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I'm sure we spoke recently about this and I'm loving the Command & Conquer vibes as that would always be my underrated special pick to be remastered. Crying out for a game like that with multiple discs of different forces you can be. Hell effin' yes to these. @Findmartin would wholeheartedly agree with you given Master League PES was where it was at for us growing up for years. Timesplitters was an incredible game, campaign and the online multiplayer. One game I felt really really good at too.

I'm curious about this one. I was never a fan of the Pokemon series, but I've watched some streamers play this, and Sarah has shown an interest in it. Maybe I'll give it a go. Maybe? Hmm....

Some more of Bioshock

So the past week or so I finally got around to watching this series, I loved the original trilogy and enjoyed the Hobbit trilogy and had this on my radar but it has taken me some time to get to it. Fantasy worlds are very much my think, I used to big into reading and have read books by David Eddings, David Gemmell, Christopher Paolini and Robert Jordan, all books set within Fantasy worlds and Lord of the Rings is of the same ilk. Watching The Rings of Power has reignited that a little bit and I picked up 'Murtagh' the other day by Christopher Paolini. The tv series is decent and in fact I think I enjoyed it more than the Hobbit Trilogy with the exception of the ending which felt lacklustre and felt it was not really conclusive. It is a tv series and there is a second season in the works so it sort of makes sense but I feel like big things like this need to be shorter rather than being drawn out, if I was to sit and read a book I can read it through to completion in one sitting if I really wanted to, it's generally the same with video games and I think recently I am beginning to lose some of my enthusiasm for all these TV series, it is a lot of time to invest in them at a point in my life where I have a lot of things vying for my attention.

Now that 2024 is here, I thought it would be fun to have a little Forever Gaming competition! I haven’t come up with a fancy name yet so I’m just calling it the OpenCritic Challenge 2024! The concept is simple, everyone who wants to take part predicts what they think the final OpenCritic score of the below list of games will be. Each player gets points based on how close their prediction is. The scoring system goes like this: Exact score - 5 points 1 score away - 3 points 2 scores away - 2 points 3 scores away - 1 point 10 or more points away - -2 points! For example, if you had predicted that Alan Wake 2 would score a 90 on OpenCritic, you would receive 3 points, as it scored an 89. Similarly, if you had predicted it would score a 78, you would lose 2 points. For those who may be unfamiliar with OpenCritic, it is a website that collects review scores from all the major review outlets and calculates an aggregate score. Hopefully there will be some interest to join in with this, I have listed the 2024 releases below, just copy and paste the list and add your scores. I will keep score and keep you updated throughout the year. If a game on the list ends up being delayed to 2025, we will just remove it from the predictions. Obviously there will be games coming out this year that haven’t been announced yet, if every participant is happy to do so we can add them in as and when they are announced and we can submit our predictions then. I haven’t added remasters, as chances our they will score similarly to their original release and becomes too easy to predict. Remakes have been included if they are a substantial enough remake, for example the Final Fantasy Rebirth game is a significant remake. Feel free to let me know if you disagree and we can collectively decide to remove them or add other ones. I am going to be recording a video for my YouTube channel discussing my predictions, if it’s ok with you I will discuss some other predictions as well as mine to make it interesting. If you would rather me not mention your predictions (I would only be using your username from the site, no real names) then just let me know when you submit your predictions. This is just for fun, no awards for winning. Unless anyone can think of a good idea for the prize, maybe a new Forever Gaming Badge? Last point, as the first game on this list releases on February 2nd, all entries will need to be submitted by the 28th January (I don’t think reviews for Suicide Squad will be out until 29th at the earliest). Also worth pointing out I haven’t added every single game releasing, there’s just too many! Here is the list, I will submit my predictions below. Good Luck! Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League - Foamstars - Helldivers 2 - Skull and Bones - Final Fantasy VII Rebirth - Alone in the Dark - Dragons Dogma 2 - Princess Peach: Showtime - Rise of the Ronin - South Park: Snow Day - Black Myth: Wukong - STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl - Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2 - Star Wars Outlaws - Little Nightmares 3 - Avowed - Towerborne - Hellblade 2: Senuas Saga - Indiana Jones -

Just been released in early access and has garnered a significant 370,000 concurrent players. Released in early access on Steam at 10% off costing £22.49; it appears to be an open world multiplayer pokemon-style game. Could be the new Valheim

Happy Berfday @GazzaGarratt!!!

Happy Birthday Lee, sorry I'm late me old mucker.

Happy birthday Leigh you old dog..enjoy your day fella!! 👍

Sadly I can't see Sega ever making a comeback in mainstream console terms. The company just doesn't have anywhere near enough money required to even fulfil global hardware production and distribution let alone produce an array of new games. They've been acting as a publisher for way too long whilst the likes of Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft have been capitalising on massive revenues along with research and development. If Sega were to throw together a machine, it would likely be off-the-shelf hardware and all a bit desperate. They are however looking to revive a few classic franchises so that's worth keeping an eye on. With Nintendo adopting a lot of bad modern day practices, I've kinda lost a lot of hope and things like DLC, subscriptions, live services and DRM is pretty much engrained in the industry. If Microsoft and Ubisoft keep pushing, the next generation of consoles could see us not even being able to buy or own games outright - it'll all be subscriptions and other bullshit.

Opposing Force and Blue Shift are being remade with Valve's approval similarly to how Black Mesa was done. Operation: Black Mesa on Steam STORE.STEAMPOWERED.COM Experience the Half-Life™ expansion packs like never before. Operation: Black Mesa features reimaginings of both Half-Life™ Opposing Force and Half-Life™ Blue Shift through two unique campaigns. How will you...

Thanks for the submissions so far! Quite interesting how different some of our scores are! Now that we’ve seen the Indiana Jones gameplay trailer, I’m pretty happy with my prediction! I think I have gone too high on Avowed though!

Everyone give @GazzaGarrattsome of that good ole FG Birthday love!! 😁🤘🏻

Final Fantasy 10 and Command and Conquer: Red Alert

Getting Ndombele off the books probably helped.

Half-life + opposing force + blue shift Change the script around a bit. Improve MP and you have a wonderful game

Ocarina of Time Any decent PES from 20-25 years ago Timesplitters 2 GTA San Andreas (we're already pretty much getting Vice City, kind of) but SA is my personal favourite

Starfield for certain 🤪

If they make it crossplay between Microsoft and Sony that would be interesting, don't know, maybe we could have more than one ship on a map...if that's possible...

Interesting that with all the financial fair play chat I see that Spurs are the only Premier league club where the wage bill is less than half of their revenue.

Rather than choosing my favourite and most iconic classic, I'm gonna select ones that would benefit and warrant more of a remaster. I'll also avoid games where I wouldn't be confident in finding a developer that could do the original justice. I'd firstly say Command and Conquer: Generals. Shocked this hasn't been remastered or remade to a degree as it's a rare RTS that combines real world elements and is still immensely popular. EA gave us a solid remastering of the original and Red Alert almost 4 years ago but nothing since. Even a basic remaster with QoL changes and modern support would be huge and a massive win for the genre. Lastly I will choose Resident Evil Code Veronica. I am confident this will be announced soon and it's the next logical one in Capcom's largely successful reboots. CV was a great game back on the Dreamcast and a huge step up visually compared to the likes of RE2 on the PS1. It had some massive flaws but these could easily be rectified. Those two I would be very happy with and that's about it off the top of my head. Max Payne 1 & 2 are confirmed in development by Remedy now which is absolutely huge as the series is coming home to a developer who is getting better and better. I would've said that otherwise as long as Rockstar had no business in it but they are in the works it seems.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League - 60 Foamstars - 71 Helldivers 2 - 82 Skull and Bones - 56 Final Fantasy VII Rebirth - 84 Alone in the Dark - 69 Dragons Dogma 2 - 87 Princess Peach: Showtime - 86 Rise of the Ronin - 78 South Park: Snow Day - 80 Black Myth: Wukong - 87 STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl - 73 Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2 - 81 Star Wars Outlaws - 89 Little Nightmares 3 - 84 Avowed - 78 Towerborne - 75 Hellblade 2: Senuas Saga - 89 Indiana Jones - 73

This could be fun, I wonder if @GazzaGarratt could do this as a prediction league through the FG site as well? I think mine would be - Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League - 64 Foamstars - 72 Helldivers 2 - 86 - I think this will be a surprise hit Skull and Bones - 74 Final Fantasy VII Rebirth - 86 It will do well but I feel like the series is riding on it's highs of yesteryear still. Alone in the Dark - 68 Dragons Dogma 2 - 84 Princess Peach: Showtime - 88 (Again it will do well cuz nintendo fanboys I think) Rise of the Ronin - 78 South Park: Snow Day - 72 Black Myth: Wukong - 82 STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl - 80 Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2 - 75 Star Wars Outlaws - 90 Little Nightmares 3 - 80 Avowed - 78 Towerborne - 76 Hellblade 2: Senuas Saga - 88 Indiana Jones - 78

Here are my predictions! Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League - 71 Foamstars - 81 Helldivers 2 - 77 Skull and Bones - 68 Final Fantasy VII Rebirth - 91 Alone in the Dark - 76 Dragons Dogma 2 - 83 Princess Peach: Showtime - 82 Rise of the Ronin - 83 South Park: Snow Day - 80 Black Myth: Wukong - 87 STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl - 79 Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2 - 75 Star Wars Outlaws - 84 Little Nightmares 3 - 83 Avowed - 81 Towerborne - 83 Hellblade 2: Senuas Saga - 89 Indiana Jones - 85

Triple post this week. We've decided to do shorter episodes, and release a Wednesday show, so here's a bunch of new ones LIVE!!

This game is brilliant now. I've finished it a couple of times with different builds. I had a Netrunner build with pistols as backup. Using the Contagion quick hack you can kill a load of enemies before they even know you're there.

Episode 78 is LIVE!! What; 's in store for 2024, and some last-minute discussion on GoTY selections.

Episode 77 is LIVE!!! It's our 2023 Dice to Pixels awards, and What were the favorites we played throughout the year.

Episode 76 is LIVE!!! E3 is dead but lasted longer than the day before. We also talk about valve trolling cheaters, and our favs and not favs from 2023.

Happy Berfday @Luseth

happy birthday @Luseth!!

Happy birthday @Luseth

Happy birthday @Luseth🥳