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That's a shocking thing to admit. Everyone and their grandma had Brian Lara Cricket in their PS1 library🤣 I even had two copies just in case I misplaced one.

Rather have that than watch bloody Spurs right now😎

I think most people thought it was a fake game at first especially when we saw no original gameplay footage for a very long period and the devs were silent for months upon months at a time. However it looks like they've done a very good job overall with a truly unique setting and not only that, this is a rare game that actually seems to represent the gameplay trailers we've seen previous.

Out in a couple of weeks and looks pretty interesting. Quite like the look of the mechanics with its mix of melee and gun plus the overall fluidity. The game is also reminiscent of many classics we used to get in the PS2/OG Xbox era. Way more appealing than these generic/safe titles that have come out in recent years with bland cover elements or The Division-type basic shooting.

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Can't blame them - the amount of work EA have allocated them is absolutely nuts. Pity every other EA studio is hot garbage. They are working on this, another couple of upcoming Star Wars titles and still supporting Apex Legends massively and trying to salvage Battlefield 2042. The first one was decent and this one should be equally good!

Anyone used these in the US before? They've really blown up on social media but mostly for the wrong reasons. They primarily specialise in the selling of retro consoles which they claim to have cleaned, restored and tested. However their prices are usually 3x what you'd pay on the likes of eBay and in many cases, the consoles have not been touched at all. The words 'ripoff' and 'scam' seem to be most associated with them and some of the goods they've even issued to content creators have been of abysmal standard. Some examples:- Yet what they put out on the likes of TikTok shows them dealing with each order with precise care and attention. Most of the time you can't even get a real controller with the machine either because they are selling those separately at an insane rate and then instead give you some crappy 3rd party one with your $400+ purchase.

No show for all the big names Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo give E3 the brush off | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM Gaming's biggest publishers aren't coming back for E3's first in-person event since 2019. No doubt they'd rather run their own events which gives them a lot more control and they don't have to share the space with rivals. Pity because it was a nice tradition but hopefully this will see more independent devs and smaller publishers have the spotlight instead of the usual suspects paying for it.

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.

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Ah good to know! The screen froze and then it shot to the end screen. Not sure what happened but I'll have another crack

I got to question 8 and then it crashed and I couldn't continue. I was doing crap anyway🤣

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Interesting info about how the ports were done and how they differ. It really is a travesty that the original XBLA version wasn't resurrected and used especially for the Xbox version as that was a gamechanger. I've still got that on my PC because it'll get lost in history otherwise.

Well there was Halo, Gears of War, Battlefield etc. Competition may be greater now but these games have a far greater reach globally and are more accessible plus the likes of Warzone can be played for free. Overwatch, PUBG, Halo are all dead in the water now so really COD should be back up there yet it's MP player counts are less than Goose Goose Duck. It's not like people aren't buying COD now - they still mostly achieve the same figures they did back then but when the population nosedives after a month and never recovers then it tells a big story no matter how much you seek answers elsewhere as a factor. Sony are fighting MS because the acquisition could severely damage Sony's system sales going forward especially if Microsoft are to lock all the games to their consoles now and til the end of time which they will. COD is also never consistently at the top of Steam - it's barely cracked the top 5 once in 7 years and currently sits in 11th based on current but even the peak wont see it get into 5th. So sales, engagement and popularity isn't the issue but a game losing this much players so soon especially when it was two years to run is a worry. A lack of content and ongoing strategy plus the game releasing in an unrefined state certainly are the biggest factors in these huge declines. The market is there, they have their captive audience yet they persistently blow it.

Well they certainly can’t hide from Steam’s tracked data (showing a decline of over 75%) plus Activision have so many open API’s running, it isn’t too hard to compile such information even if it has to come from a string of data compositions. IW and CI can brand it ‘not official’ but that doesn’t mean it’s not accurate, so at the risk of digging a hole for themselves, this is probably as far as their debunking will go rather than moving towards outright denials. Not the first time they’ve played the ‘this information didn’t come from us so it’s wrong’ card only to get embarrassed when it turns out to be correct😂

I had this back in the day and tempted to get the Royal version on either PS5 or PC. I didn't get a chance to finish it back then and I think I may be struggling to find the time to do it now even with it being a 100 hour+ game but the production value is just insane even though games like this aren't for everybody. Persona 3 just released on PC+consoles and unfortunately it's the Portable version in an ISO format which is a pretty surprising and poor move by the devs. It's missing a lot of the 3D gameplay and cutscenes plus the audio remains heavily compressed which shows the devs didn't do much at all on this version. Would've been better of porting FES via an ISO on an internal emulator or something.

This was taken on a regular Monday, one month after the First Strike map pack (Berlin Wall, Kowloon, Stadium and Discovery) was released. 2.9m online on just the Xbox 360 alone! Map packs really bolstered consistent retention plus with the games being finished, there was no need for them to go back to the drawing board and relentlessly balance or redo the interface. The focus was new content and maintaining the excellent foundation already in place. Although COD games were more fresh and original back in these days, even today, they still sell on the same levels yet every game after BO3 has been teetering on the brink after 3 months rather than holding a steady population or even growing.

Activision have supposedly revealed the exact worldwide current player counts for COD at an event in Spain covering all systems. Not sure why they’ve done this as they have done their utmost hardest to censor such information when possible for many years previous but it was captured by a few content creators and it does not look good. 184,000 playing core MP is remarkably low - you’d rarely see MW2 2009 slip below 275,000 even off-peak more than halfway through its existence and that’s just on the PS3 system alone. Xbox 360 would rarely sink below 350,000 at any given time even at the end of the games run. Considering how many copies were sold of MW2022, you’d anticipate at least 1m concurrent players across platforms for multiplayer. 424,000 for Warzone is about right and steady enough but definitely not the growth expected like Fortnite gets every chapter. Between 1 and 3m were playing Verdansk daily with over 100m accounts created. Considering the state of Warzone 2, that’s probably not as disastrous as it could’ve been but I reckon Actvision were likely targeting up to 3m online at peak per day based on hype and other games within the genre. COD Mobile figures I can’t really determine but looking at other titles, it’s probably less than expected. Although this is just one day at a time when content is dry, the 75% drop of players on PC has likely correlated similarly on consoles too and these figures back that up. I doubt there is a radical difference any other day of the week either. If you split it 70/70/40 between the systems, those numbers are really unsustainable and with two years to run on this game, I can see why there is concern. It’s not quite as tragic as Battlefield 2042 struggling to keep 12,500 players at a time but it’s disappointing all the same

It depends what your prior target objective is going in and how many runs you want to take in that session IMO. If I'm just experimenting or playing risky, I'll just go in with junk or even barebones especially if I intend to have another couple of cracks. That way you don't lose your weapon out of the gate and are then feeding on scraps for more major runs after or having to do dud runs just to accumulate gear. My tip is don't bother grinding too much close-season because it seems like they are doing the seasonal wipe format. CoD: Warzone 2 Will Wipe DMZ In Season 2, And Some Players Aren't Excited - GameSpot WWW.GAMESPOT.COM A seasonal wipe is coming to DMZ mode, and not everyone is happy about it. Just grab persistent gear you can use elsewhere and then don't worry too much about grinding out everything else because it wont matter.

Really not sure why they didn't replicate MW2019's which provides exactly the same information, just in a more user friendly and logical way. It's nothing special but navigating is fluid and everything is easily accessible. Could've easily done this in-house rather than trying to drum up marketing by hiring streaming service designers. Without examples, it's really impossible to say whether it will be an improvement but it surely can't get much worse!

Switch version seems worse than the Xbox one - doesn't appear they even updated the UI or anything in that whereas the Xbox has some refinements in that area Xbox has the controller on the interface screen Switch however still shows the N64 pad and offers no customisation.

Game modes are nothing like maps and bare no resemblance in terms of content. People don't really wish for new modes - the are largely happy with the core playlists provided and any EXTRA modes that may come along as a bonus. The core playlist alone probably houses over 90% of players and about 80% of those just play TDM. Maps are the key to sustainability and retention - something COD MP has struggled with since 2013. Maps also don't have to be cut - playlists however are always shrunk especially on non-core playlists because they are not viable when they have less than X amount of players. Kill confirmed was also introduced as an extra mode - it DID NOT replace any existing core modes and that is something you cannot understand - the main gripe with Tier1 is that it REPLACED a flawless and staple mode rather than sat aside it. Had it done that, people would've ignored it and like all the other removed modes, it would've been taken out the game come January. There is a huge difference between adding new content and replacing existing ones and that you still can't seem to fathom that has being the main complaint. The uproar when they removed SnD in 2013 - a mode which 35% of players regularly participated in was a shocking decision and Tier1 is a comparable error of judgement with an even lazier and unjustifiable change in framework. I can also freely criticise a new mode especially if it replaces an existing one particularity if it fails to innovate and is objectively worse than its predecessor. If they want to bring in new modes then fair play - just don't remove proven concepts and do something that actually has credibility rather than change something for the sake of it without being able to provide one counterpoint as to why you've made this radical overhaul. There are content creators on Activision's payroll who have absolutely lambasted this on Twitter along with slating both IW and Acitivision for the lack of map content and a forwarding strategy. It's a pretty standard complain for a game teetering on life support already with over 2 years to run.

Keep your eyes out for this The best Dishonored game goes free on the Epic Store next week | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM It's the best because it's free. Such a good game!