Mister Jack

This is Nintendo you're talking about. The GOTY edition will cost 80 dollars and will continue to cost 80 dollars until the Switch is dead.

I borrowed a copy of Bloodborne, figuring I'd give the series another chance even though I didn't like the last Souls game I played. I'm not doing great so far because I'm still stuck in the first area. It's not because I keep dying, but because I have no idea what the fuck to do. There has to be a boss around here somewhere but damned if I can find him.

The statues are cumulative at least, so when you play it again you only have to get that one.

Metro: Last Light Pretty good to finally get this one off the backlog. I already have 60% of the trophies for both games in the redux collection so I might just go back and get the platinum for them both. edit: BOOOO. There's a glitch or something in Metro 2033 which prevents one of the trophies from unlocking, which means I'll never be able to platinum it. There goes all my interest in replaying it.

Anybody else try that For Honor beta? It's actually kinda fun when the matchmaking actually works.

Seeing that I've been going through some of my backlog while waiting for Horizon to come out, I decided to start Metro: Last Light. I got the Redux collection for the PS4 a while back (this was before I got my new pc) and while I did beat the first game, I never got around to the second.

Broken Age was sitting there on my PS4 from a previous PS+ month and I'd never gotten around to beating it so I went ahead and did that and got the platinum while I was at it.

Zenimax is seeking an injunction to stop sales of the Oculus Rift. Oculus are in trouble, aren't they?

Ethan Must Die? More like "Ethan Is Just Strongly Encouraged to Die." Back at 100%! Suck it, RE7!

I tried it a few times. Haven't beaten it yet. I feel like I probably could with enough practice but I want to get Night Terror mode out of the way first.

I miss the Earthbound system where low level enemies would not only run away, but if you ran into them anyway you would just automatically win since it's obvious that they're no threat to you. Of course, that wouldn't really work in a game about catching monsters, but there are plenty of other RPGs where it would.

Just two more trophies in the DLC to go and I'll be back at 100%! My obsessive compulsive disorder compels me!

We never got a game from the Helghast side. It was so obvious and yet they never did it.

I picked up the season pass for RE7. I don't buy many season passes, but I liked this game enough to play it six times and still want more, so I figured it's probably a safe investment.

Ohhh yeah. It changes up a lot of things pretty much to ensure you can't blaze through it just by being used to the normal mode.

Cool, I might grab it on sale, then. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk

I was curious about The Evil Within but it seemed to get kind of a middling reception so I never got around to it. Would you say it's overblown?

I see a lot of people comparing Resident Evil 7 to games like Amnesia and Outlast (usually unfavorably) and saying that RE7 is just another game about running away and hiding, but I really can't agree with this assessment for one simple reason. Resident Evil has weapons. Yeah, I know that's pretty obvious, but I think that's why I like RE7 better than those other games. For me, it's not about just liking to shoot guns (though I do like shooting guns). I think that having some means to fight back helps the pacing immensely. In Outlast, you are completely defenseless, which a lot of people say is scarier. I understand that, but I can't say I agree. It's scarier at first, I suppose, but the longer the game goes on, the more annoyed I get that my progress is dictated by whether or not the spooky monster is currently standing in front of whatever item or puzzle I need to move on. You can't continue the game until the monster or inmate or whatever moves away, so eventually I'll be crouching under a table or something, groaning and going "Come on! Fucking move already!" It totally breaks the flow of the game, as well as any immersion i might have had. I think the reason I enjoy RE7 so much is that it gives you the means to just barely fight back. Once you get good at the game you can probably find enough ammo to blow through most encounters, but I've seen plenty of first time players run out of ammo at a critical moment because they freaked out and starting spraying and praying. If they get their progress blocked, it's their own fault for losing their cool. I think that's a lot more interesting than hiding under a table and waiting. The way I see it, having a weapon that you empty sloppily and ineffectively into a monster because you lost your nerve can be just as intense as having no weapon at all.

I find it strange that Nintendo is already eager to jump on the VR train, which I'm still not sure has fully left the station, when it took them over a decade to finally embrace mobile devices, which are ubiquitous.

If I'm just gonna play devil's advocate for a moment, this is also a lot of firsts for Zelda, isn't it? I don't believe they've really done a true open world like this before. They sorta gave the illusion of one in several games, but the 3D Zelda games have always been a series of closed off levels connected by a hub, as far as I can remember. It's been a while since I played Twilight Princess so I could be wrong. It's not a new franchise, obviously, but it is a rather revolutionary new take on it, at least for Nintendo. What has you convinced that they know how to do an open world game?

I own both a Wii U and a PS4 and I'm picking Horizon over Zelda unless it turns out to be crap, which would surprise me. I still have concerns that Zelda's open world will be barren and lifeless based on what footage I have seen.

I've been watching A Series of Unfortunate Events on Netflix and really enjoying it so far. I raised my eyebrow a little at the idea of NPH playing Count Olaf, but he's doing a great job.