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16 minutes ago, carlospie said:

That's common for football streams. 

Not 2 mins delay, usually 30 seconds max in my experience.

Is anyone else's BBC iPlayer stream 2 fucking mins behind the live action?  Two whole minutes?!

This is stupid.  If I was captain I would have just taken the yellow card, then dared the ref to give me another one during the game, just to see if the ref wants to see all the furore blow up in his face.

Piers Morgan was slagging off the BBC about this yesterday.  Fucking idiot.

FIFA - if you can't beat them with whataboutism rants and threats of fines to any team wearing an armband, divide and conquer by hypocritically launching your own set of armbands with promises to look favourably on teams wearing these.

Like I said, fuck FIFA.

Infantino is such a joke, with so much whataboutism in that 💩rant I'm actually wondering if he's finally lost the plot.

 OK I get it now, kind of a "spin-off".

EDIT: also after watching a bit of that video, i can see why the FIA moved from GT to ACC as their official eSports partner game.

Oh I get both of you, it's two distinct games, and ACC is the sequel.

It's interesting though, I thought the popular alternative was Forza (whichever is the latest).

I've been watching vids of this game cos it keeps on coming up in my feed, usually people with actual real dashboard setups driving amongst real-world traffic, and leaving me wondering if it was real or not.

I've looked at comparison sites between this and Gran Turismo, and the genera gist seems to be that this is more realistic than that game.  Correct?

It's an old game now, right?  Is it still worth getting?

Point Blank!  I still have all three games!  And two Guncons!  I just need a CRT... and a new house so that I have space for it 😞

*spit!* fuck this tournament.

Personally I don't care who wins, cos it'll always have an asterisk beside the name for me.

Note - one more gameweek then no games till December 26th, because of some filthy no-mark event held in some tiny country that doesn't even play the sport that's been showcased.

On 06/10/2022 at 21:28, MattyP said:

Or just stop playing for a bit and do something else and come back to it later. Something will always drag you back in.

LOL I've only been playing very occasionally for a while now, probably around 8 years.  I even went back to GTA 5 on the PS3 a few months ago and the save game said "last played November 2013".

On 06/10/2022 at 21:28, MattyP said:

Have a look at some indie titles maybe? Sub to PS+ Premium for a month and have a look through that and see anything reignites interest.

Interesting.   Maybe that's the way to go, and if I like a game I buy it.

 

On 06/10/2022 at 21:28, MattyP said:

Edit: Oh and GT7 is definitely an improvement over what has gone before especially with the dual sense controller! The weather etc adds a lot to the racing. As for crash damage why would you need that? You shouldn't be crashing Still a bit grindy though and has licenses etc so it's GT. Oh it does have music rally which is interesting

LOL I just remember switching to Need For Speed and I had so much fun.

Yeah I think you can only get the expansion pack from Nintendo only, I can't see it anywhere.

Which means he has two choices:

Either get a sub then add the expansion pack from Nintendo direct, or forget about the N64 classics and just buy the Mario Kart extra pack thing separately (at least it'll be permanent).

For anyone who is playing this this weekend - you're not, it's thoroughly broken.  Nintendo has taken servers offline in order to investigate the issue, but you can't even play it offline regardless.

More here.

If it's like Rivals, Hot Pursuit or any previous Burnout games then I'm all for it.

If it's like the usual NFS night-time dark edition, then forget about it.

Funny thing about this game is that I've got it and had it since Xmas but I haven't got round to playing it.  But it seems like the game of my dreams!  I really must get round to "playing" it.

Am I correct in that I have to have created a course, then complete it before I can upload it?  Who can play the course, just Super Mario Maker 2 players, or anyone?

On 30/06/2022 at 01:00, Nick R said:

 

You're right that the samples have never caused any issues that we know of. But one change did have to be made: in the 2011 release, the vocals were removed from the Japanese/European intro and ending.

 

Original Mega CD version (linking to the Sonic Jam versions because of their better video quality):

 

 

 

 

 

The vocal-less 2011 versions:

 

 

 

 

I've just read this.  Am a bit confused, cos the music I remember was none of these versions.  This is the only version of the intro I encountered. where did this come from if those above were the originals?
 

I didn't buy it

49 minutes ago, Pelekophoros said:

"I've spent £500 on this thing and there's nothing to play on it, change my mind?"

 

Really?

 

Donate it to a children's hospital and then have a serious chat with yourself, you plum.

You fool 🤦🏾‍♂️ I didn't buy it.

I have to say that none of those games mentioned entice me one bit.  It must be me, I'm burnt out.  In general I don't like FPS games (although I did like Counter Strike, Half Life, Wolfenstein) so as it seems that the console is full of them doesn't bode well for me.

I bought every single GT game up to 5 Prologues, I even got some limited edition versions (I had a BMW one that apparently was used in BMW showrooms IIRC).  I just got burnt out and refused to buy GT5 and Sport, I had way more fun with the Need for Speed games (up to Rivals) so I dunno if I really want to go back.  Did they fix the lack of crashing/deformation of cars, and the drone CPU cars in GT7?

On 23/07/2022 at 15:53, Yasawas said:

I was never a PC gamer but I thought some might like this link I've just found - every PC Zone (with discs!).

 

https://www.pixsoriginadventures.co.uk/PCZone/

 

I think Charlie Brooker wrote for this at one point iirc

I created some of those CDZone and DVDZone discs, between 2000 and whenever they were sold to Future.  Trufax.

I've had my PS5 for a month and... I'm going to be controversial and say that PS5 has no games.

There isn't one game that I want to buy.  Not one.  Well, not strictly true - there's Street Fighter 6 but that's next year and judging by the videos I'd rather go back to Street Fighter II.  Where's the Need For Speed games?  FIFA... 💤 Gran Turismo... 💤

Maybe I'm getting old, but this is the first generation where I don't have a list of games to get.  Unbelievable.

Change my mind.

New Super Cup incoming - to expand to include American teams.

Super Cup is fine as it is though.  Why don't UEFA just create a new "Finalissima" for club teams?  

I saw a leak of the home kit months ago.  Is that officially our new kit?  Why couldn't they just give us the women's kit (which is easily the best kit - mens or womens - for years)?

I got Football Manager 2022, thanks!