Palpatine was portrayed as the main villain of the sequel trilogy in Rise despite the fact the previous two movies clearly had nothing to do with him.

Good game, right?

My reaction to The Rise of Skywalker — which, for the record, I hated and is currently on the bottom of my personal rankings — was going back to reading Resistance Reborn, which I didn’t manage to finish in time for the movie, and kept enjoying it, for the most part (a reference to Finn and Rose “just being friends”…

It’s okay to not like The Last Jedi. It does not make you a bad person. Unless you’re one of those dickheads attacking Kelly Marie Tran and Rian Johnson, but you get some of that taste from the side that dislikes The Rise of Skywalker, too. Disliking The Last Jedi, on its own, is no sin.

Sorry in advance to be that guy, but it’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

Here’s raising a glass to the once unsung gem in the LucasArts Star Wars library, but which has, in the last few years, accrued quite a following and is now something of a cult classic: Republic Commando.

Yeah, the CW clearly didn’t think through how this would work in other markets (or they obviously didn’t care).

Called it.

Fucking finally.

Super-curious to know what you feel about the Hollow Knight double-jump, which not only comes relatively late in the game all things considered, but also can come later seeing as it’s a very non-linear game. I’m not even sure it’s absolutely required to beat the game.

But... Dr. Cylo’s experiments are completely unrelated to the Inquisitors - they were meant as Vader’s possible replacements - and also appeared post-A New Hope, much later than the Inquisitorius itself in the timeline.

It’s not like I can afford any sort of VR kit, let alone Valve Index, but still. Guess from my profile picture how excited I am that there’s a new official Half-Life game coming out for the first time in 12 years.

I was a big fan of Street Fighter IV (at least, as a casual player; I played a bit of it almost every day), but I always postponed picking V up, mostly because, even when Arcade Edition got a steep discount, it just felt incomplete - like eventually a ‘final’ version would come out cheap with all those expensive DLC…

I’ve never watched the original Charlie’s Angels, but somehow I guessed one of them would have something to do with hypnosis and, wouldn’t you know it, it had the top spot. There sure was a weird obsession with women being mind-controlled by evil men in the old days.

Catwoman, the Riddler and the Penguin have been on live-action TV shows and movies since the ‘60s. You don’t need to really introduce them to a moviegoing audience like you would brand-new characters, so it’s easier to juggle a handful of them than, say, one new bad guy.

To be fair, Mark Wahlberg looks a lot more like Sully than Nathan. Not to mention Tom Holland is the spitting image of Uncharted 3's young Nathan Drake, so at least they’ll look like their game counterparts... but I’m still not sold on “Young Uncharted”.

No, but some of the best Batman stories involve multiple villains - e.g. The Long Halloween, Hush, The Dark Knight Returns, Death of the Family -, so I’d argue it’s the other way around: there hasn’t really been a good, compelling Batman movie that successfully juggles more than two villains. That’s the challenge for T…

You can easily find The Witcher 3 on sale for $15. Granted, it’s an older game, but if amount of content is how you judge prices, RDR2’s still a poor deal.

And it’s still basically being sold at full price, because it's a Rockstar game. I really need a huge price drop.

Being a Stand Alone Complex revival is great... being CGI, not so much. But still, the former outweights the latter.