Tommy!

I've been replying Mercy, the actual story modes which I haven't in years despite playing it semi regular.

Two things which jumped out I'd forgotten is how much big show getting pulled at the 11th hour messed with the world title story. Late elimination in the rumble is the 99 rumble to mania Austin v Rock with the Vince cage match story. Now with occasional Stevie Richards spooned in.

Start as champ and it's Rumble to mania 2000, Vs mankind to cactus, Linda bringing back Foley for the big 4 way, champion v Rock v Foley v Stevie.

Just how late in the day did show get pulled that they couldn't spoon Austin or Benoit in rather than the 1:1 with Richards?

Second is a man can play the women's championship, complete with entry to the rumble bikini contest with a little turquoise number. Not sure if that's normal or just my "copy".

Shawn and Ronda Shear.

The woman with the green underwear who takes a massive piss before her meeting in the air up advert.

FYI for anyone interested Aldi is having a load of Bluey stuff in from 25/04

Scooters, an ice cream station, Bluey / bingo plush chairs that look cool, playsets, talking stuffed toys, etch a sketch, figures and some other stuff.

I have no kids and no idea what Bluey is all about, but I know there are a few on here with kids who love it.

2 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

maybe missed the part where it was clearly a fucking joke?

Sorry mate, if you made your jokes amusing perhaps it wouldn't cause such confusion.

2 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

And?

Given your often holier-than-thou attitude it seemed odd.

17 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

He never goes out, is nearly completely deaf so never answers his door (hence why the parcel wasn't accepted) and never has visitors. Fuck sake.

I'm giving him a week to get it, then I'm opening it.

Sounds like stealing from on old and frail person with a disability to me.

10 pts: Super Mario World (SNES)
It's the best Mario game and just astoundingly good fun. I replay it every couple of years and it might be the only game I've ever 100% completed (although I regretted it because turning everything into different sprites looked crap, an Tubular can get fucked).

The level design is fantastic and provides a fun challenge with a steady curve. The general look was amazing, so vibrant and full of life and the sound is so wonderful too. All the pieces fit together perfectly. It's also aged perfectly.

9 pts: Skyrim (Nearly everything ever made)
I own it about 5 times, I regularly replay it and it's the peak of the Bethesda style. The game play is great fun, combat feels weighty and choices feel meaningful without cutting off areas of the game. The 2 main story's of dragons and civil war are involved enough to be deep and different enough to both feel engaging. Some of the side quests are a bit naff (most of the thieves guild, I'm looking at you) but the brotherhood of darkness and mages collage more than make up for it.

8 pts: Red Dead 2 (PS4)
It's all about the story here, following Arthur through the decline of the old west still draws me in. The gameplay is great fun and there's enough side stuff to keep it varied without the side stuff feeling like needless padding or fluff.

7 pts: Chrono Trigger (SNES / PC)
The only JRPG I've completed. It's got great characters, great story and great levels. The curve is perfect so there's no grinding and no getting lost while you can still explore. There are some fun little puzzles and it has replay value with new game +. 

6 pts: Fallout NV (PS3 / PC)
I've played through all Fallout mainline games recently and 4 still falls flat on the story once you get in the institute and 1 & 2 lack pace. It's a tough call between 3 & NV but NV wins. Not to knock 3 but playing through it's all so drab, and while it's the perfect thing for a nuclear wasteland it get's a bit waring. The characters all feel more connected in NV, all those little clans interweave by the end in a much more satisfying way, and they have a bit more variety and fun to them.

5 pts: Super Mario 64 (N64)
It's the second best Mario Game, still amazing to play now and ground-breaking at the time to take that leap to 3D. Level themes are all varied and mostly fun, a couple fall a bit short for me which is why SMW wins out

4 pts: C&C (I think it's call Tiberiam Dawn retrospectively) (PC)
I never liked the move in visual style and some of the more zany unit's in later games, so it's between this, Red alert 1 & Red Alert 2 but the original takes it for some of the later Allied missions in Red Alert 1 being a bit of a dull slog.
I played it on PS1 so much it's amazing looking back as a RTS on a control now is like torture, but on PC, especially with the remaster, it's just as much fun as it ever was.

3 pts: Arkham Asylum (PS3 / PS4)
Best of the run, tight and full of side content without bloat and great fun gameplay that keeps a challenge without being a frustration, gently adding mechanics and upping the ante you need to meet. City felt too bloated for me, it's a perfect case of less is more.

2 pts: WWE Here Comes the pain (PS2)
It's the peak of the smackdown games and while I go back to No Mercy more (and it is great) if HCTP was as easy to access that would be even more replayed. The roster was amazing, the mechanics near perfect and the gameplay great fun, hitting the sweet spot between the hyper pace of prior games without being bound by realism. 

1 pt: Theme Hospital / Two Point Hospital (PC)
Might be a cheat but lets face it, it's essentially a remaster. Again both games I love going back to time and time again, nice visuals which have aged really well in both cases and has a great a sense of humour about itself. There's a challenge but it's got the right curve to keep it fun.

Some honourable mentions that just missed the cut but didn't get a mention in the list live Fallout 3 and Red Alert,
Soviet Strike (PS) It's just really good fun, but I honestly couldn't explain why I love it so.

Civilization 2 (PC)
Still the best of the series for me because it's deep enough to get stuck into but not so much that you can't just relax and play. I'm also a sucker for the look and style.

Spider-Man (PS4)
It was amazing, the story was amazing and TBH batman is a cunt so I'd be inclined to go for this over Arkham but fact is looking back it's Arkham I'm keen to replay.

Tony Hawks Underground (PS2)
It had a fun story in a sports game, it had all the light-hearted skating joy of earlier titles without the 2 minute run limits.

GTA: Vice City (PS2)
GTA 3 was ground breaking and had an ungodly number of hours sunk into it but it's VC that really sticks with me. The 80's setting and movie pastiche were novel and fun, the characters were larger than life without being annoying or dull and the scale was just right. GTA:SA felt too big and had too much fluff tacked on for me that meant that while I loved it VC always takes the top spot of the PS2 era.
It's just aged badly, as have all the PS2 era GTA games TBH.

GTA 1 (PS1)

Still great fun, basic but challenging enough, still great to sip in and out of.

I picked up RoboCop rouge city. Plays ok on steam deck, looks a bit iffy in cut scenes now and then but I don't care about that.

It's fun and captures the feel perfectly but I can see me getting board before the end unless they open up new mechanics.

I also got Hades, which I've been really enjoying. Again I'm not going to be a 100% on it but I can see me going back for bursts for ages.

Thanks lads, it's them Kreator who I sort of know and Testament who I've heard of.

I bought tickets to see Anthrax later this year, are they still any good live?

7 minutes ago, neil said:

The Staniforth effect.

Stain trouser forth, m'laud

5 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said:

If you want to keep in touch outside the board, drop me a DM and I'll send you my number. Lovely to see you around.

Stain trouser forth, m'laud

Wrong quote. This is why I don't shirt the place up anymore.

3 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said:

If you want to keep in touch outside the board, drop me a DM and I'll send you my number. Lovely to see you around.

I follow you on twitter, you are the best of here tbh. I occasionally post a reply so you'll not escape me so easily 😆

On 2/7/2024 at 11:26 AM, SuperBacon said:

@Tommy! @Butch2000 you good lads?

Still alive and still a cunt, just not posting shit here anymore.

FYI I don't get emails from tags on here, a mate posts and mentioned this.

1 hour ago, Keith Houchen said:

if I did, this bullshit conversation would be at the top of the fucking list. 

You do have the power to just not reply though, yeah?

3 hours ago, Keith Houchen said:

As I said, if it related to any of the things you said, it wouldn’t have been a spoiler

But you didn't know it didn't, unless you'd worked it out by clue 2 anyway or actively applied that clue to all potential sequences, which is really you spoiling it for yourself as I say.

3 hours ago, Keith Houchen said:

 

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If I ever get on I'm gonna wear a "Loki is a nob" t-shirt now.

Still better than Carbombs (?) on the chase 😉

1 minute ago, Keith Houchen said:

therefore I was expecting a set of clues that were connected by cricket or English counties

Or characters in Caroline Aherne shows, or initials that relate to social media, or countless other things.

Sounds like you spoilt it as much for yourself as anything else.

1 minute ago, King Mal the Glorious said:

I used SAP for years in an old job and had no idea what 99% of the icons and options did.

I recently got asked to get data out of the tables with next to no documentation or guidance and was assured I'd "pick it up" despite chunks of the naming logic meaning something in German and not English.

Being childish It was worth it just for finding a table called inob though.

54 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said:

I have to ask. What does the top hat do? 

Shows the Header screen of a document.

SAP is great once you get used to it but it's a ball ache to get around to start with. It's why they were selling Fori so hard for a time IMO.

2 hours ago, Keith Houchen said:

It spoiled it for me as I knew it was coming, therefore I was applying English counties to every question to see if it fitted. Absolutely a spoiler. 

But how did you know Devon Malcom as a clue applied to English counties, that's not something spoilt in what was said on here was it?

Devon Malcom as a clue on that show could be anything.

On 10/31/2023 at 2:16 PM, SuperBacon said:

Don't be a nob. Having watched the episode over lunch, given what round it was in, it was definitely a spoiler. A quick warning takes no time at all.

sorry to drag this up but I've just watched this and unless you've solved it at clue 2 anyway I don't really see how knowing Devon Malcom is a clue somewhere in the show spoils much.

4 hours ago, King Coconut said:

Seeing Gladys Knight live

18 hours ago, tiger_rick said:

The twitter mob who are suddenly experts on Ice Hockey have already decided the fella is guilty

3 hours ago, Daaaaaad! said:

really is a mystery how so many people from all around the world have suddenly gained expertise and begun to comment on the guilt of black ice hockey player Matt Petgrave, isn't it?

12 hours ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

don’t think it was accidental, nor do I think he was trying to kill him, which is why a manslaughter charge seems possible. I know traveling at speed, skates yada yada. But his leg seemed to go up very high with no real need and towards the player