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Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Man, the sequel must be excellent if the Uncharted series has so much acclaim. Granted, the game is 10 years old and mechanically games have vastly improved. But I'll start with the good because most of the time I start out negative. The game's strongest attributes are the characters and story. I can see why people would love Drake; he's like a mix of Marty McFly and Indiana Jones. Elena is a great female character, one that while not always in the spotlight, gives credit to there being good characterization of a female partner who isn't just a love interest. Sully seems fun, well, in that old school adventurer type way. You don't get much of him besides knowing he's not just a skirt chaser. That there is some skill behind the man even if he is just the A.I. follower commenting on your adventure. Story kept me interested most of the time. Here and there I wasn't sure about the logic of the level design in respect to Drake's progress. I mean to say, Drake needs to get where Elena was, but getting there requires you to hop across two towers, Spider-Man along some interior bricks, and so forth to eventually end up in the right place. Fun to play, but odd in the perspective of just navigating an old fortress other people seem to traverse just fine. Which leads me to the big negatives. In my latest status update, I talked about the shooting. I was adjusting my aiming sensitivity for most of the game because it never felt quite right. Add on to the fact that some times, even with the reticle on the enemy, shots wouldn't connect. I could only assume the reticle was only a general area the bullets could hit. I'll never forget shooting a guy with a shotgun near point blank, but somehow most of the pellets missing and him killing me with his shotgun.There were obviously better weapons than others, but most times your pistol variant was the most reliable. Only exception was that godly M8 in the final chapters of the game. But overall, as I was alluding to earlier, it was annoying that there were as many fights as there were. Like, I just unearthed a hidden passage, but somehow enemies still found their way in? The whole, "Quick, before they get back!" Well, except they're already stationed in there and have bullet sponge armor (or body fat, I guess). At times, I just didn't care for conserving ammo and shot at an enemy until I saw them fall down. Then they get back up and do what I call dodge-dancing. Also, it was weird to have, what, six QTEs the entire game? Not to mention it's not the most intuitive to have the button prompts located in the lower left corner of the screen. That final boss battle incorporated most of these faults and was absolutely frustrating. Nothing like getting to the near end of the battle and not hitting . I do look forward to the sequel as I do want to have a better experience with this cast of characters. P.S. I hope whoever thought of those jet ski segments has reevaluated their life and prayed for forgiveness.

Exam arc? Like his entrance exam to get into U.A.? If you've already watched the first three, you've only got one more until you move onto the next arc. There's quite a few arcs that Season 1 covers, though Season 2 gets more of the manga chapters covered with episodes. EDIT: Personally, I enjoy MHA over Attack on Titan. Probably because MHA is so inspirational and it's great to see the characters grow. It's not even in a cheesy Naruto way, and honestly, MHA is a league above shonen. Though, I guess with the abundance of attractive female heroes, it roots it back to shonen.

I feel ready to get a Switch, just there's nothing I don't already have that's worth getting right now. To clarify, I already have Breath of the Wild on Wii U, as well as Mario Kart 8. Sure the version on Switch is Deluxe, but it's still the same game I already own. Outside of that, there's nothing that strikes a must-have chord to me. Granted, there have been good reviews for ARMS, but it's not the most portable of games and that's my motive for looking into a Switch right now. I'll be going on vacation mid-July and thought it would be cool to have the portable home console going to, from, and while I'm visiting family. Unfortunately, Splatoon 2 doesn't launched until July 21, which is going to be when I'm done with vacation. Kinda defeats the purpose, right? I already own Shovel Knight and Binding of Isaac for the longest time. I'm past those games, not to mention I don't want to get into digital games on the Switch yet because of the lack of a true account system. So with those games out of the way, is there a game that would be worth looking into? I mean, I feel I've already eliminated over half the Switch library.

I keep up with it, but it has taken an odd turn. One that so far hasn't quite unfolded to give us a proper focal point of the recent revelation. I'm being vague there because quite a bit has dropped and there's a dynamic shift in our current cast as well as new characters. All I can say is that it's focusing on the political stuff once more, and it isn't necessarily a bad thing, but what's new is just odd to comprehend.

Like, it's after the original trilogy. We're not sure how far out from the last game, but the gist is that Kratos has moved on and now has a son. Not sure who the woman is, but basically Kratos is now making due with Norse mythology.

Yeah, going to have to disagree on them being visual novels. These are still very much point-and-click adventure games, except they've evolved to incorporate full 3D movement and QTEs alongside controllers. They're not grandiose in the the adventure aspect all the time, but that's true of older games as well. To further my claim, think back to the old Telltale StrongBad game on Wii where you were literally pointing and clicking on things to progress the game. Anyway, to get to why I was posting here. Borderlands The Pre-Sequel I had left this unfinished, but thanks to completing Tales from the Borderlands, I was motivated to get back into it. Only thing is I didn't bother doing all the side quests. As I remember it, this is where Borderlands can shine through their side quests, but the amount I played felt like time wasters. You know, something for me to do to add more gameplay time to my experience. I wouldn't call them all chores, but there were definitely side quests that were a chore. Nearing the end I found the game to be biased toward multiplayer. Playing it solo became difficult because the game begins throwing waves after waves of enemies your way until you defeat the boss of that area. Hell, I was really frustrated at the airship one right before you enter the moon. I had the damn thing dead to rights, but I began dying (or whatever it's called) and the thing flies away. I almost got it back before dying, but it held onto the tiniest slivers of health possible. Why do I bring this up? Because when I went back to face the boss again, all the tough adds were still there and they were all the tough ones that are only suppose to show up when the boss is nearly dead. I immediately got pummeled when I stepped through the damn door! I only passed that boss because I cheesed it by staying in the doorway to the area. Even then there were so many bombs, lasers, and bullets flying at me. Try shooting down a cowardice starship from a single vantage point. It doesn't get better once you get near the final boss, but it's basically the same principle. 20+ enemies firing at you and after some time more spawn to get in your way of killing the boss. As for the story, it was alright in understanding more about Handsome Jack, but that's it. It doesn't make sense anywhere else aside from it gives you stuff to shoot. Firewatch A single playthrough experience that was worth paying $7.99 for. I don't know why the game is choppy on PS4, but the main issue for me was Henry's (player character) movement was sluggish at random. Sometimes it was because you were at the end of a day/scenario, but other times it felt like he was walking with a limp. Either it was framerate or the actual environment. Speaking of, sometimes I would become stuck on certain items. Kinda frustrating, but I got over it. With that out of the way, the game definitely gives you reasons to stay for the adventure. While I would say I didn't like some of the longer walking segments, usually there was a strong motive for getting to Point B. I didn't spoil the game for myself, which is good because the game only has the story as its selling point. Sure the environment is very scenic, but there are spots where it's just wandering through trees. Believe it or not, one of its best moments is at the beginning of the game. As for actual story:

In a group interview it was said, "a talented new development team" is behind the game. However, there's still the same producer from the prior Metroid Prime games, so there's that point.

Had to look it up! If I can find the time, I would love to play through the game again. One of the best GBA RPGs and probably in my Top 20 Handheld games.

My ranking for this E3: Nintendo Sony Ubisoft Everyone else thrown together to make one boring pizza with a few good toppings, a.k.a. games Ubisoft did a good job, though I wasn't particular thrilled by anything still. This E3 has been a lot of CGI cinematic trailers, but little gameplay. I guess that's true most of the time and why I forgot E3 was happening until I saw people taking about EA last Saturday. Sony was the first one to actually get me excited. I'm not sure about playing Shadow of the Colossus again simply for a visual upgrade. I mean, it looks beautiful, but so does the original even with the lesser amount of polygons. There will have to be something additional for me to buy the same game again. I've also never cared for God of War, but this new one has me interested. I also pray the new Spider-Man game holds up. I need a good Spidey game in my life again. Nintendo won, not just because of Metroid Prime 4, but because of all the content announced. No extra awkward fluff, just here's some content here, and here's some content here. Metroid Samus Returns (Metroid II Remake) will give me a reason to use my 3DS again. The original was a handheld game, so I like that the new one represents the handheld platform. Mario Odyssey looks fun as hell and is suppose to follow in the footsteps of 64 and Sunshine. And given that the Pokemon RPG for Switch is described as "core," a.k.a. mainline, that's got people in a frenzy. The only console Pokemon games that I found worth anything were Pokemon Snap and Stadium. Those other ones were not my cup of tea.

So before the month was up, I grabbed Tales from the Borderlands for free off PS Plus. This game was so much better than you would expect. Borderlands, even with its better sequels, never had what I would call an A+ story. Eventually we got Handsome Jack as a great antagonist, but aside from that, most of the characters are forgettable and you only stayed for the guns and the chuckles. Tales from the Borderlands actually has a soul and makes excellent use of the series assets. I don't want to spoil anything as its quite the experience if you haven't tried it out. I mean, even the intro credit music is stellar and perfectly matches the tone of the episode. The only downside would be that sometimes the choice dialogue isn't what it appears to be. You have to remember who's saying the dialogue, and at times it doesn't feel like you're given enough time to make your preferred choice since you have to sometimes think how it will sound coming out of Character A instead of Character B. The ending is something else. That's all I'll say outside of spoiler, but for those who have finished it: As it is a Telltale game, I actually only ran into one major glitch. There's a moment at the beginning of Episode 3 where you as Fionna are evading turrets alongside Rhys. I got to the part where you get to the end of the hallway and attack a bandit, but instead it repeated the scene while Rhys was still struggling with the bandit. So Fionna was talking to an invisible Rhys with a Rhys down the hallway.

Yesterday I finished Mass Effect Andromeda. 90 hours with pretty much everything done, but only 67% trophies. If I wanted, I could get a few more under my belt, but it would be some pointless grinding fighting rather average AI. I think the biggest flaw to the game is that I came out of it all unsatisfied. Not peeved or upset, but left wanting. The game threw tons of little side quests for me to do, but a lot of them were tedious. There were some that were interesting, but some got bogged down by having to planet hop from one place to the other simply to go to one spot and spend 5 minutes there talking and fighting. Best example would be the Salarian Ark conspiracy side quest. It's an interesting story element, but it gets weighted down my having to go from one planet, scan stuff, go to the next, scan stuff, and oh wait here's a fight with two guys... Combat was definitely the game's strongest attribute, but I do have one gripe. In the beginning it's not clear what abilities will be the best for your play style. Sure some seem like they'll work, but until you actually get into the game, your thoughts might change. Originally I was about cloaking and weapons. Eventually I realized that cloaking is kinda a waste of a power since the AI is either dumb or easy to dodge. I must have respec'd four times until I decided on being Vanguard with Turbocharge, Backlash, and Shockwave. Eventually, if you do actively seek out level progress, you can pursue other powers. Eventually I upgraded Singularity which was a good overall power. It's just a shame I never really got to try out the various Tech powers. I mean, for the trophies I did work on the Remnant VI one because it's an easily missable one if you don't care about Peebee. Speaking of squadmates; I couldn't stand Peebee and, for the most part, Liam. He did have his moments, but I can see why he's the least liked one in online discussions. The ironic nature of a crisis response specialist creating crisis. Personally, I can't stand Peebee because she's annoying and very much one dimensional. The, "I'm obviously running from my past, so I gotta keep moving, moving, moving!" Cora and Vetra almost fall into the same scenario, Vetra's whole person being about surviving and looking after her sister, and Cora basically talking about Asari this and Asari that. I romanced Cora though because, I dunno, I kinda liked her style (and ass). Point being, it seems like when you romance some of these characters, they actually become more of a full character. Cora opened up more about not being the Pathfinder, her dreams outside of fighting, and she was actually a sweet person under the tough shell. I watched online how Vetra could be a bit of a dork and you actually see more of her opening up from the big sister persona. The only squadmates that felt like good characters were Drack and Jaal. They had the most potential and I felt it was very well executed. Drack is an ancient krogan, something kinda rare to see in Mass Effect as krogan tend to die off before their 1600 years are up. The experience he had and insight of what has happened to the krogan in his lifetime added to bridge both Milky Way lore and the Andromeda narrative. Hell, he actually plays a role in the main plot, just like Jaal, if you happen to bypass all the extra stuff. However, it's a bit shoehorned in and made for a rather cheap moral decision. Jasl is just great all around. Makes me wonder if more care was put into him than the others because he was from a new species. Like, oh yeah we know about these Milky Way species, so whatever. The angaran guy though, lets make sure he's important and basically fills in some plot points. Seriously, it felt like you would be missing out if you didn't bring him along most of the time. Some side quests had additional options if he was in your squad too. I'll have to post some of the interesting bugs I came across. They were frustrating, but I had some fun ones. I couldn't save this one though where I shot a Chosen Kett in the head and the body ragdoll flew right at me going ridiculous fast. I think that's how I got through the game, finding those little moments to make it worth my time. 6.5 Nomads outta 10

Oh yeah, definitely going to be more discerning and evaluate the changes that are featured in the available footage currently and in the near future. Scrolls through game edition comparisons to preorder

People keep using the word "bittersweet," but honestly if we never found out the nature of the ending beforehand, I don't think people would be using that word. The first half of the episode is great with only a few minor issues. Hardly anything to balk at overall. It's the final moments of the episode that unintentionally trip over itself. Because of the limited time and approach, viewers are feeling more so hurt than satisfied.

Anyone know of a good method of converting iTunes video files into a more friendly format? You know, something that can bypass the restrictions Apple loves to put on files so that only Apple devices can easily play them? I had leftover iTunes credit from years ago and so I got Samurai Jack Season 5 there. Wanted to show my father the new season since he and I would watch the old seasons together. It comes on pretty late here, so I got the Season Pass to get it all and watch it over the summer with him. Except there's really no easy method to stream or mirror the content unless you fork over cash for Apple TV. I would have gotten the season elsewhere normally, but I barely paid anything on iTunes and there's been trouble with the episodes on other platforms. He has a Samsung Smart TV that is amazing, and funnily enough he barely uses half the features. Samsung has a desktop app to mirror content, but you have to add the content to the program and play it like a media player. Windows Media Player also allows you to stream content to such smart devices, but WMP can't play these iTunes files. I'm not very trusting of all the converters out there, and I don't want to have to spend money. So, like I originally asked, anyone know a way to make this work?

Amazing what a near death experience and some electric stimuli can do for relationship. You know what I'm talking about.

After Uprising, I only got the Mercy skin twice and Bastion skin by free loot boxes. I don't even play as her much at all, but the Bastion one was alright. But I did end up buying some loot boxes. I mean, there are some really great skins and items, but nearly every skin I was getting normally were the vanilla game skins, and half I already had! It would have been cool to get some more, but at the end I had enough currency to get the Blackwatch Genji skin because that was the only one that wowed me. The Orisa skin is cool, but I barely play as her so whatever. Same goes for the Widowmaker skin. Now comes the time to attempt the Nexus Challenge. I look forward to combining the new Highlight Intro with Officer D.Va! EDIT/UPDATE: Oh god I hate MOBAs... Like, even just the interface is pissing me off. I've only done one match too, and of course it isn't much fun to get stomped on by all the vets.

Anyone maybe want to help me with this when Officer D.Va becomes available? I've never played the game, but D.Va is my #1 and dat skin.

Batman: The Telltale Series Pretty solid and worth the asking price. I would still put Walking Dead 1 - 2 and The Wolf Among Us above it, but it does keep you engaged given that this series is using a whole different Batman universe. One where he's somewhat established, but he doesn't have a defined rogue's gallery. That's a bit of its fault too. Not to spoil anything, but it can ruin your perception of choice when you know what kind of character you're dealing with, even if Bruce himself isn't aware. Now there are some real curve balls, but it doesn't change the moment-to-moment gameplay much. That's how the game engages you, not in its overall story, but the moments you find yourself in with these characters. It doesn't get as deep as it would let on given that there's some troubled history for everyone. If you're familiar with Batman and Gotham, you know people getting screwed is the natural order of the city. You can make Batman a brutal character, but the point of the game is if Bruce or Batman is the true identity. Something that has been touched on before, but here it does feel like a more personal choice given that you have decided on which character to rely on most. I give it 4/5 Batarangs

"Wow, what a freak..." One of my favorite episodes of Season 5, hands down.

What I wouldn't give to play all of Halo on my PC. Last week I played Combat Evolved (Halo 1) on PC and it was nostalgic.