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On 03/16/2015 at 07:44 AM by Blake Turner

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I haven't been blogging much lately. That's partially to do with limited internet that is slow I feel like punching a puppy, work, and just general laziness. Also not feeling like I have anything to say. But I feel I'd better check in anyway.

Playing

I've been playing a LOT of Cities: Skylines. It's basically everything the last Sim City should have been - No DRM, No City limits, no dodgy bullshit like being able to have a functioning city with no roads and shit like that. It doesn't have a tutorial per say. It chucks you in and corrects you when you fuck up, and I feel that's a cool way to do tutorials, as it's non invasive, you're constantly learning, and it gives you room to experiment from the get go.

I also pirated Hotline Miami 2 because the developers told me to. It's still banned here because of a scene that's literally less explicit than a scene in the fucking Simpsons and it's not even real within the fictional world they've created. It's a shame, because the game is good. Really. Fucking. Good. Really fucking hard, but satisfying. And they somehow managed to make an even better soundtrack, so there's that.

On my PS4, I've been playing Far Cry 4, Metro: Redux, and WolfensteinWolfenstein was nice, since I had to make it look like a PS2 game to get it working on an AMD card. Seriously, that game is poorly optimised on AMD, and it has fuck all options, so you have to type in console commands to turn off DoF and the Post Processing. So yeah, playing it on PS4 was nice. Playing fps with a controller has grown on me.

 Far Cry 4 is Far Cry 3 but better in most regards. It's not as meta, but gunplay is more fun, and the game is just in general a little more batshit than it was before, which is great. And Metro Redux I gave a 10/10 on Plus 10 Damage, and my opinion hasn't changed. It's a modern day classic, and if you haven't played it, remedy that immediately.

Watching

I finally got around to finishing How I Met Your Mother. I thought the majority of season 9 was decent, if not great. I thought they handled the weekend spanning a season pretty decently - until I got to the last two episodes. What the fuck.

This next sentence contains spoilers.

So Barney and Robin get divorced literally the episode after they get married. Off screen. With no fallout. That is really, really fucking dumb. I feel like they could have managed that if they stopped the wedding weekend b.s. half way through and slowly showed their decaying relationship, but as is, it's fucking stupid. As is Robin and Ted ending up together literally two episodes after the wedding, and one episode after he met the mother. The show went full retard, just like the fuckwit who gave it a 9.7 on IGN.

 End Spoilers

I also watched the first episode of In The Flesh which seems pretty cool thus far. It's about zombies being rehibilitated into society, and it's pretty fucking bleak. Anyway, that's me out.


 

Comments

Super Step Contributing Writer

03/16/2015 at 10:13 AM

I would like to play some Wolfenstein. And yeah, the optimization thing is part of why I bought a PS4 I hate guess-spending.

Blake Turner Staff Writer

03/17/2015 at 06:45 AM

Yeah that's fair enough. It is annoying. My pc is on that line where most games won't run properly with it until a month after. So fuck it, PS4 time!

Matt Snee Staff Writer

03/16/2015 at 11:18 AM

man I really want to play that Skylines game. I used to play Sim City back in the day and really enjoyed it.  Skipped the new one.  For some reason those games are just fun.  

Blake Turner Staff Writer

03/17/2015 at 06:44 AM

Get it, you'll enjoy it! It's pretty darn sweet, and the most I think I've ever been addicted to a city builder

Casey Curran Staff Writer

03/16/2015 at 12:30 PM

Yeah, that HIMYM finale was pretty awful. Season 9 was already annoying me to thir point I couldn't watch anymore, especially since Marshall was the only funny one and the traveling plot was meh. But then it devolved worse into something the writers didn't realize was a bad idea that didn't fit and they'd do whatever they could to try to make it fit.

Blake Turner Staff Writer

03/17/2015 at 06:46 AM

Pretty much. That would have been an okay ending... in season 5. We should have had the mother in the picture for a little longer too, and Barney and Robin should have fallen apart more naturally.

asrealasitgets

03/16/2015 at 12:50 PM

I thought Metro Redux was supposed to be poorly optimized for PC? Was this fixed or am I wrong about this info? I do love distopias.

Blake Turner Staff Writer

03/17/2015 at 06:47 AM

Runs alright on my rig? Well Metro 2033 Redux anyway, tbh I never played much of Last Light redux.

bullet656

03/16/2015 at 01:22 PM

I started replaying the first Hotline Miami this past weekend.  I really enjoy the game and will probably get the second one soon.

As for the end of HIMYM, it seems like I'm the only one in the internet who didn't hate the ending. I thought the final season was a let-down overall, but as for the final few minutes, I kind of liked it.  It was obvious from the very beginning that the whole show was more about how much he loved their "aunt" Robin than it was about how he met their mother.  It would have felt odd to me if it ended with him and the mother living happily ever after.

Blake Turner Staff Writer

03/17/2015 at 06:48 AM

I don't hate the ending, I just dislike how sloppily it was handled. All of the parts could have worked if they didn't feel as rushed.

Ranger1

03/16/2015 at 01:24 PM

Hi Blake! I know what you mean about not blogging because you have nothing to say. That was me through most of BaD this year.

Blake Turner Staff Writer

03/21/2015 at 09:09 PM

Yeah finding inspiration to write consistently is challenging - especially during BaD! I fell off pretty hard.

KnightDriver

03/17/2015 at 01:16 AM

I've been thinking of Far Cry 3 and 4 a lot lately. I'm nearly ready for a new game to play and I liked what little I played of Far Cry 3 last year.

Blake Turner Staff Writer

03/21/2015 at 09:11 PM

Far Cry 3 is pretty spectacular. Mechanically, Far Cry 4 is better. Narratively though, Far Cry 3 is far richer.

goaztecs

03/17/2015 at 01:15 PM

I hated the last two epsiodes of HIMYM. I thought for the last season each episode could have been in the future for each of those little storylines (Barney's Perfect Month, Marrying the Mother, her dying, etc.) instead of forcing everything into one episode. I thought the whole setup was terrible and I didn't care for Ted much afterwards. 

Blake Turner Staff Writer

03/21/2015 at 09:12 PM

No matter how awesome the ending could have been, condensing it into two episodes was fucking stupid. You're right, they could have totally done a lot of it in flashforwards.

xDarthKiLLx

03/21/2015 at 08:30 PM

I just started Metro Redux, with Metro 2033 Redux.  It's pretty good, though the Cursed mission is kicking my ass

Blake Turner Staff Writer

03/21/2015 at 09:12 PM

What difficulty are you playing on? Yeah, Cursed kicked my ass too until I worked out what I was supposed to do. Even then it was challenging. I ended up leading most of them back to the group so they'd kill them.

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