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  1. This was my least favourite part of Fallout 4, and the reason I've not revisited it! I'm just not creative enough to make it work, and the constant raids really frustrated me. I hope they keep this away from Fallout 5. I've no idea if I'm in the minority in feeling this way, though.
  2. Smackdown in its entirety, I fast-forward through Raw and I zip through Dynamite too, with the matches often being of little interest (though if the line-up is good, I can watch the full show) I'd been watching - and enjoying - Impact, but I've not had much time for that recently, and I stopped watching Collision and Rampage a long time ago. I often find NXT to be unwatchable, although I'll check out the occasional match/episode. In terms of PPVs, I used to watch every AEW PPV (aside from Forbidden Door), but now that there's more of them I'll be a bit more selective. There's usually at least one match I want to watch on a WWE PLE, but given that I'm paying for the network as opposed to the event in question, I typically whizz through these and only watch the matches I want to see. I've only ever watched wrestling live once (live as in as it happened, rather than in person - I've never been to a show in-person) - the show in question being last year's All In.
  3. Oh, I didn't know that they were being defended separately, I obviously either missed or forgot that. I'd thought the Continental Championship had essentially replaced the ROH World Title.
  4. I used to rate IX at a similar level to VI and VII (VIII has a ridiculous story), but when I replayed it I was really surprised to see how much of a predator Zidane is. At one point he grabs Dagger's arse without her consent, he's just generally a creep. A remake could tone his behaviour down a bit, if nothing else. I'd also like to see them add more side quests and expand on the card game a bit. I think I preferred the IX card game to Triple Triad, mainly due to the fact they didn't ruin the fun with unnecessary rules such as 'random'.
  5. I’m pretty surprised that you’ve ranked Rebirth and Remake so far ahead of VII, @TildeGuy~!. It’ll be interesting to see how much the third instalment of the retelling shapes your opinion in that respect (…if it ever releases in our lifetimes)
  6. For whatever reason I’d never actually thought to mod the game, any recommendations?
  7. Jack Swagger is a bizarre one. Two of his four Wrestlemania main card appearances have been in high profile matches. In his ‘Mania debut (at 26), he won Money in the Bank. At 27, he didn’t make the card at all. Then at 28, he was in the same tag match referenced by @gmoney. But at that point, it seemed unthinkable that he’d appear in a top level ‘Mania match again - yet at 29, he was in the World Heavyweight Title match against Alberto Del Rio - a match he might actually have won had it not been for his out-of-ring failings. One year later, he was on the kick-off show for a four-way tag match also featuring Los Matadores. His final Mania appearance didn’t come until 32, where he appeared briefly in an Andre the Giant battle royal won by Baron Corbin. So it was a Wrestlemania career of real extremes for the guy.
  8. 3-hours is definitely still a harder watch, even with the quality being better now, so I totally understand that. I usually just whizz my way through it with heavy use of fast forward. I just don’t have the time to watch it in full. I generally watch all of Smackdown, though.
  9. 10 pts - Final Fantasy VII 9 pts - The Secret of Monkey Island 8 pts - Omori 7 pts - Final Fantasy XVI 6 pts - The Last of Us pt 2 5 pts - The House in Fata Morgana 4 pts - The Witcher 3 3 pts - Pokémon HeartGold/Soulsilver 2 pts - Sonic 3 & Knuckles 1 pt - Stardew Valley This was a bloody hard list to pull together, and I may switch up the order before the deadline, or even swap out games. Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Super Mario 64, Xenoblade Chronicles, Tetris 99, Fallout 3, Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, Crash Bandicoot: N-Sane Trilogy, A Short Hike, Hotline Miami, Superhot and Super Mario Galaxy were all on the list at various points. I’m sure there are other games in forgetting too!
  10. The only mainline Final Fantasy game I’ve not played. I lived rurally while this was active, and my broadband just wasn’t good enough to make giving it a go feasible. I really wish I’d been able to, as it sounds like it was a great experience.
  11. This comment might be a symptom of you not watching WWE regularly (or only watching Smackdown) as Jey Uso wrestles all the time. He’s also been brilliant, his matches are generally of a very high quality. Jimmy wrestles less for whatever reason, but he always looks good when he does. I think @d-d-d-dAz is spot on though, they did the break-up far too early to be able to sustain the feud. It feels like they’re picking up on something long forgotten about. I still think the match has potential to be great, but they probably should have either wrestled much earlier, delayed the break-up angle or had this play out differently (eg. Roman beats Jey clean at Summerslam, Jey leaves to go to Raw to ‘find himself’ and Jimmy ends up stumbling back into The Bloodline, feeling lost without his brother - with a confrontation between the two happening at the Rumble of Elimination Chamber).
  12. Just post them here, as you would for the UKFF awards. If you don’t immediately have 10 games to list, that’s OK too. You can add to them or change your mind between now and the closing date.
  13. I really like them. Fuck knows what’s in them, but they have a nice kick to them, and I really like the flavour. I like chilli-lime crisps, and these are top tier for me.
  14. If their truffle crisps are available, I thought they were decent; though I’m with @Carbomb in thinking the Torres truffle crisps are about as good as it gets for that flavour. On the whole though, for premium crisps, these are bang average. On the subject of truffle crisps, I tried the Slabs truffle flavour not that long ago, and it might be the worst premium crisp I’ve ever tried. Just awful.
  15. We’re talking video games. Whether it’s arcade, console, PC or even smartphone, it’s up to you. They’re all eligible. If you want to nominate Snake on your old Nokia, crack on!
  16. This thread might fall flat on its arse, but hopefully not… Here’s how it works. You can nominate up to 10 videogames, with 10 points going to your top game, 1 to the game that is bottom on your list. Please indicate clearly what game on your list gets 10-points. It goes without saying, but you can’t nominate the same game twice to ensure it gets extra points. When the vote closes at 5pm on Saturday 20th April, I’ll tally the votes and build a list of the UKFF’s top games of all time. Depending on the number of nominations, this will range from 20 to 100 (a broad range, I know!) - but I’ll try to make it as expansive as I can. Each game will have a short write-up, and to keep it interesting (and if people are up for it), I’ll invite the odd guest writer to draft a short entry for their favourite game (with credit, of course!), although I will write the vast majority of this myself. Of course, if no one nominates anything, I’ll let the thread die and shirk quietly in a corner pretending this didn’t happen! I’ll add my own nominations later.
  17. You’re close to the end - at this point, I gave up on the side quests and ploughed on through the story. The main story were so long and tedious that it put me off doing anything that wasn’t Queen’s Blood. I thought the side quests were, on the whole, really good, though. I hope they remove the needless padding in game 3, whenever they get round to releasing it. Still, XVI and Rebirth have me fully invested in the Final Fantasy series again. I really enjoyed XV too, for that matter - although the subsequent games were a massive step up for me.
  18. You get matches like that on every AEW PPV too, even the ‘big ones’. They don’t define the PPV, but they can be fun additions. Goodness knows how Knight/Styles will play out, but I reckon the Uso match has serious potential, they’re both very talented in-ring. Funnily enough, I’ve never felt particularly interested in Bayley/Iyo; Iyo hasn’t really clicked for me as champ. I’m really excited about Wrestlemania, there’s a lot to look forward to from my perspective. The tag match should be fun, and we’re almost certainly going to see Cody become champion. Gunther/Zayn should be a sensational match, and if Sami ends Gunther’s historic run, what a brilliant moment that’ll be. Rhea/Becky is a match I really want to see, and I hope it main events night one. Rhea might actually be the hottest act in the business right now, and if she isn’t, she’s certainly in contention. She’s so good, and really knows her character. Although I’d prefer to see Judgement Day vs Awesome Truth, the tag match will likely be really good on the night; much as the multi-team match was last year. Logan Paul is great as champ, so the three way should be really fun. I think they’d have been better off putting him in a singles match, but that’s not to say that I can’t or won’t enjoy this. Then there’s Seth vs Drew. Seth sucks, but Drew is the one of the best heels - if not THE best heel - in wrestling right now. I can’t wait to watch him kick Seth’s head off! Although you might not be so keen on it - which is fair enough, we all have different tastes - I think the idea that Wrestlemania is ice cold doesn’t really hold up to scrutiny - WWE is performing to sell-out crowds each week, the feeling of the company fighting against its audience is completely gone, and even on this very forum there’s moser discussion about each show than ever before; debating what’ll happen next and where the story could go. And it’s so much fun to know that it’s being booked by people who think about the long-term, after years of McMahon tedium. I hope you feel more excited about Wrestlemania before the show begins, but I’m absolutely buzzing for it!
  19. Based on her reported pay, I imagine she will be; in the sense that I would expect women’s wrestling to get much more of a focus on AEW television, with better storylines and better positioning on the card. I’d hope that this will lead to better pay too, for female wrestlers who reach that next level. AEW has the female wrestlers it needs for a division that competes with, if not surpasses, rival companies; and I hope they now get the chance to prove that.
  20. Yeah, that’s a really good summary of where he’s at in ring right now. I felt pretty enthusiastic about the guy due to his excellent mic work recently, but he lacks an explosiveness in ring, and he struggled to execute his power moves on Joe. I think he’d benefit from a run of competitive matches against veterans, or maybe even a stint outside of the company - loan him to New Japan or something. He has obvious strengths, but his weaknesses are impossible to ignore at this stage. I wonder if Deonna’s challenge to Toni will see the return of Britt Baker or Jamie Hayter? I can’t really see any other reason to not announce her partner, and the other big option, Mercedes, is occupied. I’m glad to see the Scissors Gang split, and I hope the end result of this is that one set of trios belts ceases to exist. I’ve come to realise that my least favourite form of wrestling is six-man tag matches, I just hate them. I can’t really explain why; maybe it’s because I genuinely do like tag wrestling and this seems to get in the way, or maybe it’s because it’s harder to do a good feud with teams of that size. Ospreay impressed me again, and I still struggle to understand the viewpoint that he’s weak on the mic. I’d go as far as to say he’s one of the best AEW wrestlers when it comes to mic work, his promos feel genuine and captivating. I’m not sure it was the best idea to suggest AEW needed to remind people why it existed, but overall it was great work. I look forward to seeing him go head-to-head with Danielson on the mic. Poor Hook. The reaction to Jericho continues to be uncomfortable in a way I’m not sure I’ve ever seen in wrestling. They can, and probably will, turn him heel; but I don’t think there’s any escaping how people feel about him. There’s no riding this one out.
  21. Here’s their debut, with the added context being that this was the first real appearance of any of these wrestlers on a main WWE show outside of NXT (in its old ‘contest’ format). I don’t think they did at all, because that’s not exactly how it played out. They booked Nexus strong heading into Summerslam, then immediately had them lose their first major match. But the story didn’t end there - they ran with Orton/Barrett for the belt several times (a match that would have been far more compelling had Nexus won at Summerslam), and even had Cena join the stable briefly. They eventually developed ‘The New Nexus’ and ‘The Corre’, so presumably recognised that they had been on to something with the initial idea; just not that almost every decision they had made had fucked it up. To be clear, I’m defining ‘missed opportunity’ in this case as ‘maximising the storyline’ and doing something memorable. I don’t think it matters at all if most of the wrestlers involved faded into the background once the storyline wrapped up; or even as it progressed. With better booking they could have got much more out of this stable; even if it transitioned to Barrett being the focal point with the others cast as ‘goons’. Following the debut of Nexus, the champions were Cena, Sheamus, Orton and Miz. It was a bland time to watch WWE, with an injection of interesting in the fresh faces of Nexus that was far less effective than I think it could have been.
  22. Husky Harris was the ‘New Nexus’. The originals were Barrett, Bryan (briefly), Otunga, Young, Sheffield, Tarver, Slater and Gabriel. Some of them were green, but after such a hot debut, I find it bizarre that they killed the stable dead in the way that they did. I’m not suggesting you’re saying this, but I don’t believe for a second that they couldn’t have booked around any limitations that existed. Barrett himself was good enough to have enjoyable matches with good opponents even then, and that’s sometimes all you need; particularly given how good he was on the mic. The stable was a missed opportunity in the short term - most of them would have ended up where they eventually did anyway - but Barrett was a longer term missed opportunity, at least in my view.
  23. Looking forward to your thoughts once you finish the whole thing!
  24. I know I’m throwing a lot of names around here, but I’ll add another one to the mix anyway - R-Truth. He eventually settled into a comedy role; presumably because he amused Vince McMahon, but I think he could have been much more than that; demonstrated by his time in TNA, the depth of the vignettes ahead of his debut as ‘R-Truth’ and also his initial heel run in WWE. The guy has a tremendous look, is good on the mic and is good in ring. Importantly, he clearly has an ability to connect with an audience. If a fresh-faced Ron Killings debuted in 2024, I suspect he would be seen has having a very bright future ahead of him. And to add an obvious one - The Nexus Their debut was red-hot, with an angle that got people talking. The follow-up leading to Summerslam was generally very strong. But then they lost, and never recovered. How could anyone take them seriously after that? Still, there was an opportunity to do something with Wade Barrett. All they needed to do was have him win the title in his match against Randy Orton, and they’d have had a fresh new top level heel. And of course, they didn’t do that. Then they moved him to Smackdown where the same opportunity to establish him existed…but they didn’t. I find it pretty mind-blowing that the guy didn’t even have a short stint with one of the two titles. He’s a great commentator, but he could have been so much more than that.
  25. He does, and that’s kind of how I felt about him initially; with the turning point being the turn on Jamie Noble and subsequent beat down. He had what it took, I thought, to be a solid heel. @Chili is spot on about his mic skills, so perhaps a mouthpiece would have benefited him. I do like a big man brawler though, so maybe I’m overestimating his upside based on my own biases!
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