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I would have said Forza but when I played the last one (my first experience of Forza) it felt a little overwhelming with races and events everywhere, that said the cars were great in it. I have been wanting a steering wheel recently and contemplating where to go with it. If you are happy to go a little bit older I think Test Drive unlimited was quite open for exploration and just going for a drive or I think I would second James with The Crew. If you wanted to go a little bit different play Red Dead redemption, get to the point where you get a horse and just potter around on a horse instead?

Hey everyone, I know FG has been pretty quiet for a while, so I’m not sure how much traction this will get — but I’ve been feeling a bit nostalgic lately and thought it might be fun to start a series of threads revisiting some classic games from back in the day. First up: GTA Vice City — a game I’m pretty sure a lot of us here played and loved. I wanted to kick things off by sharing some of my own memories and inviting others to do the same. Whether you played it solo, with friends, family, or just have moments that stuck with you — missions, music, mayhem — I’d love to hear it. For me, one of the biggest standouts from that era of GTA was the soundtrack. The 80s music was just perfect — imagine cruising down the strip with Toto or Michael Jackson blasting on Flash FM. I honestly think if Rockstar ever remade Vice City (or folded the music into GTA VI), it’d hit hard with fans. The setting was on point too — that whole neon-drenched, Miami-inspired vibe. I still remember the first time I flew a helicopter in-game (pretty sure Vice City was the first GTA to have them?) — planting bombs in a construction site, then later storming Diaz’s mansion… total chaos. And of course, who could forget spawning a Rhino tank just to wreak havoc around town? Or the classic 80s fashion — Hawaiian shirts and pastel suits everywhere. I wasn’t around for the 80s, but between the music and style, this game made me wish I had been. (Still a big fan of 80s rock!) So yeah — anyone else feel like sharing some Vice City memories? Favorite missions, hilarious moments, radio stations, or just how it made you feel back then? Would love to read your takes.

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Forza Horizon 4 has been delisted from sale unfortunately. The Crew 2 has a pretty massive landscape and a great mix of watered-down cities and countryside plus even water. Euro Truck Simulator and American Truck Simulator have huge maps to drive around on.

They did 🏆👏 Great team effort considering some of the players like Delap were playing in the shitty club world shit cup 🤪

I have 5 but actually forgot about it. I will see about getting 4 now as well.

Forza Horizon 4 or 5 You can do stuff if you choose, missions, challenges etc but you can also just cruise around. Both are great games 🙂 4 is set in the UK and 5 is Mexico. Think they're on PS5 now as of quite recently

Are there any games where you can just drive around and not have to worry about missions, or police, or any thing else. Just explore cities and countrysides? Every now and again I play Microsoft Flight Sim, and just being able to explore is pretty cool. I was hoping there was something like that but driving.

Me too :/. I saw this dino crisis like but...it didn't attract me at the moment

Would love to see a remake of this or a brand new game. I'm not sure why Capcom didn't pursue the series further.

Releasing for consoles in August.

It's become unbearable, so I also use ublock origin on firefox + sponsorblock, it works pretty well.

I have been using uBlock Origin on Firefox for about a decade at this point, maybe even more, the internet is a cesspit without it, I browse FB for example sometimes and I get the default experience because uBlock can't detect its ads and it is infuriating, I would scroll past 20 posts for example and 10-15 of them would be ads or irrelevant stuff that I don't follow, can't the greedy morons understand that if I can't even see what I want then I won't care about your shitty site? At this point both with windows and the internet you are constantly fighting to reverse as much as possible the rampant enshittification going on

I (surprise surprise) fucking hate adverts in general. I dont watch tv so i get to avoid them there...but yes, it has gotten to the point on YouTube that I stop watching videos that I'm enjoying. There's an advert at the start of a 12 minute video, then a couple of minutes in I get a 50 seconder. I have no tolerance for it and I stop watching. It's fucking annoying, particularly when you also have to deal with the YouTuber plugging another product themselves part way through the video. It's ruined YT for me, but then again most of the content is mindless nonsense these days anyway🫠

Resident Evil Remake (2002/2015)

I can't believe how bad YouTube has gotten of late - literally advert spam is insane and they are even worming their way into Premium which is a kick in the teeth to paying customers. I was watching an 8 minute video earlier and was presented with a 30 second advert, I then skipped about a minute of the video and was presented with the same advert which was unskippable once more. Not even halfway through and a 59 second video then popped up and to finish off, I was awarded the same 30 second advert I've already seen twice with about 40 seconds left of the video. So that was about two and a half minutes of adverts on an 8 minute video in which one was repeated 3 times! Also checked out a System Shock 2 Remastered video which was from a stream and 3 hours 31 minutes long - there was about 40 advert slots in that alone. Assuming the majority are a minute and unskippable, that's almost half hour of adverts in a severely broken up video where if you wanted to quick-skip, you'll probably land on a one minute advert 6 clicks out of 7. You could sometimes bypass really annoying adverts by refreshing but now I seem to keep seeing the same ones over and over and maybe after 15 refreshes then I get lucky and hit a 5 second advert which can be skipped but even after all that, I've saved myself about 10 seconds. It's just turned into extreme greed and done in the most laziest way imaginable. Seeing the same Primark/Bellingham adverts 15 times in 20 minutes watching videos is becoming torturous and they are planting so many in long-form videos now that it's making some unwatchable.

I lost two cars, and a van, to Zombie Bears. I "thought" I could just run them down like I do with swarms, but they do WAY more damage. In hindsight, it makes sense though

Oh the one I progressed the most with was the one where I pissed off the military, they killed everyone and destroyed the whole camp 😂 Been a while since I played, got pretty far doing a save in my home town but I’ve now exhausted all resources as it’s not got that many buildings and my looting crews keep getting destroyed by zombie bears…

So I sort of did, but then I got overrun by swarms, so I restarted and that storyline hasn't progressed. Basically I am currently solidifying my gains, and looting every possible building in my build area. I've started demoing all buildings that are in sniper range of my towers as well. Its a process, and once its done, I will then go back to pissing off the military lol Post pics though, I would love to see your build

The game is due to officially launch later this year. It's pretty much all I'm playing at the moment after a break to play Stalker 2 and Oblivion. Latest patch has more improvements including a much needed rework of the audio.

Lots of post release support for this game and more to come. Looks like they've git A-Life working properly now, so I'm sure I'll be testing that.

The final is on Saturday, I wonder if they can repeat it!

@GazzaGarratt it’s just dayz with tougher zombies, worse healing mechanics, insane killing machine mechs that have miniguns, rocket launchers, flame throwers and stun/flash grenades. And loo time. Yes you read that right, everybody poops. And you better empty your bladder and bowels when you can or your character will do it mid fight if you’ve held it in too long…

@Sennex have you ran into the military yet and managed to get on their bad side? 😂 While I don’t recommend it, it’s definetly an experience 🤣

One of the few games I'm legitimately looking forward to, which has honestly become quite rare for me to say. Very interested to see where they take the story with this one, and who makes appearances.