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Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

Overwatch 1 is gone. Forever.

Overwatch 2 will not last as long as OW1 did because the entire design doc for OW2 reeks of "if we say it's free to play we can monetize the player way more than ever because long term players stop spending on loot boxes because they have everything already but now with battle passes and the promise of 'regular updates' and 'missable cosmetics' we can rake in the cash!"

The sad part is for as much as gamers cry foul, an even larger group of silent sorts will just pay for the battle passes every time anyway because ohh shiny.

Anyway I'll play it because what the fuck else am I going to play between now and Bayonetta 3

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

It's not really the topic so it's in hiders

My Thoughts on Brie Larson

She brings a lot of it on herself by saying dumb shit and then saying stuff to try to diminish it, before saying it again. Like she's trying to gain the attention and adoration of one group by shitting on another...but then trying to placate the group she's shitting in by saying she's not shitting on them.

@BangoSkank

She's never done this, though.

Anyway, I've been replaying God of War 2018 and man I can't believe they convinced people that game was anything more than "eh it's okay" and that's generous.

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And despite my ambivalent feelings toward Edgerunners, it was clearly a success. (In garnering interest back into a product with bad PR.) So, maybe now that this is the third time something like this has been positively received on Netflix, they'll make these instead of those shitty live action anime movies. >.>

@SleepingSilence

The greatest trick Edgerunners ever pulled was convincing gamers that 2077 wasn't a fucking trashfire.

Like everyone's all like "Wow this game isn't actively on fire anymore, I thought it was bad!" but forgetting the fact that it was pulled from digital stores for like eight fucking months and no amount of polishing can fix the core of that game being an Ubisoft style open world with very little in the way of actual role playing!

But hey, it wouldn't be the first time fans of an anime overreacted to something!

What shows/movies are you watching?

Do Revenge was a lot of fun. It is probably the best teen movie adaptation of classic literature/film since 10 Things I Hate About You seeing as how Do Revenge is Strangers on a Train but set in high school with a twinge of satire and actual genuine subtle references.

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Edgerunners is...fine? Like...it's okay? It's not bad? But in that same breath I hesitate to call it "good". It's very...standard. For a beat-by-beat, plot-point perspective, Edgerunners has nothing new to bring to the table.

@Yam I Am

See I have nothing to say about this because I think that sounds totally fair but like everyone I've talked to has hyped it up to be this amazing, incredible, holy shit thing and on the one hand I know I shouldn't let the opinions of others dictate my mindset of things (but we all do it or have done it) but on the other these people say that about any anime that comes along so really I should just source my peers better.

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The first episode of the Cyberpunk anime was kinda bad in the heavy handed, generic way that was somehow both slow and too fast paced for a 26 minute thing.

And then I saw that it was done by the guy who did Promare, a movie I fucking think sucks massive ween, and then it all clicked.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

Eh Brie Larson? Didn't she like do shitty YouTube vids for awhile after that era where everyone just hated her?

@Dark Cloud

The only people that hated her are weirdos who just can't admit they bought into grifts from people who make money being hypocritical and coddling people into thinking that it's not you that's the problem it's the world.

But sure, she makes YouTube videos including ones where she plays Fortnite with others inbetween the whole being a major actress thing.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

@SleepingSilence I didn't say PS5 exclusives. There are many games that are out and out better on the PS5 despite also being on the PS4 because of fuckery with distribution. Shit like Forbidden West, God of War, Ghost of Tsushima, Days Gone, and those Last of Us games people seem to lose their mind over.

But anyway they put Brie Larson in Fortnite so I am honor bound by the sapphic code to play that game at last.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

My friend finally managed to find and purchase a PS5 (the last one in stock) today. Now all he has to do is justify the amount spent on a console with no games on it...

@SleepingSilence

Damn there's like 30 games on there tho. And even just counting exclusives there's a fair number.

Also this idea of having to 'justify' a purchase with some arbitrary number of games is wild. If someone wants to play Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart then congrats, the purchase is justified!

What shows/movies are you watching?

Cyberpunk Edgerunners is the kind of anime I expected Devilman Crybaby to be. Which is why I still haven't seen it. (All style, no substance.) Worldbuilding is borderline comical. Cheap flashes of vulgarity/sexual scenes in some attempt to be mature. Trope characters without clear motivation. Deaths of main characters all fall completely flat. (Laughed out loud in the final episode.) Predictable nonsense plot. The music often sucked and didn't fit the tone of what was on screen. (As typical for Netflix anime.) And a lot of the action scenes were in slow-mo and lacked any kind of logic. (Fight choreography in general was poor.)

@SleepingSilence

Other than the music this sounds exactly like the game the anime is based on.