ShreddieMercury

Despite his omnipresence in the world of literature and film, and the fact that his stuff is right up my alley, I'd never read a Stephen King book until recently. NYT recently published a "Essential Stephen King" primer (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/04/arts/best-stephen-king-books.html) which pushed me over the edge, so I followed their advice and read Salem's Lot. It was great! Given his huge catalogue of books and movies, I thought it would be fun to have a thread to discuss his work. What do you like? What should people avoid? I also picked up Night Shift, which I'm going to read next. @CastlevaniaNut18

I haven't played DS, but I tried Bloodborne and was put off of it pretty quick. I got pretty far into Sekiro, and then asked myself why I was playing it because I wasn't having fun at all. I like difficult games, but I don't like when difficulty is the game.

The Order: 1887

This looks fantastic. Is it coming to consoles as well in June, or will that be later?

That video made me realize that I might just not be interested in playing games with this level of violence anymore. I don't really find the appeal in watching realistically rendered murder animations for 20 hours in a row. I've played my fair share of extremely violent games, but the best experiences I've had in the past several years have eschewed violence completely. I hope this game is really excellent and delivers on people's excitement for the franchise, but I think I'm out.

I was lukewarm on Inside Llewyn Davis when I saw it in the theater, but I watched it again a few years afterwards and I now consider it to be in the top 2 or 3 best Coen Bros. films. I would say it's very much worth revisiting.

I see there's a console patch for Ion Fury now, has anybody played that? I've very tempted @Bloodporne

Missionary just right in the middle, average as can be.

Do you have any Apple products? I would recommend playing it however you can if you're interested, because I'm pretty blown away so far. The game's mobile origins are sometimes apparent in the graphics, but otherwise it's a fully-fledged console-quality 2D game. Capcom released a real-deal metroidvania and nobody noticed!

Totally, even Salem's Lot is around 600 or so pages. I was surprised by the length, but it's very readable and I've been gripped by the story so it's gone by pretty quickly. I've picked up IT at bookstores and been confused as to how I would even hold it while reading though.

I wanted to add Shinsekai: Into the Depths. This originally released on Apple Arcade, but came to Switch a couple of months ago. I picked it up and am really enjoying it. It's a very atmospheric exploration/metroidvania game with light survival elements and an awesome soundtrack. If you like these kinds of games, I can't recommend it enough.

I was just thinking about creating a Stephen King book thread. I've never read any of his stuff but I picked up Salem's Lot recently and am really enjoying it!

Thanks for the recommendation, that looks awesome and I've never heard of it. On sale for $4.49 on PS4 at the moment so I'm going to grab it.

It's certainly weird to say that there is multiplayer when there isn't, but that's from a snippet of an interview or two and to my knowledge nothing that they ever showed even had the slightest hint that No Man's Sky was a cooperative/multiplayer game. Also, it played nearly identically to how it was presented on day one before anything else was patched in. If you watch the first trailer, literally all of that is in the game, and just like every single other video game trailer, they put all of the interesting content all together when in reality it's not all actually present within the same few minutes of game play. It's fine to not like it (I don't), but it definitely serves as a weird sociological experiment about how the internet is able to manifest expectations from nothing and then be disappointed when these imaginary things don't exist.

Looks awesome. I had Shudder for a bit and it was great. The coolest thing about it is that they are always streaming something sort of like a cable channel, so you boot up the service and something is going in the background that you can get sucked into. I don't understand why all streaming services haven't done this, as I found it helped me avoid the endless menu browsing and decision paralysis that makes up most of my time on Netflix and Prime.

I couldn't find a thread specifically for indie games, so I thought it would be fun to start a recommendations/review thread specifically for smaller or independent games that aren't discussed as much. There are lots of interesting indie games that have caught my eye recently: Lonely Mountains and Ion Fury have both been out for a while, but I've been waiting for the Switch versions. Anything else of note that people have played or are interested in?

I have a launch switch and my joy cons do not drift. It's also my understanding that the drift issue can (in most cases) be explained by particle buildup under the sticks, and can be rectified with some contact cleaner and compressed air.

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That looks like 8th Generation: The Game. I guess the graphics are nice, but the gameplay looks painfully generic. Breath of the Wild has made this format obsolete for me.

What's the best Tony Hawk level? I'm partial to the School in THPS2.

Wow those screenshots look incredible. I've never played these - are they good?

The concept of this game is right up my alley and I'm excited to play it, but I also have a nagging feeling that it may just be more of the same. I'll reserve judgement until I can see it in action and hear about how it plays, but I think I'm just mostly done with open-world games unless they can adjust the formula. I tried to play HZD and found it really boring. If this has a really cool pitch I'm interested, but if it's open-world with a skill-tree I think I'm out.

Off the top of my head, the "domino" ability that links enemies together in Dishonored 2, and the "cyclone trap" in Bioshock that flings enemies into the air! I'm forgetting a bunch of good ones, but those two came to mind immediately.

I watched it a few weeks before everything started going haywire (another great Soderbergh movie). It is unsettling how accurate it is, and the only thing they didn't anticipate was all the insane racism.

Great article. The most illuminating (and hilarious) thing for me is the desperate speed with which Hollywood absorbs any internet sensation. What's that, you made a few minute long viral video? Well then you're obviously the right person to helm the entire operation of this huge property. No wonder there's such a violent rise and fall of people like this in that system.