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Being made by the Shadow of Mordor guys, so the combat should be on-point, if nothing else. And using the Nemesis System. Nice to see DC actually using some of their mainline characters that aren't Batman.

Honestly, I can't remember the last time we had a gaming event that had so many announcements and trailers that I actually gave a shit about. And none of the awards this year felt like obvious robberies. So I guess, good job Dorito Pope.

So there's two vaguely Bloodbourney games dealing with puppets or clockwork creatures currently in development? Weird-ass coincidence.

Sonic: Hedgehog of the Wild, huh? I've actually thought that open world was something they ought to experiment with for Sonic; it's basically doing a superhero game with super speed. They'll probably cock it up, but I'd like to see where it goes.

Alan. Goddamn. Wake. 2.

Well fuck me, a DC game that is neither Batman, nor Batman-adjacent.

Eh, at this point, it's just E3 2, and I honestly don't mind that.

Insomniac also seemed to be hinting at an appearance; first proper look at Spidey 2?

If that list is real, then it's at least not comprehensive. Rocksteady's been hinting that Suicide Squad will make an appearance, and Dorito Pope tweeted out that the next Sonic game will be shown (alongside a trailer for the Sonic 2 movie).

Combat's broadly similar, turn-based on hex maps. The Expeditions series is a bit of a blend of an RPG and a Tactics-style game; the first one, Conquistador, is essentially a Tactics game with RPG elements, while Viking and the upcoming Rome are more RPGs with Tactics elements. They also do a...

Expeditions: Rome releasing on January 20th. More people need to know about this series, man. Viking was great, and I may need to see if I can squeeze in Conquistador before this releases.

This is quickly becoming my favorite of the Disney+ Marvel shows. Hopefully they keep this quality up the whole way through.

Finally got around to sitting down and watching the first episode. I'm not blind to the fact that when you make adaptations of books, there will be changes that have to be made (GoT choosing to age up all the characters being a good example--can't have episode one ending with fourteen-year-old...

Could be a George Foreman situation, where fuckers couldn't settle for only having one Armand in a generation. Good show so far, I'm liking it.

The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie, book one of the First Law trilogy. One of the few 'big' fantasy authors that I haven't read yet, so I decided to hop on it when I had a gap in releases from other authors. Theres not a lot to say about the actual plot of the book, as it looks to mostly be...

Was also sitting at $40 (iirc) on the Playstation Store. Just picked it up today.

Either and/or both, as I understand it. He might be the chosen mortal champion of the Egyptian moon god, or he might be a nut job who hallucinated the entire thing, but is in peak enough physical condition that he can get away with putting on a costume and playing Batman in the night. Or both.

The Spider-Man trailer: I like the costume, and I think the spider-sense dodging is a nice touch. Just need to see the actual gameplay.

Didn't hate it, and it was a far cry from being Thor 2 levels of bad, but I would place it on the weaker end of MCU films. Felt like they were trying to fit way too much in the runtime of a single movie, so none of the elements had time to breathe, robbing things of their impact--'oh no, this...

Decided to pick up the Avengers. Doesn't hold a candle to Spider-Man PS4, and I'm certainly not going to treat it like an MMO and play it continuously as the developers so clearly want, but I am actually enjoying it. They did do a legitimately good job with how they designed each of the...

Aside from the tendency to have characters fucking whispering their lines while the music is simultaneously shaking the goddamn walls of the theater, I liked it. Need to pick up the book at some point.

I mean, Chicago's right there on the list.

The fucking bald eagle. Amazing.

The DC Fandome trailer. Narrative trailer rather than gameplay (which wasn't a huge shock, since I think this is still supposed to be coming out after Gotham Knights), but what they showed looks good. Get a good look at a bunch of the Justice League characters. Also looks surprisingly...

Said it during the Dr Strange episode, but man I love wizard shit. Ultron dropping his galaxy-destroying nuke only for Strange to fucking eat it, followed by Ultron's, "What just happened?" was great.

Lost my shit at the Baron riding on the hellhound. Lazlo swallowing the harmonica was also pretty great.

They said that the last planet Thor decided to party on ended up destroyed, which is why they were trying to shut it down. Goofy premise, but eh, fuck it.

Depends on the difficulty. I haven't picked up WotR yet, but if it's balanced like Kingmaker, then on Normal or below you can totally just pick a class and level it to 20, and you'll be perfectly fine; ditto for your party members. Anything above Normal, and the game will be balanced around the...

Finally managed to get my hands on one from Best Buy from their in-store thing. Had to settle for the digital version, but fuck it--beggars and choosers.

I liked it. Nice change of pace to have an episode of goofy dumb bullshit after several episodes of the 'and then everybody died' variety. And hey, they even kinda gave Captain Marvel a personality, which was nice.

Colin Robinson explaining the Big Bang Theory to Nandor in the latest episode was great. "It's just science" "It's a turtle"

They're going full Jetstream Sam on that one.

Yeah, the story gets better with each successive chapter (except perhaps the end of Icebrood, which suffered from having resources drawn off to work on the expansion). That said, I do give props to the Personal Story for the amount of branching they managed to pull off with it. You could easily...

On the one hand, having a Norse mythological figure be black is weird. On the other hand, having said black character be cast as the Mother of Monsters doesn't quite fit with the narrative you'd expect from this sort of thing, so it'll be interesting to see how that pans out.

Both Spider-Man and Wolverine ending up on the Sony-exclusive side of the equation? Man, there's going to be some epic level bitching in certain parts of the internet. Looking forward to the game. Hopefully they're taking some cues from the PS3 title in designing it--especially the visual...

Compared most of these sorts of events, that was actually pretty impressive (granted, I watched it after the fact, so I could skip past the Borderlands and racing crap). KotR and Alan Wake getting remakes/rereleases, GoW 2, Forspoken, Spidey 2 and a fucking Wolverine game, both by Insomniac...

I'm actually in the middle of gradually doing a reread of the Belgariad--last time I read them was probably 15-20 years ago. Are they simplistic and trope-y? God yes (apparently intentionally? I vaguely recall reading somewhere that the books came out of Eddings wanting to play with fantasy and...

Liked it. Basically just a good kung-fu movie that happens to take place in the MCU.

Just finished SPQR by Mary Beard, a general history of Rome from roman prehistory to the reign of the Emperor Caracalla. I've seen it held up a lot as the gold standard of introductions to Rome, and I'm inclined to say that it holds up to its reputation. Definitely worth picking up if you want...