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Finished the 10 episodes of ReBoot on Netflix. The final episode of season one is specifically made to make fun of the fans of the original. There's one positive thing I can think of - Megabyte's new voice actor does a fairly good job considering he had to replace Tony Jay. The new show is also almost exclusively for kids. The showrunner and the writers aren't nearly clever or creative enough to pull off a show that's fun and entertaining for both kids and adults. The sad part is even if this wasn't at all connected to ReBoot it would remain a somewhat soulless and average kid's show. Bleh.

Sure, you can freely move around or you can click on the first level when leaving the village.

The first level has a mausoleum near the exit that you can interact with. Looting it causes an ambush by four rather angry elite guardians. They're massive HP sponges at that point in the game and are almost impossible to kite.

What's your setup? The game's biggest problem is that some classes are simply leaps and bounds ahead of others. My main is Hacker, and I run around with Prototype, Smuggler and Engineer. To be honest, my biggest issues are still with gear drops. Mobs are sometimes ahead of my equipment, even if I backtrack some side missions. My Smuggler died in last two missions because of that. Prototype and Engineer are pretty bad. My advice would be to grab a Soldier to tank. Get him an 80% heavy shield, a legionnaire heavy armor and the accessory from early in the storyline (from the fight with the robot dogs) and go for Flare + Bouncing Betty early on, then Meat Shield. Bouncing Betty and your hacker viruses have great synergy. Just watch the world burn. Errr, eh, or rather the enemies.

What's your setup? The game's biggest problem is that some classes are simply leaps and bounds ahead of others.

I don't get it. Check the center of the pizza against the center of this embeded video: Try to triangulate the confusion.

The show's main villain, a hooded black hat hacker called the Sourcerer, steals a computer prototype. The Power Rangers New Guardians discuss how awesome it is: The episode revolved around a cat video spamming virus set to quote "clog up the internet" with "super cute" cat videos. I thought about not watching this steam pile of manure but I'm kind of glad I continued. It's quickly vectoring off into the so bad it's hilarious territory.

Does that include the mausoleum fight?

I sing that all the time. I mean, who doesn't?

I watched the first episode. It's pretty much what the reviews suggested, perfectly average and not very exciting. Something that struck me halfway through was how much of an immersion-breaker The Forests of British Columbia have become. It's hard to believe they're on an alien planet when one's been seeing them trees on TV for two and a half decades. But yeah, that's not really the show's fault.

Tower of Time just managed to do something I haven't seen in a very long time. It crashed and took Windows with it. I mean terribly made games have been crashing to desktop every now and then (yes Bioware, looking at you here) but the OS hasn't gone poof like Francis in a long while.

I tried the ReBoot reboot on Netflix. I wish I hadn't. It is... terrible. Agonizingly so, actually. Why not just finish the series? Make that third film as planned, get as much of the old crew together as possible and do something to please the fans instead of turning the show into a cheap looking Tron offshoot with terrible animation, terrible direction and terrible actors in terrible live action sequences that have absolutely no place in the show's universe.

By intervening openly and forcefully.Obviously it would be a political suicide for some but it could have been done when the war was just beginning. Yeah, sort of like Libya. What a paradise that place became right after the moment . Remember: if brute force doesn't solve the problem, you aren't applying enough. You know you're right when Michael Ironside agrees:

Does Dungeons & Dragons count? Because that could easily be the worst of the bunch.

Halo didn't age horribly, it was always that bad. It's main claim to fame was being one of the first console online multiplayer FPS. Something which I, as a member of the PC master race who has been playing shooters online since Quake, can only sneer at.

DooM was pretty okay action trash for the most part, with a terrific FPS ending sequence.

There's one surprising thing though, considering Mike's love for Star Trek it's strange to see him make fun of the technobabble that much. Not that I disagree with that video - I laughed a good bit when they released it. And yeah, I'm that someone for whom that stuff means something dear Rich Evans. /SW nerd

Yeah that one was awesome. Anyhoo since we're (finally!) back to TLJ and bashing it, here's the grandiose HISHE:

What, you didn't like using a skill and failing repeatedly even though you had a 91% chance of success resulting in super annoying reloading orgies? The most annoying thing about Wasteland 2 was the way how Angela disappeared from the party, never to return. She was the only character I had with Brute Force which exacerbated the reloading orgies. Punching something repeatedly for 9% success chance until RNGesus decides to humble you with a good roll was not something I want to repeat. Took a while to train a replacement.

Went back to For The King after being disappointed in the time limiting "chaos" system of the beta version. It still has the annoying mechanics but at least side questing, rewards and defeating enemies can actively decrease chaos and prevent it from happening (if the world is at 0 chaos and you get -2 chaos from something the next two chaos-ups on the timeline disappear). On the flipside the more interesting character classes are now locked behind a progression mechanic. Ah, well...

The combat system I can agree on but the character system in Wasteland 2 was a confusing mess of interdependent stats and skill bloat where you had no chance to know what was useful and what not going in the first time.

Blizzard's not been able to create compelling narratives since Wrath of the Lich King concluded. SC2's single player campaign was all style and no substance and D3's campaign was so compelling that I only ever completed it once and the only reason to go back is to grab an early Leoric's Crown. Diablo, Diablo 2 and StarCraft were much less flashy but much more memorable by comparison. I can still recite the Halls of the Blind poem and remember ever line from Deckard Cain in Diablo 2 as well as the mission briefings of StarCraft. I barely even remember what StarCraft 2 was about. The one thing I do remember is the pain of the hefty face palm when Kerrigan transformed into a being of pure light and energy with... wings. I half expected Raynor to tear off his shirt and start to sparkle afterwards. Still, I spent hundreds of hours on Diablo 3 and Heroes of the Storm. They still make great gameplay but I think it is for the better that they focus on genres that are all gameplay and no narrative. At least for as long as Stephenie Meyer and E. L. James are co-authoring their stories.

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