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@GuyinPA75 Ghostbusters!

Christ alive the endless nights, circa 1999/2000; 6 or so of us huddled in one room..till bacon sandwich time at around 8am.

@GuyinPA75 go on then - you've twisted my arm. per-chased.

I'm expecing (hoping) for a surprise drop of BorderLands to coincide wth the film release.

hellooo. does this have a good campaign?

This 45 year old still loves gaming but my more creative hobbies are grabbing a bigger chunk of my spare time as i get older (guitar / piano playing).

Honestly I think the vastness of games these days overwhelms me and puts me off - build this, micromanage that, etc. Also, I gave up on the first puzzle of Hellblade 2 the other day - I just found it a bit too melodramatic and slow, so I installed "The Orange Box" Instead and relived a few memories on HL:2!

This is such an interesting question by the way - really enjoying reading the replies, and turns out a lot of you have the same sort of sentiment as me.

Replaced, Replaced where's Replaced?

which was the last one to have a good (i say good in relative CoD terms) single player campaign?

i wonder if my saves from my physical copy of control i had a while back (but sold) will magically reappear....? (feel free to answer, anyone who knows )

@Reptilio Amen to that.

what absolutley does my head in is that there's no xbox app for android based smart tvs or boxes like the shield TV, unless anyone out there knows any different...?

@ParsnipHero thats really where my frustration stems from! i'd love to do coop campaign with my 10 year old, so basically i've just assumed it doesn't exist in any guise in that game as a whole.

so yep - very grateful for the tip from @InterceptorAlpha - that makes up for lack of campaign coop in some part.

@InterceptorAlpha in that case i've been slow on the uptake. like REALLY slow...as in...REALLY REALLY slow.

Thanks.

split screen? no, course not.

@Tomato_Goose why can't you be excited for something you haven't seen yet? isn't that literally how excitement works?

@FraserG Completley missed that - thanks very much (said sarcastically)

REPLACED??!! I need a REPLACED Date!!

I do keep banging on about this. maybe it's possible but all I'd like to be able to do is locally stream my XSX in my house from one room to another it doesnt seem like it's a feature of say an android xbox app (on my android tv) or the samsung xbox app.

@Cashews Mate, they have cack-loads of cash, so why cant they spend it like "drunk sailors"

I'd wager the cash they paid for it wasnt to the detriment of any IP they have / had on their roadmap at the time!

same here. played it for 30mins on release day and was like...errr...nah.

fast forward to xmas 2022 period, started it again and was just captivated by the atmosphere. loved it. had to be in the right frame of mind though for the pace, etc. it just seemed to get better and better as I progressed...save for the wierd combat. as such it remains a massive gaming highlight of 2022 for me.

so I guess if you've "only tried it for 30mins" etc give it another go when you've the opportunity next.

@NEStalgia Cheers yeah. I guess what i mean is it's quite restrictive - I can't load up game pass app on my nvidia shield TV and start streaming - it seems to be mobile / portable devices only (not a mac user either)

For me, what i want to be able to do is locally stream my XSX to another device in my house. It just doesn't seem to be possible...or maybe it is possible and i'm a muppet and can't figure it out.

Grrrr Replaced! where's Replaced?! hmm?!

@johndoe89 the boss should be fired too in that case. buck stops with them

@Dezzy70 I'm in the IT trade too. We say our biggest threat is from the inside, which is probably where you'll find most of these "hacks" (leaks!) come from. but as @BBB says, this one for STALKER is a unique case in unique circumstances.

big bond fan and big gaming fan. I soo wanted to play this back in the day but i just could NOT get used to that dam n64 controller...it was the wierdest thing id EVER seen and used. I was a stalwart keyboard and mouse PC gamer back then though. Spent a crazy amount of time on it today on my XSX and had way loads more fun than i thought i would! Now i'm gonna show my kids split screen....

@IronMan30 yes but to see "more of games they already announced" is a huge scope, so its reassuring they've clarified and reset expectations.

@Somebody yes. linkedin (also owned by MS), Meta, Amazon, AWS and a lot of other companies in the tech sector over-recurited during pandemic, and their balance sheets are now suffering.

awful for all involved. hopefully there'll be loads of volunteers for redundancy in that lot.

@IOI yeah. load of options for gamepass coupled with the samsung TV app (soon to be everywhere app I reckon) should snare loads of punters from the casuals to the hardcore console owners.

Scorn. Gave it a 2nd go after thinking it was rubbish back when it was released. Hooked now. I love it.

Scorn - I derided it upon release having only completed act 1 with a guide. Picked it up again over the xmas break and stomped all the way to act 4 on my own, no guide, nothing just taking in the atmosphere and plodding through the game. Loving it now. Admittedly there's a time and a place for a game like that but cheez I love it now.

it's just so dam difficult. I love the premise, but within first 20mins I keep getting my ass handed to me by some dog like robot which mostly i just cannot see, but it spots me from a million miles away.

@A01 so true. just spent 90 mins and achieved....nothing. so so so frustrating. an amazing world / environment but utterly mind boggling.

@Reptilio 100% this

@BAMozzy i know a few mates i used to play GE with back in the late 90s (a pool of about 10 people). we're all in our 40s now. married, kids etc. Get round a mates gaff for a bong and a go on GE just doesn't happen, hence why we all pinned our hopes on online multiplayer. Incidentally these guys do not have an xbox or GP but were willing to take the plunge once GE came out...sadly that aint happening now. so in my little world its a massive missed opportunity for the developers to not to not add a "more modern" way of playing GE multiplayer.

@BBB Nail. On. Head. That style of music totally does my head in completely. I don't think i could stand this game for more than 1 minute cos of that annoying style of music - couldn't watch all the trailer.

That said I'll be giving it a dam good go on day 1 thanks to GP...hopefully it'll all mesh well together and i won't "notice" the music.

Scorn, to me, looks lovely...but it also looks incredibly dull. I so so so hope i'm wrong.

@Markatron84 that's a goodun. mine was either that or castle of illusion or Indiana Jones and Last Crusade - all on master system.

@ChopperCampbell I did. I gave it a dam good go. Once in a while though there are games which are just way too difficult for me. Hitman 3 is one of them - I just keep getting spotted / busted / beaten up, etc.
(The Ascent is another.)

@Dezzy70 vote with your feet then mate?

@ThatFilbo you raise an interesting point.....

I loved this game. the artwork and the music and the setting. but it was just so dam difficult. I just could not defeat the first mech type ed209 type thing. so frustrating.

sounds like a punishment to me, everything they've done since 1991s masterpiece blood sugar sex magik just sounds like a nursery rhyme, and they've caved into Middle Of The Road dullness.

honestly fell asleep playing this game. truth.

but i was definitley intrigued.

If a survival game based in the Terminator world turns out to be rubbish then that's a big missed opportunity.

I seem to remeber Q4 being a launch title on the 360...and it was widely regarded as being....well...complete pants.

Horray!! Hopefully now Steffen Beckendorf will appear on mission 1!

@Kooky_Daisuke @bleachedsmiles yeah horses for courses. For me, the fact that Gordon Freeman was mute just made it all the more immersive and memorable....I felt I became Gordon freeman as I tended to reply out loud to Alyx's / Dr. Vance / Barneys comments!

@EvilSilentFrame didn't know that - cheers! I want to believe it'll be ASAP, but I really think we're talking 60th Anniversary of Dr. No. to coincide with everything Bond-on-screen related's anniversary.

@EvilSilentFrame what's happening on Tuesday?