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Finally!

Yes, its being depressing me for some time, and I can only apologise for the issues we have had for a while. The big news is that I've pressed a button behind the scenes that starts the ball rolling on a big change to the future of moving FG forward. I don't want to jump in on it too much right now as we'll need quite abit of work but I'm prepared to make it happen and hopefully we'll have some more hands on support from other FGers to make it so. This place is here for all and I want it to remain that way forever.

Honestly it's looking like what I expected. I am sure it is fun enough to play but these triple A games are competing with less expensive games that play just as well and often have things these titles don't, good story, new mechanics and such. I only have so much time for gaming and have quite the backlog currently so my new game expenditure has dropped right off. For me the perfect Bond game would build upon what was done in Alpha Protocol years back.

Honestly I don't think I have played the dlc's properly despite owning the game of the year version. I have reinstalled it though so maybe once my current games are completed with I will move back onto it. I always fancied getting the platinum trophy and don't think I was far away from memory.

Unfortunately yes. @GazzaGarratt is aware as we spoke about it the other evening.

Blood and Wine was one of the best DLC's I've ever played. I will definitely be getting this.

I'll definitely be getting this. The Witcher 3 is excellent and the Blood & Wine DLC was great fun.

The Ninja perk is in the game so it's already better than MW2 🤣

Should keep people occupied until Black Ops 8 eh

There is going to be a large bundle sale here soon if anyone wants to jump in one last time but missed some of the seasons.

You still need to finish Fallout 4 Phil🤣

I just watched Mack's review on WAB and he's the only one that has really pulled the game apart. I still can't get over that it's basically just Hitman-lite. The combat looks incredibly ropey and the AI looks absolutely diabolical. Doesn't look at all like a Bond-type game and looks more like a shell of HItman and Uncharted from Temu slapped over it. I think a lot of reviews have been very kind and whether that's based on low standards or because of their previous excellent work with Hitman, I just don't know. I may pick it up down the line for £15 but this really isn't a £60 title.

I've never completed Witcher 3, wasn't a massive fan but maybe it's time for me to give it another chance 🙃

Seems decent enough, like a cross between Hitman and Uncharted. I wouldn't pay 60/70 quid for it, it's less than 20 hours long, but in a sale in a year or two I might be tempted.

Out next year. If it's anything like the last two expansions then we are in for a real treat. Bit late in the day but should be a fantastic conclusion before The Witcher 4 is out.

Disappointing but hardly surprising and I'm actually shocked it didn't end sooner. Not sure why Sony were beating a dead horse for so long and I actually fear for the entire Destiny future with so much damage done to the brand in recent years. The first and biggest mistake Bungie made was going independent. They were cocky little shitbags and got way too big for their boots leading up to, and after their departure from Activision. They wanted to go alone but they could not handle the tremendous operating costs required to sustain the live service and future content, not to mention the wage bill. 3 years they lasted before they went back to square one with Sony who completely overpaid for their acquisition. Sony then let them get on with it which was a huge mistake because they got way too comfortable unlike the pressure they were under at Activision to deliver worthwhile content and on time. Sony were ultimately losing about £50m a month even when new content dropped. This was supposed to be a 10 year project with a projected 3 games but it was almost dead in the water after half that. They should've moved to Destiny 3 development before the pandemic rather than string Destiny 2 out and I think Activision would've funded it had Bungie not been so arrogant and deluded of their previous success which was somewhat fortunate despite making two really polished and accessible titles. Marathon is pretty much dead in the water a couple of months after release and I don't know what's going to happen to the staff that are left. This is another almighty calamity from Sony that will be a costly as many of their other blunders in recent times. They just love burning 9-figures on very preventable things. I really enjoyed returning to Destiny 2 last year when I picked up a lot of legacy content for about £8. I managed to get an extra 50 hours out of it in that time which was one hell of a return especially as the content would've cost close to £100 new. I tried the new Edge of Fate expansion which was so bad, I quit the game for good and the next one wasn't much better from what I heard. Many of the key staff have long gone and the mismanagement, budgeting and general negative cloud has culminated into a disappointing conclusion. Cannot believe how badly this entire brand has been fumbled over the years but it all started with Bungie being delusional and taking everything for granted. Activision may be scumbags but when you are getting hundreds of millions thrown at you and living in comfort in what is an industry in turmoil, you shouldn't upset the applecart.

Hello, for some time now I've noticed slightly longer loading times on my end. (I don't have fiber optic internet). I can't say exactly when, but it started after February.

I was shocked at the speed of it, even considering the $750 Million dollar loss that Sony took in Q2 and Q3. That being said, the game has been dead for a long time. The higher ups just couldn't help themselves and kept humping that corpse into dust

Shit season but at least we're not Wet Spam. Let's see if the board pull their fingers out of their arses...

The FOMO was annoying and the sunsetting with promises to never bring the weapons back....only to bring them back and we all lost our god rolls. I do miss the gameplay every once in a while, it was great.

https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/d2_may_21_2026 I know I haven't played it in a long time and I miss the raids etc we did together as FG but it seems too many people left for them to keep working on it

People really shouldn't have to pay to play online. Although this is nothing to do with the game pass, this is an extremely outdated model from the 360 days. Most of the burden of content servers and services lie with the 3rd parties now so it's even more unjustifiable for Microsoft to charge a fee. Xbox Live back in the day was a unique and almost groundbreaking platform but now all features are standard and expected and it's free on every PC platform. Cloud gaming should not be costed into the game pass because that just blurs revenue and makes the majority of gamers feel like they are paying for something they don't use, will never use and ultimately don't want. it really should be a separate service altogether. Game Pass should retain its identity of a subscription service to a range of games for the best price possible. Sony may have convoluted their entire business with PS+, PS NOW and tiers within but Microsoft should be able to differentiate the models. Less than half of Xbox customers have used Cloud Gaming and I expect many of those did it just to try it once. Unless 50%+ are using it each month regularly, it should not be part of the Ultimate offering. Microsoft have spent years trying to blend their entire service to make it appear more popular. Sony are a shambles - they confused the hell out of everyone with their bloated tiers and were then charging people £40 to stream 10 year old games for 2 weeks which you could buy in the sale for £3. The trouble with the console industry is prices are rising and nobody can provide a true justification as to why. One does it and they all do it. Nintendo puts games up to £70 and everyone follows. Sony ups their consoles by 10% and then the rest follow and now Microsoft have set the pass standard so Sony will probably raise at some stage despite having no tangible offering or true justification.

I think you analysis is flawed. If you want to play on Xbox and you want to MP games it's going to cost you $9.99 (game pass essential). So the cost for Game pass ultimate is really and extra $13. Now ultimate gives you cloud gaming on top of stuff, is it worth it to people. Don't know but I have been able to play some of the games on Cloud without have an Xbox X or having a bunch of games on my HD. So the value is not just the games. The two bottom tiers on playstation are same price. the top one is cheaper at $18. So if you want to MP game on console that's the price you got to pay or you go PC

Thank you Phil, I would feel cheeky asking for Tempest as well after Tensei. I said in my reply that I will take my Rog on holiday now and when the kids are asleep, downtime of an evening I will boot up Tensei so thank you very much!

Crysis 3 (and 2 for that matter) are on another level, compared to the first one... at least as far as I'm concerned, so I might give the remaster a go. Tempest Rising is kind of a modern Red Alert but no, not personally tried it and probably won't, so still available. I'll send you the Steam code for Shin Megami Tensei V via WhatsApp, as FG messaging seems to be broken (FYI @GazzaGarratt) and won't let me enter any text ?!