@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Little bit thanks. Got my hair cut yesterday which has made me feel better about myself. Hopefully birds will stop trying to nest now.
@KratosMD Kingdom Hearts is such a comforting series for me. I'm aiming to replay 3 once the DLC lands but really want to replay KH1 soon. Three ties everything together and references all the other games. I made the mistake of not watching the back cover movie beforehand which caused some minor things to confuse me. :-s
Thanks everyone who suggested places to get gaming related clothes, got myself some new t-shirts. Bloodborne, HZD and Nier Automata and those are just for starters!
@Arugula I didn’t see the fight nor the interview, but I do know what you mean about the post-event interviews. It’s quite amazing how poorly spoken most professional athletes are — especially those that receive repetitive TBI for a living. The combination of brain injury, speaking in a language that is not their native tongue, commonly a lack of education due to their profession not requiring it, and the standard public speaking jitters all makes for a cringe-inducing word salad, if not a comical one.
You can usually tell the ones that have been coached by their PR people though. I saw a post game interview a few weeks ago for one of the NBA’s rising stars and clearly he was told what to say because he answered with a rote and probably pre-memorized statement in each of the three questions that basically said nothing of consequence, nor did the answers actually even address the question which was posed.
...Come to think of it, this is exactly what our politicians do and they speak publicly for a living. 😂
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Arugula Yeah, it’s an interesting social experiment. The public has put these athletes in a no-win situation with the interviews. Every word they say is put into a 3 inch headline and so if they slip up and say something stupid then it immediately becomes an issue. We ask them pressing and controversial questions right after an event when they are physically and mentally drained and full of adrenaline. It makes it all the more impressive when they are able to form a cohesive and intelligent thought and verbalize it.
And then you have Marshawn Lynch... 😂
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Arugula Not sure if there will be third fight as AJ tweeted out to the public who they want him to fight next, which he has done before. The only reason this rematch happened was because it was in the contract of the first fight. I imagine there will a big push to get Tyson Fury or Deontay Wilder, but I think they fight each other next so maybe the winner of that to unify the belts. But it is not clear if AJ has any mandatories to fight.
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@KratosMD And how many of those are in the first four months? Jeez we're already loaded.
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@KratosMD The ones I'm eyeing up aren't short experiences either. Cyberpunk and Nioh 2 are big ones for me and they're going to take me a couple of months each at least, probably more.
Good job, Parappa. You can go on to the next stage now.
@Gremio108 Did you ever finish the first Nioh? Somewhere in the back of my mind I seem to remember you had borrowed it from a friend and never finished it. Not sure why I remember that. It sounds creepy but I promise it’s just my weird memory. I’m not a stalker ... 😒 probably. Edit: Never mind, I see in the other thread that you did finish it. I guess I missed that. You must have liked it.
Now I see that I did forget you haven’t played Horizon Zero Dawn, which is an unforgivable sin.
@KratosMD Part of the reason I haven’t bought a Switch is because I can’t keep up with all the good games on just one console, much less two.
@RogerRoger “Cyberwhat and the Last of Who” sounds like the title of a children’s book. 😂 Or a really bad animated movie from the 80’s.
Most likely to get:
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Ghost of Tsushima
Granblue Fantasy: ReLink
Tales of Arise
The Last of Us: Part II
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
Maybes:
Digimon: Survive
Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot
Marvel's Avengers
Persona 5 Royal
Persona 5 Scramble
Resident Evil 3 Remake
Trials of Mana
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
So many games..... O_0 I'll probably only end up getting 5-7 games.
@Th3solution Yep, I finished Nioh in the spring, after a false start last year. You're right I did indeed borrow it off a friend. A very patient friend, since it took me so long. I'm surprised you didn't see the credits rolling while you were looking through my window with those binoculars.........
Whenever I tell someone I haven't played Horizon Zero Dawn yet, they react in the same way, which tells me I should probably get on with it and that it's rather good. Anyway, I've put it on my Christmas list, so hopefully I can soon atone for my sins.
Good job, Parappa. You can go on to the next stage now.
@Gremio108 Lol, I’m a pathetic stalker. I was just noticing how you had listed it in your completed backlog. You must have finished it that day that your new curtains came in. They’re lovely by the way.
But yeah, my albatross to carry as been The Witcher 3, and to a lesser extent God of War. The praise became so high for Witcher 3 that the poor game never had a chance of pleasing me by the time I finally tried it this year. Maybe I’ll go back to it, but the disappointment over it has hindered my enjoyment of what would have otherwise been a great game experience. I’ve yet to boot up GoW, but all the accolades have expectations likewise very high.
So don’t worry about HZD. You’ll enjoy it best if you play it when you’re in the mood.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution Interesting one on The Witcher 3 - I am not really into it on Switch but I played about 8-10 hours on PS4 and struggled. I could not get the hype at the time. I found this time that it really picked up after 15 hours which is a huuuuuge committment for me. In fact, if it wasn't the Switch where I was playing a bit at a time, i would probably have given up. There are some design decisions and missions at the start that really don't make sense.
I think sometimes waiting some time and going back to it by choice and at your own pace can help or also accepting a game just isn't clicking and moving on.
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@Rudy_Manchego@Arugula Agreed.
I have had times when I go back to a game later and the enjoyment is better for a game after time away, probably mostly due to having a better state of mind or being in the right mood. In truth, that happened to me for Horizon Zero Dawn, actually. I thoroughly enjoyed it when I came back to complete the last half several months after starting it at release. The hype had died down and playing it at my own pace seemed to heighten that ‘thrill of discovery’ that you mention.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
Well, gaming history has taken a hit. Gamerankings.com is now a part of metacritic. Gamerankings incredibly comprehensive list of games has taken a hit, (I could only find Twisted Metal Small Brawl instead of all of them), the layout and search is now much clunkier, messier, and less comprehensive, the rankings system now has more bias (I'm pretty sure IGN's score gets more weight than a number of other critics), doesn't sort by system (which can be important for say, Skyrim PS3 Vs. 360 and making sure a specific version was played in general). I loved gamerankings as a resource for reviews, games new and old. Now the history is much harder and the site layout is genuinely terrible compared to the nice long clean list of reviews gamerankings gave you. I don't know why they had to combine. It looks like less of merger and more one just got destroyed honestly.
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The timing is mostly my fault as I break up for the year today and we have a couple of folks who don't work Fridays
Secret Santa is a pretty serious business around here - I'd be lying if I said I hadn't made it abundantly clear what I wanted and where to get it
Thankfully my Secret Santa has a gamer husband and kid too. Though they were apparently (obviously) entirely unaware of the game itself - and Warhammer anything!
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