Tyler

Top 10 game of all time for me and that’s saying a lot given that I tried Dark Souls remastered and absolutely hated it! lol. Whereas previous dark souls games punished you if you did a poor build or didn’t scale your character appropriately as then you wouldn’t be able to get passed a certain point in a very linear story line, Elden ring solves that problem by going open world. Keep getting crushed by a boss or an area enemies? Go to a different area more appropriate for your current level and explore and quest there. Find some better gear, maybe a unique item or two that makes fighting an area boss more doable, and go take your revenge. There are also plenty of grace sites which was another complaint of the original dark souls games where it felt like finding a needle in a haystack at times. These frequent grace sites feel strategically placed and allow you to find solitude and safety when needed. You also don’t feel like you’re in as much risk of losing your runes like in previous games. Granted, I still did have those Dark Souls moments where I would die to some awkward platforming or in a location that was very difficult to get my runes before dying again, but those were few and far between. I found myself immersed in the story and the lore and completing the various quests that you can find. I Strongly Recommend that you look up some guides or hints on certain character quest lines as they are extremely easy to miss and not complete until it’s too late and you’ve progressed the story to where it locks out the quest line. Also, don’t worry about whether your character build is perfect or not. You will find an item (fairly plentiful) that allows you to reset your build once you meet a main character in the story. The bosses are amazing and varied, the world is beautiful and a blast to explore. The interactions with the community via in game echoes of messages from other players always make me smile. I am glad I gave FromSoftware another chance after my ill fated Dark souls Remastered experience. An outstanding game that is still very challenging, but in a way that is more forgiving and more fun than previous installments. A 10/10 game for me.

Top 10 game of all time for me. The writing, storytelling, lore, sheer amount of outcomes based on your choices, characters, breadth and depth of the world building, just everything about this game showcases a studio that is passionate about creating an outstanding game and trusting that the money will follow that. I’ve beat the game twice and completed every quest line. This is what a RPG game should be. I even ended up enjoying the strategy and nuance to the turn based combat system. I typically prefer live action-based combat systems, but did enjoy Dragon Age Origins, so I guess that means that I also enjoy turn based. The turn based style in this game is done exceptionally and has a lot of strategy and planning involved in it around your own character build and abilities and how they mesh with your companion builds and abilities. There are fun Easter eggs and surprises to how certain builds or abilities can chain with each other and create very powerful combos and other effects. Positioning also matters. I viewed combat as if playing a board game on a massive open world game board. Given I love RPGs, board games, and strategy games, this game was a match made in heaven. The amount of content in this game is like multiple games in one. Larian really delivered an experience like no other. Beautiful worlds, fun characters, choices matter, so many different ways to play and builds to choose from, great voice acting, rich and rewarding quest lines. This game has it all!

Terrible, just terrible.Corporate scum (EA) taking another solid developer, Dice, and just ruining them for their corporate greed. Go watch The Angry Joe Show’s review. 100% agree with him. It’s a real shame as I was really hoping for a great battlefield to bring all my friends and I back in after battlefield bad company 2, 4, and 1. Sigh.. BF franchise is done. 1. No advanced search option for selecting your desired server in all out war. This is ripe for sbmm like COD. It’s also a terrible idea because I can’t filter servers based on ping, number of players, desired map, etc. It also makes it practically impossible to play with more than 3 of your friends. You have 5 or more friends that want to play on a 128 player server, too bad! Also, it won't keep you in your squad and resets after every match. Just a terrible, terrible design choice. 2. No scoreboard. Like why? This makes it hard to determine who is cheating, know how well you’re doing, compare your squad to other squads, figure out players you want to squad up with, etc. The lack of this is a joke. 3. Operators are indistinguishable between teams. They seemed to have put in a lazy workaround of having a blue icon for every ally. I guess this works. Would have preferred unique operators for each faction instead. The specialist system is just EAs way of micro transactioning the sh$t out of this game 4. No real incentive to play as a team/squad. Lone wolf behavior is prioritized as you can customize your load out to the point you have no idea who has what. Battlefield has always been about rewarding squad and team play. The current specialist system de incentivizes this. 5. Very limited in game chat and no in-game voice options. Sigh.. I guess I won’t be making any friends or enjoying some friendly trash talking, much less communicating with my friends on console. 6. Bugs, bugs, and more bugs. Among the worst are the bullet hit registration which is just terrible as well as uncontrollable weapon bloom/recoil making SMGs outperform virtually all other classes at any range. I am also not a fan of the hovercraft riding up buildings, or jets bouncing off sky scrapers like they're made of rubber. Fortunately, this is fixable. 7. Terrible optimization. I have a high-end rig with a 3080 and I'm not getting great FPS. Optimize your game DICE/EA!!!! 8. Lack of promised destruction. It's completely pathetic that Bad Company 2 had more destruction than this game. Heck, all battlefield games prior to this had more destruction.. This is a key element of Battlefield and it needs to be improved. While I expect them to fix some of these issues, I am fearful that they won't address a good number of them. If they don't, this game will be dead in the water just like Battlefield 5. Perhaps more so. I for one won't be buying it. The beta and free limited time access was enough for me to form an opinion. Stay away!

If you’re a fan of Origins and the story and lore of Dragon Age in general, I’d take a pass on this one. The writing is safe, boring, and cringey. You are constantly reminded of the plot and the you feel like this game was developed for teenagers vs. for adults interested in a compelling fantasy world with sound characters and plot lines. Your choices don’t matter. The game looks and plays like many other action and arcade style RPGs. It doesn’t do anything unique or memorable. Combined with the lack of a solid story and RPG elements like in DAO, it’s just not fun to play. It reminded me a lot of Harry Potter Legacy. Once the pretty environment shine wears off, you’re left with a game that is just not fun enough or compelling enough to finish. Very generic and safe characters and dialogue. Not to mention the modern day gender identity politics and other modern day elements that they force on you whether you like it or not - the cutscene about using the wrong pronouns and doing pushups made me want to turn the game off. I’ve been looking forward to going back to Thedas for years but this is not it. The video game industry and mega corporations need a serious shakeup and I hope they continue to lose money releasing crap that clearly shows they put more time and effort into including modern day political garbage and propaganda than actually designing a good day. Farewell the fade, farewell my companions, may the blight swallow up the filth that comes from woke gaming corporations. Back to playing Elden Ring and Baldur’s Gate 3, and looking forward to Kingdom Come Deliverance 2.

Excellent movie!! There were parts I enjoyed even more than the original. Don’t want to include spoilers but they led you to believe something was going to happen in the end that didn’t - it had you on the edge of your seats for the last 20-25 min of the movie. Go see it!!

Despite the mixed reviews, I decided to give this one a fair shot. I made it through half of the second episode before I just couldn’t take it anymore. The show is slow paced, boring, and poorly written. The chase scene in the woods was laughably terrible and cringe. I didn't like how they made Obi Wan a shell of his former self. I could understand him dealing with PTSD or other issues from what happened, but he was also one of the most powerful Jedi out there. If his sole purpose now is to prepare Luke in the ways of the force when he comes of age, why would he shun the force to begin with? It felt like a show that was trying to appeal to both a younger and an older audience at the same time and failing to do either because of it. With the exception of Rogue One, Disney has absolutely butchered the beloved Star Wars universe. It’s really sad. These shows/movies could be so amazing as Star Wars has so much lore you can work with. I would say this show was a major disappointment, but I wasn’t expecting much so I guess it was just par for the course..

Chalk this up to a disappointing game. Weapon XP takes forever, borderline pay 2 win with skins and weapon XP tokens, etc. SBMM is strong with this one (star wars voice). Arguably stronger than Modern Warfare and that was a bi%ch. If you've grown up playing COD and consider yourself a decent to above average player, you'll hate it as it punishes you for doing well. There's no feel for improving or getting better as you'll just be put in more difficult matches against higher skilled players. It seems even worse as to me I feel like it looks at my last game or two and that's it. So I experience a viscious cycle of 2 good games followed by 2-3 games where I get crushed. And then it just repeats. It's exhausting. I also have almost 400 kills with one of the guns on multiplayer and it's only level 32... Until COD separates a ranked playlist from a server based casual experience (like battlefield) that prioritizes ping/connection, I'm done buying COD.

Yet another one of my beloved book series absolutely ruined in its tv adaptation. When will Hollywood learn that we don’t want politics/wokeness in our entertainment? If a character in a story is gay/lesbian, I’m okay with the actor in the tv series being gay/lesbian. But I am sooooo tired of making characters gay/lesbian or miscasting them all for the sake of diversity and wokeness. I want my stories to be immersive and true to form. Black panther was excellent, why? Because most everyone cast was black, had great acting, and it tried to stay more true to a fictional African nation and culture. It would have ruined that show’s immersion had they cast white, Asian, Polynesian, etc. actors. Likewise, the Witcher and WOT series had poor casting choices that did not stay true to the books. Also, if the source material is excellent, stay as true to it as you can. Don’t make sweeping changes that do nothing but get you into trouble. -Matt wasn’t a drunk -Perrin wasn’t married and didn’t kill his wife (they were all like freaking 15 when the adventure starts) -The main female characters weren’t lesbian -Rand wasn’t sexually active until he grew up in later books in the series I could go on and on. Lastly, how is this series tv-14??? Our society and entertainment is degrading and becoming so perverse that consistent nudity, sexual content, foul language, and drug use is getting a tv-14 instead of a tv-MA?? STAY FAR AWAY FROM THIS IF YOURE A FAN OF THE BOOKS.

I only ever post google reviews for great games or very disappointing games. This is a great game. Add it to your list!