JoshVilla

Currently playing DS3. As mentioned in one of the other threads, I've done Demon's Souls, DS1, Bloodborne, Sekiro & Elden Ring but I never got round to doing DS2 or 3 for some reason.

So far, I think it's great. I like how you can obviously see what they've carried over from Bloodborne with the faster combat and the tendency to encourage you to be a bit more aggressive. I always go for a melee build so it suits me down to the ground.

However, for those on here that have finished them all, is DS3 by far the easiest one in the series? I'm currently at Irithyll of the Boreal Valley, and while there have been a couple of areas that have been a pain in the arse (Farron Keep, Catacombs of Carthus, Smouldering Lake), there's not been anything thus far that has smacked me in the face with its difficulty like the other games in the series. I don't think I've died more than 2 or 3 times with any of the bosses so far (currently level 55). 

All that said, I could be about to get my arse royally kicked in this area, but I definitely had a much harder time with the other games.

It feels like we were due a game like this. A really bad day at the office, nothing more, nothing less. Forest defended well, but we did make it easy for them as we were so ponderous at times, it felt like they had all the time in the world to get into positions to stop the final ball. Together with the fact that our crosses were terrible, Martinez should have (and normally would have) done better for the 2 goals and we just didn't seem to get the bounce of the ball, we probably didn't deserve anything out of it. Onto the next one.

This is unrecognisable. Just awful, awful defending.

What the absolute **** is going on.

We definitely have another gear in us, whereas I think this is as good as Forest can be and they'll begin to tire. Definitely swap Zaniolo for Bailey 2nd half.

How many times is he going to let our players get dragged down???

Cash really needs to just get the ball into the box. Every time he changes his mind and passes it backwards.

Forest look very good on the break tbf. We need to tidy up a bit.

Wtf are we doing with it there...

Oh dear. Having some problems down our right hand side.

18 minutes ago, Designer1 said:

Good Luck Skeleton.

Just finished the Catacombs of Carthus. Boss was a piece of cake but that level is an absolute pain in the arse!

Fair few games on the Xmas list (Lies of P, Lords of the Fallen, Spiderman 2, Like a Dragon: Gaiden, Wo Long) so I'm playing Dark Souls 3 at the minute to fill the time. I've done DS1, Bloodborne, Sekiro & Elden Ring but never got round to DS2 or 3 for some reason.

This is a nightmare. My daughter doesn't want to eat the sweets (she's probably too young for them to be fair) so she's making me eat them all and now I've got a right **** headache.

21 minutes ago, Wainy316 said:

Prestigious football award ceremonies being hijacked by morons like this.

Is there really a market for this? The friggin 'YouTube Generation',  I'm officially old.

 

Absolutely agree with this. I'm 31, and I feel like the generational gap between my generation and this YouTube generation is way bigger than, say, that of mine and my parents' generation. I just don't get any of this shit at all.

It'll be interesting to see what Ngannou does from here. I think there were a lot of people that didn't really know who he was and hadn't watched any of his fights in the UFC. The guy is a machine. He had a scary reputation as a knockout artist and the hardest hitting fighter (not just in MMA, I mean the hardest hitting human being) in the world. Then, in his most recent fight against Ciryl Gane (also a phenomenal fighter), he knackered the ligaments in his knee 3 weeks before the fight and instead of cancelling, all of a sudden showed brilliant wrestling & grappling which we hadn't seen from him before and got the decision win. Considering his back story too, he's different gravy and, I think, just a much tougher guy than Fury. Tyson didn't know what to do with him. He tried to make Ngannou hold all of his weight in the clinch to wear him out, all the while forgetting he's an MMA fighter and is used to carrying big guys around. 

From what I saw on Saturday, Francis could genuinely beat a few guys in the top 10, which is nuts considering that was his first professional boxing match (which he arguably won).

I wonder if I'll ever see a day when Washington aren't **** turgid.

24 minutes ago, sidcow said:

If you could be arsed with the paperwork. 

I think that's the issue. It's too much hassle and public services are too under resourced for things like this to be policed. The bellends who drive around looking like they've crashed into Halfords, with the exhausts on their financed Focus popping and farting, with tinted number plates and stupid colour headlamps are essentially waving it in the copper's faces because they know they'll get away it.

The amount of people that I see driving around with tinted number plates or no front number plate is utterly ridiculous. If I was a copper I'd have a **** field day round here.

Not to tempt fate, but Luton look terrible.

Already looks similar to the Mostar game. They aren't pressing high at all 

Something tells me that Fury won't fancy fighting Ngannou in MMA now....

Ngannou was impressive. He's already a phenomenal MMA fighter, but it can't be understated just how different striking in MMA is compared to pure boxing. 

This is ridiculous. I'm so glad the UFC doesn't go for any of this bollocks (and they've had some missteps down the years).

Can't deny how good SA are, but would have preferred NZ to win it. I just don't like the style of rugby that SA play (which is a style that the current laws of Union make far too effective).

As much as I would love for Ngannou to beat Fury, it's not going to happen. He'll be the hardest puncher that Fury has faced in terms of raw power (Wilder has more 'snap', but Ngannou is more powerful), but I think he's gonna have trouble landing. Striking in MMA is so different to boxing, and it'll take more than a few months of pure boxing training to get to level of someone who's been doing it their whole life and is at the very top of the sport.

Whatever happens though, I hope Fury walks the walk and fights Ngannou in MMA. I'd pay good money to see that....