I play Forza Horizon without an internet connection regularly. Of course multiplayer events don’t work, but apart from that the full game is there and playable.

My Valhalla clock sits at about 230 hours, 100% the game + platinum. I was already exhausted after the two DLC, the river raids and those terrible totem challenges...and now this? Plus that Basim spinoff eventually?

What on earth?!

Hey folks. I just wanted to drop in and say thank you to everyone here for all the kind words, and also for reading what I’ve written at The A.V. Club these past nine years. I know I wasn’t always the most consistent presence in the comments, even before the Kinja transition, but I dipped in fairly regularly, and for…

I can tell you from experience as a crewmember: No. No, we would not want that.  We already work enough long ass hours and being forced to do so even more is not worth the overtime that we may not even get anyway.

Yeah, the Johanssen/Disney suit at least involved Disney being inconsistent in how it treated its tentpoles. Given that Disney had taken their sweet time giving Black Widow a movie, making that movie the canary in the coal mine for Marvel releases had a stink of her movie being singled out for shoddy treatment.…

Their time as a dominant cultural force is probably over, but just as a show, the 2011 reboot had some moments that sit comfortably with the series’ funniest.

I’m against most reboots, but cartoons are a lot easier to take because there are fewer real world changes that make them feel sad. It also helps that the basic…

it’s always funny when a long-gestating project finally comes out and it’s the weirdest possible version it could be.

A big problem with the very idea of an Uncharted movie is that the games are very intentionally built around elaborate set pieces that movies can’t pull off convincingly. They can move effortlessly throughout elaborate action sequences in a single shot, something that would look cheap and CGI-ish in a film. (This is…

I enjoyed the game well enough for what it was when it came out. I think these improvements are neat, especially being able to buy and decorate apartments, but I don’t really have a reason to go back until NG+ or an expansion comes out. 

For me, I just enjoy reading what reviewers think of a piece of media. The things they take away from it, how the work speaks to them, or doesn’t. What they felt was interesting and what they felt wasn’t.

99 times out of 100 I can look at a trailer and tell you if I’m interested in it or not.  If I think I’m going to…

Okay, but who gives a shit though? Who cares about the “General Consensus”? YOUR individual enjoyment of a thing like a movie or game is the only ‘consensus’ that you should concern yourself with. Some of my favorite movies have been declared by ‘The General Consensus’ to be flops. Similarly, I’ve given a resounding…

The part about earning credits for watching ads is straight out of the dot com bust when companies were offering everything from free internet to free PCs for watching ads.

How often do you need to see movies in theaters to be officially called a “moviegoer?” Because if it’s once every three or four months like me and most people I know (pre-Covid of course, I haven’t gone at all in the last two years) I don’t think that 30% is in the cards.

But that original idea—paying a flat subscription fee to be able to see as many movies per month as you want—is still a damn good idea, which is why

WiiU owners on a whole got shafted. My purchases were all digital so it wasn’t as if they couldn’t have checked my account details and offered me a discounted price of WiiU to Switch titles.

Hear hear! This is such disappointing news for someone like me that still refuses to grab MK8 on Switch because I put so many hours into it on Wii U. I would love 48 courses for $25, but I have to spend another $60 to get them...

I paid so much money for Mario Kart 8 and DLC on the WiiU, I just cannot see myself ever buying it again.

All of this. I’m pretty sure that Disney is listening to the gatekeepers because they are the loudest. The Last Jedi was an attempt to make something different, but the gatekeepers screamed and cried so loud, that we ended up with Return of the Jedi 2: Electric Palpatine.

The recurring flaw in the Star Wars universe is the gatekeepers continue trying to double-down on things and ideas that have already succeeded instead of attempting to break new ground. Even when they stumble into something new and good like “The Mandalorian,” their next move with “The Book of Boba Fett” is conceived…