General gaming discussion

I have 5 invites to the beta which cannot be named. If you fancy a go, pm me your Ubisoft username.

If ye do want an invite, ye'll have to sign an NDA that includes agreeing to close the curtains if you play in a room with windows 😆

With the news of the Saints Row reboot, i decided to spin up SR 2 again as it's on PS Now. Damn it looks old as **** and only spent a few minutes but looking forward to giving it a proper go. I loved that game but interested to see if I had rise tinted glasses on. They nailed the street gang perspective, customising your HQ, gear and cars. Never liked it going all superhero.

Very sad indeed, I met Mark a bunch of times as we used to attend a lot of the same events. He was a lovely guy. Sometimes life is just awfully cruel.

I especially like the look of the Laser-out-of-Your-Arse mode.

That is a brilliant video. It's a real eye-opener.

Finally, an ethics in gaming I can get behind.

“If I lose 15 grand on you, it’s not the end of the world.”

Literally what Naierman quoted about his own investors. Just shows the level of capitalism involved there, and the worst thing is, those investors weren’t even wealthy compared to the guys who created this bubble.

By the way, I have a sealed copy of Arkham Knight gathering dust if anyone wants to pay off my Credit Union loan. 😂

My complete, in bits, copy of Turtles: Hyperstone Heist for the Sega is my nest egg! 😂

It looks great, but I thought the portals were the whole "thing" about it.

Been playing it a week or so. I did notice that at the start not a lot of people were really using the portals but starting to see some players use them very creatively now (and that's just in casual mode, not ranked).

It's very enjoyable in general though. The portals are a great addition without overly dominating the game, makes you feel like a sniper genius when you pitch a portal in just the right spot and get a string of kills through it. And vice-versa, feels great to spot someone else's portal, take a shot through it and get a kill.

It's real strength probably is just that everyone has the same loadout, access to the same guns and there's no different abilities or characters. Nice pace to it as well. Not super twitchy, but still rewarding of quick reflexes and thinking.

Sucks for them, but China cutting off part of their market is better for everyone else. Same for the fact that Hollywood is getting cut out from the Chinese market.

As I enter early middle age, I find myself increasingly nostalgiac and drawn to 1990s games. I still have an Xbox360, with some conversions of the old Street Fighter 2 on it, and the space shooter R Type 1/2, with a lovely option to switch between the old sprites and modern 3D graphics. My favourite game on it would be Crazy Taxi. But I have also gone back further, becoming interested again in old 16 bit games I never got around to playing in the 1990s, such as Subterrainia on the Megadrive. I would like to play that. Saw a video of it on youtube recently.