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Got released in early access a few days ago and it's really popping off in popularity. It's basically Outlast with co-op but can also be played solo. The Outlast Trials on Steam STORE.STEAMPOWERED.COM Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let...

Totally agree. The AAA side of the industry has lost its way in terms of the basics i.e. making fun games. I'm working my way through my games catalogue and rediscovering games I never got around to playing. Loving it. As for the rest of this year, I see me buying Starfield and Stalker 2...if they both release that it is. And first contact will be via gamepass for both of those. I won't be paying for games guranteed to be broken at launch. If they both turn out decent I'll then buy them on Steam. Other than that, the non AAA side of gaming is going from strength to strength. Arma Reforger has already been modded into DayZ for example, by the community, for free. Whereas Activision just shut down a modded version of COD. Says it all really.

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This is the way in most games unfortunately especially with f2p however I don’t feel like mw2 has been too bad in regards to overpowered weapons being released. Maybe it’s just that at my sbmm level it just doesn’t make that much of a difference.

As much as I want them they’ll likely just end up as games I spend a couple of hours on then only play for the odd 15 minutes here and there so just not worth it SF6 is also likely to be the same for me unfortunately.

I remember when it was all about playing great video games. It's not that long ago. Such a shame where it's ended. Kind of hoped gaming going mainstream would be a good thing but this ain't it 👍

Welcome to FG @Sir.Arthur! Hope you've enjoyed coming here so far....great to see you get involved already in some threads too! We need some more love for the retro side of things. Were you a Sega or Nintendo fan then? Don't worry, I won't hold it against you if you like Nintendo...much 😄 Hopefully catch you in some discussions soon, until then though, I hope you really enjoy your stay at FG 😎 As Kenny @IRaMPaGe says, we really are the best gaming place on the interwebz (clearly not a biased statement at all....) Lee (GazzaGarratt)

Get yourself on one weekend mate. I've tried it now a few weeks ago with Carl and Jon and I must say it was starting to get addictive at one stage, only when I learned how a few things worked though. It helps that @TurboR56Mini and @Tar-Eruntalion have amassed some resurces already because for a first go, you kind of need certain materials to start creating some stuff so you can get a hang of it. I think the ladders and how you traverse some cliffs need a little work and the enemies that you sometimes come across are quite random and strange (not sure what their purpose are) but the building is definitely something to keep exploring.

Loved Outtrigger. Music is awesome.

Here we share classic cover ,posters and pictures of fav retrogames/characters ecc.... Let's start

Not sure how long this has been out however it has been announced for Android now to aswel as IOS. Personally...I think this is a great bit of kit and might be worth the investment. What you guys think?

Patch now live

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Hi @Sir.Arthur! Welcome to FG! I noticed you put you liked Football in your profile, what team do you support?

Yeah I was referring to this in another thread. Such a shame everything is about money as this was looking awesome.

Looks decent but I'll hold off until there's more to it.

Would be up for giving this or any sort of co-op game a go, it's one type of mp game we don't really play here, in that most games we tend to play together are competitve but there are some great co-op games about (though obvious numbers become limited).

Its an overhaul of the level progression, new maps, new bosses, questlines etc. So probably many hours of fun!

Yep, it's absolutely disgusting the amount of predatory patents EA and Activision have in play to extract as much money as possible from the gamer. Beyond aggressive free to play business models in full priced games and instances where gameplay and/or matchmaking is engineered to dictate in-game success and increase spend. I am absolutely astonished at how scripted FIFA UT has become and the amount of money people are willing to spend to be screwed over by EA. You just can't trust AAA competitive multiplayer gaming anymore. There was so much extended potential but companies have just exploited everything to extract as much money as possible at the expense of enjoyment and fairness. Counter Strike 2 is a prime example of things being done right - comprehensive matchmaking, sub-ticket system providing the highest quality servers, match protection anti-cheat and weapons that are just skins with a market dictated by the gamer. There's a reason why this brand gets up to 1.5m players online at a time and has an audience of 30m when it comes to majors. I'm not a huge CS player now but it's by far the most consistent series in existence that will never cease to grow.

we have jetpacks and trains now!!!

Some more on this Overwatch 2 Director Apologizes for Canceling PvE Hero Mode, Makes Big Promises for Story Missions - IGN WWW.IGN.COM Overwatch 2 director Aaron Keller opened up about Blizzard's decision to cancel its PvE Hero mode, apologizing to fans and promising big things for its upcoming story missions. The fact they released the game knowing that this mode was cancelled is absolutely disgraceful especially marketing the story right until the 11th hour. Community are absolutely furious and even some of the most loyal content creator partners are in total disbelief. With most of the OG creators gone along with the longstanding director, I actually think this brand is dead in the water. Such a shame because between 2016 and 2018 it was an unstoppable phenomenon across many media. Going the same way as Halo methinks.

Pretty much every major skin releases overpowered to bait purchases and the come week 3, once sales have peaked and complaints are rife from non-owners, they then nerf the gun as some positive PR. Whilst the owners are then busy crying that their gun is weaker now, Activision releases a new bundle a week later so people move on to that knowing their latest bundle is worthless. I think dataminers found about 11 straight instances of this occurring between MW2019 and Warzone prior to them getting DMCA'd and after a slight downturn in this concept with Vanguard due to a lack of interest, it's now happening because MW2 offers huge potential for this. Content creators were even able to predict the exact week a bundle would launch and then the exact day it would be nerfed it got so predictable. It follows this basic formula - expensive P2W bundle released > player buys bundle > players dominate with said bundle > bundle gets nerfed > new P2W bundle gets announced > players (forced to) buy new P2W bundle > rinse and repeat. If it was just cosmetics, then Activision would barely scrape 20% of the business they are doing right now. There's the odd-quirky bundle here and there with some new animations, effects and finishers but the premium £24.99 bundles are a completely different story.

Looks pretty cool Brede, but without me playing it I don't see what the mods are? Are they all brand new bosses with new mechanics @NCA-Paendrag??

Anyone played Revelations Co-op? Its a great experience which feels slightly different to the rest due to the co-op gameplay. Shortish games but well worth a go. Not saying they can make top 5 but maybe if people want to jump in together for a few tries it may feel like it could be close to number 5 at least.

I agree with your point James, I just didn't see any that did give performance related enhancements. Ironically, the purple Ronald McDonalad outfit we've played against of late just makes you find them quicker and want to shoot that guy more than anyone else! 🤣🤣

Loving the gore, the finishing moves look like they'll be legendary. With a new Killer Instinct on the way too looks good for fighting games.

If it was cosmetic only then it wouldn't matter. The problem is these skins have underlying performance enhancements and that is the information that should be disclosed for fair transparency. Sadly Activision have literally DMCA'd every bit of datamined data regarding this previous and have literally shut off huge swathes of their API to cover up anything attributed to true stats, server performance and player metrics. Loyal players with high spend have to pay higher prices and players with low ATV are baited into jumping on the microtransaction circuit with personalised deals and carefully curated dynamic prices. Many players don't buy skins for their appearance - it's all about the performance benefits that those bring. The only time they are transparent about microtransactions is anything related to their Endowment charity. These are basic cosmetics only and sales are tracked and published. Activision typically make $3-5bn a year clear profit on Microtransactions across their small portfolio and that is after development costs have been paid along with projected upkeep. So no matter how much they spend on their games, they always have at least $3bn at hand for a rainy day.

I dug out and quickly watched abit Wrestlemania again because of the updates on this thread. The music was so catchy too, I still think I'd play this every now and again for the feels. I also played WWF Warzone to death. That was huge back on the PS1 days and set up the Smackdown era nicely.

I'm not either Tommy, but it really made me feel like I wanted to pick it up. My son got into MK11 a hell of a lot and then played MK10 because of it. If it follows a similar combo and styling in MK11 I'd be really happy with that. I loved teh Crypt side of things where you had to go and find stuff to open and problems to solve that gave you more skins and customisable options for your fighters. You should give MK11 a go, it is probably dirt cheap now and the depth of the game is really there.

Understandably it doesn't sound very warm and friendly but the counter argument back would be if you were in charge of a F2P section, why on earth should I feel like i have to do that? Skins are chargeable as they are cosmetic add-ons, just like us buying specific clothes to wear IRL. If you choose to buy a skin making you look like Ronald McDonald in fluorescent purple, thats on you, not on them. I don't do skins, and most just look like crap, but if we were being totally honest, i'm sure if a cool ass skin came along that hit your sweet spot on what you want to look like you can't deny you wouldn't be tempted. Sometimes I think where game companies could help us be more transparent is how much of those skin profits go towards new content or new development for things in game. Bungie tried to share that some years ago and explained why a skin on a gun was quite expensive because they could then put that money into 1 new gun. If there was more kind of raising funds for specific content, I would actually think you'd see even more skins sold. It helps sometimes to appreciate both sides of the coin. I don't disagree with the snetiments people are sharing here actually, but I would say the gaming world are sometimes too quick to respond before rationally understanding why stuff happens in the world of games.

If anything a smaller player based, spending more money is better for them as they can warrant smaller servers and running costs ^_^

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Spot on. Activision do not give a single shit if you've been playing COD for 15 years. Well, they care in so much as you've been giving them money every year for the past 15 years. But they don't care if you're a "loyal COD player". That means fuck all to them. All they want is money. If they piss of their player base so people stop playing but STILL make shit loads of money then they've achieved their goal.

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