General gaming discussion

Played Cyberpunk at the start of this year and absolutely loved it. Along with the DLC, one of the best games I've played in years. It's in a much better place that it was at launch, and while not perfect or without some bugs here and there, overall it's fantastic. Well worth giving it a spin.

what in your opinion the best fps game in 2024?

Daikatana for me

Please please please don't F this up. Doom since it's return has been utterly flawless.

Have to give a shout out to Two Point Museum. Bought it at the weekend and have been having great fun with it. A nice spin on the genre.

Ah, just twitter scrolling, oh look, post about how Neil Druckmann believes Joel did the right thing, surely won't have any controversial comments.... 1st comment oooooooofffff

Tekken 8 Season 2 patch was released last night, and they appear to have royally f*cked it.

The biggest complaints about the game were about how aggressively it needed to be played with so many 50/50s, mixups and safe moves. Defence really took a backseat from T7. So the devs promised new adjustments to defence to make sidestepping better, remove a lot of the weird tracking issues, and nerf some of the more egregious moves from some of the top characters.

Patch notes released. Everybody got buffed! Buffs for everyone! New moves for everyone! More 50/50s! More mixups! The top 5 characters, more buffs than nerfs. Characters can transition into stances easier. More installs for characters. More ways for some characters to keep and even gain some more Heat meter to do more powered moves. Whatever your characters weakness was, here's a new move to fill that gap.

It's genuinely wilder than I thought it would be. I was trepidatious leading up to it, particularly after their last Tekken Talk, but this is insanity.

Saw a clip of someone online describing Tekken 8 from a few months ago, where he's sadly just been proven even more correct; Tekken 8 is designed for the spectator, not the player.

I think one of the worries for them that came out of T7 was that at higher competition levels, the game was maybe too defensive. A lot of dancing around each other, small pokes, knowledge checks. They went a bit too far the other direction with T8 Season 1, and now gone even beyond that for Season 2. Now it's all about getting in and making it a guessing game rather than skill/knowledge.

I'll still keep playing for another while, but this is not going to go well for the devs. Really fail to see how they can justify some of the changes and decisions they've made.

Nice! It can take a while but pulling the right combination of jokers or just taking the right chances in terms of which packs to open or where to spend your money makes all the difference. But definitely trying to balance out jokers/tarots which give more chips as well as multipliers is key. That was my issue at the start too; I was trying to boost the multiplier so much that I was multiplying f*ck all.

Now comes the fun part; new decks, new stakes, new Jokers… you may not have even gotten any Spectral cards/packs yet either, they're a lot of fun!

Few sites reporting that a PS5 special edition The Last Of Us game will be announced/released in next 2 months. The price seems to be 120 euro with most assuming it's TLOU part 1 and 2 bundled but that seems a bit expensive as you can get both for a lot cheaper than that. Saying that, the rrp for both is 130 euro but not many people would spend that, even if they were the deluxe versions.

I miss E3.

This, browsing the RTE guide for movies in the Christmas edition and those toys that came in cereal boxes are the things I truly believe were stolen from my kids generation