i beat 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand again today. you shoot down the same helicopter 5 or 6 times because 50 Cent’s son demanded there be more helicopters in the game. it is a masterpiece
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The total deadpan delivery of 50 saying “I do my banking online” is so good. That whole game is a bizarre fever dream.
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i always lose my fucking shit when Tony Yayo complains that a crane in the middle of a warzone is not “OSHA approved” or when he tries to talk about napoleonic architecture and 50 is just like “what the fuck?”
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Iirc some of the level/shootout design is even tight and interesting but it’s been like 10 years
I think I’d play it again now too
I like how it’s pretty clear the script was written by a British team given how awkwardly 50 and Co. let loose lines like “safe as houses.”
The mechanic where you hammer a button to cuss out your opponents to get a score multiplier isn’t bad, either.
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The game itself and most of its expansions went super-cheap during the holidays (think I paid around $30 CDN for the base game, and it went down to $20 CDN just after that). Picked up a couple of the “Discovery” packs, which are just random boosters, and I think I may have gotten the violin part for Call Me Maybe in there?
I had a hell of a time buying the packs piecemeal and wound up just ordering bundles from Amazon.
I kinda wish they could just sell digital card packs for nerds like me who have zero intention of playing it as a board game and just wanna make countless bad remixes. Make the whole card hunting thing less of pain.
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MM9 has always been too hard! It’s great otherwise but a real slog
Totally! I’d love to just explore the mix making part.
You know, making this an all-digital game would probably be pretty boss and do well for Harmonix
have I ever shared that my father was in a motorcycle club called CROTCH which stood for “cruising roosters of the Connecticut highways” and they made themselves bootleg sweatshirts with foghorn leghorn on them
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Well I say I say I say I say that’s something else.
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one of my favourite deep cuts from chapo is when Felix claimed that g unit was “the only cultural movement in history to successfully gentrify without sacrificing any of their appeal” or something like that
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I tried to get into Mega Man when I was a teen and I don’t know, man, the games just kinda suck. What I’ve seen of Mega Man X was good in parts… it’s when these platformers became cinematic and I liked that. But in general Mega Man just isn’t for me. There’s just so much bad game design in there that it turns me completely off
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felix is correct here, and that thesis is why g unit is still good and wu-tang isnt. facts!
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welcome to the forums
I gave Bandersnatch a go. I called it Netflix Presents: Banky’s Facebook Twilight Zone: THE GAME on two other platforms AND DAMN IT I WILL DO IT AGAIN.
It’s exactly what you think it is. If you have played a game about subverting the idea of choice in a narrative, you have played this. If you have payed a horror game where reality and video games bleed together, you have played this.
It’s utterly remarkable how rote every beat of this is. Like, I’m impressed.
Part of me does want to know if there are clever permutations that I missed because I got bored of clicking through it after a while. Maybe there isa really clever idea buried somewhere in there (one ending almost was, but it was pretty clearly a joke. A joke that implied deeper Bankyness).
But if you play undertale while reading a few grant morrison comics you’ll get the same idea and have a better time, I think.
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imo, I’m of the opinion that MM10 is far better than MM9 if only because I find that the endgame is far less of a slog (and because the soundtrack is more interesting). I respect MM9 (and enjoyed my recent playthrough much more than my initial playthrough a decade ago) but there is no way I’d ever be able to learn to do that Wily Capsule fight without chugging half a dozen e-tanks. That alone makes it the classic Mega Man game I feel least inclined to replay at any given moment, in spite of some of its very excellent qualities.
As for MM10, that game’s easy mode is a super chill experience that just coddles you the entire way through, and I love it for that. Definitely recommended if you’re fed up with the concept of difficulty.
Yo, show of hands, who here played Vermintide 2 and would recommend it to me? The base game is € 11 on Steam right now and the collector’s edition around € 17. Which one to get, if it’s worth it at all? Keep in mind I’d be playing it not-with-friends – because I don’t have any – but I don’t mind playing with randos or bots
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How much do you like first-person melee?
The only implementation I’ve ever liked is Xeno Clash and this certainly didn’t change my mind; combat is complex yet muddled; you’re told to block attacks but given a dozen attackers at once, your body shape is hard to figure in the mess.
Other than the core mechanic, it’s a decent Left 4 Dead-alike. It copies it slavishly enough, even still in the sequel, that you’ll know what it’s like if you put time into those games.
Tim’s Jonathan Blow story is pretty funny
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