Mr Party Hat

Bagsie chief bridesmaid.

Last week Call of Duty had a 170GB patch. One hundred and seventy. My gaming PC is in the garden office, so the internet speed isn't great. 10 days after starting the download, it was ready. I double clicked, launched the game and… 'Your game needs a 64GB update.'

I think they removed that upgrade thing a few months ago. I'm paid up until 2026, then I reckon I'm done.

Anyone know of any good deals for Xbox Gamepass Ultimate? I feel like playing some games.

HotUKDeals tells me this is your best bet currently: https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/xbox-game-pass-ultimate-3-months-4454769

Re: Starfield, mods help a lot with the inventory stuff. In typical Bethesda fashion, I've got 24 mods installed, and they all basically just fix QoL stuff. But also, to Alastor's point about the lack of impact this game has had, there really aren't many mods available. I feel like Skyrim had thousands of mods and conversions by this point. Starfield doesn't even have some basic stuff like new perk trees, and the mods that are there have very few downloads, and haven't been updated in 12 months or so.

It does feel a little dead on arrival.

They've added a car, so there's zero mooching. It's just fast travelling between places in menus, with no opportunity to discover anything along the way.

It's as though they looked at what made Fallout and TES great, and purposefully abandoned it. Or more likely, they thought 'we've got a fantasy one and a post-apocalyptic one, let's do a space one'. Then halfway through development they realised there's no way to combine Bethesda-style open worlds with planet hopping, but by then it was too late.

In isolation though, some of those later quests are as good as anything in Elder Scrolls.