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Let me rant about Bohemian Rhapsody. Spoilers ahead. It's not as bad as the Jimi Hendrix biopic but that's not saying much. I actually saw A Star Is Born recently too and I kind of wished I saw this first, it's blandness might have made me like ASIB more. The home version I saw also had the full Live Aid concert, which I don't really understand the point of, I guess if you've ever wanted to watch actors lip sync to Queen for 20 minutes than it was probably worthwhile. It failed to make Freddie a captivating, or even understandable character. Also, I don't feel like anyone who worked on this movie had ever played in a band or written a song because none of that stuff is portrayed naturally. The whole second/third act was about Freddie feeling held back by Queen, so he leaves the band and goes solo for awhile, then he fires the guy keeping them apart and they reunite for Live Aid. Live Aid was their first show in years! Except, Wikipedia mentions: "Queen never split up, so Live Aid was not a reunion. They released The Works in early 1984 and then toured worldwide. The last show of the tour was eight weeks before Live Aid." So, the whole crux of the movie was bullshit. There was other things too, like Freddie meeting his longtime girlfriend the day of Queen's first concert. Or Freddie finally getting together with his boyfriend and immediately introducing him (and coming out to) his family right before Live Aid. Obviously any biopic movie will move things around to make them more cinematic but this felt particularly obvious and egregious. As far as these large focus music biopics go, I think Walk The Line was way better. Smaller focus biopics like Love & Mercy or abstract ones like I'm Not There made much better movies and I think gave me a better understanding of Brian Wilson and Bob Dylan, respectively. Honestly, I can't believe this got a Best Picture nom. I mean I can. But it shouldn't have.

If you guys know anything about me, you know I've been wanting to play as Funky Kong since 1996.

New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe I beat the final boss but still have a ton of levels to finish. I tend to power through these games so I can get to the point where I can save whenever and then I get distracted and move on. Maybe Nintendo should just let us save from the get go. Still, I never even saw the final few worlds on Wii U, despite this being the best of the New series. It was even better on Switch. It was nice to play on the TV with the pro controller but also worked great handheld. Toadette/Peachette is the bomb and I'd take a whole game centred around her. WUPOTY (Wii U Port of the Year).

Mavis!!!

Are we going to form a PS4 posse or what? We'll call ourselves... the X PUSHERS!!!

So I take it you will NOT be playing co-op with me??

Nah but it was $35 so why not.

I'm excited to dive in. I've heard nothing but good things about this game!!

Red Dead Redemption 2 I have a lot to say about this game. And almost all of it is praise. I loved every minute of this story. There's a lot of layers and the way everything is tied together in the end makes not only a terrific game but also adds and compliments the original Red Dead Redemption. Arthur Morgan is my favourite video game character, period. From who is when he starts, to who he is at the end, is the best character growth I've seen in a game. This game does what The Last of Us set out to do but does it much better, IMHO. Not only Arthur but with side characters too, there was a handful of them that I got really invested in... mainly Sadie, Charles, Lenny, Hosea, John +fam. Seeing what the main antagonist does, slowly over time, made me absolutely hate them. Dutch's transformation, while you knew it was coming based off where he is in RDR1, is heartbreaking. He's charismatic in the beginning and you get the feeling he truly cares about his people. Or he's just really good at pretending he does. Then at the end... well, no need to drop spoilers but you can guess how that ends up. The epilogue stuff is PURE fanservice but in an 80ish hour campaign, I don't mind, at all, in fact, I LOVED IT. 10/10 GOTY.

Chapter 6 now. How are you not?!?! No, I need to cool it and do some more side stuff.

Wow chapter 5.... When Red Dead goes full I love it.

You could always stop playing the bad game to play the good game??

Check out that fucking double rainbow!

You guys know I don't like to just throw this around but...... this might be the game of the year.

I really didn't enjoy Origins. I didn't like the main character. Egypt, outside of pyramids, was not that exciting to explore. I didn't like that the RPG mechanics felt halfbaked. This addresses all of my concerns and honestly, might be the best Ass Creed game. Sorry Syndicate and Black Flag.

I'm currently playing Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. And I guys, I'm happy to report that it's the best game I've played since Spider-Man!

I liked her a lot!

Yeah the game is pretty buggy at times. Last night I was trying to stop a bunch of Saber men, cleared them all out but didn't get my crime tokens. Eventually I realized a jetpack guy had spawned INSIDE a building and I couldn't get to him. Similarly, once on a rooftop, some enemies came out of a door, just as I got pushed into the door, I got stuck in an empty small room with no way out. And they're both bad Spider-Men. Tobey was too meek. Spider-Man should be cracking jokes, quipping the bad guys. Andrew was closer to that. Tom Holland is a vast improvement but as someone who grew up reading the comics and watching the 90s cartoon, the Spider-Man depicted in this game is much closer to what I feel Spider-Man should be.

Spider-Man Man, they went ALL in on that ending. The best game I've played all year. The best super hero game. The best Ass Creed / Arkham / etc etc game.