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  1. Posted

    9 hours ago, Happenstance said:

    I meant to ask, did anyone else think that there was a nod to Star Trek Generations in Discovery ep 2? When the crew member is reading off the damaged decks and gets to the one Commander whatsherface is on its very much like the pause and realization that Sulu's daughter had with Kirk on the Enterprise B.

    I got a Star Trek Generations vibe at one point and couldn't put my finger on why. Perhaps this is it! 

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    1 hour ago, drahkon said:

    Hm...Elite Dangerous for 16.99€...Veeeeery tempted.

    @Fierce_LiNk @DriftKaiser @Cookyman @ArtMediocre @somme

    Help me out here. Is it worth it? I've bought No Man's Sky recently again which is something I'll keep coming back to in the future. How does Elite Dangerous compare? Can you play this for an hour and still achieve something? Or do you really have to invest time to enjoy it?

    If you're already getting your space fix from NMS I wouldn't bother right now. It does indeed have a steep learning curve and although it has a lot of good things about it, I found myself watching numbers the majority of the time as the distances between celestial bodies is more realistic... and space it big. NMS is much more immediate and much easier to jump in and play. With the new patch I also found more things to do in NMS.

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  8. Posted

    I just hope MGM/Stargate don't sue them as those Stargates look very Atlantis. Update seems great so far. 

    I'm playing on my nephews original PS4 and it is looking a lot better. Can't wait to see what it looks like on my Pro. 

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  9. Posted

    1 minute ago, Ronnie said:

    Complaining about complaining?

    Why not ask the same question of the many others who post negative opinions on games? I wasted my money on this game and I'm entitled to moan about it, thank you.

    Oh and lore =/= story.

    Well, the lore had over-arcing plots so yes I would say it had many stories. 

    And no I'm not complaining about complaining. I'm just complaining about you. You rile people up all over this forum, and to be honest I've had my fill. I've been on this forum since the GameCube days but I just can't be bothered anymore.

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  10. Posted

    Borrowed my nephew's copy of this today. Well, in truth I started playing at his and got so immersed I had to steal it and go back home. I played solidly for around eight hours today. A great game. It's gorgeous to look at, fun to climb and shoot and although the story is a bit clichéd, it works and gets pretty intense at times. 

    Never played an Uncharted game before but now I;m thinking about pre-ordering the new one!

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  11. Posted

    7 minutes ago, Ronnie said:

    What story!

    I'm guessing you didn't play long enough to realise there is a hefty amount of lore in-game. 

    If you don't like the game, don't want to play it, and didn't play it long enough to really know anything about it, why come in here every single time there's activity and proceed to be overly negative? We get it, you don't like it. Move on. 

     

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  12. Posted

    1 hour ago, Fierce_LiNk said:

    I still listen to the soundtrack on Spotify. One of the best "gaming" soundtracks ever, imo. It's pretty much just a new 65Days album, but it's so good and fits the game.

     

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    I listen to that album all the time. 'Asimov' is one of my favourite tracks, possibly ever!

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  13. Posted

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    Hello Citizen Scientists,

    It’s been a year since No Man’s Sky first released, and it’s been an exciting, intense and emotional year for us at Hello Games. We have been quiet, but we have been listening intently.

    We've spent that year working hard on free updates for this game our team cares about so much.

    Update 1.3 will release this week and will be available for free to all No Man’s Sky players. We're calling it Atlas Rises. It focuses on improving the central story of No Man’s Sky and adds the ability to quick travel between locations using portals. Patch notes will be made available shortly before the update goes live.

    What we do is much more important than what we say, but since launch we have sometimes focused too much on that.

    We wanted to reach out and celebrate the devoted community that means so much to us. We launched Waking Titan to try to do that.

    When we posted those cassettes we didn't know what to expect. In the last eight weeks a quarter of a million players from across the globe (174 countries, to be precise!) have come together - united by a shared love of mystery and science fiction - to form the Citizen Science Division. You’ve travelled great distances both real and virtual, undertaken complex tasks, and explored the depths of simulation theory. New friendships have been forged, and a tight-knit community has been created. Most importantly a cute hamster has a new home.

    You've become part of the No Man's Sky origin story.

    It's been an honour to watch, but this is just the beginning. Whether you’ve followed Waking Titan or not, we welcome anyone to sign up to the Citizen Science Division, and to join us on the official CSD forums.

    Our journey continues.

    Thank you for this year. We hope you enjoy what comes next.

    Sean

     

    Excited for the new update to drop this week!

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  14. Posted · Edited by somme

    15 hours ago, Fierce_LiNk said:
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    I don't buy that at all. I actually do think this is one of those rare occasions where we finally get some closure and some answers. At the point where the fluid was, there's no time for them to hear her response, react, shut the thing down and get to her without drowning. She's clearly taking a deep breath in that scene before the fluid engulfs her. 

     

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    Well, that's why I love the show. Both answers can't be right but you can choose your own end or explanation. 

    Found a great quote in an online article, which seems to agree with me, but also says:

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    If you're the kind of person who needs concrete answers to the show's central mysteries, then it certainly seems like the finale provided them. And if you're the kind of person who prefers to "let the mystery be" (as the Season 2 theme song goes... ), then there's plenty of ambiguity left as the credits roll on the final episode. It may be impossible to please everyone in a series finale — but it certainly seems like The Leftovers might have come close.

    https://www.bustle.com/p/did-nora-go-through-the-device-on-the-leftovers-she-certainly-has-incredible-story-61516

     

    If we had seen any of her story, rather than just hear her talk about it, I would believe it. But we only have her word and Nora was never really one to tell the truth. 

     
     

     

     

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    9 hours ago, Fierce_LiNk said:
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    Yeah, I believe Nora's story. What's the alternative? That she, Laurie and Kevin all died and that they are in the afterlife right now?

    Nora was in the machine and something has to happen. Either the machine worked and she transported to the other place, or she dies. She's not escaping from there. 

    The conversation at the very end shows that they were finally able to talk to each other and be honest. Either what Nora is saying is true, or they are in some kind of alternate universe/afterlife at that moment.

     

     

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    Or she got out of the machine. 

    If you rewatch that scene carefully, just as the water is about to rise and cover her face she goes to scream, she goes to say, "stop." But the scene cuts just before we hear her. 

    I don't think she went through. I think she chickened out. Either she wanted to stay broken or she wasn't strong enough. Either way, I want to believe her. I just don't think I can. 

     

     

  16. Posted · Edited by somme

    6 minutes ago, Fierce_LiNk said:

    We finished the show a few days ago:

     

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    I thought that the last two or three episodes were fantastic. Excellent ending and finally we have one huge answered about "where did they go?" There seemed to be a lot of closure in the finale.

    I think Season Two was the strongest of the lot. Season Three featured a lot of red herrings, particularly with the talk about the rain dances, song, the big flood coming, Kevin Senior's whole adventure, Matt's realisation about God, etc. The show led us down the religion path and then quickly veered back to the science route right at the very end.

    One theory I have about why it happened is that science is to blame here. Somehow, an experiment or some phenomenon caused the world to split into two separate universes, with the cast in one universe and the departed in their own. Through science, Nora was able to cross between worlds. So, through science, we've finally got some answers. Maybe this phenomenon also created the "limbo" that Kevin was able to access, too? Who knows.

     

    I thought it was a perfect ending. It answered questions, but left you with room there for more if you wanted it. But, at last, closure.

     

     

     

     

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    I take it from your post that you believe Nora then? 

    I did at first and then, as I thought back on how she acted throughout her life (as we saw it anyway), she was probably lying. I think she knew she'd never really had closure but she had to give herself some, especially if she wanted an unburdened relationship with Kevin. 

    As to what happened to those that left? We'll never know for sure, unless you believe Nora's story. But yeah I love that the show gave you the choice. And I loved the science vs. faith themes running through the show. I wanted to believe Kevin was really going somewhere else, but I knew deep down there was no magic, no other-world. It all had an explanation.

     

     
     
     

     

  17. Posted

    On 8/1/2017 at 11:26 AM, Fierce_LiNk said:

    We've just started season 3.

     

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    I loved the interpretation of "limbo" in season 2. The scene were Kevin has to sing Homeward Bound was just brilliant. In fact, season 2 has been some of the best tv that I've ever seen.

     

    Let me know what you think of the very end. I thought it was a perfect end myself.

  18. Posted

    16 hours ago, Happenstance said:

    I've said it before but the only time I think motion controls work well is with VR. Anything else I steer clear.

    I agree. In VR motion controls feel very natural, any other time and they feel like a chore. 

  19. Posted

    On 7/16/2017 at 0:09 PM, Fierce_LiNk said:

    Has anyone here seen The Leftovers? One of @Eenuh's family members gave us the boxset for season 1 and 2 and I just loooooove it. Season 2 in particular is incredible. Any other fans here?

    Yes, I loved! It's an amazing show with a beautiful soundtrack. I've finished the show now and loved it from beginning to end. Nora rules. 

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  21. Posted

    30 minutes ago, James said:

    I'm not sure if your all being serious or taking the piss, Hasn't it been 40 quid for years, your wage might not be going up but can be sure their hosting costs are. 

    It's an extra 80p(ish) a month.......

    Yeah, I'm not bothered either. Everything goes up in price eventually. 

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  22. Posted

    Part of me is expecting episode 9 to end on a cliffhanger with the First Order winning. Not a cliffhanger in a TV show sense, the story will be nicely ended but the good guys won't win.

    Then a decade or so later we'll have the next trilogy. 

    There are many talented writers, producers, directors, musicians in the world, and barring Rey's Theme I actually found the score to TFA to be a little disappointing. And modern films generally seem to have less emphasis on memorable scores and they're always a lot quieter than movies from previous decades, especially the 80s. 

  23. Posted

    20 hours ago, Julius Caesar said:

    As in romantic interest. 

    It's pretty weird to think about - and off the table if they're related - at first, but there's quite a bit of evidence to support it (I'm not the biggest fan of the idea, though; guess we'll have to see how TLJ turns out).

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    Who knows about that these days, haha.

    I don't see Rey finding love until episode 10-12 in 15 or so years time. 

  25. Posted

    With a world population of seven and a half billion and spiralling out of control then perhaps a fall in fertility is a good thing. We can't sustain the current growth and most people would probably disagree with a 'child limit' like China used to have. 

    Also, as a gay man, I can probably answer a few questions. For starters camp and/or effeminate men are actually in the minority in the gay community. But you're much more likely to assume a camp man is gay than one who is not camp. Most gay men hide quite well as they're not overly effeminate and so people don't assume they're gay.

     

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