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  1. It’s fine for the Road to The Show, and March-October modes I think, but the story modes and Dynasty both auto-set the difficulty. The one on Jeter’s where you have to make base 4 times drove me up the wall.
  2. Been trying a few bits and bobs on Gamepass over the last couple of weeks as we've both been off work. MLB The Show 24 I played last year's quite a lot and this year has made some of the UI a bit easier to navigate and some minor gameplay tweaks, but other than that it's exactly the same game. My main issue with last year is still in this year's. I enjoy Diamond Dynasty and building a team with cards and collectables, but because this is the "pay to win" mode you're locked into Veteran difficulty so I basically play it for an hour and get sick of "Hit a Home Run" or "Get two RBIs" against Veteran pitchers who in some cases have thrown me for a walk and auto-failed the challenge. I got to the second last chapter in the Derek Jeter storyline and stopped playing for the same reason. I play on the easy difficulties and that's how I enjoy the game, but unfortunately the main modes all lock you out of doing that. I ended up just deleting it in the end. Evil West Trailer made it look like Gears of War with melee combat but it's more like a linear Dark Souls-lite with roll dodging and timing attacks that lets you fire weak guns. Not what I was expecting or wanting to play, didn't think much of it and stopped playing a few levels in. Stardew Valley Been playing this with my wife nearly every day and we're both hooked still as we approach Spring of Year 3. There's no denying it really falls off a cliff after you finish the community center and gives you very little incentive to plant crops or do anything other than find the easiest and quickest way to make money. There's a whole other island that unlocks after the main game but there's next to nothing there unless you want to grow different crops. Brilliant game but falls so deeply between genres that unless you really enjoy a particular aspect of it you'll find the endgame underwhelming.
  3. In the first week of Uni a guy called Mike had just moved in and was doing the rounds in an 8 floor tower to introduce himself. He came knocking and we all tried our very best to get a conversation out of him but he just wasn't biting at all. He was studying some sort of chemical engineering or something and we tried talking to him about that to no avail, we tried movies, games, sports, you name it. He had no social awareness that the conversation he was having with 4 or 5 people was dead and was awkwardly just stood in the doorway of our apartment. We all individually made weak excuses like laundry or unpacking to eventually get rid of him and after he'd gone we all had a right bitch about him and how boring and weird he was (which I still defend he was) and branded him "Radioactive Mike". Months later we have a fire evacuation in the middle of the night and as the whole building block are stood in the car park, our flat sees Mike walk past and he makes eye contact with us so we wave and say hello to him and he stops dead and goes "just so you know your walls are thinner than you think and I heard everything you all said about me" and walks off. Woof.
  4. I really enjoyed the last Ghostbusters to be fair, even the soppy ending which I think most hated. It wasn’t as good as the original one but I at least finished it which is more than I can say about the couple of times I’ve tried Ghostbusters 2.
  5. Glassdoor has removed anonymity so now every employer you have left a scathing review for and every manager you have warned prospective employees about can see your real name which was added to your profile without consent. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/glassdoor-adding-users-real-names-job-info-to-profiles-without-consent/ I’ve not put much on there and nothing I did put was particularly outrageous but fuck them. Very quickly deleted my account.
  6. FLips

    Fry-ups

    Loves a bit of green shit on his eggs does Frankie.
  7. FLips

    Fry-ups

    I can forgive the peppered hash browns, but I won't forget the whipped black pudding.
  8. Feel like I’m just cold take after cold take in the modern gaming thread lately but back on to Baldur’s Gate 3. Playing co-op with my wife at launch I didn’t really think much of the game, a lot of it was down to mechanics and some in hindsight just down to gameplay elements that I either didn’t understand yet or weren’t actually explained. My wife got super super into it though and she’s about 4 or 5 plays deep now in solo games whereas I ducked out at Act 3 on our co-op run. I thought that enough time had passed and I’ve seen my wife have so much fun on it that I’d go back and start solo and having more freedom in dialogue and combat and stuff would make the game more enjoyable for me. It did not. I still absolutely hate the randomness of the core gameplay. Dialogue options that you fail and it forces the character down paths you had no intention of being on, combat against scrub goblins where you constantly miss, and having to save scum locked doors and chests constantly. I really like the characters and dialogue but I just wish it was more of a bog standard RPG where every action you make isn’t constantly down to chance. I don’t find any fun in the game doing the opposite of what I want to say or do 8/10 times. A shame because I was really excited for it pre-launch but it’s just not for me and that’s twice I’ve tried it now so can’t say it’s due to a lack of.
  9. Spent just over an hour on Balatro after hearing nothing but good things, but sadly I think it's confirmed for me I'm 100% over the rogue-like and deck building genres both singularly and combined. There's nothing wrong with it and if anything it was pretty easy, I reached Run 6 without much effort. Just the gameplay loop, same as I found with Inscryption, is just boring. It's the first game I've refunded through Steam in my entire time on the platform, which isn't a slight on the game as I know it's well made for what it is, but it's just ÂŁ12 is a lot of money for something I feel I saw everything it had to offer in an hour's time and know I won't go back to.
  10. After the WWE Network randomly renewed two months after I cancelled it without my permission, I started watching old Manias during work and one thing I have came to realise is how bad the 20-23 ones are. I have great memories of watching them at the time, especially 20, but in hindsight most of it is either shite or tainted. 20 has some really awful throwaway tags on it where the likes of Garrison Cade and The Bashams are getting a pay day, Lesnar vs Goldberg is worse than I remember, Molly Holly has to shave her head to get the women's belt on the card, and the main event and following championship embrace to close the show is rough to go back to. 21 is much better but has stinkers on it like Trish vs Hemme and Akebono vs Big Show. The Cena and Batista eras beginning are important in the grand scheme of things but both of those matches had me snoozing. I did enjoy Michaels vs Angle a lot, and Money in The Bank still holds up. 22 has the MITB, Edge vs Foley and HBK vs Vince to prop it up but everything else on the card ranges from average to absolutely shocking. Boogeyman, a Mark Henry casket match, and a Playboy Pillow Fight stink the place up and Cena vs HHH going 20 minutes is a bad bad finish. The way the crowd has turned on Cena in the space of a year is fascinating though, they were up his arse when he was against JBL the year before. 23 may very well be one of the worst Wrestlemanias, period. MITB is ok but at this stage is already wearing thin, and Cena vs Michaels is decent. Undertaker and Batista I remember enjoying at the time but maybe we're spoiled with what we have now and what we know at least Undertaker could do at Mania, because I couldn't get on with it this time. The rest of this card though, fucking hell. Khali vs Kane, ECW Originals, Donald Trump. It's bad. Melina vs Ashley Massaro goes less than 4 minutes in the semi-main, which isn't even long enough to actually go take a piss break. Looking at that card for 24 as well doesn't fill me with enthusiasm.
  11. For the first time I can remember as well one of the candidates outright said “Yeah I messed that up and take full responsibility” and it was completely ignored and someone else got sacked anyway. Wild.
  12. Never liked Kevin Kelly. He grated on me back in his WWF days and was only good as the butt of The Rock's jokes. A complete dweeb that never had the on-air presence and/or commentary ability of any of his peers in any major company he's worked for.
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