DeathscytheX

Funimation put up the first 5 eps today. So far its really well done.

I finished A Realm Reborn. I enjoyed the story overall, even if it was campy and silly at times. I enjoyed all the pop culture references and had a good chuckle with how heavily a major chunk of the final fight was inspired by MGS1 from the elevator to Ultima. The Dungeons were pretty fun, in one part I'm glad you cant skip the cutscenes on the major story ones. Certain GW2 players would have an aneurysm over that, but at the same time I can see how its frustrating when repeating it, especially when you get nonsensical cut scenes every 10 steps on the second to last dungeon. I also didn't see the point of waiting 15 mins for a 3 minute boss fight that had no dungeon when you start the last questline. That should have just been instanced instead of a full 8 man party. 8 man dungeons are more fun than the light party though, the effects and buffs going around gets wild. My only bad experience so far was one of the optional dungeons I ran to get a level up. The healer was awful so our Tank died a few times causing a wipe. I heard Bard use to have more support, but at level 50, all I can really do is block or remove 1 ailment, increase direct hit, and grant swiftness... could be one more I'm forgetting right now... but its not going to keep anyone alive. The Bard quest line was interesting. I see now a lot of people in GW2s community wanted something more interesting when getting elite specs. I guess I gotta finish up some loose ends before I get to Heavensward and start on Dark Knight. I heard that story is pretty neat too.

So far Cop Craft is this seasons sleeper for me. The fun early 2000's style opening doesn't really match the dark tone its set so far in the first 3 eps. Its like a 90s buddy cop show with some elements from BRIGHT. (Geez, you know you're getting old when early 2000's is classic stuff now) Overall I'm hooked one quite a few shows this season. A little too heavy on Isekai, but plenty of action/drama this go around with a few fanservicey comedies.

On one hand I'm glad the mini map is gone and UAV is a bigger kill streak. People will be less likely to invest in a larger non lethal killstreak. The personal radar is more selfish at 4 kills, so there will be a lot less help for people that can't string 4 together without seeing red dots on a map. On the other hand I can see the issues with spawn flips and not knowing where you team is. I would be fine with bringing the mini map back to only show your teammates unless you get a personal radar or UAV. Killstreaks being back over scorestreaks is huge. This game seems to be reverting back to more skillful play and less handholding and giving lesser skilled players an advantage to end your streaks.

I feel like most of the big games that go exclusive are things I'll buy on console anyways. They're spending a lot of money to pull these exclusives I dunno how long they can keep that up. BL3 will be the big test. We'll see how many PC only people can actually wait 6 months to get it. If they spend a bunch of money and not enough people buy it, they'll be hurting. I honestly don't care either way. I've opened steam up maybe 5 times in the last year, all to play 1 game. lol

Time do dust off the ole Switch.

At least in the early stages of dungeons people aren't savage douches when it comes to loot. I can tell when I'm running with some exp people just grinding a new job. Out of my own sense of honor I always pass on gear I can't use. I got a new bow today at the end because everyone else passed on it and I was clearly the only bow user in the party. We cast lots over everything else because they were master of war or all classes stuff that was pretty good. This isn't the first time its happened. I like the system for what it is, even tho I prefer GW2/D3 style you get your own drops. But it beats B&S where the richest player always wins so long as you have the coin to outbid everyone on that item that's absolutely necessary to upgrade your weapon.... if it drops at all. 🙄

No judgement here, I bought the flame chariot.

If I remember correctly, jack was disinvited or removed from the partner program back during BF1 because he wasnt covering the content positively enough. It was either him or Cap.

Eh from the outside it may seem like that, but really he's a troller of trolls. Its not really worth looking into, but without it ,it looks like hes just harassing females. The last one was some woman that paints her tits on twitch for a paid sub, and she was criticizing some women dancing on a stage at E3 for exploiting sexuality. It really affects no one, but he seems to pump out 3-4 videos a day just to make money. I still like his commentary on shitty business practices. But I do see where he is coming from on SJW bashing. Its one thing to have diversity, but we've gotten to a point where at times it does feel it "white males bad". At that point it's not diversity anymore. For instance when Tilda Swinton got picked for the Ancient One in Doctor Strange, there was all this "white washing" outrage how she was supposed to be Asian, but you're a racist to even think that Starfire or Ariel should be "white" because of the original source material. It shouldn't matter either way, but I'm sick of hearing about white washing and toxic masculinity. I mean shit they were even complaining about Hooper on Stranger Things this season. The whole thing is dumb. I get enough political crap on news feeds daily, I dont need it in my entertainment. I've watched some recent Jackfrags, Levelcap, and Westie videos and they sound completely deflated with BFV. Its really bad. Dritf0r stopped playing COD altogether despite covering it still. These companies have juiced their biggest hype men for all their worth. I even watched Nike get down on GW2 yesterday. I think were nearing a much needed crash or turning point. It may be a few years off still, but there will be some type of change. Whether it will be a good one will remain to be seen. There isnt a lot of goodwill out there between consumers and publishers right now.

Finally got mounts. The QoL is amazing now. My sprint button will now get a much needed rest with the small 30 seconds of speed it provided of CD. Some of these mounts are ridiculous though.. some dude was riding a freaking massive whale wtf

Yeah, his subject matter is pretty much covering the politicization of films and games now. Or more notably websites like Kotaku and VG274 which is blatantly obvious. I left Kotaku for VG247 years ago but now all they do is opinion pieces. "Playing this made me sad" like IDGAF. TBH though, Youtube is in a bad place. Gaming sites and news sites in general have taken notice how people don't rely on them anymore and rather go watch a video on YT. So now they've been writing hit pieces on "outrage" videos which include The Quartering, YongYea, Jim Sterling, Angry Joe, etc. YT has also started changing rules that will go into effect soon which are aimed at limiting content creators ability to criticize said sites or each other. He does devote too much time to his twitter wars these days. But YT reaction videos may become a thing of the past soon when people can't make money off of them anymore. It'll just be a bunch of Pre BFV Westies and Pre Infinite Warfare Drift0rs hyping up games and praising them nonstop no matter how shit they are.

I will say I'm enjoying the light party dungeons so far. So much better than GW2 where you're expected to skip everything and know wtf is going on at all times as a noob. I also like how it clearly states if one or more persons is new to the dungeon. It just kinda sucks waiting for a healer but I do like the role lock for these. I haven't even attempted a daily roulette yet as the wait in line seems absurd (DPS life). The dugeons are straight forward, but I found it funny the yesterday our tank was way too ambitious and kept running off into the fray before our healer could get there. He got totally wrecked trying to take on too many enemies. I didn't have any AoE attacks to help him out at the time, so I could only attack one of the 5 he aggroed. And wtf this game has a freakin full service Casino? I did the tour and promptly left before I bought points to play anything. I'll try it out later.