LisaTiffany

A mix of Irish, South African and Russian. Also lived in all of those places at one point or another, but yeah I thought you meant desktop wallpapers XD

Already covered - Arkham Knight, Mad Max, Phantom Pain, Bloodborne, Project Cars, Dying Light, Elder Scrolls Online, Farm Sim 15, Dark Souls 2 Redux, and of course Witcher 3

Next up - Fallout 4, Battlefront, Just Cause 3, maybe Rainbow Six Siege. Other games like Hitman have been kept back but I can see next year bringing Dark Souls 3, No Man's Sky, Ghost Recon, Deus Ex, maybe The Division and maybe Firewatch. I'm sure there are a lot of other games due out but Fallout makes it hard to see anything else, I've no interest in the next Uncharted. The first one was good but they started to feel to same-same and more like a visual experience than anything else. I'll probably skip the next Far Cry too.

Thanks MEATBALL, she got diagnosed last March but it was a long road to surgery. Luckily medical science has come so far in the last few years that more and more patients are making it through, especially if they catch it early. They said she was one of the youngest patients they have treated but hopefully she will be home in a week and back on her feet even sooner. She and Ian are pretty bulletproof in my eyes right now, to go through anything like that and make it out the other end is pretty amazing.

Feeling any better today Ian? My sister had surgery today, she was in the operating theatre for 10 hours, it's been one hell of a long day but there were no complications and she should be good with enough time to heal. Scary how quickly life can pull the rug out on you like that, with her it was cancer and she's still in her 20's so we were all pretty shocked. I was talking to another patient who was on their way to a hospice, apparently there was nothing left for the Doctors to do. Any ways very glad again that you made it through and hope your recovery goes well.

Some pretty big changes and it's good to see they are reducing the cloaking time, I only played it for a few hours but felt it needed a lot more balancing. It was fun back on the PS3 so I had higher expectations for this version, it helps when you are playing with a team who are playing properly but even then the online doesn't feel that busy. Maybe with the patch I'll go back and give it another try, a few new maps would be a nice addition too.

Well with GTAV once I got out of the city and headed up into the mountains it looked even more lush and realistic than it did on PS3. The game itself didn't look terrible on PS3 but the extra draw distance and first person mode made it look and feel brilliant. There was no real sense of urgency in the PS3 version but I remember doing my first police chase in first person mode and thinking it was well worth the buy. Drive Club looked fantastic but played really poorly, I know they have released a number of patches since then but it was the audio that really felt next gen. With Project Cars it just looked and played brilliantly right out of the box, the audio too was spot on. I mentioned Metro because it made a big impression on me, I'd pretty much given up on shooters at the time. I remember the first time you come up out of the Metro and have to make your way through the city streets, small things like wiping the mask really added to the realism. Then there was a mission where you are outside in a storm and the enemy are trying to find you, it was the one game that made me not give up on shooters.

One of the moments that really stuck out in The Witcher was my first boat journey in Skellige, when the skies opened up and started storming it was done so well you would almost think it wasn't a game. Some of the locations and mountain top vistas also added to the realism, it might take about 10 minutes to scale your way up a mountain but once you get up there the views are amazing. I think inFamous concentrated too much on visuals and maybe they didn't think that maybe the main protagonist was so annoying that not everyone would enjoy playing as him, I wondered if that's why they released the DLC. It felt like a tech demo as if Sony were saying "look at all the pretty lights and colours we know", so visually it could be stellar at times.

When the PS4 originally launched I wasn't all that impressed but I think next gen games are only now starting to get it right, Fallout will hopefully be one of those games that show off not just the power but the need for next gen. I'll still play the PS3 every now and then, but when it comes to realism I have to go with next gen. It can work both ways though, just because a game looks good it doesn't mean it's a guaranteed must play, Watch Dogs looked decent and felt real-ish... but was so boring I never bothered finishing it. Lords of the Fallen looked good too and played a lot like a Souls game but it didn't do anything new and felt broken. Theif was another game that could have been a lot better, it did look good and apart from it's many audio glitches sounded good but there was never enough to do on the map to ever make it feel real. Last but not least I'd have to add Arkham Knight to the list and there are many reasons why - at the opening when the camera pans up and seconds later you are controlling batman as you glide through Gotham it's nothing short of beautiful, they even managed to make the rain on his cowl look super realistic. In the end though they use all of that power to create what was essentially a tank simulator. They conveniently evacuated the regular law abiding citizens of the city and instead populated the streets with thug after thug that looked super copy and pasted. They nailed the visuals and the audio but there is too much time spent in the tank to make it feel any way realistic. Arkham Asylum didn't allow for vehicles and in the end it was a much better game for it, story aside it had more substance and actually made you feel like you were doing something worth while.

Not seen it yet, I just recently watched Bojack Horseman and Brickleberry, both were pretty good but I'd not heard of them until a few weeks ago.

Oh yeah quite a few and it always happens when I'm not expecting it. Phantom Pain had a few, inFamous did but it was all visual. A few more would be Metro Redux, Bloodborne, Project Cars, Driveclub (visual only), and of course GTAV even though I'd played through it on PS3.The Witcher was probably one of the most substantial, the weather effects were beautiful and even something as simple as branches swaying in the breeze made it all the more realistic. I'm sure Fallout will have similar moments in spades.

The reviews sound a lot better than expected but the damage is already done, Ubisoft just seem determined to make mediocre games that could be and should be a lot better. I was really excited about other Ubisoft games like The Division but now I've just accepted that it will probably be broken.

It really depends on the meal but I mostly try and use the provided chopsticks, if it's sushi it's no real trouble.