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One day it was £70 then the Lord blessed me with 50% discount.

2nd best Kart racer ever. Brill game.

The only Crash game where not playing on PlayStation is acceptable

False alarm... they're back again.

*£35.99 Same price at Smyths on PS5 and Xbox.

So close. Happy with joint 3rd.

I'll leave it till The weekend and if nobody else has taken the reins I'll try to set it up... Edited the run down post too.

Let’s get it started! I also scored 6 points for Loco Motive (which is included in my 65 score), one of several indie games that let me down this year. To think that I considered Balatro but dismissed it… I guess it cancels out me getting lucky with Norco last year.

I also saw somewhere that it's around 130GB in size which made me think of GTA6 and how big that'll be. For disc-buying people like myself this is also not so good news because they'd have to press two discs for the PS5 version and three for Xbox and I can't really see Microsoft doing either of these things. So one month of Gamepass it is then. Good trailer though. Shows a lot, but not too much.

Well now I'm leaning towards the God of Mischief. Or Luna Snow, who seems easy to learn the role archetype on.

Meanwhile, this is the most difficult to play Overwatch character: He can swing around like Spidey though, so maybe there's a common link.

Does anyone on here use the points you earn by being a Game Pass member on the rewards? The only ones available at the moment seem to be donating to charities or entering a sweepstake... I hope to god they've not taken away the ability of using them to get credit or extra months of Ultimate. Seems a bit weird tbh...

Reminds me how in FFXIV the black mage class is the hardest class in the game to optimise cause of its slow cast speed and requirement to weave teleports/instacasts during some of its movement. But it's the posterboy class of the game and most of the playerbase simply runs around not doing anything and doing less damage than a healer. I'm pretty traumatised still by this I have to be honest. Now I'm thinking PUG Spideys will be this.

Make the most popular character hard to play, that'll end well. I don't quite see how playing a support would slow down the learning process though. If anything I feel like those roles usually emphasise positioning more because you have to keep enemies, your frontline and your backline sort-of in light of sight most of the time, while also having decent enough map awareness to not sit in a spot where flankers eat you for breakfast. Of course that could also be said about any other class, but those usually only have to respect one bar (enemy health), while you have to pay attention to all of them. Again, I haven't played this game yet, but when I look at how dumb a lot of damage dealers play in Overwatch because they're used to having a tank in front of them and a healing beam up their ass all the time I'd say both tank and support (vanguard and strategist in this game's lingo) are better picks to really understand the ins and outs early on.

Apparently Spiderman is the hardest character to play, speaking of Nero he has a rhythmic combat system where you have to alternate between punches and webs cause the webs debuff enemies defense but they lose the debuff on punch

That's November done and dusted... @radiofloyd scored 14 points for Rise of the Golden Idol and 6 points with Loco Motive. @DisturbedSwan earned 15 points with Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake and 5 points for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. @mmmark scored 4 points with STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl (in turn costing @mfnick 4 points as a counter-pick) Leader board standings... 1 - @Nag - 100 points. 2 - DisturbedSwan - 98 points. 3 - @Nabby9 - 90 points. 3 - mfnick - 90 points. 5- mmmark - 78 points. 6 - radiofloyd - 65 points. 7 - @HandsomeDead - 54 points. 8 - @Jimboxy - 29 points. December releases... HandsomeDead has Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Just as an aside, do people want to do this again next year? I'm happy enough setting one up or Blakey can if he's got the time? If we are we really should get the choice stage done during December...🙂

That was quick https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dragon-Age-Veilguard-Standard-VideoGame/dp/B0DCGDQF1G/

I would like to play a support character in a game like this eventually but I think roles like that I would want a decent enough understanding of the base level of the game first. I prefer playing support in stuff like XIV cause that's what makes you feel like a real superhero, rather than being self-obsessed playing a solo game. I remember hard carrying some random duty finder normal mode raid in FFXIV as a scholar and you're putting out so many fires and pushing the team to victory in a big way

Yeah, because it tries to just mimic other things but fails to replicate them in the same quality there's no real feature here that is worth visiting when it's on sale or even part of a subscription. The setting is cool, as is the soundtrack btw (never really mentioned that but there's some rather unique tracks in the latter game) but as an overall experience there's not much to take away from it unfortunately.

It does look a bit like characters are just flinging stuff at each other and cycle through cooldowns and hope something dies at the other end of the screen. But it's also important to note that nobody really knows what they're doing so far I'd say. I recently played the Overwatch Classic mode and with the knowledge and skillsets of today it was a completely different thing to what we all played on launch day. I did watch a video about Shark Doggo and he seems a bit different to the damage dealers at least. Saw some elements of Paladins, Splatoon and even Bleeding Edge in his kit. Spider-Man looks like a total nuisance though, nobody's going to land a hit on that guy on console.

Watching some gameplay I really hope it has a FOV slider on PC 🤢 Tried to watch the Hawkeye footage on IGN and couldn't get through it or it might not be the FOV as such but the amount of visuals moving on screen at once, hopefully higher framerate on PC helps there

I’m very exciting and unpredictable But actually Spider-Man’s gameplay looks really cool and a type of character I would play normally I said this earlier in the thread that I’m no expert in hero shooters and have barely played them. But this game looks really good to me Maybe it’s just a trailer and maybe it’s Marvel but I genuinely think this game looks really cool

Wow I'm really surprised maf wants to play as Spiderman Looking at the trailers, Hawkeye seems cool. He can parry and knockback stuff with his knives, sort of feels like a zoner guy. Sorry Squirrel Girl That said I feel like there's something missing in these trailers, they sort of make all the characters seem really repetitive in gamestyles Spidey seems the closest you get to a Nero-esque DMC character. High mobility, pulls enemies in and launches them for air combos

I went and tried that Mouthwashing game. It's a visually interesting psychological horror that will take you about 2 and a half hours to complete. Emphasis on the 'psychological', and it has a non-linear fragmented narrative that uses its absence of context (at first) to slowly reveal what's going on. It's about 5 members on a space tanker or something, similar setup to Alien but not quite a similar story. It crashes into an asteroid for some reason and things get fucked up by that and off it goes. I'm putting it in the bucket tho as even tho it looks cool I don't really think the game is that thematically that interesting, nor gameplay wise to create a proper thread for. Its storytelling is too obvious with what it's going for, considering the cool techniques it's trying to use. I will say though it has some pretty good scares, it's rare you find a game which finds surprising ways to do spooky scenes. (now Cruelty Squad on the other hand, why didn't I create a thread for that game, it's so good)