I’ve got it. Definitely worth a try. Shooting Nazis is tremendous fun & a public service.
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It’s brilliant - there is a lot of repeat playing in it because if you change the difficulty levels it gets insanely hard due to the increasingly realistic ballistics etc. I ended up buying the additional four DLC missions.
I managed to assassinate Hitler this afternoon - which was nice. 
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Still playing this too much.
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The new Federations DLC for Stellaris is is out on Tuesday and I’ll be all over that shit as we quarantine ourselves from the world.
Ha, i was thinkng similiar
Some rather naive questions for the gaming cognoscenti, if I may.
My son (aged 11) wants a gaming console for his birthday but I know absolutely nothing about these things. I’d rather not get one at all but the Mrs said yes so it’s too late to issue a nolle prosequi
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Some of his friends have Xboxes and others PS4s. Any advice on which to get? Is one considered better or is it six of one/half a dozen of the other? Any new versions on the way which it’s worth holding on for?
I’ll have to buy a monitor too - does it need just an HDMI socket or are there proprietary cables to make life complicated?
Thanks very much 
Get him the same as most of his friends cos he’ll play online and get lonely if he has the wrong one. Allow for a headset and online subscription, and any monitor with a decent response should do. My lad uses a 27” 144hz response screen and it looks great (just HD) with the supplied hdmi cable
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get both
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how did you get away with it for so long? 
you will end up getting both, so just get whichever more of his friends have, or whichever you can get the best deal on
we have 3 lads, 2 Xbox and 2 PS3 
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This.
If I was flying solo I would probably go PS4 because the exclusive titles appeal more to me, but the above advice trumps all.
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This. So ask him which he wants 
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I’d think carefully about the PS4 , as the PS5 is imminent, before Christmas probably and early iterations of new PS models are backwards compatible with the previous model. If he’s adamant, see if he’ll have a 2nd hand PS4 pro and then upgrade to a 5 later?
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So is the new Xbox.
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both are HDMI, we bought a big old Panny plasma from somebody nearby off eBay, works a treat
btw they both do Netflix and Amazon prime video etc etc, and play blu-ray disks
and Minecraft and Fortnite are both cross platform i.e. for those two games it doesn’t matter what his friends have they can still play together afaik
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Don’t know if it’s an issue, but the PS4 doesn’t double as a 4K Blu Ray player , but the Xbox X does (the Xbox S plays 4K games, but doesn’t play 4K Blu Rays, but allegedly upscales 1098 Blu Ray discs to look something like 4K). The PS5 will have 4K playback.
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The One S does indeed play 4k blurays. It doesn’t do the games. You need the One X for the games.
The ps4 pro does 4k games, but not blurays.
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And there is an S without an optical drive, just to be confusing.
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Ah, cheers Edd, I’m currently trying to justify a future PS5 purchase to myself (no point in trying to justify it to Claire, because it won’t happen) so I’m maybe getting all the shit mixed up, but yeah, a Xbox One X is the only true all round 4K solution for the moment.
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I have the Xbox One X (always been an Xbox user rather than PlayStation)
I’ll get the Xbox Series X (what a dumb name) as soon as it’s out.
I really like the Xbox game pass.
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Sony boy here, almost tragically so, even called one of my cats Sony, but poverty is weaning me off them, I bought my first non Sony tv in 25 years in the January sales.
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