Psycho666Soldier

Hooooooly shit

1. Final Fantasy VII Remake 2. Death Stranding It's kind of crazy to think that these are the only two games I've beaten so far this year, but I guess I've been playing a decent amount of unbeatable games or ones that are online-focused. But I finally beat this game. Got the Platinum trophy, too, which I'm pretty sure is only my second one. It was actually fairly easy if you've already put all the time into it I did. Just tedious. Overall, I kinda compare this game to Final Fantasy XV. There's a great engine and gameplay style being employed, with a big open world that you can take a lot of time to explore. But there's not really enough in the world to make it consistently interesting. The difference for me is FFXV still made the open-world part feel satisfying and rewarding to explore. Death Stranding's world...kinda doesn't. Likes are useless when not for the sake of leveling a location up, so the lost cargo becomes an endeavor of diminishing returns in most cases. The memory chips and the lore is cool, but there's only so many mountain peaks and interesting areas where you'll find something like that to really make it worth your while. And I hate hate hate how cut and paste a lot of the game is. The distribution centers all reuse the same models and animations, with the same cookie-cutter dialogue templates, and it contributes to the "low reward" factor. I also feel like the stealth was only really engaging the first few times. After that it just became tedious. The majority of the boss fights offering little in the way of variance didn't help either. All of this became more painfully obvious when I came back to it after putting it down for a couple months. Before, I saw the shortcomings and was still pretty into connecting all the centers and 100%-ing everything. But it was almost enough to make me give up on the game when I came back. That said, I decided to plow through the story and...I ended up getting hooked again. The story was, surprisingly, pretty tame and coherent compared to the MGS storyline. Stuff that's still overly complex, but actually makes a good amount of sense and is told pretty straight-forward once the info is out there. You do need some of the interviews and reports to put together the whole story, but even without that stuff, the event of the last few chapters actually come together pretty clearly, even if you don't remember every detail from earlier parts. There weren't a lot of twists that you couldn't see coming in some way, but the big one definitely made me drop my jaw. While I feel the story wasn't spliced into the gameplay enough to really make you grow with the characters, the final moments end up being pretty emotional. Death Stranding isn't perfect, and definitely not for everybody. I think what Kojima has is an excellent engine and a base idea that could be expanded into future entries that really take advantage of the possibilities. The game feels a bit rushed as far as the actual content that fills up your game clock. But with a few more story moments mixed into the entire game and a world that's actually interesting and rewarding to explore, I could see myself falling in love.

1. Drew 2. Asuka 3. Nikki 4. Wyatt 5. Mysterio 6. Crews 7. Shinsaro B1. No-Ropes Exploding Barbed Wire Death Match B2. Big E B3. Yes B4. ?No B5. No

Finally got back into the groove with Death Stranding. I started plowing through the story, and when I got to the part that I assume is the typical, "Finish all the side quests before you continue," point, I felt that itch to star zip-lining shit and going for all the trophies again.

Holy shit, you got some of the most fucked up endings.

It sounds like you've taken a very different direction with Cara than I did, but it's also been a minute since I played, so I don't remember every detail I did:

I've been trying to avoid spoilers because I want to give this a shot on my own. But my friend was saying about 20 hours in, some big story moment happened that pissed him off enough that he put down the game for now. I'm assuming it's some kind of twist or something major that changes the scope of the game based on context clues. Do you have any idea what part he's talking about and if so, did you have a similar reaction?

Any combination that includes Gunstar Heroes is the right combination.

Should I actually bother with Fire Force? I keep getting mixed signals from things I read. That Deca-Dence trailer was enough to hook me. The art has a very mid-90s anime film vibe to it. A friend of mine was recommending God of High School just a couple days ago. Not too interested in Tower of God, but this one sounds way more up my alley. OH, and Digimon returning is fucking awesome. Here's to hoping they can stick it out consistently this time.

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Happy Birthday, MT!

Honestly, if you just need a hand monitoring stuff, I wouldn't mind being a mod. I know I don't post a lot here, and honestly I don't get too involved with political threads, but I usually read everything. You could just let me know a rough guideline of the type of shit you'd need quelled, and I'd be happy to do it. Not like this group should be much issue. If Tassie decides she wants to do it, too, then we'd probably have enough bases covered for no eyes to miss anything.

I have no problems with it. I usually just read as opposed to participate, and I feel the people that the controversy normally swirls around aren't really interested in posting here even as a troll. I also don't think it will bleed into other topics as that's not much of an issue here, and again, is something that would normally come from people that aren't here.

Been playing a bit of GTA V online with my girlfriend, since it was free on the Epic Games store. It's a pain in the ass to get to the point where you can actually play with your friends, just because you have to wait for story missions to become available, but it's about as fun as I remember it being when I played it upon launch. I haven't done any of the heists or too many of the other missions yet, as we've mostly just been fucking around in free mode, but I had fun playing back then and I still am. So I'm sure it'll be better once I get to the newer content stuff. I also have been mucking about on the SNES/NES games on the Switch. Was checking out Operation Logic Bomb. That's a fun game. It's kind of like a tactical version of Contra that's strictly(as far as I've gotten) top-down.

Zack is basically a part-time member at this point. He's been on every album since the first. Been listening to that as well as a mix of stuff when I go out skating. Mostly Pig Destroyer and Ministry this week. Also been bumpin' Immortal Technique's Revolutionary Vol. 1 for the last week or so. Just some good barebones, stripped down hip-hop talking about the revolution and all sorts of political and socioeconomic topics. Great shit. Just wish he'd actually come out with something new for once.

What's the context of the plexiglass question? Never mind, I get it now. I was thinking like the glass from the Elimination Chamber, and was confused that there were no gimmick matches. 1?.???? No Contest 2. Drew 3. ?Braun 4. Asuka 5. ?Sheamus 6. IIconics 7. Crews B1. ?No B2. ?Bayley B3. ?Miz B4. ?No B5. Under

I don't really watch much on my own time. I thought it would be fun to run a channel of my own for point-and-click games, but I just don't really have the time to dedicate. My girlfriend started a stream just before quarantine, though, and she's been doing pretty well. Almost to 100 followers, and she usually has a regular group of 3-10 people that are active in the chat. I'm her moderator, so it's probably the only stream I watch with any regularity. If anyone is interested, her channel is https://www.twitch.tv/meetoothanks/. She usually streams The Sims and Earthbound. She's also done Oblivion, and plans to do Outlast when she hits 100 followers.

Happy Bday dude. I love your Avi.

Yeah, I've been on the revolutionary train. Rage, Ice Cube/NWA, Immortal Technique, Ministry, Dayglo Abortions, etc. What a great time for hip-hop and punk.

The Prequel DLC is fun. It's a bit different in that it's more cinematic and environmentally interactive, but it's enjoyable. Definitely helps fill in some gaps for Ellie, too.

Jungle Boy/MJF was a work of art

Was listening to Frizzle Fry this morning. Been quite a long time, and almost forgot how damn good this album is. "Groundhog's Day" has always been my favorite on the album, and still hits the same way. When it gets to the fast passage, it almost makes me want to get up and punch someone.

Well the implies that a hole is two-dimensional. Holes are, by nature, three-dimensional. So an opening has to be a hole unless you're differentiating by size or depth. But I think you'll find that an opening is nothing more than a square to the hole's rectangle.

I consider a tube or a tunnel a hole, and one connected hole, so I say one.

Here here! I'm just happy this one looks like it's bringing back the RPG-styled combat.