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@BrilliantBill It's always Troy Baker.

So it doesn't fix the fundamental problems with the game? Like the above, looks like I'll be waiting a long time to return to this.

I played the alpa - the story was interesting, but the gameplay was the worst kind of floaty, generic looter-shooter nonsense.

As for the gear system, if I wanted to engage with that sort of rubbish I'd open an Excel spreadsheet.

I might have a go when it inevitably ends up on a subscription service in November, but giving WB Games actual money for this crap only encourages them.

I've been playing Starfield over the last few days while it's been the Christmas break and it's ... alright. But I've been increasingly annoyed by:

• navigation, which is a pain in the backside flicking through the various map screens
• the constant loading screens when you open a door, get on the metro, transition to a new area etc.
• the bugs - my least favourite being unable to switch to third-person in a firefight, as my character's head, hands, and feet disappear and I can't move.
• the characters who I'm struggling to care either way about
• landing on planets at just enough of a distance from a point of interest to make getting there take a minute or two
• most of all, the encumberance system, which is some ***** (as all encumberance systems are).

After reading about the forthcoming update, I'm going to put it down for a while until that's released in the hope it mitigates some of the above.

It's World of Tanks - but on the water.

Far Cry: Blue Edition

So Far Cry, but blue?

"co-op". Bleurgh.

> 'unique gameplay experience'

> shoot the big purple orbs

Hopefully the improve dreadful, laggy interface which is an absolute horror to navigate.

Konami gonna Konami.

"long-awaited"

Great to see this is finally out of early access.

Can you be a fan of something that hasn't been released yet?

Does it upgrade the diabolical enemy AI?

Nothing, zero interest in cloud gaming.

Does it make the AI less horrendous?

Had a go and a few thoughts:

• the interface is slow and awful. A big list of all the games to work through would be nice, and the genre list is patchy.
• it lags something terrible when trying to play a game, even on my 100MB/S broadband.
• finding games you've favourited should be more straightforward - a link at the top of the homepage, rather than having to go into your profile.

I gave up after 30 minutes and have just had a refund paid back into my bank account. What a missed opportunity.

How you can copy and paste a sentence like "HyperMotionV technology, which uses real-world volumetric data to deliver authentic action on the pitch" with a straight face is beyond me!

Good to see Microsoft doing its bit to curb inflation.

'Max Booty' - I refuse to believe this is a person and not the title of a 'special' video series.

Edit: Matt Booty! That'll teach me to comment before putting my glasses on.

"if it [Starfield] shipped today this would have the fewest bugs of any game Bethesda has ever shipped with"

Damning with faint praise if I ever heard it!

No, the S is a dead weight on this console generation.

I'll wait until the Anniversary Edition releases on the Xbox Series Z to play it at 60fps.

I'll wait until the Xbox Series Z to play the Anniversary Edition in 60fps.

It looks great - and potentially the best thing Ubisoft have done in some time.

The music choice for the trailer on the other hand? Nul points.

The original Marathon and Marathon 2 were superb, with great single-player modes, and genuinely exciting co-op and deathmatch modes. This looks to be everything they weren't.

WCBM2 better have a new version music of the Amiga version (which I now have stuck in my head)

30fps only, then.

'Good enough for Game Pass'

I don't think I've ever looked forward to playing an F2P game, and I'm not starting now.

It certainly was a looker and the story had its moments, but boy is the gameplay am absolutely tedious, repetitive slog. It was the One's equivalent of The Order 1886.

Yay, a rounders simulator.

Yay, rounders!

Generic open-world in the least interesting fantasy world created? No thanks.

@themightyant the 'slippery slope' ... to cheaper games? Where's my sledge?

We're all going to be skulls and bones before this gets released.

Potential game of the year for me if they get this right.

@dimi LOL

If there was ever a game that I knew, just from watching a trailer, was going to be insufferably and irredeemable obnoxious, it was this one. The whole thing is nails down a blackboard to me.

@Bluphoenicks +1. Looks dire and intensely annoying.

This looks really, really annoying.

Looking forward to brutalising and murdering civilians, then retiring before they take away my pension!