Mister Jack

Not with those convex face buttons they didn't.

Nice. I'll probably wait after release for a bit to make sure the ring isn't some flimsy piece of crap and then pick it up at some point.

Well if the bundle isn't crazy overpriced I might actually get this, more for the fitness reasons than the game itself. I actually lost somewhere between five and ten pounds doing Wii Fit on a regular basis (I forget the exact number) and if I can get those kinds of results here then that's a steal. I don't have enough space for any kind of workout machines and gym memberships are too expensive. I can't even really go jogging because I live in a bad area. The most I'd be willing to pay is maybe 79.99 though.

Watch them charge sixty dollars for something you could probably DIY at home for twenty.

I could be down if the price is right. I don't think I want to pay 60 bucks for it if this is all it is, though.

Aeris is now Aerith again. I was wondering how they'd handle that.

It Chapter 2 So this one veers a little closer to just being okay than it does to being great, but I still think it manages to edge its way into this thread. The child actors came back for some new flashback scenes and they were just as good as they were in the first one. The new actors for the adult versions do an admirable job as well, and Bill Skarsgaard turns in another impressive performance. The acting is the strongest part of this movie. The writing is a bit uneven, though. There's a character who adds pretty much nothing to the story, but he's in there because he was in the book. Sometimes there is comic relief during parts that are supposed to be scary and some of the CG is less than impressive. It also feels just a little bit too long. They probably could have shaved off maybe 15 or 20 minutes and still been okay. Make no mistake, there are some rough edges with this film, but I still had a good time and I'm glad I saw it. I think people who liked the last one will like this one too if they keep their expectations in check.

They'll probably use the RE2 Remake engine for it. I mean, they went to all that trouble to put it together. A co-op game in that style could be pretty fun.

Don't forget RE: Outbreak. People actually liked that one.

Good news. Capcom has said that future iterations of Monster Hunter will be based on the World formula, which should surprise no one since like you said, it's their best-selling game of all time.

Started watching Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance on Netflix. I'm not that far yet but so far I'm loving it. The original movie, while beautiful and visionary, was a bit clunky in the narrative department with bland protagonists and a few too many scenes where not much happens. I still have a fondness for it though simply because it was so creative and ambitious. Jim Henson really put his heart and soul into that film, even if it didn't come out quite perfectly. This new show, at least so far, is superior to the movie in every way. I know that technology has advanced since the original movie but I have to point out just how good it looks. The puppetry, set design, and even the carefully controlled use of CG all come together to make a truly beautiful and magical fantasy world that feels like it's really alive. The main characters have much more personality than Jen and Kira did, too. It's much easier to care about them and their journey. Even if you're not a fan of the original I would recommend that everybody check this show out just because there's really nothing else like it on television right now. Watching it is making me wish that puppets and animatronics could come back to Hollywood movies again because there's such a different feeling between looking at a CGI creature and looking at a practical effect that's actually there. Edit: Just finished the season finale. This is definitely going to go down as one of the all-time great fantasy tv shows. It's quite possibly the best one I've ever seen personally. I am having trouble thinking of another one I've seen that I thought was better.

At least the ratio on those tweets is right where it belongs.

Telltale is back.

@FLD Yeah Justice is one of the most bullshit bosses of all time, right up there with Rugal, Igniz, and Magaki. I honestly have no idea how I managed to beat her with every character back in the day. In other news, I bought a new game.

Aladdin (the remake) Okay so first things first: Yeah, I admit it. I would not have paid money to see this. Putting that aside, I would probably say this is the...best of the Disney remakes? Maybe? However, that isn't really saying much. It's not exactly a high bar to clear. It wasn't a shot-by-shot remake like Lion King, so I appreciate that they at least tried something different. The problem is that the new stuff is just kind of...ehhh? It's not aggressively bad like Beauty and the Beast but it's not very original or compelling either. There's a new song but it's not that good. A few of the expanded details like Jafar being a former thief had potential, but the script doesn't really do much with it. The actors for Aladdin and Jasmine were fine, I suppose, but Jafar's was pretty boring. Will Smith is okay as the genie except for the fact he can't sing, which is kind of important. I don't know. I can't really rant about how this one fucked everything up like I did with Lion King, but at the same time it's just so completely average that I could never really recommend it to anyone either. It's okay to watch once if you have a couple of hours to kill, I guess, but I can't see many people bothering to watch it a second time, especially when the much better original is also available.

Even if you don't mind them visually, they tend to affect performance to a significant degree too. That's reason enough for me to turn them off.

From what I've heard, Sony was paying for the movies and Disney got 5%of the gross. The new deal they wanted was 50% of the gross in exchange for paying 50% of production costs. You can debate whether that's a good deal or not, but we can all agree that Sony needs Disney a lot more than Disney needs Sony.

Is there a single human being who actually likes motion blur and chromatic aberration?

It's pretty much just the battery life. If you don't expect to use handheld much then the cheaper one should be fine, but if you do then I think it'd be worth the extra money because the current model's battery is kind of average and isn't going to last you through a flight or a long car ride.

Just be aware that the original GG is unbalanced as fuck. It can still be fun to play just to see the series' roots, but don't take it too seriously or you'll just get frustrated. This is the only game in the series where you can spam the instant kill moves without sacrificing your meter.

Who's ready for Spider-Man to suck again?

@TheMightyEthan Playing with randoms is probably the easiest way to do multi. All you have to do is shoot off a flare once you begin to open your hunt to the public. But if by "casual random grouping" you mean playing with your friends then yeah, I admit it's more cumbersome than it should be. Once you understand how it works it's not a huge deal, though. You just have to be playing on the same server.

So apparently Sony bought Insomniac. I'm a little surprised, but I guess I shouldn't be. Insomniac has said before that they enjoyed their independence, but I believe they also said at one point that they didn't have a good experience working with Microsoft. I guess when you're already making Sony exclusives as 90% of your business you might as well take that Sony money.

This is a good point. The game industry has no union so the people working in it already get treated like trash.