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Looks very impressive - some fabulous environments. Just hope the gameplay can hold up but it does look promising

I've never got these games which is a shame because the developer is based just up the road from me. This one looks pretty interesting

Tom Clancy's name has thankfully be dropped from the brand

Elden Ring sells 12m copies in 3 weeks! What was EA saying about single player games being dead again....?😅

If you couldn't stand this bellend before... Dr Disrespect is selling NFT beta access to his game that does not exist yet | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM The initial round of 10,000 Founders Access Passes will sell for $50 each. What a return to game development where you essentially scam your fans. It's always the millionaires too because getting $10m a year isn't enough right?

Can't believe this is a game - looks like real life

I'm tempted to grab this game as some of the reviews have been very good. It's not a bad price either. I'm kinda looking for something new and refreshing and this may be it.

Paris St-Germain 3-0 Bordeaux: Home fans boo players despite win - BBC Sport WWW.BBC.CO.UK Paris St-Germain fans boo their players despite cruising to victory over Bordeaux in Ligue 1. This was pretty mad. Looks like Neymar, Messi and Mbappe will all depart in the summer. PSG really thought they'd be able to steamroll the Champions League after the biggest transfer window ever on paper but they are full of big egos and ageing players as well as carrying the bottlers tag in the competition. An overhaul is needed top to bottom down there and back to reality they go. No sympathy really with all their money and scummy fans who always go to visiting teams hotels and set off fire alarms, fireworks and play loud music through the night just to keep them awake.

I'll probably just grab it on the PS6 instead when that comes out😎

Jussie saves his worst acting performance for his sentencing🤣

This was an interesting saga that ended almost as soon as it begun - Artesian Builds is a fairly large and widely recognised custom PC building company with links to Intel and some of the biggest streamers. They ran a giveaway in which a small streamer won but they decided to go back on giving away the prize because the winner was deemed not big enough for advertising/exposure purposes that the competition would bring. This generated a massive backlash from customers, the community and even Intel themselves resulting in some spectacular negative publicity globally. The CEO who seems to be an absolute dick gave the most shambolic 'apology' and has since been placed under investigation for tax evasion. Not only this, the company has essentially suspended its operations and will likely collapse with around 50 employees affected. What an absolute shit show - refuse to give someone a PC worth $2,000 that they won legitimately because it wont give your company wider exposure and then have the organisation nuked a couple of weeks later whilst also drawing attention to some internal corruption on top which could lead to federal charges. How hard is it these days to not screw up so spectacularly!? Artesian Builds Shuts Down Indefinitely After Backlash From Twitch Streamers WWW.TECHTIMES.COM Artesian Builds has now shut down after intense backlash for criticizing a small-scale Twitch streamer's following.

This is absolutely hilarious - a few developers have been showing their bitterness at the success of Elden Ring including a Ubisoft one who specialises in user interfaces. Someone made a mock-up of the game as if it was made by them and this is the legendary result... This is absolutely savage and spot-on! Here is the original Tweets

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I did a few times simply because of BS moments rather than playing badly. I always love the difficulty that these games bring and I have never been left angry or frustrated by any of them aside from DS2 but Elden Ring has some really annoying occurrences that can screw the player unfairly. There's many instances particularly with big bosses where if they go into a major animation, you can't hit them and the hitbox proximity they have to execute such moves can be ridiculous. For example, one of the earlier bosses in his second phase has a grab attack and if its animation begins just as you are attacking at the same time then your hit(s) wont register and the AI is free to complete its grab move. In previous games, you can break grab moves and inflict poise damage in the process as a reward for tight engagements but in this game, you can't disrupt such moves because it's an animation that has to be completed. I've seen many content creators rage at things like this and the no-hit players are having to model their skill around avoiding the bullshit rather than mastering the movesets.

One of my most anticipated games in recent years but also one that I am very disappointed in. It does many things well but it is significantly mechanically worse than Bloodborne and Sekiro and almost as broken as Dark Souls 2. 60% of the open world is just barren and there are several copy and pasted places which is a shame. I didn't like the chalice dungeons in Bloodborne and this has many catacomb-areas that are all the same to pad out content. There's is also too much boss bloat so this aspect really loses its uniqueness and the main bosses are really poorly designed despite looking spectacular- their hitboxes are broken, scripted poise based on health over dynamic combat chains and their attacks have insane spread/reach which can be very hard to determine. Even forwarding attacks they miss can hurt you when behind and sometimes they go into animation mode which means they cannot be hit. They also have seemingly infinite stamina. It's definitely a beautiful title at times and if you're new to this type of game/series or enjoy open world ones then such issues may not be brutally apparent but for myself and a few others, there's definitely some design choices and fundamental flaws here. I would have preferred a more linear-based title that had near frame-perfect combat like From Soft have done previous but to me it feels like an unbalanced sandbox with many old issues returning. I will look to trade it in for Gran Turismo 7 next week.

Not too far - done Stormveil and have worked my way down south and done a lot of that. Spent last couple of days just exploring but I may ramp it up a bit now although it's still hard to gauge how strong I am.

One week gone and I have played about 20 hours so far. I've definitely enjoyed my time with the game but there are also things I'm disappointed in. It's most certainly a very beautiful and expansive title but I wish it was semi-open world and a bit more linear like we see traditionally from these developers. Large parts of the land are barren and traversing can become exhausting like we see with other saturated games of this nature. There is definitely a greater sense of discovery and surprise and it's nice not to be relentlessly chasing icons but the same bloat we seen in the likes of Ubisoft games is apparent here especially with some copy and pasted caves/dungeons. The combat is very similar to Dark Souls 3 but after playing Bloodborne and Sekiro, it feels somewhat dated and mechanically inferior. There is also some iffiness with hit detection and the camera being erratic particularly with a volume of enemies on screen. This is made worse on main boss fights when animations are being rapidly processed. The first main boss has invisible walls from going over the edge in effect and the second has infinite stamina, ridiculous move-set flexibility and even animation protection in play. That's literally Dark Souls 2 levels of bulshittery there. There is also a lot of mini-boss bloat too and some strange balance between enemy types in certain places. I'm not entirely sure if I'll finish this but I will continue playing as there's still plenty more to see especially with the main areas. I'm pretty burnt out with most open world games now but there's probably just enough here to keep me going but there is certainly some aspects I don't like as a departure from their previous titles.

Funny how the media are only now picking Abramovich apart after sucking him off for nearly two decades. Every football fan with a brain and even some Chelsea ones knew that he was only fishing for a London football club to gain influence in the city and launder money. Chelsea was also his last port of call because he was told to piss off everywhere else and he's merely a big fish in an even bigger pond in the Kensington SW1 area. There very limited space to expand down there and he's essentially gone nowhere in his time there. If he managed to secure Arsenal or Spurs like was a priority, he would have got a far greater foothold in the capital. Despite investing blood money, breaking all the rules going and being the foundation of corruption in the league, the media bigged him up for years as some sort of loyal icon and savior. He's also claimed he'll donate proceeds to Ukraine but we all know he's trying to swerve sanctions with a gesture only to pocket the cash, off-shore it and then do a runner. Foolish media have fallen for it yet again. Sanction him, let Chelsea bleed their pissy income they get and fuck em all.

I probably wont get this until I've finished Elden Ring but it's definitely something to look forward to.

I was the other way around - I tuned it after 70 minutes after playing games and with the scores being level, the only question was whether Boro would score in normal time or extra time to win😅

Another trophyless Tottenham season then! Embarrassing performance and some of these players are insufferable to watch. I’m beginning to think Emerson Royale isn’t even a footballer and is just a con job by Barcelona. Spurs have little money to invest and no talent coming through either and with players ageing, it’s not looking too good all round.

Funnily enough I found that last night and the place was an absolute godsend for Smithing Stones! I randomly noticed the entrance from above so I thought I'd take a closer look but had to leg it from a giant crab whilst not trying to alert the dragon at the same time🤣

Elden Ring

Decided to try the Tree Sentinel later and instead ran into Margrit at the castle which was worse😂 I think I need to level up myself and weapons a bit more first..