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So I had not planned to with selling the house currently but I generally can't resist a console launch. Got up launch day morning and thought I would have a look at the Argos near me, lo and behold they had some in stock so now I am a happy owner of a new console and the new mario kart. I have only briefly played it thus far and will give it some more time the weekend but initial thoughts. So the biggest thing I have noticed so far really is the quality of life improvements, this console is very much an improvement on the original Switch which in itself was a great console. The larger screen, the HDR, the joycons feel better build quality and the device itself feels more premium. Then the eshop works immensely better than it does on the OG, it was always my biggest gripe with the OG console and the lending of virtual games, I intend to package up my OLED and give it to the kids for Christmas this year. Setting up the family and being able to lend them games will be great, it suddenly gives them quite a large library of games to play straight off without faffing about so much with primary and secondary consoles and such. Mario Kart seemed fun as it always does, the open world aspect seems a bit of a bolt on rather than a key feature of the game which is surprising. I was expecting a more Forza type experience if I'm being honest. I have also continued my Pokemon playthrough on this and it is noticeably better in terms of performance and visuals. I think the big test for me is I am yet to play tears of the kingdom, I think I will pay the 7.99 upgrade and give that a go and see how it looks and how that performs over the weekend.

Visually it looks brilliant, I just wonder how the series will cope moving onto a new protaginist. Though we know Ciri's story for some we have had 3 games of Geralt's character development and seeing a whole story arc go through it's motions. I think it will rest on the writer's somewhat who presumably have created a whole new story for the next chapter of the Witcher games. That said I will be diving right into this as the third game is still my favourite to date despite the clunky combat.

I would like to get it but I think my issue is time as well, my weeknights are mostly filled up with one thing or other at the moment gaming with various people and this is one of those I have a feeling I would be playing on my own and I only get a night or 2 for that sort of gaming ^_^ Maybe pick it up but I don't know when and I will wait for initial reviews on launch.

Unfortunately I had issues with my machine and lost the 2 weeks before this Monday just gone. I have updated with this week's stats though and just wanted to say well played all, there were some cracking results and 9-1 in a pro clubs match in Division 2 is not something we have done in a long while, well done on you all sitting forwards for that one!

I did not try it but a friend of mine did, he had glowing things to say about it. That said I don't know if some of the current hype may partly down to people's frustrations with Fifa (I will continue to call it so). To me this is a better version of Rush, Pro clubs is great because of the numbers we can include but when you only have 3 or 4 (5 in this instance) sometimes you want something simpler and this could give us that. I have every intention of picking this up, you can't buy many games at launch for only £20 and let's be honest we don't need a lot of game time on it to get our money's worth! I feel it could be the game to scratch the itch when we sometimes jump on, on a Sunday evening and things like that and we can keep our Monday's (or pick a new day) for our larger groups.

Stats have been updated again, this includes stats from last week and the week a little while back that Ant noted down for me 🙂

You are only allowed to play that class if you roleplay as such and create videos for all of FG to watch

Definately a cash grab on people who have never bought into the Xbox ecosystem, can't see any other reason for it. The current remaster play's fairly well so I don't understand why you would pick this up unless you had just solely stayed on playstation. I do wonder if we may see this released on the Switch 2 as well?

I have too many games to play at the moment unfortunately, this and Clair Obscur both got a little gametime but I have opted to complete games I have on the go currently before coming back to them. Both certainly hit the right spots though!

I mean when you consider the reports of the RAGE engine it's meant to be better than Unreal 5 and Unreal 5 is pretty incredible so there is every possibility that yes it will ^_^ Even if it turn's out to be £100 I think I will be ok playing that pending reading a few reviews, when I consider how many hours I put into the last GTA and it would be a game I play for 5 years ish with online then it would still be fairly good value for money. I think that's how I need to start looking at games more to justify the price increases and actually think twice before buying games I'm not sure I will enjoy until they arrive on one of the subscription services or something.

Stats updated from last week, sorry for the delay guys!

With all of the leaks proving to be true I would be very surprised if it's not dropped on the store straight after the reveal. I do wonder though if they may make it a timed thing i.e. it won't come to game pass for 2 months or something to instigate some sales from those over eager to play it. I loved this game originally so quite excited for it but have enough to play at the moment, be interesting to see if it comes to Playstation at all and if so again will there be a delay on the PS release.

Must admit I always enjoy clubs even with some of the rubbish evenings we get, we generally have a good laugh and chat about shit. No other game really offers the same experience as we don't really have a game where we are all on the same team competing against everyone or everything else! Anyway stats have been updated, sorry for the last few weeks being delayed!

Would you mind sorting me a link Greboth? I was thinking of booting this up again with my daughter and it might be nice to play on the FG one rather than have a seperate one running if that's ok?