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You can't digest it either, which at least does mean you'll have gold poo

This Thursday at 2pm GMT.

@Chindie You are not alone

I always liked this theory, not that I agreed with it, but it's a good one. Can be debunked really easily by considering that certain enemy cards can be obtained on disc one which you wouldn't otherwise have knowledge of until after Squall's 'death' - ergo, he can't have died then. The real question for me has always been is Squall alive at the end? I have appreciated that ambiguity in FF endings though, as well as the many bittersweet endings the series is (or should be) famous for.

Man, if I ever get round to finishing up my rolling ranking of FF play throughs in that thread (picked my 7 play though up again the other day), some of you are not going to be happy What I will say on the subject is that XIII-2 and LR:XIII are good games, and I will die on that hill On topic, I fired up NFS Heat yesterday as felt I needed a bit of a palette cleanser. It's OK, but nowhere near as fun as I remember the Underground games being.

I do play the Tales games, they're decent JRPGs, but have always been a rung or two below the likes of FF, DQ, and Persona. Arise is a good recommendation though as they made a lot of positive changes to the format. The games are very 'anime' though, and if that's not your bag, they probably aren't worth trying.

I'll be here forever!

I enjoy his saves of that manner, get a loan farm going when you have the funds!

Fringe?

Banishers is reviewing really rather well. I've been a long term fan of Dontnod's work, and this seems to be another step in the right direction for them. Hopefully I get to play it before the end of the year to consider in GOTY lists.

I'd be surprised if the announcement isn't relating to Sea of Thieves, possibly Starfield, and maybe some older legacy Xbox titles becoming multiplatform, but I do wonder if they will also announce the new discless Series X too.

I'm enjoying it, perhaps because it's my bag (X files, lost, from, etc. I like em all) or maybe cos I didn't watch it hoping it'd be a 'proper' true detective series.

Finland's entry You need to watch this.

I finally managed to get some hands on time with the demo this morning, so feel I can comment on it now. The state of play was obscenely good, the scope of the game is incredible - and it appears as though they've managed to capture that feeling of a world being beyond the walls of Midgar which players experienced in the 90s, and (hopefully) done the same for the current gen. There could be many things I pick out from the various things shown, but typing the following sentence sums up how crazy this game is potentially going to be. It has a mini game in which you play football as Red XIII, which basically looks Rocket League. I mean...COME ON! How did this game not take 20 years to develop, and what on earth are they preparing for Part 3? Fingers crossed for Earth Defence Force inspired Weapon battles... As for the demo, the Nibelheim section is great if you're a fan of the original, not sure what new fans would make of it. It seems it's an old build as the performance mode has some rather crappy textures, as it happens I played on graphical mode and the drop in frames didn't really bother me - and it did look great. What I really loved was seeing Nibelheim realised as a real town, in a similar way to Sector 7 Slums and Wall Market in Remake, The demo will be updated within the next couple of weeks to include the Junon section, which is more of a large area to traverse and explore, quite different to the more story focused section which is available at the moment. No date for that yet.

Rebirth review embargo is 22nd Feb at 2pm GMT, a full week before the release. Reeks of confidence in the game. I'm a little concerned about spoilers being in the wild after that, but I'll just have to try to avoid anything that looks suspect. The end of Feb can't come soon enough! I probably should also mention for anyone who cares that the trophy list is in the wild. Mild spoilers follow, as in, don't look if you want to be completely fresh going in, but OK for the merely curious, although I won't list them all just give some tidbits:

I thought it looked at lot like Nier Automata for, uh, a number of reasons... You're right though, there really does seem to be a lot on the way - with LAD 8, Granblue, LoU 2 Remaster, Tekken 8, Persona 3R already reviewing well this year.

A new Action Espionage game/movie from Kojima huh? Pretty cool. Was hoping for the Rebirth demo today, guess I'll have to wait a week for the special state of play...

Silent Hill 2, Death Stranding 2, FF7R2, Until Dawn remaster, Concord, and Metro 2033 VR are what the usually reliable leakers are saying.

Strong rumours of a State of Play taking place 31st Jan, which is also the anniversary of the release of Final Fantasy 7

Fortitude. Can't remember them being from outer space though.

Going to be a looong time until I play it, similar to the time it took me to play LAD 7 I guess. Be nice to pick up Gaiden in a sale down the line, and then move on to LAD 8 after...maybe next year?

And he named his dildos after WWE superstars, what a word removed.

Now steady on!

If the games and gaming forum has to suffer the indignity of hosting that wordle thread, I think traitors chat should stay here.

Nah, keep him around until the firepit with Evie and Mollie, there's already enough doubt to have the three of them vote Andrew out, those pair think that it's over, game ends, Harry wins. Jaz murdered, Jasmine banished, Zack murdered sets this up perfectly. The only potential spanner in the works would be Zack winning a shield, or Mollie playing the Hannah role from last year and realising it is her best mate. I really didn't want Wilf to win last year, but I really do want Harry to win this time, as in the above scenario neither Evie or Mollie have barely 'played the game' at all.