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@Deformedpye there are so many of these copy and paste games out there. That has station one where you're aliens. The CCG simulator. They're all the same and dull and really just uninteresting. The reason theme hospital was good was because you didn't actually need to process, diagnose and treat each patient. You just hired the right people to do it. These games where you have to deal with clunky movement to scan items, take the cash, restock etc. is just work only I have paid for the joy of doing it rather than be paid.

@Handy_Man it's been crashing for a long time. It just takes longer than, say, the 2008 bubble because the bubble burst and left thousands without homes so suddenly the economy collapsed as so many people couldn't work, feed their families etc.

Here, less people are hurting and business will just stagnate but still make bank. FIFA will still release a carbon copy game and people will still buy it. GTA will keep it aloft for a while but I reckon we're going to see even more cookie cutter games coming out that rely on micro transactions as that brings in money. Unless bros and chads stop playing every rerelease and annual COD or Madden, we won't see reasonable change any time soon.

It should be "fae" rather than "for".

@RegnumSolipsi differently different.

@lewismark360 there are only four faces and zero chance Molyneux is top four.

Mount Rushmore of video game Devs if you completely ignore Shiguru Miyamoto, Hideo Kohima, Sam Lake, Chris Sawyer, Tarn Adams, Lucas Pope, Toby Fox, Gabe...

@oopsiezz I was about two minutes into the game when it was first released when I heard of this. Deleted, and was so glad I'd not gotten an achievement for it to be on my permanent record.

Also, in those two mins, it seemed kind of *****.

I've pre-ordered the physical edition. If it arrives by the 19th can I pop it in or do I need to wait until 10pm?

I was all for this but I'll maybe wait til the reviews. I've been stung before.

You know, I'm a big Bethesda fan but Starfield really took the wind out of my sails. Turned what could have been a fun game into basically a looter shooter with so many randomised areas and bullet-sponge enemies. It seemed designed to keep players attached with time-wasting and soulless activities with none of the charm. I would have preferred it being set over, say, a solar system or three with the planets being mostly bespoke areas rather than the empty nonsense we got.

I would have preferred an actual map, of course, but that may have taken away from the exploration element they sold us on.

Real let down.

Hold the phone here now.

Where's my MGS AC!D?

@White_oyster I got you, friend, I too am a pervert.

Hold up. How do I make the gaming services number go up? Is this like a meta clicker in some way?

@GamingGod no one was talking about it so I wanted to ask the real questions.

Why does your man have braces, a beret and red pants?

I was interested in this until the PvP thing came up. I thought it was just PvE. I get that people like other humans to engage with but my experience has been that it can be entirely unbalanced. One of the reasons I stay the ***** away from GTA online is the amount of pay-to-win cunce ruining your day.

Please enjoy over the Halloween period. The opening was very slow for me. I loved it. I need to go back and complete it but I've been savouring it.

@SpecialT two weeks later, what did you think?

@SpecialT highly recommend. I got it last year for £35 and do not regret that at all. Absolutely phenomenal game.

@Gabrie remember that MS will have done some market research on this. By upping their price by 50%, they have to assume that X amount of users will unsubscribe, but have assume that as long as X equals less than the amount of users needed to maintain their profit, they won't lose any profit at all.

The easiest way to test this is for one third of us to cancel our subscription. The Ubisoft+ stuff is sure to cost them a bucket and they'll take a financial hit. They don't care about breaking even. They want higher and higher profits. Don't give it to them. Save your money and buy a game rather than trying them out through game pass. What new games are going to be coming out soon anyways?

@Jenkinss there's a marked difference between disagreeing with someone's opinion and actively saying that elements of a game that allow gamers to feel more inclusive and included are unwelcome.

It's akin to saying that you don't like baseball vs. saying that minorities should not play baseball. One is an opinion. The other is bigoted.

@Sindayl what's funny is that I'd not heard much about it other than it was mediocre until a friend came to stay and revealed to me what you had said. I'd no idea that there was an anti-woke brigade against the game at all, and still don't understand the reasoning behind it (maybe because I don't feel that non-heteronormative pronouns or gender are massive deals at all, but some cis men clearly do).

This is a long walk to say that, based on what I have seen, the game was fine and would have been seen as fine but some loudmouth bigots screech into the ether and put a stink on an otherwise okay game.

It's weird that most of the reviews use the the word, "sure," before criticising the game. There are other ways to do that but they all choose that one.

I like it. It's a different style and rhythm to the Soulslikes that I've played and it suffers from that which a lot of these games suffer from in that there is a copy/paste element to a lot of the mechanics where they are functionally the same but use different phrases and words to describe them, meaning that you need to determine what are the souls/bonfires/estus etc before you can actively engage with it.

Enjoying it. Very pretty. Hard and decent new ideas. Don't think it's my favourite but it'll do.

@cragis0001 is Pretty Derby comes out on Xbox, my wife will lose her mind.

Me too. But for different reasons.

@Kaloudz Rare haven't been the same since the late 90s. Their games were fun and chock full of things to do but suffered from just a lack of shine. None of their stuff since then has been good. You can blame MS, but go back to the original games and find that they are mediocre. They have a special place in my heart and we're amazing for the time but haven't really held up.

@Kraven 24th July, so not next week but the week after.

Slim pickings.

@Kaloudz thems fightin' words.

@Kilamanjaro hold the phone... You said "an FAQ?" Am I the only one who pronounces it "fack"?

@TheCityPop I dig what you're saying but have you read the reviews on Xbox? Half of them are meme reviews and the remaining ones are homophobic, transphobic, racist or genuine technical complaints. Only a few are legit and Xbox isn't great about filtering out the nonsense ones.

The cheek of them. I get that it was going to happen, but the Outer Worlds 2?! Sure the first one was guff. How do they justify selling a sequel to a subpar game at that price?

@Kaloudz I actually did enjoy the exploration, which is my favourite part of any soulslike game. Up until Elden Ring, I hated the bosses in these games because it basically gatekept me from the rest of it due to their linear nature. I might give it another shot.

@Ricky-Spanish that's the reason I'll never play it. There were some weird things about the launch too. I think it was very pro-Russia, pro-KGB nonsense. And the game is crap too.

What are the chances of shadow drops, do we think?

@Kaloudz that first boss was where I tapped out. I don't like games with split second reactions and I couldn't beat him would it.

@jikflet you're not. I've done that a lot and ended up either selling the physical or keeping both for collection's sake. Some of these games are so cheap that you wonder if it's not like Halo 2 where everyone has a copy and more exist than Xboxes. I think buying a game that's on GP and owned by MS is crazy but that's just me.

@Brigurugi he actually wasn't going to be in the game due to his personal issues but, allegedly, Tony Hawk ponied up the cash to have him in. It had less to do with Bam wanting to take part and more to do with how they could spin having a raving lunatic like him in the game.

@Retrokingdan tell us if One Piece is any good. It looks fun but I've not seen the anime or anything.

@LogicStrikesAgain Demon Souls was not remade from the ground up. It is identical in all ways (even the bad ones). You could play it alongside the original and not find any changes.

@fatpunkslim "It’s been since the Xbox One era that people have been saying this—aren’t you tired of following the herd?"

Lots of people are saying it. They're all saying it. Stop being sheeple. Do your own research.

@Sol4ris the creators of Lords of the Fallen also gave ***** to diversity. So ***** em.

@OldGamer999 a lot of folk like long games, sometimes not even long, engaging games. I don't really mind filler as long as it's fun. I liked AC Odyssey because it gave me that dopamine hit constantly but hated AC Valhalla because, despite the fact that there was so much to do, a lot of it was carbon copy sit-and-wait-for-AI-to-walk-to-you *****. Both had similar playtimes for me and but I'd rather spend 200 hours doing something I like than something dull.

That said, people see playtime's and think that's going to be 50-60 hours of pure fun, and a lot of the time it's menus.

@Vordus I didn't realise that. Maybe I was more invested in Harvest Moon.

Yeah, I love Factorio something shocking so Little Rocket Lad sounds like something I'd like but I have a feeling it's far more simplistic and might feel like a step back for me. But it's on Game Pass so why the hell shouldn't I give it a shot?

@jesse_dylan well, "cosy" is just another way of saying that there is little penalty for failure, which is what a lot of of causal gamers like and these type of games have a broad audience and are easily made. None of them do anything new, they just mix and match things here and there. Start off small, punch trees or ore nodes to get resources, make x of y item for z person, rinse and repeat as you unlock item y1 and y2 and engage in simple tasks until there are no more tasks left. Helps it there are multiple currencies or resources to juggle as it adds a false layer of complexity.

There's nothing wrong with these games and people love them but they're not going to set my world aflame and are easily forgotten. The only reason Stardew Valley and Minecraft are still around is because they were the first to use this gameplay loop.

I swear Bard's Gold came out millions of years ago.

@Foxx_64740 It was a real down point in an otherwise wonderful game. I dislike the grind in any game when it is necessary to complete the game. I don't mind it for optional bits, but this was to complete the game. Very disappointing, and I hope they fixed it in the sequel. Every other Yakuza/LAD game hasn't had a grind, or it's been barely noticable.