fuckle85

It's just dumb decision after dumb decision from characters who should know better but don't, and a lot of far fetch moments happening because plot and such. Brianne shouldn't have banged Jamie (good moment for Jamie, TERRIBLE moment for Brianne), Jon's way of handling the complications with Dany were hilarious and I'm not sure how much of it was intentional or not, the cringe dialogue between Gendry and Arya, Dany is flying miles above the ocean and somehow Euron's fleet stealth kills her dragon, Tyrion walking up to Cersei, Missandrei not even attempting to throw Cersei off the wall before what everyone knows is going to happen happens, etc. And that was just this episode. I's pretty clear to me that the show writers are struggling with landing this thing. I sort of expected that, but not to this degree. What I loved about earlier seasons was the lack of these dumb moments, but they've been incrementally happening more since season 6 or so. It is what it is. There was definitely a feeling of unease during the early moments of the dinner scene. But in retrospect it's mostly because you can just never trust a feast scene in GoT/ASOIAF. There were a few truly surprising moments, but a lot of it felt to me like the writers were addressing/possibly using fan theories posted online. I gotta wonder if it's possible GRRM is taking forever with the books since leaving the show over creative differences in season 4 because he wants to see how they handle fleshing out his sketch for the plot and the audience reactions before possibly changing up the story in the books. It might even make the books better to some extent (if the ever come out, etc).

This is pretty much the episode where I can't take the show seriously anymore. The massive dropoff in writing quality these past few seasons due to no books to adapt and GRRM leaving the show is very evident to me now. But it'll still be worth it just to see fucking Cersei get what's coming to her.

Sam's reaction in that scene haha

Saw it again today. I've concluded it's one of those films that I see no point whatsoever in arguing about the logistics of anything. Live action cartoons and the "rules" pretty much come down to science magic. Still fun to watch though.

So it was leaked weeks ago that episode 3 was a battle episode. Is another battle confirmed?

There HAS to be some major significance between TNK and his army of zombies, The Many Faced God/God of Death, and Arya's journey of learning how to be an assassin from them and then severing ties ("What do we say to death? Not today.") but I can't quite piece it together. Obviously it makes her character arc poetic af but there has to be even more to it than that. It's pretty clear characters like Theon and Jamie are still shitlords. Bran was probably just using empathy to comfort Theon before he died. Jamie's redemption arc is a bigger mystery. He's almost portrayed as heroic now (It was intended to be a meaningful, even tearjerking scene when he bestowed the title of honorable knight to Brienne, though it probably shouldn't mean as much coming from him). Dude did some horrible shit, all the way up through last season, yet the show still kinda wants you to root for him lmao. From what I understand the book does a much better job of humanizing him.

SFLUFAN was this a lowkey spoiler!? The fuck!!!!!!!!?

That was less an epic medieval fantasy battle than a zombie horror episode for most of it, but holy actual fuck. Theon and Jorah dying so honorably, the fucking horror and tragedy of Lady Mormont's death, the dragon fights, the feeling of "what the fuck is going to happen now" as The Night's King approaches Bran, and then Arya coming through with the win, bish!!!!!!!!! That moment adds so much more meaningful context to her arc from her earliest scenes to all of that stuff with the god of death and faceless men. Damn I'm looking forward to watching those episodes again to pick up on the forshadowing that went over my head at the time. I'm literally fucking shaking right now, haha. I love this show so much again that I can't even feel disappointment for season 5 and 7 any more.

Less than ten minutes, baby! To get some hype going for anyone unaware of this, the Battle of Winterfell is apparently the longest on-screen battle in cinema history, lasting longer than the Battle of Helm's Deep in LOTR: TT. For comparison, The Battle of Hornburg at Helms Deep was 40 minutes long in the movie adaptation of the Two Towers.

Just got back from seeing it.

After taking a break from Sekiro I might get back into that. Spider-Man DLC, finishing up RDR2, Apex Legends (and then Titanfall to heal my shattered ego after I get my ass handed to me), Spyro, The Sims 4 and DMC5 are also on the table.

I'm sure there's truth to this. I'm always interested in having a bigger picture understanding of how impressions online (from both reviewers and popular streamers) impacts reactions to the game. In real life, friends and myself would love games that might get lukewarm reviews, or weren't reviewed much or are very niche. Or ones that nobody talks about online but we had a blast with. But that's just within my social bubble and when you look at the accumulative impressions spread across social media and forums with a large user base like Era and Gaf, you're obviously seeing a much larger scale reaction to a game. Sometimes this is even acknowledged by developers themselves. I don't claim that even all of this gives an comprehensive picture of a game or studio's success across the board, but over time you notice some patterns like how games which have clear issues (Red Dead Redeption 2, for example) getting near perfect metacritic scores and how the reaction seems overwhelmingly positive. Then that might change over time until it seems like popular opinion has shifted to being more critical ("backlash", etc). Sometimes sales and impressions seem to go hand in hand. Sometimes not. This has happened many times throughout the years and is often observable after streamers or journalists present a very convincing argument for why a game should be more heavily criticized. The ebb and flow of that is interesting to me.

I honestly don't know enough about marketing to gauge to what extent strong reviews + word of mouth (on and offline) impact sales and success and for which games, but It can matter sometimes, especially long term, so generally as a studio you always hope for good reviews/impressions (that Benji guy seemed to confirm this in a previous tweet).

This is turning out to be quite a year for zombie games, eh? Despite feeling a bit burnt out by the genre, DG still seems like a good enough time that I'll probably pick it up when it goes on sale and after several patches are released. I love the prospect of cruising around the open world and taking in the scenery while experiencing random interesting moments involving humans, undead, wildlife, etc. It'll be worth my time and cash if it offers that much. Though I hope this game does well, saying "Day 1, sales are strong" might be calling it a bit early, hehe. My concern from the beginning was that lukewarm reviews might influence public opinion, eventually influencing sales numbers later. For better or worse, this is common in the industry. Too much stock is put into reviews sometimes.

I'm hyped over the concept of this game and it's Remedy so you know the shooting/psychic powers mechanics are going to be amazing.

Both games are arguably some of the best in the series though I prefer Origins because I'm fascinated with ancient Egypt and Ubisoft put a lot of care into depicting it accurately. Haven't played Odyssey yet.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/business/media/steven-spielberg-netflix-academy-awards.html

Backwards compatibility is amazing news as long as Sony doesn't charge a subscription fee to use it. PS3 and earlier would be nice as well but PS4 bc alone is enough to earn a pre-order from me. Sony will probably continue to push PSnow, but hopefully it will take on the role of a much better option for renting games (since that's essentially what it is) and more PS1-3 classics will be ported to their online store.

Team Ico/Gen Design's approach to animation. The way a character's body language and expressions tells you a lot about their character like how determined they are, clumsy, reckless, brave, etc. The little touches like clothing rippling in wind, tripping over a step, the way animals are portrayed, like how Toriko will show subtle behaviors that your pet might have. Most games rarely make me feel like the characters are as alive like those games do.

My point is exactly that he will be safe to make it to the battle (not only from Dany but the Starks). I didn't know/remember it was already confirmed for sure he would though. Tyrion and Brianne will vouch for him and pretty sure Bran might pardon him too if it comes up.

So looks like there will be a Jamie trial next episode, but there's no way that he DOESN'T get bailed out by Brienne, right? His moments of honor were significant in setting in motion the events that led to the Stark family being reunited. Also Tyrion is there and can vouch for him too.

Friendly reminder: Vanquish and Bayonneta are on PC now Also, if you happen to be looking forward to the next Vampire TM: Bloodlines, the original game is very janky but can be modded to be playable enough, Vampyr is a nice little story-driven Vampire RPG, and I recently learned that it takes very little effort to get Blood Omen 2 running perfectly on Steam. All of these games are pretty immersive and have tons of atmosphere. If you haven't played Cuphead yet, april 18th is the perfect day to start since there will be a massive update that adds new features including playable mugman for single-player, improvements and tweaks and fully animated cutscenes!

Agreed 100% (not entirely, but I think it's reasonable to assume that we are both simultaneously making some good points and being full of shit until several perspectives with marketing cred in the games industry quantify to what extent online hype can be influential)