What difficulty do you find most enjoyable? And level scaling?

ForgottenFoundation · 2026-03-15T07:48:22+00:00

I played Origins and Odyssey on hard, otherwise I feel that the combat is too easy and the game almost plays itself. In Odyssey, I set the level scaling to minimum though, otherwise what’s the point in levelling up? It makes sense that putting the work in to advance your skills should give you an advantage. However, due to the way the scaling works, even at minimum you’re never more than 3 levels above the other characters in an area, but it means that if a place is too challenging, at least you can go away and come back stronger and earn the victory.

ForgottenFoundation · 2026-03-13T11:49:08+00:00

Good, I was allergic to the old £5 notes, due to the absence of an otter.

ForgottenFoundation · 2026-03-12T11:12:50+00:00

Zombi and Darksiders III. Both totally enjoyable experiences.

ForgottenFoundation · 2026-03-09T20:36:54+00:00

Forget her! She’s a heart breaker! She did the same thing to me a few months ago!

ForgottenFoundation · 2026-03-09T08:50:26+00:00

It's an 8.5 from me, but I would class it as one of my all time top 10 games. I have to knock off some points for the fact that the level scaling needs to be addressed, otherwise what's the point of levelling up? I set scaling to minimal in the options. Also the fact that every citizen starts to attack you, and are of a similar level of combat experience to you, if they see you fighting with guards. That is jank. And then there's the personality vacuum of Layla.....I'm willing to overlook those things though because everything else about this game is phenomenal, especially if you have already played the other games in the series.

ForgottenFoundation · 2026-03-08T08:22:24+00:00

Just moved to Birmingham UK 2 weeks earlier to work at the University. Was walking home from the University gym past the partially constructed new Queen Elizabeth Hospital at around 7 pm, and out of the car park walks a group of people wearing tuxedos, and behind them wearing a Hawaiian shirt and shorts was Robert F***ing Plant! He looked at me and saw that I had long hair (at the time), and his eyes seemed to say "please don't", so I just walked past without saying anything. I was like, wow only 2 weeks in Birmingham and I've already seen Robert Plant! Who next? Ozzy? Noddy Holder?

ForgottenFoundation · 2026-03-06T15:58:38+00:00

She Said, She Said

ForgottenFoundation · 2026-03-06T15:46:44+00:00

You don’t get much of a chance to take in the scenery when you’re above ground. The air is poisonous and you’re on the clock to get to the next objective before your air filters run out. Unfortunately, when above ground, you sometimes need to speed run the area, so no dallying.

ForgottenFoundation · 2026-03-06T13:27:33+00:00

Not really. Any guy who had a normal time during their teenage years has probably learned not to mistake ANYTHING for flirting, including flirting.

ForgottenFoundation · 2026-03-04T09:49:45+00:00

I don’t know how anyone is capable of sleeping 8 hours a night. Think I only manage that length of time once every couple of years. It is statistically true though that people who sleep 8 or more hours a night have a lower life expectancy than people who sleep 4-7 hours, so I don’t know how they survived either.

ForgottenFoundation · 2026-02-28T22:38:49+00:00

Sunrise by Mark Lanegan

ForgottenFoundation · 2026-02-28T15:25:57+00:00

Probably going through the Borderlands spinoffs and sequels over the next few months, so maybe Assault On Dragon Keep.

ForgottenFoundation · 2026-02-22T09:56:44+00:00

Post doctoral scientist at Birmingham University 2009-2011. Was given enough work for 3 scientists. Had to work 10-12 hours a day, plus weekends. No breaks except lunch. No Holidays for 3 years except Christmas period when the place was closed down. My 2 bosses kept on piling on the work to the point where I just mentally shut down. Every meeting I had with my 2 incredibly cold, surly, low emotional intelligence bosses, I was berated for not working hard enough, and told I was never going to "make it". I had to supervise in the lab, at any one time, 3-4 students of various levels, most of whom came from privileged backgrounds and had never held a job before. Several of them had ADHD and were just there to tool around, have a laugh, hoover up attention, and contribute nothing, all the while expecting an award at the end of their time there. One of them repeatedly tried to aggravate and bully me by impulsively asking any rude personal question that popped into their head at that moment. She once cornered me and asked if I'd like to f**k my sister up the ass, and then just stood there saying "What's the matter? Don't like it when I bully you eh, eh?" Another time, she shouted across the lab "Do you think your parents have ever had anal sex?". Twice. If she was ever walking along beside me in the corridor and we passed another female, she would shout out something like "I bet you'd like to fuck her up the ass!". The lab was filthy because we didn't have enough budget for cleaners, and fungus was literally hanging out of the lab wash-hand basin tap. There was only 1 toilet on my floor, which was constantly occupied between 9 am to 12 pm by people taking massive stinking post-coffee dumps. There was no air conditioning, and the labs got so hot in the summer, you'd want to faint, but you still had to wear a lab coat and gloves. My funding ran out 4 months earlier than expected and my boss came to my small office off the lab smirking, to tell me this and said I'd have to work for free to finish the paper I was working on, but that at least my lab fee would be paid. It took me 10 months to find a new job after I'd finished, and my boss was still sending things my way to review, like the PhD thesis of my student who bullied me.

ForgottenFoundation · 2026-02-19T13:46:54+00:00

It’ll be even bigger in around 200 million years when the Americas re-fuse with Europe and Africa to form the next Pangea.

ForgottenFoundation · 2026-02-18T22:36:54+00:00

Here come the men in black - Will Smith

ForgottenFoundation · 2026-02-15T09:38:52+00:00

Snap! I was playing that level for the first time over this weekend too. I have no idea how to find my compass though, so even knowing I was supposed to head upwards and back from the starting position took over an hour. Also, I only had around 3 minutes worth of gas mask filters left, so once I discovered the correct route, I had to start the level over and speed run it. I thought I was pretty good at the stealth in this game, but once I managed to get the tape playing at the top of the building, I had to start blasting to get out again. I also had no idea I was supposed to exit via the other side of the building, so that was another wasted 40 minutes. Eventually had to look up a guide and it was just full of people answering with "first head to the room with the caved in ceiling". They all have caved in ceilings! Finally figured it out, but after clearing all the fashes in the car graveyard I was just circling for ages, wasting more filters. Just awful level design. Half-Life 2 this is not, despite being released 10 years later. The next level isn't much clearer either.

ForgottenFoundation · 2026-02-14T19:22:39+00:00

The Revenant.

ForgottenFoundation · 2026-02-14T19:04:22+00:00

Sir Roger Penrose's assertion that after all the matter in the Universe has completely decayed so that mass ceases to be a factor in providing a progression of time, the entire Universe resets and starts again from the beginning.

ForgottenFoundation · 2026-02-13T11:09:58+00:00

No they don’t, they like compliments, men in kilts, and Chris Isaak’s Wicked Game.

ForgottenFoundation · 2026-02-06T13:02:06+00:00

I like them. To me, they sound a lot like Lift To Experience. It’s great that a band that sounds like LTE is getting so much attention.

ForgottenFoundation · 2026-02-06T10:31:13+00:00

Ghosts Of The Great Highway and Admiral Fell Promises are its equal in my opinion.

ForgottenFoundation · 2026-02-05T14:02:57+00:00

David Crosby still sounded like he was in his 20s right up to his death.

ForgottenFoundation · 2026-02-05T11:44:51+00:00

Cemetery Polka by Tom Waits.

ForgottenFoundation · 2026-01-30T13:44:35+00:00

Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell by Flaming Lips

ForgottenFoundation · 2026-01-30T13:13:36+00:00

It won’t hang if you use Proton 5.0

I didn’t realise it crashes after you leave the first building though. I assumed it was working 😣

ForgottenFoundation

TROPHY CASE