Mera'din

I'm not expecting a 1:1 adaptation for sure, but there were some weird design choices that I don't get. They clearly color-coded the Aes Sedai, so I'm confused at why they had to change the ring design for example. XD Changes they've done with where Thom comes into the story were probably the only thing that threw me off as far as the plot goes. Also, if Thom doesn't actually have a colorful, patch-work cloak I may end up being a bit annoyed. >_> They've done a great job overall though. It's mostly aesthetic stuff that has bothered me and that has all been relatively minor in the grand scheme of things. SO much of it is done so well that I'm hardly going to hold my gripes against it. It is being handled far better than I could have hoped for with how long something based on the series has been in development hell.

I have a few complaints (some of it a little nit-picky), but overall it's been really good. I've been waiting for an adaptation of this for nearly 20 years so I'm super excited to see the rest of the season.

Sony did the same thing the other day from what I saw. Hopefully there will be more that jump on board with this kind of thing. Assuming they ACTUALLY "revaluate" their business relationships with them and aren't just doing PR damage control.

Yeah, that will be the real thing that will get something to happen at this point, so hopefully it keeps tanking.

Actually, this is both better and worse than expected from what I've read. These particular shareholders are an activist shareholder group that have been criticizing Kotick for a long time already (which speaks well of them), however their "4.8 million shares" between them only account for 0.6% of the company so unless some other major shareholders jump on board it's not likely to lead anywhere. ?

Of course they are. Jesus, what a fucking joke.

I wish you luck. It's so hard to avoid full on spoilers anymore, nevermind the stuff that's just in trailers and promotional materials. X_x

I think the fact that they were doing this was announced about a month ago at least, but I don't recall if anyone said. They got the original cast back to do the Japanese dub for the show, which is pretty cool. I can't stand watching live action dubs of stuff so probably won't try to watch it that way, but it's another good sign showing they cared about what they were doing with this at least:

Came in here to say basically the same thing though I haven't played any of them at all. XD Closest thing I've played to a Souls game was Jedi Fallen Order, and the demo for that Final Fantasy Origins thing. I like the general vibe this gives off though and since it has a co-op mode I csn at least fail miserably with someone else. Might actually get this.

Yeah, there's an upgrade to slow the heat increase, as well as a "quick reload" one where when it overheats you hit the button at the right time and it instantly refreshes (and does a good chunk of damage I believe). I'm enjoying it so far. The story is really fun, and the interactions between characters are exactly what I was hoping for. The combat DOES feel a little clunky, but isn't awful and with some of the upgrades and other abilities it may smoothen out a bit.

Yeah, it's really hard to see past the faces with this even though they seem to have got the feel down pretty well. The action sequences they showed looked like they could have been straight from the games so they're doing something right at least.

I loved it. It was fun, and the presentation was interesting. I'm actually starting to look forward to it.

That definitely made up for the way the last few felt a bit. Pulled it all together which was nice to see. Definitely want to see them start getting a little more "out there" on the base level of it though. Though I did enjoy the bit in the last one where Ultron basically full on became Galactus. That was a nice touch. I get that this is supposed to revolve around the MCU stuff, but I want to see more things like that where it's at least a nod to a non-movie character. This is the place where they can literally do whatever the hell they want. They should have fun with it.

Doom Patrol Season 3 has been great so far. Luckily, I finished Season 2 just as it started releasing because the ending for that season was bullshit. XD

Wonder if Watcher is going to pull a bunch of the featured characters to stop him or something. Since he was talking to the alternate Strange. Grab Captain Carter and some others and do a big multi-verse Avengers thing or something.

16.) Cyberpunk 2077 Finally finished it. Got most trophies. Will wrap those up eventually when the PS5 version finally drops. Game ran pretty well on the PS5. No major issues when it launched outside of the bugged quests and stuff which they fixed pretty quickly. It wasn't terrible. Had some really good quests to it, but mostly playing it just felt like there were a LOT of missed opportunities. Game probably could have used another year (maybe even 2) of work to make it really shine. Mostly lots of little things. Still enjoyed it overall though and definitely got my money's worth out of it (Think I clocked 150 hours to do everything). It just definitely had so much potential it didn't live up to.

That one was a lot of fun. Lots of great moments. Really hope they revisit that ending though. Because it's kind of fucked up to go "OH BY THE WAY, CHECK THIS SHIT OUT" and then never talk about it ever again.

They managed well enough with the first few, but the last two absolutely needed more time. The trail off/ride into the sunset style endings just aren't doing them any favors. On a side note, the zombie one was the first time in the (technically) MCU that Uncle Ben has ever been mentioned I think. XD

The last two honestly annoyed me a bit because they felt like they had no conclusions at all. The others felt well rounded. This and the zombie one were both just "LOOK AT ALL THE THINGS HAPPENING. It's not done yet, but BYEEEE." Like they were missing at least 5 min. off the end or something.

No, because in general I don't read Hawkeye period and have never wanted to. I really don't find the character interesting. I'll take your word for it though and be that much more interested.

This seems fun. I've never been a huge Hawkeye fan and this is probably the upcoming show I was least enthusiastic about, but it looks like it has some potential.

Guessing there will be a lot of weird mind-fuck type stuff in this that should at least keep it interesting. It's definitely the kind of thing that if it had never come out it would have been fine, but it seems like they're doing something interesting so I'll watch it.

15.) Twelve Minutes Well that was... a game. This was honestly a really intriguing looking game and I have been looking forward to it for some time. You probably saw a trailer for it at some point if you watched any game shows the past year or two. Takes place in a single apartment, top down view, characters voiced by Daisy Riddley, James McAvoy and Willem Defoe about a guy stuck in a time loop trying to figure out what's happening. It starts off really strong. Lots of mystery, lots to figure out, but you quickly get ahead of the narrative a bit and the game expects you to do some very specific things on occasion to make meaningful progress in a given loop which eventually leads to it being a bit tedious (luckily you can skip through conversations and such generally). Was still relatively enjoyable to get thrings progressed and find out more. And then it goes in for the BIG twist at the end and it's just... WTF. It still may have been salvageable, but the actual ending is just garbage. Absolute garbage. It doesn't explain what's going on, why anything happened and a number of other things. There are a few different endings, and I saw a couple, but the "real" ending (I guess?) completely resets the progress and I just can't be fucking bothered to deal with this shit again to find out for sure. There were some really good ideas in this game, and the voice acting was pretty good but it it really flubbed the landing it feels like and took what could have been a pretty solid game that had a few hitches, into an absolute mess that felt kind of disappointing overall. Might be worth dicking around with if you can get it for under $10 (maybe closer to $5).