I had that problem until I realized you were supposed to just run past it. Killing that first werewolf with no weapon is mainly for people who’ve beaten the game and are trying to find new ways to entertain themselves!

Did you play the SOTFS version, or the first release? I’ve heard from some that played “regular” DS2 that SOTFS was much harder. I’ve also heard that it was better balanced! I am curious to try the original version someday for comparison’s sake.

Absolutely. I platinum’d BB/DS1/3 (no way was I grinding those falconers for hours for DS2) without too much trouble other than some DLC bosses and areas like Reindeer F*ckland and Laurence, but Sekiro is just beyond me. I think I gave up after like 3 bosses.

Hmm. “It will be easier than BB” but “it will be the same difficulty as DS3" doesn’t strike me as a statement that makes a lot of sense. I don’t think DS3 was easier than BB apart from maybe the fact that the bosses scaled somewhat linearly in difficulty through the game, while BB had weird difficulty spikes all over…

I really enjoyed Far Cry 5 apart from the heinous “after you do a few sidequests, you’ll get unavoidably kidnapped by the area’s villain, who you’re then forced to kill, which permanently locks out all the other sidequests in the area” system. As a completist wacko, that was one of the most annoying mechanics I’ve…

Good to see Enslaved getting some exposure.

Seriously. This was ugly as hell. I HATE that desaturated look. Most of the Marvel movies have been, apart from a couple welcome exceptions like the GOTG movies. People (including me) complain about Zach Snyder movies being monotone, but this is even worse since there’s no real unified style to the visuals. Just turn…

Yeah, that got my attention too. Female Prisoner Scorpion reference, I’m hoping.

Oh damn. I guess now I have one reason to buy an xbox. I didn’t know about that, thanks.

I think a lot of people just use the term “cancel” to also mean “get piled on mercilessly by hundreds of psychos on Twitter that wish harm upon them and their loved ones, having to beat at least a temporary exit from the platform” in which case it can be expanded to tons of people that didn’t deserve it, like most of…

A few I haven’t seen mentioned that I played a lot as a kid:

Yeah, those were good, especially 2. And I spent hundreds of hours making maps and new enemies with the Anvil/Forge map/physics/graphics editors that came with Infinity. As a kid whose parents were powermac devotees, they were one of my few options. Well, that and the improved Mac ports of things like Dark Forces 1,…

What’s the “What do you say” glitch? Google is not giving me anything.

Not just bonfires, but if you choose “Save and Quit,” and reload the game, you are exactly where you left off with no punishment. If you’re really lazy or in a hurry, you can also run past a ton of monsters, save and quit, reopen the game, and the monsters all are reset back to their starting position and you’ve…

It’s a great score in a vacuum, but when he’s in full Barry-treacle mode over Nic Cage acting like some kind of super-hammy Nosferatu as he contemplates strangling Peggy Sue, it creates some serious cognitive dissonance.

You were talking expressly about the average rating and thus I responded expressly about that. It works very differently from the positive/negative - according to their FAQ the average rating tosses out things without numerical ratings, while the FRESHMETER (the % everyone always quotes) does what you say.

...which is upset by the fact that a great many of the professional critics don’t use any kind of number score and their reviews are disregarded, which gives less and less bolstering to popcorn movies the further back you go in film history. I’m willing to bet there are many, many reviews from the average fanboy twerp…

I confess that I don’t remember any of those. You very well might be right. A rewatch is probably in order.

I think the riffs are great in the Sci-Fi Channel years and many of the episodes are up there with the best, but I think everything related to the host segments is terrible, Pearl included. The “skits” in general are completely unfunny and awful. The mandate from the Sci-Fi Channel that they needed to have an “ongoing…

I just saw Wolfen a week or two ago. I definitely would have wanted to hear a full interview about what he was doing with that performance.