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I went in for Starfield and then since it's only 10 euros (it's cheaper than Netflix ffs) I kept it going and ended up playing games that I wouldn't have bought otherwise. I think it's a win-win for both me and them, well in my case anyway.

mmm. Sounds enticing. Haven't heard anything similar to the Ganker scourge that blights Elite Dangerous.

Just have to wait for that Alienware nividia 4090 GPU laptop to arrive

Just did the entire Tekken 8 story mode in one 3-hour sitting. That was a lot of fun. Stupid, cheesy and OTT in all the best ways. I already love this game more than T7 which was a huge letdown for me.

I usually get charged around €3.50. it can be cheaper if I just stick it in a plain envelope as it goes as a letter rather than small package.

Played the demo and while I did enjoy it, I got burned badly on Tekken 6 and 7 at launch so I've been more cautious this time. Would appreciate more of your thoughts if you're willing? Basically should I dip my toes in as someone who has been playing since Tekken 2 on the PSX, great times!

I didn't really get into Tekken 6 either, but for some reason Tekken 7 just felt so empty at launch, like they were just waiting to be able to release everything in season passes. Plus I'd platinumed T7 in the space of a weekend without even really trying, bar having to do a 10-move combo in training.

Tekken 8 feels a lot meatier from the start. 32 fighters and a better mix of fighters. The fighting seems a lot tighter and a bit more refined, but still very familiar (my Hwoarang combos still work thankfully). The Heat gauge and Rage moves are well implemented and feel easier to use, I never got the hang of the rage moves in T7. There's an arcade mode where you design a cartoony avatar and go to different arcades to level up, but it also feels pretty well designed in that it's trying to teach you how to get better as you progress. I'm fairly early in that though at this stage.

It just looks and feels a lot better to play than T7 did, but I may not even be the best person to advise because I didn't play T7 a lot in the end. Once it became clear how much was going to be behind season pass bullsh*t, I lost interest in the game pretty quickly.

My brief dalliance with fighting games was being briefly addicted to bowling in Tekken 3 (I think it was Tekken 3).

MK has been my go to for ages, but man I was disappointed with MK1. The story was fun and they had some great characters, but the Kameo system just feels incredibly clunky and the Invasions mode is just godawful. The fact they're now also selling season-themed fatalities for about a tenner is just more disgusting than the actual fatalities.

Probably didn't help that I was also deep in the midst of a Baldurs Gate 3 playthrough, and even once I finished it and went back to MK I was just always thinking of BG3 probably didn't help.

Always loved getting King's Bridge in Tekken 2. Not Kings most damaging combo but just something satisfying about getting it and your opponent having to watch. No escape.

Loved using Yoshimitsu's move where he turns around and stabs himself. If the enemy was close enough it'd stab them too and do huge damage.

Of course, if the enemy wasn't close enough, you'd just stabbed yourself, lost a bunch of health and made yourself look like an idiot. Thankfully, that was back in the Tekken 3 days so nobody saw when I failed doing it pretty much 95% of the time.

That's what made it a brag of a kill! Me and my brother got to the point where victories only really counted if you did something ridiciulous like this or JACK's windup punch, P-JACK's death tap or Paul Phoenix's Burning Fist.

Core memory unlocked here, god I may actually buy Tekken 8 now as a result :D

I'm sad for Deus Ex but any of those 3 can be rebooted into new IPs without the sometimes unwanted old legacy. Any studio can make a great game which can be a spiritual successor of any of those 3, or all 3 combined, the series name is not what makes them great games.