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I used to ask for change in the streets

Now I'm changing the streets

ViewtifulJoe posted...

What's it like now?
Is my vision of weary 20/30-somethings dragging themselves up and down Varrock minmaxing for the smallest hit of dopamine every few days real?

It's real. Training firemaking is a real drag, it looks ugly on the overworld and it feels demeaning to do. You're literally jumping through hoops to make a number go up so you can do something somewhere else in the game.

That being said, I've been playing since I was 10 years old and I kind of love it. I've been paying for a membership for like three years.

Runescape 3 is a version of the game that began in like 2011, the Runescape most people know (Runescape 2) shut down roughly around the same time that 3 came out. Jagex was bought out by a Chinese company who made a lot of unpopular changes, like blatant gacha mechanics with a prize wheel and changing the combat system to be more "immersive" - Jagex has since been sold to a UK-based developer, and changes like the prize wheel and Evolution of Combat have been walked back.

Runescape 2 was summarily rebooted as Old-School Runescape, which is what I play. Right now I'm trying to raise my woodcutting level so I can cut down magic trees, I'm chasing a clue scroll with a big reward and I need an axe that requires lvl 85 firemaking to craft.

The Necromancy skill is being added to Runescape 3. Runescape 2 does have a new skill on the way, but we're getting Sailing instead. It'll be the first new skill in almost twenty years.

So to sum up - it's less that Runescape *still* exists, and more that Runescape has had a long history of multiple versions that have existed from 1999 to today, with this Necromancy skill existing in the most recent version of the game. There's more than one version of Runescape and this change isn't uniform across the board.

Also, I'm just mentioning this for shits and giggles, but Runescape 2 kind of already has a necromancy activity. Some monsters have a low chance of dropping an ensouled head - you can take that head to an island called Kourend and reanimate it with a spell, and defeating the reanimated Monster gives you a ton of Prayer experience. I'm actually fighting through about 100 ensouled chaos monk heads to help develop my archery skill and to buff my prayer skill.

In my opinion, Michael Jackson didn't intend to do any harm but he did anyway.

He was abused from a young age. Then he struck it big when he was like five years old, so he had a showbiz upbringing on top of the abuse from his father. You can see that as he got older, his grip on reality got tenuous - there's footage of when he would pay the entire day's salary and operating cost of a supermarket just so he could walk down the aisles and simulate shopping like a normal person, because he didn't get to have that. And then you have the Neverland ranch which was lampooned to hell and back in the media, which is ostensibly just wish fulfillment for Michael Jackson - he wanted to capture the childhood he never had.

My belief is that he did have kids sleeping in the same bed as him. To MJ, it wasn't a weird sex thing, it was a part of that whole childhood recapturing thing. I think to him, it was like a sleepover. That being said - it was wildly inappropriate and I don't question that it affected kids who did that. It was a fucked up thing to do.

It's such a fucked up situation because Michael Jackson was systemically abused his entire life. He was a showbiz kid getting beaten by his dad, he was literally the biggest pop star on the fucking planet from childhood, and when he entered what the media like to describe as his "Wacko Jacko" years, he was taken advantage of by doctors and gurus who ultimately ended up killing him. I feel a lot of sympathy for Michael Jackson; he made some fantastic pop music, but I feel like his legacy is coated in more blood than people like to talk about.

But the effect he had on children at the Neverland ranch is... weird, to say the least. Over the years I've heard that the initial accuser was goaded into it by his father, and once the father died the kid retracted his statement. That being said, the behaviour of Michael Jackson was weird and fucked up. I don't doubt that being asked to sleep in a big bed with a grown man was a fucked up thing for a lot of kids who partook in the activity, and frankly it wouldn't surprise me if it ended up being traumatic and leading to long-term personal issues.

I don't necessarily believe MJ was sexually molesting anyone, nor do I think he got a sexual kick out of sleeping in a bed with children. I wasn't there, so this is simply just another outsider opinion from someone with no genuine idea of what happened at the Neverland ranch, but I don't buy into the theory that MJ was a secret celebrity elite pedophile. I think he was a man deprived of a normal life who developed some weird fucking coping habits that had widespread, unprecedented consequences that he didn't consider because he was living in a fantasy world. It's a drawn out, fucked up story where nobody wins and everybody loses.

Glob posted...

Surely there are just well paid jobs you can get in Mexico?

Why does this matter in this hypothetical

It's pointless hype. You want them to have aliens, so you stan some dumbfuck American weapon company.

If you ask Elon Musk if he keeps an alien in one of his many company HQs, he's gonna stoke the rumours for the meme. It doesn't mean he has his own combination buttler-sexmaid grey alien. It's a con.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

I know this isn't the song but

everyone knows everyone, we know this to be true

Tetris 99, Old-School Runescape, Hyrule Warriors 1 and Mortal Kombat 11.

https://youtu.be/RVLbhg-OPHY

Gwynevere posted...

What would Johto be? Let's Go Umbreon and Let's Go Espeon?

Let's Go Teddiursa and Let's Go Phanpy

This is the moment Chaz became Shit Lips

Jokes on them, I wasn't gonna buy their shit anyway.

What do you think?

Life is Strange is a lot of things, but a big part of it is searching for a girl named Rachel Amber.

Karen Carpenter, no question.

BurmesePenguin posted...

My main issue with JW4 is that there are so many shots of people being thrown over the shoulder. They should have cut at least 3/4 of them. Also the first act served no purpose, more than ever before you could really feel that they were just making up shit as they went along, and the overuse of bulletproof suits. Some of the action scenes, mainly the overhead building scene and the stair scene were among the best of the series, but overall it kind of felt like they were running out of logic to continue to move the franchise forward.

BurmesePenguin posted...

My main issue with JW4 is that there are so many shots of people being thrown over the shoulder. They should have cut at least 3/4 of them. Also the first act served no purpose, more than ever before you could really feel that they were just making up shit as they went along, and the overuse of bulletproof suits. Some of the action scenes, mainly the overhead building scene and the stair scene were among the best of the series, but overall it kind of felt like they were running out of logic to continue to move the franchise forward.

I have a similar issue with John Wick 2, where there's all these scenes of John grabbing a guy's arm and flipping him onto the ground. I agree with pretty much all of your post.

One reason why that might have been the case is because the fourth movie didn't have the scriptwriter of the first three movies. I think you can tell. The way they brush aside the whole Winston thing, for one, but the movie lacks the sort of charm and charisma of the earlier movies - it's very much just "you need to get the Fulcrum and take it to the Crucible to get the Image", just meaningless fluff words and style over substance.

The card game thing was awesome, the entire last act was fantastic, but the first half of the movie was just kind of mid and you can feel that it's missing something. Also what was up with Mr. Nobody? Did we really need an audience surrogate for the last part of the movie?

VeggetaX posted...

I will never understand people going to watch an action flick and expecting some Shakespeare level of acting and greatly written plots.

The first movie was pretty decent as far as story goes. I also really like the whole intrigue about this High Table stuff the series leans into. Something about the fourth movie falls off a little bit in my opinion.

refmon posted...

John Wick 3 is the worst of the bunch by faaaaar

John Wick 3 is my second favourite John Wick movie. Why is it your least favorite?

Drunk me was onto something with this topic

Like don't get me wrong, John Wick 4 has the best action sequences of the series and the entire second half of the movie is action sequences. But between John's only lines being short and over-acted and the apparent absence of the first three movies' screenwriter, I feel like the movie falls short, even if it covers unprecedented ground.

The way I see it, John Wick 3 is the more consistent action movie. I won't shit on JW4's action sequences, they're fucking fantastic, but a lot of that movie is kind of overhyped and mid. I liked Donnie Yen and Rina Sawayama, I liked all that action shit, but stuff like Winston and the Marquis just didn't capture me because it either didn't follow through or it reminded me too much of John Wick 2 where the bad guy was a shitty, useless wanker for the sake of being a shitty, useless wanker. John Wick 3 has an interesting greater-scope villain, and the action might not be as over the top as JW4 but it's much more consistent.

Cobra1010 posted...

I think her last name is the same as the one you see a lot in credits of Megal Gear Solid games. And her first name is the same as a well known vocaloid.

Miku Kojima?!

Edit: oh fuck lmao, I was memeing

MabusIncarnate posted...

been 4 years.

No way, I went through the whole Tumblr fandom. It couldn't have been longer than two years.

*googles*

...Fuck

Foppe posted...

...tons of robots slaughtering humans?

Leading to some sort of Elf War that leaves Earth barren and covered in ideologically conflicted robot cells who wage perpetual war against each other?

Aside from the black guy who's afraid of commitment and just generally being a stereotypical dumbass, I'm really digging the vibe of the episode.

Looking for both answers. I'd prefer if people answered with who they prefer to play with, but if you want to talk about aesthetic preference, just say that you're going by how they look.

For me, my favourite Tekken character is JACK and my favorite Mortal Kombat character is Baraka. They both look awesome and I love how they play.

I've had a hard time getting through season one, would you say season two is where the show gets better? Or does the show peak early and stay consistently good the whole time?

Don Glover's casting was one of the more inspired choices of the Disney Star Wars movies. Solo might have been a mediocre movie that was torn apart by indecision and multiple directors, and his performance suffered as a result, but Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian was a rock-solid idea.

With Glover having a hand in the development of this thing, I think the show has a chance to be really good. If he gets to build his own Lando Calrissian and develop the story from the ground up, this is kind of a cool announcement. I sure hope they recast young Han Solo if they bring him back, though

TodorokiHayato posted...

Country for Democrats and the country for the Republicans. I think it would solve most of the issues when it comes to the polarization of politics.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/8/7/AAbh80AAErVn.jpg

This is the third topic of weak bait from this account.

There's being a free-thinker, and there's being a self-centred contrarian moron who acts like they're the lead protagonist in a movie.

Like you could stand to learn a few survival techniques, like how to farm, camp and fight - but doomsday preppers take it way too far because they're convinced that we're on the precipice of World War Z and they're gonna be Brad Pitt, standing on top of the pile. Imagine spending your weekends waking your kids up at 2 in the morning, loading them into a converted military track and driving them three hours into the woods to check expiry dates on the hundreds of canned goods you've been hoarding for years - all because Roland Emmerich's 2012 is right around the corner.

Or take anti-vaxxers. Being skeptical is a reasonable trait to have, but if you're worried about 5G or magnetised blood, shut the fuck up and get the fucking shot. You're not Jesus Christ being persecuted by the Romans because someone didn't want your proudly unwashed ass breathing against the salad bar during a global fucking pandemic.

The traits of being a free-thinker - being thoughtful, measured and opinionated - are generally positive traits. They show that you engage with the world around you. The issue is that when you see someone asserting how much of a "free-thinker" they are, it's usually some drooling moron puffing up their chest to justify their contrarian nature and pass off some shit that's stupid at best and truly heinous at worst.

The same way people like doomsday preppers and anti-vaxxers see themselves as the protagonist in their own deluded, self-centred view of the world around them, people who boldly and resonantly proclaim themselves to be "free-thinkers" tend to be using that term in a self-aggrandising way. They're not actually free-thinkers, they're just insecure about something they've felt shamed about and they want to normalise it as them "going against the grain" or "not being a part of the flock".

Like personally, I see myself as something of a free thinker. Not entirely, I can get whipped up into trends and frenzies, but I try to read a lot and think things over so I can at least say that I have a thought-out and considered opinion. But you don't see me going "I'm a free-thinker, I go my own way!" because it's such a douchey and self-centred thing to say. It implies that I see myself as being better than other people, and for all my biases and personal rage, I'm really not y'know.

But yeah, basically if you feel the need to assert yourself as a free thinker to others, I feel like that usually precedes an unpopular opinion like being an anti-vaxxer or an antisemite or some shit like that. I think people who actually think for themselves can communicate that just fine through the course of human interaction, and the people who have to boldly, prominently outline what a free-thinker they are will usually be some of the most contrarian dickheads you'll ever meet using the label as a way of masking some unpopular bullshit they don't want any blowback for.

Damn, I got clickbaited by a CEman. The betrayal, the horror.

Ten years ago, it was millennials who were killing restaurants. This is the same dumbfuck generational conflict as before, being pushed by a news cycle that's being short-sighted and reactionary to either drive engagement through outrage or to try and drive a wedge between the emerging wave of Gen Z adults and The Rest Of Us.

If you have the level of hindsight to remember this horseshit from back in the day, try thinking back to when you were seeing shitstain articles like this where they were generalising you. It happened to me as a millennial, and while I'm sure it's only gotten more pronounced in the digital age, I know for a fact that this sort of generational divide existed beforehand like with the baby boomers and gen x. It's all horseshit.

ArsGoetia posted...

but gun to my head if i gotta listen to nu metal in public its the bizkit 100%

...okay

I've been saying it for years, Pink is probably one of the only 2000's pop stars to have remained relevant aside from Beyonce and Eminem.

She's always been huge in Australia. Been hearing a lot of her newer stuff on the radio at work, I think she's actually managed to capture an okay dance sound for her newer music. I also kinda like that Makebelieve song in a kinda braindead way.

People like to shit on her, especially on CE - but then again, this is the same place where someone told me a King Gizzard song was the worst song they've ever heard in their life, so fuck this place and its sense of taste.

I'm not a "fan" per se, but I do think she's stayed relevant for a reason. Even if she's moved past that punky "idgaf" sound that most people knew her for in the 00's, she's found a way to remain commercially viable and I kinda like her current production all things considered.

ablegator posted...

It would be more like if Star Trek 2009 began with everyone except Kirk getting killed and then from then on it was just Kirk action schlock.

I feel like it'd moreso be like if a movie focused on a young, peppy hotshot who's out on his first mission with the Star Trek crew, letting the audience view the characters through an audience surrogate, until something goes massively wrong that destroys the Enterprise and most of the people on it. About half of the movie is this new character getting in Star Trek-esque mishaps on an alien planet ala Beyond, making contact with the locals in the hopes of getting a ride offworld or sending a message, until he finds another escape pod where he finds Kirk.

Then it turns out that Kirk rigged the Enterprise to explode, killing the entire crew including all of the important named characters who were supposedly his friends once upon a time, and to that end he sabotaged most of the escape pods so that no-one else could escape. The new main character got lucky, but now he's a loose end and Kirk needs him to die. The movie ends in a one-on-one battle between Kirk and the new guy, and the new guy wins.

The later movies are about the new guy and his own found family on their own spaceship. The set dressing is there, Vulcans and Klingons and an Enterprise and the uniforms, but it's Ryan Gosling as Timothy Renoir, a self-assured spaceship captain who Learns A Little More Every Day, and a cast of all-star replacements.

I think Breath of the Wild is probably the most pure distillation of the open-world concept to that point. The gentle, green, windswept feeling is unmatched, even by TotK.

That being said, TotK is much larger and more mechanically diverse in a way that makes it hard to go back to BotW. But saying that, does Twilight Princess completely invalidate Ocarina of Time? Or to be a bit more accurate, does Majora's Mask completely invalidate Ocarina of Time? I think most people would agree that they're very strong games on their own merits.

So that brings my total list to:

19: Drawngeon
18: Zodiakalik
17: Labyrinth of the Witch
16: Ambition of the Slimes
15: Diablo II: Resurrected
14: Digimon Cyber Sleuth
13: Atelier Escha and Logy
12: Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
11: Torchlight II
10: Hand of Fate 2
9: Phantasy Star
8: Cat Quest
7: Brave Dungeon
6: ???
5: Dragon Quest
4: Dragon Quest 2
3: For the King
2: Diablo III
1: World of Final Fantasy

Wait, what's that ??? for?

Well, my dumb ass forgot to include ANOTHER game I already had loaded up on my Switch. I wanna replay it soon because I'm actually writing some fanfic and I need some inspiration, as well as needing to refresh the character voices in my mind.

That'll be my last review for this thread, apologies for springing it so late in the game.

#1: World of Final Fantasy

So let's get this out of the way, WoFF is a silly little fanservice game starring funko-esque designs for classic Final Fantasy characters. The two human main characters, Reynn and Lann, are extremely Nomura/Kingdom Hearts-ish character designs - Lann looks a ton like Roxas. One of the main cast is a cute little mascot fox with a polarising vocal tic, where most words she says is prefaced by her saying "the". For example - "I can't the-believe it's not the-butter!". Something you might not already know is that the chibi FF mascot characters aren't those characters sent to a new setting, they're brand new, individual people living in the same general overworld who exhibit a handful of their traits. They're called Lilliputians and you run into at least one of them from every mainline Final Fantasy game up to about 15, at least with the Maxima port.

So now that I've alienated a large swath of people who might have otherwise enjoyed the game by virtue of the "Final Fantasy" branding, only to be turned off by the above explanation - World of Final Fantasy is probably one of my favorite RPG spinoffs. Like idk what you're actually expecting based on my prior description, but I'm just gonna tell you - this game nails everything it does.

First of all, I want to talk about how the game looks. People throw "miracle port" around a lot, but it's for stuff like Doom Eternal and Mortal Kombat 11. World of Final Fantasy Maxima is a perfect interpolation of the PS4 original; there was never a point where I went "wow this looks fucking awful, but I guess that's what I get for buying the Switch version". Are the visuals a lot more simplified compared to those games? Sure. You still have seamless model-switching between human and Lilliputian forms on the fly for the two lead characters, short loading times, visual and audio fidelity, a consistent framerate and what appears to be very, very few visual compromises. World of Final Fantasy is a gorgeous game, there's nature and ice and fire and all that, and there are very picturesque scenes with like soft blue around the lens that are unbelievably high-quality considering the change in platforms.

Secondly, the gameplay. This game is a proper turn-based RPG - it's not an ATB battle system, but it's very menu-y and you have a lot of freedom to pursue different skills because of how your party system works.

Here's another potential point of alienation: World of Final Fantasy is a monster-raising game. You have to weaken enemies and capture them in prisms, adding them to your collection and raising their stats.

Personally, I don't like monster-raising games outside of Pokemon. One reason I didn't like Digimon Cyber Sleuth was because it's a mediocre monster-raising game. I wouldn't be opposed to trying Monster Rancher or Dragon Quest Monsters, but I'm just not a fan of most games of this type. It doesn't help that the other FF games I've played, X-2 and XIII-2, have dogshit monster-raising components.

But it works for World of Final Fantasy. Every one of your monsters has a skill tree like the Sphere Grid or whatever the FF13 version was called. You gather upgrade points, and then you can unlock new abilities and better stats for your monsters. You can also evolve/devolve them up their evolutionary line, so if you invest in a monster you can get a really solid party member going forward.

This is also punctuated by the Stack system - another aspect of this game I should hate, basing the battle system around a gimmick. But this is one of the rare occurrences where I actually really loved the shaken-up mechanics of this design decision. Basically, you and your monsters are grouped into sizes: small, medium and large. You can swap between your Lilliputian form at will, which means you can be a large party member as a human or a medium party member as a Lilliputian. You can then "stack" other monsters - a Large monster at the bottom, a Medium monster in the middle, and a Small monster at the top. Think of it like this: you want a Large monster to deal out damage and a Small monster with a strong list of spells. Beyond that, mix and match the party for you. There is a gimmicky Trip mechanic where you can be knocked off-balance, requiring you to reform the stack lest your individual monsters get picked off one by one - your attack and MP are consolidated as a stack, making unstacked parties very vulnerable - but I honestly love the whole system more than I dislike that individual mechanic.

Third, gamefeel. World of Final Fantasy is the perfect length, and it has the perfect amount of depth to be fun and mechanically interesting without overshooting into fiddly and tedious. I beat all the bonus dungeons in this game, and it was an absolute pleasure from beginning to end. This is a 40 hour game that doesn't overstay its welcome or leave you disappointed - it's loaded with a surprisingly heavy-hitting story, a bunch of humor, tons of fanservice (the non-sexual kind) and consistently entertaining character writing. It does get a bit too dense and wacky at points, but the game is a light-hearted romp at the best of times and it's easy to adjust if you vibe with it. That being said, the story was written by the same guy who wrote Type-0, so expect shenanigans.

World of Final Fantasy is like a really good theme park. You get to meet Mickey Mouse and go on a plane ride with Goofy, and if you decide to stay overnight, you can stay in a suite based on your favourite Disney movie. You can hang out with Tidus and explore a little subplot with him and Yuna - or more specifically, their Lilliputian counterparts - in a way that'll make you go "yay :)". But more importantly, you'll get a very solid RPG experience that is somehow the perfect length, even counting the endgame/postgame content, and you'll get cameos and cast additions you might have never expected. There's an FF11 rep, a couple of Crystal Chronicles reps and a spoiler character who isn't even from the Final Fantasy universe.

If you love Final Fantasy, and you can at least stomach the sort of artstyle this game - which I honestly love more than any dogshit funko pop design you might see anywhere else - this is a must-play game. The Switch port is phenomenal, and on its own merits, this game is a quality experience from start to finish.

There are games I naturally enjoy playing, ala Minecraft, and there are games that are really fun, narratively rich and mechanically interesting that I love but which I have to push myself to play, like Night in the Woods or Life is Strange. World of Final Fantasy was an absolute treat to play the entire way through - I never once got tired with it. It's the perfect combination of a gamey RPG and a story RPG, and it's the perfect length.

Probably The Garden of Words. Another few favorites are End of Evangelion, 5 Centimetres Per Second and Millenium Actress.

I saw Suzume in theatres because I'm a big Makoto Shinkai girlie, but it's weird. I can say I liked just about every scene in that movie, it was a great movie, but I just didn't like it as much as 5 Centimetres or Garden of Words. I guess I'm into more of his normie output, with those two movies being his more grounded fare compared to his pedigree if sci-fi and fantasy.

That being said, I read that Souta was originally meant to be a girl but some executive shot it down. That might have elevated the movie just a little bit more tbh.

Bumping for posterity, I got a tablet the other day and I downloaded a shitty idle gacha game. I'll write the next one tonight.

You can glean what #1 is based on the list in the OP, but I have another surprise up my sleeve.

I've asked for this. I really hope it's real, I love the Raimi movies.

Mexican food is gonna have a hot take on your asshole.

Just tell the protestors that the head of the Satanic Temple is an antisemitic grifter who cozies up to white supremacists and has advocated for eugenics for years.

Why? Because Doug Mesner/Doug Misicko/Lucien Greaves, the head of the Satanic Temple, is an antisemitic grifter who cozies up to white supremacists and has advocated for eugenics for years.

Dude platformed Tom Metzger, a former California Grand Dragon of the Knights of the KKK and then-White Aryan Resistance (WAR) founder, called himself an Aryan king, paid for an illustrated reprinting of a proto-white supremacist novel called Might Is Right (which is a foundational text for both modern-day Satanism, including LaVeyan Satanism, and white supremacist/neo-nazi groups) and has openly opined that not only did "the Nazis ruin the term anti-Semitism for everyone", but that it was okay to hate Jews as long as they were observant Jews.

That's the organisation that Fox News is matching employee donations to. Just tell the protestors all of that and I'm sure they'll be absolutely fine with it. Shit, maybe they'll throw in some pocket change of their own.

#2: Diablo III

I know that Diablo 3 gets a bad rap for being too colorful and "casual" compared to the originals. I know that the original PC release was one of the first harbingers of the always-online live service hellscape we live in today, and the game was fundamentally flawed due to drop rates and shit being tied to the in-game auction house. Personally I think people are overreacting to the colour palette, though stuff like the treasure goblin and the Corrupted Ashbringer definitely put Blizzard's stereotypical thumbprint on this game.

That being said - Diablo 3 on console is a slam-fucking-dunk.

Diablo 3 is another fantastic couch co-op game. I used to play it with the same guy I played For the King with, he played a demon hunter and I played a barbarian. Everything about this game, from the gory visuals to the fantastic foley work for all the objects to the levelling, is like crack for the brain. It's so fun.

Diablo 3 isn't my first Diablo game - I played a bunch of the original Diablo on PC back in the day. That's a fantastic game. I love the sound design, I love the loot system and I love the grim, awful setting. The music and VA in that game is fantastic.

I can't comment on Diablo 2, because I've only played the remaster on the Switch and I didn't really like it in that form factor. It's like trying to play Mega Man X on a keyboard - you're not getting the right experience. Diablo 3 is definitely a different beast, what with the studio that made the first two Diablo games shutting down and leaving Diablo 3 in development hell for a decade. Diablo 3 was the first Diablo game developed internally by the main Blizzard staff.

That being said? I think it's a sublime game. I like how customisable the controller layout is, I like loot, I like slaughtering waves and waves of goons in torrents of blood and squelching flesh. So it's for casuals; I don't have anything to prove. I like the armor sets with bonus effects, I'm currently running a Barbarian with a 3 billion damage score whenever I use Whirlwind. Diablo 3 is just a very easy game to sit down and get going, and I love it.

Where this game shines the most, though, is couch co-op. If you haven't played Diablo 3 with a friend in the same room, you're missing out. Just think of Diablo 3 as a more punishing musou, and try to go head to head with your friend's build as you mow down hundreds of enemies at a time together. It's a stupid amount of fun.

I'm not here to make a case for Diablo 3's existence or continued legacy. I'm just here to tell you how much I enjoy playing it. Diablo 3 is just one of those evergreen games for me, and it's unbelievably satisfying to play. Shit, this is the only game ever where I've cared this much about min-maxing. I understand the consternation, but a good game is a good game - and Diablo 3 is a good fucking game.

It's not recent, but try For the King. It looks ugly but it's really fucking fun.

I think people realise that Michael Shannon is a dear. Henry Cavill has also endeared himself a lot to nerds because he's not just a comic guy, he liked the Witcher and Warhammer.

That being said, I have no idea how Man of Steel into BvS into Suicide Squad didn't end careers either.