OT: Video Game Computers/Gadgets/Gizmos Thread

robillionaire · Post #1961 » by **robillionaire** » Mon Nov 25, 2019 4:30 pm

anyway some of the review on death stranding weren't great anyway so I decided to wait for a price drop and used my refund to get a few games on sale like god of war for 9.99 spiderman for 14.99 dragon quest xi for 19.99 and yakuza kiwami 2 for 14.99

Post #1962 » by **ReasonablySober** » Mon Nov 25, 2019 4:39 pm

Playstation is having a nice Black Friday sale. Might pick up GTAV and Persona 5, both only $10.

MikeIsGood · Post #1963 » by **MikeIsGood** » Mon Nov 25, 2019 5:20 pm

machu46 wrote:
Spoiler:
MikeIsGood wrote:I know a lot of people are put off by GCU ending and I get it. But I’m surprised to hear of bad customer service. This is only one example for me - I’ve had numerous positive experience with them. And their improved customer service is what they’ve built their comeback on the past several years.

One of my favorite examples of dealing with them:

I ordered Kingdom Hearts for PS4 from them around October or November (or basically whenever the game came out). I had it shipped to my parent's house because that's where we were spending Christmas and the gift was for my girlfriend. We drive back up to New York and I start going through all the boxes to wrap up the gifts and I find that instead of Kingdom Hearts for the PS4, they sent me a Call of Duty for Xbox One game instead. We don't own an Xbox and Kingdom Hearts is basically the only game my girlfriend likes playing (besides some Switch games), so needless to say this wasn't going to work.

I took the game to the local Best Buy location. They told me they can't accept a return there because the game was purchased online. They gave me a customer service number to call and arrange the return that way. So I call the number, they say I should receive a shipping label in my e-mail.

Turns out it was sent to the wrong e-mail address and by the time I figured out that they had sent a shipping label but sent it to the wrong e-mail, the shipping label had expired and the window to return the game had passed.

So I called back again and explained the situation again. They said they couldn't help me anymore; I'd need to try to take it to my local Best Buy and see if they could help (which as I mentioned already, I had already done). At this point I was highly frustrated but the customer service rep wasn't giving in at all, so I begrudgingly went back to the local Best Buy and explained the whole ordeal. They agreed to help, so they looked up the order number and saw that my order was for Kingdom Hearts. They said since I ordered Kingdom Hearts but the game I was returning was Call of Duty, they couldn't help me because I have no proof that I didn't receive Kingdom Hearts and could have stolen Call of Duty.

After all this time had passed, I had to go back home to DC and left the game with my dad in New York. He eventually stopped at a different Best Buy location on his way home from work one day and apparently got into a yelling match with the manager until they finally refunded me. I got my girlfriend her copy of Kingdom Hearts off of Amazon after all that.

That **** sucks man. What a disaster.

TroyD92 · Post #1964 » by **TroyD92** » Mon Nov 25, 2019 5:46 pm

robillionaire wrote:anyway some of the review on death stranding weren't great anyway so I decided to wait for a price drop and used my refund to get a few games on sale like god of war for 9.99 spiderman for 14.99 dragon quest xi for 19.99 and yakuza kiwami 2 for 14.99

That's a nice haul tbh.

robillionaire · Post #1965 » by **robillionaire** » Mon Nov 25, 2019 7:04 pm

TroyD92 wrote:
robillionaire wrote:anyway some of the review on death stranding weren't great anyway so I decided to wait for a price drop and used my refund to get a few games on sale like god of war for 9.99 spiderman for 14.99 dragon quest xi for 19.99 and yakuza kiwami 2 for 14.99

That's a nice haul tbh.

Check out Best Buy early Black Friday sale there’s a couple good discounts

I also got bloodborne for 9.99. Forgot about that. Finally get to catch up on some decent games I’ve been missing on

Post #1966 » by **ReasonablySober** » Mon Nov 25, 2019 7:15 pm

Ugh, I've been keeping an eye on Control for months, waiting for it to go on sale. Also thought Greedfall looked good too. Both are on sale for $30 a piece on Amazon. I shouldn't be spending money on games at this point considering I want to go back to Borderlands, do some Witcher 3 DLC, and re-play Dark Souls 3 and Bloodborne. Decisions, decisions.

glenn · Post #1967 » by **glenn** » Mon Nov 25, 2019 8:09 pm

I bought Control a few days ago when it went on sale for 38.99 on the Xbox digital store, so of course it goes on sale everywhere else for 29.99. It’s a really fun game, though.

MikeIsGood · Post #1968 » by **MikeIsGood** » Mon Nov 25, 2019 9:51 pm

I do want to play Control at some point. By the time I get to it it will probably be cheaper, though.

If anyone is in the market, I can recommend A Plague Tale. I didn't finish it or probably close to it, but it was fun, interesting, and full of atmosphere. $25 on PSN right now.

EDIT: Also, DQB2 is still probably my GOTY so I obviously recommend that.

Post #1969 » by **ReasonablySober** » Mon Nov 25, 2019 10:16 pm

MikeIsGood wrote:I do want to play Control at some point. By the time I get to it it will probably be cheaper, though.

If anyone is in the market, I can recommend A Plague Tale. I didn't finish it or probably close to it, but it was fun, interesting, and full of atmosphere. $25 on PSN right now.

EDIT: Also, DQB2 is still probably my GOTY so I obviously recommend that.

I saw that one was around $20 too, yea.

Ugh, I'm sure I'll probably buy three or four games this week. I rarely regret it anymore.

MikeIsGood · Post #1970 » by **MikeIsGood** » Mon Nov 25, 2019 10:26 pm

Also, just read that GoW is the PS+ free game next month (rumor, substantiated).

TroyD92 · Post #1971 » by **TroyD92** » Mon Nov 25, 2019 10:33 pm

MikeIsGood wrote:Also, just read that GoW is the PS+ free game next month (rumor, substantiated).

Really couldn't get into it tbh. I didn't put a ton of hours into it, but It never really hooked me.

Post #1972 » by **ReasonablySober** » Tue Nov 26, 2019 3:08 pm

So I picked up Borderlands 3 for the first time in over a month and my god, Gearbox has **** this game right to death. It's the most buggy, borderline unplayable mess I've experienced since Skyrim came out on the PS3.

machu46 · Post #1973 » by **machu46** » Tue Nov 26, 2019 3:50 pm

I think I might be mostly interested in some of the digital-only Switch games right now. Any of you guys given that Untitled Goose Game, Overland, or Oxenfree a try? I'm kinda curious about those.

jmuelly · Post #1974 » by **jmuelly** » Tue Nov 26, 2019 3:51 pm

Looking at possibly upgrading to a true wireless earbud. Currently using the Jaybird X3 bluetooth style unit. I do like it very much, good sounds and comfortable. Seeing so many advertisements for the Beats Pro Wireless and Airpods Pro has me interested. Is there any reason to upgrade to either higher end product and if so which one?

Post #1975 » by **ReasonablySober** » Tue Nov 26, 2019 3:55 pm

jmuelly wrote:Looking at possibly upgrading to a true wireless earbud. Currently using the Jaybird X3 bluetooth style unit. I do like it very much, good sounds and comfortable. Seeing so many advertisements for the Beats Pro Wireless and Airpods Pro has me interested. Is there any reason to upgrade to either higher end product and if so which one?

I had the Jaybirds, but switched to the Jabra Elite Active 65t about six months ago and I love them. Everything has worked really well, battery life is excellent, sound quality is elite.

REDDzone · Post #1976 » by **REDDzone** » Tue Nov 26, 2019 4:02 pm

I picked up Spiderman GOTY and Kingdom Come GOTY for $15 apiece at Best Buy.

I may pick up Sekiro for $25 at Walmart but am on the fence tbh. Soulsborne is my favorite series of all time but I didn't love Sekiro when I rented it from the library for a few weeks. Kind of want to give it another chance though.

MoreTrife · Post #1977 » by **MoreTrife** » Tue Nov 26, 2019 4:07 pm

ReasonablySober wrote:So I picked up Borderlands 3 for the first time in over a month and my god, Gearbox has **** this game right to death. It's the most buggy, borderline unplayable mess I've experienced since Skyrim came out on the PS3.

Huh, I have 30 hours into it and can't think of one bug I've come across. Any examples?

glenn · Post #1978 » by **glenn** » Tue Nov 26, 2019 4:09 pm

machu46 wrote:I think I might be mostly interested in some of the digital-only Switch games right now. Any of you guys given that Untitled Goose Game, Overland, or Oxenfree a try? I'm kinda curious about those.

I played Untitled Goose Game and really enjoyed it. It has some fun puzzle solving/stealth gameplay, but the best part is just running around being an a*shole goose. After stealing a kid's glasses and leaving him searching for them in a puddle, I would terrify him with a loud honk every time I passed. Good times.

Edit: This is for my fellow Goose Game/Lynch combo fans.

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machu46 · Post #1979 » by **machu46** » Tue Nov 26, 2019 4:13 pm

jmuelly wrote:Looking at possibly upgrading to a true wireless earbud. Currently using the Jaybird X3 bluetooth style unit. I do like it very much, good sounds and comfortable. Seeing so many advertisements for the Beats Pro Wireless and Airpods Pro has me interested. Is there any reason to upgrade to either higher end product and if so which one?

I own a pair of true wireless earbuds, but they were just a $40 pair off Amazon. They're pretty good. Only issue for me (and this is an issue with basically all earbuds for me) is that they sometimes start to get a little loose when I'm running.
https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Bluetooth-Headphones-Waterproof-Earphones/dp/B07VQLT75P/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=10274YTBY4VGK&keywords=geekee+wireless+earbuds&qid=1574784628&sprefix=geeke%2Caps%2C315&sr=8-2-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEzNTNOOEQ3OEszSEJEJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwMDQ1MDk4N0xXNE9WUlBBN0lBJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTA1MjMwNDQxV0xQSVhCTzY4OUJIJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfYXRmJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==

For that reason, I bought a pair of "wireless" wired headphones (the kind where the earbuds are connected to each other but are bluetooth) from Sennheiser with my employee discount. Hoping these will be a little better for me but we'll see.

If I ever upgraded to the higher-end true wireless earbuds, I'd go with the Airpods personally; Apple's headphones have always stayed glued inside my ears in the past so I'm guessing I'd have more luck with the Airpods than others.

Post #1980 » by **ReasonablySober** » Tue Nov 26, 2019 4:18 pm

MoreTrife wrote:
ReasonablySober wrote:So I picked up Borderlands 3 for the first time in over a month and my god, Gearbox has **** this game right to death. It's the most buggy, borderline unplayable mess I've experienced since Skyrim came out on the PS3.

Huh, I have 30 hours into it and can't think of one bug I've come across. Any examples?

Just to be clear, I didn't notice anything serious in the way of bugs when I first picked it up. Yea, the menus lagged a bit, and apparently there was audio dropping in one of the planets that I guess I never noticed.

But picking it back up now they've COMPLETELY fu*ked the menus up. The inventory system was always kinda terrible, but it's not even useable now. If I click on a shield to compare it to one in the inventory, I get a list of guns. My grenades have shield icons. Sorting by weapon type has been replaced by just type so now everything is listed. Gun pictures don't line up with the correct gun (a picture of a shotgun is paired with the description of a pistol, or something). It's difficult to even guess what you're selecting because the sorting doesn't work.

There are skills now that do the opposite of what they're supposed to (reduce skill cool downs actually add time to cool downs, for example).

The guardian ranks are also completely **** and have simply not worked or in some cases been turned off.

I was stunned yesterday to pick it back up.