Haha, that was my big takeaway from the above reviews, too. The voiceacting in BOTW was beyond cringe with some characters. Like community theater level. The handful of amusing ones were not worth the terrible “fantasy” accent and delivery of some of the main ones.

I think it’s largely cause people still think of Skyrim when they think Bethesda, since it seems to get re-released every few months on console. They forget that nothing they’ve released since 2011 has been more than OK when Skyrim still seems to be “current.” I suspect there’d be much less hype around Starfield if…

Yeah, the far better suggestion with this game is “don’t buy it till it actually runs well.” Sounds like that might still be a while, and it will probably have gotten even bigger sales by then!

Huh? No one’s posted a Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom review yet.

What version of Boogie Nights did you watch where Don Cheadle was an online streamer, not a porn star?

The fire giant is one of the only bosses in that game I think is easily learnable and repeatable like a classic Dark Souls boss without using any ash summons. I think people mainly get hung up on how you need to mount up and chase him every time he rolls away and then dismount to engage him. If you try staying on foot…

Then how is it a soulslike? Cause the reviewer said so?

The only reason to buy physical PS4/5 games is that they often get discounted faster than the digital versions these days when retailers start trying to clear stock after a couple months. I think every single physical disc I’ve bought in the last four years was cause it was 15+ dollars cheaper than the digital price…

I just assume when something’s described as a “soulslike” that there are checkpoints which heal you and also cause monsters to respawn, but I guess this review doesn’t actually specify that at any point, so who knows.

Yeah, I still plan on buying them eventually when they’re a reasonable price. I’ve never played 1-5 and am always up to replay 6. 

Yes, but they have additional changes that people don’t like, like the opera scene is heavily re-done graphically and the fonts are all radically different.

For VI in particular the SNES version has a ton of translation errors. I think the GBA version is the definitive version. I dunno why the pixel remaster had to make some new questionable changes.

What? Can’t you turn on accessibility options? Or does Ultra Hard disable all those?

The original is BY FAR the grossest of the three originals, with just massive amounts of blood spraying all over the place in a couple scenes, and unlike 2 it’s red in color. Plus that pencil to the ankle is one of the most painful things ever filmed!

The first movie definitely does tip over into comedy by the end in places. Like, the way Ash gets hit in the face repeatedly with blood is done with comedic timing by the end. Ash getting stuck in the bookshelf repeatedly. The goofy music that ends the movie, etc. It’s mostly serious but definitely is occasionally…

Nah, used DVDs of things still available on Amazon are so worthless I usually just give them all to goodwill. Blu-rays of most mainstream movies are the same deal. Absolutely not worth selling them with the tiny return on them you get unless they’re something that never got an HD upgrade and/or are out of print or are…

Yeah, if you’re looking at the usual suspects for sources you’re pretty much only going to find mainstream stuff. And a lot of that is like, AVI rips from DVDs done in 2005.

Streamed HD beats DVD resolution is not remotely a fair comparison considering DVDs have been an outdated format for 15 years now. A good blu-ray is going to look better than any non-4K stream and not have the potential for buffering errors. And unless you have fiber AND you have one of the rare sources that properly…

I think it’s more the argument that there are varying levels of quality with kid’s entertainment, like to bring up dated comparisons this is the Antz or A Shark’s Tale as compared to their corresponding Pixar movies. Lots of specific references directed at adults, lots of market-tested voice actors, lots of loud…

Darkeater Midir is IMO the most difficult fight in the souls games, but it’s well-designed if you fight him as intended (from the front, with a big melee weapon). The only thing “bullshit” about him is his monstrous amounts of HP - so that after like 10 minutes of chipping him down he then busts out the lasers that…