Joshua Lutz

Why oh why oh why can’t I buy a physical disc for ps5??? If you’re a debating age, elder scrolls, horizon or rpg fan in general, you’ll adore BG3 with its gorgeous backgrounds, gripping characters, brilliant story and absolutely jaw dropping animated sequences! I can’t imagine anyone (who has the patience for turn by turn gameplay) not enjoying this masterpiece. As a full-time multi-instrumentalist and visual artist, I appreciate every square inch of this game and I’m absolutely blown away by every little hidden surprise around every corner. It really reminds me of Zelda breath of the wild for grown-ups and I just can’t say enough about it. I’m just really totally blown away at the artistry and design. It’s just a testament to how creative humans can be when a team of ardent professionals get together and make a video game. As an avid gamer who plays every game in the world like this, I had never even heard of this franchise until a Dungeons & Dragons friend recommended it to me and told me out I would love it. So I ask again, YOY the heck can’t I buy the disc on PlayStation five? I feel like They would make a Bajillion dollars if people knew more about this game. It just doesn’t have the exposure like other AAA games get and I have no idea why. It’s such an amazing game.

I’m shocked how many people don’t like this game. I already know why tho, they want what they’ve always been spooned and aren’t willing to try something even slightly different. Well shame on them cause this game is absolutely gorgeous. Honestly, I’m usually the hater with high brow, unrealistic expectations but this game surpassed my expectations. I am a MASSIVE dragon age franchise fanboy and had extremely high expectations to begin with. I had also read it is a bit different but as long as it’s a great game, I was down for different. This is the Andromeda to the Mass Effect franchise. It’s strays slightly from typical design, writing and mechanics, but I have to say, it’s an absolute masterpiece in beauty, lore, writing, and creative design. I think what everyone loved about Zelda breath of the wild is around every corner, there’s a little something new, a little surprise, a magic mirror, a tiny elf, a giant ogre, something exciting happening at every turn. This game does that wonderfully. There are also some quite challenging and extremely well balanced battles that were perfectly balanced, I felt like I was on a roller coaster just having a great time. The lighting and magic in this game is palpable. The game can feel a little tame at times (Harding and Bellara can be downright annoying at times with their saccharin approval and Dora the explorer personalities), but not enough to even give it four stars. The creativity and design are that out of your favorite fantasy fiction novel and it’s like peering into the imagination of a very brilliant team of creative. The soundtrack is beautiful (I score for a living) and the use of pitch wavering vintage synths (I am sure I heard an Oberheim patch in this game!!) is absolutely wonderful, laid contrast to epic orchestral works. The writing is fantastical and well thought out. If you’re going into this game looking for another sequel to inquisition or origins, you won’t find it here and I think that disappointed a lot of people (diapers baby gamers). I do like what they did with the Solas and blight storyline and I really have no qualms at all with this wonderful work of art. Just play it and enjoy it (and then go play Boulder gate)! It’s a fantastical beauty to behold. I’d also like to add, in case BioWare is reading this, if you pander to these 7 year old Fortnite gamers and add “live services” or multiplayer function to our beautiful Dragon Age franchise, it will be the end of the franchise. Just don’t. Thats not the problem. At all.

This was the worst game I’ve ever played due to glitches, flat storyline and horrible dialog/interactions/story. SUCH an incredible missed opportunity too, because we all are all waiting for a great Sci-fi traveler classic that no one seems to be able to make. I bought an Xbox just to play this one game and have listed them both on eBay. Back to my ps5 and playing through mass effect again I guess. Ugh. This game absolutely SUCKS and is full of glitch after glitch after glitch after glitch, followed by a clunky UX, pointless mechanics and boring plotlines. How the heck this game ever went on the market with such problems is beyond me. It’s not just a few glitches, it’s dozens and dozens of known issues that they still have not patched or fixed yet. Every time I run into a glitch, I jump on the forums to see if anybody else is dealing with the same problem and everybody is ripping their hair out, trying to get through this game whilst battling the glitches. It’s absolutely shameful that a game would even exist with so many problems on the market, but this developer is quickly becoming known for this. I will be avoiding any other games Bethesda makes in the future. This one was the last straw. What a waste of time and money and an astronomical disappointment. Furthermore, the characters are unbelievably stupid, there’s no real human interactions in the game basically forces you down their own rabbit hole. This is not an RPG, this is about a scripted as uncharted (The game that basically plays like a movie). Nothing you do really affects the direction of the game. The music is boring and sounds like a cheap digitally made afterthought. The morality and ethical encounters are baffling and have no real stance. Murder or steal if you have to is the moral of the game. Really?! Bethesda spent all their time and money building thousands of these tiny little objects which you spend half the game just looking at all around you, instead of playing a great game. Another huge flaw is that you need a massive amount of items to upgrade your gear yet they have the most infuriating game throttle, where you can’t really carry anything due to becoming “ Encumbered .” This is… egregious. Bethesda, I hate you. The mechanics and interfaces are clunky and cumbersome. The graphics are subpar, the plot line is all over the place and in the end, falls totally flat and quite unmemorable. The voice actors are HORRENDOUS. The music is bland and creates of low quality digital samples instead of instrumentation. The musical cues were done poorly. The textures are often blurry and flat. The aliens sound like your typical jerks from the Jersey shore instead of imaginative, unique life forms from a distant galaxy. The story plain sucked. The characters felt forced and Unimaginative. Overall, the game lacked creativity in all the places it needs it most and I was utterly disappointed. Even Andomeda makes this game look like ET for NES, leaving us all stuck in the pit of dispair (if you know that reference). I wish I could go back in time and never have wasted time or money on this piece of garbage. It is baffling anyone thought this was a great game.

We all have dark days when we feel the world is too far gone for goodness and hope. This movie restores hope and faith in mankind in a real and wonderful way. Incredible storytelling straight from the center of the heart. A must see for any human being in need of truth and a hug. Brilliantly written, brilliantly acted. I forgot how good a simple story can be when void of endorphin over-charged SFX, marketed multi-verse lore and massive multi-million dollar sets. Just a good old fashion story that will change your life forever. Robin Williams would have been proud of his one, oh captain my captain. There’s a reason it has almost 100% on rotten tomatoes. Just watch it.

So much squandered potential it just hurts. This was the most incredibly well produced film I’ve ever seen with the worst writing and casting that has ever troped the screen. A monogamous compilation of every classic sci-fi movie/show ever made. A trope playbook driven into the moon of Endoors mud with poor casting and an even worse script. Star Wars + Star Trek + sweet tooth + dune + the Witcher etc = this massive overblown film. I found myself over and over rolling my eyes at the dialogue in this film well, simultaneously being blown away by the stunts, green screen work, and CGI. So many missed marks and an overly derivative script made it much more frustrating because the film was so well visually done. So many squandered opportunities. This movie also seemed to earilee Follow the Timothee Chalamet Dune franchise quite closely but with a much less nefarious group of limp d***ed baddies. I want to say that for sheer entertainment, it’s fun, but I just can’t. Life is too short, an art is too meaningful. I’m a screenwriter that can never catch a break and I see movies like this and I said to myself, how come I couldn’t have this job? How come no one will give me a shot? I could’ve written the dialogue in this movie so much better… and yet I’m broke and these guys are rich. Life isn’t fair. This movie isn’t fair. I did find the score very good and a saving grace in it all.

Been a hardcore gamer since Intellivision, BEFORE Nintendo and fell in love with lucasfilm games on SNES. This is the best since then. I had no issues w downloading on my ps5 like others did, and the graphics are great. There’s a small bug in camera drifting issues but hopefully they’ll be patched. Not a big enough problem to leave even a 4 star because it’s only on certain levels. My summary is that this video game reminds me a heck of a lot like horizon zero Dawn, set in the Star Wars franchise. There’s a lot of nods to Horizon in fact like “the rest” and the subterranean Jedi training facilities. The story was great and so were the characters. He game is HARD which makes me feel like I finally found a game for adult gamers! Just finished hogwarts and FF16, both of which were basically mashing buttons till the end cutscene which is handed on a silver platter. This game is challenging and requires that old school gamers intuition! Love it. Lots of fun mechanics too and most of all, it’s super creative!

Wow I guess I’m the only one who thought this was truly a complete waste of my time. Humans crave redemption and stories of it. Here you have a character, swimming in a sea of bad decisions and depravity and for me and many other, it all comes to a head (semi-spoiler here) in mid season two when the priest breaks her down enough to go to confession. Now I’m no catholic but this seemed like a huge opportunity for him to help her or give her good advice. Didn’t have to even be religious, just good and well intentioned. But the writers, who apparently still want us to adore him, chose to make him use this moment to take advantage of her and screw her like everyone else. I think the writers missed the Mark in the entire show here. Instead of saying something simple when she asks what should she do like, “forgive yourself” he, as a man in a place of power, takes advantage. Disgusting. And then the show basically ends. The takeaway then becomes, people really are sick beasts of the earth. Nothing more. I wanted so much more from this story and the writers didn’t believe we are capable of the kind of love I know exists. All good acting aside, I found the whole story trite and plain. Like watching my sad neighbors drift through a meaningless life with no real purpose and then die. No point, no redemption, nothing interesting to speak of. A massive waste of my time. It could have been so much more and yet... it turned out to be nothing at all. 100% on rotten tomatoes?! Really?? That just makes me not trust rotten tomatoes anymore. Two stars for the great acting, but wow what an opportunity squandered.

First 6 hours of gameplay are painfully derivative, stagnant and woefully uninspired. Sentient soldiers wield sticks although they are apparently eternal robots built by genius beings…?! Map is exactly the same as BOTW (this game is by all accounts a $70 DLC). Even the 4 Devine beast locations have just been swapped out for 4 new ones. And what happened to all the ancient Gardians?? Am I to believe they never existed in a continuing story?! Colors are blown out and graphics are overall mediocre (Topology is bland and poorly designed). So far I’m surprised and underwhelmed how much less of a game this is to BOTW but I’m only about 80 hours in. Not a lot happening, characters are dull and boring, art seems lackluster and topology is disengaging. Even the 4 main Allie’s speak the exact same script, WORD FOR WORD!!! Incredibly lazy game design. Kiddie app gamifications like giant gumball machine that dispenses toys when you collect cubes follows mobile app trends (so sad). And why am I crafting a 5,000 lbs boulder or a 500 lbs rusty minecart into weapons? And how is Link swinging them around like nothing? Since when does Link have superhuman strength? Seems unfitting and waters down the franchise. Minecraft meets BOTW doesn’t feel right. Game seems unfinished, topology is blurry and rough, animals are awkward and out of place (is that a llama duck or what?). Hoping it gets better. What happened to this weird game?? Update: just finished it. So incredibly disappointing. I wanted to love it so bad but wow what a dud. One I will not be replaying.

Have you ever seen half of a movie and then right before the action actually strarts… credits? That’s what happened. As soon as the climax started and something almost happened, the credits rolled. Worst movie ever. I should get half my money back for being shown the first half of a story