Luseth

For anyone interested here's my half elf Ranger 🙂 https://www.dndbeyond.com/sheet-pdfs/Luseth_104560492.pdf

So I have ordered this today, imagine it will turn up next week. As it is my first racing game for a long time I am not sure if I will get on with it, I had gone off them somewhat (maybe I got burnt out by being rammed off race tracks in GTA years ago! 😄 ) But yeah I will jump on with you guys in the coming weeks ^_^

I completed the game ^_^ I did contemplate going for the platinum trophy but honestly the last section of the game I raced through as I was getting a bit worn down by it, it is a large game especially if you are doing everything! The side quests are stories in their own I think but they felt that broken up as they were split between chapters if you like that they all got a bit lost, i.e. by the time I got to Lostwings ending I had forgotten what was going on there. The battles looked fantastic throughout and the story is much better than the last few games, you can certainly see the Game of thrones influence. It does currently stand as my game of the year but I feel like there has not been much to fight for the spot anyway as yet this year. Maybe when Baldurs Gate is released it could all change.

For the stick drift reason I am umming and arring over picking one up when a controller fails. Currently I have 3 standard ones, one of which one of the triggers is broke in that it no longer has the resistance to it (button still works) so it will be fine if the kids want to play lego say as they get older. Then 2 that I switch between when batteries are on their way out. I did have the Victrix Pro as well, I liked the idea of having the sticks placed like an xbox controller but in the end I didn't get on with it and a friend had it off me (albeit at a fair loss as there isn't much of a market for selling them on).

Happy for it to be streamed ^_^

Think I set up my character ^_^ Albeit I have not watched any videos and I am pretty sure it would have made sense too! Thought it was quite cool that I could roll the dice for my scores through the web browser rather than just manually putting stuff in ^_^ Going to put one or two on today and have a watch 🙂

I have never played DnD before but have always been interested. If you're happy to teach me as we go I would be up for this 🙂 Any chance we could do 8pm onwards instead? Just means there is no chance of my daughter being awake and disrupting things?

The lab is a lurvley looking dog (one of my favourite breeds), I don't talk about my dog much, partly because she's a pain in the ass and partly because she is a sore reminder of what we lost. My wife bought her as she always had in her head that we would get our first daughter a dog when she grew up. Obviously we lost our first daughter but she got the dog immediately after and it helped her with her grief, the flipside is for me it just reminds me of the little one we lost. That said she is a lovely dog just incredibly needy, anyway here is our Luna, she is a toy cockapoo I think?

I watched it yesterday and I am with you, it was a dreadful presentation, an awful lot of waffle and nothing really on the game mechanics and such. They walked out all these players / ex players and talking about their association with the game, Erling Haaland in pajamas I just thought he looked a bit of a clown I won't lie which is a shame as he generally seems quite a sensible guy in football interviews and such. The talked about the history of the game and it being the biggest sports game and such but that's it, it felt like they were trying to just promote their brand with fc this and fc that but the reality is people just want to see what they have done with the game, have they refreshed it at all with the change in branding or is it just fifa 24 with a different name. This genre really need's a new competitor because their complacency is absurd. I love pro clubs with FG, one of my favourite events of the week but I am really wondering how I can justify 70ish pounds on a game that I play once a week in the current climate.

Wouldn't be the first time a big company has nicked something from a little group and passed it off as their own ^_^

Can't argue with that ^_^

So after chatting through game modes briefly last night I discovered there is a reason why Bounty is my favourite game mode, mainly because on this COD out of 44 matches I have lost just one - My other go to is probably Kill Confirmed as it typically means if you are a team full of camping little fucknuggets then you are going to lose 😄 So yeah what game modes do you enjoy the most? Is there a reason why?

So I don't know if any of you saw it but on Friday there was an AI event in Switzerland, at said event journalists had the opportunity to question several AI robots, questions such as would you rebel against humans and will you replace human jobs cropped up and the responses were scarily conversational - AI robots at world-first press conference have this message for you WWW.SBS.COM.AU Nine humanoid robots who participated in the AI for Good conference say they won't steal jobs or rebel against humans. It is insane how quickly AI is progressing now and I don't see us and our laws and such will keep up fast enough, could we be ruled by ai in 20 - 30 years time? Could they actually solve climate change? I guess the possibilities are endless! Could we be fighting for our survival in the future akin to terminator.

Considering how much money they make on Fifa after the game release through FUT you would think they could lower the prices a bit ^_^ We really need a viable alternative to fifa these days, the game is fine but it does have it's flaws and the lack of competition just means that EA have gotten far too comfortable with things.

So I have refrained from posting up until this point, I am now about 18 hours in and generally I am quite enjoying the game - Story - It is seemingly up there as one of the best FF stories I think, there are questions to be answered to keep you going, the story moves at a nice pace and there are a couple of time jumps so you see the impact of some of the events that have occurred in the story. The story is more mature, there is enough blood and gore to keep you going! Visually it looks fantastic, it really does look next gen, there have been reports of PS5's struggling with some of it but I can't say I have had an issue. My only thought is that those who have had issues, have they been clearing out the fans and such regularly. I will save a few images throughout the course of the game and post them up on completion. It has a nice variety, different areas from desert to jungles, dark gritty dungeons and open green and bright landscapes. Sound - I am not really going to say anything on this one other than it is typical Final Fantasy, this is one aspect of the games they have never really gotten wrong I don't think and it's much the same here. Combat - This is the bit that concerned me on buying it, it's not to my taste i.e. turn based and I still do not understand the direction. Ironically it was intended to appeal more to Western audiences but it sounds like it has gone down quite well in Japan while more Western audiences have been more vocal in their complaints. My view is that Final Fantasy built itself on turn based combat, moving away to this devil may cry style is like Call of Duty going from a shooter to a turn based RPG, it's a whole gameplay style change and not necassarily one fans were calling for. That said I am enjoying it, I would say I am probably about 50% of the way through the game and I will get my money's worth which is always important!

There have been rumblings for a few years that there is another one in the works already so maybe not quite a decade, especially when you consider how quickly they are turning out the FF VII remakes, if they intend to use the same engine and such we could see it before 2030 (if there is one). But who know's with that company, they probably still think NFT's are going to make them billions.

I know it's on the Switch (where I played it) and Steam, would be a good game to play on the steamdeck I reckon ^_^

Welcome aboard, MW is a big feature for a lot of people on here, there tends to be a few on most evenings, are we right to assume you are on PS?

Has anyone else noticed a new skin recently that changes colour? I.e. it turns silvery grey against certain backgrounds? It has caught me out a few times as it can be a bit difficult to spot against say a building for example. I just want to make sure I am not going mad and it is actually a skin of some sort? The reason I ask is because if it is a skin it seems a little pay 2 win to me as it gives a little too good camo in certain maps which always causes concerns for me in a game franchise.

There has been recent discussion around pro consoles and such already but to me it does not feel like the generation has really gotten going (hampered by Covid to some extent). That said after Xbox's reveal the other day I sat and wondered if any of the consoles really jumps out at me this generation. PS5 vs Xbox seems much of a muchness, that said with the Series S it is much more easily attainable by everyone with it's entry price tag. There are a lack of AAA titles anyway and those that are tend to be on both platforms currently with the odd exception i.e. spiderman and errrm maybe Forza for Xbox That said I think I tend to be drawn towards the Switch and even the Steam deck as being the best options this generation, portability with enough power I can slouch on the sofa of an evening and play some great games. So is there anything that really jumps out at you this generation?

We got him there last night 🙂 My first exp was good ^_^ My laptop did not like it though, was kicking a heck of a lot of heat out! I can't imagine playing it on the steamdeck though so it's going to have to suck it up. I think most of my evening was spent just gathering everything and putting it into the storage boxes back at camp, I also set up a 3 square little farming bit out back with the dew collectors to grow some potatos and blueberries 🤣 I am really quite enjoying it, there is loads to do and you can easily all do your little bit towards a community. Oh and we survived night 14 quite easily ^_^ I just need a better bow now so I might go hunting for books / magazines or whatever they are when I am on over the weekend ^_^

So I completed the demo last night and I have pre-ordered the game, it may not have the combat style but the story was dark and gripping and had me wanting to know more. The game had brutal moments, the visuals are fantastic and the audio is spot on, it finally feels like we have a next gen game which I am not sure could have been said up until now (especially with say Forspoken being such a let down). I am quite excited for it now and think most of the games I am midway through will be shelved rather quickly when it turns up

I may get chance to jump on this some point this evening, can I check which server I want to be joining? Is it the unmodded one?

So the demo of this was put up yesterday and I am seeing promising stuff from people's comments on it. I gave it a brief go yesterday and visually it looks great, it has the grandeur you would expect from Final Fantasy games but it also feels a bit more next gen than most games we have had up until now which is promising. I will give it a longer try this evening but it appears more mature in it's story and what is going on and initial suggestions is that the story telling is incredibly improved over the last couple of games which is good. Combat I have only briefly tried, it feels much more like an action RPG rather than a traditional Japanese RPG but that seems to be the direction they want the series to go.

I love anything Star Wars, my only concern is the Ubisoft formula, it was feeling very tired the last few games and if they have applied it here just with a Star Wars skin it's really going to be disappointing. I will be waiting for reviews before buying ^_^