Hands down my favorite boss fight of the year. I really liked the difficulty ramp up of Korsica, but this was another level of zone entering Nirvana. I ditto everything said. Also, just play the game if you haven't. One of the year's best.
That was thoroughly hilarious. Everything said was true. I believe the Uncharted games get better with each iteration (3 had a very stiff and sluggish middle act, but other wise it's better than 2), with 4 being the best game Naughty Dog has ever made and the perfect finale to beloved characters.
This may be a bit premature, but in your short time with the game Scott, do you see something that should be rectified immediately to improve the game play? I ask because it seems the barbarian problem described may be such an issue.
@DeusGladiorum: I won't be able to get too technical, but ill try to answer your question. HDR has to do with the color panel, the LED panel, and the processor of a set. Any tv, even OLED, can have HDR as long as it meets some requirements. The processor in the set must be able to decode the HDR signal, while the LED panel must be able to reach a certain amount of nits. Also the color panel should be a 10 bit panel which can display about a billion shades of color (unlike a traditional 8 bit panel which is only around 15 million). If a set has the correct processor, LED panel, and color panel, it can display HDR. OLED can display HDR because each of its self lighting LED's can show the necessary wide color gamut and it can get bright enough as well (just barely though). So regardless of the actual type of display, whether it is IPS or TN, a set can show HDR.
Now there are some discrepancies to note. Some sets can input HDR but cannot accurately show it. Take the Samsung 7000 series. It has a powerful enough processor and can get bright enough, but it only has a 8 bit panel. It cannot show all the colors necessary for HDR, but since the processor can decode it, you can say it is a HDR tv. So it will play HDR, but will not take full advantage of the technology because the color panel is not wide enough to fully show all the colors that HDR brings. Also something to note, is that Sony is not part of the UHD alliance, nor does it show Dolby Vision (a separate, slightly better standard set by Dolby Labs that's available on LG and Vizio). Despite this however, Sony's show every version of HDR without consequence because films are shot and mastered on Sony's equipment. If you want to be safe, buy any set in the 8000 or 9000 series by any of the big three manufactures (Samsung, Sony, LG) because they all show HDR perfectly. And if you want to be even safer, a Sony will show HDR indiscriminately. Keep this in mind because while almost all films will use the UHD HDR 10 standard which Samsung, Sony and certain LG's (not all OLED's) will show, there are some films which will use Dolby Vision. If shot using Dolby Vision, the film will not show HDR on a Samsung but will on an LG OLED.
During the mastering process, the films in down scaled and HDR is removed to work on all TV sets. This is what has been happening for years. Now, thanks to UHD Blu-rays with HDR, films are no longer down scaled. They are mastered to include the original HDR shots captured by the camera during filming. Hope that illuminates the topic a bit.
Very good article here. While it is basic, with a few sections needing some fine print, its damn precise otherwise. The comment section here however, shows just how misinformed people are. So many people read things online and assume it to be true. Those who say you don't need a 4k tv because it looks just like a 1080 unless its large, are completely wrong. So are those who say there's not enough content out there for 4k tv's to be useful. They are also completely wrong. There are a lot of misnomers about 4k, but people should do research before coming to conclusions, or at least ask someone knowledgeable in the field.
Twelve years I've been coming here, ever since my 14th birthday (look at how generic my username is for goodness sake). I remember most of the faces, very little of the names, but alas many have come and gone. Thanks to them all, but just don't leave us Danny, you and a few others are the last light of this once great site. I only hope it can return to some semblance of what it was.
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