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I never finished that but quite liked what I did play except for having zero interest in the characters like you mention!

You have someone who is injured or stuck in cryo or something don't you? I remember particularly disliking, or at least having zero interest in whoever that was. So when the game is trying to drive you to save them it's difficult to care.

Basically sat out October it feels like, work was manic and kept getting every illness going.

So am bouncing back by starting the Nov thread. If you want to feel particularly old and have kept track of things then my kid is 9 years old in a few days! Which doesn't feel possible.

Play -

Kotor 2 - its been half term this week and finally gotten back to this properly and started to make actual progress. Feel like its taken about an age and months and months of little bits of playing to fully start, have finally made it off the first major planet you get to pick and have now unlocked HK47 finally.

Football Manager 26 - This comes out of beta and into GamePass this week. I actually kept my full sub to try this as its been pretty poorly received it seems. Very different with lots of poor UI and bugs.

Wobbly Life - We play a little blast of this everyday and its funny and enjoyable, well worth checking out for people with younger kids.

Call of Juarez - was like £1.49 on the Xbox store and really enjoying it. Its poorly pieced together narrative doesn't detract from the gameplay, even if the enemies are particularly stupid it feels like. Its nice playing a FPS where everything feels like a 10-25 minute level again, as that fits perfectly with my gaming habits and times.

Want - a Switch Lite - want a device to fire in my bag for lunch times at work and seen these selling for between £70-£120 depending on condition and what it has with it. Ebay and marketplace for the lower end but seen shops with them at £100.

Final Fantasy 7 remake - I missed this initially as was PS4 only, considered getting it on the Switch2 though now.

Bin - the weather. My kid had spent months making and thinking about Halloween and trick or treating with her friends, she had made her Halloween costume by the first week of the summer holidays for example, and then it was an utter wash out last night, I felt so bad as she was so upset it was ruined.

Very excited by the Animal Crossing update in our house. We had been set to get my kid a Switch Lite with a copy of Animal crossing for Xmas, as she is still obsessed with it but missed out on building her own island and we obviously don't want her deleting ours as we still play on it.

But now not sure what is best as the Switch 2 update looks good. We initially never moved our island to the Switch 2 as didnt want it hogged by her, but this has resulted in everyone playing the original Switch more than the S2 due to Animal crossing.

Absolutely loved the original Splinter Cell. Seeing that running on the Original Xbox was one of those moments where I knew i wanted the console and game.

Really later to things this month as work has been brutal and feel like I have been continually ill this month, but in an annoying way where i dont feel ill enough to not go work.

Play - nearly bought a PS5 but have instead just returned to playing the 4 i got and hardly used, and back on Ghost of Tshumia, which i am utterly loving again.

Want - I grabbed the Retron 5N console that plays read games via emulator cores, but not had a chance to fire it up yet, so want some time to mess with that at the weekend.

Yeah just spotted that this evening and its disappointing to say the least. I currently just have my on monthly sub for Ultimate but will need to look into one or the cheaper methods now.

Annoying as been thinking about grabbing that lower end Ally Xbox model too the last few days.