Garwoofoo

Is The Old Republic still going, as in actively getting updates? You never seem to hear about it at all these days.

With an MMO, stuff changes so much that’s it’s usually worth starting again if you’ve been away for a while. I went back to FF14 after a gap of several years and I’d have been hopelessly confused if I’d tried to pick up where I left off.

Very early impressions of Bond: it’s VERY slick and they’ve got the tone exactly right. Bond himself is really charismatic where if they’d got it even slightly wrong he’d just have been punchable and annoying. The opening mission is one of the best I’ve played and the training montage afterwards is amazing. So far it’s much more Uncharted than Hitman but I am really looking forward to seeing more of this.

New expansion announced - Songs of the Past - releasing next year.

I started a new playthrough a little while back, got as far as Novigrad, so good timing - I really should at least play the two existing expansions before this new one releases. First time through I finished the main game, got an absolutely terrible ending and was so despondent I never went back to it.

Realised I never posted in here so I guess four days off the end of the month is still acceptable, right?

Play

Forza Horizon 6 - I was going to say "it's exactly like all the others" and it is, but I think it's a pretty good entry: it's got a really interesting map, lots of variety, much better fast travel options and they've toned down the "annoying influencer" bollocks that plagued the last one. I still know nothing about cars and in all honestly it's not a very convincing recreation of Japan but I'm having fun with this.

Final Fantasy XIV - absolutely loving this, even if I keep getting distracted by the surprisingly fully-featured fishing minigame.

Want

I think I'm going to get 007 - First Light - reviews and impressions have been really positive, IOI have earned a LOT of goodwill with the years of support they've put in for the Hitman series and it just looks really fun.