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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've had this one on my backlog for a while now, and I have no idea why I haven't played it before now, because DAMN Okay, so its a Zombie apocalypse/ City Builder type game. It takes Google Maps data to create your play area..... I started a map, with my house as the HQ, and it has been amazing so far. You can create any location in the world. The game uses the map data to sort out how difficult of a time you will have. Cities obviously are the worst locations. The maps are not perfect, in that it assumes the sizes of the houses based off of google footprint. So in my case it has my house slightly smaller than it actually is, because the google map image isn't current. (See the screenshots below) You can dismantle houses for resources, and you find settlers all over the place. There is a story, that I won't spoil because I think I am about a third of the way through it, I could be wrong there though. I am way to busy farming resources to build a fortress to worry about other survivors in DC and Baltimore. Two gripes people have about the game: Zombies can cross any body of water, so can your squads. The Dev's did this for pathing reasons, as the game is still in Early Access, and I guess trying to differentiate water on a google map is hard when importing data. IDK, it doesn't' phase me, I just build more walls Radio transmissions are frequent, and can't be ignored. You have to choose an option, but luckily it does pause the game for you. That being said if you don't choose an option quickly the npc's will get grumpy. So the screenshots I am attaching are of my play area. The "Star" is my house, the HQ, the rest are shelters, and warehouses I am setting up, along with some build orders, etc. I zoomed really far out for these so you could see the street names and more of the play area.

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

Looks like Sony started issuing no questions asked refunds. Also Cohh's sponsored stream was cancelled at the last minute to avoid further humiliation for the publishers. System-wide refunds may be on the cards and this could be another write-off.

~Looks at my Switch~ ~Looks at my Steam Deck~ ~Looks at my Tablet~ ~Looks at my Laptop~ Yep, I am happy for this LOL Now if PS would bring back the Vita, I would be set

A huge congratulations to @GazzaGarratt and Coundon Court this week! "Not only Club Development Club of the Year....but we're ALSO BCFA GRASSROOTS CLUB OF THE FUCKING YEAR!!!!!!!!!!❤️🖤" (Lee's words not mine 🤣) This man works his arse off day in and day out on all fronts and deserves every bit of good that comes his way! Congratulations Lee! You deserve it! Also a big shout out to @Findmartin who ran his first kids training sessions for comets last night, Comets is set up associated with Coundon Court that helps teach kids with disabilities how to play football, both lee and martin have had a huge role in helping comets get where it is today, however Martin ran his first session last night and it went incredibly well! Congratulations dude 💪❤️

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.

it’d be so cool if Arkane or Eidos picked it up and made it their own...

I still can't believe that was Danny Dyer!

It's amazing how these companies who continue to make massive profits manage to persuade people that this behaviour is normal.

YouTube Revanced on android / altstore and uYouPlus on iPhone. Run an adblocker on incognito while on your PC, as YouTube have started blocking people's access for using adblockers. The amount of ads on it now is abhorrent, and it won't really change until enough people fight them on it.

I started GTAv again for shits and giggles. The driving is just a load of fun

I replayed the game last year and it was great fun! Huge step up over GTA III from a gameplay and narrative perspective. The soundtrack was amazing and who could forget taking a chainsaw to the Malibu Club! The latter stages to unlock the final mission was a bit of a grind - not so much back then, but certainly now, but the majority of the game is excellent.

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

Releasing for consoles in August.

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

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🫠

Should be good! Now give us a Code Veronica remake and that’ll keep me happy for the next few years

Ok, it's actually just Rainbow 6 with brand new visuals etc

First Person mode and Third Person mode confirmed and you can flip between the two during the game. Sounds like a really interesting take. You do find the later games do really well with the newer generation of RE followers. They love First Person. Us oldies may enjoy the nostalgia of some third person in certain areas.

This game has now come out of early access and 1.0 is live. They have bicycles now too 🤪

This does look like they've gone down an interesting road. I think Siege unfortunately suffers from what many existing live service games have - ability to be a really good game...but only when you've learned all the characters and the maps, otherwise its a steep curve to get success. I'd like to give it a go though and its a good thing some of the options are free to play too!

That as a tech demo is probably something we have all been waiting to see on a PS5 since it launched. I think most people will need to at least try this game out to see and feel how it plays. I've started to try and play Witcher 3 but I must admit that the controls do feel clunky so hopefully that will be updated to feel more inline with most other games that are currently out.

It's free now too!

Hitman 1 (2016)

Looks like Microsoft are entering the handheld market with a ROG Ally-branded device in partnership with ASUS. Xbox is no longer a console, it's a platform, and it's already entered a battle for control over your handheld gaming PC | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM Xbox is becoming more like PC and Windows is becoming more like Xbox... is Microsoft looking to muscle SteamOS out of the way? Could be another interesting option especially as Valve's Steam Deck is restricted at retail-level but price will be a huge factor here. Hands-On With the Xbox Ally X, the New Gaming Handheld from Asus and Microsoft - IGN WWW.IGN.COM The Xbox handhelds are coming Holiday 2025 and they're impressive, but many questions still remain.

So happy to see most of you are still here. Holy shit. Life happened. But I never forgot about you guys. Been with you since 2009 when MW2 was the ONLY thing. Diddums, BO7H B4RRELS, Cal, tronic44, Fisher, TigerBurge, Baabcat, cyberninja, ChaosGladiator, Capn_Underpants, NCA-Paendrag, GazzaGaratt, IRaMPaGe Hello it's your friend, FuhgawzzZ Remember Auptyk? 😂 It's just nice to be here again. Sorry if I forgot someone. I really have missed you all

I watched the trailer for this the at the weekend and I have to say I think thisblooks really good. I've really enjoyed the last couple of resi evil games and think this will definitely be one I can delve into 🙂

You nailed it. The Phil Spencer honeymoon is long over. The ‘gamer-first’ image doesn’t hold up anymore when layoffs and closures follow every ‘success.

I actually think he's worse than Don Mattrick now - he only butchered one console, but Spencer is literally playing Russian roulette with every decision they make and as you say, shamefully bragging about the success in literally the next paragraph after statementing a commercial travesty. Phil was popular because he was seen as more of a gamer than a corporate, but now he's immensely unpopular and can't even be seen as a scapegoat because it's all his doing. Huge acquisitions of Bethesda and Activision that wont even pay themselves off in my lifetime and having to penny-pinch against the very developers they proport to support to keep game pass relevant is just a total shit show to behold. The problem is they want desperately one console generation where they get ahead of Sony and they just can't come close and now everyone, from developers to the consumers is suffering. Sony ain't doing much better as they will likely burn a billion on dead live service projects in a decade at the expense of many exclusives but Microsoft are the ones that are gutting their gaming division to save money through bad choices they have made. How they fuck up so hard after the 360 I will never know.

Another video game crash can't come soon enough IMO. These big publishers seem to think that gamers have an unlimited amount of money so they promise shareholders that profits will climb every year. Which obviously isn't possible as there are only a limited amount of players and money. This means that when profits don't go up they sack staff to save money. It's not even unbelievable that MS can sack staff and then Phil Spencer bangs on about how great they're doing as it's just the norm now. It's very believable that they did it.

Microsoft eh, raking in the profits and lying through their teeth. Closing the ESO studio, which had made them £2 billion is quite tge statement 👏

Yes, definitely the woke advert. Couldn’t possibly be they stopped building Jag’s 6 months ago so don’t have the product to sell. But I guess that doesn’t fit the anti-woke agenda or make clickbait headlines.

Revanced a must have ! And recently, I learned that you could use Firefox with the Ublock extension on the phone.

28 years later. Went in with high hopes as loved the previous two first half pretty solid second half utter dog shit plus couldn't see the point of the Jimmy Saville wanna be at the end.

I think Asseto Corsa has some really good free roaming mods but it requires some investment, installing the mods etc... other suggestions: -Burnout paradise -TDU3 Solar Crown (mixed reviews) -Beam.ng drive (mods free roam?)

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

Resident Evil Remake (2002/2015)

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…

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.

I've seen some gameplay and it looks like a lot of fun. Like Project Zomboid on steroids 🙂

Tell you what @phil bottle, I'll let you try it first and then you can tell me how frustrating but fun this could be 😅 I don't think its a bad call that the other survival games are adding a little more support in the UI, storage or even objective based elements. I know how brutal DayZ was for us and I can see me absolutely raging at this for bleeding to death by tripping on a stick no doubt. Having said that, they do have bikes, soooo......🤣

Okay..... Edinburgh might have been a mistake..... apparently the scots really like to turn zombie. I've never seen hordes this big in game before.

This is taking an absolute battering out there. Visually looks great but baron of anything interesting to do and some really strange stuff happening. This was actually done out of bounds so not surprised it didn't work....however where there is water in game, its extremely shallow and it still looks so bad. Its like they got 70% of the way, lost money, and then thought of the quickest way to make money with just a few immoral people left in the building. Shows how much you can't just make games overnight though. In this day and age, you'll get found out quickly and royally taken to the cleaners by the world wide social media. Big whoopsie.

Watched this the other night too. As you say, probably not as good as the first, but definitely up there and very easy to watch. Really enjoyed it, especially as i've never been a fan of Ben Affleck films but he really nails this character for me.

I think Black Ops 7 is supposed to have wallrunning and all that mumbo jumbo. The franchise does need a bit of a shake-up even if it does go back to that unpopular type of mechanics. It's just a shame they have to bleed the brands to death because they can't be creative and come up with something fresh.

So many first person shooters on PC these days doing interesting things I never think of COD any more

Mental mate. I suppose the new one can say it can't be any worse in the league! 😅 Ahh thanks Macca. I need to share this on my PPR lol. It means a lot to help a large community and especially see it happen in front of your eyes. ❤️🖤

These games I feel I always want them but never at the price they go out at, as its very similar to FIFA. Not much has changed in the past few versions and whilst I love F1, I don't think this pulls me in like I would hope it would. £20? Yeah, why not. Although in 18 months it'll probably be worth a fiver.

I keep changing my mind over this game. If it was winter I might have time to play it but not right now...will keep my eye on it though if I see anyone else go for it 🙂