The_Moose

Sony should stay well away from GP and its model. Bad for the industry as a whole and seems to turn many of its users into zealots who can't see a downside long term for paying £1 to play a AAA game.

@riceNpea It wouldn't even be demanded of him in the script I imagine.

Looking forward to seeing Orlando Bloom drive around several tracks for enough prize money to buy a new turbo....then move onto a slightly harder track and repeat the process to buy a better car.

Keep it safe in case of a burglary I suppose.

Dragon Age Inquisition. Playing as a mage on my main play through for the first time. Trying to challenge my mindset as I usually find myself in agreement with the Templars.

Just finished Seasons After Fall last night. Tried FIFA 22 but Ultimate Team won't work for some reason. Known profile issue.

Will probably start on Dragon Age Inquisition when alone and Darkestville Castle with the Mrs.

Have a good one everyone

@spcspc Gotta weep for those scalpers having to pay a bit more.

A great console built by a brand who I am quickly losing faith in. It won't spell the end of Sony or the PS console but it will strengthen the competition.

This sounds pretty good. Enjoy a good investigation game.

An arty game called Seasons After Fall. Have no idea what I'm doing but I don't need to think about it too much which suits me at moment.

@nessisonett They make interesting antagonists in the sense of their aims are noble in trying to cure the disease but at a cost to other. An end justifies the means outlook which we can easily say is horrible in our comfortable world but in theirs it's understandable.

I wouldn't necessarily say they were revolutionary though. They're just another faction trying to save humanity from the virus.

P.S. I haven't played TLOU2 yet so if they've gone way beyond their MMO in the first I'm unaware.

5/15. Push Square just love torturing me.

Cleaning up Doom Eternal DLC finally.

@stridernyc "You can have a great story as well as make sure different races and genders are represented."

You can, but you only need to look at the recent M-SHE- U movies/series and most BBC dramas these days to reveal when the diversity box ticking takes priority over story.

Representation has only taken priority in the media in the last decade or so, really gathering steam in the last few years, which shows in the decline of quality of TV and other media products of late.

@WadeIsInsane Well yeah imagine a "first character" causing people to celebrate. Some people are just overreacting whilst the vast majority of people don't care and simply want to experience the game.

@Gloamin Then let us continue to point out the flaws where we see them and make light of the situation as much as possible.

Happy hunting friend!

@WadeIsInsane But the point is this stuff isn't monumental. Games have been doing this since their inception. Samus and Lara Croft, both video game icons, were conceived, active and kicking ass decades ago.

Those who are celebrating this are quite late. I honestly blame the pervasive narrative out there that there is apparently a huge contingent of the population who are racist, sexist and transphobic and that we must make a big song and dance about the addition of any character who ticks some "victim" box to a video game or movie.

Little do such people realise there are many iconic characters in history who fit the bill for what should be "celebrated" today.

@Juanalf Little did we know we were woke before it was woke to be woke.

@Gloamin Yeah, I've thought that for a while. It seems things like this can't be unseen by either side.

A female protagonist at one time was just taken as maybe a bit of a quirk but certainly nothing to get excited or upset over.

Now one side screams about how "empowering" it is and brilliant for bringing "those who we deem victims of the western straight white patriarchy" to the fore. The other side can only see it as either "well they only did it to please the woke diversity obsessed Twitter mobs" or feel the need to tell us in no uncertain terms "I ain't playing as no hoe".

Frightening thing is this narrative is played out in the media and out on the streets more and more, even the most rational "I don't care I just want everyone to get on with each other and make the best of life" people are getting sucked into this vortex.

The more people get sucked in, the more it gets ramped up and nastier it becomes.

Ah back when we didn't have a culture war to fight and people weren't obsessed with identity politics.

When people didn't really care what skin colour the protagonist was or what they had between their legs, they simply said "ah I hope the story and gameplay are good".

@zupertramp If people do hold those views, then they are a minority in the west.

Certainly not 50% of the USA or any western country for that matter. Other countries outside the west perhaps.

There is also a fair amount of ignorance in the condemnation of masses of your fellow countrymen simply because they disagree with your politics. Yet a bit of self awareness is difficult to come by in some people.

@KundaliniRising333 May I ask to which wilful ignorance do you refer?

@KundaliniRising333

"My despicable country is basically 50% ignorant."

Not you though?

Really enjoyed X, even though the story became confusing by the end. You could sink hours into Blitzball alone.

Couldn't even get through the first episode

I finished the ME trilogy only last year for the first time without the extended ending.

It did feel somewhat anti-climatic but upon reflection I think people expect too much of the writers. Are they really going to be able to develop so many different endings based on the vast number of choices people make throughout the trilogy.

Ultimately it could be seen to be that no matter how you got the job done the ending was also going to be the same, as the Catalyst alludes to.

@korgon I agree with you, it wasn't that much different (if you took the destroy ending which I imagine Bioware will make canon for ME4).

I really like the sound of this.

2016 was a perfect game. It did everything that it needed to do right. Eternal was okay but it felt like another series, the colourful weapon pickups, the much heavier emphasis on platforming. I also felt that the Doom Slayer was pretty weak as the difficulty was ramped right up.

2016 made you feel like a badass, Eternal made you feel like you were doing your first CrossFit session at the gym.

When you see a pig flying in the sky, you'll know that The Moose got more than 7/15 in a Push Square quiz.

@Richnj Full blown communism is not here. But we're seeing more and socialist policies coming from the government. They're certainly not a Conservative party in the traditional sense.

Try harder? How about words of the former Danish PM, will they suffice?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2015/10/31/9650030/denmark-prime-minister-bernie-sanders

Also you said Democratic Socialist in your earlier post and are now saying social democracy. They're both very different. In fact adding the word "social" before something doesn't really make any difference to it. Democracy is a democracy and states which have taken up the mantle of socialism are never democratic in practice.

Also welfare policies are socialist by and large but the country employing them doesn't have to be a socialist country. The NHS is a socialist policy but the UK isn't socialist.

More representative democratic systems? There's good and bad to all different electoral systems. That's a very subjective meaning which doesn't really hold up.

Also the personal debt levels of individuals to GDP are much higher in the Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Not something to boast about.

@theheadofabroom No Nordic Country operates under Democratic Socialism.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2018/07/08/sorry-bernie-bros-but-nordic-countries-are-not-socialist/

"So if we have neolib leaders, how can we also have had an expansion of welfare as you claim?"

Welfare is an enormous spend for the government. The tax credit scheme which prevents employers from having to pay competitive wages whilst making people reliant on them and this continuing to vote for the party that feeds them.

There are so many other things that can be done but no politicians would dare confront these issues as there is too much money being made by certain groups.

We have high VAT which is a regressive tax which effects the poor more than anyone, constant and largely unchecked immigration which keeps wages flat, an NHS which has more and more money thrown at it every year with no improvement. All these things are having an adverse effect on the poor and coupled up with rampant COVID spending has led to inflation.

Whenever the state gets involved in most things, they usually get way worse. Look how quickly during COVID the food shortages in shops were resolved by private companies, yet the NHS is still in a mess.

By the way adding the word "social" before another word doesn't mean anything. Democracy is democracy.

@Richnj Ok....I don't understand your point.

We certainly haven't been run well for the last 40 years with an expanding welfare state making more and more people rely on government handouts and subsidising inefficient industries.

That's a failing on politicians.

My point was we have the highest tax burden in 70 years, in those years high taxes were most synonymous with socialist governments of the time.

@nessisonett Wow! I know times are tough but things must be really bad if there's security tags on your cheese up in Scotland.

Besides the UK currently has the highest tax burden in 70 years. It seems the Communists have already invaded.

I invested in growing my backlog when times were good and have hours of fun ahead of me. Whether the zombie apocalypse comes or the Communists invade, I'll have the last laugh.

Why is it too much to ask for physical discs to be included in very expensive editions? HFW did the same with just a digital code.

A worrying trend.

@trev666 "bolted on garbage", also perfectly describes every bit of MCU media after Endgame.

@ApostateMage Yeah I'm not hopeful. Modern writers only seem to be able to write women as either Mary Sue's or "they're the villain until you realise they were good all along".

@ThereThere I've heard good things about the Expanse and I really enjoy The Boys but as you go on to say you could ask James Cameron to direct a crap script and the end product will still be crap.

@ATaco The real reason we won two world wars!

A deceptively hard game called Aggelos. Map is useless and working off memory. A nice open world 2d side scroller though

Remember folks, if you buy from a scalper you're part of the problem.

@Bismarck Gordon Freeman would beat Sonic in a fight.

Hoping to finish Bugsnax. Was an okay distraction at first but it's just becoming repetitive and boring.

Title hardly rolls off the tongue but game itself looks decent.

@Vix Finished my 2nd play through of it not so long back. Had some good ideas but still holds the more frustrating aspects of ToD.

Crack In Time is a better sequel and Nexus is better than that.

Bugsnax. Last chill game and then I'll try and move onto DA: Inquisition or maybe FF9.

@Tielo WHAT ABOUT, WHAT ABOUT, WHAT ABOUT, WHAT ABOUT!

Face it, there is absolutely no comparison and if the majority of the world had a choice between living in the US, Saudi or China you'd know the vast majority would live in USA.

I know certain games are nice to have a PE of which were primarily digital release but I can't imagine this flying off the shelf really.