GazzaGarratt

Get in there, my team finally bounced back after last week! Although I think it helped that @Baabcat 's team had a stinker 🤣 Matty @Misneach_ , how do you keep on sneaking these wins?!! You can have a good week against you and you'll still just pull through ffs!!

You just hate the fact that its more special than Chris 😎 ....and i'm loving the fact that this keeps on going. It is very much fun watching the Chris' and Dave's trying to go for the top spot at FG. The 'Chris' argument recently seems to have turned the tide with it being 13-12 in their favour.

Ahh happy birthday John!! Hope you had a great day and now looking forward to hearing what you're getting! 🥰🤗

Let's get a thread going to capture initial impressions from your first few matches (if you manage to have success with the servers that is!). Thoughts below! 🔽🔽🔽

I'll come out and say it - I don't get what all the fuss is about Chris Pratt's voice. I think it sounds fine for the few words he says. If you watch Sonic, no one really is bothered about his voice and it works well in the film. I'd say lets see how the film goes when it gets here. From that trailer though, even being a Sega fan more than Nintendo, I'm looking forward to its release. I'm just a big kid when it comes to these films, I love an easy fun watch. Any early thoughts?

Well, you better get convincing more FGers that haven't voted yet @Greboth, @MrBiron , cos right now you're both insignificant to all the Dave's in the house.

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Favourite ever Western for me @J4MES OX4D . Val Kilmer's best ever performance for me too.

I loved going there - it was my favourite place to visit if my Grandad took me out...always knew where the games were and tried hard to try and get one of the yellow slips on the way round to get a new game. Ah, memories ❤️

Briefly tried to login last night after footy - takes forever and you can get told the servers are down. Funnily enough as I wasn't doing much I let it re-search and 20 mins later it popped up. Didn't try it by then but its clear to see server issues are an absolute nightmare. They have had an astronomical number try to play this since launch and no surprise since they went F2P. Hopeful to get more of us on it to try it over the next few days and we get some impression threads out there.

Try again mate and if you can't, send me some screenshots....can't have this poll ever being closed! 😄

The Trolling Dave Server. I like it. 😉

Added to Steam Wishlist. Detail looks incredible and I like the chillness of it but can scale up to an intense game if you want it to be that.

I love the fact this poll is still up and close as ever! I also would think another new Chris @Bubblybrooko may turn the tide against all the Dave's?!

No one is, its actually a great discussion and if we all agreed it wouldn't be a discussion! 😉 Sometimes Iwill word things as factual as they are, although it will feel like i'm saying its not the producers fault, which it defo it is some departments. If you come back to your part you want to focus on which is game production quality, then you have to realise the gaming customers culture and behaviour has changed dramatically. Most here want games to knock ourselves out but that takes time. Gamers today seem to not have 'time' to wait for development, which is crazy but it flows into other things - looking at you TikTok. Thats why Indie games are surging recently because they can be knocked out far quicker than AAA games as we once knew them. Mobile games too are surging because of the ease to pick up and play. You also have to consider game mechanics and gamer behaviour around the playloop. We want variety and thats hard to build brand new content in every game to give the user a different new experience everytime - usually you see it games that take years to develop, which is why we are still playing those games as they can evolve those by patching in new content every so often. Games that are successful today, get that Playloop working really well hidden under the graphics and functions of a game. You won't see brand new genres as much now because its all been done. So its down to variations that we get pulled to. Just like Music as we're now in the 2nd cycle of music being rehashed from original music into something new. Very rare you come across very original new music content, as there are only so many chords and ways to create it. This all being said, if it was about next gen in terms of what I have 'liked', it is the new Haptic controller idea which works well on certain games. The loading feels like a crappy benefit to receive but its funny if we tried to go back and play games like Gran Turismo and Destiny on an old PS4, the loading times would be insanely slow and probably make us drop off the game quicker.

Looking back what I wrote, I'm sure that Sony have some faults because of their connections to their own developer companies. However, I don't use Switch games as a comparison, because Nintendo have their own unique exclusives and far less of them over the years. Their model of quality over quantity is far superior to other consoles, its just we all love to have more games 😉 The market within 10 years is going to be more about VR and AR, thats been inevitable for a while. Unfortunately, i'm with you and I don't entirely enjoy VR games, but it is something the next generation are growing up with. You only have to ask @tronic44 about Augmented Reality becoming the next big thing. Its quite a way off but its getting there. Looking forward to trying to the Magic Leap out in November to see how much it has advanced. Everything is cyclical. Microsoft were way ahead when the OG Xbox came out, and eventually some years later Sony took control with the PS4 and their exclusives. It takes some years because games take time to develop in their strategies. I think now we're just seeing the natural closeness because technology doesn't grow as quick as it used too. I mean, our eyes can only see as good as they can....mine probably doesn't see much difference after HD now! 😅

I'd agree - however, I'm not sure its Sony's fault. Its next generation games and developers that seem to be not be able to unlock something truly amazing. However tldr is 2 things - 1) As we get near top end graphics, the jumps get smaller like @Tar-Eruntalion said, and 2) gamers expectations change so ppl dont wanna wait 7 years for development of a game anymore. Can't have the entire cake and eat it type of scenario me thinks.

I still have Escape From Tarkov to play before this and I'd suggest that you look at that too. @phil bottle will kill me otherwise 😅

Nice to see so much interest on this! As I believe you play the story progression on whoever is the main party leader, theres chances we can have multiple games going at once which i'm cool with. Its defo a weekend game for me - I'll try and set a few sessions up and lets go from there! Happy to try crossplay too if that helps anyone 🙂

Just making sure we have this captured somewhere as it'll be their next title in the series after Mirage. Clearly going to Japan, as a potential Shinobi - something I don't believe they have done before so seems like a great idea if you ask me. When they did Pirates in Black Flag, it really worked due to the completely work away from the usual pattern of stealthy medievel people you played. Similar to Origins in Egypt but I haven't played that one, just heard good things from FGers. Not much more detail I can find just yet, or even a date when its likely to hit us.