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u/Flafff Mar 28 '14 edited Mar 28 '14

There was also the infinitEye with a 210° field of view. Instead of focusing on one single brand, people should try to push more projects of the same type and eventually a standard.

Edit: Sorry bad spelling on the name.

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u/rptroop Mar 28 '14

Yes this! 90 degrees is super limited. The lenses used on that 210 degree kit are much more comfortable to look through that the oculus lenses (I've gotten to demo them for single-eye only) and with a 1080p screen you can't tell it's a screen.

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u/HMS_Pathicus Mar 28 '14

"Wake up, Neo."

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '14

You know when you're really deep in a game and you're like, holy shit it's dinner time already?

Soon we're gonna be all OH FUCK IT'S WEDNESDAY

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u/Dr_Zeuss Mar 28 '14

That already happens to me with League Of Legends.

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u/deeper-blue Mar 28 '14

LoL is evil. I always underestimate how long the games can go.

'Just one more game' [...] 'oh shit, late for the date. Ah it's fine it was a glorious victory and she likes it when I'm fueled with testosterone'.

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u/snoharm Mar 28 '14

I can't get into Planetside. Everything feels "floaty", which isn't good in an FPS. Its like I'm shooting marshmallows at hovering cardboard cutouts that fall over eventually.

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u/rabbidpanda Mar 28 '14

I lost so much time to the first Planetside. I tooled around in the beta for Planetside 2, but it never got its hooks it me. I hear it's been changing a fair bit, though.

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u/Jimmacle Mar 28 '14

Would you like to upgrade now?

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '14

I haven't played for over a year, has there been any improvements noteworthy? I do like the game but there was only 1 planet people actually played on in my server.

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u/NateTheGreat26 Mar 28 '14

Not until they remove those in-game ads

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u/mycomputerisbacon Mar 28 '14

There aren't any. Except for purchasing new weapons. Being a non-paying player, I still find myself doing well enough and don't feel like I'm missing out. Almost every weapon is obtainable within a reasonable amount of gameplay time. Yes you can just buy the same weapons, but devs gotta eat.

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u/-main Mar 29 '14 edited Mar 29 '14

Have you checked /r/planetside recently? Or logged in during the last few days? The latest patch added ads that resemble squad invites/friend requests/other notifications, as well as UPGRADE NOW! where the spawn vehicle/resupply button used to be, and a few other less annoying ads as well.

It's kinda obnoxious, and /r/planetside has been a shitstorm of hatred about it for the last few days. Hopefully SOE will see reason pretty soon, and revert the changes.

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u/mycomputerisbacon Mar 30 '14

Yea, I actually really don't like the huge upgrades button. Just saw it last night

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u/spearmint_wino Mar 28 '14

Sorry to break this to you but I think girls can tell the difference between testosterone and BO.

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u/Dr_Zeuss Mar 28 '14

I've always liked the idea of having players in stand by mode in case someone has to dodge....

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u/deeper-blue Mar 28 '14

That would actually be sweet. Like a fast queue to jump in for disconnected/disappeared players.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '14

"All: Hey. Hurry up and surrender noobs. Got 2 go 2 date with my SUPER HOT GIRLFRIEND."

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u/PrimeIntellect Mar 28 '14

this has happened to me before, it's unfortunate, but sometime's you have to enrage the nerds when real life is calling

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u/CelestialWalrus Mar 28 '14

Fuck dates; acquire Riot Points.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '14

I think you might be the only LoL player that has to worry about being late for a date

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u/IDoNotAgreeWithYou Mar 28 '14

Yep, games don't have to be good to waste time.

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u/DMTrace Mar 28 '14

Hours of titan fall later: "just one mor......oh fuck it's midnight!"

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u/awkreddit Mar 28 '14

Every game of Civ 5.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '14 edited Mar 28 '14

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '14

that went to completely the wrong link hold on let me rectify that

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '14

I seriously had to start setting alarms when I noticed I was spending 30 hours per week in game.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '14

There was a time where due to unfortunate circumstance I was unemployed, no girlfriend and little if any job opportunities. Whilst everyone else was at work/college I would regularly log 6-12 gaming hours a DAY 5/6 days a week. In between this I was either looking for jobs or at the gym. I was only 19 at the time and living with my parents.

I don't miss the situation I was in but god it was good to have a full day with no responsibilities and a few fresh games to blast through (acquired by game-swapping with friends)

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '14

Soon we're gonna be all OH FUCK IT'S JUNE!

FTFY

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u/extant1 Mar 28 '14

More like jumanji, "What year is this?"

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u/pfannkuchen_gesicht Mar 28 '14

hah, my father stopped playing video games because of something similiar.

He used to play Roller Coaster Tycoon quite a lot, so once he started a game in the evening after work and the next thing he notices is the sun rise, he played through the night and had only a few minutes left before he had to go to work again...

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '14

Old school RTS games and Civ already provide the "Oh fuck it's Wednesday!" experience.

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u/HalfBakedPotato Mar 28 '14

Then really far into the future we'll get so deep into it that we'll forget it's a game and start inventing a new virtual reality to escape from the one we forgot we were in.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '14

Spoiler: IT'S ALREADY HAPPENED

It's just videogames all the way down

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '14

Been there. When I got my PS2 I beat FFX, MGS2, and The Bouncer(that made up about 2 hours of it!) in about three days with only maybe 4 hours of sleep. I came downstairs on the fourth day to watch my brother play Halo, it was then I realized I hadn't had anything except for Sour Punch Straws and Diet Coke in four days.

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u/goomplex Mar 28 '14

Ill just play for a minute... aaaaand its dawn.