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And @LeoGrun, I need you to stop poking fun at @CawayGeway. Yes, even I and my fellow moderator @The Blackangel had a little fun with this at first and your posts have made me chuckle, but this has evolved from something comically odd to something more concerning, so please stop.

First, @CawayGeway, it is very important that you do NOT like this post. I will explain why further down, but do NOT like this post. For me, it's becoming evident that @CawayGeway doesn't understand what people are saying on this thread, so I'm locking this. If @CawayGeway cannot communicate, there is no point in keeping this thread open. And @CawayGeway, you need to convince me that you are able to understand what people are saying. I know that English is not a first language for you, but if can't understand the posts from other members and if they cannot understand you, there is no point in you being a member of VGR. Please help me to help you and tell me what languages you do understand and tell me how I can help. Please send this information to me via private message as soon as possible. You can send private messages to me by clicking on my avatar... Then click on this icon on my profile. From there, you can type a message to me. As a test to see if you do understand, I am instructing you to NOT "like" this post. If you do "like" this post, I will assume you cannot understand and will have to recommend you be banned from the forum for your own sake. I tell you again, do NOT like this post. I do not know how I can make that any clearer, so please follow my instructions.

OK, I know that me and others have had a little fun here, but it's time to get serious. I think I speak for all of us when I say we have no idea what it is you're talking about. Birds using laptops? Are we supposed to be taking this seriously? There must be something getting lost in translation here. There is no way you're trying make a serious point about birds using laptops. I understand that English is not a language you speak day to day and we want he help as best we can, but if we cannot understand you and you don't ask for help, then I may have no choice but to lock this thread.

I actually think you have an understanding of your priorities when it come to your options pretty nailed down. Exclusives are the most important thing. It's a shame we don't have foresight over what the XBox Series S/X and PS5 will offer in 5-10 years time, so all you can really do is make your judgement based on what being offered now and in the neer future. If Starfield is too important too ignore, than going the Xbox is totally understandable, but if you buy into a platform for the sake of one game, you might regret it, especially if that game will have a long shelf live witch seems likely for Starfield given how Bethesda's single player games tend to go.

Well, that was interesting... (Sorry about the lack of an embed, this is from F1's official YouTube Channel, it is what it is) This new rule they're trailing has certainly shaken things up a bit. I'm still unsure how I feel about it, but I'm not ready to dismiss it quite yet either. I feel for George Russel, he's clearly out of place in 18nth, but delighted for Lewis Hamilton for pulling that one out the bag. Given that the even numbers start on the inside of the track, the dirty side, I think Max Verstappen has more to worry about from Lando Norris in third than Lewis Hamilton has to Worry about Max Verstappen in second. If max does have a weakness as a driver, I'd say it is his starts, so the start of tomorrow's race is going to interesting.

Wow, it looks if we'd just get "Murder by Numbers" this week, but Epic has squeezed in The Elder Scrolls Online at the last minute. Well, If any of you here at VGR want to clan up, let me know.

I didn't play on a PlayStation until the PS2 came out. As for the first game I played on it, I'm not exactly sure. I think it was Final Fantasy X, but it might have been something else.

I just came back to this thread to find that video I embedded in the opening post, witch was the official trailer for "The Last Hope" from the developer's YouTube channel, has been nuked via copyright claim by Sony Interactive Entertainment! Well done, Sony, Right on! I'm editing the original post so the video displayed will now be the review of the game from Digital Foundry instead, I just wanted to have this post here as a record that this glorious moment actually happened.

There is no way red Bull would be allowed to share designs, parts or staff with AlphaTauri. Like you said, it wouldn't make sense to see these two teams "book-end" the grid if they were allowed that. The two teams are both owned by the same conglomerate, that being Red Bull GmbH, but make no mistake about it they are separate teams in competition with each other, just like the rest of the grid. The, let's say, business politics between the two would make moving Daniel Riccardo from the Red Bull reserve driver position into the AlphaTauri car a little simpler, but such trades of drivers are perfectly possible between all the teams.

Don't get me wrong, I'm so happy to see Daniel back, but I think people are expecting too much of him. Even by thier own standards the Alpha Tauri has not been a quick car this year, in fact the team has only scraped together 2 points in total so far this season. Slow cars are slow for a reason and it's rarely a sign that the car is easy to drive, so I actually think he'll struggle to match Yuki Tsunoda for the first couple racing until he gets to grip with the car.

Like @The Blackangel said welcome to the forum. CP2077 is a good game now that it has been patched, but I'm personally slow to forgive CDPR for how it launched. And no, it's not because the game launched in such a horrible state after being delayed serval times (Although that certainly doesn't help), it's more about how dishonest CDPR were throughout the whole fiasco. They announced the release date at E3 almost a year before that original release date to rake in those pre-orders long before they could have had any idea when the game would actually be finished, and even when they did release it, they knew it was still far from finished. Thier solution? Try and cover it up, of course! No review codes for console (whare the game was barely even playable), a ridiculously restrictive review embargo that, amongst other things, forbade anyone from using thier own captured game footage. THAT is what is really bothered me about CP2077.

I don't really feel the need to preface this with anything to be frank. The video says it all...

I found the clip. It's number 6, "Convoy of Death" starting at arond 8:35. It turns out it wasn't a car he was sitting on, it was a lawnmower. Having viewed the clip, I'm led to believe that he "sat on the bonnet", the bonnet being the front of the lawnmower. I can't say I know much about those sit in, drivable lawnmowers (Outside of spefic businessness and the landscaping profession, they're not very common here), so I can't say for sure if I was right or not about it being the engine cover or if it's actually an American term used to label the front of such a lawnmower spesifically. May there is a connection as the front of a car is usually whare the engine is found, but I don't know. Either way, the "bonnent" in this context is the front of a lawnmower. So... yeah...

I'd like to see the clip you're refering to so I can certain, but if I understand the context in this a "bonnet" is the British word for "hood", as in the lid for the engine compartment of a car.

These types of games have thier place and I do thing people have a tendency to thing rather selfishly when they generate thier opinions on them. They can give a younger generation of gamers as well as nostalgic fans a chance to experience these games without having deal with the headaches of relying on older hardware. If you don't feel like you need to play the new game because you have the original, nobody is forcing you to. Having said that, I do think game developers and publisher's are developing an unwelcome habit of re-relecing games to cash in. It's far easier to make modern consoles backwards compatible now than it has been in the past because the cast couple of generation of consoles (And modern gaming PC's) use pretty much the same technology, but upgraded versions of it, so it's hardy to justify this on games from the PS3/XBox 360 era and younger. I will accept even those if the new version does something to justify it, Like adding new content or modernising/improving the gameplay, but if it's nothing than the same package with some spit shine, that is not cool. And it really isn't cool to charge for DLC on a remaster, that should always be included for. Kingdoms of Amalur Re-Reckoning may have been a horrible remaster, but at least they tried to do the right thing with it with a massive new expantion as well as all the original DLC at no extra cost.

True things said about Alonso. I like drivers who are kind and respectful people out of the car, but become ruthless monsters in the car. Senna, Schumacher, Vettel, Hamilton and Alonso are all like that. Max Verstappen is not like that. He's got the ruthless part down, but he treats victory like it's something he's entitled too. Lewis always thanks his team and his fans just for being in the car, but I feel Max has this attitude that translates as "Yeah, I won, but that's how it should be". Put him in a slower car, like a Haas or an Alfa Romeo, and he'd be impossible to work with. In my opinion, he won his world championships too early. It was good for his career, but it harmed him as a person. Lewis found success right from the start of his career too, but that humbled him rather than inflate his ego, whereas Max has handled his success all wrong. You said it best, he's an asshole, and success only made him a bigger asshole.

Can't believe that I forgot about this one, it's the new one fro Amaranthe. Enjoy!

Vey sorry to hear that. I wish nothing but the best for her.

I can totally picture tech companies creating a touch screen interface for octopuses', but then not waterproof the device. That would be just typical, right?

The zombies in this I'm fairly certain are just the same shitty looking, stock Unity Store assets we've all seen in assets flips and shovelware a hundred times and they look nothing like the infected from the real TLOU game. I think you're OK for this.

And it may even be worse than you think. Full story from Push Square, and here's the trailer...Well, it was the trailer, but as I described in a another post below, Sony struck down that trail due to copyright (good for them), so it's now the review of "The Last Hope" from Digital Foundry instead. Enjoy! The game is called The Last Hope - Dead Zone Survival and it's completely shameless. It comes from a Moldovan developer VG Games known for, well, nothing much. A couple of indie games on the Switch that at least look more original than this, but is still shovelware. As far as I can tell, it doesn't follow the TLOU's story, with it being about some guy being sent to the future to save the world from the post-apocalypse (Makes sense in the way that it doesn't). It feels like a plagiarised school assignment made to score a D because they reckon people won't catch on if it's a bit shit. The graphics are awful, the art style is inconsistent and gameplay looks unfocused and dull. As funny as this is, there is a serious point to be made. Blatantly copying such a popular game might get attention, but in the long run they will only make themselves look foolish. People aren't going trust thier money to game dev's that do this, even if it is just $1. Is any aspiring game dev's see this, don't do the same thing.

Most of what you spesific games you describe there fall under strategy games to me Appart from goat simulator of course, that's a game from the I-fart-proudly-at-parties-and-think-it's-funny genre. It's what I call the "Happy Madison" crowd. Back to the point, and maybe my scope for counts as a strategy game might be a little broad, but whenever you are attempting to achieve your goal through inputs that are meant to direct the actions of others and not a direct input of your own skill, only your ideas, then I'd probably count it as a strategy game. Doesn't matter what that goal actually is. It could be advancing a civilation, winning wars or just getting some lazy asshole to get up and take a shower, either way it's a strategy game to me. The RTS thing to me only defines the difference between wether the game is controlled in real time or if it's some other interface, like turn based on with cards ow whatever. It only stops being a strategy game to me when there are skill elements added to how it controlls. You're not going to impress anyone at a chess tournament by juggling the pawns. I actually disagree there. I'm not going to deny that the curse of early 3D gaming and developers not quite having figured it out yet was a part of what made those early Resident Evil games what they were, but I feel like Capcom designed the contols and UI to induce panic in the player. And wether you like those games or not, that's exactly what they did. Compare those early RE games to the likes of Metal Gear Solid or Tomb Raider (on the same console) and you'll see it was those games that expose the limitations of the hardware, controllers and dev's still learning how to make these kinds of games. Even if MGS and TR didn't control brilliantly, you could tell they were trying to make them intuitive and offer the player options and that is clearly not what Capcom were trying to do with Resident Evil.

That, right there, is the problem with people taking issue with inclusion. The problem for a lot of people isn't so much prejudice as much as it selfishness. Yes, maybe characters being on the spectrum doesn't matter to you (I've never taken much stock in anyone who says that on the back of complaining about it for reasons I'll explain in moment), but think about what it means to people who have been, and in many ways still are, under attack and have had this world constantly try to tell them that how they are is some way wrong. Inclusion actually benefits somebody and make them feel like they belong and are right to feel how feel abouts themselves, that they can be comfortable in thier skin. If that truly means nothing to you, why even complain about it? I've said if before, but I'll say it again, good fiction reflects reality, that's how it connects to our real emotions and relates to our experiences. Nobody only has an issue with LGBTQAI+ representation in fiction, they have a problem with it being represented in reality. LGBTQAI+ representation in not an agenda, it's not politics, it's just life. People use the politics and agenda excuses because they don't want to face thier prejudices. That's why I don't take much stock in people who complain about LGBTQAI+ representation (or any other kind of inclusion, for that matter) in fiction and say they don't care and it doesn't bother them because if that was true they wouldn't have felt the need to complain about it in the first place. Non-factors produce a non-reaction. Analysing and discussing character representation, including thier orientation, that's a fair conversation to have, but there's a difference between that and complaining about it.

OK, it does look easier to use now that I see it. However, I'm still not sold on it. There's something about having the right stick that close to the trigger/shoulder buttons that just doesn't sit well with me. You obviously know better than me, you've actually used it whereas I haven't, but I'm a little unsure.