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When typing up one of my posts yesterday it got me thinking about the potential of games being released this year. One frustrating thing with today's long dev times is that big titles tend to all hit in the same time frame and then we have years of smaller indie titles and such. So this thread is just to discuss what you are excited for in the gaming world this year and why?

Sadly it's like everything people need to use it or lose it so to speak! It's the same story with high streets, pubs, Shops, local authority facilities. I have gone a bit backwards on everything recently, you need to take care of the things you have or one day it won't be there anymore. (Heck it's the same with the planet). But for some reason people do not seem to understand it and only moan once things are gone!

I couldn't see a thread for this which surprises me. It seem's to be our surprise new game recently, 6v6, fluid combat in the Overwatch style. There seem's to be a few of us giving this a go so come this year I can see it getting some use! This thread is to ask about people's favourite characters, any tips and tricks for anyone struggling to find their feet and also to talk competitive nights. I think it might be good to create some events and get a full squad of 6 on the go as co-ordination on these game's can really send things your way! So to kick this off I am going to make a suggestion for new players for each class - Tank - Hulk - Easy to get to grips with, has a great deal of health and his Ult just allows you to charge in and attack like mad (Click the sticks in for an entertaining move on enemies if they are close enough). Don't forget when you die as Hulk you turn into Banner, if you keep your distance he can deal a fair amount of damage with his Gun DPS - Punisher - For anyone who has played a shooter before he is the character to use. Simple, has the choice of machine gun or Shotgun and can deal a fair amount of damage. His ult can clear out a whole team with it's rockets and using positioning his turret cleverly can allow you to deal huge amounts of damage. Healer - I think this is a tricky one, there are definately some good one's but I think for a new player I would suggest Jeff the land shark. He can spray and pray so to speak to heal and launch out little water bubbles that players can run through to heal.

Giving this thread a nudge as I have been playing this over the Christmas break with my wife. She love's games like this and generally the only sort she will play but I have been enjoying using it to wind down after hectic day's with the kids! The multiplayer works well albeit there seem's to be a glitch in the mines for player 1 where it all freezes up and you have to leave the mine and re-enter which can be a bit rubbish! I just got our first bit of Irridium which was a pain the first time, I imagine next time will be a bit easier as I have a few Crystalarium's producing Jade for staircases now! We completed the Community Centre, now I am just getting the boat done to head off to Ginger Island and then converting the old Jo-Jo mart which I believe become's a Cinema? Anyway yeah this game is as great as ever. Another note is that it also exceed 41 million purchases last year I believe which is a phenmonal achievement considering where it started!

So I have mentioned a few times I am a big fan of JRPGS, the second half of last year saw a number of big titles be released and I opted to pick up more multiplayer titles for FG. As hardly anyone is ever on here I won't be doing that again for a while. We also have some big single player games coming out this year hopefully! So I have begun this year with Visions of Mana and what a game it has been so far. For anyone that played the original Secret of Mana back on the Snes you have a little idea of what to expect here. However it is very much creating it's own identity, it's a big open world which is always difficult these day's as it is finding time to sink into it. But it is colourful and brilliant to look at, the enemies are reminescent of something out of Dragon Quest and the combat is quite fluid. Then the bit that has me a little more excited is the story, this has begun as a story of Square of old, some unexpected twists and turns, a great big adventure, character development as they deal with decisions made or problems created. The characters are great and the class system is really good. I think if anyone here has ever had an inkling to play a JRPG in recent years this one is definately worth a look. Moreso over the likes of the Final Fantasy remakes and such I feel.

If I wasn't skint I may have picked this up but Christmas is expensive and I have a big car bill coming up! Maybe next month if it continues to do well.

Ah fair enough, I can obviously convert them when needed. It would have just removed a step for me ^_^

@GazzaGarratt any chance you could make it so event cover photos can use other image types? Webp seem's to be most common at the moment to find so might be worth incorporating here?

I have installed this now, this was the update I was somewhat expecting & waiting for so I will get this going the weekend. Probably be playing it on my Series S so I will also update you on performance and such as well.

As a few of you have families and would have done holidays abroad. My kids have yet to leave this country and I have every intention of taking them on a plane next year. What I have yet to settle on is where so I am seeing if anyone has some suggestions. We have been to a fair number of places in Spain, France, Italy & Greece so somewhere new is always nice. I have been looking at Hague in the Netherlands but if anyone has any other places to suggest I would appreciate it. I think it might be difficult balancing the culture which is what my wife and I would enjoy with the sun / family esque side of things needed for the kids.

I always liked Druss but I am not sure he would appeal to the mainstream so much. There were certainly some great battles though from memory, when it comes to reading I can generally conjure up the images in my head of what's going on so I may have be remembering grander battles and such than what actually happened. A pet love for me as well are the Tales of Redwall books, I loved these when I was younger and it brought the traditional fantasy style of books into something you could relate to a little more with Otters, badgers & mice as the main characters. These should be a TV series at some point.

I have yet to read Eddings' books, I have a load of them on my shelf. I would like to think maybe some of Gemmel's? I feel like Waylander's story could be told well via a tv series, it has a great redemption story and they could look at how they develop him on screen going from the immoral assassin.

Have just had this on this week, I think the story is half decent. The issue is we think of Lord of the rings being grander in scale, huge quest to save the world, huge battles with Nazgul and trolls and mighty warriors. This series is enjoyable but it does not have the same grandeur. In fact everyone fondly remembers the original trilogy yet I don't believe Tolkien was a fan of the films at all.

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I like this series and will play this one. I never understand why the release around the same time as GTA, surely it would benefit from being released a year or 2 away from a GTA launch?

I saw this earlier. Looks like rush though rather than a full football game. It looks like something I wouldn’t mind trying

Let's be honest, this is going to be great, the question is how great? Does it live up to the Witcher 3 which is to be fair still my number 1 game. I put a lot of hours into that and intend to go back in the new year! Ciri as the protagonist is not surprising, what is though is that she is using witcher spells and drinking witcher potions, the lore has always said that a witcher can only ever be male so they are going to have to go into that a little bit. I imagine it will be down to her blood I suppose. New voice actress? And it looks great but you always have to take cinematic trailers with a pinch of salt as so often we have been burnt by them in the past.

It looks good however I do feel it is in a space somewhat over populated at the moment. It will be interesting to see where this really goes as I am not convinced the trailer show's really what we are getting.

I loved the original films so will definately be giving this a watch. I have avoided must of the trailers and such though as I would like to go in blind on this one ^_^

These aren't in order because I don't think there is a lot between them for me - - Astrobot - Dragon Age Veilguard - Romancing Saga 2 - Helldivers 2 - Unicorn Overlord

This isn't a tongue in cheek following last nights antics but genuinely serious. I think most mobile phones are generally the same, the OS isn't really too far apart except android is more open than IOS. If I wanted to buy the top of the range iphone or samsung they would be about the same price and have very similar specs as far as I am aware. If I wanted options of cheaper phones then Android makes sense but it's not really on the cards currently. However I have my phone contract ending over christmas and was thinking of giving mine to my wife and picking up a new one as her's is a bit crap. I like my iphone, it's familiar, I have my photos and e-mails and everything synced between my phone and ipad (which I have no intention of swapping out for an android) and cloud share with the family which makes it easy to share photos and such as well. So to me currently as far as I am concerned it would make life harder being apart from the same OS as my wife. So tell me why android is better?