm waiting for the Mini LEDs to come onto the market next year as most of the TV's out there now have one or more deficiency, be it Burn-in with OLED, sub-par HDMI 2.1 implementation, lack of VRR or LLM, banding, blooming, etc etc.

Will pass the time until Cyberpunk 2077 comes crashing in on my PS5

That was brilliant.

It's tragic. A whole lot of Marvel / Avengers fans old and young have been let down by this incompetent, wet fart of a game. If only SE - CD had stuck to a solid campaign mode and sold us extra story content further down the line. I would have paid good money for that.

@BradT I know, so true. I'll probably bake a cake while the game installs and the patch downloads. Then I'll eat the cake while watching something on Netflix, have a couple of beers and fall asleep on the couch then be too tired to play and leave it for the next day, by which time some numpty would have speedrun through the game and posted the endgame on YouTube and I'd read about it here.

This is the first disc that going to be fed into my PS5. Hopefully I'll have completed Ghost of Tsushima by the end of this month. Then back to a bit of messing about on Destiny 2 while waiting for the next step in PlayStation Evolution.

As a lifelong true believer - right back to the days of "Tales to Astonish!" I was really looking forward to this. When I heard SE were taking it on I thought, 'excellent' they'll do a good job'. But they didn't. They went for the money instead. What a bunch of S**ts. I played through the demo and then deleted the whole thing and wished it never existed.

@NDL08
isn''t that called cheating?

@TheFrenchiestFry
true, i was thinking more along the lines of work, education, maybe family commitments. I guess I should google him but I'm not that interested. Good for him though if that's his thing.

Speechless. Does he do nothing else?