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by Raid
Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:53 pm
Forum: General Gaming Discussion and News
Topic: General Gaming News
Replies: 846
Views: 140979

Re: General Gaming News

BG3 certainly had a falloff, I don't think a single-player game would ever not, but the current numbers are more than ten times that of Starfield's.

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by Raid
Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:45 pm
Forum: TV & Film
Topic: Good TV (aka, the TV series spamthread), the second series
Replies: 2001
Views: 525927

Re: Good TV (aka, the TV series spamthread), the second series

So I finished Fallout. I think my enthusiasm dipped a bit by the end; there's clearly a ton of love for the source material, and it's the most faithful game-TV/film adaptation I can think of in terms of aesthetic (and it must have cost a fortune to make as a result), but the tone just didn't seem to...
by Raid
Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:24 pm
Forum: General Gaming Discussion and News
Topic: General Gaming News
Replies: 846
Views: 140979

Re: General Gaming News

I think there will be plenty of people looking forward to it. Starfield is one of those games about which the agenda was set by the people who didn't like it and ignores the thousands of people who did like it. Because the general consensus was that it would be a hit in the same way Skyrim was when...
by Raid
Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:29 am
Forum: General Gaming Discussion and News
Topic: General Gaming News
Replies: 846
Views: 140979

Re: General Gaming News

Former Lionhead-staffed studio announce their new game, release a demo, and in the same breath postpone its development. https://www.eurogamer.net/ex-lionhead-devs-announce-new-game-shelve-new-game-and-confirm-layoffs-all-at-the-same-time It's a pretty sobering take on the state of the games industr...
by Raid
Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:02 am
Forum: General Gaming Discussion and News
Topic: Currently Playing
Replies: 1656
Views: 536769

Re: Currently Playing

It's certainly appealing looking for me, but I read a review that said that healing items are consumables that don't get automatically replenished, and you have to gather materials to craft them. That's an instant deal-breaker for me; I like games that are challenging, but the second you make me gri...
by Raid
Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:18 pm
Forum: General Gaming Discussion and News
Topic: Elden Ring
Replies: 130
Views: 25668

Re: Elden Ring

I've ended up giving this another try after two years of saying I wouldn't. I'd gotten pretty good at Jedi Survivor so figured maybe I'm just better at this genre now, and I've had so little trouble compared to my first attempt when the game was first released. I'm not sure what it was, but previous...
by Raid
Sat Apr 20, 2024 9:30 pm
Forum: Technology & Hardware
Topic: Gaming laptops and fan noise
Replies: 13
Views: 186

Re: Gaming laptops and fan noise

...you realise discrete *is* the gaming GPU, right?
by Raid
Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:04 pm
Forum: TV & Film
Topic: Good TV (aka, the TV series spamthread), the second series
Replies: 2001
Views: 525927

Re: Good TV (aka, the TV series spamthread), the second series

Oh, hah, that's what I get for skim-reading. :lol:
by Raid
Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:33 pm
Forum: TV & Film
Topic: Good TV (aka, the TV series spamthread), the second series
Replies: 2001
Views: 525927

Re: Good TV (aka, the TV series spamthread), the second series

I finished watching The Three Body Problem last night. It was pretty good for the most part, the premise is a fun one that I was constantly expecting them to subvert as a twist at some point, but that thankfully didn't materialise. There are a handful of things that I think you have to suspend your ...
by Raid
Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:44 pm
Forum: TV & Film
Topic: General Film News
Replies: 716
Views: 214131

Re: General Film News

Those are solid shouts I suppose, although I did watch the Kurt Russell The Thing for the first time last year and really didn't think much of it (beyond the incredible practical effects anyway), and I don't think I even realised The Fly was a remake. I forget sometimes that remakes aren't really a ...
by Raid
Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:53 pm
Forum: TV & Film
Topic: General Film News
Replies: 716
Views: 214131

Re: General Film News

It would be nice for one of these remake projects to actually produce a film that was superior to the original. I'm really struggling trying to think of a single one that worked.
by Raid
Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:30 pm
Forum: TV & Film
Topic: General Film News
Replies: 716
Views: 214131

Re: General Film News

To be honest, I can actually see Liam Neeson suiting the role. Nielson was a serious actor that happened to be able to do deadpan perfectly. Neeson would just have to prove he could do it too. But it's the script that would be the issue; The Naked Gun and Police Squad had some of the tightest comic ...
by Raid
Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:12 pm
Forum: TV & Film
Topic: General Film News
Replies: 716
Views: 214131

Re: General Film News

I'd put money on the notion that The Naked Gun needs a remake will be funnier than any joke they write for said remake.

The Naked Gun is one the finest comedy films ever made, and it's unbelievable arrogance on behalf of a studio to think that any new version could come close.
by Raid
Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:54 am
Forum: TV & Film
Topic: Good TV (aka, the TV series spamthread), the second series
Replies: 2001
Views: 525927

Re: Good TV (aka, the TV series spamthread), the second series

certainly not a patch on Band of Brothers, but then what is? I haven't tried MotA yet, but I ran out of steam halfway through The Pacific, and in all honesty I don't hold BoB in especially high regard either. I mean I recognise that it's an excellent series, but there's just something about the pre...