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I can think of one that was actually pretty good. I can't think of another one...

I know she stepped in later but those games have never been high sellers. I meant more in the sense that with her gone I'm not sure there's really anyone left in a position to push for these niche projects. Honestly, with her and Tom (a huge Falcom fan in general) gone, I wouldn't be surprised if they don't tackle any more Falcom games. Not that there's much left, I guess. Zwei really seemed like they were scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Damn, wtf. Just yesterday I almost posted an optimistic joke about her work on London Detective Mysteria wrapping up last week. Wonder what (if anything) this means for future Trails localization. It being sudden and her not having something already lined up kinda makes me think she didn't leave voluntarily, though... edit: You know, after thinking about it some more and reading other people's thoughts, I'm more and more convinced this might it for Trails. It was kind of a passion project in the first place and if no one is left to push for it then I could see XSEED not picking up CS3/4 at all. Hell, Hatsuu leaving is actually kind of a good indication that they haven't. ? So that leaves us in the darkest of timelines, where NISA picking it up might actually not be the worst possible outcome.

Nah, the pic was posted on the verified instagram of an actor that's in the movie. To be fair, between Paul W.S. Anderson and the plot synopsis about monsters crossing over from a parallel world into ours or whatever the fuck it was, I knew to expect complete shit. But man, they're not even trying to make it look like they're making an actual Monster Hunter movie lol.

*sigh*

Yeah, in other words the movie gets what makes him scary. Freddy and Jason are complete fantasy nonsense but the scariest thing about Michael Myers is that his killings are completely random, he's just a pure evil dude. Even in this one, Jamie Lee Curtis is obsessed with him but he couldn't give less of a shit about her. Most of his kills are pretty generic by slasher standards and the creepiest stuff happens completely off camera. You never see him do any of it but he goes to such lengths to fuck with people by stashing bodies in the most insane places or ways. It's great lol.

Lol, I'd say now we know what the delay was about but at this point I'm not sure we can assume anything about how deep their incompetence runs. These are such baffling things to remove from a PC port that it's hard to even guess whether there was something causing a genuine problem or if it was just some kind of idiotic decision.

Halloween The new one that just came out, with Jamie Lee Curtis returning as Grandma Laurie Strode. My friend called me asking if I wanted to go see Venom and that looks like a huge pile of shit so I suggested Halloween instead. I've never been much of a Halloween fan (mostly because I haven't seen most of them) but we watched the entire Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th series earlier this year, so I thought moving on to Halloween was kind of a logical move. Plus, you know, it's actually Halloween time. I really enjoyed it. Ditching all the shitty sequel baggage and going back to something more in line with the original was definitely the right move. Also, the score is absolutely fantastic. I actually had chills at times. John Carpenter still got it!

Yeah, the Funimation thing really sucks. I'm still waiting to see the official list but I expect all the older Funimation shows they've added in the past two years will be leaving. There's still a ton of shows I've wanted to watch that I haven't gotten around to yet, so that's really annoying. It's my own fault for waiting so long to watch them, I guess. I think as soon as I finish MHA S3 I'll go at least finish the first season of Code Geass and hopefully by then the list will be out and I'll be able to choose what to prioritize. Apparently the decision was made by Sony, who acquired Funimation last year. They are out of their goddamn minds if they think I'll sub to a completely new service solely for one company's content. If they remove their series from Crunchyroll, I'll just have to watch them through... other means. Although, I guess it shouldn't be surprising that their gaming division isn't the only one that insists on doing what's best for consumers. /s

Yeah, as much as I enjoyed Origins I'm really glad I waited until it dropped to a reasonable price. I don't see any need to get Odyssey until I can get all the content at once for less than the base game costs right now.

Had like 15 bucks of store credits saved up on the Humble store and this was on sale, so I finally grabbed it. I wanted to at least get the edition that comes with the season pass characters but the Ultimate one was only 5 bucks more so I said fuck it and got that one.

@deanb I still wasn't completely sold on MHA after the first season. Season 2, although it feels a little disjointed due to how it's split up, is where it gets really good. And based on the first few eps, it seems S3 is only going to get better. Oh and something I forgot to mention after the JoJo premiere:

I binged the entire season of Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House this week-end. I loved everything made by Mike Flanagan that I've seen and I generally love ghost stories, so it seemed like it would be right up my alley and I wasn't disappointed. It starts out pretty good and only gets better right up until the middle two eps, which were absolutely fantastic. I found the second half of the season to be a little less compelling but not because of any kind of quality drop, it just went in a different direction than I was hoping. I wanted all the spooks and instead the show decided to give me all the feels. The horror is ultimately more of a backdrop for the character drama, which is the real focus of the show. I still strongly recommend it, though. It's the best haunted house story I've seen in quite a while. I can't think of anything else remotely as good other than the Conjuring movies (the two main ones, not those shitty looking spin-offs that I'll never watch).

The new Tactical Legacy Pack DLC is free for owners of this, so I figured it was about time to get it. I've already put something like 15 hours into it and I'm really enjoying it. It adds a ridiculous amount of stuff into the campaign, to the point where it almost feels like a completely different game. After playing like 150+ hours of Enemy Unknown, it always felt wrong that I only played through XCOM 2's campaign just once. I've been wanting to do a replay for a while now, so I'm really glad to finally be doing it.

Beat a few things in the last few weeks. Steins;Gate I had heard good things about the anime but I wanted to try the visual novel first, if only to compare and see which format was better. It wasn't quite how I expected it to be but I ended up enjoying it a lot. It starts out with more of a typical "anime high school science club" vibe but there's a pretty drastic shift in tone at some point and by the end of it all the early lighthearted stuff ends up being very effective at contrasting with the heavy shit that ends up going down. I liked it so much that now I just want to play the other VNs of the series and not bother with their anime adaptations. I watched some scenes from the Steins;Gate anime on youtube and the direction just didn't compare to how I pictured it in my mind, so I think it would ultimately be an inferior way to experience them. Especially if they end up cutting optional routes and focusing on the true ending. Devil May Cry HD DMC5 hype got me to finally start playing through the collection. It's been forever since I played these games, so it feels very good to revisit them. The first one is pretty short so I played through most of it in a single day. The cutscenes are god-tier cringe material but the gameplay has aged like the finest wine. I went right into hard after beating it, intending to go all the way to Dante Must Die before moving on but holy shit, that is one hell of a difficulty spike. I powered through normal with little to no difficulty but hard started kicking my ass very early on. Ended up skipping ahead to DMC3 and playing the first few missions but I haven't gone back to finish it yet. I'm also considering at some point buying some beer and hateplaying DMC2 because I hate myself. A Hat In Time This one I started kind of on a whim. I got it from Humble Monthly at some point (I think?) and they recently released some DLC that was free for 24h, so it was kind of a "why the hell not" decision in a moment of boredom. I wasn't really feeling it at first but after sticking with it for a couple hours it started really growing on me. I beat all the worlds and collected all the time pieces (DLC included) but the DLC also added something called Death Wish, which is basically a bunch of really hard challenges and uh... I don't know if I have the patience for it. I haven't given it a serious shot yet and I haven't given up on getting all the achievements either, so we'll see. Might get back to it in the near future.

JoJo premiere is out! That was pretty good, although getting only ~22mins a week is going to be pure torture. Also, what the shit? The episode had neither an OP nor an ED! Hearing the opening theme and finding out what song they licensed for the credits were like half the reasons I was looking forward to the premiere! edit: Oh and I guess MHA ended last week? TIme to start binging season 3!

Yeah, now that Sen IV is out I think we're definitely finding out within a year, at most. Today's news has me a little more optimistic but I'm still bracing myself for the worst.

It's cool that they'll patch it in, if only to shut up the "no JP voices, no buy!11!" morons. But personally I really love the english dub and the extra voiced lines in the PC version makes it the definitive way to play for me. Nothing bugs me quite like unvoiced lines showing up in the middle of a cutscene. It's what made me start playing games with JP voices in the first place, I think it was the first Neptunia on Vita that only had like 30% of the lines dubbed or something. It was super jarring. But anyway, you failed to mention the most important detail here. XSEED is releasing the PS4 ports, which means they haven't lost the license yet! Doesn't mean they're necessarily getting Sen III and IV but it's certainly a good sign. I would imagine that whoever gets them would want to release the PS4 ports of I and II as well.

Dragon Quest XI post-game done! Whew, that was a long one. And yeah, the post-game is pretty much mandatory. If the main game feels like it includes its own sequel, then the post-game feels like the end of the "trilogy" if that makes any sense. It actually expands on stuff only vaguely hinted at in the main game and wraps everything up in a neat little bow. It kinda sucks that the big post-game dungeon consists mostly of re-used maps but the quality of the story more than makes up for it. I really need to play the rest of the series at some point. DQVIII and now XI are both among the best JRPGs I've ever played and although I kinda lost interest in DQVII after 40 hours or so I'm still really curious about 1 through 6. Let's hope they get ported to PC sooner rather than later.

OH SHIT! Talk about out of nowhere. I fucking loved Va-11 Hall-A, so I'm definitely on board for more.

Well, that was a quick confirmation. Coming October 17. And still no sign that SEGA are behind it, I'm assuming they just gave Tri-Ace permission to do it. If only all publishers were this lenient with their IPs...

Yakuza 0 I guess I forgot to post about it after finishing the story a couple weeks ago. My only experience with the series was playing the original on PS2 over a decade ago but I had been hearing so many great things about the series in recent years that I was pretty excited to get back to it. My expectations were probably unreasonably high and uh... yeah, the game completely destroyed them. This is a solid GOTY candidate for me. It's packed with content almost to a fault. I spent easily half my playtime just fucking around with mini-games and progressing through each character's management mode. To the point where it was actually distracting me from the main story and I had to force myself to get back to it and finish the game. And the crazy thing is that the main story is easily the best part of the game! Considering the more comedic tone of stuff I had seen posted online, I'm not sure what I expected to be honest. The vast majority of side-quests are played for laughs but the main story is played completely straight and is actually a really solid crime thriller full of twists and turns. The cutscene direction is also phenomenal and easily rivals something Kojima would do. It also really benefits from being used as an entry point into the series because then you don't know who's coming back in "future" games, so when people start dying left and right you have no idea who has time paradox invincibility. So yeah, I'm really glad they finally got around to porting this one and I really hope they keep them coming. I know it's supposed to be a step down from 0 due to being heavily based on the PS2 original, but I can't wait for Kiwami because I want more! The rumor is they're porting 6 next year but I hope we'll also get Kiwami 2 ASAP because I'm hearing really good things about it. And now the real reason I came here: Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age I wrapped up the main story last night. It took me around 75 hours (doing every side-quest and messing around with the forge and casino a lot) but I still have the post-game to do and apparently it's not optional like in the others. Not sure what that means just yet. This is a pretty damn good JRPG, all things considered. The fact that I'm actually eager to jump into the post-game and keep playing is probably the highest compliment I can give it. I'm honestly kind of amazed that a JRPG this freaking long without the name Trails attached to it has managed to keep me engaged all the way through. The story is fairly generic but it has its moments. The second half of the game isn't as good as the first one because you're mostly revisiting places you've already been and I thought the ending was a little underwhelming, but those are ultimately very minor nitpicks. This is very much a game about the journey and that part of it was thoroughly entertaining. I'm kind of excited to see what the post-game is about now, and since I'm already most of the way there I think I'll go for all the achievements. I have another week or so to kill until Valkyria Chronicles 4, anyway.

This is one of the titles that people had been asking SEGA to port since the very start along with VC, Bayo and Vanquish, so it's about time. What's interesting is that the listing only mentions Tri-Ace as publisher. These ports are usually a SEGA EU thing, so it makes me wonder if this one is different.

Dragon Quest XI. It is so freaking good, you guys! Last night I got to what felt like the halfway point of the story and I can't wait to jump back in today and see where things go next. I don't know if this is typical of the series because I haven't played too many of them but it went in a direction I honestly didn't expect. There's an obvious comparison to make (i.e. "It went full _____") but that would be pretty spoilerific, so I won't. I can't believe I almost didn't get this, though! That was easily the worst decision I made this year and I'm so glad I caved at the last second.