Bloodporne

This week on America: Fuck Yeah! Hot on the heels of me seeing a jacked, enormous pickup truck with a giant TRUMP 2020 flag mounted on its bed this morning...in Manhattan. Someone took a wrong turn from Upstate.

Fuck, this alone makes me want a gaming PC finally

Well it turns into recycle mania and you don't have to engage with online base infiltration and all that. Problem for me was that the basic gameplay loop was so endlessly entertaining that I found myself fucking around aimlessly for hours sometimes and I had a great time. I was at like 60 hours played and only maybe 1/4 into the main missions at one point. I have a feeling times vary vastly from player to player. I ended up getting sucked into the online components as well and oh boy... I actually think it's a gorgeous game btw. I like the lighting and night skyboxes a lot. Also the bases are super 'clean' looking.

I'm not sure how far you previously got, but give MGSV some time. I feel like the learning curve for actually playing WELL and smartly is kind of high at first. I hated on it at first just because I wasn't used to its relatively different approach to stealth. There's just so much to experiment with. One really basic move I found super useful was the sprint and knockout punch. Also, I played without most of the HUD like red markers and 'xray vision' where you see marked targets through buildings. I found it way more engaging and exciting. GOW's problem is that it feels too interruptive quite frequently on subsequent playthroughs. I start to really feel those walking-talking segments and other forced hinderances snowballing into frustration sometimes. Also, the kid babbles so much, lord I wish they'd have implemented a slider for banter frequency still.

Replaying GOW. I had to give up on SFV and the whole online fighting thing. I usually might curse at the TV at my absolute worst Souls rage or so but this whole thing has brought me to the brink of firing my controller into the ground. Realizing that that the next absurdly crushing defeat I might just do it, I instead deleted the game and have felt much better since!

MGSV. I don't care how incomplete, or whatever, it is, that game is fucking great and a joy to just play like few others. I'm replaying GOW right now and while I really dig the combat still, I find having to sit through all the soapy son/dad slow walking and what not again to be tedious. I'm not holding it against the game really but I think MGSV is more unbridled videogame fun.

Definitely interested. I like that whole strafing in the air and avoiding bullets in slo-mo shit. It looks a bit...stiff...somehow in terms of character movement but whatever.

Well, then we have American Psycho, which is essentially Trump: The Documentary. Sadly, he isn't nearly as self-aware, funny and decent as Patrick Bateman.

It's been a thing since RoboCop really.

I like how they went through all that trouble with personalized paint, blood, belts, gauntlets etc. and yet ended up in the local city park on a summery, sunny afternoon. I'm into the caveman-ish opening/recurring main section there but the rest of the song, including the sound itself, isn't my cup of tea. The bass line and drumming in that part are cool.

Who waits a week!?

I used to be a huge martial arts flick fan and was always pissed that the real Game Of Death was never finished. I saw some sort of docu, or rough cut, of the actual shot footage once in some one-off viewing and the stuff he did shoot was great. This particular fight especially is one of my favorite on-screen fights.

The guy playing Bill does some fucking stellar work. Everyone does here but this character is so well realized.

Bruce is a hypocrite and should be banned from discussion from D1P!!! PROOF:

This is one of those concepts someone thought was super cool while high and then...somehow ran with it. Looks boring as fuck.

I mean, this one was almost worth it. I'm also thoroughly disappointed to see that Slayer albums have been lying to me all my life and the chosen antichrist simply turned out to be this fat, ugly grampa.

Ironically, I bet these brohemians slay some Insta-bitchez with these sick ass vaping skills. Checkmate, dummy.

That's misleading though as they've shown gameplay footage of third person shooting, stealth, hand-to-hand combat, vehicles, boss fights. I'm starting to sound like I'm trying to stick up for this game but honestly, I just think the whole circus surrounding "what do you even DO!? what does it all MEAN!?" is way more absurd than the game's annoying marketing. Articles like this don't help and just indulge in that, it seems cobbled together from random previous articles. Also, I consider myself a certified hater of RDR2.

The only comics I've ever read somehow was The Preacher. I need to venture into that territory one day actually. Seems almost like ignoring film as a whole or something...

I, for one, can't wait to completely ignore it like every other entry after the original.

I mean, death isn't the worst that can happen. You could find yourself embroiled in this:

He's so New York, he's half Jewish, half Italian. If there have ever been genetics predisposed to bitching at someone in a deli, this is it.

I honestly don't believe so. There's been gameplay footage that clearly has Action-packed MGSV third person shooter mechanics and all kinds of other shit. While I don't appreciate it, I think they're trolling with some of this approach. I mean the gameplay video opens with...pissing.