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So week 1 is out of the way, and the Falcons did what the Facons do and blew a lead in the 4th quarter AGAIN 🤦‍♂️🙄 Green Bay getting beat by the Vikings was surprising. Looks like this could be an eventful season. How did everyones teams get on?

I'll definitely be adding this one to my Christmas list! Looks amazing, thanks for sharing @J4MES OX4D 🙂

Thats always a good week 😂😂

Well patriots/packers lost so that's good.

Week 1 was delight for us redskin err football team err commanders fans, actually looked like we had an offense. Not a bad start at all !

I'm just wondering if anyone that has the game Crusader Kings 3, would be interested in starting a small multiplayer world? I don't know much about how it works but, I love the idea and think it would be fun to do something together!

Finally Too bad it's just for Xbox and Switch but at least it's been done. Hopefully we'll see a PC port in the future.

Looks pretty interesting but as mentioned in the video, the marketing behind this game has done it a complete disservice - I just hope people can see past that and that the game delivers to its potential. If anyone hasn't seen some of the marketing on social media in recent weeks, don't bother as it's absolutely mortifying.

A little while ago they release Phase 5 and Phase 6 for where the MCU was heading. Marvel Phase 5 Marvel Phase 6 (currently) I think its been a hard run to follow everything that ended Phase 3 for the MCU. The Avengers Infinity War and Endgame was quite the culmination of an era and we've all probably felt that downward slope in emotions with Phase 4 at certain points - Not sure what everyone else thinks? I do have faith though it will pick up again but expectations are set that it won't happen for quite some time. Maybe even until Phase 6 starts perhaps but I hope some of the films in Phase 5 can bring back the excitement I felt watching nearly every film in Phase 2 and 3. Blade is the one I hope that will return some good feelings, although I don't expect it to tie in to the major MCU story going on. Just not sure at the moment that some of the series shows are working for me. I really struggled with Wandavision, Loki was slightly better but didn't excite me as I first hoped. The others like Ms Marvel just feel like they have a different audience to what I want to watch which is totally understandable; just brings more of what I say to the forefront of my mind. Lets hope Wakanda Forever will seal off Phase 4 nicely and leave us with some exciting feelings for the future. Whats everyone's thoughts?

Tbh, its already started to do the job for me as it was to help me get more into the NFL game in general and i was really interested over the weekend. So much so, I think i'll find a game to put on in the background next time and try and follow some of my players. It probably also helped as I maaaaay have had a little help from @TigerBurge for who to look out for 😅😎 @Findmartin , looking forward to playing your 3 kickers next week 🤣

Ok, so week one of the FG NFL Fantasy League is in the books and these were the results and how the league looks after the first week. From how it went it looks like it will be a pretty competitive season as all the games were pretty close

I just can't work it out. Right now, just churning out the previous PES version would've been next to no cost for them and then they would've received a ton of money for it, plus staying relevant in the football gaming industry. Why would you throw away all that coding, hard work and multi-functioning parts of a really solid game because later PES games are still solid....for something that resembles the equivalent to a PS1 Demo? Mind is blown.

Out later next month and should be a good one Paradox also ran a near-4 hour stream recently which covers a hell of a lot

Are there any new games on the horizon in a similar style to 7 days/day z? As much as I love them, I feel there's no end game and ultimately I get bored.

UFL Football has been delayed until 2023 (probably a year from now if we're lucky) and I am really not convinced by it. The devs are way too quiet and evasive, and when a game can't provide worthwhile updates or gameplay footage in any state, it just adds to a suspicion that things aren't going well behind the scenes or the game doesn't really exist in much of a degree. Looks like we're gonna be stuck with FIFA rebranded and this eFootball shite for years to come. The roadmap of eFootball seems to be them slowly working towards what PES2020 was so if they keep as it is, by the year 2025, they would have remade PES2021 again😂

It still started on Friday night, its in ITV hub catch up 🙂 I tweeted about it starting and Jason Bell liked my tweet 😃

I hope one day it gets released as this would be a travesty. GoldenEye 007: Footage of Cancelled Xbox 360 Remaster Discovered - IGN WWW.IGN.COM A full playthrough and thirty minutes of multiplayer have surfaced for the cancelled Xbox Live Arcade remaster of the N64 classic GoldenEye 007.

WEEK 1 WEEK 2 DATE SEP. 16 – 17 PLATFORM PLAYSTATION® EARLY ACCESS DATE SEP. 22 - 23 PLATFORM XBOX + BATTLE.NET + STEAM EARLY ACCESS; OPEN TO ALL PLAYSTATION® PLAYERS SEP. 18 – 20 OPEN TO ALL PLAYSTATION® PLAYERS SEP. 24 - 26 OPEN TO ALL PLAYERS Hopefully it will be at least half decent.

It’s cross play when it comes to multiplayer so different generations can play against each other. I’ve not been able to find details on if you can play together if cross gen. I’d assume we will be able to but probably through Activision ID’s rather than PSN’s.

Phase 4 has been a hit or miss for me thus far. Black widow should have happened many years ago but i enjoyed it enough, especially florence pugh's character, the eternals was kinda boring even though it has a cool premise, shang chi ws good but i feel like the third act was kinda weak, i really liked spiderman no way home but for me it showed how much better the previous 2 spidermen were and i haven't seen doctor strange and thor yet As for the series, having read the house of m, the comic that wandavision was loosely based on i was expecting something better, i really hoped we could see creept wanda like the first times we saw her before she became good but now being deranged/insane be some kind of cosmic/magic horror show, not the boring sitcom we got. The falcon and the winter soldier had bad antagonists with the flag breakers, they made zero sense to me, but i liked the patriot at least, loki was good enough but again the cast carried that show, hawkeye was decent for me. I liked moon knight and all the archaeological stuff in it and the cast was great, i really hope they make a new season for it. I feel like ms marvel took too long to tell a very simple origin story and it kinda declined in quality as it went and she hulk has been fine except for some stuff like 4th wall breaking that don't work for me with her and it kinda feels aimless in general. I hope they succeed like with the infinity stone saga but i think they should have had a hiatus for a few years and also not make as many stuff and stretch it out a bit cause many will get burned out

Can someone tell me if this is cross-gen at all? Do we have to get the PS4 version to play with everyone or does it matter if its the PS5 version or not? I'd like to get a bunch of us playing it this weekend but a little annoyed that Open Beta starts Sunday rather than Friday.

Post-launch support of this game has apparently been the worst ever seen of a live service. Two maps added in almost one year, lots of unfinished and missing aspects plus the awards to incentivise retention are woefully embarrassing. The studio head has just left and there's no sign of any worthwhile future content with over 90% of players departed. 343 have literally destroyed Halo - this has been their 4th chance and they've failed harder than ever before. Time to bury the series altogether IMO. Still cannot believe this is the biggest budgeted game of all time.

So when it comes to gaming news, where do you get it from? Like where do you hear about new games etc. i used to watch digital foundry on youtube for reviews but moved away because i spent more time watching vids than gaming

FG, of course 😎😄 Tbh, I used to have an awesome Game News App that updated instantly across the world and it helped me understand quickly what was going on and then share it on FG to help discussions here more so. Now, even though it really isn't the nicest place to visit after 5 minutes, its Twitter. Twitter is literally the quickest place you can find info about anything that is leaking or being shared. I only look out for stuff so I can post here though. Some like using Reddit and I get that as the sheer numbers mean its there. I personally do not like that place one bit. I don't understand how to find stuff and then read convos on it, although I have seen a few things on there to grab and bring the content here as I'd rather hear about what FGers views are than anything on there.

But if you don't pre-order then it's 5 button presses less that you have to do 😉

Ahh the dlc. In these games the dlc is usually a big step up in quality than the base game. Artorious of the abyss gave ds1 good bosses and difficulty. The crowns gave ds2 amazing bosses and very good and unique level design. The old hunters added difficulty and variety to bb. Ds3 does not continue this tradition. The ds3 dlc is still amazing but it’s more like the best of ds3 as opposed to a step beyond. It contains two bosses in my top 5 and one of witch is my favourite of all time. The level design is of the quality of cathedral in terms of difficulty and uniqueness. I would highly recommend it if you enjoyed the base game. Now onto specifics. Dlc 1 is on the shorter end contains 1 very large area and 2 bosses. The first of which is an okay fight with a small guy and a large wolf. It’s relatively easy and not that original but it’s okay. The level is quite challenging and unique. Probably my favourite snowy level. The final boss of the dlc sister friede and farther ariandel is my faviourte fight to date. It’s a long 3 phase fight but each phase you can master individually. The first phase using invisibility well while introducing some tells and timings that will be useful in a later phase. The second phase is one of the best duo fights that has been done by from. Both this a demon princes make me wonder why people look back to the shit show of a fight that is Onstein and Smough as an example of a good duo fight when ds3 has much better (and actually good examples). The final phase is a fight that dose long combos well without being boring. There are lots of possible moves all of which are punishable. Love the fight it’s a masterpiece. Dlc 2 is a longer dlc that dosent quite reach the same highs. Dreg keep is a cool use of verticality and the ringed city revel looks awesome rivalling anor londo. The ring city itself is quite challenging and long. The boss in this dlc the gets into my top 5 is demon princes. It’s an easier fight but it’s an example of a duo fight done really well. The cycling agro is really cool and you can learn to types of play to speed up the fight. (Targeting the aggressive one and targeting the passive one) then you can keep damage on the same prince the whole fight. Then the second phase is a impressive fight and the switching moves based on kill order is a cool mechanic. The other main bosses in this dlc are midir and gael. I’ll start with midir. He’s a large dragon which when you learn the fight is awesome to play against. There can be a lot of trial and error to learn the fight though. This is fine for a boss and can be fun. However he is placed weirdly at the end of a long boss run which is not good for a trail and error fight. Also it’s clear both him and gael are fights designed with max healing (or close to) in mind. This my skew my opinion on them as my fights were on a much lower amount of healing. Gael phase 1 is amazing and then each of his next to phase look cooler than the last. Unfortunately they also get more and more boring each phase. Phase 2 can be okay if you play very aggressive but your almost guaranteed to take chip damage doing this and this took away from my limited healing. Phase 3 is just baiting out the same 3 combos over and over and waiting for the small punish window. Overall for me it was like an 8-9 min fight playing aggressively and I could only take 8-9 hits which meant a minute of flawless play for each hit taken. The fight was clearly not designed for this and so aswell as being boring In the later phases it took quite a few attempts before I could do them flawlessly aswell. Despite the sour note they are still both nice challenges and a decent finale to the trilogy. Though I do think doing friede last would be better.

Just finished this game with a playtime of 22 hours. Loved it. It’s my favourite of the series. The boss quality in this game in amazing and is consistently of the quality that the others only occasionally reach. The level design is generally good and never frustrating. Highly recommended.

Yeah cause those 5 button presses to cancel an Amazon order are so arduous. I'll still cancel it if it's shit but it costs me literally nothing to get a couple extra days with the beta so why wouldn't I?

Funnily enough GTA IV was one of the first games I installed. It's fantastic on the deck 🤗

Hey class armour you say you can have one of mine I've got 2 🙄 Warpriest was a ballache but did feel a sense of achievement getting that done the other week.

Yep, can have a rotation or simply focus on one game mode and map.

It's always interesting at the start of the season to see who the surprise of the season might be. I went looking for the bills/ rams highlights and it looked like it could have gone eitherway but the bills capitalized more on turnovers. But it was only 5 mins so who knows. Looking forward to the NFL show I'm guessing the queen unfortunately dying put paid to it starting this week.

Yep, looking forward to Sunday (maybe with a little trepidation). Go Washington!!

The season finally begins tonight!!!! So the Rams-Bills game tonight kicks off the new season and it should be a cracker of a game. I'm really looking forward to this season. I think the Bills will have another good season, and could go to the Superbowl. It will be interesting to see how the Bengals do after such a great season last year. There have been a lot of changes in the rosters over the summer so will be good to see how new players fit in and if they can make the impact the team hopes they do...Russell Wilson and the Broncos comes to mind. After Matt Ryan went to the Colts i'm hoping that Mariota can have a decent first season with the Falcons and that we can have a better season this year. It will be cool to hear what you all are looking forward to this season and what your predictions are for your team and the league as a whole. Who is going to surpise everyone like the Bengals last year, and who will not meet the expectations for the season 🙂

Just picked this up in Asda, couldn't help myself lol. If anyone else gets one hit me up for trades lol

25th anniversary today and still not a peep about the remaster. Such a shame - there's already a good enough game to go and this has been the case for 15 years now..

Just watched that Fyre doc on Netflix, Jason Bell was on right at the beginning. #notthatinyresting😁

Looks like a good watch, we can dream of a remake surely? 25th anniversary is huge. It needs to drop.

Documentary out in a couple of weeks celebrating the games 25th anniversary Hope to god there is a remaster/remake update around then.

No sign of Goldeneye yesterday at the Xbox show which caused massive disappointment and confusion. The game was also trending higher than Overwatch 2 which says it all really.

I never played it, but it sounds cool. The Splinter Cells were very good on the original Xbox, I remember being amazed by the shadowing and graphics back then. In terms of Bond, N64 Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies on PS1 and The World Is Not Enough on the XBOX I think. That's the ones I've played. All pretty decent, mainly because of the Bond Franchise and story kept it interesting and playable.

Not sure if you guy's ever played it, but Alpha Protocol to me was the best James Bond game (that wasn't a Bond game). If they made something like that I'd be quite happy 🙂 Though what they could do with today's tech and funding could be something special ^_^ Similarly the splinter cell games seem to have died off / gone quiet in recent years.

I get what you mean, for it's time it's incredible. After all those years of consoles and graphics it's going to look and feel old. A remake is needed for sure, the nostalgia alone will get people's wallets out. Yeah start remaking Zelda and it's printing legal money imo.

Xbox GoldenEye 007 Remaster Looks Closer Than Ever After Achievements are Spotted - IGN WWW.IGN.COM A GoldenEye 007 remaster on Xbox appears more and more likely as Microsoft now has the game's achievements listed on its official website.

Ahhh you're right, I forgot about Rare. This makes sense and it's probably what the license thing was about. Frankly, I'm very happy with this. I love the Switch don't get me wrong, but if a game I like is going to come out on a technologically better console, I would get it there. MS seems to be on a roll lately so I don't see this being forgotten just like that (I hope).

I believe Rare are fully owned by Microsoft and if my memory servers me correctly, this happened around when the first Xbox launched and shortly after the original Perfect Dark released. Although it's an iconic N64 title, I think it will be very difficult for Nintendo to persuade MS to release the remaster on the Switch even though they aren't in direct competition. It could also be more red tape with the complex and frustrating 007 licence but I'd say if this does finally materialise, it'll be Xbox only and maybe PC.

Even Digital Foundry are covering it😂

Incredibly easy to get running and what a fine experience. Such a tragedy that this never made it to the market because of petty financial squabbles. If you press R1 on the controller, you can also have the classic visuals which is a nice touch. Not sure what happened with the Alec Trevelyan character model (maybe a placeholder) but everything else looks pretty spot on and nicely crafted.

Game has leaked online and can be ran through a 360 emulator 😎 GoldenEye Is Out! - The Xbox Live Arcade HD remake of GoldenEye 007 has been released online - James Bond 007 :: MI6 - The Home Of James Bond WWW.MI6-HQ.COM The Xbox Live Arcade HD remake of GoldenEye 007 has been released online

The original on N64 is one of my favourite games of all time. They really did a good job with the Xbox 360 port from what i see here. Never managed the Egyptian level personally 😡 Multiplayer was hilarious with all player screens on one TV😅 Now though, I'd be more interested in a complete overhaul, particularly the shooting, as I don't have an N64 controller 🙂