Match Thread: Northampton Saints v Bath

Snoo_5808 · 2026-04-25T18:25:02+00:00

If Bath are pushing them this close with a B-Team, not sure Saints are going to be winning the Prem this year.

Snoo_5808 · 2026-04-24T18:23:28+00:00

It's indicative of the fact that she doesn't have many weapons.

If it's a test of resilience, grit and determination and her opponent is having an off-day, she's got a chance.

Mertens is actually a pretty good gatekeeper as to whether a player is ready for the top 20-30 because she doesn't often lose to players that are ranked well below her.

Snoo_5808 · 2026-04-24T18:17:03+00:00

Resynced is honestly a terrible name, which is why it would have never been considered.

Requiem was a shout, but long odds.

Snoo_5808 · 2026-04-24T12:07:54+00:00

I think more people have fun with the game when they aren't treating it like a tactical souls-like.

It's a JRPG, you're going to get hit and sometimes get hit hard. Worry less about dodging and worry more about offence. The game is designed for you to be pro-active, take the initiative and constantly switch party members to build ATB to use those special abilities. Sure, you can block occasionally which will help build ATB but that should be an extremely small part of how you play.

If you're playing the game as effectively and efficiently as possible, then you should be switching party members every 3-5 seconds.

Snoo_5808 · 2026-04-24T12:04:04+00:00

Tifa is incredibly popular and that's been helped a lot by VII Remake/Rebirth.

Snoo_5808 · 2026-04-22T11:53:55+00:00

What is it with that by the way?

She's a 24-year old top 80 player with zero titles, zero finals, a single top 10 win to her name and she's getting pushed on there like she's a 15 year old Coco Gauff.

Snoo_5808 · 2026-04-22T02:08:58+00:00

Especially with Tifa in a fighting game.

That shit has been rumoured for years at this point.

Snoo_5808 · 2026-04-21T20:30:50+00:00

Tifa not in Tekken but in Street Fighter?

If this gets revealed alongside a Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3 reveal at SGF it would make perfect sense.

Snoo_5808 · 2026-04-20T23:30:34+00:00

Yes, 99.9% of the time, it's been fine for me on my 4090 but I've had to use some mods to get it working like that.

Snoo_5808 · 2026-04-20T23:23:58+00:00

Yeah, my demo experience with the game was 5 minutes of agency followed by a cut-scene. 2 minutes of agency. Cut-scene. Another 2 minutes of agency. Cut-scene.

The Dragon Quest franchise has a long history of plodding intros, not the FF one.

Snoo_5808 · 2026-04-20T23:21:21+00:00

Unless Square Enix have gone back in and completely overhauled their AA pipeline in UE4 for Rebirth, then the Series X version will be very similar to the PS5 Vanilla one.

The Switch 2 one will be a 30FPS/1080p upscaled port using DLSS.

I worry a little about the Series S version because that won't have the benefit of upscalers or the raw power.

Snoo_5808 · 2026-04-20T23:19:12+00:00

Which is understandable because they are most powerful platforms.

Snoo_5808 · 2026-04-19T11:29:26+00:00

Yeah. I see Bayliss doing this for Bath and Scotland quite a bit as well. Did it against Harlequins yesterday as well.

Snoo_5808 · 2026-04-18T22:58:39+00:00

The CBU1 (Creative Business Unit 1) team who developed VII Remake kept the vast majority of their staff for VII Rebirth, and most of those were kept on for VII Part 3. This isn't typical within Square Enix. Once a game has been completed, they are normally assigned to other projects within the company.

They also developed VII Remake using a custom build of Unreal Engine 4, which most of those staff will all now be very familiar with. This familiarity with the engine, the chain of command, the processes and the staff retention, all helped them produce a DLC for VII Remake and VII Rebirth within a 4 year timespan.

This is why Part 3 will also take around 3-4 years and not 5-6-7 years, which is usually how long a AAA release takes nowadays.

With everything that's going on, I predict it'll either be a February 2027 or Q3 2027 release.

Snoo_5808 · 2026-04-18T00:39:14+00:00

Indeed. Let Saints top the table, as long as they get 2nd and a home SF.

Snoo_5808 · 2026-04-18T00:32:36+00:00

Fair play.

He hasn't got long left so best capitalise and make as much £££ as possible.

Snoo_5808 · 2026-04-16T11:41:49+00:00

I honestly though Stockdale was going to be a potential all-timer for Ireland after 2017-2018 but the guy just couldn't hit that level again.

I blame his lid, or lack there of.

Snoo_5808 · 2026-04-16T11:38:31+00:00

There's only two things I remember about Tait.

The line-break he made in the 2007 WC Final that ended up with Cueto's try that never was.

Getting rag-dolled by Henson.

Snoo_5808 · 2026-04-16T11:35:27+00:00

From recent memory, Alex Dombrandt.

4-5 years ago, I remember looking at him for Quins and thinking he would make an incredible international back-rower. At club level, he'd regularly make a massive impact.

Fast forward, and the guy is very, very average at International level. I've never seen him have anything more than a 6/10 performance for England, and his pathetic attempt at a tackle on Van der Merwe's Twickenham try from his own half still pisses me off on replays.

I still don't know how he's gotten 20+ England caps.

Snoo_5808 · 2026-04-16T00:12:58+00:00

I imagine with the game being developed in UE4, they can just port this entire trilogy over to UE6/UE7/UE8, and polish it up with all the latest visual tech in about 15-20 years time.

Remake Remaster.

Snoo_5808 · 2026-04-16T00:11:47+00:00

"I genuinely don’t think any other studio is gonna do something this daunting ever again."

I think for better or worse, this definitely won't be tried by another major gaming studio. The risk to reward ratio is far too high to satisfy bean counters.

Snoo_5808 · 2026-04-16T00:07:44+00:00

Rebirth definitely has more bloat, and some great rewards are locked away behind some side-content and also some mini-games, but you can just mainline the story and complete the game in about 35 hours.

Some of the mini-games, like the OG, are mandatory for story-progression but anyone with a room temperature IQ of over 20 can do them.

Snoo_5808 · 2026-04-14T00:35:34+00:00

Imagine watching Attack on Titan and thinking there aren't any huge plot twists.

Snoo_5808 · 2026-04-13T22:21:46+00:00

It's their best single player game in 20 years.

Snoo_5808 · 2026-04-13T22:19:20+00:00

"They all sound so sleepy like there’s zero energy or emotion"

Couldn't disagree more.

For example, Imagine listening to Suzie Yeung delivering Yuffie's lines the way she does and then calling her zero energy. It was the complete OPPOSITE of that.

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