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I understand the thinking with this but you can pretty much jump into Divinity without prior knowledge. I started with Divinity: Original Sin 1 and Larian had already made four prior Divinity games yet I didn't feel lost at all playing that one or Divinity: Original Sin 2. That being said, if what Grubb says is true I doubt they meant Divinity: Original Sin 3 then.
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Finally caught the first episode (of what looks like will be seven total episodes). This was a really strong start to a show I had very little idea what it was about going in but I come away wanting to watch more. Some of the broad comedy feels tonally misplaced but overall I really enjoyed an area of the Vietnam War that isn't often covered. Hard to believe it'll be 50 years next April since the Fall of Saigon. Chan-wook Park, who not only directs the first three episodes but co-writes all seven, brings all of his incredible skills to bear on the episode, so it is really well made and directed. Everyone should really check this out alongside other recent TV winners like The Gentlemen, Fallout, Tokyo Vice (season 2), Shogun, 3 Body Problem and Invincible (season 2) just to name some really recent stuff. The A.V. Club really enjoyed the first episode as well. The Sympathizer premiere: A unique spy thriller with a lot to say WWW.AVCLUB.COM Oldboy director Park Chan-wook's HBO miniseries weaves a tangled web of lies, timeline jumps, and historical fury.
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Yeah, the show did pretty well for Peacock even thought it felt like it came and went. Season 2 has been announced. We tried to drum up some talk in the thread for it if you want to see what some of us thought of it. Basically, it comes off like Zomebieland for Twisted Metal, not that far off from Fallout's tone but more juvenile. But I thought it was a good adaptation worth not forgetting about. Twisted Metal Renewed for Season 2 WWW.PEACOCKTV.COM Peacock’s high-octane action comedy is gearing up for Season 2! Stream Season 1 on Peacock.
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There's an incredible amount of scheming and world building in the first 3/4's of Dune Messiah that I don't think should be ignored, but yes it's not an action adventure yarn but something quite different. I think there are a lot of interesting angles one could take with the adaptation, so long as the core story (and reveals) remain.
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This was a great adaptation of the game, the series stayed strong through until the end of the season. If we're making comparisons though, if we count Arcane does that mean animation counts in terms of ranking/comparing purposes? Because if so I'd put Castlevania and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners up there (among others). But, if we're limiting ourselves to just TV (and not film adaptations) and just to live-action, ignoring anime and animation in general, The Last of Us is probably the only competition but that and Fallout are doing different things which makes them hard to compare. This is easily better than Halo and Resident Evil. I'm not sure Gangs of London counts though that is based on the The Getaway/Black Monday/Gangs of London trilogy of games by Sony London Studio back in the day, but it is a great show. That just leaves Twisted Metal which, like Fallout, is a post-apocalyptic wasteland black comedy (with a very different tone even with the similarities) and I actually felt that Twisted Metal did a pretty good job adapting its games as well. Fallout is the better show, but Twisted Metal did good and is better than Halo and Resident Evil as well.
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I don't know if they count as "new game plus" as opposed to "game makes you do multiple playthroughs of some or all of the game again for more story" but of the two, I only really care about the latter. In those cases, some immediate examples I enjoyed that come to mind are Nier Replicant, Nier Automata, Triangle Strategy and Armored Core VI (which is on the list). As much as I enjoyed Alan Wake II, there wasn't that much worthwhile added to New Game Plus in terms of story - a 13 minute Youtube video covers every single new thing so it's not worth a second playthrough just for a bunch of small story bits I think. Not sure what Dead Space remake or RE4 remake new game plus modes offer, I beat each game on hard difficulty, I don't think you get more story at least on subsequent playthroughs.
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I should have made clear earlier it's always been the same screenname since I registered in April 2001. I don't like the screenname very much (I didn't come up with it) and I use a different one everywhere else but since it's been the same community here since the IGN days I've kept up with this screenname here.
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General Gaming RIP in Peace, Dead Space 2 Remake
Greatoneshere replied to Commissar SFLUFAN's topic in The Spawn Point
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The show is great so far, nails the black satire of the games well, I'm 3 episodes in.
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When you're 14 years old in 2001 and having to ask your mom for their credit card so you can pay for online features of one website, it's a lot of money. As most here know I was mostly on the Anime Community Board and Anime General Board only for many years before eventually jumping to the DVD General Board (which is where all movie and TV discussion mostly happened). Most of those peeps did migrate to Bad Cartridge and then to D1P though most I remember from that time have now left, unfortunately. The strength and diversity of conversations during those days were so good, I miss that vs. the very little to absolutely nothing we get on the board these days. Everyone just goes: "this is how I feel" and moves on, I miss the days of dissecting scenes and really breaking things down. Everyone just presenting their feelings and moving on isn't really discourse.
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You definitely understand and enjoy the fan service and easter eggs and nods to the games, of course, but this is easily a show anyone could enjoy. As a game player you already understand everything that's going on, I imagine as a new viewer everything comes off as more of a mystery but the show plays out as if most won't know the games so it being somewhat "what is this world?" works.
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As a huge fan of the Fallout games, two episodes in this is pretty great! Not only a good show so far, but a good adaptation. It's nice that it's a canon story within the universe, but not an adaptation of any of the games. It takes place 11 years after Fallout 4 in 2296, 219 years after the bombs fell in 2077. Edit: Walton Goggins is so damn good, as usual. The slo-mo V.A.T.S. system shows up too!
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I don't think realistically anyone is saying to genuinely put billionaires to death, that's a disingenuous argument to make. People are just so sick of how powerful and consolidated that power is with billionaires, so much so that they get away with almost anything, that to see such a harsh repercussion on a billionaire elsewhere is refreshing. It's just indicative of how bad the billionaire problem is, not that us regular progressives want more, not less, capital punishment, but only when we say so.