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Louis Rossman is a legend!

It's not even neccesarily for users to repair things themselves, it's more so that independent repair shops (that don't have an interest in getting you to upgrade to a new model) have access to the specs and parts

Using authorised repairs outside of a warranty is a conflict of interest. There seems to be countless instances of people being told they need $1000 repairs but they can just upgrade to a new model for $1100. Taking that same problem to an independent repair shop can reveal that it's actually only a $50 repair either because the authorised repair shop is making the problem sound worse so they can sell an upgrade or just because the script theyve been trained with doesn't account for more specific repairs that an experienced technician will be familiar with.

I'm more familiar with the issues with Apple and it's genius bars, I didn't know MS had the same issue!

I'd keep that ninja turtles one if I won! It's totally radical man and that's a fact jack!

Ring of pain sounds more like a curry eating simulator to me

Are they going to remove the ability to download the BC version of San Andreas using a physical disc?

It's such a weird one because people will have different preferences. I think for me, it's a given that one day I will have a Series X so I would probably want to have the Series X version on disc and have that download the One version in the mean time but that would be frustrating for somebody who is never planning to upgrade

It was already unappealing that MS would have a camera pointed at you constantly (until they dropped the requirement). I'd honestly feel much worse about it if it was Sky.

@NotoriousWhiz ahh sweet yeah that might be an idea. Not sure if you can remap the sticks or not, definitely can't on the Switch but I haven't tried on the Xbox. I had to remap the d pad to the face buttons for one sequence in Battletoads NES on rare replay. Required quick fire direction changes so needed my right hand for it!

@NotoriousWhiz ah lame sorry!! I didn't even try to remap the buttons on the game when I've played it. Admittedly Xbox pad isn't great for anything that's better suited for D-Pad or symmetrical sticks. So annoying they can't let us just use any controller on the thing.... That 8bitdo mini switch pad lite controller would be perfect for games like this as it replaces both analog sticks with d pads

What was the price in the end? I can't see it because I already have the game in my Library. Hope it didn't cost too much if it's unplayable for you

@NotoriousWhiz midway arcade origins is on sale! Check it includes SmashTV and Total Carnage before you buy. I might have made a mistake but I don't think I have 👍👍👍

@BlueOcean haha fair enough, decent! I think it will be spreadsheet time by the time I get around to buying one. It's gotta be the easiest way to compare features!

Flippin expensive tho. 55inch C1 is is currently 1300 quid. Double that for a 77inch

@BlueOcean weird that the CX can do everything at once then if it has less bandwidth. I think the TV manufacturers should just put "Does Everything that's Currently Possible" on the box and make it easy for people like me 😅

@BlueOcean ahh cool cheers. I'll have to check out the CX and C1 models when I'm in the market for a new TV which will probably be in the next few months. Looks like that comment from Jetman indicates that you have to choose out of the features to enable on a C9 as it can't do all at once currently

All this new TV terminology is very confusing for someone like me who is stuck in the HD era. Is there a list of television sets that literally support everything that both modern consoles have to offer?

Oh awesome. I didn't want to buy this because I didn't want to play another monthly events time sink style game that I felt like I had to play because I paid money specifically for it. Now I can try out and hopefully enjoy the campaign and additional content at my leisure, guilt free

Oh bleeding heck, I already own the BC games! 😭. I feel like there will come a point with Gold where every 360/OG game will actually have been made available as part of the sub

I carry my Xbox One X around in its original box in a Bag for Life. Either M&S, Morrisons, TK Maxxx, whatever is available

Gutted I bought this incomplete. They should either have made an extensive Disney collection that included the games from the original release and every other Disney 2D platformer which I would have been OK with buying or just a "sequel" collection that bundles Jungle Book with other releases not included in the original collection

Unless of course it's a free upgrade but my OCD will make me want it all on one cartridge so I'd still feel bad about buying the original on Switch

@Krzzystuff ahh sweet! Sounds like a decent library! All our libraries have are books 😭. Joking, I think they used to do DVDs, I think games would just get robbed though. That's British teenagers for ya! Actually it's been some time since I was a teenager, I am sure they don't do things like steal pic n mix anymore which was an after school tradition for some of us (not me because I was too scared of the repercussions 😂)

Legends was on PS Plus but I think I'd want to play origins first. I'd probably just buy legends on Wii U once I got origins because I think it was originally designed for the gamepad and ported to other consoles later

Mmm not sure, Rayman Origins for the BC one maybe? Not sure if it's already been a GwG before my time with Xbox

@K1LLEGAL looool, I was gonna say I thought this was you as I replied to your thread the other day!

@Flurbdurb it's ok! No skin off my nose! Sorry, I hate to be "that guy" but I thought you might want to know because it is somebody's name 😅

@flurbdurb also isn't it Simu Liu, not just Sim Liu? Just checking, Sim could be his nickname!

I've been watching Veep over the last couple weeks and all the lobbying in that show has made me far too cynical about celebrities "liking" products.

Good for him though if he genuinely likes the controller and can also get paid to plug it in interviews!

Just an addendum to this, there was a period of time possibly around when Vice City/San Andreas came out that Rockstar actually made the original 2D games available for free on PC. Similar to what Westwood did with Command & Conquer and Red Alert. You could just download them from their official websites.

I agree completely, especially with the idea of throwing in Advance and Chinatown Wars. I prefer the old style of GTA and I actually think GTA2 is the best GTA game of the whole series

Will be checking out skatebird at some point!

Yep, can confirm that the GP quest works on the PC version. It popped after opening the game before I even did the 127gig download. It's downloading properly now so I can get an achievement for the punch card

@dAvecaster I did put a Windows partition on my Mac but in general, it's more of a ballache for me to switch on my Mac, swap cables around, use mouse and keyboard, pair a controller etc. Than it is for me to switch on my Xbox and just be ready to go

@Zdj011 cheers for the heads up, I'll try and start the installation process on my windows partition tomorrow if I get the time!

Ahh bleedin heck, a flight sim one? I'm glad there's not too many next gen exclusive games for quests to revolve around otherwise it might mess up the cumulative monthly quests

Going to try and download flight sim on to the computer in the next couple days for this and the punchcard. Hopefully it doesn't make my Mac take off and fly into outer space

Edit: just seen it says play on a series X/s console for the GP quest. Should still be able to hit the 15 weekly quests without this one

Wumpa Islands add on pack for DJ Hero 2 confirmed

@NotoriousWhiz ah lame well best of luck with it!

Remember that Midway is owned by Warner Bros these days so hopefully it pops up in one of the fairly frequent Warner Bros sales!

@NotoriousWhiz no worries, did you manage to claim it when it was available? The physical can be picked up for pennies over here in the UK, hopefully it's the same in the US if you didn't manage to grab the digital

I didn't know there was a difference between smash TV and super smash TV, I thought it just got called Super when it got ported to the super nintendo

That midway origins has got the very similar Total Carnage too which I admittedly don't have as fond memories of as I do SmashTV but it's still good

@NotoriousWhiz I'm pretty sure that Smash TV is on that midway arcade origins collection that was given away as a GwG a month or two ago

My state of decay one wasn't activating. Normally you don't have to watch the YouTube Vids on these things but maybe that's why it didn't activate? Not sure, it's an age restricted video and I can't be asked to do all that with Google anyway

@K1LLEGAL same here, I love confusing chronologies especially on amazing series like Metal Gear 😅. MGS1 is fairly easy to emulate or even available on the probably rather cheap now PlayStation Classic Mini thing. MGS4 is a bit trickier without a a PS3 unfortunately.

I actually bought the HD collection again on Xbox despite having it on PS3, will probably play them again soon in a few years. I seem to play them all every 3-6 years and I just did my last run through in 2020! I played all of the 2D ones in that run-through too as I'd never played them before, including the non canon Snakes Revenge on NES and MGS for game boy colour (which was actually awesome).

Let us know if you want a long release order or chronological order which includes remakes, spin offs, timeline divergences and if you like, brief descriptions of the gameplay (as not all of them are tactical espionage action!) And I'd be happy to oblige!!

@K1LLEGAL I think they make more sense in release order either starting from Metal Gear Solid or even the original Metal Gear (which I only played for the first time last year!)

But you could go in chronological order through most of the Big Boss games with what you have though!

3: Snake Eater > (skip Portable Ops on PSP) > Peace Walker > V: Ground Zeroes > V: The Phantom Pain. The next two games chronologically are Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake which are included in Snake Eater on the HD collection

@K1LLEGAL I think technically all of the mainline games are all on PS3, I could be mistaken about that! (I know portable ops isn't but it's canonicity is debated, not by me though. I think it's totally canon 😎)

Also don't forget Peace Walker! It's basically MGSV before there was an MGSV. Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain are direct sequels to Peace Walker

Nooo, don't tell everyone!

I thought I might stand a decent-ish chance with my 150 entries for 5000 points lol. Probably will be 5K points down the drain anyway 😅 as I hardly ever win anything.

Best of luck to all who take part!

It's too late.

My son Game has just started primary school. He will carry on the Pass family lineage for years to come.

Noooooooo, I like my tiny monkey 😂

I like to think it makes me look out of touch with modern technology.

Which I may or may not be....

Why oh why 😂. The merest mention of Disney Hercules gets all of the songs stuck in my head! It is probably my favourite 2D Disney film

Who put the glad in gladiator?

Herc - u - les!!!!!

Bahhh, I only bought ZoE HD on disc about 3 months ago and the samurai shodown collection on switch a couple of weeks ago 😅

@SplooshDmg yeah it's awesome. It's like problem>solution, problem>solution but it's just so quick fire. I love stuff like that! Its like a really fast paced puzzle game and I am a big fan of puzzle games!

@SplooshDmg yep that's the one 😂, I won't spoil it any further. I don't want to detract from what will be a very enjoyable yet obscenity laden trip through The Ancient Gods!! Give us a tag if you need some tips for certain enemies though, I'll be quite happy to dig around in my memory for stuff I learned as I only played it fairly recently. Once you know tricks for certain enemies they actually go from being a pain in the er... elemental to being not such a pain. There's a particular tactic to get rid of the Doom Hunters quickly that I found really useful when there was loads of other stuff going on at the same time!

@SplooshDmg you wait until you see a new type of enemy/buff! 😅

Is this supposed to be for display only like those wonder woman one Xs? Or perhaps the pyramid lifts off to uncover the vent when in use. Could be a handy dust cover!

@GrandPariah haha I forgot about that!! Those old games were nuts!

@FraserG oh yeah for sure! Would be great to bring back some of those classic tracks for a new generation to enjoy