Mister Jack

And now it looks like James Gunn is going to be the Kevin Feige of DC. A good choice. Given the state that the DCEU is in, things can only get better with him in charge.

Yeah, I know it's not as good as 2, but it's currently on sale on Steam at a huge discount so I figure it's at least worth 12 bucks.

On steam at least it had me at 110 hours by the time I hit 100%. The most time consuming achievement has to be finishing a certain gauntlet mission on the NG++ difficulty, but I sped up that one by playing through it in expedition mode, which buffs up the enemies and increases their number but also lets you go through missions with a party of 3 without needing any cups to summon.

This is the third time I've completed this game on three different platforms. No save transfer on the PC either. I'm obsessed with this game.

The UK economy is getting fucked in the ass multiple times in a row thanks to their new PM, who is now so unpopular that she may have just killed the Conservative party, no exaggeration.

The two stories aren't really connected but the Kiryu saga ends in a way that has such huge ramifications that it's impossible for Judgment not to at least acknowledge it.

Lost Judgment takes place after Yakuza: Like a Dragon, so if you care about spoilers you'll want to get through the other Yakuza games first.

Too many teens out there becoming parents. I keep saying abstinence only education doesn't work.

I liked Alien Isolation but yeah, my biggest criticism is that save points were too far apart, which is a bigger problem than it sounds like on paper. I actually think they could have solved this by, if not adding more save points, at least letting you open up shortcuts like in a Souls game so you don't have to backtrack as much.

Crimean Bridge just got blown the FUCK up https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1578633576253657089

Is it any good?

The hacker also claims to have the entirety of the game's source code and is threatening to release it. Normally I might feel bad for Rockstar but...nah.

Cult of the Lamb This is a cute little game, although it's made up of two genres and one of them succeeds more than the other. The roguelike dungeon crawling is pretty basic. You have a melee attack and a magic attack that get randomized at the beginning of each run. Don't expect Binding of Isaac items to play with because that's not what this is about. Dungeon runs are just for collecting resources and killing story bosses. Maps are small and most enemies are pretty easy. It's not very engaging. What IS engaging, however, is running the cult. Recruiting followers, building structures, unlocking cult rituals, and deciding your cult's doctrine is pretty addictive, and your teachings will decide what kind of benefits you get. For example, do you want to preach a fasting period to make your followers' hunger stop decreasing for three days? Or do you want to declare a feast day to completely refill their hunger in one meal? You can only choose one doctrine per rank, so by the time you reach the endgame you could end up with a benevolent brotherhood or a bloodthirsty bunch of sadists depending on how you teach them. Their worship is also a currency in itself that you use to upgrade your cult's buildings, so you want to keep your followers happy or at least obedient. Sometimes they'll ask you to do things for them, whether it's finding them a resource, imprisoning their enemies, getting married, or...feeding them a bowl of poop. Okay dude, whatever floats your boat. I'd say try this one when it's on sale. The combat portions are kind of a slog but I highly enjoyed the cult building part of the game.

MASSIVE GTA VI leak. We're talking an hour of early development footage, along with some source code. Expect shit to hit the fan on Monday.

I had this problem the first time I ran through it, but I tried a second playthrough a little while ago that went much more smoothly for me and realized that deflecting creatures is more effective if you use the L1 + O + left/right deflect to move sideways.

Oh, well how about that? With as many AC games as they're announcing one after the other I'm not surprised this flew under my radar. It better not be a god damn mobile game.

Everyone is making Assassin's Creed in Japan except for Ubisoft. Looks tight.

Some of you may remember that I played the hell out of Nioh 2. I have hundreds and hundreds of hours in it and even now I'll still pick it up once in a while. Well, I tried the Wo Long PS5 demo to see how the gameplay compares and I came away with the following conclusions. 1) This is more of an answer to Sekiro than Dark Souls. While you can still block, it only takes a few blocked hits to leave you staggered and so this game strongly encourages you to get used to timed parries. Not only will parrying open up an attack window for you, but it will boost your spirit meter and drain your enemy's. More on this later. 2) Combat is simplified compared to Nioh. While you can still equip two ranged and two melee weapons, you don't have light and heavy attack buttons anymore. Instead you have normal attacks and spirit attacks, which cost spirit meter and do heavy damage to enemy spirit meters. Weapon skills are tied to individual weapons rather than your own skill tree. No stance system either. 3) Fewer stats to level up. You have five stats to put your points into rather than eight. They basically just combined two stats into one for some of these. 4) A much bigger emphasis on casting magic spells. In Nioh, magic was a consumable resource that had to be recharged at checkpoints. In Wo Long, magic is unlimited as long as you have enough spirit energy and your morale level is high enough. More on this in a bit. 5) No stamina meter. Instead you have the spirit meter. It starts at 0 and can go positive or negative depending on actions. Landing attacks and parrying successfully give you positive energy, which you can spend on magic spells or spirit attacks. Dodging, blocking, and getting hit build up negative energy. If your energy goes completely negative, it leaves you staggered and open to attacks. It doesn't take many hits to get staggered either so you really want to get good at parries. On the plus side, your enemies also have spirit meters you can take advantage of to set them up for deathblows. In theory, if you keep attacking aggressively and manage to parry any attempted counterattacks, you can keep your combo going forever without ever getting tired. This is easier said than done, though. 6) There's a morale system, and this one is interesting. Morale is a mechanic that both gives you and your enemies passive buffs depending on how high it is. It goes as high as level 20, at least in the demo. Killing enemies raises morale. Dying resets it. However, when you reach a checkpoint or kill a mini-boss you can plant a flag that will permanently raise your morale and prevent it from going below a minimum rank even after dying. The boss morale is level 20, so this encourages level exploration to plant enough flags to permanently raise your own morale to 20 and put you on even ground. I like this mechanic. 7) There's a jump button! Also, drinking healing potions is very slow, and it kinda feels like you have to be standing still for the input to even register. I get what they're going for but I'm not a fan. They're already getting lots of feedback about this so hopefully they change it in the full release. I imagine the full game will be rebalanced since the same thing happened with the Nioh 2 demo, but I'm pretty much already committed to buying this.

Yeah, I can't believe Robert Zemeckis is attached to this dumpster fire, especially when he's also behind my favorite movie. I know he's not always a winner but usually the man at least tries to think outside the box, but this is so deep inside the box that it's in danger of turning into a black hole.