I can't see how they can ever release Half Life3 A white male protagonist?!?!? It's the current year Valve, get woke... But in all seriousness, HL1 & HL2 are very 'basic' games with the silent protagonist and no cutscenes, and the ability to carry 15 weapons. I fear that any attempt to modernize the...

I've read that a lot of the Bioware recent issues are down to Bioware. True, EA forced the Frostbyte engine on them. The idea being that everyone can share their knowledge... But the Andromeda team never received that hard-won RPG system knowledge from the Dragon Age Inquisition team. So they had to...

Mass Effect isn't about a character, it's about the feel of the universe. The music is what makes half the game. Andromeda didn't feel like Mass Effect to me because of stupid reasons: 1) The crispness of the graphics: I missed the warm-woolly feeling of the trilogy. 2) The music: It just didn't fee...

Howde strangers Just popping in Who's stilll around? Is Usenko still lording his teaching greatness over his berated brother phillip? Is Avis still around and fondling fish? Does CBJ still have a side job as a sex doll unlubricator? ALL i can say is i hope any of the old timers still here have done...

Hey all, I used to follow WH40K quite closely, and paint warhammer and 40K miniatures (like 25 years ago). But when they Marines changed from the pointy-helmet armor to the snub-nosed armor, I kind of disliked the whole new direction the models were going in (they became more caricatures, with chunk...

I go away for 5 minutes and a new game gets released...

I should go away more often...

Hi All, Thanks for all of your suggestions, I'll start investigating. Work has just got crazy, so I'll doubt that I have the time to read for another 2 weeks or so. Gives me a chance to have a look at some of the recommendations. I do have an Ian M Banks book somehwere, Red Mars or something (first ...

I don't play Co-op for a number of reasons .. From what you listed, if you actually think you'd like multiplayer more, you should join a clan/guild/group of people that play the games you like. That way, you will have a pool of people that you can get to know and, hopefully, that all hold to the sa...

I don't play Co-op for a number of reasons 1) I don't have the free time these days, so I'd probably have to quit half way through leaving them in the lurch. 2) I never know when I'm in the country anymore, I'm not installing games on company laptops and relying on hotel wifi. 3) Just being that guy...

Then they did the NGE update (I think it was that, I have no idea, and am only going by what I've watched on Youtube) and you could choose what career path you wanted to do. For me, this was the best thing that could have happened to the game. I thought it was a steaming pile before the NGE. Now yo...

Please help!!!!! I've run out of books. I've reread everything that I want to, and I'm looking for recommendations that don't come from Amazon. "The first page is great! 5 Stars!" "I loved his last book, I hope this is going to be just as good! 5 Stars!" "There was a split infinitive on the second p...

I'm always suspicious of self-published books. You have to wonder--why is the author having to pay to get their book published? Is it because they've sent it to a proper publisher who rejected it for being, well, crap? Given that an author is a really bad judge of how good their own work is (in the...

MY question is, how do you define this as Star Trek? It looks and feels nothing like it. I haven't seen Discovery so I can't comment. But Shatner's Trek is nothing like Deep Space 9... But then I think a lot of people will say that DS9 isn't really 'trek' either... DS9 is my favorite too, but they ...

Anyone else excited for Super Trailer Sunday?

I just wish they didn't keep breaking up the trailers with those football players running around the suspiciously green grass.

It's still my least favorite Star Trek. Out of interest, does that include things like the first season of TNG? I tried to rewatch that semi-recently, and it was excruciating. Wesley had so much makeup on, my wife asked if he was supposed to be human. A lot of Enterprise was pretty poor, as was Voy...

Not exactly a review, just a does of reality in case you are blown away by the stellar reviews. This is XBox One X review. Playing on large 4K monitor. The game starts with a fairly nice character creator, a little awkward and fiddly with a controller. Lots of options, the game was looking promising...

The problem with displaying lyrics is that you might get everyone singing along kareoke style, which is fine for a kiddies showing of Frozen (or a Robbie Williams gig) but not what you are paying good money to go see. I haven't been to a concert/gig in a long LONG time... But that is what happens e...

What are they supposed to say? "Yeah... This is really going to screw us..." Well, frankly, yes. This isn't them trying to pull the wool over the eyes of a few million gullible gamers, this is them talking to their own shareholders about important financial issues, and they could get sued to oblivi...

On another subject that is probably not worth its own thread, ( I don't want to start another political thread, ) When will the point come that the UK's NHS is considered no longer fit for purpose, in the safe hands of the Torries? I ask, because today I was told it would be almost two weeks before...

What's even more interesting is that EA assured their shareholders that pulling the lootbox system wouldn't affect their earnings. So, those times they argued that they *have* to put stuff like this in games because they're so expensive to make? Cobblers, as we all really knew, but it's nice to hav...