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I'll believe it when I see it.

It's weird. I can't remember a single thing about Steins; Gate, and it wasn't that long ago that I watched it. Something about a microwave right?

Seems crazy that they made two completely different games based on the same film in the same year.

We will expect you in the drunken thread forthwith.

My father in law's nephew has the same name as him.

Oh i guess that makes sense. I thought they just meant it was really dangerous because all the worst pirates went there.

So i did watch it, and though it was pretty good. Had no idea going in that it was piratey, and i really enjoy piratey things, so that was good. It was like a cartoony version of Pirates of the Caribbean. I take issue with your statement that it is 10 episodes long though. I was really confused when episode 8 ended and wondered what they would even have in the final 2 episodes... One thing i don't really get is that everyone is after this map to take them to The Grand Line, but then they explain that the Grand Line is a band that cuts the entire ocean into the north and south seas. So why can't they just sail south if they want to get there?

Hmmm, drastically differing opinions. Maybe I'll have to just watch the first one and see if it grips me. Thinking about it, I can't remember if I finished Mando S3? I think I stopped when my D+ subscription ran out, and I can't remember if I ever went back and watched the rest...

Would you say that Asoka is a good series to watch as a fairly neutral viewer? I.e. is it a standalone good series, or does it rely on being a fan of Star Wars and require knowledge of watching Rebels and the other shows? Debating whether to watch it, but I've been burned by previous series. Andor was good, but Obi Wan and Boba Fett were a bit crap etc.

Not got a whole lot to add to this thread unfortunately - the result of having children. I basically gave up on playing Pokémon Arceus - it was just too boring. The plot and dialogue was painful, and even finding and collecting all the Pokémon became too much of a chore. I think it needed more variation, or maybe i just wasn't in the mood for it. Similarly I stopped playing Jedi: Fallen Order as I just got bored. I can't even pinpoint what it was I didn't like about that one, I just had to keep forcing myself to play it, and when I get barely any time to play games, it just felt stupid to be playing a game I wasn't enjoying. Instead, I wanted to start a game I got for Christmas that i've always wanted to play - Mass Effect. I've heard great things about this game, and I was really excited to get stuck in! I've managed to put in a few hours of playing now, and i've finished the initial Citadel levels. It's pretty good - i'm enjoying the writing and plot (possibly just because of how much better it is compared to Pokemon) - it feels like watching/reading a good sci-fi, with all the different alien races and their interactions. The amount of additional lore they've added to the game is seriously impressive, and a bit overwhelming tbh. When you only have 30 minutes to play in an evening, you don't want to get side-tracked reading about a treaty between two alien races that happened 2000 years before the game is set! The actual gameplay is a bit basic, but not terrible. I've set the difficulty to easy, because i'm not that interested in the gun-fights that much - I just want to find out how the story plays out! The thing i'm worried about it forgetting what happened at the beginning before i've reached the end - I might have to find myself a good precis of the plot that I can keep swotting up on as I go.

I'm only at this gig for that one s̶o̶n̶g̶ game. If you don't play it soon, I'm going to start throwing bottles of piss.

Do Goldeneye!

That sounds like a crap situation, but you really aren't going to get much sympathy with such an amazing paternity situation in the first place! I only got 2 weeks paid leave! Could you not just take the time off now and spend time with your daughter, and your wife can have some time alone? Honestly getting 12 weeks with your wife and daughter fully paid sounds like a dream anyway...

I was trying to work out why all the images looked so....off. Took me quite a few to realise they were all CGI.

It terms of the app/system, Netflix wins hands down. They almost never crash - the streaming quality is exceptional, and the app is easy to navigate around and find the stuff you want. Prime video by comparison is a shit-show. The app is always crashing (is doesn't even load properly anymore on my Samsung tv), and is slow as balls to navigate around. Half the stuff on there is bait and hidden behind a second paywall. The streaming quality is rubbish, and the first 5 minutes of every program runs in 360p while it 'tests' my connection. In terms on content, i guess it depends on what you want. Prime supposedly has a much larger library, but personally there is only a handful of things on there that I have watched (The Expanse, Wheel of Time, Invincible, James May travelling etc).

I wasn't just thinking of future Spider-man games (or past ones), i was thinking about literally any other game where you have to go to the slow old method of scrolling across the map, finding a fast travel location closest to where you want to go, watching the boring fast travel animation, and then having to traipse across the remainder of the map to eventually end up where you want to be in the first place.

That's insane! Such a cool way to fast travel! Any other method is going to feel so slow and outdated in future.

Maybe that's why they are trying to claw back some money? They're worried about losing market share, and profits are falling.

Is that the actual last one?

I was a bit reluctant to watch S2 of this after feeling a bit let down by season 1. However, as the show has gone on, i've realised that I'm actually enjoying it more the further they deviate from the books. Not only do i stop nit-picking all the tiny details being wrong (because the changes are large scale instead), I realise that i don't know what is going to happen next, which makes it a bit more exciting! It's kind of like a new story in the universe of Randland, which feels a bit familiar, but is ultimately different. I still get to see all the locations and some of the characters from the books, but I get to watch a new-ish story being told. Anyway, i'm greatly enjoying it, and my wife is very on-board with it too (she asked to see a map last night, as she was getting confused as to where everyone was - i almost fainted with glee, grabbing one of the books from the shelf to show her). One of the few things i'm not enjoying is the actor playing Perrin is crap - he can't act at all. He looks the part, but I can't stand his weird whispering voice that he does, and his 'beast mode' bit is just bizarre. Maybe he'll improve.

Yeah I wanted to ask someone if it was just good for an adaptation, or good overall, because I've not seen the anime.

Switch Too

Is that Nicholas Lyndhurst!? How'd he end up there?

Anyone else get Madonna's Like a Virgin stuck in their head every time they read the title of this game?

That's the one! I remember that flaming loading screen now!