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Rewatched The Intern and then Notting Hill again for the 537th time. I thought The Intern was only a few years old as it feels a fresh happy film...but Tom helped me realise its actually 9 years old. Man....

Easy to feel that and understandable. I'll continue to say though that if we want something to work we have to be relentlessly positive on it and keep pushing it out there.

This is where I probably am given i've had a think about it. I think sometimes we can easily gloss over how amazing Monday Night Football has been such a mainstay here at FG for so long, every single week. I don't think its dead by any means but some juggling around for different nights to play FIFA may help - the only challenge is some people's plans and diaries may not suit this. I think on balance though we do need to find a nice alternative way to keep games like this fresh.

Have I always missed the fact you can light a fire in a house? Thats most likely way warmer then outside! 😅

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*

Mate, I'm so sorry! 🤣🤣 Let's face it, the new young blood put us all to shame!

Well, PS5 Pro is not worth it....but now they made it look shiny and nostalgic, I want this one! 🤣❤️ Its probably not worth the money, but my god it looks gorgeous.

Phew, for a moment I was worried that Chelsea would've missed his contract expiring 👀😅

What in the absolute L was that reveal??! Thats probably the worst Sony one I've ever seen. Nothing about it is even worth it, unless they're saying GTA 6 can only run on that, which I wouldn't be surprised to hear in the future. £700? No disc drive it seems too. I genuinely can't get my head around it all because its the most illogical decision Sony have ever made. Didn't even see any new games to take advantage of it, just old games that I'm likely not going to play again. I may have if Last of Us decided to do the multiplayer, but oh yeah, it got scrapped by Sony 🤷‍♂️ I may have also unexpectedly got hopes up when I heard from Matt the possible rumours of backward capability to PS1 and PS2 original games...but without that slot I can't really even see that happening either! I have no more words in my head other than absolutely dumbfounded by all of this.

I actually thought about buying it from Argos cos of this lol. Personally, I'm rather sad about it all. Probably because I have a soft spot for the developers. Same culture issue we keep coming over and over. The gaming world and gamers can't wait 8 years for an idea to develop into a game these days. I appreciate we may not have wanted another hero game now, but i'd expect theres a good game in their under the hood. Good game, wrong time to execute.

I think this is the thing. I agree with both above. It won't be anywhere near what EA FC does. It looks rough and played very rough in the Beta. I think I'd still try and give it a chance as you hope over time they get it right. Unfortunately no sign or comment on it later after launch. Stuff like this hurts new games to the market.

UFL Release Date pushed back - Now 5th December 2024. The full details on why are below from Strikers Inc.

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.

Send me a Spurs top and I'll be rooting for you all the way mate 😅🤍

🤣🤣 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.

Anyone still playing this here? Feel like most FPS games are taking a tanking at present.

Links 2004 and Halo 1. Links 2004 was by XSN Sports and one of the first OG Xbox live esports games they created. I was in top 100 in the world on that game, I could move a 40-50 yard put left or right super quick and just put it, fast forward, down the putt in one and move on to the next hole. Unreal game and should've played it far more at the time when I was 19. Halo 1 on console was insanely good and probably the only time I felt slightly cocky because I used to play with loads of lads at Uni and come first 80% of the time, 2nd the rest. That Pistol was a thing of beauty. I created a player called God (I cringe at the thought of it now) mainly cos of the other lads saying it. Great times, great laughs. I wish I could remember how to play it now! 😭

There's defintely a few old OG Xbox titles that I would've loved to go back and play but now can't. I always hope for the real big online games that they can somehow create the world instance to work in an offline mode before shutting off servers. It seems a waste to not be able to play a beautiful game just because it needed online servers. Take Destiny 1. One day, they will turn off servers but I hope that they can leave everything updated as a patch, just essentially not allow players to join online with each other, unless its local hosting for PvP which could work. Probably not worth the hassle or money....

I'll let you know if he rages about any bugs. Luckily he's been really happy so far...but that also means he hasn't reached any annoying tough bosses yet 🤣

Dax has told me that this game is already probably the best game he owns right now and he's not half the way through it. He was showing Hayley all the boss fights on YouTube and asking her to rate them. Thats pretty high praise from our house for this game!

Ahhh a prequel 😭 Good job it looks smart. Hopefully as fun as Doom 3 was.

Hope its being going well @WelchyTV!