Recent content by Old_Hunter_77

Widow's Bay rules. It's so fun. I just want everyone else to share in this joy. They just dropped a double episode and I have to wait at least 10 days to watch them because my wife is on a business trip 'till then, so that sucks. I don't remember the last time I anticipated new episodes like...

FWIW, there were rumors for a while, to the point where some sort of content update was expected. My guess was that they were going to add some small quest(s) that would add a little bit of connective narrative tissue to the Witcher 4. I'm sure this new expansion will do that but the fact that...

To be clear I personally don't have strong feelings about it. The game looks fun and silly. I'm not a Hitman fan- I tried it, I admit I'm just too dumb and impatient to appreciate those games. So the fact that it dumbs down that stuff is actually good for me personally. This is, to me, is the...

The new James Bond game is getting rave reviews, even though it also has some serious criticisms (basically that it dumbs down the "Hitman" style stealth playground stuff to a silly level, and the opening chapter is a total smelly butt). Yet there are no accusations of corruption, eThICs n gAME...

South of Midnight replay, on PlayStation, platinum trophy run. Just a game I love the look and story for that I played before on GamePass. This time followed a guide for the collectibles and since there are no trophies related to difficulty settings, went for the platinum. The hard part was...

NPR has a weekly comedic news quiz game show called Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. This week, one of the questions was something like: XBox changed its name to make itself more relevant to the gaming market. Answer: to "XBOX" but now in all-caps. And everybody laughed.

A couple of series finales last night: The Boys Kinda bored caring about the criticism and DISCOURSE and all the internet noise about it. We get it, it's not as good as it was, but it was a solid last episode that gave pretty much every character the send-off they deserved. The Comeback Also a...

Thank you! I'll hold off on buying it for now until I either run out of other things to play/watch or maybe I'll take it on my next plane trip, or the price drops.

Ok well IGN gave Forza Horizon 6 a 10 so we'll see if there is massive internet outrage over a perfect score for yet another vroom vroom game.

When a boss kills you in DMC 3 you have to restart the whole level. F*** that Dark Souls type shit, I'm out. Well that's the third DMC game I tried and couldn't get into, I guess I just missed the window of time when it would have clicked for me. I'm just gonna appreciate what the franchise has...

There is no video game equivalent of a Michelin Star. Michelin has a whole rubrick for their star system, plus a whole thing where they keep reviewing. Restaurants are not video games. Back in the day the most prominent movie reviewers were Sikel and Ebert and their reviews could effect...

Well I don't know about "most critics"- that is just non-falsifiable. Maybe it's true but I don't have the capacity or interest to do a survey of game critics and know if that is true. Especially given how ravaged games media has become over the last few years. I mean, look you guys- you hate...

Is that a dumb opinion? It's one of the most beloved games ever. You are far from the first person I've encountered who idolizes that game. And it's a good game so it makes sense for it to be one of those games that has its ardent fans.

See what gaming sites have to do is wait for every video game to come out, then review them all, then rank them. This way every score will be seen as proper relative to every other score. Therefore, every video game review released until the end of game releases is invalid.

I've yet to see a reliable consensus and clarity on what constitutes "good" story or writing from any corner of the internet. I'd trust the average critic over the average poster or commenter any day because at least they try to explain it, and not just declare "this has bad writing!" and move...