Mintie

Playing Borderlands 3 with some chums. FFXI is still free to play for a while longer so I'll be on there doing Stuff.

I'll also be starting on the Christmas Pile of Newness! Decided to organise them in order of worst reviewed to best so the order is

• Rise of The Ronin
• Stellar Blade
• Silent Hill 2
• Dragon's Dogma 2
• Spider-man 2
• Metaphor - Refantazio

Gonna be busy for a while!

Caravan Sandwich.

Not even on the list.

How has there never been a biggish budet Thomas game????? How!?

Is this now my life's obsession to bring it about?

Maybe!

@CrispyMango92 the second season was stunning, but yeah at the moment it can only be found on YouTube... it felt oddly appropriate watching it uploaded to YT considering the shows themes!

[Edit/update - Scratch all that, free FFXI login campaign BABYYYY!]

I've been in more of a show bingeing mood than gaming, kinda in a holding pattern until crimbo) so I picked up a month of Netflix's cheap tier for a fiver and I've been watching stuff like Pantheon (fantastic) Dandadan (So goood) Delicious In Dungeon (Need more now) and other stuff.

Actual games - I decided to replay Nioh 1 because I never did the expansions and Infinity Nikki even though i got put off that by a nasty interaction with a member of the Nikki community.

I'm going to spend a good chunk of next year playing big games I missed this year... but Godsdamnit if my backlog isn't going to grow a whole lot next year.

Anyone who looks at that list and doesn't see something they're excited for should consider quitting gaming as a hobby

@ChimpMasta I'm in 100% agreement, it's why I love games that have character creation. Given the choice I'll always plays as someone different to myself, my choices usually go with what has the coolest armour.

I think my main question is, given a game with a set character, why someone would deny themselves access to an amazing experience purely because of how the main character is presented? It'd be like someone who loves treasuring chasing adventures and playing Uncharted but turning up their nose at trying Tomb Raider because of Lara.

@JustMyOpinion I'm genuinely curious, why only male protagonists? I had a mate who had a similar thing - he couldn't bring himself to make a female avatar in MMOs or RPGs - but he passed before I ever got a coherent reason from him.

@NeonTiger Not really a justification if the mechanisms are in the games' narrative

The alternative is that Nightreign will be a fun game that mixes a whole bunch of bosses and mechanics and it doesn't really matter how The Nameless King ended up in some multiversal version of Limgrave.

If it's really bothering you that much it might be time to go get a Greggs steakbake and sit on a park bench for a bit.

@NeonTiger there's nothing about Nightreign that goes against established lore for Dark Souls or Elden Ring... Dark Souls 3 established that worlds and time could converge and meld. The Lands Between are just that a land between other places, nothing is certain beyond the sea surround those lands riddled by the touch of the Outer Gods, similar beings hold Yharnam in their clutches... The fun thing about the Soulsborne lore is that it is mutable.

@DennisReynolds I'm just picturing some basement dweller finally taking a shower and crying in the stall all because they were tricked into playing a buff blonde lass.

@Oram77 Stuff like this ends up being more of a 'we're hiring' event. I'll be happy to forget it exists until closer to release when proper trailers drop... unless it goes the way of a lot of well meaning start-ups that bite off more than they can chew.

Been saying for years we need a sci-fi spacey game from Naughty Dog!

Even though I don't think the actual reveal was that good the new genDESIGN game has ALL of my attention because Ico, SoTC and Last Guardian are all stellar!

A small project in an existing game world... sounds like the idea proving ground for newer developers and devs trying out new roles. I'll be all over it, wonder if we'll finally find out who the gloam eyed queen is!

think of 00:00 as midnight and 12:00 as midday, anything after and including midnight is AM, anything after and including midday is PM... it's a pain in the butt and why most of us have moved to 24hr... it's dumb and I blame analogue clock faces

@tameshiyaku 'You must h-hungry?' no Mr/s Pam-man, I'm good ta!

@djlard way I remembered it as a kid was At Morning and Passed Morning. The real meaning is ante meridem (before midday) and post meridem (after midday)... hope that helps.

HMM... The dark side, you say?

Wonder if it'll be as light-hearted as doki-doki...

What I TRALLU want to see remains the same as always... Bluepoints new IP and genDESIGNs new game!

(With a lil full on Parasite Eve or Dino Crisis reboot/remake)

@Blauwe_Chimay Pragmata isn't real you silly sausage!

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare I did.. teach me to type responses on the phone whilst still cocooned in bed!

I missed it then when it was free on Epic, it'll probably come round again (and I'll probably ignore it again)

It'll be one of the epic stores giveaways any week now... And then I'll probably still ignore it.

I normally try to be Mr. Positivity but this one should've been left to (w)ither on the vine.

Waiting on full release!

I AM tempted to take a character all the way through the first game though!

Infinity Nikki... I'm feeling the need for charm and wholesomeness and this game has it in spades! I was going to dive into the new Honkers content but the missing voice lines are driving me bonkers so I'll put that off until they get it sorted.

Is this the year Pragmata finally reappears?

Probably not!

I'll watch the day after because I'm too old to stay up that late.

First few hours played... Godsdamnit, it is too charming and wholesome, my jaded heart melted a little bit...

Although having to tell my bestie that whilst she may be a singular Nikki I have now upgraded to Infinity Nikki... She threatened to not pay for lunch on her turn!

@MaelysLeFleau true, but even though we knew it was only getting a single season of updates knowing when that happens might as well be the first peal of the death bell.

I played a few matches back when it first released and was almost immediately bored of it. I'm surprised it took as long as it did to shut down.

Oh gods, all I need is another stable of cuties to balance!

Seriously though, a spider-man, GTA anime gacha with a great OST wasn't on my bingo card for games I'd be looking forward to.

I'll be romping through this on PC!

I'm playing Dragon Age Origins, as well as recording the playthrough in order to make a proper story recap video because all the available options sucked by either being too opinionated or glossing over too much.

I've also picked up a month of Netflix to catch up on stuff - got to Delicious in Dungeon late and absolutely fell in love with it - so I also have that eating into my time.

If it wasn't almost double the price of the base console it'd be great, but as it stands it is far too much and that money is better going towards a PC refresh.

@themightyant my dreams are still haunted by Dinklebot.

@Ravix meanwhile I'm sat here excited to see what Remedy do with their refined sense of weirdness with these remakes. I'm hoping Max gets seamlessly folded into The Remedyverse... I just want the spiderman meme but with Alex Casey, Alex Casey and Max Payne!

@Flaming_Kaiser because my girl Terra deserves The Best... I say that but what I ACTUALLY want is something less graphically intense than VIIRilogy, maybe somewhere between XIV and XVI if that makes sense? oh oh or more like the graphical intensity of World of FF but with XIVs character proportions!

I would prefer a full modern 3D remake, but I wouldn't turn my nose up at a HD-2D remake

I've said it elsewhere but imagine thinking SoTE wasn't a game, what is it then? A Banana Split?

@QiaraIris Guess what won best RPG in 2016? That's right Blood and Wine! But I guess that doesn't matter.

If they give DS3 a Scholar of The First Sin do-over I am all for it. If the rumour of Sony buying kadokawa is true it'll likely open the way to bloodborne's return... Unless Sony ***** that up.

I'm in a small slump at the moment, moving on from finishing Alan Wake II is proving hard. I'm wanting to continue DA Origins but somethings missing... So instead I'll likely focus on levelling Monk in FFXIV.

@z0d15g0d Excellent, you'll get a friend invite from Mintie Choq'tchip and we shall get that Moogle!

@z0d15g0d I can easily pop over to Louisoix, you can only search for online players, I'm free whenever today and over the weekend so just give me a time and I'll hop on to get you through the queue - solo queueing as DPS can be a nightmare for older content.

@z0d15g0d Good King Moogle Mog, he's an 8 man trial, I tend to get him a lot as a roulette I'm on around 7pm UK time. What data center/ world are you on.? If I can get to you I'll happily bump your trial queue times as a tank

IF they can nail a Monster Hunter like feel but giant robot creatures I'll be more than happy to jump in.

I do wonder when we'll see it properly revealed though? Maybe the Game Awards with them being in a month?

Just the news I've been waiting for, this has been sat on my Steam wishlist for ages

I'm going to lose so much time to this... providing it is as delightful as it seems... no wonder my backlog keeps growing at an exponential rate.

It's definitely happening if Grubb says it ain't! He's wrong more often than not, literally only getting things right through repetition.

I was really interested in this before they retooled it as an extraction shooter, now I'll probably never touch it.

There is this part of me that really hopes the Concord episode is good, solid entertainment.

I'm still a bit heartbroken that this had to die so that Alyx could live.

@Sarcasmatwork allow me to introduce you to your new face crimbo carol!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTyw6cq86kY