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Basically, the original game had a really awesome and subversive plot that was really groundbreaking at the time, but had utterly atrocious gameplay. The guy who's been making modern Dragon Quest games threatened to quit if he didn't get to work on a game with the guy who made Nier, and the guy who made Nier wanted to make a sequel to Nier, but he told Square Enix he wouldn't do it unless it had awesome gameplay this time around.

 Some guys at platinum games fucking loved the original so they jumped at the chance to make this, and it pretty much became a passion project for everyone involved.

 So yeah, I'm also hype as fuck for this game as someone who admired the original but didn't like it.

I keep seeing that Dwarves book around. Maybe I should read it at some point. I've also been thinking of checking out the game. I don't know if it'll be my thing from what you've described, but if it comes down in price I'll give it a go, especially as the sequel is out now.

 I feel weird that I don't like Borderlands since I love all of the elements separately. Then again, I haven't played it with a friend, and maybe that's what makes that game.

You're welcome. Honestly, I read (or at least try to read) every one of your blogs and I always find the really entertaining or insightful. I just don't know what to say in the comments sometimes. I just wanted to let you know I really appreciate your blogs even if I don't comment on all of them.

Um dude, watch The Green Room, it's fucking awesome. It's not "Nazi's murdering kids," it's four kids trapped in a room with only one real exit, with one nazi trapped in the room with them, and trying to work out how the fuck they're going to escape. Seriously one of the best films I've seen in forever. Plus, Patrick Stewart is the bad guy!

 Yeah I've seen Hellraiser, though not recently. I was a huge Clive Barker fan as a teen. Actually Martyrs reminded me a bit of that film for some reason. Does it still hold up?

Yeah it's mainly the teen drama stuff that turned me off Scream unfortunately. I did like the originals though (even the 3rd one that had Jay and Silent Bob in it for some reason) so I might have to give it another chance.

Ah fair. Sorry I'm retarded. Yeah, it fucked me up for a while so it might be best to avoid. Though that is the reason I loved it so idk.

Tomb Raider fell as a series in 2013 :p

 Seriously though, I'd maybe love these games if I hadn't played Tomb Raider Anniversary, or even the Uncharted series, all of which shit on this series. I just don't understand the hype surrounding this series I guess.

There is legitimately nothing that pisses me off more than people not using turn signals. How fucking hard is it to hit a lever?!

Oh shit, this is great news! So sick of having to delete 30 games off my hard drive to make space for half a triple A game!

I can't help you as I don't know what's on US Netflix. The listings are extremely different to ours unfortunately. I can tell you one of my future picks is, and that's "The Good, The Bad, and The Weird", which is a Korean Action Western by the guy who made "I Saw the Devil." It's quite a fun watch too, and the perfect remedy to these brutal flicks.

 I saw Hush and really liked it. Reminded me a bit of You're Next with how resourceful the "victim" is. I started the first ep of Scream and wasn't blown away honestly. Does it get better?

I'm hate watching torture scenes too honestly, and Martyrs has some of the most brutal ones I've seen in terms of emotional weight. The gore in them isn't really that strong though for the most part, much less than the Saw or Hostel films anyway.

 I Saw the Devil's torture scenes aren't really torture scenes either. They're mostly fight scenes or they're over really quickly.

Yeah, same. The thing that annoyed me was near the end when they're chasing the kids through the woods... WHY DID NONE OF THEM USE THEIR POWERS?! Seriously, they were just running when they could have taken out a ton of them. I get that they were trying to make it to the border, but they could have used their powers to slow them down at least.

 Also that Charles kept going on about X23 being Logan's daughter... fuck off, she's a clone, not his daughter, and comic book Logan would never go for that.

 And one more thing... the entire point of Wolverine is that he goes into beserker rage much like The Hulk, and yet none of these movies seem to care or get that. That would have been especially poignant in a film like this since we have the shit Charles does.

 And with the Martyr stuff, I'm still not sure I understand but if you don't want to go further into it that's fine.