Good game with an insane difficulty spike. I couldn't ever bring myself to finish it. Nothing worse than spending 20+ hours learning the ropes only for the game to be stupidly difficult for no reason other than an unperfected battle system.

Ni No Kuni is a bitter honourable mention because its very good but also insanely flawed. An enjoyable 20 hours with great animation and a pretty gripping story at first, but damn, it falls off hard. Still a lot I like about this game including the battle system and writing. It just made humongous jumps that didn't work for me.

I only tried the demo back in 2013 and was extremely off put by the mix of stealth parts with action parts. The controls didn't jive with me. Worst of all, it left a bad taste in my mouth knowing Raiden can just kill Metal Gear willy nilly.

Skip ahead to 2018 and I bought this game on-sale and learned to like it a lot. The groundwork for a solid game is all there. It takes the underrated and underappreciated aesthetics and designs of MGS4 but makes it into an action game. Simple, crazy, and fun. It's definitely not re-writing the book here, but its fun.

Film-like game releasing in the summer. Solid excuse to have a good ol beer and pizza party with friends while we yell at the TV about what decision to make. I love these kinds of games. Give me a new one every year.

I've heard Gothic II is one of the great cRPGs that has a lot of its DNA in titles that came after it. I actually bought Gothic II a few months ago but proceeded to play Vampire The Masquerade instead and now I'm playing modern Eurojank in Kingdom Come Deliverance before I play Gothic II as well. All that said, the year 2000 was forever ago. I haven't even heard of the other games this studio made.

Oh shit! I love the GOG UI! I'd happily use it for everything. Only complaint was the hours tracking was super glitchy at first. If I can never use the awful MS Xbox app to play my very few MS games, then I'm happy. Origin has been pretty glitchy with BF1 launching for me. Maybe GOG can straighten that out too so I can avoid using Origin.

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Ohhh awesome. I thought it was gonna be one disc and I haven't heard anything since the original announcement.

I’ve been going to see his movies Day one in theatres since I was old enough to starting at Inglorious Basterds. I loved Hateful Eight but I’ve only watched it once which is low for me and a Tarantino movie. No real reason, life just changed and I can’t watch a movie 50 times anymore.

I never get excited for movies anymore but I can’t wait for this. Reviews from Cannes are out now on Metacritic and it’s looking good too!

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Wasn’t it supposed to be a PS4 version of Yakuza 3-5?

I’ll eat my words when I see it but 343 has openly talked about the struggles of bringing MCC to PC let alone PC and Switch. Somehow don’t believe this.

I followed some reviews and gameplay impressions of this game for the past few days and I can't help but be disappointed. RAGE 1 in 2011 was the first FPS I bought for my new (anf first) gaming PC that I saved up for with money from my first part time job. The graphics looked like an amazing new game to test on my PC and the enemy AI was touted as being extremely unpredictable and fun to play against.

I bought it and had a good handful of fun. The excitement of playing RAGE 1 on a new PC was akin to playing some whatever game on a launch console. Like, say, Kameo on X360 back in the day: its good, but not thaaaaat good, but since you're playing on something new you are more excited about it. Once the excitement wore down, I'd say my final thoughts was that gunplay was fun - especially when fighting enemies in corridors/dungeon levels but everything else was really really bland and driving around a pointless empty map was extremely taxing. I quit while I was ahead.

Now we have RAGE 2 and I'm scratching my head because everything that was criticized about the first game is quite literally the exact same issue all over again. The gunplay is fun, everything else is empty and boring. Why would they make the same mistake twice? Stuff like this rarely happens in video games anymore. Usually with a time gap like this they can assess the problems and fix them. Why does everybody playing it say the same thing we said in 2011? It's bizarre to me.