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Off Topic / Re: What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?

« on: March 28, 2025, 12:47:16 am »

Venom: The Last Dance - This was way more boring than I expected it was going to be lol Also, surprisingly short? I'm actually supportive of movies not always being 2 hours or longer these days, but I didn't realize we were at the finale, I thought we were just at the end of the midway point and we had the actual finale coming up lol This movie just feels like...an obligation to finish up things with Venom.  Throw in some stuff with Knull, have a bland alien threat chasing them, have some dumb minor side plot stuff happening, it's all so underwhelming.  I was actually fine with the first two movies, they weren't the best, totally fine 6 or 7's out of 10's, but this doesn't feel anything like a trilogy ending should be or even a build up to another film if they were to ever do it, which I can't imagine they are as the movies have been increasingly making less since the first one and the Sony Marvel movies are failing.

I'm not even that into the Venom/Brock dynamic here, that was the thing that I could have fun with in the first two, I like them, but here...I don't know if it's because Brock is played permanently hungover and Venom even more wacky, it just doesn't work here to me and I was skipping through the family stuff because man that was boring. There's other story stuff that bugs me, mostly to do with the Symbiotes, but eh...whatever...

And because it's available and I apparently am a glutton for punishment tonight, gonna watch Kraven lol

Kraven the Hunter - Yeah it's bad.  It's such a boring take on Kraven.  Much like Morbius, I'm not gonna say I care about the character, but compared to other things I've seen of him before, this is just lame.  It's just a boring action movie.  The movie is sloppy, poorly written, lots of bad dubbing and questionable effects at time.    I would never recommend anyone watch Morbius, but it at least had a style to it, and was kind of a funny bad.  This is not that at all.  It's probably not worse than Madam Web from the sound of it, but that's such a low bar lol  Also this has just the dumbest Rhino.  I never really loved what often gets used for Rhino with like a robot suit, but it just seems half baked here.

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Modern Video Games / Re: Nintendo Direct 3.27.2025 thoughts?

« on: March 27, 2025, 07:54:22 pm »

I feel the same way for the 3DS remakes of Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. It would be easy money just to port them to the Switch, but for whatever reason they never did. At least with the 3DS games, maybe it's because they don't want to chipping into their Plus membership numbers since both of the original versions are available through that. Who knows.

I want those too, but those would take at least some work re-release, but I think they'll do it eventually.  Twilight Princess and Wind Waker HD are already remastered and updated, they just need to be ported over, very little work needed, but it's been so many years now and just nothing.  The usual Nintendo nonsense unfortunately.

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Modern Video Games / Re: Nintendo Direct 3.27.2025 thoughts?

« on: March 27, 2025, 05:13:21 pm »

Nothing for me here at all.  Was at least hoping the final hurrah for the Switch would have Twilight Princess/Wind Waker HD, but guess we wait to see if it shows up on Switch 2.  So dumb they never brought it over.

The virtual game card thing is kinda interesting, useless to me, but interesting.  Oh well, at least we get Switch 2 info next week.

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Off Topic / Re: What TV/Netflix show are you currently watching? (Megathread)

« on: March 26, 2025, 04:37:40 am »

Rewatched Delicious in Dungeon (Dungeon Meshi), something I don't often do so soon after it's aired, and this is still a great quality fantasy anime.  It's crazy how this and Frieren came out at the same time, both relatively "chill" shows, but also some of the best fantasy anime we've had in a long while.  No Isekai, no video game mechanics, just good 'ole fashioned fantasy.  I still love how this show is like 70% light-hearted comedy, dotted with extreme moments of either serious drama or intense violence lol Will always recommend this show, it's great.

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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:

« on: March 23, 2025, 04:45:51 am »

Absolutely struggling to find a multiplayer shooter to keep me engaged that isn't me just falling back into playing a Battlefield game.  I was playing Fortnite casually for the past chapter or so, but that game just really started to drag for me.

Basically, if it's an active multiplayer shooter at this point, I've probably played it, but not stuck with it for a variety of reasons.

BR shooters like Fortnite, Apex, Warzone, PUBG...

I've played some of the Extraction games like Hunt: Showdown, Tarkov, or it's knockoff, Arena: Breakout...

Small scale shooters don't do anything for me anymore, so that's a no on The Finals, CS, Valorant, and Siege...

I've done the hardcore stuff like Hell Let Loose and Squad, but the amount of downtime in them just running to die and then sit on a respawn timer really drags those games down.  These are most unfortunate as I can get into the gameplay, but there's so much time just spent not playing the game.  I'm kinda assuming Arma Reforger would be much the same.

I've done Battlefield-like games, but Delta Force sucks and Battlebit Remastered needs a lot of work.

Halo, Destiny 2, Titanfall 2, COD, if it's a game with an active playerbase, then I've probably played it, but something either sucked about it or just didn't draw me in. I feel like until Battlefield 6 releases, which might not be till next year, and if it's actually good, there's just nothing for me.  Really hate not having a good go to game.  Sure, I could go play Battlefield 1, V, 4, or Battlefront 2, I most likely will eventually, but I've played all of that a bunch and I just don't think there's something that has the right appeal for me currently despite wanting to like some of the games I've listed.

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: March 17, 2025, 11:16:20 pm »

Started into Robocop: Rogue City after picking it up on a recent deep cut sale and the start is great.  It ran like crap when I played the demo back on my previous PC, but runs smooth as butter now on the new system.  It's a decent bit of fun, it's like a mid 2000's era shooter with a nice bit of modern polish over it all.  It's fun to play not just for feeling like a more straightforward shooter without some huge campaign like a Far Cry or something, but it's one of those mid-buget tier releases I feel maybe isn't as common nowadays as they use to be back in the 2000's.  That it's also an established property, but its not some cheap cash-in like some other recent nostalgia based properties (GIJOE, Power Rangers, King Kong) is nice.  I think there was a recent Terminator game that was also kinda similar with its idea that I think was considered decent but I never played.

Gonna be a nice chill shooter to play compared to a lot of the multiplayer stuff I've been doing lately and since I'm down to just casual grinding in Monster Hunter Wilds.

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Off Topic / Re: What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?

« on: March 16, 2025, 01:37:57 am »

Greyhound - Random watch, just happened to be another Tom Hanks film with him leading a Destroyer guarding a convoy of ships crossing the Atlantic during World War 2.  One of those simple war movies that's just about a very narrow bit of time during a specific mission, no side plots, no real focus on other characters, mostly just on Tom Hanks, very tight bit of story.  I thought it was fine, one of those movies you watch once and sorta never see again, which doesn't make it bad, it just doesn't offer much on another viewing compared to other war movies that have more going on.

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Off Topic / Re: What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?

« on: March 15, 2025, 04:05:01 am »

The Gorge - I wanted to like this movie, I went in with really minimal knowledge of it other than some clip I saw online and the basic synopsis, which sounded awesome, but I feel like the movie just doesn't nail it.  I know it's not the best to criticize a movie for what it wasn't, but what we got was just kinda alright.  I won't spoil the movie, so the best way I can compare it is if you heard the idea of the movie Annihilation, and it sounded really interesting, but instead of what that turned out to be, it ended being something more generic and actiony.  Good ideas and moments, but overall just a far less interesting film than it had potential to be.

I want a movie that is basically Voices of the Void, someone doing relatively mundane work in a secluded, somewhat mysterious, environment, as something unsettling/weird/dark happens slowly around them.

Finch - Now this I liked.  Generally had just seen a clip of it and knew the premise and I thought it did a decent job.  Small cast movie, post-apocalyptic, Tom Hanks is good and the robot was pretty well done.

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Off Topic / Re: What TV/Netflix show are you currently watching? (Megathread)

« on: March 14, 2025, 04:29:48 am »

Invincible Season 3 was good, it definitely suffered from weaker animation than stuff they had before, but they at least went pretty hard for the finale.

Saw that The Rig got a second season, watched an episode and a half, but it's kinda boring.  The first season was great, lots of weird stuff happening on a secluded, run down, rig, it had a good vibe, watched that and then played Still Wakes the Deep after that at some point, which was a great combo.  The second season feels more like just a general scifi show.  The place they went to is all fancy and hi-tech, it's just a completely different vibe that doesn't work.  The story could be fine, maybe it gets better, but I'm just not interested.

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General / Re: Have your favorite games changed over time, or mostly stayed the same?

« on: March 11, 2025, 03:21:01 am »

I think my top favorites have mostly stayed consistent.  There is some goofiness to my list I guess, in that my top favorites include a couple N64 games, but I would probably never replay them on original hardware.  Even playing Banjo-Kazooie on NSO, there's kind of some awkwardness to that keeps me full enjoying it.  The content is still great, it's just that I've been a little less tolerant of certain old control stuff, framerates, etc...  But, there's an HD Remaster of Banjo-Kazooie and if I could easily play that doesn't require me to yank out my old Xbox 360 or buy an Xbox One and copy of Rare Replay to do so, it would still be considered a favorite because it keeps everything I loved intact of the original, but has some improved controls and visuals to smooth it out.  I really need an HD remaster of Ocarina of Time or a proper update and actually available release of Super Mario 64.

Most changes with my favorites is mostly just new games slipping into the bottom end of the list, like Monster Hunter Wild, or Brutal Legend, and more recently I've kinda realized that Death Stranding is like a Top 20 game now lol

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Off Topic / Re: Music thread

« on: March 09, 2025, 01:14:31 am »

This might be one of the very few pop albums I've ever listened to nearly all the way through, but Lady Gaga's new album "MAYHEM" has some pretty good  tunes lol There's definitely a few songs I'm not super into, but there's a lot of that works for me, that whole "Dark Pop" vibe she has, some kinda throw back synthy stuff, it just has more to it that works for me compared to most pop. 

I've liked a couple songs of hers in the past like Judas, but generally never listened to much since.  The real standouts are definitely Disease and Abracadabra, but there's some other good bops too.  It's mostly the first half of the album that I think works for me, the latter half not so much, but as someone who rarely listens to pop songs, that's pretty good.

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2025!!!

« on: March 08, 2025, 01:39:46 am »

7 - Monster Hunter Wilds (PC 2025) - BEAT - While the release of the game was abit tarnished by performance problems, the game mostly ran well for me.  I could like 70 to 90fps at 1080, no DLSS, but I locked it at 60 to keep it more steady and it runs great like that.  I have only beaten the story itself, which is functionally like "Part 1" of the game, "Part 2" being high rank fights and such, where you put the real work into a Monster Hunter game.  I've seen people rag on the story also, but I think it's one of the better stories compared to Wild and Rise, at least in the way that it has a specific through line with a main cast that goes on a journey, compared to just being kind of a collection of events linked together with a pretty barebones plot.  It's not executed the best as there's a lot of on rails walk and talk and it kinda feels like you are stuck on easy mode for awhile until you get through the story, but it is generally better.

Actual gameplay stuff is great, I like the zones, there's a good amount to explore, lots of customization now that both male/female armor can be used by either gender, I'm enjoying myself.  Definitely more than Rise at the moment, which wasn't a bad game, but after playing a lot of World, Rise never did it the same for me, compared to Wilds, which is very much the World sequel proper.  Can't wait to jump into the tougher fights now and get to the grind unlocking gear.

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Off Topic / Re: What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?

« on: February 20, 2025, 12:18:20 am »

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - Finally got around to it, but I had a fun time.  It's goofy, very unserious, and much like the previous movies, I think they mostly work thanks to the Sonic crew and Jim Carrey as Robotnik.  The less that there are other humans around, short of maybe Stone, the better lol I would say that I think this is the best one, not that they are amazing to me, I feel like some of the writing is a little "meh", a little too "just do whatever, it's a kids movie", but again, I still had fun, I'm always gonna be a casual Sonic fan. 

One annoyance I have with the movie, same for previous ones, and stuff like the Mario movie, is that they don't have enough classic Sonic music.  I think they have only one front and center towards the end and a light nod to one midway, but that's mostly it unless I missed something notable.  The Chao Garden was a fun nod.  I understand for a mainstream movie audience, they just want to put other stuff in, especially licensed music, but man it sucks not getting more.
 
I'm really hoping the next movie they get to do some world jumping, I feel like they've kinda done what they can on Earth at this point and it makes sense for them to explore other worlds.  It also gets them away from just doing stuff on Earth which is more fun to me.  Kinda turns from it a live action movie into more of just a straight animated movie.  Basically what the next movie I'm gonna watch will be...

Transformers One - Was also looking forward to this as it's been a Transformers movie I've wanted to see for years.  No humans, no Michael Bay, just Transformers and it's great.  It's funny, great animation, and the story is really good for the origins of Megatron and Optimus Prime.  Everyone did a great job as their character and I think Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry are awesome in the leads in particular.  Chris Hemsworth gets a nice bit of that Peter Cullen in him at times too, especially at the end, which I appreciate.

Geostorm - After watching two good movies, I guess I decided to watch something much less good lol A random watch for sure, wasn't expecting much, I got a weird soft spot for the dumb, over the top environmental disaster flick.  While this wasn't something super dumb like Moonfall, I don't know if I'd put it up there with like a 2012 or Day After Tomorrow.  It feels like it's sorta just regurgitating alot of what those did.  It's a totally functional movie, it's just really generic other than the the concept of it all being handled by a network of weather satellites.  I'll never watch it again, but sometimes you just want something to turn your brain off to lol

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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:

« on: February 19, 2025, 01:32:19 am »

There's no way they are putting out the PS6 next year, they just put out the PS5 Pro a few months ago, the PS4 Pro came out 4 years before the PS5 and PS5 basically lost a year due to coming out during Covid and dealing with stock issues for a long while.  They are simply struggling because of all the bad decisions they've had with all these live-service game failings, hence why we saw them cancel live service games that I can't believe they dumped onto studios like Bend and Bluepoint, and are probably worried about games like Marathon and Fairgame$ being possible flops too.  Throw in the curveball of Astro Bot being so well received, it's like a complete gear shift.  Unfortunately it means that they are gonna struggle with releases for abit.

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Completely separate from that discussion, I really need to find a new FPS game to play lol After this season that's about to end, I'm done with Fortnite being my casual game, seemed like a decent one for me as I got a Godzilla skin, sick, but I'm just tired of playing the game, mostly because so many matches are filled with bots.  I don't know how many, but I swear half my kills are just bots, that's not fun and I'm not interested in ranked as I'm gonna hit that point where I'm just gonna play with sweats and that's not gonna be fun.  I'm playing Zero Build and it tells me there are hundreds of thousands of people playing, why are there so many bots in these matches?  I also just feel like I'm only playing to do my quests anymore, maybe get a match or two in, which is fine, but it's more to play for the quests than the game itself.  Been getting the same feeling with Marvel Rivals recently as I might back off that game too.

I've basically played most any notable FPS game out right now, but nothing is grasping me, or I liked it, such as Apex or Hunt Showdown, but felt like games that desperately require some good friends to keep me interested for longer.  The only game on the horizon is Battlefield 6, but that could be another bomb for all I know, and that won't release till way later this year.   Now I get to do that dumb thing of browsing stuff I have played before, reinstalling, seeing if it catches me or not...

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Modern Video Games / Re: State of Play | February 12, 2025 thoughts?

« on: February 12, 2025, 10:14:53 pm »

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds looks awesome, I've been wanting Sega to do another Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed for a long while now and this is basically that. Will it be as good? Don't know, but I'm excited for this, this has potential to be more fun for me than a new Mario Kart if it's done right lol I'm apparently never getting the Diddy Kong Racing 64 sequel, so I'll keep hoping for games likes this lol

Looking forward to Metal Gear Solid Delta as MGS3 was when I really got into the series.  I had played MGS2 before it, but 3 was the one I really loved.

Lies of P getting a DLC wasn't what I was expecting, but will be a nice bonus until the sequel.

Seeing anything Days Gone is real nice as I think the game is kinda underrated and was bummed about not getting a sequel.  The announcement doesn't do a lot for me as I was probably gonna get it on PC eventually to replay it and this doesn't add much to that version of the game that I care about.

Saros sounds kinda neat, I like the FromSoftware direction of doing what is functionally a sequel, but it's also not, with a new story and characters.  Returnal was fun to play even if I didn't love the direction of the story itself, so something to keep an eye out for.

Not much here for me that stood out a ton, certainly little from Sony itself, but seemed okay.

*EDIT* Just realized that I think I played Lies of P on Game Pass, and I'm not super interested in replaying the game right now, so not gonna actually buy it, replay it, and then jump into the DLC. Maybe before the teased sequel released down the road.