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I hope this is the right place to put this … I have started a podcast - The Late Night Gamer Podcast 🎙️🎮🎧 This will be a podcast where I discuss the latest video games news, reviews and previews! The first episode of the podcast is now available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts! Spotify: Apple Podcasts: ‎The Late Night Gamer Podcast on Apple Podcasts PODCASTS.APPLE.COM ‎Leisure · 2024 The plan is for this to be a weekly podcast with episodes lasting between 30-40 minutes each! It would mean the world to me if you could give the first episode a listen and if you enjoy the podcast then please do follow or subscribe on your service of choice and of course send me any feedback you may have or send me questions you would want me to answer in a future episode! I plan on having guests in future episodes and would love to have FG members come through and chat all things video games! 👍🏻 Thanks in advance for listening and I hope you enjoy 💙

I CANT BELIEVE THIS IS REAL!! As a huge Gears fan, this is a dream game for me!! Don’t get me wrong, I was hoping and expecting Gears 6, and I still want that game eventually, but I am so hyped for this prequel! I have a lot of questions such as what and who are they going to use as the ‘main boss’, it obviously can’t be RAAM. Also, the first Gears game starts with Marcus in prison, so will this game end with that happening? It’s 14 years before the original game so I assume not, and assume it will focus on the first few days after E-Day? Either way, from the trailer it looks like they may be going back to the series roots and I really hope they are. Hearing the Mad world tones in the trailer gave me serious goosebumps! Couldn’t be more hyped for this game!!!

I think this looks really cool! I have no history with Perfect Dark but I’m definitely interested in this one! It definitely has the potential to be one those games that looks a lot better than it actually plays, but I’m hopeful it’ll be a good time!

Since my last post, I have gotten really into FUT again 😅 I’ve been sucked back into the loop of completing objectives in order to unlock the objective players, and completing evolutions. I don’t spend any money on packs as EA don’t need any more of my money, so have to get a good team the hard way 🤣 Playing mostly squad battles with some rivals matches here and there. Having a blast again crafting my ‘dream team’! As and Arsenal fan I tend to focus on Arsenal players, you’ll see from my images below I have a premier league team which is my main team for rivals etc, and also an Arsenal team! Just need to add Saka to the team! (The Gabriel from my Arsenal team should now be the 92 version too, the screenshot is a few days old)

Thanks for pointing out the report function, I’ll be sure to use that in future 🫡

Being born in 1993 I didn’t have too much time with video games in the 90’s. That being said, I did have a game boy and a Dreamcast. So I would have to say Pokemon Red/Blue for me, with a shoutout to SoulCalibur too!

Love this topic! There are so many great stories in video games now. It’s hard for me to choose but I would have to go with God of War (2018) and God of War Ragnarok. Some honorable mentions: - Last of Us & Last of us part 2 - Red Dead Redemption 2 - Gears of War 1-3 - Star War Fallen Order & Survivor

I like the idea of a tournament 👀 I don’t always have the time to join the clubs sessions but a tournament could be really cool!

I played and beat Tunic on Xbox Game Pass, fun little game but a bit too hard for me so I had to tone the difficulty right down 🤣 I don’t care for Destiny and I already have EA Sports FC. Really excited about GhostRunner 2 but I still haven’t got around to playing the first one that was on PS Plus a while ago, maybe I push these up the backlog!

Dead Space Remake - screenshots really don’t do this game justice!

Some screenshots from Planet of Lana, beautiful art style!

Wow! They’ve actually released an item for £80?! That’s insane!

As an Arsenal fan, I can’t say I agree with your taste 🤣 but glad you’re enjoying FUT! Question, do you play online or the offline modes? One of the main reasons I don’t enjoy FUT is that I don’t have the time or patience to play enough to be able to keep up with the best teams, so I tend to play the offline modes but get bored of them pretty quickly.

I don’t like the idea of selling season passes as part of deluxe editions etc, especially for games we have no idea are even good or not! Even when God of War 2018, my favourite game of all time, had the sequel Ragnarok coming out I refused to buy any deluxe edition. Just give me my £70 standard version and I’m happy. For Star Wars Outlaws, I want to see a bit more before I commit £70, but I probably will!

Yes, you would be last but you got +5 for getting the Rise of the Ronin score correct!

Second playthrough of Hellblade Senuas Sacrifice completed! Can’t wait for the sequel next month!

So it appears that my screenshots are larger than 10mb which is crazy. Downloaded straight from the Xbox and PS app. I assume they’ve done something to the file size on their end as I haven’t had this issue previously … I’ve found a way to make them much smaller so will try that!

It’s time for an update on the Open Critic challenge! Since the last update we have had 7 games release! Here are their open critic scores: Skull and Bones: 60 Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: 93 Alone in the Dark: 65 Dragons Dogma: 88 Princess Peach: Showtime: 76 Rise of the Ronin: 76 South Park: Snow Day: 61 This means our scores are: @J4MES OX4D = 5 @Andy_White_07 = -3 @Luseth = -4 Me = -6 … 😔 We only have 9 games left on the list, so it’s looking like I’m going to need a miracle to win this!

Has there been a change to the file size we can upload? All of my screenshots are suddenly too large to upload.

I’m still playing this a few times a week with my mate, and I’ve seen some of the FG crew that I have on PSN playing pretty often too!

I have downloaded it on Xbox, first time ever playing a Diablo game. Only played an hour so far so too early to give my thoughts on the game! Not sure if it’s cross play or not? My tag should be WelchyTV#2960 if anyone wants to team up at some point!

Not the most exciting month for me, but I will probably give Immortals of Aveum a try at some point!

There’s a clip online from a former Blizzard developer, I can’t remember what game he was referencing but it was something along the lines of them spending months and months of time, and millions and millions of dollars developing a substantial piece of DLC content (similar to the likes of the upcoming Elden Ring DLC), but when they released it, it made significantly less money than a single simple cosmetic microstransatcion did on World of Warcraft. I’ll try and find the full quote for you as I haven’t summarised it well, but essentially developers move towards microtransactions as they are time and cost efficient, and can often result in significantly more income than a substantial piece of content. My personal view, they don’t bother me as I know I won’t buy them unless I really love the game and want to spend money on that game and developer (I buy the occasional Marvel themed skin on Fortnite). Do they have a place in single player games? Personally I think it’s a bit greedy but at the same time the developers want/need to make a bit more cash, and I know I’m not going to buy them so it doesn’t bother me. My issue comes when they go further than simple cosmetic items, if it’s something that significantly impacts the way the game is played or is pay 2 win on the multiplayer side. I haven’t played Dragons Dogma 2 but if they are charging people to create a new character, then that crosses a line for me. Keep them as fun, cosmetic and non essential items then people can buy them if they want to have them, or can ignore them and carry on playing the game without it affecting them.

Welcome to FG! Hopefully see you online at some point!