Jizzy B.

Its a Netflix show so you know what to expect, 90% of the budget spent on sizzle and 10% on actual steak. Netflix original content is what happens when you take an interesting premise, cover it in a viewer habit algorithm, give it 5* presentation, and feed it to an AI ChatBot. Watching Netflix programming is akin to watching a series of interactions and conversations between robots. Sometimes it kinda fits together, but most of it pointless and incoherent and none of it involving anything resembling actual human beings. Take the script from a rejected TBS/USA Network show from the 90s and give them an HBO type budget for visual/presentation and this is what you get.

Buying a video game nowadays is a lot like attending a multi day festival. You'll look at the available packages/editions available for purchase, and pick one based your desired level of access/privileges. And if video games are festivals, then 2k23 is Woodstock 99. Any semblance of 2K hiding their intentions has been replaced with a customer service initiative equivalent to 'what else ya gonna do?'. Unfortunately over the past decade or so, the focus shifted from creating and retaining as many customers as possible, to extracting as much money as possible from customers who've already made their purchase. Your ticket gets you in the door and gives you access to the experience, but if you want to actually enjoy the experience then it'll cost ya. You're gonna need to buy food and drinks while you're there and you can't bring your own in. You can sleep on the ground for free, but if you want to setup a tent then that's extra. Over the years, 2k has learned that it's much more profitable for them to create a frustrating user experience than it is to create an enjoyable one. Pay $70-$200 for a game but if you want to play the 2 most popular game modes (or at least enjoy playing those modes) it will cost either hundreds of hours of your time and sanity or $50-$100. In previous games they've been very good at hitting a sweet spot between tedious grinding and a rewarding experience, while also disguising their intentions and contempt for their fanbase. As for the actual gameplay, they've moved the the game speed slider down by probably 25% and nerfed shooting while putting an emphasis on dribbling. Its much more simulation with many of the arcade elements removed, but those will most likely be adjusted in Oct once enough money has been spent on VC. Then they'll patch the game with 'fixes' that render at least 50% of builds unusable, which will Spike VC sales because at the heart of it 2K knows that their customers enjoyed the game enough that they'll be willing to spend another $75 to enjoy it again. To be a loyal 2K customer is to be in an abusive relationship with a sociopath. You love them and want them to change and see the potential in them if they would just follow through on their promises, but they never do. They use you and gaslight you and take everything you're willing to give them and you say that this year is the last year because you're never going back them again. And then the 1st week of September rolls around and you get a text telling you they've changed and they ask for another chance. And you fall for it and the cycle repeats.

Best 'Action' tv series I've ever seen. Probably the most entertaining series that everyonr you know has never heard of. Its 4 seasons of all the best aspects of 80s/90s Action Movies. Fantastic fight scenes and action sequences, great characters, and it only takes itself as seriously as you choose to take it. It also has gratuitous sex scenes and nudity if that's something that appeals to you (it leaves out the majority of the sexism/racism/bigotry of those old action flicks). Suspend some disbelief for the first couple of episodes and just enjoy it as entertainment. By season 2 you'll be so engaged with the characters and story that anything that happens seems plausible.

After 15 hours playing GRAN Turismo 7, I'm convinced that this game was originally supposed to be an expansion pack/DLC that Sony released as a full price game. But its not enough to get the initial $60-$90 from players, because no game can be considered a success anymore without a Microtransaction system! Want to race with a cool fun car? Sorry, they're behind a paywall unless you want to endure the joyless slog of racing 200hp hatchbacks for 10+ hours. The menu's are awful, the music is awful and repetitive, and the story mode (or whatever you want to call the actual game) is a shame pile. The actual driving is basically what you'd expect from a GT game, and the PS5 controller is very impressive. Aside from that, the game stopped being fun after hour 2 and I spent the next 10 hours hoping to find more of that feeling. Unfortunately it was gone forever. This game really sucks.

This is a game for people who like Hardcore modes and team based strategy in their FPS. For people expecting COD or Battlefield style combat, there's gonna be a learning curve (the ones who don't immediately dismiss the game anyway). Big selection of guns and attachments that feel and play 'realistically and differently. A decent variety of maps that are fun and well designed. It cost less than half of what BF2042 did and it's an infinite better game.

I avoided watching it after seeing it brutalized by critics upon release. The problems with it sounded familiar to other Biopic shows that I'd watched and didn't enjoy, or attempted to watch and hated. Having read 'The Kid Stays in the Picture' a few years ago I figured I was covered as far as Godfather BTS stuff goes. I forgot the show existed for a few months, until last week when a friend(my closest friend comp with TV/Movies) insisted I watch it. I told him the reviews sucked and it sounded boring, which lead to a Google search showing a 50% approval rating on the 'Tomatometer' and 8.5/10 on IMDB. So Friday night I started watching the first episode and by Saturday night I was finished the tenth. Was it 'Prestige TV'? Far from it. Mandatory viewing for Godfather enthusiasts? I cant imagine so. But taken out of the lens of being a BTS 'Biopic', its a very entertaining watch with fantastic performances by nearly everyone.

The lackluster story is the only thing keeping it from 5⭐, and the fact that it is a fully functioning video game upon release in 2022 is worth 3 stars alone! Apparently the story was written and rewritten and a combination of multiple different creative directors/writers, and it definitely feels that way much of the time. After 20 hours of gameplay, I feel no emotional investment. Aside from that, the gameplay is fun and functional. I've encountered minimal bugs, both off and online (and the ones I have encountered were resolved by reloading the game). Multi-player is fun, and inventory management is relatively simple. Fantastic game overall, and well worth a purchase if you liked the original, like killing zombies, or like parkour.

The most tense 60 minutes you'll ever spend watching someone sit at a desk talking on the phone. I really enjoyed the premise, it definitely won't be for everyone.

I'm sure it will be a good game eventually. There are even occasional moments of fun to be had in it's current state! But when the Meta of your game is an SMG (one of the few guns with proper hit detection, longer range and same damage as any of the 4 AR's) and a Hovercraft (requiring the same amount of Damage to destroy as the tanks), your game is either broken or was never complete to begin with. I wanted to like BF2042, and I actually did like it for a few hours on early release day! Compared to the Beta version from a month prior, this game was everything I'd been waiting for since BF1. I jokingly said to a friend that maybe they'd intentionally tanked the Beta so that the actual release seemed great in comparison. The more I played though, the more that joke seemed like the reality of it. Play a few rounds and you may not notice how poorly designed the tiny selection of maps are. How even with 128 players they are still sparely populated, and how engagements only take place in 3 areas at a time. It isn't as apparent how wide open the spaces between these engagements are, and you probably won't notice the likelihood of getting killed by a Hovercraft or Chopper while on route to an area that actually has an engagement. The gun selection is miniscule and any attachments require unlocks that are a grind when factoring in how awful most of them perform (or if your kills even get registered at all). Ranking up will unlock more weapons and gadgets and is an absolute chore due to how frugal the game is with xp. I was so excited to be using weapons and gadgets that are less than 80 years old, but that excitement died at the hands of a pp-29 which may be the only functioning gun (when you're killed and it's the weapon used 80% of the time). Or maybe it was a chopper piloted by a PC user who had pinpoint accuracy (there is no aim assist for console users). The only aspects that hold up after the first few hours are Hazard Zone(4 player squad+battle royale/extraction) and Portal (playing previous BF games which are all much more fun than 2042). The Operators loadout thing would be interesting if most of these special abilities served a purpose in helping win games, instead it just takes away any sort of squad loadout balancing and team chemistry. For me the most glaring sign that the game is broken is that I don't notice any difference between Breakthrough and Conquest modes. The maps are just so poorly designed the game modes are interchangeable. I've read people saying that the maps seem like they were made for a Battle Royale style game and Dice changed course midway through, and this feels like the best explanation. For the most part the game will likely be very good in a few months or a year. They'll fix the gameplay issues, add more guns and maps and gadgets and game modes. And people will forget how they released part of a game until the next one comes out and EA/Dice does this all over again.

The only thing more difficult than deciding how many 🌟 to give this game is the game itself. I really enjoy console 'survival' games. Ark, The Forest, Dayz, Don't Starve, Dying Light, and whatever else you want to put in this category... if it involves Inventory Management/Crafting/Resource Gathering and staying alive then odds are that I'll enjoy it to some degree. Each of the aforementioned games has their strengths and weaknesses and how a player weighs those will be obviously come down to personal preference. Unfortunately for Green Hell, it takes some of my least favorite elements of the game genre. Inventory- For me, the inventory menu and crafting system are most similar to The Forest(which i liked once I got used to it), except in everything in Green Hell takes at least twice as many steps to create/manage. Different compartments of the backpack hold different types of items, scroll to the next compartment. Resources- The first task in the tutorial is to make a fire which requires sticks. Pretty straightforward until you realize there are 3 different sizes of sticks. I don't know how many different types of mushrooms there are but its at least 6, each with their own effects on health/hunger/sanity/carbohydrate/thirst meters. Some will dehydrate, some will cure/cause food poisoning or infection or rash or parasites. (Now apply the above to Fruits, Vegetables and Nuts that can also be found in the jungle in Hell). Trial and error wouldn't be such a bad way to find out the effects of each except odds are that your character is already suffering from one of the above issues. Also there's a good chance you've got some leeches on you or a cut somewhere on your body that needs attention (your character needs daily examinations of your limbs which is a process in and of itself). It felt like I was always playing from behind because in the process of trying to fix whatever was ailing me, I've picked up 2 new problems. If the review so far hasn't made it obvious, this game is tough. Like really really tough. A few tweaks to the difficulty sliders make the experience a bit more enjoyable but really just prolonging the inevitable while the fundamental weaknesses still stay the same. Green Hell isn't a game about surviving in the Amazon, its a game about dying in the Amazon. Over and over and over and over again. In some Survival games the sheer number of different ways to die can make it more exciting and even frustrating (frustration makes great fuel for motivation). The most telling aspect of Green Hell isn't how frustrated it leaves you, its the absence of frustration, replaced with Nihilistic feelings of hopelessness, despair, and leaves players asking 'why bother?' because if its not a spider that gets you then it'll be a scorpion... or a snake... or a frog... or an animal.... or tribesmen.