Things I liked last week...

On 08/08/2016 at 11:47 PM by asrealasitgets

Before I talk about Xenogears...

I liked Suicide Squad!
I enjoyed the Suicide Squad. I don't really get the hate for it? Which is ironic because I didn't really like Man of Steel or BVS. I didn't hate them, but I didn't leave the theatre excited for more for some reason. I think Marvel films are rather dull, and I still enjoyed Days of Future past more than DC or Marvel films, so what do I know? I have bad taste. To each their own. However, I always sit and watch Man of Steel when it's on TV, even though I didn't care for the film in theatres at the time. I enjoyed the Smallville destruction scene and the final battle.Also, I liked Will Smith in this and I don't like Will Smith in anything. I liked Harley Quinn and the mean bitch that put the squad together. I would have loved for the film to have ended with a showdown between Harley and Amand Waller, but whatever.

I liked Final Fantasy Mobius!
Yes, SquareEnix has released yet another FF game on mobile, though I really wish it were made for console because it really does feel like a successor to Final Fantasy 10, 12 and 13 and it has a wonderful combat system, job system and art design. Oh and the soundtrack is glorious! I don't like when console games are squeezed onto mobile platforms, but the game surprisingly works well with a touch interface and I play it here and there. In short...I fucking love it!

I liked Elder Scrolls Legends (Card Game)
Yup, Bethesda is throwing their hat in the Card Game ring and boy is it a good one! I've personally enjoyed the myriad of Card Games on iOS over the years, I played many of them, but I was kind of put off by the challenge of multiplayer of HearthStone. I really enjoy single player story modes in these types of games, and games like Hex and Elder Scrolls has really wonderful story modes that are challenging and rewarding. If you're on the fence about trying Legends, you shouldn't. What it brings different to the table is a divided table top. The card table is divided into two lanes (left and right) and you have to defend and attack both lanes. Basically, it's like playing two simultaneous games of Hearthstone at the same time. Toward the later half of story mode, having to defend two fronts becomes a nightmare, and this mechanic is enough to set it apart from other card games. I think it's actually much harder. Also, the board has status effects sometimes, so when I was fighting the pirates, a wind status effect blew my cards into the other lane, and then later on blew them back again. This was table flipping awful. Not sure how I feel about random status effects fucking up a good strategy. It's worth a try people. I recommend.

I liked Preacher (TV)
I stuck with the Preacher TV show because whatasacow said to, and I enjoyed the wierdness of it all, but I have no idea what the fuck was going on? The violence kept me glued to my tv and kept me coming back for more on it's own and I liked some of the relationships,

JesseTulipCassidy. I have no idea where the second season is going, but I'm invested in the show now, so I'm looking forward to it.

I liked Xenoblade Chronicles X
It's funny how 'No Man's Sky' is getting all this flack for taking 30 hours to complete after it was touted of being an endless procedurally generated universe or whatever because after 35 hours in Xeno, I finally recieved my first Skell license and got my own gundam!!! After 35 hourse I feel like the game is still fresh and new, not something I can say for most games. I think I'm about half way through the main story, but there is still two continents left to discover and I've only unlocked 3 out of 15 classes.

Check out all the classes below. The yellow marks are three base classes that branch out into 4 more each. After 35 hours I've only unlocked the top row and there are all the bottom ones to go!

This was a really hard boss fight that I had to grind to get through and get my gundam, but the work paid off.

Then I got my GUNDAM!

For scale purposes

I still got lots of work to do in Xeno. I'm sure getting my money's worth!

-asreal

Also, Resident Evil films getting a final chapter apparently? I liked all the films because I like bad films and I'm probably going to pay money to see it because I'm part of the problem and I secretly hate gamers and want to prevent any good film version of RE or any vidjagame to ever happen. *Raises devil horns

KnightDriver

08/09/2016 at 12:34 AM

I've liked the RE movies. I'll see this one too. They have a lot of style and I like that. Some movies get bogged down in story and dialog. I like it when they focus on the visuals more like the recent Mad Max.

asrealasitgets

08/09/2016 at 01:53 AM

The last RE film was very strange. The whole thing took place in simulations of previous films. It was a twist on 'It was all a dream'. The main characters name is Alice, so it's fitting. There were also all these clones of Alice, like each one represented a 1up in a game. Very weird indeed. Also Ada Wong.

08/10/2016 at 03:03 AM

Was that an animated movie? I haven't seen those, just the live action films with Milla Jovovich.

Blake Turner Staff Writer

08/09/2016 at 09:53 AM

I haven't watched Preacher since ep 4 because it stopped airing in Aus so I'm going to have to resort to piracy which is unfortunate because this is a show I'd prefer to watch legally.

I am glad you like it though, and I would recommend giving the comics a read. They're a bit more fucked up than the show has ben up to this point, as vertigo comics tend to be. They do have the heart and humour of the show though. Also, if you want something truly fucked up and gory check out Crossed. It's by the same guy, and it's so messed up that I sometimes have trouble peresevering. It is so weird, funny and offbeat that I feel like I have to read the next issue, even if almost every panel looks like a cannibal corpse album cover. It does have a point though, and it has some very heady messages about violence in media, even if it does also revel in the things it criticises.

I haven't watched the movie, but Suicide Squad's soundtrack can go fuck itself. They have Panic at the Disco cover Bohemian Rhapsody, and it's just the frontman singing over the instrumental. That's not a cover, that's fucking Karaoke.

Not to mention, they have Avril Lavigne doing a song with Marilyn Manson, and the really gutless cover of Where is my Mind? by Pixies.

Elder Scrolls Legend seems like a lot of fun. I've enjoyed my time with it so far, but GW2 has taken most of my time this week.

Finally: eh. A film isn't really bad if you can have fun with it. It's junk food, but that's not a bad thing. I think people think they should only watch really intelligent shows and movies, but that's not the case. A good balance helps you enjoy both. One of my favourite films of the last decade is The Raid, and that film is stupid as shit.

08/09/2016 at 11:10 AM

I hadn't read the Preacher comics before the show. The thing with the show is that it shows likeable losers meandering through a shitty little town without any real direction, which I cannot say I've really seen before. It feels like short stories sewn together in the "day in the life" of shitty town. Twin Peaks comes to mind. At the heart of Twin Peaks there is a murder mystery investigation that moved things forward, but the show was also about the oddball inhabitants of the town, followed their daily lives like a soap opera and this "Otherworld" existing underneath the surface of an otherwise seemingly innocent suburban town. At times Preacher seems like a lucid nightmare. I stopped caring about the point of it all and just took it all in. I actually was pretty shocked with the violence on the show. I was surprised it even aired on TV at times. Like a guy got his dick shot off and he wandered around with it in his hand. Eww!

Also props for bringing up Cannibal Corps. As for Suicide Squad, I definitely cannot defend the soundtrack choices. I particularly enjoyed the Harly Quinn performance and the few glimpses of her transformation and relationship with the Joker. It is cartoon level shit, but it is what it is, Harleys origin began in a cartoon.

A lot of summer blockbuster movies are bad, but people seem to enjoy them regardless of quality and I didn't see that much of a difference with Suicide. It has a formulaic safe plot towards the middle and end, like it could have been any other summer action/war film ever except with odd DC characters. I wasn't expecting a Nolan-esque Dark Knight here.

Cary Woodham

08/09/2016 at 10:01 AM

I liked that you said you enjoy bad films. I think that's why I like Mystery Science Theater 3000 so much. I've watched the RE movies. Not in theaters, but when they come to home video or TV. I'll probably skip out on Suicide Squad, though.

08/09/2016 at 11:17 AM

Honestly, there are some pretty cool bits with Joker/Batman/Harley that get spliced in to the move which was exciting to see. I would have loved to see a whole movie starring the three of them and I was a bit peeved that it felt like a trailer for another movie that I really wanted to see was shoe horned in like that. Still cool to see Batman chasing Joker and Harly in Batmobile. Also, I've seen every RE film in theatres and I'm not ashamed. If it weren't for the RE material, I'd probably still watch them. They are pretty ridiculous though!

VisuaLIES

08/10/2016 at 03:35 AM

I saw the first Resident Evil and remember being somewhat entertained, but I wondered why it was called that, because it had nothing to do with the games. I haven't seen any of the others. Stop watching them so somebody else can make a good one :p

PixlBit