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I thought it a bit strange to announce this to be honest, it didn't really tell you anything about the game other than it's set in the same Divinity world we have seen up to now presumably. It didn't tell us the style of game, is it a Witcher / Elder Scrolls style game or in the same vain of Divinity original sin or Baldurs Gate. It was just a cinematic which could have come from anything really.

I keep buying stuff off there at the moment, feeling at a loss without a handheld so quite excited for my Christmas present this year 😄 I find I get less distracted by who is playing online if I play my single player stuff on the sofa now ^_^

There may be a site that used to be called cdkeys where you can get it just over half that price….

On my list as a would like to get, I played the original back when it came out 20 odd years ago (does not seem that long ago) but yeah that's where the simplicity probably stems from. Dragon Quest XI would be a great choice if you are after something true JRPG / old school combat. That game was brilliant.

So, just starting this thread for any RPG fans on here, I know that is a loose term but I am big into RPG's of all kinds and thought it might be a good thing to start a thread. Post in here what you are after be it combat style, setting or games you have played and you are after something similar and we can recommend games to each other.

If you want a great game akin to this, the other one I would also recommend is Yakuza Like a dragon, the side quests are great fun, the map isn't too large and there is a lot to do across it. The characters are wacky and memorable and the combat is great.

So I realise I have not posted on this since completing it. I just wanted to say this is a brilliant game and a real gem so I advise not sleeping on it. I must admit I did not get the platinum, whether I will one day or not I don't know, I find myself not enjoying the trophy grind at the moment and just want to enjoy the games how I play them. On the game though, it is incredibly atmospheric, the audio and visuals are great and especially as you come to the end the story comes together really well. Just to echo James' point above the game is streamlined and well made, the story flows nicely and there isn't a load of filler, when you compare this to the Final Fantasy VII remake for example you sit there and wonder why they put half the crap in the remakes, why not lower the price, put less crap in and draw a bigger audience.

So I watched the latest season, I appreciate they have deviated from the books and all that but as someone who really enjoys the Witcher universe I still found some enjoyment in the series. I appreciate the need to be true to source material and all that but sometimes you can still enjoy something, a new take or perspective of something if you view it as something new or different. It will be a similar conversation happening with the Harry Potter series when it comes out, when you do enjoy something then watching someone change or alter it can be difficult. It is the same at work, I produce a design and if someone then tries to do something different from it or someone asks me to change it to accomodate them I can get a little precious of it. But yeah just wanted to say the latest series was alright, not dreadful and not world shattering but I did think they did a decent job of the battle on the Yaruga bridge.

I think that is why we have seen things turn a tide in recent weeks, all of a sudden trios has become a bit of a pvp fest because that is all there is really to end game. People have made a game of fighting each other in it but with stats not being tracked and things not being unlocked I do wonder for how much longer they will persist with the game or will we soon see them all drift away.

Trios seems to have descended completely into pvp now, it's not often we don't come across players looking to kill you which is a shame, it makes it a whole different game than playing solos but also makes it more difficult if we want to go after certain machines as a group. I also have only found 1 or 2 blueprints, seems some people have a fair few, is there anywhere in particular to go looking for them?

Will get you added, what are you playing on? We had Greboth and Crispy on last night for the first time too so we have a few newer players which is good.

I think it will get game time but it has come out at a time where there are quite a few new games coming out and a some tough competition, notably Arc Raiders which has took off really well. It is going to struggle to keep the momentum going with a map here and there that have been let's be honest are pretty crap. If that is what they are releasing at this point when they still have a sizeable workforce on the game then just think of the dregs we will be getting in a month or so. Worse still is they are just sections of the Redsec map which show's where yet again they put most of their energy towards and yet again it won't take off for them, you think they would have learned after last time. Battlefield will never be a battle royale.

Tagging @GazzaGarratt as I want to talk about how people are playing this. Lee frustrated the hell out of me last night being completely unaware of his surroundings and going for loot first which in one round led to us being shot at by other players & me getting stamped on by a leaper. I very much play this game cautiously, being fully aware of what is going on in and around where I am exploring first and then I will try to find what I jumped into a game for whatever item or quest that may be. I am almost always turning my camera looking in the sky, listening out for the machines as what can being as one machine catching you out can very quickly due to the noise of combat draw in others and result in you being quickly overrun. To me that is great as the danger is there and every encounter can quickly go South. My frustration with you Lee last night was that you were busy looting when @LordBaguette had just said a couple of times that he was being shot at by raiders, at that point for me it turns the game from a looter into a survival PvP game. That flicks a switch in my head and suddenly you should be playing the game differently and on trios you need your squad otherwise you quickly get overrun but I have a vivid image of you being quite exposed, looting a vehicle with your back to the direction the gunfire was coming from. There is no point picking up loot to be shot in the back because you won't then be extracting with it anyway! I think what it taught me last night is that even when you are part of a squad, don't expect your squad to have your back and going forwards if there are enemies I will be getting into cover or getting out of there and potentially leaving Lee with all his loot to fend for himself. 😄 And we won't get into the fact we had a bombarder right next to us at the church destroying everyone, Lee decides to ignore it and climb up the church anyway to complete his objective not really knowing what he was doing or looking for and Tom decided to attack & kill one of the raiders who were being friendly and fighting it. Only for a few minutes later for said raider to kill him whilst he was reviving Lee who had fallen from the church because he was too fekkin impatient to wait for us to deal with the bombarder first!

This is a much bigger discussion here and you can't just limit this to the gaming industry, then it becomes a question of where does it stop. We all know that 'ai is coming for our jobs', this is literally happening as is evidenced by these calling cards and such. But then if you do it here you have to do it in all industries and then all these big companies and rich people will fight back and before you know it we have some bigger issue being discussed that is not actually dealing with the problem like what happened with Brexit We either embrace AI as a society which means we ensure that everyone has an income or home, food, water security first and then hopefully find roles for people in an AI predominant world or we need to be incredibly strict and limited with AI so that never really fully get's to where it can do. What in reality will happen in my view is the first point won't happen because rich people wouldn't want to be paying in their fair share of tax to support non-rich people and no limits will be placed on AI, as to where we end up then is anyone's guess.

I had not watched a film for a while but sat down and watched the greatest showman with my wife yesterday, I kind of enjoyed it more than I thought I would to be honest.