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Yeah GK Rowling is not a friend of minorities, she's also one of those old school middle class feminists who think 99% of men are potential rapists. Can't stand her. But then i Iove the horror fiction of HP Lovecraft and he was a white suprememacist. I still read his work knowing I despise his political outlook 😅 I'm not getting this game as I'm an old school fantasy nerd and I always found the Harry Potter stuff kind of lame. Game itself looks decent, so maybe in a sale...

I had a similar experience. 😆 I can appreciate how people would enjoy it but it wasn’t my cup of tea. I was also solo and that probably didn’t help.

I’ll have to reinstall it and give it a go when I’m bored.

It's pretty decent right now, just needs more new maps. I get bored quickly with COD these days and find BF2042 a lot more fun.

I'm not getting dragged into the side stuff from a game perspective. In life, we can't ignore these topical issues and we have to appreciate other people will see the other sides which will be valid in certain individuals to whats been said cos we all should have a voice in this life - as the issue doesn't impact me personally, I see it as that will be for them to discuss and not myself on here. If anyone is against it all, not buying the game will be the best thing you can do. I have got it on pre-order so will sharing the game pros and cons on here for sure. I'm pretty sure about 99% of the population is going to do that at the start of the game! 🤣 The combat system looks extremely solid and quests are hopefully deep in content so they'll be enough for us to chew on me thinks. They've got over 20 spells haven't they? Be interesting to see when they unlock through the game and hopefully some of the best ones will be unlocked early doors to use throughout the content.

@phil bottle, That sounds like a plan ☺️. I want to get over that fear of talking and I suppose the only things I see stopping me is having nothing useful to say, sounding like an idiot, not being listened to / heard, sounding boring. Which pretty much sums it up 🤣. @NCA-Paendrag sure it was snipers? This game only takes a single shot to down an enemy. Running into open fields on the front line is obviously a bad idea though 😅. Had some amazing moments on the Foy map in the snowy forests. I do love the sense of war this game gives off, not the Hollywood movie war action you find in CoD and BF games. @Jason @NCA-Paendrag if me and @phil bottlestart playing, and he sticks with it, perhaps consider giving this another go as a team?

Have they/them actually read what she said? I struggle to even really see how it is offensive…. But I digress. I’m excited to play it. Everyone been raving about it that I’ve seen so far. I’m avada kedavraing the shit out of everything I can 😂 edit- So after I typed this I saw a video about a website that will track streamers who play the game on stream so they can be labeled as transphobic and cancelled…. People have too much free time on their hands.

Tried it some months ago. Spent ages moving to action only to be killed by a sniper, got old very fast. Too slow paced for my taste.

If you fancy company I might reinstall it, I didn't find it the best experience playing solo.

I've always thought about writing over the years, imagined that I would be interesting enough, or have some creative ideas. I'm not sure that I've reached that level of interesting yet but I've come close enough. Now I'm not on the writing level of Paul Bowles, Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, or Jim Harrison but I feel like my first official foray into writing wasn't terrible...maybe I simply need more drugs and alcohol like the aforementioned folks. Either way, hopefully you enjoy, all the words and pictures are my own. In Search of Adventure.pdf - Google Drive DRIVE.GOOGLE.COM

Yup, us adrenalin junkies are on console. At least I am.

This game was so disappointing for me. It’s a shame. They pretty much stole my money. 😆

Would love to go back and try it but it feels inferior to MW2 right now still. I wasn't a big BF player anyway but the reintroduction of classes make sense and worth an update to my game next time i'm on.

Just get an Xbox mate, so many great games on gamepass lately and a lot more to come 🙂

I'll try it, thank you so much!

I think the 'it's too slow' crew are on console only but yeah, I've reinstalled, so let's sort something out 🙂

The trans community is really up in arms about this game, the other forum I visit they won't stop going on and personally I see the issues they have but just because someone buy's the game does not instantly make them an enemy. It seem's like they want to make enemies for themselves so it's them against the world type of thing which is a bit saft. The game is reviewing well and I am quite excited for it, finding it difficult to avoid some of the spoilers on social media though, I want to go into the game completely fresh and you have posts, videos etc saying this, that or the other or there is this easter egg if you go here and such. Social media is really crap. Anyway's, I am excited and I don't think the missus will be able to drag me away from the console when the game turns up 😄

TitanFall failed because EA are fucking idiots and decided that it was a good idea to release TitanFall 2 the week between COD and BF launches 🤦‍♂️ I'm still pissed off about it as TF2 was superb.

I could probably be persuaded if we can get a decent time to meet up online.

My biggest gripe is with how far down you have to click to do things, if you are customising a weapon you have to click the back button maybe 6-7 times to get back to the lobby,

Yep, basically people are boycotting the game who weren't going to get it anyway🤣 There's gonna be people seething on Twitter tonight after this game has reviewed well so I can't wait to see that

EA also cancelled Apex Legends single player last week so the chances of us getting a new Titanfall is also dead in the water. A new Battlefield wont be here until 2025 and there's more chance of Black Ops Cold War getting more content this year than Modern Warfare 2. It's such a shame publishers wont commission FPS games much these days due to competitors yet competition is what this industry needs.

I agree we need more challengers to enter the gaming market against the bigger players. Although, its clearly not that easy as we've seen the past 10 years nearly all of them fail. Only one that has had the closest FPS gameplay and feel to breaking them is/was Titanfall/Apex Legends. Apex does alright, but hasn't evolved much since launch. Actually makes you realise how games like CoD and Destiny still do extremely well. Even Halo now is going down the pan somewhat. This looks more of a competitor against Counter Strike for PC imo. Definitely looks decent and a market could be there for the next MLG FPS given CoD isn't doing very well in that category. In fact it looks like it wants to take some of Overwatch's competitive league off them more so than the casual playerbase.

Just literally typing the same thing, it would be nice to see something challenge CoD. I don't expect anything will, Bf2042 really missed at least a decent opportunity and Titanfall failed.

A lack of a decent alternative is why Activision just keep doing what they want. They know people will buy COD no matter what.

that was a fun read of a great trip, you should do more if you want, it definitely made me want to go there as well

You could certainly write a decent holiday brochure 😁 Glad you had a nice time, it's such a big country, so many unique places to visit 🙂

I downloaded and gave this one a go thanks to game pass affiliation with EA Play, and I gotta say, I'm digging it. The story mode follows an up and coming racing team trying to make it to the championship final called "The Gauntlet." You play as the unnamed driver 22 and have tasks to fulfill throughout, culminating in a championship victory. I enjoyed the tracks, some based on real life circuits, as well as the various types of vehicles used throughout. The electric series are hell fast in this one. I thought it was neat that. the career mode connects to the stories ending as well. Your driver and an engineer leave the team to create a new one and start from the beginning. Which you do during the career mode. You can give the team a name, logo, banner, and livery based on a ton of customizable options and have at it. The driving felt a lot more arcadey compared to previous entries in the series, but I didn't mind. I've always preferred that style, but every so often, I'll feel the sim stuff creep up here and there. You can tweak the mechanics of your cars at any given time though. There's been a bunch of DLC released, with the latest one dropping just this past week called Winter Bash. There's also some added story modes as well that either continue some stories or show how certain teams got to where they were before the story mode. Pretty cool game. I can't wait to get into some more racing fun.

Sorry its late @TurboR56Mini but it was a very enjoyable read I must say. I think you certainly hit the ground running on the writing side. The pictures are done extremely well and compliment breaking down your trip nicely. You could even see here that you could mini-reviews that break down stuff even further, such as a car review, watch review and cities/states to review. Make sure you try and get another one done soon as its certainly something you seem passionate about through the words you used. ❤️

Next time it goes on sale for PC i'll try and take a look. I'd be happy to try it out on PC with a few FGers. Let us know how you get on @phil bottle and @Spacedeck!

You know me, especially with a game with an offline mode makes total sense to have the physical version 😉 I do still have my Xbox One so I suppose its on that too. I just don't fancy another subscription to add to my list just yet!

Let me know @Spacedeck when you're up for a session. I will jump on this evening to reacquaint myself with the game👍

I love how the site is now being used so people can track which streamer is playing the game so they can go watch, follow and even sub to them. Love it when a plan backfires🤣 It's quite a sensational turn of events really - an extremist feminist now being targeted by other extremists wanting to be what she is but is currently who she despises. I do think a lot of it is taken out of proportion especially when you have further clowns like Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe worsening the tensions online but the trans community really don't help themselves with their approach consisting of positioning themselves as the victim but also making outlandish threats. Really not the way to endear to others especially when they wont listen to others and are too busy trying to 'cancel' people who don't share their way of thinking. What goes around comes around for poor old JK!

More Gears of War

That's even with the hate campaign against it on social media due to its ties to JK Rowling.

Pretty ironic seeing that Mark Rubin was the one that took away everything people enjoyed about golden age COD and gave us Ghosts instead with fish AI being his proudest achievement🤣 Anyhow, I'm glad the game is still in development and hasn't been yet another cancellation from Ubisoft. I'm really not sure if the brand is strong enough to capture a decent audience though and no matter how much people hate COD, they will always play that over games that offer a far better experience because it's cawl of dooty and they enjoy being screwed year in year out. Too many of these classic-style FPS games have failed already though and Ubisoft's internal IP's aren't as popular as they think they are to form a game like this. I just hope they can strike while the iron is hot because MW2 is literally edging towards life support on a 2 year cycle and people aren't shying away from shunning games. A good alternative is desperately needed.

So thanks to the generosity of FG's FGF, I claimed HLL from the store. I wasn't sure what to expect with performance, I do remember trying it out during a free weekend and ultimately giving up due to performance. To my surprise this game is running pretty decently now, feels more optimised for sure. I can't make it look graphically pretty but it's playable for most of the time. Frames do drop in more built up areas but due to the slow style of game, it's manageable. It's a lot of fun, I do still struggle with communicating, I have my mic ready to go, but finding the commitment of talking difficult to overcome.

Yep. The tweet by Mark Rubin and follow up tweets were him basically saying that they have seen what COD fans hate about recent Cods so they've purposely added or removed what they do/don't like. They're targeting players that are sick of Activision not listening to fan feedback.

Newish video about this game. I think it looks quite decent. Also Mark Rubin - head of the development team and former IW lead - had this to say: Features I would have if I were making a MP FPS. - No SBMM in Casual Play - Ranked Mode - Lobbies that stay together - Red Dots on Minimap - Map Voting Just to name a few. *hint - I am making that game. Which all sounds good.

There's taking ideas and references and then there is straight up ripping everything. All the stuff in the trailer(s) can be bought off the shelf from Unreal as it is so from what's been showcased then and up to their 'gameplay extravaganza' is nothing original or of their own creation which is absolutely damning. The good news is that people aren't falling for it like they would've 5+ years ago and be blinded by hype.

Have you tried changing the appearance back? I think I read somewhere that you can switch between the 2?

Hello! Since the update, I can't find Dandelion to see his new costume! I looked for him in Rosemary and Thyme - he's not there! I went through the whole game completely, along with the update, I went through a new quest, after which I unsuccessfully try to find Dandelion. Many thanks in advance for your help!

If anything, it does bode well for the next title at least especially with fresh developers working on the game. So many stupid and unnecessary changes made in 2042 to start with along with the utterly lousy execution. It somewhat resembles a BF title now but still a bit to go before they can say job done. Need to go back to A to F singular sectors on new maps too IMO as opposed to C1/C2 etc.. After playing MW2, guns really look like they lack punch though even when compared to previous games and I'm not too keen on the engine currently but if they can start the next game where this is finishing then maybe there is some hope for the future.

I'm downloading it now. The last Grid game had pretty decent driving mechanics except for the fact AI cars always came out better in collisions, even when they had no right to 🙃

Watched a bit of it yesterday but nothing really to to blow me away. Have zero interest in ESO but they seem to be giving it a real push. With regards the new IPs, well we'll see how they turn out....

Ah, they have made their videos only watchable via Youtube 🤪

Thanks @Antpool84 for organising this, it really has been a great thing to keep going through the WInter months and brings a lot of us together when we don't see much of us online sometimes. I definitely think we'll have some more to join us next year. I'm expecting to get some more Americans in early so they have no choice ( @TigerBurge @Jason cough cough) but also new people should really give this a go too. I know @Ally is keen on getting involved next time!

Totally forgot about this game 🤣

Tom Clancy's name has thankfully be dropped from the brand

They've milked his name from the grave and pretty much ruined all the franchises its attached in recent years. The franchises it should be attached to like Splinter Cell are nowhere to be seen and it beggars believe why it's been branded with XDefiant. We will probably never know why they've done this - maybe it's a set in stone deal, perhaps the devs are morons or maybe Clancy's estate are demanding it but it just doesn't fit. This is a generic hip shooter aimed at the skin generation yet Tom Clancy is an writer of espionage, war and action thrillers! Doesn't make sense. It's only a matter of time they attach his name to Assassin's Creed and The Crew.