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People who've finished this, what did you think about the game once you got into the geothermal valley? I haven't initiated "the battle" yet, but I suddenly found my interest in the game tanked as it was just a repeat of the first areas' mechanics but suddenly not fun or new or interesting. Animals that take 20 arrows (is this a call back to Tomb Raider 2?), fetch quests that anyone could do (kill two boars that are literally 15 metres away and 2 mushrooms you were already carrying), awkward platforming sections (swing from a branch into a scramble half-way up a tower? how is that possible) and a bunch of challenge caves blocked off by arbitrary abilities that feel like they have one singular, unrealistic application like the spinning top from Twilight Princess... Unless someone says it picks back up I might have to give up here :/

Trailer for N7 Day Strange angle to go with really. Doesn't capture any of that old ambition of the Mass Effect games, but it does look good.

I actually just watched the finale and it was nowhere near as bad as I was expecting. There wasn't an ounce of relationship drama and team Arrow looks like it's slimming down. If it was up to me it would all be GA. If it improves from that it's all good.

That kind of multiplayer? How about an Assassins Creed game? Brotherhood introduced one of my favourite multiplayer games ever, especially for being so different in pace and approach to CoD. The Ezio Collection is out soon and might be a good place to start. Or for team-based and tactical but still a lot of running and gunning, Overwatch. Uncharted 4 is obviously the same people and same third person multiplayer. I don't know much about TLoU's multiplayer to compare though, does it have one team playing as the zombs? For single player, the new Tomb Raider or Bioshock Collection, similar in their own ways.

110GB is a bit small these days. If you don't use an external to store the majority of large installations and expect it to be functional as a gaming laptop, you will certainly run into these problems. I know that's not much help. Check out the free program WinDirStat to see if there's anywhere you're using up a lot of space that you might not have thought of. Disk cleanup might get rid of a lot of old installation files etc.. 512GB SSDs have dropped quite a lot in price over the last year. Once your current issue is fixed you might want to consider an upgrade. I know what you're saying about the plug-and-play simplicity of a console but at least with a computer you have options when you run out of room. With a PS4 on the other hand whilst you can easily upgrade to 2TB, once you've filled that you're stuffed.

This series is great. The visuals of it are really fab. I'm a bit confused by what happened in the latest episode though. They can get punched?

If you'd stayed on the line they were probably about to try selling you mortgage advice through themselves, all estate agents do.

In fairness if someone was coming to view my house I wouldn't want to waste my time on anyone who hadn't seen a mortgage advisor yet. Browse online and see what you could afford, sure. But make appointments, have the vendor out of the house, give them hope that their new purchase might gain traction? It's not the same as renting where they're 90% likely to get it as long as they have a job. You need to be able to prove you have savings, insurance options, months of regular income, a good credit rating etc.. If you saw a place and you wanted it, you wouldn't be able to put in an offer because you would have no real idea what you could afford (even if you know you have 10%, doesnt mean you can afford the fees as well, or the monthly repayments).

Appreciate the opinion but it does no good for us drawing in new users. I also think from a usability standpoint it's no use to existing users, either. 2 threads containing every bit of good and bad news that happens in our lives hides a large amount of the forum's content in previous pages nobody is ever going to peruse, and as such people might easily miss content they could contribute to. It makes the page look more stagnant, too. Online Gaming, I have no idea why a separate board for that survived the previous merge, an oversight I think.

Anything! There's been some bizarre misconception amongst some people that we have been keen to police new threads, to force them into bigger, "megathreads" etc. This has never been the case! In fact, quite the opposite, we encourage new threads whenever one seems like a good idea. A few people lately have started threads with "I'm not sure if this is supposed to be here" or "I'm not sure if this is meant to have its own thread" (*cough* @ReZourceman) when it's actually what we like to see the most. Tech Chat, Creative and Playground have all been merged into General Chit Chat too. I'm sure it's clear but the idea of that is not to quash these topics but to put them all in the same place. Want to show off your photography, or art work? Or just your new forum signature? General Chit Chat is fine. Got a tech question or want to talk mobile phones? Gen chit chat. Same for forum games, mafia etc, go nuts. Of course Nintendo threads should be in the Nintendo board and threads relating to other consoles and their games have their place too. General gaming still has its place, for now. Never shy away from a new thread!

Zell said he will be on later and Drift confirmed he could raid from 5, just to keep everyone up to date

@MilaGi @Map @Zell @Eddage @DriftKaiser Any chance you guys are around to finish the HM raid today? If so say when you're available. I'm about all day if anyone wants to raid, could do an alt raid if the first group not all free. Or @Map and @MilaGi, the Bolt Caster quest?

It happens with me with certain users sometimes. I think it's an issue with the quote plugin not being able to deal with some characters in the post or the user's name. I can never quote @Sméagol for example. I'm not sure it can be resolved right now as we don't have a license for updates anymore.

I could play great Mario (+Kart), Zelda and Metroid games until the end of time. They can make new iterations of these three IPs forever and I'd be happy. My problem with them is that the quality of them has declined not through repetition or stagnation but because for some reason they can't seem to see what made the best games so popular.

Yknow if you put a joke in every single post it's very hard to tell when you've got a sincere request :p

I don't think brexiters wanted parliament to have more of a say than its people... /devils-advocate I also don't think this will stop brexit. But hopefully it will at least prevent us leaving without a proper plan.

Ok cool! Full team then assuming Drift is in, Zell gets home 8ish.

1) What's your dream job? On the realistic spectrum, it would be pretty rad if this website generated enough money to live on, think what you could do with it then.... Would be so cool to have people at E3 with N-E tshirts on doing videos that thousands of people watch. And then we could do a Eurogamer and have our own conference. I'd happily just be the head of web development for that! I also wouldn't mind tinkering in the world of youtube professionalism. There's a lot of money to be made there, but a lot of stress too. That said I recently found a lot of enjoyment in video editing. 2) What are you actually doing? I build websites for a company, the one that hosts this site, you can find a link if you nosy around I've built websites for some pretty big clients, including one of the most famous classical musicians in the world. There's a lot of potential for this company to grow and grow and for me to be in the middle of that, which is pretty great. 3) Did you ever envision yourself in what you're doing now? Not really. In my life up until work, I was aiming to be in the air force, then a writer after that. When I was a cadet though I was put off the former life a little. And ironically all the reading I did at uni killed my passion for books, which is the fuel you need to be a good writer.... I built websites as a hobby. I rebuilt N-E, I made other gaming and band related websites. When I finished Uni I realised if I wanted to keep living self-sufficiently, I needed a job, and I needed it sooner than I'd be able to get something degree-related. So I improved my portfolio site a bit and sought work related to my skills.

That's a good costume! Thought it would be recognised anywhere! Yeah he wouldn't put facepaint on! Miserable git :p Pretty proud of the rank pins made of paper fasteners, and comms badges made out of polystyrene pizza bases and gold/silver sharpies though! Also I was the only one who had a collar and properly sewed* my tops together. * girlfriend sewed with sewing machine

Yes, raid plz.

I don't think I'm either really. My mood fluctuates a lot. I don't shy away from being hopeful for fear of disappointment, but I don't always expect things to work out either. I'm just a mist.

Oh yeah, I confused him with someone with a much cooler username.

Yeah we were just talking about how it was all your fault.