Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@colonelkilgore How are you mate? How did the move go? What are you playing these days? I'm on Chapter 6 of FFVIIR at the moment. Loving it so far.

@TheBrandedSwordsman hey dude, we're still in the process mate. We've been moving boxes over since last Friday but we're not 'moving in' until next Friday as our flooring guys are gonna be doing the whole ground floor starting Monday (& it'll take 4 days).

I'm still on MGS2 pretty close to the end of my 4th playthrough, so getting there slowly. Still really enjoying it though. Glad you're really enjoying FFVIIRemake it's a great game. I also really enjoyed FFXV so maybe give that a go too, if you haven't already.

@colonelkilgore I’m gunna show off now (or display how uncool I am) but I completed MGS2 three times in one day once, various difficulties, getting all dog tags in the process. Surprisingly short when you skip all the cut scenes 😂

European extreme difficulty is an absolute DOG though. The Solidus torture sections in particular. And fighting all the Rays at the end 😖

@kyleforrester87 impressive, I’m not gonna bother with European Extreme as it’s not required for the platinum but I can imagine how tough it is. I’m currently at the point where you have to snipe to protect EE. Had a couple of goes earlier but EE got gunned down, will have another go tomorrow.

@kyleforrester87 took me a few goes but managed to get the sniping mission done this morning. Only the small matter of Metal Gear Ray now, and then onto ‘Extreme’ 😅.

@Keith_Zissou I know right, they were hard enough on ‘normal’ 🤣

@Keith_Zissou yeah, he’s never been so right with that statement 🤣

@Keith_Zissou yeah on my first playthrough it was a great little change up in perspective… and is a ‘strange’ but nice calm before the storm what with the tengus, Rays and Solidus to come. There really is no one else like Kojima, more’s the pity.

@Iver That’s capitalism for you. There’s people out there whose entire job is to shift money around for very rich people. Zero production involved, zero benefit for society, just money being siphoned off existing goods. If it was illegal to scalp stuff then people would complain about the free market not being free. It’s bloody nonsense.

@Iver I’m not even sure it’s just being old fashioned, plenty of younger people look down on it as well. There are some cases of that seen around though definitely. It’s like the difference between influencers that advertise constantly and social media ones who just like to entertain, they get lumped together when in fact the ones telling jokes and being daft are at least providing a service so probably shouldn’t be looked down on in the same way as the blatantly horrible ones who advertise Botox. Scalpers are just the worst.

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@LieutenantFatman As we were discussing cartoons recently, do you also remember that gem of children's TV: 'Round the Twist'? What did you think of it, if you watched it?

@RogerRoger I never got it to work on my TV, the one game I tried was unplayable with the audio incomprehensible, movement really sluggish and the frame rate was all over the place.

Think I'll stick to either playing games on disk or ones I've downloaded, with the brief foray into streaming on PS NOW when I wanna try out a game.

I've pulled the trigger on getting a switch and the switch Oled will be a companion piece to the almighty PS5.

Any recommendations for games?Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild are a given, I'll probably get the Ori games as well as I enjoyed what I played of the first one but game pass ran like crap on my PC so didn't end up playing it all!

@MightyDemon82 would octopath traveler be up your alley?

@jdv95 certainly would, I'll add it to the list thanks.

@MightyDemon82 Did you own a Wii U?

@Octane The 6 most dreaded words for a Switch owner 😂

@Octane the last Nintendo machine I had was just the Wii. Haven't really played on a Nintendo machine since it's heyday!

@MightyDemon82 Well, that opens up some more recommendations. What kind of games are you into? Just looking for exclusives?