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by Raid
Sat Dec 09, 2023 8:15 am
Forum: General & Real World
Topic: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan
Replies: 1839
Views: 426395

Re: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

I haven't had issues with Royal Mail, but Parcelforce are the company I'm moaning about this time. I'm mostly just bitter that it's both windy and absolutely chucking it down this morning (I don't drive), but it's the only time I'll be able to go and collect the sodding thing. I do have exactly the ...
by Raid
Fri Dec 08, 2023 5:58 pm
Forum: General & Real World
Topic: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan
Replies: 1839
Views: 426395

Re: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

It's the run up to christmas, which means every parcel delivery company becomes bloody useless. I've had a whole bunch of low-value packages this last couple of weeks, and while throughout the rest of the year they all get put in a safe place when I'm not in (I live in an incredibly safe neighbourho...
by Raid
Thu Dec 07, 2023 5:53 pm
Forum: TV & Film
Topic: The Last Of Us
Replies: 32
Views: 5705

Re: The Last Of Us

To be expected I think with the actors strike, and I suppose if they're doing the time skip that happens between the two games, it's probably advantageous letting Ramsey age a little.
by Raid
Thu Dec 07, 2023 1:21 pm
Forum: General & Real World
Topic: Moving Pictures
Replies: 621
Views: 182685

Re: Moving Pictures

I don't actually hate the look of the thing. It's extremely ugly in a traditional sense, don't get me wrong, but having been watching and playing sci-fi media for decades it's refreshing to see someone move towards that hugely impractical aesthetic. Just think of all the accidents at the Tesla facto...
by Raid
Thu Dec 07, 2023 1:04 pm
Forum: General & Real World
Topic: D&D Campaign 2: D&D Harder
Replies: 771
Views: 75786

Re: D&D Campaign 2: D&D Harder

Works for me.
by Raid
Wed Dec 06, 2023 11:11 am
Forum: General Gaming Discussion and News
Topic: Starfield has a release date
Replies: 228
Views: 5369

Re: Starfield has a release date

That's a valid point. I largely admire what Microsoft have done with providing a lower-cost console, but it really does feel like it's holding games back already and the generation's only three years old.
by Raid
Wed Dec 06, 2023 9:42 am
Forum: General Gaming Discussion and News
Topic: Starfield has a release date
Replies: 228
Views: 5369

Re: Starfield has a release date

Star Citizen is not an openworld rpg, which is what Starfield is and it is in that arena that I made the comment about the setting and the type of game not gelling for a mass market audience. They're different genres, but I think the fantasy they're selling is related enough to be a point of compar...
by Raid
Tue Dec 05, 2023 1:47 pm
Forum: General Gaming Discussion and News
Topic: Starfield has a release date
Replies: 228
Views: 5369

Re: Starfield has a release date

Stepping away from Starfield for a moment I think if I was to boil it down I don't think it is possible to make a massively successful openworld space RPG, the setting and the genre are not compatible. If you make it just a galaxy with say ten planets full of content it would feel small and not giv...
by Raid
Tue Dec 05, 2023 6:23 am
Forum: General Gaming Discussion and News
Topic: General Gaming News
Replies: 739
Views: 128120

Re: General Gaming News

Looks good, but then there's not enough to go on to see whether the thing I disliked most about GTA 5 (the painfully obvious, crass humour) has gone.
by Raid
Mon Dec 04, 2023 3:45 pm
Forum: General Gaming Discussion and News
Topic: Starfield has a release date
Replies: 228
Views: 5369

Re: Starfield has a release date

To be honest, I don't think Starfield was worse than Skyrim, it's just that the problems are magnified by how much the experience is sliced up by the half-arsed space segments. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if they released ES6, it feels the same as Skyrim, and people don't take to it either.
by Raid
Sun Dec 03, 2023 2:04 pm
Forum: PC Gaming
Topic: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2
Replies: 95
Views: 25725

Re: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2

The second guy sounds an awful lot like James Cromwell.
by Raid
Sat Dec 02, 2023 7:36 pm
Forum: General & Real World
Topic: D&D Campaign 2: D&D Harder
Replies: 771
Views: 75786

Re: D&D Campaign 2: D&D Harder

Tuesday's the only day I can't do I'm afraid.
by Raid
Sat Dec 02, 2023 5:25 pm
Forum: TV & Film
Topic: General TV News
Replies: 359
Views: 59735

Re: General TV News

I'm a bit concerned that it's directed by the guy that did Westworld. I was really annoyed by the way that show was structured, bouncing around chronologically, and not in a way that was intended to be obvious early on. I gave up on it after the second season.
by Raid
Fri Dec 01, 2023 9:31 pm
Forum: General Gaming Discussion and News
Topic: VR!
Replies: 171
Views: 59182

Re: VR!

Yeah, holy crap, Alyx looks incredible on this thing, and I don't remember seeing a single compression artifact. I had one or two stutters, but as they seemed to happen when I was leaning in close to something (ie: only in certain situations that I doubt were network related), it could just have bee...
by Raid
Thu Nov 30, 2023 9:57 pm
Forum: General Gaming Discussion and News
Topic: VR!
Replies: 171
Views: 59182

Re: VR!

So the Quest just became a native Steam VR headset. https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/3823053915991825336 I've given a couple of titles a try (I haven't installed a lot of PC VR titles since my system refresh during the summer), and it's clearly better than Virtual Desktop...