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[Snowy]

There can often be a lot of grappling and you can kick too, which is often more than just adding insult to injury - although I have kicked a few heads of a downed combatant. I'm in Glasgow, it's just the done thing.

Did you sever them first?

[Sly Boots]

I bought the Robocop game as it was available for a tenner on CD Keys, only played the opening level so far, but seems good fun and incredibly reminiscent of the films.

Feels like it really harkens back to days when games were just fun out of the box, with no microtransactions, live services, loot boxes etc... just load up and shoot a load of bad guys.

[Animalmother]

It's good fun alright and is probably as good as a Robocop game is going to get. The ED209 model is really well detailed and animated. It does get a bit repetitive after a while and odd as it is to say I'd rather if it had been shorter.

[Alan]

Converse to Robocop, I’m using a gamepass trial to give the new CoD a shot. This game is 70 fucking quid on Steam and every menu punches you in the face and try’s to steal your credit card. You cannot quit at the end of a match until you watch the fucking stupid win animations a bunch of reprobates payed money for and there’s like 3 battle passes running at once or something, I don’t even know. It’s more of a free to play game than xDefiant and also less fun to be honest.

Absolute garbage.

I may batter through the campaign before my trial expires but I’ve such a bad taste I don’t think I can be arsed.

[Snowy]

Converse to Robocop, I’m using a gamepass trial to give the new CoD a shot. This game is 70 fucking quid on Steam and every menu punches you in the face and try’s to steal your credit card. You cannot quit at the end of a match until you watch the fucking stupid win animations a bunch of reprobates payed money for and there’s like 3 battle passes running at once or something, I don’t even know. It’s more of a free to play game than xDefiant and also less fun to be honest.

Absolute garbage.

I may batter through the campaign before my trial expires but I’ve such a bad taste I don’t think I can be arsed.

I installed it to play the single player campaign and got so fucked off with the endless approvals and account linkages before I even reached a menu screen that I quit in disgust and uninstalled the POS. It would have been shit anyway.

[Drarok]

I'm glad CoD is on Game Pass, I definitely wouldn't want to give them any money after the last few releases. I pretty much ignore all battle passes in games, I don't have more time to spare than what I already spend on gaming, so they can't tempt me to spend longer to grind some pointless trinket, skin, animation, or whatever. I don't even bother trying to unlock all the attachments on the guns, I find a good one I like using and stick with it. Their impenetrable menu system doesn't help either, previous versions were a lot simpler and would guide you, but now there's just so much noise it's impossible.

I really like multiplayer FPSs and would love a simple jump-in-and-shoot game to while away a few hours here and there.

Is Battlefield still around and worth a look?

[Alan]

Battlefield is such a meatgrinder now its tedious. It was great when the consoles couldnt handle loads of players but now its just chokepoint gameplay. I enjoyed XDefiant for quick blasts, its a shame Ubi couldnt make that work. Dunno what else though, Finals? Marvel Rivals is just "what if Overwatch was worse?". I always end up back on Siege when i want to shoot folk. I just want Blops 1 or 2 to get a remaster, everything after that has been shite. The MW remake was alright I suppose.

[Animalmother]

Is Battlefield still around and worth a look?

Battlefield 2042 has improved vastly from when first released but it's in its death throes now. Cross play is forced on console players so that's pretty much killed it off for many people. It's not a game I'd like to be starting from scratch as it's gone very sweaty.

[Drarok]

Battlefield, XDefiant, Finals, Marvel Rivals, Siege

Finals is pretty good actually, yeah. One of my friends is a weirdo and hates it though. I love Siege, but it's a very different beast in terms of sitting around waiting after you're dead. Watched a friend playing Marvel and was astounded they've not been sued by Overwatch yet, it's such a copy.

I can't fucking stand Overwatch.

[Snowy]

Just a shout out for Warhammer 40k Darktide. Not a new title by any means, but it has been our co-op mainstay pretty much since launch and just goes from strength to strength. Drop dead gorgeous visuals, some really funny dialogue but that also gives plenty of gameplay cues, and a mix of melee and ranged combat against enormous hordes that is just a great fun gameplay loop. Raid, ManBearSquid, El Gaucho, Prey and I play it as often as we can get a few of us together.

It was the comments about micro-transactions that prompted me to post this - Darktide is one of the very rare games where I will actually spend money on in-game currency in order to buy cosmetics just to give the devs some appreciation.

[Raid]

Yeah, Darktide's a phenomenal game, I think it's just hit my lifetime top 5 in terms of time played at 143 hours (judging by my Steam total hours list and two MMOs I know will be higher). It's the perfect mix of high difficulty and incredibly satisfying weapons and player abilities. I swear that the Spearhead Boltgun is the single most satisfying weapon ever made for an action game because when you fire it, it doesn't feel balanced - if you hit a regular enemy in the head, it will often vaporise their entire upper torso. It's the potency of the Doom / Quake rocket launcher packed into the capability of an assault rifle; if you run through the entire 15 round magazine on full auto, the crowd you fired it into just disappears into clouds of red mist and detached limbs. And the sound design is there to back it up; all of the weapons in Darktide sound good, but the Boltgun has a thunderous, howitzer-esque punch to it. It may as well inject a shot of serotonin directly into the user every time you fire it.

Anyway, I think I've thrown fifteen quid at the developers to buy cosmetic items, because I want my characters to look as badass as they feel to play. Honestly if the game weren't so good, I'd kinda hate the developer for it as they do feel predatory. The cosmetics you can buy with the currency you earn in-game aren't very interesting, they've clearly locked the better looking stuff away behind a paywall, and the cosmetics shop has a real FOMO element as they change the buyable items every two weeks and there's no way of buying older ones until they rotate back in (and that can take months). "At least they're not lootboxes" should be a low bar for a developer of a live-service game to clear, but I think that's as good a thing as I can say for the DT cosmetic store.

[Animalmother]

Darktide is great, one of the few online co op games I've found where players nearly always come to your rescue if downed. There's also no disadvantage from being on console and playing with people on PC.
I did uninstall it recently as I'd not played it for a bit but it's on Game Pass so can just reinstall if the urge takes me again

Also the music is sublime....