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    The Video Game Thread

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    16 minutes ago, Blackman said:

    Honestly what I enjoy most is just traveling from A to B. The combat is fine but not what I'm looking for in the game.

    The Piranha Bytes games seem nice and might do a better job in terms of open-world, but unfortunately don't look as good. I never finished one (unsure) as I failed to immerse.

    Unfortunately, their lower budgets will always mean they lag behind graphically. Gothic 1+2, Risen and ELEX are all games that I would heartily recommend to people, the satisfaction of going from a powerless nobody to a powerhouse in them is second only to Souls games IMO, but they do come with the caveat that they require a bit of patience with the jank.

    I'm more of a combat-inclined player (I struggle to play as anything but a mighty character who solves their problems by hitting things really hard lol) so I can't think of any good exploration games off the top of my head. You'd think somebody would have tried to bring back the adventure game spirit of wandering around and solving puzzles but instead it's all just walking sims. 

    5 minutes ago, Jaysin said:

    My first Elder Scrolls was Morrowind, but I love Skyrim. Is it buggy? Yes, but man, I've clocked HUNDREDS of hours in Skyrim. It's in my top five most played games behind TEW, Chrono Trigger, Perfect Dark 64, and Shadowrun for Sega Genesis. 

    I also like to roleplay my characters in Skyrim. Like right now, I have a character based on Kain from Blood Omen/Soul Reaver and I am having a blast. 

    Just had to prove my sweeping generalization wrong, didn't you? :classic_tongue: Also reminds me that I need to really sit down and play the 16-bit Shadowruns. I've played a bit of the Genesis version but panicked once I started and didn't immediately know what I was doing.

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    The Video Game Thread

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    10 hours ago, Blackman said:

    It's hard to believe but I FINALLY started the Dragonborn expansion from Skyrim. How long's it been? Honestly I'm not too impressed and the game, though it still looks amazing with all the gfx mods, does start to bore a little after all these years. Still haven't tried some of the renowned full world mods but I should before I eventually deinstall it. Trying to stop myself from doing that as I'm almost positive that TESVI (when it released in 2024) will be worse than Skyrim+mods.

    That's pretty much the trend of all TES games, Skyrim was worse than Oblivion (to most, I never liked Oblivion), which was worse than Morrwind, which was (depending on who you ask) worse than Daggerfall, which was buggier than Arena. You can always tell which TES game was someone's first because it'll always be the one they say is the best.

    And because I know it's tempting to try them once you get bored of the game, I'll go ahead and warn you that those combat overhauls people rave about for Skyrim don't actually fix the combat so much as make it even more janky. If I want more jank in my open world RPG, I'll play a Piranha Bytes game thank you very much.

    The All Elite Wrestling Discussion Thread

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    On 10/15/2022 at 9:57 AM, Makhai said:

    Matt Taven was a key player on that abomination of an MSG show, that killed ROH, it's relationship with NJPW, and paved the way for AEW.

    I'm pretty sure All In paved the way for AEW. All the G1 Supercard did was teach New Japan that they could successfully run big shows in the US that blew their show's co-promoter out of the water.

    The Video Game Thread

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    14 hours ago, Jaysin said:

    Hoping that someone can help me as my Google-Fu is failing me. 

    Has anyone played Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2? I bought the base game and I'm trying to figure out which DLC packs to buy, but there's so many and I can't tell if there's any crossover. Some are called Super Packs while others are Ultra or something. I want to wait to play the game until I have all the DLC so I can experience the whole game at once, but the way the DLC in the Nintendo eShop is, it's really hard for me to navigate for some reason. 

    Sorry for the double post but I missed this last night. The Super, Extra and Ultra packs are confusingly named on purpose because Bandai Namco are greedy as hell but they're similar to different "seasons" of DLC. So what should get you everything is the Super Pass, Extra Pass, the Ultra Pack Set, the Legendary Pack Set and the Conton CIty Vote Pack. The passes and sets combine the 2-4 DLCs with the same name.

    The Music Discussion Thread

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    12 hours ago, Jaysin said:

    I loved California, but I also like Matt Skiba more than I like blink as a whole. He's a better song writer than the blink guys and a much better vocalist. Alkaline Trio blows blink out of the water in every way in my opinion. Not saying I dislike blink, I actually love them, but I feel like this reunion with Tom is them riding on nostalgia.

    Anyway, Kid Cudi, Slipknot, and Wednesday 13 all released albums recently. Slipknot's album is very mediocre. The Dying Song is the only real standout track. Hoping that now that they're free from Roadrunner, they can find themselves again. The last few records haven't lived up to their older discography. Cudi has another solid entry into his discography with the track New Mode really standing out. Wednesday's new one tho has been fantastic. Perfectly timed release with spooky season in full swing. 

    Also, randomly been listening to Metallica's Kill Em All record and Acid Bath's Kite String Goes Pop a lot lately. I'm very much anti-Lars, but man, Kill Em All is a metal masterpiece and Acid Bath is stoner royalty. 

    I couldn't stand Slipknot's new album at all, it sounded more like one of those Slipknot copycat bands from the mid 2000s like Motograter than an actual Slipknot album. Machine Head also disappointed once again except this time you get faked out by Slaughter the Martyr reminding you of the good old days of The Blackening and Unto the Locust before being smacked upside the head by the following twelve tracks of dreck. I really need to stop expecting anything from Robb Flynn.

    Also, in a weird coincidence, Acid Bath's Toubabo Koomi popped up in my nightly song rotation yesterday. Acid Bath are right up there with Snot as a fantastic 90s metal band cut short too soon by tragedy.

    The Video Game Thread

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    2 hours ago, Jaysin said:

    Are any of those on Switch? That's what I'm looking for per my post...

    They are not, no matter how much MFL 2 and MHL being on Switch would be amazing. I'm also 99% sure that The Wrestling Code is the next Pro Wrestling X considering they bothered to have a roster reveal before actually having a functioning game. That was a year ago and they're still only releasing "tech demo" footage that's mostly cutscenes and making big promises about totally unnecessary features like "every wrestler will have unique animations" instead of, y'know, making the game play well.

    As for games that are actually on Switch and on sale currently, I cannot recommend Metroid Dread enough.

    Official TV Show Discussion Thread

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    I think my favorite part of She-Hulk is the outrage over it from people who have clearly never read comics calling it a "disgrace" to the source material when it's probably one of the most accurate-to-the-comics TV shows around. Especially the dumb moments like the Megan Thee Stallion bit. The most popular runs of her solo series were filled to the brim with fanservice, sophomoric humor and about as many fourth wall breaks as Deadpool.

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    The All Elite Wrestling Discussion Thread

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    3 hours ago, Matt_Black said:

    I'll give you Britt, but I think the bit about Brandi is unfair. The only big TV feud she had that time was with Anna Jay, who she put over.

    I'll give you that. Though personally I'm of the belief that the disaster that was The Nightmare Collective was meant to get her over as a top heel and the angle flopping was the only thing that spared us of that. I'm also more than a little bitter that they brought Awesome Kong in just to be her enforcer. Even if she wasn't the same worker she was before, she still would've been a solid gatekeeper monster heel ala Kane.

    The All Elite Wrestling Discussion Thread

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    1 hour ago, Makhai said:

    The Women's belt was the second biggest in the company until the TBS was minted and the deathmarch began. 

    Oh yeah, Riho and Nyla Rose were just setting the world alight with a white hot feud everyone loved when that belt was established. And don't even get me started about the nonstop thrills from when Shida dropped the belt to the woman who thinks being a dentist is a personality. Half the actually talented women had to choose between being stuck in Japan or the US during the pandemic while the other half had to spend all their time making Britt Baker and Brandi Rhodes look good.

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    The All Elite Wrestling Discussion Thread

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    11 minutes ago, Makhai said:

    Nothing devalues champions, like having a bunch of useless titles so you can fill out an event on your calendar. One of the refreshing things about this company was that there were like 3 belts, and they all meant something. 

    Now there are 40, and I don't care about any of them. 

    Really? Because I always saw them as the World title as the I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Bullet-Club and also Jericho belt, the TNT title as the Cody Rhodes belt and the Tag titles as the afterthought belts. Everyone always talked about how much they "meant something" the same way they talk about "long term booking" but honestly even the NWA World Heavyweight circa Adam Pearce and the Impact World title immediately after Victory Road 11 still had more prestige than any AEW belt has ever had. Seriously, who has held the AEW World title and could conceivably hold any other main event title right now? A Chris Jericho ten years past his sell-by date? A banged-up, unmotivated Kenny Omega who just wants to go back to Japan but is stuck in this venture because he couldn't tell his friends no? The millennial anxiety cowboy? No, no and no. That leaves us with Moxley when he cares enough to tell a story and not just do his Atsushi Onita impression and a healthy CM Punk, a being so rare and mythical that Mountain Monsters is filming a special episode in search of him.

    Oh and I guess the Women's title has been there since the start too, but it's hard to tell with how rarely it's on TV. Something, something, ratings drop. Something, something, other excuses lazy bookers always use.

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    The All Elite Wrestling Discussion Thread

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    16 hours ago, Makhai said:

    At the time, Dinner Debonair was lapped up by all of you. And the feud was a net win for MJF, who went over in the end. MJF became a star off this. His ratings draw starts here. 

     

    And I want to make clear that I would ask Jericho where his wife was on Jan. 6th to his face. I hate the fact you are putting me in a position to defend him. 

    I would like to clarify that I didn't care for it. In fact, I frustrated one AEW-loving friend enough with my hatred of everything Jericho did that he put a moratorium on us talking about AEW. I will go to my grave insisting that MJF was ready for the main event without any sort of rub from Jericho and "needing" a WWE guy's approval only served to hurt his credibility as AEW's future centerpiece the similar to AJ and Joe jobbing out to every has-been in TNA.

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    2 hours ago, The Blonde Bomber said:

    In his feud with Punk he was the IT FACTOR, he got people to cheer him over Punk two months after his return. Then Jericho killed him like has done everything he touches. Punk was the opposite of Jericho interestingly. Punk would leave guys better off then where they were while Jericho would destroy everyone to keep himself on top.

    I'm glad someone else sees the same thing with Jericho. He's a shell of his former self (no surprise there, given his age) who is ironically doing the same thing the WCW main eventers did to him back in the day.

     

    1 hour ago, d12345 said:

    People's reactions were, as usual, premature. After hearing the full details, it really is Andrade being a full blockhead here. He confronts Sammy, then throws punches at Sammy, and Sammy does not fight back because he doesn't want to ruin the main event. If an act is in the main event in any promotion and you try to fight them before the show, you're threatening the promoter's money. Doesn't matter what sly comment Sammy may have made in the past, Andrade was ridiculously unprofessional.

    Says a lot about someone's reputation though when people don't even blink at the suggestion that they were the cause of the fight before details get out. Andrade seems to want out so maybe he tried picking a fight with the problem child in the hopes

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    The Official WWE / NXT Discussion Thread *May Contain Spoilers*

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    7 minutes ago, Derek B said:

    I think that part is entirely down to him being a "loner", which is another word for recluse in English and the town name is just picked to go with the character :)

    I get that part lol. It just bugs me because I grew up about half an hour away from the actual Recluse (yes, it is a real place) and because of that I can't picture someone like Dexter Lumis being from there. And it has nothing to do with me being jealous because I always wanted to be the guy billed from Wyoming who became a wrestling star.

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