Joe Taslim as Bi-Han / Sub-Zero and Hiroyuki Sanada as Hanzo Hasashi / Scorpion are so good in the opening moments they had me fooled into thinking the movie might be much better than I hoped.

Why won’t people accept that the original MK was the peak of fighting game movies and a classic on the same level as Top Gun, The Godfather, and Weekend At Bernie’s?

Perhaps they should enable a revive when players are not at the highest available World-Tier. That would keep things challenging for players who actively want the combat to feel like a puzzle, and it would cut down frustration for folks who just aren’t in the mood to git gud.

This was the perfect game for that numb pandemic summer, when I didn’t have the attention-span to finish movies, read novels, or remember the point of sidequests after ten minutes.

I’m still a bit baffled as to why this game is getting so much attention? Lack of anything else other than MHR? Because it hit Game Pass? SE is the publisher? My friends and I played it and were pretty underwhelmed.

It sure is.

Yeah, the nerf hurts enough that I’m back to using Temporal Blade as my go-to skill. Meanwhile, I like that Outriders has become the broken-ass AAA game that we’re rooting for. It’s a welcome break from the broken-ass AAA games that we don’t like.

This glitch has me terrified that all my disgusting Temporal Blade buffs will vanish in an instant. But I keep playing. I should really switch back to AC or something until they work this shit out. But AC does not own nearly this hard.

It’s interesting that black-and-white has become a way to underline the cultural standing of artsier-than-usual genre movies.

I’m in my 30s and I’ve barely seen any black and white movies.

Yeah, the remaining io9 writers are pretty hard on franchise content that isn’t part of their collective MCU boner. Remember when it was a great site for fucking book reviews?

The open-world adventure game was warmly received by critics, many of whom praised its liberal use of superficial homages to Japanese cinema, most notably the work of Akira Kurosawa.

That it completely works?

That seems fair. This is the less shitty version of living in patch world.

This kind of article makes it hard to steer around cynicism. I have mostly taken the messiness of AC:Valhalla in stride. It mostly works. How much more can we really expect?

Morgan has been publicly bashing Markle for over 5 years. Is that what a nice person does?

When I played this game back on PS1, without the quicksave feature of the sequel, I remember screens that were clearly designed to result in hilarious catastrophe with the pull of a single lever. And there was this constant pressure: do I save these Mudokens or witness the unbridled destruction that the level design…

It’s kind of ridiculous that the paper made it through peer review, if there’s really no evidence at all for its key assertions.

This post made me realize that I haven’t finished one of these games since Black Flag. And now that each game is impossibly huge, I may never finish another one again.