My personal favorite headlines are the one about how hard Bethesda worked on Fallout 76 and the one about how gamers just didn't understand the vision for Anthem "needing to come out in past fiscal year."
I haven't seen that quote yet. I want to read whichever article that's from.
I'm curious what those first two are about exactly. Deathloop seems inspired by certain 70s films ... Ghostwire's first scene where everyone's on their phones has me thinking it'll somehow be a commentary on modern technology. Interesting stuff I would have missed had you not posted it, cause I'm not really watching E3 too closely.
I dug the Keanu reveal in the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer and got a kick out of the now-viral "No, you're breathtaking!" exchange, but I'm not sure yet if it's my kind of game or not.
I actually started playing Mankind Divided today and man was that a long recap. I'm still basically in tutorial mode for the stealth stuff. Not sure if choosing the shotgun instead of the sniper would have made a difference or not. Probably should have gone that route if so, since I prefer action to stealth.
Must share this very-acquired-taste song about Castlevania II:
I'd say this game gets lots of attention, but it's mostly negative attention or apologist YouTubers. A lot of kids had an issue with how obtuse it was, others just remember the good times.
That's funny about your brother deciding final form bosses were enough to make him quit gaming. I kinda get it. lol
This reminds me I've never seen Lawrence of Arabia.
I want to say it was What Remains of Edith Finch? Also a good game for very, very different reasons. lol
Winnie the Pooh on Netflix also isn't a remake, so that makes sense. I have mixed feelings about throwing money at Disney for remaking a cartoon that was already fine, but my friends wanted to go and I had a good time, so it is what it is.
Nah, they could have had more monster fights and less humans within more or less a similar structure.
I might have been too tired, cause I went for a matinee not expecting much, but I just wasn't invested in any of it.
Weirdly enough, I loved Aladdin and I had no expectations for that either. I figured they'd screw it up, but it ended up being a really fun time for me.
STAGE SELECT: What's the most personal story you feel comfortable sharing on the show? If you'd rather not share that, what video game character turns you OFF the most? Just makes you never want to have sex ever again, because if there's even a small chance of your children creating a similar character in the future, you'd rather not risk it?
Bonus points if you have a personal story that reminds you of a video game character so bad they made you never want to have sex again.
Cage Match: Tony Hawk's all the way. I wasn't even that big a fan of Goldeneye at the time, and everything it did has been changed or dramatically improved upon not long after it came out. It's an outdated time capsule.
THPS is also an outdated time capsule, but in the best way: you couldn't release a blockbuster hit with that soundtrack today, but that soundtrack is awesome. The gameplay in THPS is solid and was added to and iterated on in later entries, but the core mechanics still work well/are intuituve/are not clunky, much unlike Goldeneye 007.
By the way, I no longer study or work/teach there, but Tony Hawk came to Stephen F. Austin only a couple months ago to give a business speech and I got to see him in person.
Beyond all that, there's still something I find inherently cool about skateboarding. Really wish I could have gone beyond doing an ollie and keeping the board straight when I was little and had that Star Wars Episode I Anakin board.
Now if Street Sk8er had been involved, my nostalgia goggles and the song "All My Friends Are Metalheads" by Less Than Jake may have won out, but no. THPS is the winner today!
