J4MES OX4D
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I'd take 4-6 maps per season or none at all. One or two lazy recycled maps is simply not enough whatsoever for a game of this nature and I just wont play it otherwise. The COD community should not accept this level of service - it's beyond insulting now and bordering on laughable. Even Vanguard last year had 3x more map content than what we have now and they probably had 10% of the resources to make their game. People are largely sick of recycled/re-imagined content now - maybe 5 years ago this was still fine and even into MW2019 but not now. We're all mostly fed up of these once-iconic maps like Nuketown, Summit, Jungle, Firing Range and original content is what's needed. No point in having a brand new engine and rebooting a game and then rehashing old stuff. If they are to go down this route then at least back it up with new content on top. If you're giving us 2 old maps but 4 new ones then that's fair enough but 3 old maps out of 4 is embarrassing. IW proved they could create new content and the base game maps of MW2 are pretty decent even though they were naive about a few real world locations but having to resort to recycled stuff or material lifted from Warzone is not good enough especially if you're giving us nothing else.
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No maps listed aka; 'we're making it up as we go along'😂 They'll probably bring back Rust once again to compliment Shoothouse and Shipment or something desperate. I'll keep my eyes on the usual dataminer suspects because they are usually ahead of the game as what to expect and most of the time it's never good news.
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She certainly is 'rowling' in it though - making a fat royalty for every copy sold without having to do a thing!
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I'd happily pay for a map expansion like before because it was guaranteed content, you knew what you'd be getting plus it was an obligation and incentive for the developers to produce quality and original (even reimagined) material. I'd take that over painfully waiting for new content that never materialises and always being in the dark about what was coming because not even the developers seem to know half the time. People are paying more on fortnightly bundles now than what an entire quarterly map pack used to cost and I didn't mind paying because the return was always tens of hours at worst and plenty more enjoyment. This time of the year a decade ago and during the golden age of COD, we'd be at around the 24 map mark by now. Even Vangard this time last year had 26 original 6v6 maps at this stage.
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Nearly 500,000 people are playing Hogwarts Legacy on Steam before it's truly out | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM Despite the backlash against it, Hogwarts Legacy is already a major hit on Steam and Twitch. Just on Steam alone!
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I've just realised (only saw the small image on my phone) that Al Malik and Zaya are both battle maps which mean they will be likely be ground war-type ones. Literally just cut off a a portion of the Warzone/DMZ map. This means that Dome and Museum are the only two 6v6 maps - one recycled and poached off Warzone 2 and the other one from the beta. The rumours they would pass off the removed Valderas map as 'new' season 2 content were spot on even though it had been legally cleared since the beginning of the year to bring back. It's even worse than I first saw! Content creators jokingly said they will probably carve up the entire Warzone map bit by bit and integrate it as 'new' content for the MP portion and it looks like that has come true entirely.
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LMAO! That’s the final nail in the coffin for this game. They really expect to pass off an old beta map and then 3 cherrypicked locations from the battle royal map as ‘new’ content that will suffice, Christ. The new mode bloat will just spread thin an already depleting playerbase and those playlists won’t survive long-term either. They’ve made a mockery out of fans now but at least the reaction on social media has been absolutely damning, not that it will change anything. I wasn’t expecting much for the paid portion but this is taking the piss. Even Cold War will get more content than this I bet. What an absolute disgrace.
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What Are You Currently Playing?
J4MES OX4D replied to Spacedeck's topic in General Gaming Discussion
Just completed Gears of War after revisiting it for the first time in 16 or so years. Now started on the 2008 sequel. Hoping to get in Metal Gear Rising in a couple of weeks for its 10th year anniversary and somehow gotta find time to squeeze in Hogwarts Legacy if I pick it up this month! -
Gears of War 2 - Xbox 360 (2008)
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Great news for the shareholders but that means nothing to the gamers. We hear it every year - ''X game has broken X records and exceeded expectations blah blah and continues to be enjoyed daily by X amount of players blah blah blah with a total of 358728953247592758 bullets being fired waffle waffle waffle we made more than last quarter blady blady blah'' Also of course there is an increase this quarter just gone - the last two were at the tail end of Vanguard on its last legs and when Warzone was fizzling out. The release quarter is always going to bring a huge spike and even corporates surely can work that basic trend out. The fact they've stopped releasing the concurrent active users per game is the most telling part. There probably is considerable panic behind the scenes with MW2 and its ongoing reception but the only way they are going to assure gamers of its true sustainability is by providing content and a clear forwarding roadmap. They can reassure the money men every 3 months that things are going well and will get even better but it's us gamers that deserve to know where the game stands. If games were measured on quarterly success then Diablo Immortal would've been the 3rd best game of 2022.
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Hogwarts Legacy breaks Twitch viewership record with 1.2m viewers Hogwarts Legacy breaks Twitch record amid streamer boycott - Dexerto WWW.DEXERTO.COM Twitch streamers are boycotting Hogwarts Legacy but the game has already smashed a major viewer... The salt must be flowing on Twitter with this development😂
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Gears of War - final part
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Not a huge selection of demos available in this one. I've only played a couple so far and will probably play a few more. Some general picks:- Dark and Darker on Steam STORE.STEAMPOWERED.COM An unforgiving hardcore fantasy FPS dungeon PvPvE adventure. Band together with your friends and use your courage, wits, and cunning to uncover mythical treasures, defeat gruesome monsters, while staying... Broken Arrow on Steam STORE.STEAMPOWERED.COM Broken Arrow is a large-scale real-time modern warfare tactics game. A unique army building system and deep units customisation tools allow for endless replayability. With 200+ realistic military units and... Shadows of Doubt on Steam STORE.STEAMPOWERED.COM An immersive sandbox detective stealth game set in a fully simulated sci-fi noir city of crime and corruption. Think like a private investigator and take on jobs to earn cash on your path to catching a serial killer. If... Pre-purchase System Shock on Steam STORE.STEAMPOWERED.COM A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space! Xenonauts 2 on Steam STORE.STEAMPOWERED.COM Wage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, build a network of covert bases, directly control your fighter wings, and achieve strategic victory in a...
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Remaster releasing next week I never got the original from Sierra because I was mostly playing Age of Empires 2 and Civilization 3 back then but this looks really decent. Anyone have this classic back in the day?
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I love how the site is now being used so people can track which streamer is playing the game so they can go watch, follow and even sub to them. Love it when a plan backfires🤣 It's quite a sensational turn of events really - an extremist feminist now being targeted by other extremists wanting to be what she is but is currently who she despises. I do think a lot of it is taken out of proportion especially when you have further clowns like Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe worsening the tensions online but the trans community really don't help themselves with their approach consisting of positioning themselves as the victim but also making outlandish threats. Really not the way to endear to others especially when they wont listen to others and are too busy trying to 'cancel' people who don't share their way of thinking. What goes around comes around for poor old JK!
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More Gears of War
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Yep, basically people are boycotting the game who weren't going to get it anyway🤣 There's gonna be people seething on Twitter tonight after this game has reviewed well so I can't wait to see that
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EA also cancelled Apex Legends single player last week so the chances of us getting a new Titanfall is also dead in the water. A new Battlefield wont be here until 2025 and there's more chance of Black Ops Cold War getting more content this year than Modern Warfare 2. It's such a shame publishers wont commission FPS games much these days due to competitors yet competition is what this industry needs.
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This has now been picked up by the mainstream which wont bode well for the game here The Day Before trainwreck continues with accusations it's copied other game trailers | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM "The Day Before is the epitome of 'Can I copy your homework?'"
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Pretty ironic seeing that Mark Rubin was the one that took away everything people enjoyed about golden age COD and gave us Ghosts instead with fish AI being his proudest achievement🤣 Anyhow, I'm glad the game is still in development and hasn't been yet another cancellation from Ubisoft. I'm really not sure if the brand is strong enough to capture a decent audience though and no matter how much people hate COD, they will always play that over games that offer a far better experience because it's cawl of dooty and they enjoy being screwed year in year out. Too many of these classic-style FPS games have failed already though and Ubisoft's internal IP's aren't as popular as they think they are to form a game like this. I just hope they can strike while the iron is hot because MW2 is literally edging towards life support on a 2 year cycle and people aren't shying away from shunning games. A good alternative is desperately needed.
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Watch them get a £500,000 fine and a 1pt deduction suspended for a year Manchester City charged with breaking financial rules by Premier League - BBC Sport WWW.BBC.CO.UK The Premier League charges Manchester City with more than 100 breaches of its financial rules following a four-year investigation. Be interesting to see if the EPL and UEFA actually follow through or if they will let them get away with cheating for more than a decade. Only the Italian FA have the balls to take severe action against their own top teams.
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Good reviews coming in and currently 86 on Metacritic. Looks like it will live up to the huge interest it generated which is fantastic!
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Gears of War - Xbox 360 (2006)
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There's taking ideas and references and then there is straight up ripping everything. All the stuff in the trailer(s) can be bought off the shelf from Unreal as it is so from what's been showcased then and up to their 'gameplay extravaganza' is nothing original or of their own creation which is absolutely damning. The good news is that people aren't falling for it like they would've 5+ years ago and be blinded by hype.
