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I was really looking forward to playing that, it's on PS+ this month. But it turns out it's not PSTV compatible. There's lots of comments from the developer around saying he doesn't think it's a good experience sit down on a screen, it's better on a mobile device. But he released it on Steam...

Jennifer Lawrence just isn't a very good Mystique in general. She was decent in First Class, but she just can't pull off the seductress/spy thing. She did very well in Days of Future Past, I thought.

I finally watched X-Men Apocalypse. I didn't hate it. But I ultimately thought Magneto was the only strong part of the film. Jennifer Lawrence's performance felt phoned in, too.

Got an MRI. Good thing I'm not claustrophobic, just fidgety. My body still feels stiff.

I wanted to get into it, but it's super grindy. Very little turns me off like grinding.

But when you have too many tools that are too powerful, it stops becoming a challenge and starts becoming about figuring out the way to get all the best XP. In Dishonored (and even worse in last two Deus Ex games) I felt like I could just walk into the room, knock everyone out, then run around freely. The challenge was gone. But if I did that, I also wouldn't get all that sweet extra XP either. That doesn't feel like that level of micromanagement and metagaming is what my mind should be focusing on. I should just be trying to figure out how to get into the next room without getting shot up or getting into a major fight. In Metal Gear Solid 1, you had a bunch of tools, but they all came with risks. And that's what I loved. None of those shooting a guy with a tranq from across the room and just waiting. That's why I dislike Twin Snakes, it brought that into it.

I feel like I'm the only person who didn't really like Dishonored. Only got around to playing it a couple months ago as a free PS+ games. And I stopped right around the start of the third act. Maybe it's because I refused to kill anyone out of fear of the things I heard about the chaos system. But I saw absolutely nothing special in it. Felt like all the other stealth games I've ever played. Walking up behind people, shooting them with tranqs from a distance, save scumming to avoid being detected. I was left maintaining the opinion like that entire genre peaked back with Metal Gear Solid 1. Where you didn't have a billion tools and every room felt like a puzzle that required rhythm and movement. Edit: Mark of the Assassin was great, too.

Mainly playing Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice. But I'm also trying to get back into Dangaonronpa Another Episode, and checking out Trails in the Sky. Just kind of jumping around, hoping I'll hit the point in one of them that wows me.

Still playing Battlefront when I should be playing Ace Attorney. Now I have my scatter gun and jump pack. All is right in the world.

That sounds suspiciously like magical thinking. Correlation does not equal causation. He said nothing about cause

I told myself I was done with it, but I just reinstalled and bought the season pass for Battlefront. I had lots of fun with it before the DLCs came out, and decided to check out all the new stuff. So far so good.

I played a bit of Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness. meh. I got one ending and got myself on the path to another ending, but I'm not really interested in doing it. So back to Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice!

Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice I might switch over to Psycho-Pass Mandatory Happiness later, since I hear that one's fairly short.

well there were some hidden stashes here and there, but I liked it very much But that's hardly the same as "loot every other step" :> Really, Oblivion and especially skyrim I'll remember very well here: so many containers everywhere and all of them got a gold coin or other random junk nobody needs. Fallout 3 does the same, and so even New Vegas in big parts. Basically it's a typical Bethesda thing. tl;dr - In Gothic you feel rewarded when you find something. In Skyrim it's just another coin. /edit: from open world to loot distribution. Does anyone remember the horrible loot in Mass Effect 1? God damn that was bad. Switching your main weapon every half an hour with a different color that had slightly better stats. That was so not rewarding in the end. I'll always remember sneaking to the bottom of a tough dungeon in Oblivion to find a bunch of rusted hammers. Great reward. Loot in Mass Effect 1 is probably the number 2 reason I hate that game after the Mako.

But you thought X held up? Tidus is the angstiest teen, spending all game complaining about how his dad didn't love him. That's why I'm no fan of X.

The game was principally famous for being a generation's introduction to fantasy. This is largely the same reason why X is popular, too. It has likable characters and a decent fantasy story with interesting turns.

I almost skipped out on the latest Ace Attorney. Glad I didn't because I'm really enjoying it so far.

You can takedown exo suits if you stun them first. EMP or stun gun.

My understanding of Battle Chess was they licensed some dudes to do a Kickstarter. But that was before the Black Isle relaunch. This became one of the major reasons people speculated that Obsidian's mysterious "a publisher tried to get us to do a Kickstarter for them" was Interplay.

https://80.lv/articles/star-wars-scene-production-in-ue4/ Don't get too excited, interview says it's a personal project of 17 people, but it looks wonderful. Read the article and scroll to the bottom for download links.

I made it through God Emperor of Dune and kind of had enough right there. First three captivated me. But God Emperor just got kind of... is wanky the right word? I don't even remember the book having a conflict, just an inevitable conclusion where everything is going as planned. Sounds like I didn't stop too terribly early then.

Still trudging through X-Men Legends 2. I really should just abandon it, but that would put me on bad footing when I trying to play through Ultimate Alliance 1. Of course, I'll wait to do UA1 and instead do Ace Attorney 6 that came out today or Muv-Luv. I hear great things about both.

Back to X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse. I'm not sure why so many people act like this is better than Ultimate Alliance 2. The one good thing it has going on is the environmental destruction, which is admittedly wonderful. But the roster is restrictive, with lots of supporting characters you can't use, and most levels are just a chore of killing waves with nothing else going on. Like Act 3 is basically "destroy the core, destroy the infinite factory, fight the Stepford Cuckoos, SUDDENLY HOLOCAUST." That's not a story, it's barely a plot. I'm in Act 4 now and will probably finish, but I honestly don't care about what happens next. I'm not looking forward to anything.

I don't even feel it should have had a to be continued. I feel it should have had a completely different plot. It basically ends in the same place it began aside from one or two very simple threads left loose. Like it could have been great if this game saw the formation of UNATCO and introduction of prototype nano-augs. With Paul Denton set to play a role in the next game. That would deserve a to be continued and really move the plot along.

Beat Mankind Divided. A junk food installment. It was a good experience, but it felt pointless. The plot moved forward by about an inch.