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Picked up Shadow Of War last night for the PS4, played about 30 minutes.

Plan to give it a couple of hours tonight. Looks quality and has the great game play of the last with improvements, bigger map, better story (apparently).

There are a lot of negative reviews based around the mircotransactions on single player, its all unfounded. You don't need to get your wallet out and can play and earn points to spend the hard way.

Looking forward to Mario on the Switch this month. Still think Zelda is up there this year.

Still can't believe they haven't released or even begun to make as I am led understand a new Fight Night. I know they have (EA) been concentrating on Poofc but there has to be a massive boxing market still. The last fight night was so good although I did have to trade it in due to RSI in both thumb joints!

eaststandmike said:

DRAddick said:

After building myself a decent PC I've just purchased an Oculus Rift. Wasn't impressed when I looked at it a few years ago, but it's come on leaps and bounds since then.
Got myself Star Trek:Bridge crew to play online with mates soon, should be a laugh. Also "obduction", from the creators of Myst and Riven to those gamers like me of a certain era, is looking amazing.

What spec did you go with DRA, I am thinking about building a PC for my Flight Simulator as apposed to buying one.

I'm currently running a Ryzen 5 1600 and a GTX 1080. To be honest it's over kill for what I use it for now but will run games and vr at high spec for a long while yet. I've also used an RX 580 and that runs everything at high specs just fine. I just have the money available and don't plan on having to upgrade for a good few years especially if i decode to get a bigger definition monitor. I'm using a 34" ultrawide @1080p and happy with that but if I upgrade in the near future I don't have to worry about getting a better gpu.

robroy said:

Picked up Shadow Of War last night for the PS4, played about 30 minutes.

Plan to give it a couple of hours tonight. Looks quality and has the great game play of the last with improvements, bigger map, better story (apparently).

There are a lot of negative reviews based around the mircotransactions on single player, its all unfounded. You don't need to get your wallet out and can play and earn points to spend the hard way.

Looking forward to Mario on the Switch this month. Still think Zelda is up there this year.

I loved Shadows of Morder but won't be getting the new one unless in a huge sale in the future. I'm not gonna support the shitty business practice of designing a game to be an excessive grind in order to try and make people pay more money. Yes you can grind it out but that effects the immersion in the game and the story. Plus hiding the main/real ending behind an even longer grind which you have to complete, or of course simply buy loot boxes, is taking the piss even more. Shame, because it looks like a good game but I have my moral compass with games which includes not supporting a crappy practice, especially by Warner Brothers, one of the most anti consumer games companies out there.

DRAddick said:

robroy said:

Picked up Shadow Of War last night for the PS4, played about 30 minutes.

Plan to give it a couple of hours tonight. Looks quality and has the great game play of the last with improvements, bigger map, better story (apparently).

There are a lot of negative reviews based around the mircotransactions on single player, its all unfounded. You don't need to get your wallet out and can play and earn points to spend the hard way.

Looking forward to Mario on the Switch this month. Still think Zelda is up there this year.

I loved Shadows of Morder but won't be getting the new one unless in a huge sale in the future. I'm not gonna support the shitty business practice of designing a game to be an excessive grind in order to try and make people pay more money. Yes you can grind it out but that effects the immersion in the game and the story. Plus hiding the main/real ending behind an even longer grind which you have to complete, or of course simply buy loot boxes, is taking the piss even more. Shame, because it looks like a good game but I have my moral compass with games which includes not supporting a crappy practice, especially by Warner Brothers, one of the most anti consumer games companies out there.

Fully understand. However, loads of reviews from people that have clocked the game already and said it was similar to the last with no need to purchase anything. So I guess I will find out in the coming weeks.

Nothing will beat Star Wars Battlefield for taking the piss charging £40 for 5 multi player maps and no story! Wankers.

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RDR 2
TLOU 2
GT Sport
AC Origins

Can’t wait for RDR2. Must’ve played through the last one three times now.

re. Micro transactions and loot boxes - it’s about mindset for me. If you can ignore that side, and find a way to play the game without touching the payments, then it’s still worth playing. Shadow of War looks like that’s perfectly feasible.

Dazzler21 said:

Sitting here waiting for RDR2 to download... It's beautiful was at a colleague's desk earlier and they showed me some gameplay they capped yesterday.

#moist

Dazz1er21 on Xbox if anyone fancies a game in future.

Enjoy!

I’ve only got AC Odessy yesterday so will stave off buying RDR2 until after Christmas I reckon.

AC Odessey, RDR2 And Fallout 76 along with Fifa 19 will keep me going for a while

Just managed to drag myself off of Red Dead after god knows how many hours. There is so much to do and I feel like I’ve hardly scratched the surface.

About ten hours into RDR2. It’s amazing.

The joys of being a young gamer and now married with 2 kids. So I put Rdr2 on last night and an hour in i hear crying upstairs from my 2 year old.. so I go check and he's sitting in bed like the exorcist covering himself, bed, furniture and carpet in orange sick!! So after stripping and cleaning everything and getting him settled my 2 month old then shits out his whole body weight! All I wanted to do was get back to shooting people in the face with a rifle and loot their bodies!!!