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Commandos: Origins - Demo on Steam
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I sign up to Readly every now and again which I believe Martin has just discovered, on there is Retro gamer which I find quite a good magazine talking about older games, thought I might post in here every now and again about what they are talking about each month.
 
So this month is about Ridge Racer, sadly the series isn't really around today but I do have fond memories of playing Ridge Racer Type 4 way back. I am not so into racing games now other than playing with friends.
 
So they also explore how the series came about which began with Mazda (their tech demos over in Japan) and this developed into the video games, they were somewhat ahead of their time when they first launched in terms of graphics and such.

I have Game Pass. Will probably give it a try.  I tend to like the round based zombie anyway

I remember playing the original back in the day at a mates. 
 
Taking turns on an old pc, windows 95 on an old dell I think. 
The game was monstersly difficult, hard as nails. 
So rewarding to progress even a little. Some of the missions were long, but the graphics and immersion were glorious. 
 
Makes for a change from all the Sim city, Roller-coaster Tycoon and Batman cartoon maker I was playing at the time. 

I've fucking caved and pre ordered it ...  Fuck my life hahaha 

Still need to pre order this so will most likely bash it out for a few weeks till I get bored with it.

Ah, so I just wasnt invited to any of them 😂
 
You have gone far and beyond Lee! 
And you speak the truth in your post, if people made only a small effort, I think this place would be much more lively. 
Instead of just hitting the like button, make a comment too 🙂 
 
 

Theres always been WhatsApp groups, Brede. I can't stop them. If you look back a few years ago, I tried to embrace everything for the sake of all. Discord, WhatsApp, FB and anything else you can think of.
 
We're likely nearing that cycle again of basically me tearing it all up and bringing it all back...but part of me after the last two times would just love it if people wouldn't be so lazy in life. I feel the pressure myself and I can't lie. If I'm not doing events, sending messages, thinking of ideas to get people to play games, no fucker does. Well, some do, but when they realise they get not much joy after a few times, they give up. I don't blame them - I suppose I'm the only one who's decided to do that for 10 years here.
 
I'm now nearly 40, so life does change and evolve. But I wanted FG to be FG for all, not FG that is a check in cos Lee asked them to. There is always ways to rejuvenate the place. But people have to WANT to do that. And before anyone asks, god I've tried multiple ways to get people involved, drafting ideas of different roles, changing forums around to accommodate stuff, etc. Nothing has stuck so far, otherwise it wouldn't just be me.
 
We all have the gift of sorting this out. And I'll still be me trying to find ways of doing that, but I also know that the ones that don't want to, won't want to until they fully have an epiphany and maybe if I say FG closes for good? Who knows. I just don't think a bold statement like that should ever be needed when I know there's 100 odd regular FGers that could be active and they don't. How many times do I have to say that if we were all active and took a tiny interest each day, then it would actually be the best place on the internet cos so many would be chipping in n loads of different stuff.
 
 
I suppose this thread was eventually going to tip me. I'm super conscious I haven't updated my PPR in months and I'm usually the one that says practice what you preach. I think I'm gonna give myself grace just this once for the past 10 years.
 
If you have some bright ideas, please shout up. Its always worth reading the whole of site info and announcements though first. You'll see about 4000 posts from me (no lie) about getting people together in lots of ways. Pick one and run with it. I love this god damn place. I just paid £150 for the software for the next year again and it wasn't even a thought of not doing that. ❤️🖤
 
 
 
Aww man, Brede. You made me go there 🥲. Now see what happens this weekend ffs 🤣 *rolls up sleeves ready for a war*

So there is Whatsapp groups? This almost killed this forum a few years back, and I thought people agreed to use the forum and not chat groups. 
I thought this might be the issue again, with the low activity in the past months/year..

Not sure if I'm blind or if the search isn't working well but I've noticed a few threads missing including Age of Mythology Retold one, an Assassin Creed Shadows one which I was going to necro today plus this has bugged me in the past where I swear threads have been created for games and remember posting them but I can't for the life of me find them again. 

Peter Green, the best British blues guitarist ever. 
Not only is his voice perfect for blues, but the tone he is getting from this live version 1970 cover of a BB King song. 
 
 

Well Dr Disrespect has returned and has somehow turned everything around to play the victim. He’s clearly spent the last couple of months carefully concocting this extraordinary new narrative and is even claiming some of his admissions previous were deliberate to mislead the media and insider witnesses. It’s just nauseatingly narcissistic and quite astonishing how he’s managed to spin this and it seems many people are falling for it.
 
I can see why he got away with this behaviour and was able to keep it under wraps because of this almost insufferable answer he has to everything. Next up he will probably claim to be suing Twitch, media outlets and certain individuals in a bid to maintain this ‘victim’ momentum and completely flip the situation in his favour. Already people are buying this ‘he was probably set up’ nonsense even though he admitted to everything in his now deleted Tweet..

This from Nero says it all tbh, I played for quite a few hours yesterday as I needed to see if it made me feel ill however I kind of enjoyed it because as some know I spent so much time on shipment. This game feels like shipment 24/7 chaos, I also had to quit out of quite a few games due to really bad lag etc.
 
 

Another thing I am a bit concerned about is the visibility - the graphics are nice, clean and pretty colourful in places but anyone that's prone appears dead so you practically have to shoot dead bodies to double check or risk being killed by someone laying down. The amount of people that look ragdoll dead but are just camping is crazy and I think this could develop into a real problem unless the animations offers better differentiation. JackFrags posted a video last night where he was camping on stairs and out in the open and players were just walking over him assuming he was dead. 

Enjoyed weekend one, then I played a game in the last hour of the beta and my god it was a sweatfest, couldn’t kill anyone lol so I promptly turned it off.
 
watching my son play last night and today and yeah it looks bad this weekend, no idea why if it’s a cheater problem or what,  it jeez I’m not sure I got it in me to reach level 30, think I’d rather just sit it out.
 
the spawns look rough as hell.

Sounds like I will sit this one out too.

Just finished 3 matches in the open beta and it feels like Cold War on crack. Everything feels really sweaty and erratic. Can be fun but it’s also rather messy. It’s certainly enough of a change over Cold War and the last few COD’s but I actually think Vanguard offered the best pacing and hit reg IMO so it feels a bit of a step back in that respect. Visuals look good as do the animations but i fear the movement will be exploited to hell down the line. I’m tempted to grab this if nothing else floats my boat towards the end of the year but I hope it doesn’t become too exhausting.

Oh I'll be into it and yes, they'll be getting a packet from Sony. I know the game is built similar to the last Olympics game, so should be easy to get into but likely a quick-ish game to complete. I really hope they can find a replayable factor to online though, thats the key.

The beta starts tomorrow for anybody that's pre-ordered or is on Game Pass.
 

But quidditch isn't launching free is it so there is no need for microtransactions? Sony are paying a fee for the game to be on Plus so in all liklihood the game probably won't be far off breaking even at launch. 
 
The little nightmare games are brilliant so don't write them off ^_^
 
I will give quidditch a go as we are a household that enjoys the harry potter world and assuming there is mp it gives us something new to try. The Show doesn't really interest me as I have never been into baseball but I imagine if it is released in the US as a PS plus game, over there it might gain more interest?

🤣🤣
 
I hear you mate. I will take Quidditch and The Show tbh, but if Quidditch is launching free, I'm not sure it'll have much pulling power. They've even said no microtransactions either, so I can't see it being another Rocket League.

Shite shite and shite.