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

« on: Today at 02:51:34 am »

Marvel Zombies - Sorta catching up on stuff I never got around to, as this was relatively short, but it was okay.  I wanted to like it more as I remember reading a bunch of the comics, but this is like a half-assed PG-13 version of that with an entirely different plot and revolving almost entirely around the newer Marvel MCU characters of the past couple years.  I think I hate it because Marvel Zombies is generally supposed to be pretty messed up, a lot of it is just the heroes trying to deal with being infected as not everyone is a mindless zombie, feeding actually brings some sense back to them and some are trying to still save people while doing this, while others embrace it, and absolutely none of that is here. 

We'll have a scene of some character or characters dying and then not long after they are making jokes and being goofy.  It settles abit more towards the last episode to be abit more serious, but I don't know, it's MCU marvel humor injected into something that should be really damn dark.  It's still very bloody and such, but just kinda of lame story with characters I'm not very engaged with.  Sure it's kinda fun seeing Blade become the new Moon Knight, but I'm not big on Kamala as the lead and everyone else is just okay.

There is supposed to be another season eventually I guess, but don't know I'll watch it.

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2026!!!

« on: August 10, 2026, 12:26:57 am »

29 - Pokemon: Pokopia (Switch 2026) - BEAT - This was a wonderfully chill return to Nintendo and my first game on the Switch 2.  I had a choice of games with that bundle deal, Mario Kart, Donkey Kong, and Pokopia, but after Palworld kinda fell apart, I still had a craving for a general crafting/build game and I thought this could work.  Also it seems like the only good Pokemon games anymore are the ones that aren't made by Game Freak lol

It's basically Animal Crossing meets Dragon Quest Builders.  I was never a big fan of Animal Crossing, at least the newest one on Switch, it came out at a time that everyone needed it, but that was such a half-assed game.  This does some of that general idea, being able to build homes for Pokemon that you can then decorate while also decorating your own home, but you get more of an adventure vibe.  You get multiple different zones, all with many unique things to find and do, you have a story to figure out where the humans went and to understand what happened to the world, it's very nice.  There's no threats, no danger, you can fall from height and splat as a Ditto, which is a great concept, the idea of being able to change into different Pokemon and use different abilities is great and the Ditto forms are very cute.

I really don't have many complaints, it's all handled very well.  I think the only thing I don't like is that certain things can take so long to build.  A lot of the smaller stuff is like 10 minutes, or can be an hour, but some buildings will just be like "Tomorrow" and it'll be tomorrow.  I'm not sure if it's actually 24 hours or what, I think it's less, but I don't love that stuff.  It  makes more sense in Animal Crossing because it's trying to be much more of a management game than this one.  Otherwise it's pretty good.

I still have stuff I want to do, you eventually get your own zone to free build in, I'll spend some time doing that while finishing out the rest of the things to earn and I got the DLC, so I have a full other zone to do next, so I'm gonna be playing for awhile longer.  Definite recommend on this game if these sort of games are appealing to you.

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

« on: August 09, 2026, 04:10:52 am »

We Bury The Dead - It's nice when I can find a zombie film that's trying to do something abit different than usual.  Not that this is super original, an experimental US weapon is accidentally(?) deployed off the coast of Tasmania, wiping out all life with a brain on it, a half million people and all animals and I assume bugs and such, and so basically there's a massive cleanup campaign, with volunteers coming in to clean up the bodies.  Some of the bodies are clicking back on and I feel like they took a note from South Korean zombie horror, where they felt the zombies needed a gross, unsettling, aspect to them, which here, they grind their teeth, like...the most uncomfortable, gross, full jaw clenched, loud, grind.  I say SK, because for them, with Busan, it was the transformation was very violent, with like bone popping and such, it's very grotesque, though I guess it could sorta be seen also like Clickers in Last of Us.  Either way, I hate it, in a way that's a positive for the film lol

They vary in what the zombies do, which I won't spoil, but the movie is about someone trying to find their husband who is almost guaranteed to be dead, but they want to see them, and if they have awakened, to see what comes from that.  Daisy Ridley does a good job, following her primarily in this, I generally liked the whole movie other than like the last teeny bit of the movie, it went weird.  It's not a perfect film, but I thought it worked and it being Australian based added something a little different to it.

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: August 05, 2026, 03:33:39 am »

It's interesting playing Pokopia after having played Palworld abit ago, because they have sorta similar elements, crafting stuff, building, finding new creatures to be your friend, exploring a world, having your creature friends help you with crafting/building, Palworld just took it more in the actiony Breath of the Wild direction, while Pokopia took it in the task managing Animal Crossing direction.  I should like Palworld more, but it's one of those games that's as wide as an ocean, but only an inch deep and it just dragged for me after a time and does a lot wrong.

Pokopia has such a distinct focus, there's no wasted aspects, each Pokemon feels like they have character, the Requests/Missions can be basic, but they make sense, and I really just want to keep doing the next thing, find a new item I can craft, up my Environment rating in each area, explore the areas that reward me for doing so.  I like it way more than its Animal Crossing vibes too, which I thought was a pretty middling game that Nintendo super half-assed, but I get to decorate, I get to build, and I get to craft.  The Ditto character you are is also amazing, it's such a good idea.

I put a decent bit of time already as it can be very addictive, deep into the third area, I think about to open the 4th, and it's just been fun.  Also nice to be back playing something Nintendo, which I haven't done in like...a year maybe since my Switch 1 kicked the bucket.

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

« on: August 04, 2026, 03:46:58 pm »

Okay so here's my biggest complaint about the original Switch and I don't know if it was changed for the Switch 2. I don't know like anybody really cares about this as much as I do, but I don't understand why you can't just turn the system off. It can only be put in sleep mode, which is stupid for a portable system. It means that if you're taking the Switch on a trip, it's steadily losing battery life at all times, even if you aren't playing it.

My wife's Switch Lite is always 100% dead if she wants to play it because, unless you leave that thing on a charger 24/7, it's going to lose battery over time. I don't know what they were thinking.

You hold the power button, which brings up the option to power it off completely, that's what I always do for mine and you can do this when docked or not docked.

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

« on: August 03, 2026, 06:38:49 pm »

Picked up my Switch 2 today, and went with Pokopia for my game, so that'll be me for abit.  I'm also gonna replay Breath of the Wild, enjoy the performance boost as I've been meaning to replay it for a long while now.

Only thing that sucks with the Switch 2 is that it's like the same exact menu system as the Switch and they still haven't offered up themes, I don't get why they don't want themes on their systems, it's such an easy thing to add and would make the menus look so much better.  This is certainly meaningless in the grand scheme of things, but it's just something nice to have.  Playstation 5 has themes, even if they permanently removed the PS1 theme, the only good theme lol

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Modern Video Games / Re: It's officially over.

« on: August 01, 2026, 08:52:14 pm »

Apparently Sony acknowledged things abit more, at least in the case of retailers, and their answer is just to take the old PC game path of putting codes in empty boxes lol I always hated this when PC went digital only, like I have a few games that had this, but to me, if you want to pretend to care about retail, and you are gonna ship boxes to retail anyways, just put a disc in there.

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

« on: August 01, 2026, 05:14:24 pm »

I've actually not played Ocarina of Time before in any capacity. Had the remake announcement instead been for an original title, I'd have been interested in it. I'd greatly prefer to play the original version, but I only own the 3DS remake so will more than likely resign to play that eventually once I've played all of the other games in the series I currently own. I suppose the same can be said for Majora's Mask too, which I only own the 3DS remake for but have never played in any way.[/font]

The 3DS remakes were good, as they are fairly straight up like the N64 versions, just with some general additions and visual improvements.  I'd actually been wanting them to just port the 3DS versions into like a double bundle with them for years now, since like the Wii U.  Or if you want to play them as original as can be, they are up on NSO, but I'd probably say just play the 3DS versions.  Even with not using an N64 controller, it can be abit rough replaying N64 games I found that out when I tried playing Banjo-Kazooie on NSO awhile back lol

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

« on: July 31, 2026, 06:40:21 pm »

I think that's how I would approach the situation were it me. but I suppose it really just depends on how long you're willing to wait to play the Switch 2 titles you're interested in. With that said, what all are you interested in playing for Switch 2?

There's actually a lot I'm interested to check out that is released at the moment. Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, Star Fox, Pokopia, I was maybe interested in Splatoon Raiders as it looked like it had a cooler singleplayer component than previous games.  Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment was another, I wanted to replay Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, and there's a couple Switch 1 games that came out towards its end that I never got to play that I think even have Switch 2 versions like Super Mario Wonder.  And then there's the upcoming Ocarina of Time remake which is a big deal for me personally. 

With Nintendo, I can better guarantee more games I'm interested in than like the one or two Sony puts out since they just don't really do much with like AA level games that much these days.  All these properties they have access too and they aren't doing anything with them.  No Twisted Metal, no Jak & Daxter, nothing with Bloodborne, no Kill Zone, so much stuff they could probably just get with another studio on to make, put out some stuff with reasonable budgeted games, but nah...Chasing the live service dragon mattered so much more and it bit them in the ass.

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

« on: July 30, 2026, 01:31:39 am »

Violent Night - No particular reason to watch this now, Christmas in July I guess, but I had been meaning to watch it for awhile.  It's goofy action schlock, it understands it's silly, and it embraces that.  It's kinda dumb, but again, it understands what it is.  Action is generally decent, super violent, I like Harbour as this Santa struggling to deal with what the world has become, how the kids are, drawn into a conflict accidentally, but has some fun origins to justify why he's tough as hell.

It's good fun, though maybe better to watch at Christmas lol

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

« on: July 29, 2026, 01:04:49 pm »

I think that's a solid plan. I've really grown to love my Switch 2. I have a few games reserved for it, and a few games in the backlog getting ready to be played. I still like my PS5 and play it frequently so I wouldn't trade mine. But, if you're not using yours then it could help get rid of a chunk of the Switch 2's cost.

I wish I played my PS5 more, but most anything I would like to play, I'd rather play on PC, and what that leaves for PS5 isn't a lot when Sony doesn't have a ton of games worth checking out most of the time.  Death Stranding 2 was the last one I played and that was over a year ago, that's how long my PS5 hadn't been touched lol I'm trying to see if I can keep my PS5 just so I can finish out whatever the run is for the PS5 before most likely not getting a PS6, this would be the end of my Sony run probably, that way the couple games that may show up I can still play.

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

« on: July 28, 2026, 09:38:03 pm »

Think I'm gonna trade my PS5 in at Gamestop and put it towards a Switch 2.  I kinda realized I haven't touched it at all this year and while I'm interested in Wolverine and God of War Laufrey coming, those are like one and done games and there's not a ton else.  Compared to Switch 2 where there's a bunch of games I'm interested in picking up and games I'm looking forward too. 

Still not 100%, my PC has had problems lately, which is my main gaming device, not sure what's wrong yet as it's been freezing up when I play higher end games, but my PS5 being a fall back if something happened to my system since certain parts can be absurdly priced nowadays sorta makes me want to keep it just in case.  We'll see I guess.

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

« on: July 24, 2026, 01:15:07 am »

Mickey 17 - This was an oddball movie.  A black comedy scifi movie where Robert Pattinson plays a real goofy guy who just has a never-ending terrible life.  Part of me likes it, it's very over the top with the characters, it's abit like movies from the 80's/90's, like Robocop, Running Man, or maybe now that I think of it, something like Fifth Element, abit, but I don't know, something about it never quite hits home for me.  Pattinson and Mark Ruffalo in particular I feel like they do the best here, Pattinson as this very weak willed guy and Ruffalo, this extremely performative politician turned colony leader who plays the skeezy politician well.

It's overall fine, and not sure what I wanted out of it, I think when it became less about a system abusing Mickey and I sorta thought it was gonna be more about like Mickey trying to fight back against the situation he is in as an expendable person, a lab rat to perform unethical experiments on, maybe more mutiny style, but it goes in a very different direction. 

Primitive War - I tried to watch this, got about a half hour, kinda when it's about to take off, I just couldn't take the characters to find out if there's anything fun enough going on with the dino's in this.  It's just endless cliche's lol

B-movie slop like this I feel doesn't work as well these days, at least to me, because movies are so visually clean now, so it doesn't have the grit and vhs or even dvd quality to kinda hide stuff better.  This isn't a super cheap movie because they have a lot going on in terms of like sets and, extras, maybe not the worst action, but because of that, it doesn't have the novelty of a bad movie, but it's also not good enough to be decent action schlock like War Machine.  Maybe it gets more interesting when the dino slaughtering kicks in better, but I just couldn't listen to any of these characters talk.  Some Russian guys show up and sounds like the least convincing accent and that was it lol

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2026!!!

« on: July 16, 2026, 06:08:49 pm »

28 - Five Nights at Frickbears 3 (PC 2026) - BEAT - I've dabbled in the fan games here and there, alternate fan remakes of some of the FNAF games, but none I was super into, but this is great, it's a more light-hearted take on the series, but it's functionally a really well animated version of FNAF that includes a huge portion of the animatronics.  Different difficulties, games, there's so much to get and do and it's all incredibly well made.  It's basically "What if the classic FNAF formula was in a really good game" lol

Harsh to say, but the original series of games aren't particularly well designed or well thought out games because Scott was making them so fast, and this series has been around for abit and has a ton of thought and work put into it.  It's fun! I only did the easiest character, but I'm gonna try more as I'm having fun and I'm interested to see other some of the other animatronics.

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2026!!!

« on: July 15, 2026, 01:27:13 am »

25 - FNAF 4 (PC 2015) - BEAT - Decided to give Night 5 a go again and after a few deaths getting back into it, I beat it.  I know there's actually like 2 more nights technically, but I'm going through the original games mostly to experience the classic "Five Nights" idea.  This one is overall good, it's simple, but the idea of relying entirely on audio cues and constantly having to go back and forth is an interesting one.  It makes for something that can be tough, but keeps you engaged.  It's sorta the idea of what FNAF 2 was, but here it's built around that, compared to FNAF 2 having this whole camera system that's mostly kinda pointless.  I'll get to the other two nights eventually.

26 - FNAF: Sister Location (PC 2016) - DROPPED - It sucks to say that another one of these games sucks lol FNAF 2 I didn't really like, but functionally it's okay.  FNAF 3 is a visual mess and functionally a step back from 1, 2, with 4 getting things back to feeling and looking good.  Sister Location throws all that out in favor of turning nights into a very linear experience that is mostly like minigames.  There's lots of slow dialogue stuff that drags things out, some clunky game design that isn't clear what you are supposed to do, it's just not fun in any way.  I dropped it at Night 3, I just can't be bothered to continue on.  I can appreciate each game kinda trying to do its own unique thing for the most part, but this was so poorly thought out, for the sake of trying to implement more actual story into the game.

All that's left at the moment is FNAF 6/Pizza Simulator, but it's free so if I don't like that, it at least didn't cost me anything lol

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27 - Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Simulator (PC 2017) - DROPPED - Man, this series went out with kind of a wet fart for me lol I liked FNAF 4 generally, but then Sister Location just missed the mark hard, and while I like the idea of the the like top down restaurant simulator here, it's basic, but could be a fun idea on its own if it was fleshed out, the actual "FNAF" part of doing stuff while worrying about Animatronics is once again tedious and not fun.  You are mostly just listening for vent rustling, managing your noise you make while you click on things on the computer.  You technically have like a motion sensor and audio lure to deal with animatronics, but when I looked up a guide for tips, once again, similar to FNAF 2, the best way to play the game is to ignore most of what they offer, and just do things a very narrow, simple, way.  I got about...3 or 4 nights, not sure how many days I had left, but this just isn't good.

This series overall is great for its atmosphere, for the animatronic designs, the general lore, but as actual games, they aren't designed well, they feel every bit the indie budget experience they are, all of which were made in a very quick timeframe (4 years between FNAF1 and Ultimate Night, not counting FNAF World) and you feel every bit of that. 

In the end, I liked FNAF 1 and 4 were the ones I liked the most, I wanted to like 2 more, and then I basically left half the series unfinished lol