GS News - Free Dragon Age: Origins; Halo Collection Not Fully 1080p?

Dragon Age: Origins is free for a week, the PS Plus version of Driveclub is delayed, and Halo: The Master Chief Collection won’t be completely 1080p!

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Meh I'd rather have "real" 1080p than be able to switch between good graphics and crappy graphics

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U WOT M8

but 1328x1080 is still 1080p

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@yoloswagtech No It Isn't...

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Xbox can't help that its hardware innards suck! Microsoft was trying to create a money sucking machine where you could buy everything in ONE place. Too bad they got greedy and screwed up the Xbox brand this generation.

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no one with an Xbox is complaining about 1080p garbage, its all about the games and Halo is only on Xbox!

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@UNCStriker88 Only a matter of time when it's on pc :)

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@UNCStriker88 Thats cause everyone with an xb one already know their system lacks what the PS4, and PC can do.

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@medafaded lmao you're retarded if you think ps4 should be compared to pc.

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@natedawg3654 @medafaded Your retarded because you can't read, and for thinking that! It is one sentence, how hard is it?

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@natedawg3654 @medafaded Your retarded because you can't read, and for even thinking that! Its only one sentence man how hard is it?

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@UNCStriker88 I would say the same if I pre-ordered also.

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The way Jess says "Can't" is great! It sounds like... uh, "Cu*t". LOL.

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"Origin"? I played Dragon Age Origins and loved it, I have no idea what this refers to.

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@youre_a_sheep origin is like STEAM. google it

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@punisher70 @robbiejones @ParanoidPaal @Nhoj1983 weird dude, origins so far works fine. did origin just keep crashing on you? or what exactly did stuff up on you?

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I bought the ultimate edition roughly 2 years ago an the DLC never worked except for awakening. Customer service was horrible! instead of helping me solve the issue they gave me a link to their trouble shooting guide that i have been useing for the past week. ( GEE WHY DID I NOT THINK OF THAT?) I tried multiple times over the past 2 years. even uninstalling an reinstalling. I did finally find a solution last month(9/2014). I bought it for under 8$ off Steam. It now works perfect because of Steam. Bash steam if you guys an girls want to but out of all 80+ games i own off steam i only had trouble with 1 ever.

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@ParanoidPaal @Nhoj1983 i'm loving origin!!

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@robbiejones @ParanoidPaal @Nhoj1983

I'm truly glad you guys are enjoying Origin. i never had anything but trouble with them. from dragon age, alice and metal of honor, etc. best of luck guys

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Got my copy :D, runs good on my old laptop

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never understood the hate on Origin... Sure it's another platform to run. One that actually offers real customer service vs the hands off situation of Steam (I love steam). I'm just not into hating on a company just because and my comp can handle another platform running on my system.... I don't get it. I've heard the arguments and I've thrown them out the window as it reminds me A LOT of console wars. In other words don't expect sense. Now if they started requiring games on windows live... that might be different.

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@Nhoj1983 I never got the hate either. Sure it would be great to have everything in one client, but that's not how it is. And is it really that horrible to have origin running in the background while you are immersed in a game? What do people do while playing games through Origin? Constantly tab out and angrily stare at the Origin icon?

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@Nhoj1983 that's true. there is no reason for the origin hate. it is just as you said: like the console wars, in other words: fanboys.

steam is horrible from the support side, they sell you crap without even checking if it is a scam or not and you can't get a refund.

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@Nyukn @Nhoj1983 Gabe Newell is a fat slob who has much estrogen in his system.

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@Nyukn @Nhoj1983 PC master race ain't no better, so get off your high horse.

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You know what's better than 1080p? 60fps. The Master Chief Collection seems like a big undertaking with two different graphics engines etc, I'm sure it's gonna look great regardless.

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@XNEXUS666X The original Halo 1/2 engine consumes 32 MB of RAM peak (total game could comsume 48 MB RAM). VRAM requirement eats another 64 MB. So out of 6 GB available to game, 112 MB are reserved for OG engine. Original CPU was a Celeron 733 MHz, single thread, single IPC processor. Which could occupy approximately 1/4th of one of 6 cores available for game. Short of it: OG Halo engine is not a resource hog.

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@XNEXUS666X Exactly, it's pretty impressive that they even got close to 1080p with two game engines running at simultaneously. The sooner people get past all this 1080p nonsense and just enjoy the game for the gameplay it offers the better.

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@pointingmonkey @XNEXUS666X I agree, why all the hangup about 1080p when back in the day it never mattered. I am just looking for the game to be released so I can get my Halo on.

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@lonewolf1044 @pointingmonkey @XNEXUS666X I think we can divide people into 2 categories: Those of us born before the 3D era who judge the game by it's gameplay, and those who were born during the 3D era who judge the game by how pretty it is and nothing else.


I just noticed this "two game engines running at simultaneously" now that is some fantastic English I put on display right there. :-)

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WHAT?! A game on the Xbox One isn't in 1080p?! I'M SO SURPRISED.

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@pixipel I, however, am not surprised at all that a PS4 fanboy found his way here just for the sake of writing more of the same. Hope it was good for you!

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@Vixenar @pixipel It's a shame that I don't even own either of the new consoles, but I like both of them. People just keep expecting the Xbox to run 1080p when it's pretty clear that 900p is where it's at and doesn't even make a huge difference. I stick with the Wii U/PC combo.

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kool DAO is free too bad the dlc still costs something might as well buy the ultimate edition during steam sale that would be the better deal

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It'd be cool if we got Dragon Age 2 for free as well, since I have DAO Ultimate edition already and would like to have all games on one system (I had DA2 on the xbox 360) :P.

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Good show as always Jess. Have a good day everyone especially my friend SuppaPHly42 .

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Lol steam would never swallow their pride and give people free games, they only have like 2 times that i can remember in the last 10yrs

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@dannydopamine18 Valve gives away some games free, like Tf2 all the time and L4D 1 or 2 on occasion, even Portal I think once or twice. But beyond that it's out of their control - it's up to the publishers of those games. Remember Valve just runs the marketplace, it's the publishers who set prices. EA gives away free games on Origin because they own them.

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@hansbeej @dannydopamine18 yep I got one of the L4D's for free on steam...

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downloading now... xD

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Oooh... I already own the Ultimate Edition of Dragon Age: Origins, but I know my cousin would love the idea. Must tell him.

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"Which game would I want for free if I had a choice?"

Dragon Age Inquisition

Thank you lovely Jess.

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Got Origins a little while ago on a Steam sale and still haven't played it. I could have saved, like, 5 bucks! And the Ps! Oh the Ps!

Nice that Origins is free now but not that big of a whoop. And at this point every time I hear or read a story about <1080p on one console or another Chappelle's R. Kelly cover pops into my head. So at least something good comes out of it in the end. Crap, that's not a pun is it?

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i'm interested in inquisition, but i can't for the life of me find any appeal in the first two. the world just looks so drab and lifeless and without character. and i don't imagine i'd like the combat either. still, free is free, so i'll at least add it to my library.

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@BrunoBRS The characters in Origins were really memorable. They made party interactions a lot more meaningful than other RPGs.

Of course it's an older game now so the environments might be hard to go back to if you're used to modern graphics & open worlds with no loading screens but it's definitely worth playing. The combat is more about strategy than visceral engagement. It's about sending a tank in to draw enemies, casting spells & firing arrows from the back & sending rogues around to backstab for critical hits. If you want a game more like Skyrim or The Witcher where you click for every swing of the sword, you're not going to get that.

The story & characters definitely make Origins worth playing so you should give it a few hours to see if you like it. You can give DA2 a miss unless you really fall in love with Dragon Age.

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@bbq_R0ADK1LL @BrunoBRS when i said the world is without character, i mean i look at it and i don't think "this is a place i want to explore and find out more of". it doesn't need fancy graphics for that, plenty of games with fancy graphics fail at it hard, and plenty of games from way before origins succeed at it.


and i don't need visceral engagement to have good combat too. divinity original sin looks like a ton of fun, but DA:O... meh.

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@BrunoBRS Same here, the combat for Origins was pretty bad last time I played it. Ended up returning the game.

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@HipHopBeats @BrunoBRS

I played Dragon Age II. I don't know about the original DA. I know the swordsman combat was on autopilot.

The best combat was with the mage, then rogue in DA II. Maybe the same is true for DA: Origins.

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Anyone know any good combat mods for this? One of the major turn offs for me was the crap tactics combat

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@HipHopBeats Play as the mage and create yourself a beautiful woman character.

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More console b*tching over touting the support of a 5+ year old resolution standard.... hooray.

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