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Happy Birthday @NCA-Paendraghope you have had a wonderful day mate.

Thank you both. I'll stick with phil here 😂

The last couple of days my mouth has been plagued by a bad tooth, for the first time I have to have one pulled out at the dentist, as it's a wisdom tooth they don't think it's worth repairing and best to get rid as it is affecting the tooth next to it. I really really do not like the dentist so I am kind of dreading it (though I have been told it's not too bad). But yeah just wanted to say I really don't like the dentist!

Happy birthday paendrag.

A video I watched last showed a very good looking game but the combat looked a bit weak. I've not seen the video above but will check it out 👍

Happy birthday to you as well and don't listen to Lee, rage away 👊 Have a good 'un 🥳🍻👏😘🙂

I like the initial look of it, tend to reserve judgement with mmos until they are out as when they dont do so well it can be a real shame. one of my favourite mmo’s was probably wildstar and that ended fairly abruptly

Go on Uncle Phil tell me a story, and don't leave out any grissle. When was it? And did it happen in the UK? Also was it an actual dentist? Not a butcher in Yugoslavia or something....

I'd get behind GTA V race nights and shenanigans for sure, just not sure how many picked up the PS5 version when it was free...

I had a wisdom tooth out a couple of years ago, horror story, so I won't scare you by relaying it here 😅

I'm learning! I completed the basic bitch page, found out I can teleport, have a nice shaft 🙂 of the mine variety... then I realized there are like a bunch more pages...

There's enough people here to help you out though 🙂 You have a busy life just like the rest of us I am sure! As for new games, appreciate it's difficult, the thread is to just try and get discussion going and suggestions out there. I don't know what the Friday's used to be like but the Friday just gone I found it quite pleasant just chatting while everyone played various different games. My enjoyment of FG is that it is very much a group of friends and not necassarily the games we play together ^_^

RE6 also has full offline and online co-op like 5.

Is that the only co-op resi evil game? That sounds good fun, someone can hold my hand while I play my first one 🤣

Watched a few videos on this new MMORPG being developed. Seems pretty legit and could be a massive time suck 🙂. I personally like the "low fantasy" style vs some more of the crazy ones out there. I love idea of player made gear and stores etc. Lots of really neat things I'm seeing here. The most impressive for me is that PLAYERS will build everything including towns and all buildings. This gets my juices flowing and I'm really a digital architect as many know. Thoughts?

Thanks peeps!

My rule of thumb for Shotties. Pump or lever slower fire rate Shotguns, always ADS and get that range and accurate 1 shots and on target. These include Lockwood/Olympia/Argus, Model etc. Especially if it only has 2 rounds, you want to use them wisely. All others like the semi autos, try get as close as possible and keep blasting the trigger all hipfire until everything around you is dead. Avoid holding the shoot button, it ends up sloppy and weird with certain fire rates and wasted shots. Absolutely mash the trigger on and off and spam as fast as you can with them up close.

Imagine how many games we might have won if @Allyknew the offside rule 😛

Will borrow this thread.. question: how do you use the shotties in this game, hip fire or quick scope? I ask, as in earlier games quick scoping shotties, especially lever action ones worked better.

Resident Evil 5

This is the super helpful video about all the possibilities that have been shown/talked about etc.

Happy birthday to Brede @NCA-Paendrag today too! Hope you have a cracking day with less rage!! 😎❤️

Happy birthday Didds!

I see that @Diddums has survived another year of planet mental, congrats sir, happy birthday, get wrecked 🤗🍻🫡🥳😍

I had one wisdom tooth removed in 2017 and although it was a bit daunting, it actually turned out to be fairly routine in the end. Painkillers for a few days after were needed and you have to keep the wound clean with salt water but aside from that, it was a pretty simple procedure and I've had longer hygienist appointments before!

All sorted. Stupid spam.

Broadside gold.

Lol @techno, so harsh but fair 😂. But ultimately the grind finished me off, and it’s a struggle to see what would bring me back. I have been here before though, dipped out for two seasons soon after D2 launch and I think another time. To answer @GazzaGarrattquesrion, I guess what happened to me twice to bring me back was just hearing things had been fixed and the fun was back. But I’ve not really heard anything much about lightfall other than the worlds first race took 2.5 hours which I guess makes it sound like the raid is pretty straightforward. And if it is, that’s a step in the right direction for me. The last two raids haven’t hit the mark for me. Kings Fall I always thought was too long, for my available time anyway.Vow was great in some of the encounters BUT the requirement to learn like 20 symbol names in order to do it was a pain in the ass. That raid could have been great but in the end I barely played it. Destiny was at its best when we had all those clan raids during lockdown, Deep Stone. Crypt, doing all those raids with a cast of about 14 rotating in and out was just gaming at its best and I guess for me it’s the highlight and everything else has been a bit downhill since. Not a difficult raid, spectacular, and fun. Not sure how we get back to that. I hear the grind has got a bit less, which is a good news, However my only real info I get on D2 is the destiny help account on my Twitter feed which seems to be constantly ‘being aaare of a problem’, so not sure how well the game is holding together anyway. Happy to hear different from anyone still playing it. Also pretty sad inditement of the gaming industry that the fallback for us all remains CoD. Is that 15 years we been doing that and still nothing takes it s place!

My taste was very similar to Lee. I had a load of the "Now" cassettes and CDs which probably had 30 songs on them. Then Lee and I used to listen to the boy bands, Five, Backstreet Boys, Take that A1, Another level etc 🤣🤦 I loved Whitney Houston, Beautiful South and the Carpenters, mainly because my parents had those albums. A guy at my work is well into his music and often sends me an artist to check out which is fun to do. The most recent artists being Caroline Polachek and The Electric Soft Parade

Been playing Resident Evil 5 last couple of days and it's great for co-op. Basically the mechanics of RE4 with more action and less horror. Works pretty well all in all and plenty of entertaining moments.

The most successful FG Friday games will also be the ones most accessible to large parties grouping up and the ones that cover off an element of variety in-game. I think the staple games I'll always try and arrange nights as a minimum for FG are: GTA Races (Car races and other car modes can take up to 16-18, others slightly less) Among Us & Fall Guys (Both really require at least 10 of us to play so its more varied, and worthwhile to try out - also, these games normally have a 2 hour limit cos they are simplistic games). CoD MW Remastered (Most have it cos it was free years ago on PS Plus - and you can have up to 16-18 on Gun Game) CoD MW2 (Seems to be the most up to date game most have and does have many gamemodes that can be used in Private Matches. Need to check can we have more than 12 in Private though) Wreckfest (Max 16 players. When we all have PS5s that goes up to 24) Couple of things to mention. We've slacked this year on FG Fridays because I have. No excuses. I ploughed effort into all parts of FG in Jan and haven't got a rythm going yet. Also, to get new games into this list reglarly is extremely difficult because a) not everyone owns whatever game we suggest and b) most other games struggle to get anywhere near 12 in one group. A few thoughts on the other candidates that would work some one off nights but maybe not as regular FG Fridays: Battlefield 2042 or 4 - Most have 4, some have 2042. The squad size is an absolute killer. Max 4 in squad is just a nightmare. Private matches are difficult as maps are so big. It would help if we had 20+ for this, so more FGers are needed for sure. Destiny 2 - Most have it but limited to 6v6 Deathmatch or Control. Difficult because most haven't played much so may not have a back catalog of guns so if we wanted to be creative, we struggle because there aren't the same guns owned by everyone. You also sometimes find people joke too much about this which puts people off it before we even play. Overwatch 2 - We did try this a few times. Main challenge is again the max party size. Can only really play team games so 3v3, 4v4 or now max 5v5 which is a PITA cos it used to be 6v6. Most nights on FPS tend to need a large Free For All mode, like Gun Game, One in the Chamber, Snipers Only, etc, but I think FFA is maxed out at 8 on this game. Star Wars BF2 - We tried this once, was really up for it - max 4 in squad killed it. Such a stupid rule as we hoped it would work but no one could get on with it for Private or Public lobbies. Most own it though. Super Bomberman - We've done this a few more times and has been successful a few times. You can have up to 64 players and game is cheap on PS Store if not owned. Difficulty is longevity. Some struggle to play more than 30 mins, max 60. Would work well with a Fall Guys or Among Us night. Brawhalla - Max 8 players. Fun small game and similar to Bomberman. Just wish more than 8 could join. Sports games like Golf, other Racers. I think these would work well but difficulty is many don't own the same game or version to crossplay. I could go on, but as you can see its something I've put a lot of effort and thought into over the years and continue to do so. Challenge is understanding the whole FG crowd and trying to find something that hits the spot on. Thats tough sometimes as we are a very unique and diverse group. FG Fridays don't always have to be large 12+ nights, always open to try out other stuff that has lower max players. The challenge is always what do you do when max is 10 and 11th person shows up. We try to help where possible with larger ones so no one misses out. Maybe the RSVP system needs to be used better here, I don't know if i'm honest. One thing is clear though, no matter how many turn up, FG Fridays were and still are killer as long as everyone makes an effort to get the word out and join in, even if you were hoping to play one of the other games on the list. I'll think of some other options out these when I check whats available for cheap or owned in our back catalog.