Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@andreoni79 I totally gave in and ordered that copy of Zelda: Wind Walker for the Gamecube you sent me the link for.

Good price and condition was great. Just sat at my desk with the game staring at me.

On a seperate note, does anyone have any recommendations for external video capture devices? Wanting to record some gameplay from a variety of devices to use in some Youtube videos. I've seen the Elgato devices mentioned a lot...

Are you sure you ordered Wind Walker? In that case you'll receive an ultra rare limited edition, or a fake one!

@andreoni79 No, that's the game about Link Windwalker realising he has the force, meeting up with an old man, a Goron and a Zora, and stopping the Death Triangle.

Here they go!

@Kidfried @andreoni79 @Octane Sigh - you make one little typo and the whole internet goes nuts. Like that time I misspelt my favourite comic book, Total Cult.

Oh and it is actually set in the Walking Dead Universe and Link has to help Rick Grimes grow a beard or something. Obviously.

@Rudy_Manchego You forgot the part where the beard will allow him to be metamorphed into Geralt of Rivia - which will unlock the inner power to take back the triforce from Bowser. You're leaving out some of the best parts man!

@Jaz007 Shhhhhhh spoilers man!

@Rudy_Manchego Typo Of The Year

So, my saga of getting an external hard drive is finally over.

After buying an incompatible drive last week, I bought a cheaper one (still 8TB, for around $150 instead of $180) that came today, and thankfully works. I can finally buy more games!

@Kidfried Unless it's a game I don't like, I generally go back and replay games, so deleting and reinstalling games was always going to be a chore for me. I thought it'd be best if I had an extra drive, and I'm glad I do.

@DerMeister Yeah, my long term plan is to have enough storage as well. I want an SSD though, way more reliable than HHD. 2TB should be enough I think as Spider-Man was the first game that made me delete some games to make room for it. But SSDs are still very expensive, so I'm gonna wait a few more years I think. I may get a cheap HHD as a temporary solution.

@DerMeister More games! Yay! I got a 2TB hybrid drive earlier this year because keeping the games I had in rotation left increasingly little room on the stock 500GB one. I don't mind deleting things, but it was getting ridiculous. Especially glad given the size of Red Dead Redemption 2.

I bought a 5tb hard drive as soon as Sony allowed external hard drives. I have yet to fill it half way

@Tasuki i got a 2tb the day the update dropped and have got it about half full right now, although to be fair i did delete some games like MGSV and Battlefront 2 and the later being 90gb in size saved a bit of room

@beemo I think it depends on what you currently have, if the new TV has HDR, etc. I think mine is bigger tham 43 inches, and it's pretty close to the couch, so the difference was definitely noticeable.

@beemo I remember those days before I went HD in the 360 era. Fifa and Gears of War I really struggled with.

@beemo At 10ft, you should be looking at 75" or more to get the most out of 4k. That being said, you can still get some benefits from a 55" TV at 10ft. The image will look sharper and more detailed - whether you can actually see all the finer details.

An example of that is 'text'. As the text gets smaller on screen, you have fewer pixels to define the edges and shapes. At 1080p, some very small text (say 4 pixels high) will be just a blur - especially letters that have rounder shapes - an L or an I would be OK but A or B or C or E would be difficult but at 4k, you have 16 pixels to create those same letters at the same screen size. Maybe you can't really see those words at 10ft away on a small 43" screen but if you wanted to, you would see nothing but a blurry blob with maybe the odd letter as readable but it would be a lot easier to read on a 4k screen. The main benefit is more in the mid range areas where 1080p starts to get blurry on smaller objects, things like hair/fur becomes more blurred together - tabby cats for example stop looking 'tabby' and become more of a smudge of colour - Ginger and white stripes become a pale ginger cat , light Grey and black stripes become a dark grey cat - they lose their stripes at closer to the camera than they do on a 4k screen because the pixels can't show more than 1 colour.

Its not just these things either - If you look at most films, your brain is filling in information - that green blurry smudge in front of that house shape is grass, that yellow smudge is sand in a desert etc so you don't often really look close but with 4k you can get more detail - more contrast with shadows and highlights which gives the grass more texture, more texture in Sand too as you can almost see each individual grains, Snow too stops being just flat white but almost each individual crystal that can sparkle in the light to give more texture too.

Like I said though, at 43" and 10ft away, you probably won't see these things anyway but they will be there. You may notice that there seems more sharpness. You will find the small print on text a lot easier to read as it won't be so blurry. It will make more difference in gaming as they use more fine lines, more sharp edges than films do so there will be a more noticeable difference than you will see in film/TV. At 43" though, you may have to look for those differences and most of the time, you will be wondering whether there is any difference at all. I doubt you could read text at 16 (4k) pixels high at 10ft away even if they are well defined and not just a blurry mess on a 43" TV. At 55" it would be difficult but maybe not impossible if you have white on black or black on white.

You can of course sit much closer but I would recommend going much larger - at least 55". If you want HDR you could drop down a bit to 49" as HDR is not so size dependent to be beneficial so will at least get some benefit - most TV's under 49" aren't 'great' for HDR and are more 'SDR' TV's that will play HDR content. They are 'brighter' but only because you don't watch SDR with the brightness turned up to max which you do with HDR on these.

According to charts, some would say that you should sit 3-4' away from 55" TV to get the best from 4k and over 7' away you would need to go up in screen size. At 10' away, the charts say you need at least 80" TV's but that is BS - maybe if you want to see a difference with 'every' pixel, every area on the screen, but you can still get the impression of a sharper, cleaner, less blurry/smudgy image, get the impression of more detail - read the cans on a shelf in a kitchen cupboard rather than just see the smudge of colours that indicate the cans in the background because their is more pixels to create that detail, that separation of colours. Players on the opposite side of a football pitch names are readable because there is more pixels to create the letter shapes - point is that detail is there and more defined and with higher contrast content (like bright text on dark backgrounds), that sharpness is more obvious.

The choice is yours at the end of the day, but I would recommend going as big as you can physically fit in that space. 4k is likely to be the only choice going forward anyway but to get the most from it, the bigger you need to go or closer you need to be. I think 55" should be the smallest you should consider and even then you may not see the 'smallest' details clearly in some content - its easier to see a white line on a black background because of the contrast than it will be to see variation in browns on a person's head for example because the colours are closer together.

@beemo No probs - considering you are using a 32" TV now, the biggest benefit will come from increasing the screen size which will of course help with 'small' text because that too will be increased in size. 4k will make it sharper and that can make it easier to read - even at distance - because its sharper with the soft blurry edges that makes small things even more difficult to see. In a pitch black room, you can probably see see a pinhole of light at 10ft away - our eyes are very sensitive to light so text on a solid background (black on white or vice versa) will be easier to read.

If 43" is the most you can afford, its still going to be a sizeable upgrade and improvement over 32". Its going to be easier to see things in games, whilst watching TV etc and its not like you have to sit at 10' all the time - I am sure you could move closer on occasion. If you were going from a 43" HD TV to a 43" 4k TV, I would probably advise you to save your money and keep saving, wait for bigger TV's to drop in price and you to save enough money to buy bigger because the difference will be minimal between a 43" HD and 4k TV at 10' - you will really have to look hard or get closer to see the difference. Going from a 32" to 43" though is a different matter - that increase in size will be much more beneficial!

@Kidfried You like Team ICO stuff as well, right?