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Great goal.

I thought they were working on a J&D remake for PS5? Or was that just a rumour? Edit: Quick Google suggests it was just a rumour.

Would you believe it, a £20 FFAR bundle..

Leeds to beat Chelsea this weekend and move onto 58 points.

Yeah this is completely where I'm at, but maybe I'm just not as forgiving, particularly with the performance issues and bugs I've had. It's not just the soundtrack for me either but the sound production as a whole on this game is great, the ambient atmospherics, the tape recordings, the radios and radio stations, it's all done brilliantly. I genuinely really like everything about the game.. except the gameplay, hence my original point about it maybe making a better TV show than a game. It's like JJ Abrams took a a bash at a superhero story, a kind of Lost/Fringe/Captain Marvel mash-up only I'm playing the lead role when I'd sooner just sit back and enjoy. I felt myself rushing through areas and bypassing enemies because I just wanted to progress to the next story point.

Also my game is bugged so I can't complete Arish's 'Put a Record On' mission, it just keeps putting me in a standard expedition (and the mission never completes which is infuriating), and those things are difficult, particularly if you roll a nasty modifier like -50% energy, as I did first time.

Honestly I'm not trying to flex, and I'm not great at video games (I am just coming off getting platinum on Bloodborne though.. and that is a flex, I earned it) but the only bosses that took me more than one attempt were Tommasi (3) because the invisible enemy jumped me a couple of times until I learned to just go ham on Tommasi and ignore everything else, and Anchor (4) where all my deaths were from falling off the platforms because I'd just picked up levitate and hadn't got the hang of it yet and kept accidentally releasing it thinking I could double jump. This is probably why I didn't struggle, and found it repetitive. I like to go all in on damage at the expense of HP/defence when I'm playing any game with RPG elements so I pumped every point into launch/energy early on, and it's just ridiclously powerful so the game just becomes R1 spam until you run out of energy. I'm usually the kind to min/max my stats/weapons in games like this, I love the idea of all the weapon types and mods, but actually I've barely touched them. I got a level 2 +34% damage mod for grip early on and that's still what I'm using, and I just use it as something to do while my energy regens. Some real variation would be amazing, so I could do a playthrough with a launch build where I prioritise launch damage / energy / energy regen at the expense of defensive stats, or a melee build where I could focus on melee damage / killstreak buffs / dodge mods, or a gun build, a tanky shield build etc. But there isn't really any specialisation, you can unlock every ability in one playthrough, and most of the mods are just clutter. Not to mention the gun combat is pretty damn clunky, melee combat is a complete non-entity, and as above launch is just far and away the best ability. The whole mod system feels kinda similar to the Division, only the Division did it better, and that system was far from perfect.

There's so much to like about this game, but it just never quite hit the spot for me. It looks brilliant, technically and stylistically. The soundtrack is great. There's some really interesting concepts, an intriguing story, with tonnes of detail to pore over. However despite all the various weapons and abilities I just found the combat somewhat unsatisfying and repetitive, the enemies and bosses lacked character and difficulty, the menus are cluttered and cumbersome, and on a base PS4 the performance is pretty bad. On the whole I'd say I enjoyed playing through it, but I find myself thinking maybe I'd have enjoyed watching the TV show more.

Bertie really needed to step up today with both Jack and Ghazi out, and he didn't. Trez is a great defensive wide player, love his enthusiasm, and he occasionally finds himself in good positions, but he's no more an attacking threat than Neil Taylor. Ross did nothing to aid our creative output when he came on either and losing Sanson's busyness handed control back to Wolves. A point's not a bad result when our only attacking threat was our striker creating chances for himself, Ollie did give it a damn good go mind.

Yeah I don't disagree, if we go with a five (and let's face it Gareth will go with a five) then he's a shoe in. But in my ideal squad, playing the formation I think England should play, Saka doesn't get in as an orthodox LB, and he's in competition with Sterling, Foden, Sancho etc as a RW.

Pretty much this but I'd probably start Walker, TAA has been awful this season. I'm not sure Saka makes the squad either unless we're playing 3/5 at the back (which unfortunately we probably will be), I imagine it'll be Shaw and Chillwell fighting for the LB spot in a four, but I'm hoping Targett can get himself in the conversation, Chillwell is struggling to get games for Chelsea at the minute which could play its part.

Ref was awful, for both teams, don't think he got a decision right all night. We desperately miss Matty Cash, maybe even more than we miss Jack.

In fairness to Leeds they did breathe an enormous amount of fresh air during that game, which I'm led to believe is the leading metric in deciding how to attribute the moral victory.

I hope we're 1-0 up after 42 minutes, because that's all that matters in football, they give you the result after that apparently.

One that actually loads properly on PS4 would be nice.

Disagree, maybe I'm a bit blinkered because we won but I actually thought the ref was decent yesterday. Tried to let the game flow, was fair to both sides, booked players for petulance/dissent, and yeah if Mike Dean reffed that game it would've ended 10v10 but I don't think it was a game that warranted ending 10v10. Or maybe it just felt like the ref was decent because VAR wasn't the centre of attention for a change.

**** off Leeds you throbbers.

Agreed, I was reluctant to include him for that reason (see also: every Michael Shannon character), but he made it for having a great smarmy pr!ck face.

Anyone played by Liam Neeson. Skylar in Breaking Bad. Franny in Homeland. Arlo Givens in Justified. Charles Logan in 24. Pete Campbell in Mad Men. Paige in The Americans. Probably loads more if I spent time on it.

Picked up Control for free on PS+ having almost bought it a few times previously. Kinda struggling to get into it, I really wanna like it, and there's so much about it I should like, it's just not clicking so far. Also the performance on a base PS4 is straight up bad, frequently experiencing massive frame drops, the map just doesn't load 50% of the time, and some textures are basically just a blur unless you stand right next to them, I can literally make them pop in and out by walking back and forward. Can't really complain having got it for free, but I'd be a bit miffed if I'd paid decent money for it.

Howe got relegated.. But I agree with your overall point, although Roy doing better is debatable, Palace have been awful for two or three years now but somehow fluke their way to 40pts every season.

Interviewer: "Christian, have you scored any more dramatic goals than that in a Palace shirt?" Benteke: "Maybe in a Villa shirt" His heart's still in B6.

It's all part of the plan, next game Targett puts Jack back in his FPL team so Bielsa plays two RBs instead of Raphina.

Took us too long to believe we could play without Jack. Targett immense, again. Ginny better. Some of our fans are embarrassing.

But the target is the goal. You don't get points for hitting the post more than the other team.