DisturbedSwan

I feel exactly the same way, I think this being released in October is a sign that Sony have nothing much coming out for the rest of the year apart from Until Dawn.

Yeah, it's an incredible CE and takes pride of place on my gaming shelf, actually bought it without the game a few years after it came out (and about a month or so after I finished it), loved F3 so much I just had to go out and get that CE. Pre-ordered the Standard edition on ShopTo for PC for £36ish, will probably cancel it as it's up on CDKeys now, £27.99, that's more like it Not pre-purchasing without a release date first though...hopefully we'll get one of those at E3...interesting that CDKeys' site says the key is expected "before 31st December 2015" Really shouldn't be getting my hopes up at a 2015 release date, it's just a lot of stuff is pointing towards it...

I'd say 1 and 2 are pretty amazing, I'd skip 3 though, thought it was pretty mediocre by comparison to the others.

Uhhh god, more Remastered last-gen games

Got a Steam code for Shogun 2: Total War on PC if anyone wants it? Edit: Now gone.

Finished it today, 72 hours played, Level 35. This is the game that CD Projekt Red always wanted to create for sure, The Witcher and The Witcher 2 weren't bad games in their own right, but I get the feeling CDPR were hampered by development costs and budgeting issues on those games, therefore they couldn't quite create the open-world Witcher game they'd always wanted to and had to create something slightly more linear and story based, with hubs of playing areas rather than an endless world. The world of The Witcher 3 is like if Christopher Nolan made a fantasy film, it's this dark, gritty, war-ravaged world where there's no heroes, just different scheming characters with their own set agendas and ideas, where to save a few you may have to slaughter many. It's almost like a low-fantasy world, akin to something like Game of Thrones, as opposed to a world like Dragon Age: Inquisition's which I'd consider a high fantasy world, everything feels grounded in The Witcher 3, believable, with a melancholy permeating the world, it is easily comparable to something like Game of Thrones with Monsters. The side-quests give a lot of weight to proceedings, in RPGs I usually judge them by the strength of the world they've created and secondly by the strength of the side-quests, the side-stories if you like, that divert your attention from the main story-questline of the game, all of my favourite RPGs I've enjoyed the side-quests far more than the main story-questline and it ended up as more of a distraction to get finished than a cohesive cinematic story to get your teeth into. There are some truly amazing side-quests that CDPR have thrown in there, but not many live upto the heights of Skyrim or Fallout 3's stellar side-quests. CDPR do a far better job than Bethesda (in Fallout 3 and TES:Skyrim) in their story questline but it still falls slightly short, the first half is incredibly entertaining but it all goes a bit confusing for the last half and descends into nonsense, it's still far more entertaining than TES:Skyrim, Fallout 3 or Dragon Age: Inquisition's story but it still ends up feeling a bit flat in the end, even though there are some stellar quests throughout that are truly cinematic and bombastic in nature. Quite simply, the best Western-RPG I've played since Skyrim. 9/10

Apparently this may be coming THIS YEAR!

Been invited upto London on the 16th-18th June to play this as part of the AS:S tour...£23 for a train upto London incl. Travelcard, I want to play it but don't know if it's worth that money...

Well, on the face of it PS4 may be better for frame-rate and resolution, but I know that doesn't bother you, so just go with your heart! Couldn't disagree more. I liked F3, it was a shot in the arm, but New Vegas does the world, story, and some of the scenarios better. Not to mention the dlc and how involved that was Fair enough, I know a lot of people share your opinion, I just personally got nothing from New Vegas, I felt the story was a convoluted mess that I just couldn't care about, the side-quests uninspiring and the world dull and lacking character, I played for 35 hours and just couldn't play anymore, I was so incredibly bored with it. For me RPGs are defined by their worlds, and I just adored the Capitol Wasteland, it was such an incredible place to explore, with all the historical depth, all these famous (now decrepit) landmarks to explore, I just found it much more vivid and interesting than the Desert of New Vegas, all the side-quests in F3 as well were so memorable, I have so many fond memories of that game but my only lasting one of NV is sheer boredom I'm afraid. I respect Obsidian though, they're a decent studio that have made some incredible RPGs (Pillars is my highlight though probably) over the years, and I'd love them to develop an open-world RPG of their own to explore, but for F4, I'm just so pleased that the A-Team of Bethesda GS are on the job.

June - updated Yoshi's Woolly World with Woolly Green Yoshi amiibo Bundle (Wii U) - £43.51 Sim City 2000: Special Edition (PC) - £0.00 Jade Empire: Special Edition (PC) - £1.99 Fallout Classic Collection (PC) - £8.39 Yooka-Laylee Deluxe Edition (PC) - £30 Back to the Future: The Game (PC) - £2.39 (GOG) Gex (PC) - £1.29 (GOG) Far Cry 2: Fortune's Edition (PC) - £1.69 (GOG) Divinity 2: Developer's Cut (PC) - £2.69 (GOG) Two Fallout 4 T-Shirts - £34 (Incl. shipping)

Yeah, the XP I was getting for the main story-quests yesterday were absolutely ridiculous, don't know if it's just because I'm playing on Easy that I get more than usual or what but I went from Level 23 to 31 in 5 hours the XP was ridiculous, kept popping up like '1000XP gained' after the main story-quests, pretty absurd really, level has absolutely sky-rocketed. Played 3 hours today, just exclusively stuck to side-quests, Witcher Contracts and a Treasure Hunt that I had left on my quest-log, completed all the Witcher Contracts available and got the 'chievo and also became brawling Champion of Champions or something, pretty cool as well and you get some decent rewards for doing so, lots of cool side-quests mainly in Skellige, and a fantastic one in Novigrad that hearkened back to TW2's plot somewhat. Finished everything I had left on my quest-log (apart from the Gwent quests as I'm incredibly shit at Gwent) and will continue on to the remaining few main story-quests tonight, may even finish it, crazy Now Level 33, 68 hours played in total.

Fallout-FUCKING-4 absolutely UNREAL Some people on twitter going on about not being excited about it because Obsidian aren't doing it, the guys at Obsidian are decent folk and I loved Pillars but New Vegas is dogshite compared to F3. Have you recently had a labotomy? honestly no idea how people can't be excited for this, it baffles me, unless, of course you hate all Bethesda RPGs that have come out before, then I can see the reason for your lack of enjoyment.

Another 5 hours on here yesterday and today. Just did entirely story-questline quests today to try to make a bit of headway, ended up getting quite a bit done and I think now I am actually pretty close to the end, may even finish it tomorrow if I exclusively do story-questline quests again, don't know whether to do that or go back and mop up the 10ish contracts and side-quests I've got left, guess I'll decide tomorrow, can always do them after the main questline is over, but I don't know whether I'll have the motivation to do so or not. Won't give anything away but the story has gone a bit confusing now and is far less interesting than in the first half of the game, I'm still enjoying it though and will see it through to its conclusion, some great quests along the way. Now Level 31, 65 hours total.

Developer: Bethesda Game Studios Publisher: Bethesda Platform: XB1, PS4, PC Release Date: TBA IT'S HAPPENING!!!! http://fallout.bethsoft.com/ First official trailer: CAN'T FUCKING BELIEVE IT, THE DAY I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR SINCE PLAYING THROUGH FALLOUT 3 IN THE SUMMER OF 2010! FALLOUT-FUCKING-FOUR!!!!!!! Quite frankly, if you can't get excited about a sequel to Blakey's favourite game of all time, made by the King's of RPGs in Bethesda Game Studios, you need your heads examined, Fallout-FUCKING-four!!!!!!

Yeah, I picked it up on release as well, but won't be getting round to it for quite some time still I'd imagine, hoping to wedge it in after TW3 and before Batman:AK.

New Driver update from Nvidia been giving me major problems tonight. Game has been absolutely fine for probably about 50 hours now, only had it black screen hard-crash a few times at Kaer Morhen at the very start of the game when I (probably) had the settings up too high, had it stall a bit in the menus since then but that was a known bug with the game and was easy to ALT + TAB out of, returned back to today in the story and it started crashing again, once was just after a cutscene and then another 3 times after that when I was out on missions...I looked in the graphics settings in the pause menu and I swear there are new options added in there that I didn't see before, fiddled around with them, set the post-processing stuff to the Medium preset and the Graphics stuff to the High preset went back to the game and carried on for about 20 minutes or so without any problems so hopefully that's resolved it...weird though, was running absolutely perfectly on the previous yesterday afternoon... Now Level 23, 60 hours in, current quest is looked it up and you're right, Nag, these are some of the first quests in Act 2 according to a quick skim-read of a walkthrough I just found on google so I'd imagine I've probably got at the very least another 10 hours of main quest-line to go, just hope the crashing doesn't return otherwise I may have to wait for a patch or the next Nvidia driver update or something...had a scare earlier where it said my save data was corrupted when I tried to load back in after booting up the PC again after a crash, luckily it was just the autosave checkpoint save that was corrupted and I could happily load a slightly later manual save.

Yeah, got the icon in my taskbar now....kinda wanted to wait to see what W10 is like with bugs and compatibility issues before taking the plunge and upgrading but I guess it can't hurt to reserve it ready for July 29th.

Not got any notification myself, sure you're not in the Beta program, Sly?

been doing a load of the Skellige side-quests and contracts today though, quite a few today, a few greyed out, a few green (although I didn't seem to get much XP from them...) 58 hours in, Level 22. Will put a couple more hours in early tomorrow morning.

I assume you're talking about some bits of it were pretty dark I agree, loved that quest-line. I'm now 55 hours in, Level 22. Done a load of Contracts, Side-Quests and a few Main-Quests on Skellige today, working through my back-log, started off doing the lowest I could (grey) although it's pretty pointless, and a couple of greens, after this I realised that the main quest I was pretty much ignoring was greyed out as well (no main quest xp!) so I thought, well I really should do a few of these to get it so I can earn XP on the main-quests at least, so did about 4 or 5 of these, absolutely brilliant missions again and got the infamous Unicorn sex-scene got the feeling I'm quite near the end with the main-questline, so I've no idea if I should just do all the side-quests and forget about getting XP from the main, or the other way round really, I know if I finish off the main-questline first then I probably won't go back to mop up my remaining side-quests.

Donnie Darko is an awesome film, loved it when I first saw it and loved it on repeat viewing. My suggestion for next week would be The Hunt starring Mads Mikkelson.

I'm 51 hours in now, Level 20 and just finished reading all the noticeboards around Skellige, not sure if there's much point in doing the quests that are greyed out now (no XP I don't think) but I did a couple of them anyway just because they're so damn good. Skellige itself, I'm not sure what to make of, the scenery is absolutely jaw-dropping at times, but can't help thinking it's a tad more generic design-wise than Velen. Velen felt like this uniquely Witcher world, one of death, depravity and desperation, gripped in war and woe but Skellige just feels a bit like, well, Skyrim really...nothing wrong with that, Skyrim's a fantastic game, but I can't help feel a teensy bit disappointed with it, it definitely has a sense of awe and wonder about it though, I'll give it that, and that song that plays, absolutely spine-tingling, just perfect for that world.

Yeah it's pretty gutting, I keep getting little magical trinkets from side-quests, exploration and stuff and Geralt keeps saying rubs it in everytime! Oh well, I got a kiss, I suppose! 46 hours played now, Level 19. Finished off the side-quests I had left in Novigrad, did a Witcher contract to take out a Royal Vyvern (piece of piss) then I went round exploring the ???s, found this hilarious side-quest involving mouldy cheese will go round and discover the rest of the ???s in Velen, finish off any side-quests I can do and then finally move onto Skellige I think.

I bloody love title sequences, they get me in the mood for that show, OITNB's title and song are awesome so I don't mind hearing it every time, House of Cards goes on a bit I guess. They still do the 'skip the title sequence' thing though, but I think it only happens if you watch a certain number of episodes in a row.