Games are confusing. Yes, I said it! The thing that almost everybody has been saying about today's gaming for about 3 years. At least from what I experienced. When you look at it, games have a different perspective of success and can change to what you play. Well, me and my friend, Issacclark322, are going to give our take on what makes a successful game! We haven't talk to each about what we will write in general nor have we shared our work with each other, so Hello and welcome to this challenge blog!

As I said before, games are confusing. Both in the Industry and the player's point of view of it. It's either determined by money or by the greatness of the game, it is always different from what you play or from what time period you come from. I mean, a great example of something like this would have to be E.T. the game. Yes, the game is considered the worst game in history and used as a backup for any game reviewer out there, but the one thing people don't know is how much it grossed. It sold over 1.4 million copies and, by today's standards, earned 25 million in the box office. That is pretty good for a game that only had about 2 weeks of work spent on it, but why isn't it considered a success? Why didn't it save the gaming community? Well, that's because it wasn't fun. A lot of people can say that about a game and try to think that the same thing will happen to them as did ET, but we haven't hit a crash yet nor is the gaming industry held by one company. Most of the games made then were considered less than a penny and generally thrown out of stores because of how long they stood in the shelf. Until EA is the last standing company and starts crapping out games just for the money that are considered more worthless than a penny, then you can believe that.

For about a few year, the industry was considered a laughing stock and a thing to compare companies done on their luck. The one thing that made the industry what it is today was Nintendo. Yes, that company that caused debates about who was the soul creator of gaming was the one that saved gaming when it hit the crash. Why were they in that kind of condition? How come they were looked down upon when Atari was hated. Well, one of my teachers in World History told me his thoughts on it and said that the main reason why Nintendo took off was because of the advertising. It was a kid's device and seeing that the over the top commercial said that the device will bring real-life activities was an obvious sell. Kids begged for it as they heard those harmless white lies for their parents to buy a console for the cheap price of two hundred dollars. It almost seemed they knew what was going on in the industry they were entering.

Nintendo of the time appealed to kids for a reasonable price and has many great games on there that some would actually be lost in time and considered a gem of its time. Either it be a company off of Nintendo's development or something Nintendo wanted to make to show off the console's great powers, anyone who wanted to make a game was going to make one for Nintendo. There just had to be someone out there that was eager enough to take their thunder, right? Well, it was the Sega Master System, but the console didn't have enough lining up for it. The console was expensive and was very inferior to the NES, so many weren't excited to buy nor were parents willing to spend four hundred on it, which adds up to a thousand dollars now in inflation. The same went for the Sega Genesis that was more advanced to even the SNES. No I don't mean that stupid Sonic Processors or whatever, I mean capability wise. Sega was just desperate to take on the massive company that was Nintendo that they risked almost everything they could. It was basically the Cold War of games, they new each other, but hit each other with as much technological advances as they could. New Sega CD released in both Western and Japanese Audiences? Well, Nintendo tested out the success of their own CD system and that failed, so they only release very few of them in Japan and never in America. They went too far with quality as NIntendo came to a cheap conclusion with their games, no advanced processing, just a cheap product that almost anyone can buy without a thought of regret. And this is how you determined what was successful then, it just had to be fun and easy to have. Yes, money was still a factor in this, but the success of a game was fun, not quality. And this is what makes success confusing.

When the gaming industry destroyed our expectation and continue to do so now, gamers were more and more spoiled with better quality items from even Nintendo's standard. They went off their rule and spent more money just so they can mark the age of 3D gaming and still exceed the graphical standard. Games were at a standard we enjoyed and seeing Nintendo follow that, we thought that games should try to match that quality. We soon began a new understanding of games and, into the fame, Microsoft and Sony made their own consoles that would exceed Nintendo’s Capabilities. The Playstation came as a revenge leap towards Nintendo since they didn’t go to terms for their collaboration for a new console. Aside from that, they actually put Nintendo in a technological trap, having them stick to their old rules of making a game cheap in a time where fans wanted quality. Although, they tried to match each other in the war, Sony soon found a new competitor that would follow their standards for more than a decade now: Microsoft. As soon as Nintendo hit a time period with more than one competitor to watch, they soon didn’t know what to do, making them go to new rules instead of trying to make things cheap. Although, they did with some later consoles and game, but they soon almost hit under the radar for all their fans.

Microsoft took Nintendo’s fame and them and Sony were the core attention as Nintendo became a laughing stock in trying to re-enter the war they started. Leading to today’s way of gaming, people steered to an understanding of technical quality, having players know what 1080p means, what FPS is in a game, and core processing of the game, having people judge more than the gameplay, but instead judge how the game operates. A lot of games were even looked down upon because of it and lowered a chance of getting an above 7 rating. But this can be canceled out since the industry isn’t in a fragile thread held by only one company, so saying a game is not good isn’t going to affect anyone now.

This is where it gets confusing, games now have to have a well  executed advertisement, so that they enter the public eye. If they do not, sales will plummet no matter if the game is good or not. First impressions matter in this situation because if the advertisements were awful, the game will not enter the public eye in a positive manner. That’s what happened to Earthbound when it released in the US, saying that the game is gross and having people scratch and sniff garbage on a magazine. So have to take the viewer’s attention in a positive manner, but this can be bad as well, since some companies advertise their games with a hype, having many people excited for the eventual release. They could have spent more on the advertising than they did with the actual game, tricking people to buy it. Sometimes, they promise too much like how Fable was when Peter Molyneux described it, an open world that even the littlest actions will change the world around you. It did not, but the game had a cult following, be held as one of the best RPG’s on PC and Xbox. It wasn’t what we were promised, but it was enjoyable to say the least. So sometimes we can get something completely different from what we saw in trailers or E3 presentations.

Another trait that can determine success is mostly the money earned. You can say this game wasn’t good and doesn’t the sequel it’s getting now, but the game grossed over the millions of dollars they spent on making it, so opinion is invalid in this case. And that’s what is kind of taking over the industry now: make a has so little potential, over advertise it, then gain all the money people spent on your game. The hit and run kind of deal in Business, as long as you earned over the money spent, you are considered successful. I kind of don’t liked that since a lot of bad games are getting that kind of treatment, having people misinterpret a good game in terms good sales. That typically means nothing to the game entirely, all that matters is if the game is enjoyable to a selected audience.

So Success is mostly an evolving concept that has meanings in games, either it be money, how well the game was received or if it had exceeded our expectations. And now games are still doing that, either be it for the worse or for the better, success can still be determined by us however we feel, as fans or just as a businessman. Anyways, I hope you liked this, it was a fun write - although mostly frustrating - and ‘til next time…

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One They Fear

Here lies AWESOMGUY9956, a man fearless and striked with courage in his hands in the battlefield. He killed 45 men in a 60 player match and he was towards the top five people on the leaderboard on Ballroom Blitz. Although, the match was won with a major victory, he died to make that happen. His death was not in vane nor shall we forget how he died for us: By throwing a grenade at a... Wall? What?

Yeah, in games, a hero can seem great until you see them die a stupid death like that. I had a lot of funny deaths in my gaming life as well as a few I should look back and mock myself for. Hello and welcome to this Community Writing Challenge. 

I bet some of you have played on a massive server in a game like Battlefield or something of that matter, so when you enter a building or a piece of cover, you try to be the stealthy one that can shoot someone and not be able to be shot, so you  peak as little as you can to avoid getting shot and find each shot going through and hitting a target. You stay there and get cocky enough to kill as much people as you can in that one life. You have two deaths on the leaderboard and 55 kills to be counted, you feel like a god among weaklings and as soon as you see a crowd of people and think I can use my grenade! You ready your aim with your grenade to make sure it hits the that crowd. You throw and hits the wall that you've been hiding behind. Just a little F**k You to the player from the game's code. 

I personally had that happen to me a lot of times since Grenades now have actual presence when you throw them, instead of the animation not having meaning besides having the grenade being thrown a foot away from you. I'm kind of glad they do this, because when I look back at that, I just see a guy camping for the kills instead of the team.

Another would have to be the few in Skyrim. Where should I start? I think I should go with the giants. I know this has been a gaming trope for now, but I just love this glitch too much. The game has giants in the game with big clubs ready to smash you with. You would think it would just stagger you, right? Well, it was suppose to do that and the death sequence was to launch you a few feet in the air to compliment the physics, but the game's code multiplied the damage and launch by 10 making you a member of Tamriel's first Astronaut Program! I don't know why, but when you first encounter this, it takes you by surprise. You would think it would just launch somewhere other than straight up. I still find it funny I played this game to death. 

Plus, there is a glitch in the game that has one of their clubs in game that gives you the option to pick it up, but even if you try you can't. You can drag it across the floor, but you can't pick it up and use it. I remember the time when I saw that for the first time and I was legit angry. I was eager to be able to launch everyone in the game into space, screaming you're officially part of NASA. I was 12 okay! 

I guess in Garry's Mod there are some funny or more strange deaths out there. I guess one experience I had recently was during Dark RP, one of the jobs were a Banana. I don't know why, it was something you can be. I chose a cop and when I entered spawn, there was a Banana killing anyone he sees while making obscured sounds doing so. He walked up to me while breathing in the mic and I almost freaked out. I told I would pay him with guns if he didn't kill me. He whispered Glock repeatedly. I said what and threw a cinderblock at me. 

He continued to do this and, to the Admin, he wasn't doing anything wrong. The description of the Banana was a psychopathic criminal to roam the streets. We continued to play, trying to catch him, he kept throwing cinder blocks at us, watching each corpse fly across the screen as a cinderblock wielding Banana Man chased us. We tried to shoot at him, but he would take it. I think the admins there kept healing him as the cops died one by one, not knowing why this is happening. I had the most fun out of that though!

I hope you enjoyed this, it was fun to write and an interesting Community Writing Challenge. It sounded simple in my head, but took a while to fully grab the concept and write it. Took me about 3 attempts to write one. Again, I hope you enjoyed this Community Writing Challenge and 'til next time... 

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The Brooch

The fires crackle on their torches as the cold night wind blow upon it. The men and women of Joraal decent crowd up to a stage made of wood and lit with torches. She walks on stage, covered in armor, her steel sword on her hip and her crossbow on her back, she speaks, “We plan the siege tonight.” She said. “We won’t let ourselves down nor shall we let our people become mindless slaves to those who took them.” The room cheers with a glorious cry as the officials clap their hands silently.

The crowd settled and one cried out a question, “How shall we go about this? We attack the Higgins farm, yes? How shall we accomplish such a thing, the place is covered in armed guards and ready to attack any and all who try to invade.”

She smiled. She had her men pull out a weapon, a weapon of mass destruction. Ancient it was, but an effective mode of war. “This is a catapult. We found this in a ruined castle over to the east. Broken down, we had the men pulling it fix it for a cause such as this.” The crowd smiled to this weapon as every member felt more faith in this act. “We have what we need to use this and if all else fails, we have more men and women to fight with us and are willing to fight and die for our revolution. Tonight we make ourselves known, after killing the king’s best men, all his officials, all that hold the English Army are gone. We make ourselves known to our actions, we are ready to fight and finally take on the king’s awful rule. Are. You. With. Me!?” The crowd roars with glee as their spirits change to a war torn heart.

I hear the giggle of a joyful child with her happy family. I look and I see her, the girl with the gift, smiling and playing in her family’s fields. Her laugh invades all sound as the workers by her picked the crops around her, smiling at her. The only joy I have seen in a farm in so long. She runs out of the crops, the brush of toe, and stops to stare at me. I felt her eyes on me as she waved. I looked behind myself and there was a forest wall with no one to see, no one to wave to. I raise my hand and wave slightly as she laughs even more. She steps towards me and asks, “Are you an angel?” I felt wings spring out of my back for a moment, but I was far from one. I reply with a nod. “Well, you look like one to me. A mean one.” I felt like smiling, but I had nothing to grin with. “But a hug can turn means into nice people.” I look curiously. “That’s what my Pa use to say.” A man came to check on her.

“What are you doing, little darling?”

“Nothing…”

“Were you thinking on going into the woods again, little lass?”

“No… I was talking to him.” She pointed to me with her little hands, but the man only saw her point to the woods.

“You weren’t talking to hermits were you?”

“No! I was talking to the angel!” He looked into the woods again.

“Was he wearing a robe?”

“Yes…?”

“That’s a hermit, little darling. Don’t talk to them, they can steal you and you will never come back.” She stared at me as the man took her back into the fields. I raised my hand and waved. I saw that smile again as she did the same back to me.

I hear the paper of a gift in the distance. A wrinkle of hard paper over an object, tied to a colorful string. It was Jeremy, and in his hands a gift for someone. It was night. Seems time has passed. Jeremy hiding in the brush in the fields with the gift to his back. He climbs into the window of the Joraal shack house. His father was on his desk, reading the book of legends. A creek, his father turned towards him. “What are you doing here? I thought you were staying for tonight.”

“I know, Noama, but I couldn’t help that it was your birthday today.” He holds up his gift.

“Why you didn’t need to do this.”

“I had to.” He hands him the gift. He marvels at the colorful string for he has never seen so many colors in one object. He unites and and unveils his gift. A golden compass, covered with patches of rust with no needle in it. Khal`En looks disappointed.

“What is this?”

“It’s a Terminus, I helped M`Aiq buy this off his shelf. It sat too long and I thought you would like this.”

“It has no needle, how am I going to use this?”

“Noama, it’s a different kind of compass, it can locate any location you know.” He grabbed the Terminus and pressed a button. It shined as it gave off an image of the land he was in. “Where do you wanna go, Noama?”

He looks towards his desk and read the title in the book of Legends, “War of Terria.” The image moved and showed the land he named, with the name said in his language. “It’s real!” He screamed as he heard footsteps nearing his door. “You have to go, Jera. Take the Terminus with you.”

“But, you can-”

“No time. Just leave now.” Jeremy left in the shadows of the fields as Khal`En jolted in fear. He put his book in the box and places it under the bed as the door swung open. Guards stood in front of the doorway, looking at Khal`En with a shadow under their eyes.

“The master wants to see you, Khaja.”

“What for?”

“That’s not to be discussed here, Khaja. Now move your feet!” He stood for the guards as they grabbed his shoulder. Fear grew in his mind, hoping his son wasn’t caught and that his son won’t have to be beaten in front of him again, nor did he want to feel the pain of a whip again. Walks outside of the shack and heads towards the master’s cabin. Those fears started to become more and more real to him now, it was now a possibility. He enters the cabin, the maids stare at him in shock, whispering to each other, questioning why he was here. He is taken to the master room, him sitting, faced towards the fire, taking swigs on his priceless brandy.

“Sit down, Khaja,” he said softly, “sit anywhere you feel comfortable with.” Khal`En looks around and saw a lone, wooden chair and pulled it out to sit. “You know, I never learned your name. I know we met many a time, but your name is oblivious to me.” He turned to look at Khal`En, “If you wish to tell me that is. I understand if you don’t.” He looked at his master in confusion as he takes another swig from his brandy.

“Khal`En… Sir... “

“Well, Khal`En. I want you to do something special.” Khal`En glanced towards the fire as his master’s eyes were piercing his soul. “It’s a bit risky, but I believe you of all khaja can do this correctly.”

“What is it you wish of me?” His master hands him a knife.

“I want you to change someone’s mind.”

Everyone has been a fan of a game, I bet you are one too seeing that you're on this site full of gaming fans, and sometimes we can say something either positive or negative about something as a fan and be wrong about it. You can say this game was great when it started when there are game breaking bugs that happen more regularly than a Rattata while looking for a Muchop. These things happen a lot in fandoms and sometimes no one notices. Hello and welcome to this soon to be hated count down blog

5. The Movie Game Rule

Have you ever had a game that was a promotion to a movie? Well, many have seen this in the early days of gaming and there has been a well followed rule: if the movie was good, the game is bad. There are times where this is true, I mean look at X-Men Origins Wolverine! That movie sucked, but the game was a better God of War than... Well... God of War! But that was the past when games were more of new, from-the-heart kind of art form, now games advertising movies are more of an advertisement than a game to gain more profit from the movie. I mean, have you played Ben-Hur? Basically a game you would find on New Grounds that a kid made out of Unity. I know there is the Mad Max game, but that is more of a game of it's own and isn't apart of the movie's story, it's literally of its own realm.

4. Mortal Kombat has a Good Story

I remember browsing the MKX sub-reddit and found that a lot of people are saying the story of MK is good and is strange that a movie adaptation wasn't good. I have played Mortal Kombat for almost all my life and thought that the story was a cheesy mess full of bad dialogue and poor storytelling. I mean, even the new MKX follows that tradition of bad storytelling. I would have to say, the story is cheesy, but it's very charming which is why I love them so much. The movies produced have a reason for being so bad. The story is bad, the dialogue is awful and the characters did have some lame poses, so having a movie is roadkill. I think the only thing that was good about the game (besides the gameplay) is the characters uniqueness. I mean, I can get aside from the different shade of color on a ninja, but still they were all unique. 

3. MGS has a Good Story

Saying Metal Gear Solid has a good story is like saying the guys behind Tron Legacy deserve an Oscar for their great work. I know many will hate me for saying that, but let's face it, Japan is weird about their stories and never really made sense. I mean, every problem in the game's plot is going to be solved with Nanomachines. Why is this guy so crazy? Nanomachines made him that way. Why is the president planning world domination? Because he wants everyone to be cured from hated and disease with Nanomachines.

If you try to defend the game's plot by talking about MGSV, please remember Quiet and that entire army of kids that gave you trouble beating because you couldn't kill them. Remember those as you try to debunk my statement. 

2. Japan is the King of Games

Okay, name a game from Japan that is great and isn't Dark Souls, Street Fighter or from Nintendo. Name them. Hard isn't it? If you haven't noticed, the gaming industry in Japan is falling as we speak since the only great games out of the Japanese Nation is long running franchises and almost all of them are either ending or getting worse in quality. I mean, the great series that was Dark Souls in finishes, Street Fighter 5 was not what we wanted, MGS's fame has dwindled because F**k Konami and Nintendo is creating nothing but overused franchises. "What about Splatoon?" Well, I guess that's original. But still, the Japanese Gaming Industry's last hope is Nintendo at the moment, and other companies such as Capcom and SNK are trying their best to stay at the top due to games not reaching western audiences.

1. Pokemon Red was the Best of the Series

Yes, the game is what made the franchise and is what made children of the 90's love games, but when you look back on it after playing the newest Pokemon, you will find a broken mess. I know that this can be a bad thing for me to say since I am not a fan of the series, but seriously look back at the game. No, not the graphics, I truly love the artstyle it holds, but look at it in terms of gameplay. Yes, it's toned down a bit, but the game's code is so messed up that some moves in the game are not doing what they are intended or do something so game breaking, that makes the game more frustrating. To leave an example, freeze moves are suppose to stop the opponent, giving the player an extra move to attack, but the code in the program was mistaken to leave the opponent froze for the entire match until a fire pokemon was to thaw you out. Imagine, having your pokemon froze, not being able to switch them out or try to use an item to prolong the fight even longer, just sit there as you watch your best pokemon die as well as the rest in your deck. 

I know that this is something not to hate on the series since the game has vastly improved since, but we all have to admit that we played the original with our young minds, blocking everything bad about it. 

I know there are something that made you mad or just disagreenent with me, so tell me what you think. I mean, there are somethings I know I missed about what fans think wrongly of games, so tell me about that too. I hope you enjoyed this and 'til next time...

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If you don't buy my toy...

"Wow, they are going to remaster the greatest platforming series of the 90's and made the Playstation an awesome console to have! I can't wait to play those great games! Wow!" said every gamer who never played Crash Bandicoot. Trust me, I love Crash, he was my childhood as a kid as well as some gems out there like Ty The Tasmanian Tiger. It's just the Bandicoot series had some bad or boring level design that kind of hurt looking back on. Hello and welcome to this soon to be hated thought blog!

Okay, raise of hands of how many people actually played the Crash Bandicoot games before the third entry. I bet half of those people actually remember the game while the other half was too young to remember the game entirely. Know that I am apart of those who don't remember, but recently I got to play those games with a cousin who had those three games in his collection. I played all of them and had some bad thoughts on only two of those games. The first one was a platforming mess, having player go back to the splitting path, risking everything to do so, and go down a different path to destroy the rest of the boxes. To those of you that don't know, Boxes are like red coins from every 3D Mario, if you destroy them all, you get a reward from them. Most of you might think that this is what makes the game challenging, but know that you don't have camera control in the game nor can tell what you're going to run into, whether it be a respawned enemy or a long pit. If you are a completionist or have any sense of OCD, not destroying all those boxes just to get a box gem out of it to both move on with the game and a decoration is going to drive you mad. 

And if you want to be a super completionist, you had the bonus stages where you had to break boxes to get your girlfriend's head three times to get to. Don't ask, just play the game. Those were easy, but easier to die in and never get back to unless you replay the entire level again. That, if you ask me, is just punishing. "Well, that's part of the challenge." I will hurt you if you think this is a fair challenge, because they are not. There are even some levels that just don't even give you chance, having no rhythm to the obstacles, poor perspective or clunky hit boxes. Again, if you say that is part part of the challenge, I will hurt you. 

For them to make the game bearable to play without having this awful level design and challenge, they would have to redo almost the entire game. Not changing everything, just the level design to have the game be fun with a little bit of challenge. I don't think they are going to do this, unless they are going to the best people who ever handled the game since Naughty Dog sold the property, but who knows if that will ever happen. That would take a lot of work since the other games hold similar level design. 

As for the second game, Cortex Strikes Back, it's pretty perfect. I love this game better than the rest, every level is designed to your abilities in the game and doesn't unfairly challenge the player with stupid backtracking or having to replay a level. Unless you count the Light Levels, the game has a smooth level design that is perfect for anyone who plays, so for whoever owns this at the moment doesn't have to redesign anything with the levels. I mean, the game introduced the slide jump that completely  changed the game by making backtracking or taking a leap of faith fair and less of a challenge to accomplish. I know this is unexpected, but I think this is the game that made most of my childhood at the time and was the only game of the series that could rightfully challenge Nintendo's power... Unless you remember the Coco level... 

Back to hating the game, Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped is one of the most annoying of the games and I believe to be the crashing point of the game's series. No pun intended. The game had some bad level design, having only a few of the levels being fun and what brought back the Coco levels. I don't know why she had to be apart of this, I mean, they could have just left her in the game's background and not let her in the game again, but they had to bring her back for the girls. "You cis white racist male! You hating on a girl in a video game?!! That is absurd! I believe she is a powerful character in the game and is better than the stupid, male dominant Crash. I should report you." Look, I don't what gender she is, I just hate her levels, and I am ashamed that these levels were for the girls. They were just boring and hard to control in the game, nothing was fun about them except maybe her death animations. I love the one where she gets destroyed by a pirates paddle, just made me laugh so hard. Anyways, she also has some levels that are racist as all hell. In the China levels, the dragons and every other enemy in that level or wearing glasses to show they are asian. Whoever is remastering this game, better change that.... I don't care personally, but I know that people are going to hate it now. 

And it's not her that has the boring levels! There are some pretty bad ones with Crash in it that are just so boring or just too clunky to play! The fighter plane doesn't seem right and is harder than anything the game to complete and the racing levels feel out of place! Know that the game wants to break all the boxes in the game, so you have to break each box in each level if you want to feel complete. And what makes the challenge even harder is how the game doesn't let you go back to get them or at least safely. And what almost destroyed the Cortex Strikes Back was also put into Warped: Light Levels. I mean, the water levels are pretty stupid in the game, but at least they are beatable with just a simple restart, not risking any lives. In the light levels, you can't see anything in front of you unless you have light. If you get hit, you lose the light and have to either die, restart or be bold and traverse the nightmare that is the platforming in the game. 

I know that this game would not be changed at all since this game needs a lot of work done on it. Completely redesigning Coco's levels and Crashes out-of-game levels, work on the models that look to offensive... You know what, drop the game completely, make a newer and better Crash 3! The game was a stain in the Crash Bandicoot quilt, why not clean it up by making a better Crash 3? 

I mean, this game was taunting at Nintendo as they advertised the Playstation console and game itself, saying that Mario can't compete with the Bandicoot, the guy in a mess of a game that Mario could have easily beaten. Please tell me if you remember any bugs in Mario games that were game breaking...

Okay... You got me on that one... Not many would agree with that, actually it's a controversial statement to say the least, but you are right... Anyways, still Crash Bandicoot has been a broken game (except Crash 2), but seeing that they are going to remaster it is crazy to me. I believe this is a risky idea to begin with and can destroy a company if they don't do it correctly. I mean... Does anyone remember the other games past Crash 3? I rather not remember the bad games that had to come... 

My point is that they would have to do a lot of work to fix all the problems in the game, both glitches and level design, but seeing that the game has been known to be a milked cow after Naughty Dog sold the rights to the game, I don't see that happening. "What if they actually do it, StarterPack?" I would be mildly surprised to see that they did such a thing instead of doing the typical and try to milk this almost dead cow. I didn't pre-order it nor do I feel the need to, but I want to see what the game will do after release, see what people will discover in the game. I mean, every other remaster always has a new glitch that was never in the first game. What do you guys think? I know there are some fans left out there on this site that love the series, what are your thoughts on the new N-Sane Trilogy coming? Did you pre-order it? Are you a parent that is going to show your kid the wonders of the 90's reborn? Please, I would love to know if people have an interest in this game still and 'til next time... 

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Whoa

My thoughts of E3 this year put in simple words would have to be: Disappointing. I could just post this as done, no other thoughts and go with the cliche of saying how much I think E3 was lacking in games, but I know you people don't want that. You guys want to hear real thoughts that I have and things that I have to expand on why E3 was such a disappointment. Hello and welcome to this cliche of an already late post.

What Were you Looking Forward to Seeing?

Well, I was excited to see what Bethesda had to show us. They teased us that there were going to be two titles to be announced, and it was obviously going to be what Todd Howard kept saying most of the work was going towards two unannounced projects which replaced Elder Scrolls VI. I wanted to see what was going to be their new IP and what original, creative idea they were going to show us. The two games they showed us was the teased Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus and Evil Within 2. Both of which are sequels to original ideas. To be honest I liked the Wolfenstein 2, I was craving for one and I got one that is coming out after my Birthday. I plan on getting it. As for Evil Within 2, I did not want to see that, I was disappointed that this game was getting a sequel. "But StarterPack, the game was good, held great suspense and awesome horror!" If you call predictability and holding the player's hand for the entirety of the game as horror and suspense, I don't think you should have the judgement then. "But it was fun to play." I know this is an opinion of mine, and I can't say anything bad about yours or say it's wrong in anyway, it's just I find the game helping the player a but boring. I will take this sequel with a grain of salt, since I see potential in some parts of what they showed us in gameplay footage. I mean, that Camera monster look so out of this world and creepy. I hope they expand on that instead of making it underwhelming like other bosses in the first game. 

As for everything else they showed us in the presentation, I have literally no interest in the VR portion of the presentation, nor do I take kindly that they're charging full price for each of them. I know that they look like the same games, but you get to move around, but I think it takes away from the game's charm. I play skyrim for it's battle mechanics, since they seemed fun and largely developed, but when you take that away and give full motion to the weapon swing and aim of bow, it just tones down the game in my opinion. As for the Doom VFR (can see the pun in that) I can see being fun, but I don't see many people buying it for the price along. I mean, who would pay full price for a game that they already have, but in VR. "But that's the improvement!" Do you have a VR headset. Any of you? I bet about 6% of you who are reading this have one in their possession and I bet most of those people don't even want to bother with the setup. I have been with some friends and family who have the device, but don't want to set it because doing so is so clunky and messed up, having you to adjust with the play space and fixing it whenever the game doesn't like it. I do like the concept of VR, but at the moment it's more of an amusement park game to have than an at-home device. So these new titles being converted to VR don't impress me nor makes me want a VR headset. If you think it's fun and all, great, this is just my opinion than a logical statement. 

"But StarterPack, what about the Creation Club, having players pay for mods instead of freely downloading them to the game? What do you think about that?" It will die within a year....

What Did You Like about E3?

Nothing was really amazing about E3, so my only answer to this would have to be Wolfenstein 2. I know this is a bit underwhelming, but it's what I liked about E3 this year, I like the shooter and the last game was a meh, so after seeing the improvements they are going to put in the game looks fun. I also love how the game is advertised, they try to make it look like the ad is from that world, trying to rid of any anti-nazi terrorism, is funny and clever to me. 

Plus, after seeing what the Collector's Edition is was so funny, for the lack of better words. They show it off as a GI-Joe toy from the 70's or 80's and they make BJ look like the bad guy, calling him a terrorist and all. I am a fan of GI-Joes, and I like collectibles like that, so I might get it and since it's in the month my Birthday is, I might ask for it a lot to my family. 

What was the Biggest Disappointment?

Besides Bethesda's disappointing conference, I would have to say both Playstation and Xbox's conference. I bet most of you console war dweebs are shocked to hear that. Sorry, just I don't like this stupid war that much, so excuse me if I insult either side. Anyways, Xbox had basically nothing to show besides one game and Xbox One X's console. Hate the name by the way. I know many PC dweebs can say that the console is too expensive and PC is better to have and all, but who cares. That stuff is nothing, but stupid comments to begin with. I don't personally care, I like what I have right now with my awesome TV and Original Xbox One. It's basically the same console and not the next gen kind of deal. 

The one thing I am concerned about the Xbox One X's abilities is shading. "What's wrong with that? It's just a simple coding system, putting shadow placements on objects such as your body where they will show according to a specific light source placement. What's wrong with that?" Well, if you own a PC and have Minecraft in your library, you might have wanted that shading mod in Minecraft and shading is a game breaker mod. I know it's simple, but Minecraft is a simple game, you would've to have a supercomputer to render such a thing without lag or freezing, so seeing that Microsoft was cocky enough to show that, I wonder what kind of mayhem the console will face when that update happens. 

As for Playstation. Not many games caught my eye, but the one that did in a bad way was fishing... In VR... I think I laughed through mostly the entire stream when they showed that. When they announced that game, they tricked the audience that Playstation will have Final Fantasy on VR, but it's fishing in VR in the world of Final Fantasy 15. "Well, I say it's a cool idea and a great way to pump up sales and... and... and..." No, I don't want businessmen saying that ideas like that are great. I know this might be fun, but I think a lot of people out there want to play Final Fantasy in VR instead of just fish in it. I know there are some cool looking fish in there, but I think I much rather play the original game in VR, fighting legendary monsters and bosses in a world I have never been in yet. I know that many fans out there will agree with me. 

As for the awaited Last of Us 2 gameplay reveal, I was disappointed to see that Uncharted had to take its place. I know people like the damn game, but still, I much rather play something else than the same thing thrown at us for the fifth time. I wanted to see that more than anything along with my sister, and I would have to say Playstation had barely anything to please their audience.

What about Nintendo?

It was nothing I haven't seen so far, I didn't like nor did I want to see the Rabbids in Mario, but I guess it's fun. I know that not many could agree with me since Nintendo fans are just Yesmen now, but I thought the entire conference was boring and nothing new to what we see, as for most of the conferences.  

What was Your Favorite Conference?

I know this is a bit of a downer, but I loved Devolver Digital's conference. I know that the games they showed off were very underwhelming and questionable for a first ever appearance in E3, but I liked their humor while doing so. I mean, they made fun of the stupid and corporate companies in E3 that are trying to both relate to you and shove their product in their face and in this E3, it felt like that throughout the entire time of E3. I'm just glad they didn't go to the Meme side of humor, dabbing or doing anything like that to add to the cringe of E3. I loved their use of dark humor and the green dude in the background, with his pingpong balls falling off as he walked across the stage. 

The games they flashed were bad in my opinion, but it seemed like they knew that already, by joking about Earliest Access and all that. I mean, to think about it critically, the new Serious Sam game made me want to facepalm. I wanted a Serious Sam 4, not a Bullet Dungeon clone! But there show they put on got my mind off of it. Still not going to buy it, but I liked it. 

I know this is a late response to the E3 clash, but I at least wanted to show my thoughts on it before it completely faded through time. In my opinion, E3 was awful this year, not releasing anything new, unless you are the few excited about Anthem, but there were some things I like about it, very few that I liked about it, but there were some. What do you think? Do you have anything unspoken thoughts that I haven't seen yet? Maybe not, but please tell me down bellow... God that felt weird saying that... 'Til next time...

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Mind the Gravity...

When a game is fan favorite since the game's first release, you know you have a lot in your hands since this is going to be the most defining thing in your life. If you mess up, you will be looked down upon. Change something about the game that defined the series, you will be hated, make the game into something you think is better, you will never be liked. 343 took Halo in their hands and threw it in the trash can as they tried to manufacture something similar to what they threw away. Hello and welcome to this completely strange thought blog.

I had the game a long time ago, when the game first launched. I say long time ago because I haven't played it since launch. When I actually did, my original thoughts, where the company is trying to destroy the original franchise, making it their own, were almost gone. I still hold somewhat the same mindset, but I have different opinions about it. The story, to begin with, is a bit boring. "Well, that's typical, StarterPack!" I know, but that's just about it. You can play the game's campaign with the same amount of fun as any other good Halo game, but if you bought the game for the story, that's long gone. I mean, it's still enjoyable and the company who owns it did a good job with the gameplay, with a fair balanced damage system with each difficulty, good enemy health and largely funny comments from both enemies and allies in the game. If you came for nostalgia, there is barely any of it since almost every asset from the original games are gone, sound effects, character designs, weapons, everything is gone, replaced with something else, to some may say is a good thing. It truly makes me mad to see some of the good things in the games just not there anymore, but to those new to the game or just looking to play alone, Halo 5 is a good game to play. 

The only problem I see about this game's campaign was how they excluded splitscreen multiplayer. I know that's a big topic that a lot of people have already talked about, but I just don't see why 343 thought it would be fun to do this. Halo has been the only game that encouraged and kept splitscreen for how fun it was to play with someone right next to you. Seeing that gone with this game, in the hands of a new company seems very disconcerting. I really saw it as them saying that it was their game now, kind of an insult to veteran players of the series. But at least we can play all together online in the campaign with more than two players on screen! Wait... The only friend I have who has Halo doesn't own... Xbox Live... Damn... 

And if you want me to talk about the Locke/Chief thing, I want no part in it. I thought it was stupid how they had to advertise it like their was some kind of real debate who was better. Of course everyone is going to say Chief! Chief is life! He is love!

Other than that, the game's multiplayer changed dramatically. Fun, but completely different. It felt like a Call of Duty clone than anything else, with the boost mechanics, a lot of camping spots as I noticed, the CoD-like points that buy you CoD-like battlepacks, etc.. The old gameplay was gone. The suit power ups, something that can define the game itself, was built into the player's abilities, unable to be able to choose one from a large variety. The jump pack was already on you, the sprinting the module was on you as well (Either for the better or worse, whatever you think), it felt so different and new. You can say so many things about how that can be bad or good, but I'm just going to say it's still fun. I think it was funny how for a while, Forge and few other modes from the original games were gone during release. Took a while to respond, but they managed to do some of what we missed... I want splitscreen again...

I mean, if you like CoD's gameplay to some kind of degree, then this might be the game for you. If you want to play a newer and better looking Halo, then this is not the game for you. You can play some of the forge levels made by awesome players from the community, that's the only that adds a positive outlook on the game for me since that seems like nothing has changed. You can play on classic maps finally, with a look of the same graphics from the Xbox and 360. "But StarterPack, what about the Master Chief Collection on the Xbox One? That has all the great games from the original maps and guns with new or old look graphics, depending on how you want to play." That game has been dead since the middle of last year. And they still haven't fixed the searching bug! Or... Maybe they did and everyone doesn't play it anymore... I still don't like that and it's sad to see that great collection be so barren. I miss the old gameplay and it seems that it's harder to find anyone in that game than the original Titanfall... It takes hours to find a match in that game, while it takes days in Halo.

Back to the original game, I really don't like the REQ packs in the, having players try and buy new looking weapons or try to unlock a weapon they don't have yet through a roulette wheel of unfairness. Basically every roulette wheel. Anyways, it feels like the developers want more money out of the game that has already sold millions of copies. And seeing that the untouched Halo, that has followed tradition for years as Bungie had it in their hands. Boxes just destroy the purpose of trying to level up and earn things through that. I know this is a very common thing to say about a "Loot Box", but what else am I suppose to say? I'm a freaking Halo fan! 

All together, I like the game a little bit, but enough for me to add it to my top ten, but enough to say it's fun. What do you guys think? Does any of you still play Halo? Does anyone even play on the Collection here? I want to know! Please! 'Til - "Wait!" What is it!? "What do you think of the assassination kills and their animation? They're cool,the one thing they followed from the originals that just felt so satisfying to perform. And 'til next - "Wait!" What now?! "What about the new aiming mechanic?" It's hit and miss. 'Til... You're not going to do it again? "No..." Okay, 'til next time...

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You! What day is it?

I happen to have some fireworks in my house. As for my neighbors, they were too impatient to wait until this day, so they fired all of them at once yesterday night. I guess even in a Mexican Neighborhood like mine really do have the American spirit, even waving the American flag on anything they can find. When I saw that, I was thinking about who would be fun to hang out with during 4th of July? As  a person who likes to imagine his favorite game characters in real life, I bring you these ten people that would be so fun to hang out with during the day we claimed our independence. Hello and welcome to this American Countdown.

10. Pyro (TF2)

A fire obsessed freak that likes anything that glows or explodes, this guy would be a big hand at a party, having a flamethrower to can burn anything well over a hundred degrees. Easy to make fast steaks and would even light a bonfire for you and your pals for the night. And if you forgot to buy fireworks, Pyro always has them on hand, always firing those things as he stares blank faced at them. 

9. Frank West (Dead Rising)

Frank West is a photojournalist who has covered wars and even the zombie's first outbreak. And in that same outbreak, learned how to makes some great drinks out of it that give you some strange super enhanced abilities. Who wouldn't want to take less damage when messing with fireworks? And who knows if he knows how to make a soberer drink incase of that classic hangover. 

Besides, you would love to hear what he had experienced in those wars he's always proud of boast about. A great, old, American war story is always a Patriotic tribute to share among those willing to hear.

8. Captain Falcon (F-Zero)

A legendary racer that has a hovering car that can go over hundreds of miles and possibly hit the speed of light. Although, physicists say that doing so will destroy the earth, but wouldn't that be fun to experience? Well, maybe not, but racing is a good old American sport, so a little street race with the legendary Captain Falcon would be more than fun... That is... If he doesn't try to push you off the road that is....

7. Geralt of Rivia (Witcher)

Geralt sounds like a fun man. He has been in fighting clubs and entered tournaments of such and also likes to drink, so under that tough hide is something enthusiastic. Having some fights with him would be fun, harmless ones of course, giving everyman a challenge. But if you wanna defeat him in a mind game, why not a game of Gwent, see if Ciri isn't the only one that can beat him.  

Plus, he might know a few people back home that can bring some party things like fireworks, jugglers, circus acts and maybe some pimps to bring their women to the party.

6. The Dragonborn

He is a Nord... That means he has many an experience with after-battle parties. That also means he knows how to party and knows how to hold his liquor. And seeing that he has a spaceless inventory, he can bring as much beer as he can without feeling the weight! And he knows what is good beer, bringing even the best and sweetest beer he can find. What about the food, you ask? He's got plenty just for his adventures, to feed a horse for a week. You know he's got food! Although, he'd be a handful, seeing that he can kill someone without a single thought, but you know he would just be a fun handful seeing he's being in a party enjoying himself.

5. Princess Zelda

You would never think a Princess, a royal descent of Hylion blood, would be more than just a royal descent. I mean, she is her own responsibility, so she can order her servants to bring the royal supply of Lon Lon Milk and as much food as she can and maybe invite some neighbor royals like the Gorons to bring their local merchant to sell some great items for a cheap price. All in all, Zelda has some privileges that only she can do and having her for a party sounds more than a party. 

4. Ashen One (Dark Souls 3)

Ashen One is a man/woman of despair, knowing nothing, but pain and suffering. We don't know what that feels like, but we all know that she/he can take as much pain as she can. If you want a crazy party, bless your bonfire with the coiled sword and can have fun killing her as much as you want. Sounds cruel, but you know he's been through more than that a day. And upon that, bring some strange pieces of food that can do some of the coolest things... Or just play with the glowstones all day. 

3. Cayde-6 (Destiny)

Cayde is one of the three inspiration for each Guardian in the galaxy and seems to make you wonder why he was even qualified as such. But at least he knows what fun is. He can bring some things to shoot at to your party as he shows off his moves as a gunslinger and maybe bring some exotic weapons for everyone to test out. He might get in trouble in the process, but he did all for the fun of a forgotten holiday in his time. 

2. Harry Tipper (Timesplitters)

A groovy dude in a groovy outfit, he is a spy of the 70's that tries to bring peace to all the war in the world. After hearing him say groovy in that accent, you know there's a reason why he always wears a smile and those sunglasses on his face. Let's just say he can have fun in a groovy way. 

1. Liberty Prime

A robot that can destroy a building by looking at it. How can that not be a fun thing to play with? I know this is not hanging out with a person, but who wouldn't want be the one controlling this commy killing machine? You can destroy fireworks in the air, making for a more beautiful explosion, demolish useless stuff in your backyard, like that old car you kept since the 8th grade, and maybe make him into a full on DJ, making some sick ass beats bra! 

Who do you think would be a fun dude or gal to hang out with on the day we declared independence? I know there are some great people out there in the gaming world that I missed, so tell me on this fun day! It was really fun writing this, so I hope you enjoyed and 'til next time...

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Son of Amy

Naughty Dog has some greats through their run, giving us Crash Bandicoot in their early days, giving us a new platforming experience. Then it was Uncharted giving us a new story to ponder and a character love even more than the game itself. Then, the only game of the cinematic franchise they've been treading on, Last of Us came with a new understanding of a broken man and a girl he cares for. The Zombie trope has already been tread upon so many times, but they seemed to find a realistic way of creating them. And a new way of fearing the possibility. The game was praised for its deeply cinematic story and heartfelt characters; the gameplay, although mildly scarce, was fun and praised for the toughness of the AI. As a person who loves a good story and Zombies, I went into the game 4 years after its original release. Hello and welcome to this Abstract Review. Beware for spoilers as well. 

A lot of people like to compare this game to Naughty's other franchise, Uncharted, saying it has a similar story arc and cast of characters. I disagree mostly due to how heavily shown these characters are given to you. Tess, being a strong, Tom Boy-like woman, she was give a lot of character, showing that she is more than just a woman with strength. As seen in a scene of the prologue, you pass by some ghetto areas, where there are fights being bet on and people asking for ration cards in tattered clothing. As soon as you go in this area with a man guarding an entrance, the guard gives some slack to Joel, but soon backs away as soon as Tess shows up on screen, telling the guard he's with her. That little moment, even though small, shows she is either friends with someone big or she once killed a man with her bare hands; she was well developed within those two seconds and is even brought more to the table as you went on with the game. Uncharted, did a different approach, giving the player/viewer a scene of the character, showing them in their peaceful state. Like as they did in the movies Die Hard and Red. You love those characters because they are fun when they're calm, and becomes more and more interesting when they're in action. Last of Us doesn't try to approach that matter of character, they show every side of this person, having you be able to guess what they might do, which can be turned on it's head very easily, which leads up to my next point.

What they do with their characters adds this sense of poetry to it, Tess seems to be tough nut to crack, showing everything else, but the weak side of her character, making her death so much of a hard hit. The fear in her eyes, seeing that bite on her wrist, was a new unveiling of the character she has. She shows a sign of weakness and has to tough it out and die before she turns. This impact on the main character was also a good show of Tess's character, Joel being shocked and appalled by this new show of weakness of her character. This shines in the game, having each character, even though some are hardly shown or never given a proper character reveal, have this personality and be able to feel every piece of emotion of these characters. To Elley, Joel, even the military has this put into them, making it feel like, as almost everyone watch you play the game say, a movie.

As for the game itself, the gameplay has a strong mixture of stealth killing with hard action gunslinging in it. Although those two should never touch each other, the developers seemed to be able to alter each side to fit the game's overall feel. You can sneak up to someone and choke them out, but that can take a while and risk everyone seeing you. This should be the fear in most modern stealth games, having the fear being seen. That feeling adds to the fun of the game's stealth gameplay, which I personally love, and being seen makes the fight so much harder. Once you're seen, everyone takes cover and tries to fire at you. The AI in these situation are just marvelous to me, having them be able to flank you by utilizing cover. This can give the enemy AI this kind of sentience to them, having it feel as if they planned this attack. Having one put you under fire and one quietly flank you and having you meet with a 2X4 to the back of the noggin. I truly love that of the AI, making them feel like people are playing as them, or they know they're fighting. Uncharted's Combat was more of downgrade compared to this game, having each AI just shoot endlessly at you, not taking a care about staying alive. And what I love is that the game doesn't hold your hand about this. If you get hit, you have to suck it up and throw a punch back. 

Speaking of which, the game has the player get a feeling of a survivalist, giving the player a short amount of ammo and little supply to build anything, even on easy difficulty. If you run out, utilize the surroundings provided and flank the guy shooting at you. And can I say that each punch is just so relaxing when it lands? It's so fun when you enter a fist fight. 

The one thing I wish the developers did was utilize the infected AI in a human environment, having players fear more about getting noticed. A gunshot can lure nearby infected and have them chase the enemy down and swarm the player for how clumsy he was. I guess that's a bit unfair, but I think they could have made the AI adapt to that by having them only use their guns when they find you up close or something of that nature. I guess that's just my idea for a feared infected AI. Speaking of which, The infected AI is so magnificent, they are feared to the player for their tendency of being in packs. The AI know who's the player and what's the AI, having them target the player or whatever is more aggressive. I like that, but I think they should have the AI get the hands of anything they could, having the player be more protective of Elley, when the moment arises. I think that would have utilized more of the gadgets in the game since I tend to never want to use them. 

As for the specially infected, the Clickers and Bloaters being the most unique of any Zombie genre , they had some great mechanics around them: 1) they both can't see, 2) they are both aggressive and 3) they're instant death on touch. That adds a lot to fear about them, but the mechanics given to the player to avoid death is very fun to use. When you are found by them, you can always divert their attention somewhere else by through a bottle or brick at them and run the opposite direction. It's kind of like how Dead Rising was, you could grab A Chunk of Meat and throw it and watch the Zombies run towards this delicious Chunk of Meat you threw. That kind of mechanic adds this kind of animalistic feel to them, showing the player that they are less than human and are more of a monster. 

I know this is mostly praise and all, but there is one thing I don't think I like about the game's story. As we all know, the "Terrorist" group, Fireflies, have found a way of a cure and the only way of creating one is through this little girl with a strong immunity of this fungal infection. You fight your way to get to these doctors working for this "Terrorist" group, just to deliver this girl safely to the Fireflies, the "Terrorist" group. Of all things I have learned, the military has identified this group as Terrorist against the American government, which is already corrupt. With this said, the group is now known as a threat to the people and everyone sees them as such. And now they want to find a cure. When they ever do find a cure to this awful, fungal disease, I don't think anyone would ever want that cure since everyone sees them as an enemy to society. The military, being corrupt, would identify this cure as a toxin, being a poison and will give you aids. You know, like what the government will always do. So this attempt of finding a cure would be a complete failure, so seeing that Joel killed the leader of the fireflies wasn't much of a bad thing, she was going to sacrifice Elley for basically nothing and break her mother's promise for nothing, making the Fireflies a worse group than bandits. "But the government is small and fragile! They can easily take them down." If you remember much of the prologue, they were killing anyone that they wanted, either infected or not. They might appear small, but they have more power than most in the game's world. 

Well, I hope you liked this. I had fun writing it and all, but truly hope you enjoyed this little bit of criticism. If I were to rate this game, it would be a 9/10 with gameplay and full 10 for its story. I love this game a lot and seeing that they're making a sequel, I hope they surpass this game, because they have a lot to lead up to. Again, I hope you enjoyed this and 'til next time... 

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Where's the Man, Giantsley!

I've always liked anime... Actually my dad introduced it to me, with Robotech and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, giving me a new fandom to carry. I've played Persona 5 recently and liked, the anime look was nice and the turn based gameplay was actually fun, not having a tedious and time consuming animation. I just loved it. As I played, looking at the artstyle it had, I thought of which anime would be a great game. Tons came to mind and most of which surprised they were without one. Hello and welcome to this countdown.

4. Cowboy Bebop

I don't know if I could count this since their is already a game of this great space opera, but the game was only ever released in Japan on the PS2. From what I read, the game got some good reception, having some decent ratings in Japan. It's long after the PS2, so why not have a remaster of the game on PS4, with the original voices from both dubs to support their roles such as Steve Blum or Koichi Yamadera as Spike.

From what I saw in gameplay footage, it's a beat'em up that feels a lot like a lost episode. I mean, there is more action than there is story, but it doesn't seem to break the source material at all. That game even seems to interest more than just the fan base, which would make this a possible sell if marketed right. 

3. Parasyte

Many can argue that this show, like many, can be either better or worse than the Manga. I never read it, but the show is a very interesting horror, taking the idea of John Carpenter's The Thing and making it more morbid than the movie itself. I don't know if there's already a game out there about the anime, but from what I looked up, there's only simple flash games made by teenagers and fans. 

I really don't know what the game would be, though. Maybe a hidden murderer kind of game, where you have to find out who has the Parasyte without killing anyone innocent. I don't know though, it would get boring fast, but the concept sounds like it could be expanded upon. You do a Parasyte vs. Parasyte battle, having abilities different each match, I don't know. Maybe just a horror game where you're just a simple human that has to run out a building full of Parasytes. The show has a lot to tread on with video games. 

2. Space Dandy

He's a Dandy Guy... In Space... Same artist who did Cowboy Bebop, the show revolves around a Alien Hunter with a robot named QT and a cat alien named Meow who are trying to get money from registering unlicensed aliens. He goes around the galaxy doing nothing, but silly crap as he drifts completely away from his mission on finding an unlicensed alien. To most, there is nothing for there to work with as a game, but I think it would be a great idea to make a Telltale game around the character, having an episodic adventure through space as you go to a galactic Hooters called Boobies. 

I think the developer would do nicely with this show, since they did a good job with Borderlands, the game that has nearly nothing to work with in terms of story. They would have lots of room to work with since each episode they die and start over in a different universe, so they can do anything they please without having to worry about the damaging the source material. 

1. Wakfu 

I might be breaking some rules on this one and making a lot of hardcore animes fans mad since this show is a French Animation. Just hear me out on this one. This show has some Japanese esque characters and artstyle, having a some liability to be on this list. Besides, the show would be a good RPG, having some elements and charm as Dragon Quest. Maybe some of the comedy and childness of Paper Mario. 

I would love to see a game by this show, there is so much to work with in the game, having some potential to be successful and be a classic. Along with each unique character, seeing them in action would be both fun and heartwarming to me, especially for a children's game.

I hope you enjoyed this list. You don't know how hard this was, having to check my list of favorite animes and going through an enormous list of animes I never heard of just to see if they don't have a game and would make a good one. Kind of shows why it's so short. Sorry about that by the way. There is too many animes that have games already. Again. I hope you enjoyed this and if you know any that would make a good game, please tell me. I would actually love to see what I missed in those lists. 'Til next time... 

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The air grew cold as the sun had left hours past, men and women of the Joraal march for the beginning of their revolution. Majors and leaders were on horseback, in the front lines as they wore their armor proud and held their flags high as they roamed the forest towards the first slave land they have been waiting to destroy, Higgins Estate. The men sang for their people of stories of the old days, the calm lives they use to live that felt long lost. The women marched with crossbows on their backs as they sang with the men, swords drawn and raised to the skies in the names of their lost loved ones. Kos`El felt afraid, that this war would end in a defeat. He lead his horse to Bong. “You lead these people with a heart of iron, Bong.”

“I did,” she replied.

“They don’t even fear death, they wish to go to war and end the human’s reign. But what about defeat?”

“It won’t happen, Kos`El.”

“They don’t even fear about loss.”

“Unlike you years ago? Come on then, you wanted this war just as well as they did.”

“Yes, but this war seemed as if victory was afoot, but something feels wrong, I just don’t know what.”

“You are just worrying, Kos`El. If you don’t want to fight, then go back to the lair with the sick and old. They need the help with all of us gone.” He felt the cold chill of the air as his horse galloped through the tall grass as trees began lessen. “Stay back towards the tree line!” she shouted to the army, “We must keep the element of surprise.” She stood her horse in the trees, men drawing swords, women pulling the string of their crossbows, they were ready. A Joraal brough Bong a telescope, she looked through and saw three English horses by the walls. “Just on time.”

***

I could hear the past, hours ago, the words of a bargain. Higgins smiled as he uttered the words, “I want you to change someone’s mind.” Khal`En pondered on what he was asking for, strings of what he meant flew through his mind, what he wanted him to do with this knife as those glassy, old eyes stared into Khal`En’s soul.

“What do you mean, sir?”

“You remember those people, the kind family that visited not too long ago?”

“I do, sir. The people who had to leave early.”

“Yes.” He gave a sinister grin. “I want you to nick those children they have. They won’t do no harm to you, unless you let them scream. Don’t kill yourself over this, Khal`En.” He took the knife as the guards stepped forward. “These men will watch you until the border of my estate ends. If you try to escape, crossbow bolts tipped with the plague would kill you painfully in the woods. And if you are away for too long, your son won’t be alive to know you’re passing.” A guard grabbed Khal`En’s shoulder. “You understand?”

“Yes, Master.” The word master was word he now despised, he wanted to do something, one wrong suggestion would cause him eternal pain.

He walked outside of the cabin, Joraal in the fields stared at him as if he was a thief. Concerned eyes, snarl look, they thought he was in luxury. A guard made a gesture at Gatekeepers as the gates opened. Two guards stepped beside Khal`En with crossbows with a yellow vile on their wastes. “Move Khaja,” the guard shoved him out. He walked slowly out of the entrance he never thought he would take a step out of as the guards tightly gripped on the crossbows with their lifeless eyes staring at him the entire way. I followed as the sun dove into the horizon. The cold air was pleasant on the skin with warm winds brushing you. It was a beautiful sunset night, but Khal`En didn’t see anything in beauty anymore, the knife in his hand, his misty eyes finally collapsed with tears. No gasp, no pants of sadness, only the stream of tears down his face.

A sign down the road, backwards it was. Khal`En stopped walking. One of the guards kicked him in the arse, “Get a move on Khaja!” he said as he fell to the ground, kneeling. “What is wrong wit’ dis one?”

“He’s probably sobbin’ abou’dis. The borda is righ’dare!”

“Oh f**koff this one!” He pointed his crossbow on Khal`En’s chin. “You know what we were told! The King’s Plague is a fate worse than death, you f**kwit khaja!” He stood up as the crossbow followed him. “That’s it, Khaja! We got a map righ’ear, you follow those lines and do as your masta told ya.” He didn’t speak. With the knife clenched in his hands, he stared at the guard with his crossbow pointed at him. “You gonna go or are you gonna keep standin’ear and cryin’ your eyes ou-” He felt a sharp push on his chest. He could hardly breathe or shed a word as if he was drowning. He looked down and saw the Joraal plunged a knife into him. Khal`En grabbed his crossbow and aimed it at the other guard. “What the f**king…” The guard said as he pointed his crossbow at the Joraal. The guard saw his friend on the floor, staring at the sky as his mouth gushed blood. “Look… Look’ear… I’ll let you go and say you and my fella’dare died from a fallin’ tree, okay?”

Tears still streaming down his straight face, he spoke softly, “I don’t trust your people anymore.” He pulled the hair trigger on the crossbow as the bolt landed down his left eye. His body fell as the crossbow in his hands fired at Khal`En, hitting him in the chest. The pain had him scream into the night as crows flew scared overhead. He could feel it in his lungs, making every breath harder to breathe. He looked over to his shanked guard and saw him smiling and trying to laugh as his soul began to leave his eyes.

A bolt in his chest, he laid on the dirt road as the stars were the only thing he wanted to see before he dies. A muffled sound of a horse’s hooves entered the ears of Khal`En. He could see the horse over him as a Knight in silver a crimson armor lept onto the floor. His eyes were menacing to him, his left being a milky white with a scar across it. That was the last thing he saw in his days alive, until he saw me standing with the Knight.

He felt the air enter his lungs without the pain preventing him. He stood up as the Knight and his horse were frozen in place. He took one look at me and I could myself change. A mask appeared over my face, having a beautiful feminine blank stare on it. “Do you know what happened.” I said with a womanly gentle voice.

“What happening? Am I still alive? Are you one of the gods?”

“I am merely one of their servants, Khal`En.”

“How do you know my name?”

“I’ve been watching over you. Since the death of your wife.”

“Are you…?”

“I am whatever you imagine me.”

“What will become of me?”

“Nothing.”

“What do you mean? I must have a purpose with you!” He shouted.

“You must embrace your truth first.”

“What truth!?” I reached out and pointed to his corpse. “So I’m…”

“You are.”

“Then... “ He paused.

“Then what, Khal`En?”

“Then I’m with her…”

“She can be. You must embrace your truth first.”

“No...No! I must run and save my son from that… Awful place! You must have some kind of arrangement.” There was one.

“Would you like to play a game?”

“What?”

“You win: your death is irrelevant. I win, you join your lover.” I could see his thoughts even in this realm. He was hesitant to agree with the offer, but images of his lover appeared.

“What are we going to play.” I pull my skeletal hands out from under my robes and revealed dice.

“Have you ever played Evens, Khal`En?”

“I have a few times at the farm,” he gave me a troubled look. “I believe you already knew that.”

“What’s your bet, Khal`En?” He called evens. I rolled the dice on the dirt ground and landed a three and two. I looked at him, but all he saw was the blank look of my mask, “Five, Khal`En. Do you have any questions before you go?” He looked away from me.

“Will she be there? In paradise?”

“You believe she will be, yes.” A bright ora illuminated around him as he made a smile. “Do you see the moons in the horizon?” He nodded, “Walk to them and paradise will await you.” He walked to the moons ahead of him as I felt my mask sink into my robes. 

Err Lie in the Morning

I love Nintendo, okay. I have an appreciation for their games and some that may be unpopular, but I still consider their works a piece of art. So if any of you Nintendo Freaks think I hate them and me making this post is offending you, then just don't read. I know there are some things that a lot of you, or maybe some, that don't know Nintendo's process of making a game. Some are actually very poetic and better than most companies who handle a new title, but they were greedy when they were in the fame back in the 80's. Hello and welcome to this truth-filled thought blog.

Okay to start, since Nintendo was taking the light that was Atari, they were the only ones who were the desired company to sell games. Yes, there was the Sega Master System, but no one liked that console sadly. So, to not do what Atari had did (Having any game to have their licensing on it and sell it without seeing if it would sell), they made an entire process to make a game be on Nintendo. The game had to go through this process of whether the game would be fun, work on the console and nothing to upset the audience or destroy Nintendo's image. And before they accepted, the company or person who submitted their game had to pay $200 to see if they were worthy to be on their console. To many, this was a good security check for a game, to not create the crash of 83 again, but it was a painful process. Having to spend as little as possible to be apart of a still new business and risk whether or not this game would sell after paying a hefty $200 to just have it out there. There were some who went past that process and made illegal copies of their own game, but those game were sold either in an alleyway or in a Swap Meet, having barely any cartridges sold. 

I believe there was even a private protests against NIntendo's policy to put a game on their console, but was mostly unheard of to the public, barely having any lash on the company. I don't know if that's true though. I found it on a site a while back, but can never find it. You can take my word for or not, it's your choice. Anyways, This also made some good with the games on the console, having people to strive to do their demands or do multiple submissions after tweaking your game, making the game have a passionate team working to release their game on a successful console. Unfair, but it encouraged better performance. Even the head of Nintendo at the time, being a person who never played a game in his life, was passionate of making any game fun and making sure he had the right people do so such as trusting Miyamoto in what he thought was a good game. You can say that their policy was bad, but it had a perfect purpose in the gaming industry to stay alive for what it was. 

Although that wasn't as fiendish as most can think, but Nintendo had another thing that they still do today, along with one other thing. Whenever they thought something they released wasn't going to sell past the Japanese market, they decreased stock in European and Western markets to make them more valuable and given more fame than they already should. The first product they gave this treatment to was the hated Zelda II: Adventures of Link. It was a first attempt of a sequel and the fear of a game to fail for them was completely possible, so to not be fired from the company, they made copies low and you know the rest. In America, the game was sought after, having people create lines that would go through stoplights out of the store. There was even a guy who went cross country for the game that wanted the it for collector's sake, he was put on the news and the game was given free advertising, having people speculate that the game was awesome and needed to be had. So in return, the game wasn't considered a fail to the company.

This followed with other products in the future such as the Amiibos and the famous NES Classic Edition. Remember the whole Amiibo shortage, having some Amiibos exceed the thousands price range? Yeah, that was a tactic for Nintendo make a product more mainstream. And how they stopped production for the NES Classic to leave room for the SNES Classic. No, it was so that they don't have to waste resources to give the product a shelf to call home. It's a pretty greedy tactic, but Amiibos were stop talked about recently and people are still willing to pay hundreds of dollars to buy an NES Classic, so they did a good job being able to make us want it. 

Past that, Playstation was going to be the next console for Nintendo while partnering with Sony. They had so many redesigns, having them fight whether it should be cartridge based with games  and have a CD player attached to it or have it be entirely CD based. At the time, that was the staple for any piece of technology, being determined as "high tech." They separated after a few disagreements and Sony made the Playstation, while owning the rights to name entirely, in protest against Nintendo, making the console entirely CD based, making it seem more high tech than any other console. I love that, though. Sony had some balls to do such a thing as this. And to make it even worse for Nintendo, they created a new way of putting a game on a famous console. They had no process of which a game had to be accepted, they just paid someone a lot of money to flip Nintendo off with the next best game after Mario. Many would say that Playstation had a poor attempt of fighting Nintendo, but look at them now.

To keep their Nintendo Policy, they made their next console, the N64, to be only cartridge based. Although being inferior to their competitor, they still made great games in a cartridge that made so many great classics and generation defining games. 

What does this have to do with being fiendish? I mean yeah, that can be just a refusal to follow what their competitor has, but it was basically game lock in hiding. If you look at articles from that time, there are a lot of people complaining about how Final Fantasy 7 wasn't on the N64. Well, FF7 was a game that carried three CDs in one box to play the entire game and CDs carried 12 time the memory and power of that compared to a cartridge. How many cartridges do you think would be put in an N64 box of FF7? Maybe 5 or 7, being generous. It would be overpriced, seeing how much materials would take to make that many cartridges, having to make every other version follow the same price or similar, having the game be a risk to both companies.

They basically made this console cartridge based to put another lock on their system so no one can sell a game without acceptance by Nintendo. They followed this rule since that console, having the Gamecube use awfully small, but cute CDs to play games and the recent Switch being only cartridge based, having every developer to go through the acceptance process with Nintendo to put it on their console. A smart move, even without their $200 fee before acceptance. I guess Nintendo had more balls than Playstation had. Although now it doesn't matter to be on a Nintendo Console since Xbox and Playstation have an easier and painless process to have a game out there and considering Indies have the PC realm to play with. Now, it's just Pirate Protection instead of Game Lock. 

I would have to say, even though Nintendo is a friendly company, they're still a corporate company that want in the competition as much as Xbox and Playstation after taking Nintendo's thunder. What do you guys think? After reading this, would you still call Nintendo a friendly company to trust or did you already know this and don't care if Nintendo does something wrong? I would actually like to know honestly. I want to know if the majority know about these things. Well, I hope you enjoyed this read, been a while since I wrote something this fun, so I hope you like it. And 'til next time...

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I love history. It's something that I loved since I was a little kid. Although most of it was depressing and scary to a lot of kids, I thought it was cool how all the choices one person made changed the entire world and its thoughts. It reflects a lot of our society and helps people understand why people do things and how things are now. I just love it. Many Historians say that their Gramps influenced them about how awesome history was, but me? It all about one game and that game was Call of Duty. Hello and welcome to this Community Writing Challenge.

Call of Duty was the main influence with me, how the game was based around a hundred year old war known as World War II, seeing that a game like this was based on a real event was mind blowing to me as a kid. Saying that these people in the game might have been real and the battles in the game were all real and key events in WWII history was just amazing to me. Although the war was one of the biggest world changing events in history after the "War to End All Wars," WWI, I still thought it was cool. I believe this game was the reason why I love The Iron Giant so much. 

WWII shooters have been a big part of why I'm a gamer and I followed those kinds of games as a kid, playing anything that CoD had. Up until CoD's modern era games, I still look for those kinds of shooters such as Wolfenstein or Brother in Arms. I've always loved them and anything that followed historic battles. Battlefield 1 being on of my favorite Multiplayer Shooters, despite its flaws. 

I was interested in history and anything involving it, either it be altered or true stories. I made sure I was in classes that involved history from Elementary to High School. Although I got a few bad grades out of it, I still loved being in those classes, learning about the choices that people made then and how it affected all of us. How Napoleon sold French Colonies to the Americans called the Louisiana Purchase. How he lost in his Conquest of total control of Europe, having the Russians do something called Scorched Earth. And how Hitler repeated his action after admiring Napoleon, causing another Scorched Earth in Russia. How about when Kennedy denied air support during the Bay of Pigs, having ground troops lose the battle, screwing up America's image?

I just love history like that. Especially the Cold War times, being the most fierce war in recent times, although having no conflict or battle with either nation. Just pure Political Drama. That would have to be my favorite time period to learn, having it be like a War Drama, but without the war. I think Black Ops. 1 was one of my favorite CoDs, taking place in that era. I know it's all politics and all, but know that I don't pick a side. I just like watching the chaos, why I love Parliament meetings so much. Not like a meeting in America where everyone talks and acts civilized, they bring out their fists, arguing and all. I just love watching a political figure punching someone over political differences. 

Well, That's basically it. I know this is short (and I'm sorry for it), but I hope you enjoyed a little insight of my personality. What do you think about history in games? I hear a lot of people say it's wrong to do that. You know what, make that the topic in the comments. I would love to hear what people think about historical games. Is it an honorable tribute to those who died in the war, or is it an insult? Talk about it! 'Til next time...

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Destiny was one of my favorite games of 2015. I didn't like it at launch because of how restricted it felt and DLC being overpriced for what it was. My sister got the game for Christmas with all the DLC and it was great. I played for two years and hearing the developers were planning a new game was amazing to me. For those who think the game was dead from the start, hated the fact that it was and doesn't deserve it, it was a chance for Bungie to redeem themselves in the awful attempt of creating a great story in a game, and so far after the Beta, I am generally pleased with what they have done so far. 

The game throws the play in the story mode from the beginning and shows off the characters (you go to constantly in the first game) in action. I loved that part of the Beta, you never see them in action, but you're told that they're the most elite Guardians on Earth and know more tactics than a war veteran. I am genuinely glad they're doing this, they made them so cool and seeing them show off their moves is so rewarding. You see Cayde kill a few things as he casually strolls by, Ikora destroys a ship in anger, and you fight alongside Zavala! I doubt any of you would know these characters beside Cayde, but god those people were awesome, giving this meaning to these characters instead of NPCs you receive missions and rewards from. And seeing the place that every Destiny Player called home was a battleground, being destroyed constantly by the Cabal. It really gives off a certain emotion you're suppose to feel from the disaster you're witnessing. And the villain is so great, having a goal that affects you and all your friends and you want to stop him. That's the kind of villain I want from games these days, they always try to make it poetic or out of place with no clear goal for them to follow. I hope they make him more of villain in the game, either killing key characters or something of that sort. 

The design they put in the maps were all so stunning as well. I mean, there was a few things that were out of place, like some clipping shadows or objects clipping inside of each other, but I can get over them. I especially love the Plaza part of the story mode, where you fight with Zavala, it looked like the Tower was vulnerable and needed heavy assistance. And I noticed the Ball you play with in the first game is popped and melted in the stairs heading towards Zavala. I don't know about any of you guys, but I had some fond memories with that ball... I loved playing soccer with it... That moment seeing that ball destroyed and gone forever, I want to kill every single last one of those Cabal freaks. 

And apparently, there's not going to be a silent protagonist. Those of you RP Players won't be given a chance to voice your own character anymore since the protagonist already has one. Personally I like that, I always thought it was weird when your character doesn't respond to certain reaction in the first game, it just made it feel as if your character wasn't involved. And the voice actors playing the guardians are great, they're easy to listen to and have a powerful voice, which fits the voice of a hero that's going to save everyone and the "Light." The only thing I didn't like about the Beta was that the races were randomized along with the sex of the character. I'm all for a strong woman and all, but I don't wanna be an Awoken. I know that this is all that they have finished at the moment, but I want to see voice differences in the game! I guess it's just one of my opinions I can't get over... Yeah, it is. Either way, I loved the Female Awoken Voice Lines in the little story we had, they all were well acted and I can't wait to see what else they have in store for your character. 

Speaking of your character, it seems like you're going to have all your weapons in the beginning until the end of the prologue, because you get a freaking Exotic at the beginning and everything you have is Legendary. I don't know if that's actually going to happen, but I hope it does. I think it would support the player's hatred for the villain and motivation to stop him , taking all of your gear and having to start over. Plus, having to go from Last Gen to New Gen sounds cool to me, your gear transcending from the best you had in the old game to best you had in this new one. I would genuinely love that if they did that. 

On to the weapons, they changed up the weapons in the game, primarily for PvP sake. If you're unfamiliar with the previous game's weapon slot, your primary had three weapons: Auto Rifle, Scout Rifle and Pulse Rifle. Your Secondary was Shotguns, Sniper Rifles and Fusion Rifles then Sidearms later. And your Heavy was Machine Guns and Rocket Launchers then Swords later. Now you can have an Auto Rifle in your Primary and Secondary Slot. The reason for this is because your Primary is Kinetic Damage and your Secondary is Elemental Damage. For those who don't know, Kinetic is good against enemies with shields or weak spots, while Elemental is good against Armor and Elemental Opposites. The Elemental Opposites in the first game didn't really matter since mostly any type of damage does the same amount with each weapon regardless and had nothing to determine which element was which. I don't think it would matter in this game either, but who knows, they have a Scorch Cabal as an elemental enemy. 

The abilities, on the other hand, are changed up. The Titans are given the Striker and Defender Class, both from the original game. The Striker Class is different from the first game, having you do a ground pound and walk further to do it again with the same amount of damage. The grenades are the same for the most part as well as the punch. Then there's the Defender Class, having a new ability instead of creating a bubble shield. You can become Captain America with a shield to deflect bullets and beat your foes to a blood pulp. If you want to use the bubble shield, you can hold both button to activate the ability and the bubble will appear, doing the same effects as they did before. You can also have a Wall Shield or a Cover Shield. The Cover Shield being a waist high cover, having the player be able to provide a new cover to duck under. The Wall Shield a complete see through wall. You can't shoot through it, but you can see where your enemies are heading or where they're going to flank. 

The Hunter has the Arcstrider and Gunslinger classes. The Arcstrider ability is mostly just Blade Dancer, but with a staff. You can activate that ability and go berserk on anything you can find. The grenades are pretty deadly, having some long lasting areal damage or a quick blinding attack. The Gunslinger is pretty much the same as the previous game's, but you get a third-person view. It still does an awesome amount of damage and the grenades are pretty much the same.The Third ability can be a bit of a downgrade since it's just a roll. The Marksman's Roll is just a plain roll, but automatically reloads your gun. The Gambler's Roll is the same as the other, but if you run into someone, they take damage. I wish they did something cooler with that.

The Warlock has the Voidwalker and the Downblade. I wish they put more thought with the second name since it's such a cool Class compared to the others. Voidwalker is like from the previous game, but instead of throwing a single energy ball, you can choose to shoot a cluster of them at an arc. It takes some getting use to since the changed how the projectile shoots, instead of it going in a straight line, it shoots at an arc (as I said before). The grenades are pretty much the same as well as the melee. Downblade is similar to Arcstrider, but instead each swing is a devastating projectile and you can fly. It really does a lot of damage, having an unfairly long run. The grenades feeling the same as the Super, throwing a ball of burning light or a fiery explosion. The Third Ability is pretty useful in almost any situation: you do a healing ward,  where whoever stands in that area will be healed and get an over shield. There is also a damage boosting ward, where whoever stands on that area will be damage boosted. I think this and the Titan are the best so far and can save the team instead of yourself. 

Moving on, there is a lot of redesigns for original enemies, like the Fallen, the Vex and the Caba. The Cabal still have those small heads, but not as small to laugh at them. The Fallen might have a new ruling house (or clan, look it up), having them look more edgy and with darker, red clothing. The Vex look pretty much the same, but the Minotaurs have a weak spot now, being the chest. I like that since they didn't have one in the previous game, they were just annoy bullet sponges that teleported and  dealt a lot of damage. Besides that, there are new enemy types for each race. The Fallen have new invisible enemies that hide and snipe the player from afar. When the player is near them, the invisible sniper will dash to a safe spot while cloaked, having the player scramble to the enemy's new location. I think this is a new breed of Fallen since these guys have two arms, but some kind of insect legs on their torso. They're mostly cloaked when you fight them, so you don't notice most of it, but when they dash they do this spider-like crawl while doing so. I love it personally, because I like creepy things, but I can see these things becoming a big annoyance to the community, since they always have dead-on aim whenever you try to dodge their attacks. And the Servitors, the big robot eyes, have a new ability. Instead of healing nearby enemies, they now shield an enemy like one of those Vex Taken, not being able to kill the shielded enemy until the Servitor is dead. At least they made them more of target, instead of a healer than did so little for his job. 

As for the Cabal, they have four new types of enemies on their hands (obvious because they're going to be the main focus of the game) and they're pretty fun to play with. There is the Scorch Cabal, that I mentioned earlier, that can shoot balls of fire at the player and do constant damage on hit. If they miss, the projectile hits the floor and causes that part of the floor to burn, but do constant damage upon hit. They're as easy as most flamethrower enemies, having the fuel tank protruding over their back being an easy attack since it's just above their head. There are the Shield Cabals. I know they were in the previous game, but these are better. They have an energy shield that deflects all damage until you hit the center and disable the shield entirely. They can also make their shield cover more ground than themselves, but still hold the same weakness for their shield or just rush through it and punch the guy instead. I'm glad they made this change since they use to stop the flow of battle, having players leave those guys for last or waste ammo by missing their feet or hands. Makes them fair to fight, but still a challenge and doesn't stop the flow of battle. There is also a Butcher Cabal (not their real name) that do massive amounts of damage in one hit and have the most health out of the Cabal class. Although I understand they're suppose to be the feared enemy type to make the player focus more in the game, but god don't they just destroy when they give you horde of them. I wish they were more prone to stagger since nothing else about them would have to change, I just want to have a mode to escape his grasp when I need it. Then there's the cleverly named Cavall, the dog types of the game. If you ask me, I hate it when they add dogs to a game. They're always the annoy enemy that just like to stop you from having fun. They're pretty easy to kill and learn, but they are so low from the screen that they can sneak up to you and bite you on the ass. What makes it even more annoying is how they can push you, sometimes destroying your momentum.And the one thing I don't like is how they put so many on screen. Three is enough, but when you spawn four packs of them, it's like running from an actual, single dog. I guess this is just a personal opinion, so I guess you can ignore that one. 

There's also a new ability the Cabal have that allows them B-Line towards you. Why is that an ability? Because! They got an explosive stick on their wrist! I'm not kidding. I don't know if it's suppose to be a stick or a blade, but it still is something to runaway from. I like it since it adds more diversity to them, having them do more than just dodge and shoot at you. If you have a Wall Shield up and they pull out that explosive and run through the shield and rush you as if you were the quarterback. I love how they're changing up the enemies instead of giving us a rehashed version of the same thing. I'm genuinely glad they're doing something to make this game different from the last. I mean, there is some things to get use to, but who doesn't want to see something new. 

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this Abstract Review. I really enjoyed the Beta and it feels like the Story is going to be better than the last game, even though there was barely any in that one. I can't wait to play the full game when it comes out and see more new changes they made. Again, I hope you liked this and 'til next time....

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As a person with some rare opinions, I've always wanted to say all of my thoughts about the games I either dislike or love. Since I scrapped about 14 of those kinds of blogs, I thought it would be better if I did a brief opinion based say on games I played that wasn't what people said it was. I know that this could make people mad, but that's my intention. Although I want to do that, I don't want to make people hate me. This is all opinion, like I said before, so don't rock your socks off with what I say. Hello and welcome to this overrated countdown. 

10. Overwatch

I know many of you might be groaning at this entry, but there is a reason why I put it on the bottom of this list. The game is repetitive and doesn't share as many modes as other multiplayer shooters out there, but it still has some great character pairing. What that means is that you can combine two player's characters with each other and create a devastating combo that can hardly be stopped. I like how the developers get to update the game with new content, giving us new modes, new characters and new maps all for free. We keep the new characters and maps, but the new modes are always going to be taken away. There was a recent mode where you play in Co-op with other players, protecting waypoints and other objectives, and it was actually fun. Too bad it was a limited time event, so anyone who wants to play that mode lost their chance. 

There is also something that sucks for new players, since there are so many people playing this game with high ranks, there are so very little players for new ones to pair up with. Match Making is just terrible, having to wait for a match after getting into a skirmish, leaving the only fun being the meaningless Team Death Match. It's nothing like how TF2 is played and can't be compared to such a glorious teambased game. Even if the new Meet Your Match Update f**ked most of the game's great qualities. A good game to have, but doesn't deserve the Game of the Year Award. 

9. Elder Scrolls Online

I've talked about this game before, me being mad about how it didn't turn out to be the game I wanted. Either way, the player base has been considerably high. Although not as big as WoW's player base, the game is still being played today. I'm genuinely surprised and a seeing that game got over a 7 rating on most reviews. I really don't see how great this game actually is. For starters, the game gives you an awful clan option that restricts you from certain races and one race is taken away from the roster, the Imperials. If you wanted to be an Argonian in a different clan, you had to pay to be able to do that. And if you wanted to play with a friend in a different clan, you had to find him instead of join his party. I really don't know how any Elder Scrolls fan could go through that without throwing out your PC. And the combat is so awful, having the player not have combination abilities, giving you all these abilities that you won't even want to use, because this one move is quicker than the rest.

The game's missions are even bad, being surrounded with people doing the same thing, your missions are interrupted constantly, having to wait for them to finish or restart the game in general. It feels as if the game was meant to be single player game because of all the mission glitches, where player followers can't do the same mission as you. And the microtransaction are just atrocious, locking certain items from the player and making loot feel so worthless. The game even taunts you for not having the DLC missions, having locked boxes everywhere that would have the player get any better loot from the vanilla game. If you thought Destiny was bad, check this game out. 

8. Pokemon

Don't get me wrong, the first game was fun. I got the game in the late 2000's on a Gameboy Color I got from Goodwill. I had fun with Red and it was very fun. When I went to the newer games in the franchise I found the same game with the thirty dollar price tag. I mean, there were some different pokemon to learn from, but that was basically it. I don't know what else to talk about, each new game from the franchise is just the same rehashed game we got from the 90's. I know that there will be many Pokemon fans that are going to debunk me on this, but my opinion still stands. I just don't get why this game keeps selling when the game is just Pokemon Red and Blue remastered. Why are people hating Bethesda for selling Skyrim 3 times over, when we got more remasters from Pokemon. 

And I don't like how there always has to be two games, having different Pokemon with the same game. It seems kind of cheap for Nintendo's sake. And they even made the newest game have an easy cheat for the player, using the best Pokemon they have and all the XP they get goes to the rest of the Pokemon without having to use them. I know this is a kid's game, but still, the audience is still clearly 90's kids. 

7. Kingdom Hearts 

I vividly remember this game releasing on the Playstation 2, the game had some great graphics for the time and handle very well for a PS2 game. The only thing, I think, everyone disliked was how the game had such a boring and confusing story. I know there is a lot of people that enjoy as much as any other Final Fantasy fan, but justifying that the game had a complex story is like trying to say the Care Bears had a compelling Narrative. It was boring (like I said before) and confusing. Besides that, the gameplay was not satisfying, having some repetitive combat abilities and awful mechanics that were just frustrating to handle. I hear that the team improved on FF 15, but I genuinely dislike how repetitive it was. I never player FF 15 yet, but I hope it's better than Kingdom Hearts gameplay.

The designs for some of the Heartless were cool, some having some great look design that defined this game greatly. Other than that, the game's levels were not up to par with the Heartless. Alice in Wonderland being the worst, making it seem like it was in a room although most of the game having some great looking open worlds. The Gummie Ship being the worst part of the gameplay, having you do an extremely boring and repetitive ship battle where you basically go through the entire game without moving or shooting. And don't get me started on the Whale encounters. It's all random and requires to escape the whale instead of warp out. If you were planning on going to another level to progress, well here comes the Whale to stop you in your tracks. It was obvious the Whale encounters were suppose to make the game longer, but failed to make it fun. 

6. Splatoon

I know that this is a risky pick, but I don't really like Splatoon that much. I played the game a while back before my Wii U broke and felt the game was boring. There were many game modes to play in multiplayer that might be fun, but they all feel the same to me. You just spray paint at each other and you win most of the time. It is a unique way to play the game, but it feels all the same and can get boring after a while. I really love the artstyle it has and I love the concept of just having squids walking around, but the game just doesn't feel as unique as many people describe it. Know that I don't have a hatred for the game nor do I plan on it, I would actually recommend this game to parents, but it's just not the game for me. 

I did play the campaign, but it was mostly the same as many FPS shooters: a multiplayer match with bots. Although I love the bosses look, but I wish the game was a bit more complex with its campaign gameplay. I hear they really expanded upon the gameplay in the second rendition of the game, so I hope to get the game soon. 

5. Undertale

Don't get me wrong, the game is pretty fun, but with all the attention it's getting is strange to me. You talk to monster to not kill you and you try to be friends with all the monsters in the underworld, that's it. Somehow the game has gotten so much attention that it spawned a new fetish: Skeleton ***. The characters are decent and the gameplay is fun for the first playthrough, but that's all that can be defining about that game. You can say that's can define a generation, but any future generation will question why this was so famous. 

The one thing I dislike was the challenges that spawned afterwards, having people protest against killing something in a game. One person livestreamed Fallout 4's entire storyline without killing. It's just mostly him watching people kill things for him or him running away. And somehow that livestream has millions of views. Many have done the same with other games and have made people question their lives on video games for no reason. I know that it can be done, you can play Dishonored without killing a single soul, but that doesn't mean it should be done. 

4. Ocarina of Time

For those of you Zelda Fans who loved this game, I am sorry for putting this on the list. I know I bring the fandom to great shame for doing so, but know that their are other great Zelda Games like Twilight Princess or A Link to the Past. I could have put the infamous Skyward Swords on here, but that game is too much weight for this list. Ocarina of Time can be described as "A Generation Defining Title" or "The Best Zelda in Zelda History," but the game is considerably dated for it's time. It was apart of the period of the game's transition to the 3D Realm, so the camera controls are strange for new player or modern experienced players. I did play this game when I was a kid, having only the 64 and the Genesis after doing a hard move, and I loved it. When I got back to it with my Uncle's 64, I asked if I could play something else. 

I know it's a poor excuse to blame the camera controls and the area transition, but god I hated it. You were so slow to begin with and the camera made it hard to fight something even with Z Targeting to help. I mean, Golden Eye has better camera than this game and it came out before Ocarina. It did change the Zelda Franchise, but calling a masterpiece wouldn't be a correct statement. 

3.  Resident Evil 7

I would have to say the game has brought the RE Franchise back to it's feet. What I won't say that it deserves a full 10/10. At least an 8/10. The game is apart of the Resident Evil games, but seem to throw everything from those games out the window and turn it into a strange psychological horror. Yes, there's the immortal bosses that don't seem to die... ever, but the game seems to tread on the mind f**king side of horror. The game surprisingly holds the original game's mechanics, but transitions the game into first person. I like that and gives a lot worry for the player of something attacking from behind. I will give some props for that. The one thing I seem to dislike was how the game lowered the enemy diversity. The previous games had many enemies to fear, but this game only had only four to fear. The Molded were nice to play with, but I would like to see more to the game than just them. Seeing them didn't scare the player, but annoyed the player most of the time. 

I hear the multiple ending are what people loved, but I seem to feel unsatisfied about them most of the time, making each choice you made feel so meaningless and unaccomplished. I think the only one I felt was rewarding was the Chris Redfield ending. I hate how he looks, but it was the only one I felt happy with. 

2. Uncharted

The game follows the loveable protagonist, Nathan Drake that had everyone follow his story. It was like an action movie in a video game, it carried some great elements that capture the player to love each character and each scene of the game's cinematics. If you ask me, the game has some great story and some powerful moments in it, but the gameplay is not too great. You mostly start running after a cinematic scene and that's basically it. If not, it's QTEs to take over. I will say that the QTEs in this game are done right, not being repetitive or asking you to do the simplest of tasks, but the rest of the game is just boring. You just saw this awesome scene and now you have to climb a wall for the next 15 minutes of gameplay. If you came to play an action game with lots of firefights, this is not the game, you would have to come to this game for the narrative. 

I know that most people can say that The Last of Us is the same game, but with Zombies, but Naughty Dog managed to throw away the Uncharted Mindset and actually put in some interesting gameplay. Compared to Uncharted, The Last of Us has a compelling story that even your mom will love to watch. I would have to say my mom loves watching me play this game. Uncharted has the same feeling with it's cutscenes, but not with the gameplay, having the player work for the fun part of the game. Yes, the game is visually stunning, but the gameplay doesn't seem to match the game quality.

1. Horizon Zero Dawn

And for the top Overrated game in my mind goes to Horizon. When I heard this game was coming out, I was actually excited. It looked like Witcher 3 with robots. I wanted to see that game on my PS4 as soon as it came out. When I got the game, I had something else in my hands. The game is an open world game, but barely seems to give you a world to enjoy. Yes, there is lots of space to roam and kill robot animals, but it doesn't feel alive like most open world games. Skyrim had civilians roaming the trails, bears hunting and even royals traveling through Skyrim. It had something to say that the people in this game had a purpose, but in this game, you hardly see anything like that. There are some people in the game cornered by Watchers or Sabertooth robots, but they don't do much, but ask for help. You get a reward, they go away and despawn. That's as much of a livid world you'll get out of this game. 

If want to talk about the gameplay, it is mostly hunting. You can roam the land and fight some robots or encounter a raider base, but the only fun thing to fight is the humans in the game. When I played the game for the first time and killed my first watcher, I thought they were going to have every robot have an instant kill weakpoint. I know that can make the game too easy, but I would love to see each enemy have an armored weakspot that you had to break open or a small hit box that you had to hit in the right spot to kill it. I would have loved that, making each fight fun and exciting, but the game gave you only weakspots that can bring down the enemy's health faster. They made each enemy hard to kill and each weakspot feel so unrewarding. And the weapons were the worst part, only giving the player a specific ammo type with each increase of quality. I wish they gave you each ammo type with each weapon you got, or at least had the player unlock it with story progression. It would have made the awful story better. Speaking of the story, it gives you two plots to understand: knowing your parents/identity and stopping this virus to make the robots so rampant. It makes you do both plot points at the same time that it confuses you on which is the main plot. Which is it? And why is Aloy so bored to even have feelings about either plot? 

Anyways, this is the list. I hope you enjoyed it and that at least one of your favorite games got on this list. I know that some of you might want to say that I'm wrong about my opinion, so please don't try, I stand by my opinion and won't change it. I might make one about underrated game soon, but who knows, that might be scrapped. Again, I hope you enjoyed and 'til next time... 

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This is Basically...

I am a poor kid, I lived with a family that spent as little as possibly on Christmas and Birthdays just so we can live in a house for rent. So, most of the time I went through the Bargain Bin with my dad to see what game we could fish out. They were under five bucks, so we could afford it without regretting another week without food or electricity. I have played some bad games and sometimes some forgettable decent ones, but there was always a lucky chance that we found a game that we could call better than the rest. Hello and welcome to this underrated countdown. 

10. Titanfall 2

I found this game for sale in the Xbox Store, the game was up to 20 dollars in the standard edition as the Ultimate Edition was only 60 dollars I believe. I bought it thinking that I might have found another multiplayer shooter with a crappy campaign. Oh, I was wrong. The game had a great story with great characters that felt so relatable for lack of better words. The multiplayer was stunning to me, having so much to it and an easy to learn play style that can be difficult sometimes. I love this game so much that I sank more than hundreds of hours on this game than Battlefield 1 that came with it. 

What is strange and suspicious is how the Executives of the game, EA put the game in the middle of two major games followed by very little advertising. It's a tactic on the developers that producers and executives don't care about. If they don't see that it's going to do well, but they can't say no, they put the game in the middle of famous and beloved franchises or products. It's something that a lot of toy developers do in the business and a lot of people have catched the method. That made the game nearly forgotten and made it a box office bomb. It sucks to know that happen, but seeing that the community is constantly growing and the game is given so much free content, all that can be ignored and become little factoids for fans, even if the awful sales prevented a sequel to ever happen...

9. G-Force the Game

When I was a kid, I hated this movie. It made me feel awkward and strange watching these CG Guinea Pigs do spy work. It was a stupid concept and wasn't fun to watch even if it had a famous cast playing in it. When my dad got me the game of this awful movie, I was worried I might find another strange and awkward moment to never forget, but the game was better than I thought it would be. It was actually a fun game with great mechanics and items. It gave you puzzles that were easy to solve, but were fun doing so. You had all these gadgets to destroy walking coffee machines and toasters, each one being different than the last. You had to find a weakness to each robot and there was a fun to executing techniques to kill each robotic appliance. It was fun and the enemy variety was amazing to me. It got everything that movie did wrong and made it cool and fun. 

I know this is a strange pick for this list, but it's a genuinely great game that I could not believe was going in my top favorites. The game was a massive flop because it followed the movie, but had decent reviews, having some that go above the 7 mark. If you have a 360 in your house, you should get this game. It's like five bucks on eBay and I think you can get it in some Game Stops or Best Buys for the two dollar price range, if they have it. 

8. X-Men Origins: Wolverine

I know this is another movie game that shouldn't be on this list, but god, this is one of those great gems you wouldn't expect. If you are in love with or just enjoy Hack 'n Slash games with awesome gore, this is the game you would love. It follows the story of Wolverine in a great and charming game fashion that my mother loves. In my opinion, the movie was real bad and is one of the worst superhero movies I've seen, but this game cleans everything up about the movie and turns it into a masterpiece. All the abilities and combos mesh so well and each piece of graphical design is surprisingly beautiful. Even for it's time with it's slick look, it still looks good. 

The worst part about this game was that it was easy to pirate it, giving the game awful looking sales numbers. I would have to be guilty that I was one of those people who pirated it, it was a glorious piece of art and I wish I payed for the full price in the market. If you want this game, I really suggest to get it on the 360, since the graphics on the Playstation made it look a bit downgraded. It's a bit pricy, being over $40 on eBay and Amazon, but it's worth the price. 

7.  Bioshock 2

This is a bit of a questionable entry in this list since the game was already known to the public and made it to the remaster, but if you look into the past, the game was considered a disgrace to the game's source material. I don't know why, they considerably made the game better, solving the Plasmid/Weapon switch to an easy duel-wield and made the Plasmid Upgrades do more than just upgrade damage. The enemy diversity was raised to a good three extra enemies, the Brute Splicers, Big Daddy Prototypes and the beloved Big Sister. The enemy redesigns had a better changes than many sequel redesigns. There was even a wider range of characters to see what the world is like in Rapture and how it affected these people. And what I love is that the Player Voice is the same as the original, but with a Big Daddy filter on it. I love it more than the original in terms of game design, but I can say that the narrative is lacking. I hated the 6 endings, but the game was fun. 

The one thing that put players off was how they added the unneeded Multiplayer option. The multiplayer was somewhat fun, having some unique gameplay that were actually fun to play with, but the fans hated it and reviewers said that this almost destroyed the game's image. I don't see why, but I thought it was mildly fun. They had awful reviews and the only thing that saved the developers was the toy sales. I love those things. Only if I got my hands on them when they were being sold, they're over my price range now, if you ask me. It did make them remove the multiplayer it from the game entirely in the remaster which is understandable. 

6. Destiny

Destiny was... A game... With a Promise. Who hasn't talked about this? It's probably the Zelda of a bad game, everyone knows about it. If you remember No Man's Sky,  that game had a lot of promise and so much to deliver. When we got what we weren't promised, we all hated it. This game did the same, but it was a promise for a good and interesting story with great gameplay. We all loved it for a few minutes and then noticed, the story was not there, the gameplay was a boring grinding and what little gameplay we had was so shorlived. Of course, the developers saved the game with DLC, but no one liked that cheeky attempt of a save. You had to pay $15 dollars for one DLC and it was considered an overprice, but worth it since the game gets much better from those four DLCs. They expanded the game greatly and made it much more fun to play with friends or new friends as you play along the way.

The game had some great design, looking so unique to most other games, and the way this game was; the lore, the weapons, the enemies and the lingering questions you ask yourself as you play made the game such a great experience. Of course, the vanilla game is awful as all hell, but the DLCs added make the game fun. I know that I'm one of the many that defend the game for what it was and most of you are probably saying you don't have the money to pay for every DLC. You can buy this game with every single piece of content this game had to offer for $40. Heading a bit towards the pricy side, but still good for how much you are saving considering each DLC is 15 dollars, but who's going to do that when the sequel is almost out?

5. Let It Die

Imagine if Dark Souls had a threesome with Destiny and a Punk Group, you would probably get this game. I love the concept of this game a lot, having the player go through a tower of unknown wonders and death that it feels like hunger games. The look of the world is wonderful and the retro feel to it contrasts so well with the punky vibe. Besides all that, the game has great enemies who are easy to kill, but a challenge to fight. And you can see other player's zombie bodies wandering around the map waiting for the next person to kill. I adore that concept, it's almost ingenious, I'm surprised Dark Souls hasn't done that! And the Death System is so incredible, if you die, you lose everything: your items, clothing, your experience, everything that character had is gone. And to achieve it is awesome, you have to wander back into that area and kill that version of yourself to gain back anything. I love it, but I can see this being a game breaker since you would have to level up your new character to get back to a far area, which increases in difficulty every level you traverse in. That actually is one of the reasons why it got such a low rating, getting below a 7.

I love the characters in it and the player encounters are much better than most of encounters in Dark Souls, not being a heart wrenching event, but more of an accepted challenge. If you ever want to play this game, it's Free in the PSN Store and has a great community and cast of characters, with Mark Hamill playing the Prologue Narrator... He could have been so much more...

4. Halo Reach

Reach is one of the game I grew up with and most games I played then, I hate now. Bubsy being in the list. But Reach was one of those game that I can cry to. Show me the end of The Last of Us? I won't shed a tear. Give me the death of Dom, I will comment about how much that sucks, but no crying. Show me Reach? I'll f**king cry... Each and every bit of the campaign was amazing and heart wrenching, the gameplay had no changes, but with a few weapon redesigns. We were given ability packs and new weapons to play with. I genuinely love this game and every piece of it. The Multiplayer is so desirable and the Firefight mode was enhanced to be better than it was. Shorter, but a lot more fun. 

What is strange is that the game was forgotten because of the 343 Controversy. The game had some incredible ratings almost having a straight 10 rating streak, the game was overshadowed for how awful and big Halo 4 was. I have heard some hardcore fans say that this game and the ODST spin-off tainted the games, but I would disagree. The game has a  legendary story to it and a perfect multiplayer with little that was changed. If you can get your hands on this game, it's about $15 on Ebay and $20 in the Xbox Store. 

3. Dishonored

Dishonored is a game that was advertised for how bloody the game was and how many kills you can do in it ti one person. Of course, the game was hated for not saying more than that. A lot of people hated the multiple endings, most players on the first playthrough getting the bad one, showing them how much of a d**che they were in the game. The game was harder when you played the pacifist route and barely rewarded you for it. I'd say that the developers did a good job with the game, giving the simplest ability so much range for the player to do as the please, letting them crawl on the roofs of the Dunwall City or pawling the alleyways. The game had such simple mechanics and gave the player so much to do with them in the game's map. Each part of the game's maps were well designed for each ability, giving so much free roam to everyone. You want to sneak through the well guarded embassy? You could use your Possession on a fish that's in a pond and swim in a pipe that leads directly into the building. Or you can use your Blink ability to carefully jump on hard to reach platforms that lead you into the building, having an eagle eye view of everyone in there. 

The game is great and has such a clever design to it. The artstyle is amazingly stunning and stand against the test of time. I see this game in the clearance bin a lot in Walmarts and Best Buys, so if you see this game in there, buy it. It's worth every cheap penny you spent.

2. Brutal Legends

Jack Black was an awesome musician that inspired many to sing like him. He had a great show that started his band, Tenacious D, and had a decent movie about the band and how they became what they were. When everyone heard he was going to get a game that he was going to make, everyone freaked. It was the pinnacle of his fame, so almost everyone was excited to see what kind of game he was going to deliver. It even had some Rock 'n Roll legends such as Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy Kilmister playing their own character in the game. What everyone got was a fun mess that very few liked. The game was fun and had lots of great reviews, but the people didn't like how it was a tower defense game. Not the typical send troops and hope for the best, it was a MOBA like game that had you fight alongside your fellow warriors. Each troop type had a strategy to them, Headbangers were the cannon fodder, but packed a big punch when they horde against anyone. The Razor Gals were the ranged attacks that did massive damage to incoming hordes, but were weak against attacks. The game had some fun gameplay and it was satisfying to play. The multiplayer function was even a great staple of the game, taking some aspects from the Tower Defense part of the game and making it a fun and greatly competitive part of the game. 

And the game's design, the Rock 'n Roll Album feel to the game's environment was so cool to stare at. I was so happy that the game was open world, just so you can enjoy the detail the game had. It might be dated today and look too edgy to most people, but it's so unique and so iconic to this game. Even the concept of each Rock Genre is basically fighting each other: Rock fighting Grunge fighting Goth. I love that a lot and the Gothic Grunts were clearly inspired by the Cure. If you like that kind of concept and would love to play a game about it, Brutal Legends is the perfect match right next to edgy skate board games. 

1. Condemned: Criminal Origins

I believe this game got me to love the Horror Genre in games. I always thought Horror games were cheesy and dumb, only giving you mild scares, but this game makes you rethink that. The AI chases you by hiding behind corners and pillars, making the player paranoid about losing an enemy or crossing a doorway. The genuine fear you feel in this game is amazing and it really makes you fear abandoned houses and the dark, because that's all the setting is. Every other game I play that tries it's hardest to scare me did so poorly, but this game forced you by shoving crazy hobos at you, sewer monster that can crawl on walls like the god damn Grudge were a constant threat and the sound design was perfect, making random noises in the distance, keeping the player on the edge of the seat, always. This game beats RE7 out of the water by a longshot and has the perfect kind of tank controls to worry the player more. 

The game mostly flopped because of the themes it carried and having some elements from Manhunt, so most of the advertising was restricted to gaming magazine ads, making the game mostly unknown to the public eye unless you had a Game Informer subscription. Trust me, if you like horror at its finest, play this game. 

Well, that's my list. I know my last one was a bit controversial (especially for my 200th post), but I hope this makes up for it. I hope you agree with most of this and that you never heard of at least one of these games. I hope you enjoyed this and 'til next time...

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Swivel!

I don't have a Switch, but I am that lucky guy that has a best friend with tons of money to spend. He got the console a while back and he finally got Splatoon 2. I heard great things about the game and so much more, having a Boss Rush mode in the game. I haven't had something like that in years. I went over, took advantage of my friend and played the game. As many of you probably know me already, I didn't like it much. Hello and welcome to this Abstract Review.

The multiplayer has this childish look to it that I love, having so many strange looking character. You freaking have Celebrity Hosts that tell you what maps are in rotation. I love that! And the touch of realism to the celebrity is hilarious. There isn't anything real about them, but the obvious fake smile on the cute black one is just priceless to me. I love it! The graphics are beautiful as well in those Map Rotations. The rest of the multiplayer experience was most destroying kids as an adult. "But there's a good Adult Player base!" says the viewer. I know, but you'll find very little of those. The competition is so low when you first play this game that most of the time players try to ink the players instead of the map. And don't get me wrong, the idea of inking the map is genius to me. A very unique way to win a match, but they made aiming in the game so inaccurate. I know you're suppose to not kill the other team, but why making aiming seem so impossible? Your crosshairs are always where you never want it to be, making being near a wall for cover, changing where you shoot. Just.... Why? "Because you need to paint the map!" says the viewer. But you also need to defend yourself while doing all that. You're trying to claim land and take what you lost back, why hinder the player this much with inaccurate gameplay? It just seem pointless to me. I don't expect this much of a hider on a multiplayer shooter besides damage. Whether or not you use the motion controls (Which are crap), you still won't find any change to it. 

And the weapons, if you want to die, please choose the Sniper. Accurate, does massive damage, but you need to charge the damn thing, a long one at that. The weapons leaves you vulnerable for so long that anyone can destroy you without any protection. "But that's the point of the weapon, long ranged combat, not close!" says the viewer. The isn't big enough for you to do that. The range is long, but doesn't go across the map like other Snipers I've seen. And if you want to win, use the default gun. Great range, great DPS damage, great defence, but it's default... Nothing unique about this gun! If want to do nothing, but still play the game, use the Roller. It's like using a Knife in a Gunfight, you have to get close to do any damage and you have to be pretty close. It's like the Backstab of this game, you have to skillfully sneak up on anyone to get any kills. At least you're painting the map! And if you want to destroy anyone's will to live, use the paint bucket. This is basically the shotgun in this game, but somehow covers so much range. It's random for how far it goes, but it really goes far most of the time. And like I said, it's the shotgun in this game, so it covers so much space. And let me say it again, shotgun, so it does so much damage in one shot. This gun is OP and is such an unfair weapon. Covers more of the map than the Roller though. And that's basically the multiplayer. Unless you count there's no Party or Invite system to it... And the Ults... They're fun. 

It's disappointing to see that they don't utilize any of the campaign's awesome mechanics. The campaign is actually fun and is better than the multiplayer experience. It's actually fun, making painting the map more of a reward than just winning the game. You slide on the paint! You freaking slide on the paint and it's so fun and satisfying doing it. Why wasn't that apart of the multiplayer experience. It's like how Doom was handled, they put every piece of effort to make the campaign fun and interesting, but the multiplayer is just a joke and made the new guys do everything unsupervised. You can even Skate 3 Grind on stuff, making mobility so fun and fluid, I wish they made the multiplayer experience like that and they would have made the maps so much fun to walk around and paint. It would have been Titanfall 2 for kids! 

The only redeeming thing about this game is the artstyle and campaign. The multiplayer is mediocre, having so much wrong with it and so much they could have done to make it better and fun. And that's my thoughts. I would really love this game, but like I said already, the multiplayer is bad. If I were to rate it, an 8 would fit nicely for the campaign, but the multiplayer brings it down to a 6. I hope you enjoyed this and 'til next time...

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It's a Sequel as in Madden 17 is a Sequel...

Well, I am about to start a run of Junior year. I know it's been about four days since I started school, but it hasn't technically started, with all the informing the students thing. There is a lot going on in my life at the moment that I would like to inform you guys about, so if you care enough to read into it go ahead. I hate writing these things, so I hope some of you guys enjoy this.... In some manner.

What's With School?

Well for starters, school is about to take over my life. Classes then were a drag, having mostly teachers that picked favorites and obvious didn't like me, I failed about three classes partially because of that and the other was complete forgetfulness, I will admit that. So I have to retake a few classes right now. Besides that, I have about two college prep classes, Chemistry and CTE PC Graphics. I've always been a nerd about that stuff, so I'm glad I got those classes. I love most of the teachers I got, they're cool and reasonable with their work, I like how some actually give us the entire semester homework schedule at the first day of class and be able to do all those assignments before Christmas vacation. 

And what was funny is how the first three days of school, there was already a pranked fire alarm and a teacher dying on campus, having a lock down. Strange for that to happen and I think kind of scary for the new kids and Freshmen. 

I will say that I enjoy my classes and since I finally have the same lunch as one of my long time friends. If you don't know, my school has a strange lunch schedule, having to split the time between students, where some would be having lunch while there's class still in session in one section of the campus. We haven't talked in a while since then, so it's fun actually talking to him after a year of no contact. We actually made plans of what we might do after senior year. We actually might want to go to the LA Film School and moving near there.

So How's Life?

Something has come up. If you haven't heard, the landlord came to tell us he sold the house and that we might have to leave. And hearing the Realtor asking us if we want to put up the For Sale sign didn't sound great. Just today, he called us and said we have a few months until we have to move. My family is in awful debt with some medical bills, overpriced electrical bills, etc., so trying to find a house is going to be hard. We do have the Tax season to count on, but because I'm turning 18 before then, we might not get as much money let alone half of what they use to get for me. That means, Tax season might be an awful year for us, especially when it's near my B-Day. 

Moving might be hard and that might mean we might not get an Internet Plan, so we might be facing a longer hiatus. So, if I don't post for a long period of time, it's because of that or school. I do wish everything goes alright, I want a sturdy home again... Even though I never had a sturdy one to begin with. Might have to sell some things again. 

What About You?

I don't know if this really matters, but I guess I'll talk about this. If you don't know, I get random hits of depression. It can be very frequent and long or fairly rare and brief. I've had the worst year with that. I don't need comfort or anything like that, and it's nothing to do with anything in life, just regular depression and anxiety that come for no reason. I have been getting some headache recently making me feel so weak and mangled as well. Besides that, it's been a Dandy Life, Baby!

That's basically it. I hope you are well informed about me and what is going on. I really don't know how anyone will enjoy this, but I hope you did. I hope you enjoyed my boring life. Anyways, expect a large lack of activity mayben and 'til next time...

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Or just Watch Space Dandy.... Whatever makes you feel happy

I know many of you already know that I love history and my favorite time period is WWII, but I won't go on with that. So instead I will be talking about the game as a whole, no nostalgia, no unbiased attempt to make the game look better, just full hearted thoughts on the game and the community reacting to it. Now, for what you may know, CoD is a game that everyone knows about. You say Metroid, your Grampa is going to ask what the hell that is. When you say Call of Duty, everyone, even your Grampa will know what that is. It was a game that honored Veterans and my Grandfather is happy to see the game is still relevant. The game gave Veterans like my grandpa a name and an appreciation that any Veteran needs, but what do they not know about the game? Everyone hates it. Why? Product Saturation. Hello and welcome to this lovely thought blog. 

Call of Duty was the money muncher before money munching was even a business thought process. You and your parents only know that Call of Duty exists is because of how they won't stop making them. WWII shooters were irrelevant because of how much Call of Duty and their competitors wanted to be in glorified fame. They're not doing this to be known, but to get more money. Medal of Honor was the first to do the WWII game and they were kicked out of the water by CoD. Brothers in Arms was a great game that soon made a technical revolution with advanced facial animation, but was forgotten because CoD was in the way. Then they asked themselves, what else can we do? The WWII fame is fading! What should we do to save CoD? Then a light bulb was lit, how about modern warfare. I personally loved the games, they had a great campaign with great storytelling and a fun multiplayer with Spec Ops in it, but everyone hated it. Why? Because it was not WWII. But everyone didn't like WWII games, why hate a modern time version of the game? Disregarding the times and the controversy, there was still a large majority of people who liked the WWII style of gameplay. There was still people playing and liking the new Wolfenstein. They continued with the Modern age CoD until they started getting comments about milking the same game over. Another light bulb lit, why not go into the future!? Great idea, everyone said and then they all brainstormed a new game with a mediocre campaign, but new multiplayer. Everyone hated it. 

The funny thing was that there was nothing to do with the game series. Why go farther in the future? Just stop and stick with the glory you have. They heard those words and they thought of the best idea in the world! How about go back to WWII! It's a product that should have stopped a long time ago, but the creators just wanted more money. The reason why we have these awful games in our hands is because of Activision. The reason why Activision hasn't done anything besides CoD is because of CoD. It's generally depressing in my opinion. We all loved the old games, but they just leave an awful taste in your mouth, a taste of a corporate company. But who cares? The game look great! 

Well, in my best opinion, it looks like a traditional multiplayer shooter. Do I think the game is going to have a good campaign? I'm not entirely sure. Maybe the same kind of storytelling as Modern Warfare, but with awful gameplay of you watching people move things out of the way for you to go further in the game. Maybe that's the kind of campaign we'll get. I mean, what else can they do? They're going to get their money anyway, so I don't really care if the campaign is good or not. The multiplayer gameplay that I've seen looks fun. It makes me want to get it. And the gunshots are on point, satisfying to hear and cool. I love what they're doing with the game as well, making it as accurate as possible to both campaign and multiplayer. Wait... No... They aren't....

With gameplay aside, I think it's very disturbing to see a Black, Nazi woman fighting in the game. Why? It shouldn't be there. Why shouldn't it be there? Because she's a Nazi! I don't care if the lady's Black, Asian, Native American or whatever, as long as she's not a Nazi! And why hasn't the Feminists reacted to this? I told every person I know that's for women's rights and they disapprove of this! Why haven't your leaders in the Feminists HQ reacted to this in extreme anger!? As a person who loves this time period, this makes me not want the game. And to clarify, there were no Nazi black women. When the Nazis were making laws about the Jews, they thought the Blacks weren't bad because there was so few of them in Germany. They made no laws of against them and there hasn't been one Black Nazi recorded in history, nor a Black Women fighting for them. There was a Russian Sniper Team that consisted of women, but that was Russia, a land that was fighting on their own soil, begging for more troops. There was a demand for anyone to fight in the Russian army. 

I have nothing against Black Rights, nor Women's Rights, I just think it's wrong to make the game so inaccurate to history after telling us they were going to extreme accuracy. I know this is a small disliking and a widely talked about thing, so you can ignore that entire paragraph. 

Now let's talk about Zombies. For some reason, people keep saying that Zombies is boring and repetitive, making another wave based mode is useless. People, for some reason, complain about like they have to play it. Just ignore the Zombie news, it's not like you need to know more about it or even play it. I think personally it's going to be good. I know that's a common thought that comes up with any Zombies mode CoD, but what the people are doing to this mode is fantastic to me. The developers said that they're going to make it horror based, having the mode become what it was suppose to be. I really hope all the audio for this mode is clean, because sound key for horror. And the new enemy types sound amazing! The one they talked about was this caged Zombie that has flies coming out its eye sockets, making this buzzing sound for the player to hear. I love that a lot, making this notable queue for the player know that Zombie's presence. I adore that idea a lot! And how they're going history accurate with that as well, having all the zombies be similar to 1930's German Science sound amazing to me. I hope they do a lot with this mode and improve beyond the starter map. 

So I kind of like it. I might get it, maybe. I don't know. I believe I'm sold on the Zombies, so I might get it for my B-Day. Might. Anyways, my thoughts in a summary is basically, this is going to be a rehashed version of the classics we already have, but better looking and a new team behind it. People hate the games in general, with no reason at all, but because it's a Saturated Product. I hope you enjoyed this and 'til next time...

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One of my favorite horror flicks I can name is the first Alien. It had this sense of fear for the unknown in it that I loved when I first watched it as a kid. The alien that the Nostromo Crew found wiped out the entire crew, but Ripley, making that thing seem more than just an animal. That feeling in the movie was consistent in the first movie and sequel Aliens. Although toned down a bit there, but it still carried the feeling that it wasn't an ordinary monster. After the sequel that reflected the time period he was released in, the movies left that feeling of a new threat to learn. It became more of a common thing to see, instead of something new for the audience. I think Alien Resurrection being one of the movies that killed the franchise. Once they announced Prometheus, it was going to tell the origin story of that ship the Nostromo Crew found. It was a confusing mess made by the same person who made the original Alien, Ridley Scott, but it was a fun movie to watch. Then, to redeem how confusing Prometheus was, Ridley Scott made Alien Covenant. It's a direct sequel to Prometheus, but is rightfully so. Hello and welcome to the movie version of Abstract Reviews and no restraints of spoilers.

The movie begins with a Weyland Corp Colony to populate a planet that is known for habitation. The crew has a Cryosleep malfunction and James Franco dies in his pod with a fire to bake him while he sleeps. Each person in the pods has a significant other aboard the ship so they can populate properly. James Franco's wife comes in trying to take him out, but he's already dead and well done. Sorry, I had to make that joke. This scene alone gave the movie this original feel to it, the feel that it's going back to it's roots of the first Alien. Plus, rest this part of the movie after this scene gives off this Nostromo feel to it. This is a crew that has to follow orders and do their best to survive in these conditions and the quietness of this part made it feel so alone, like the original. I love how Ridley is actually making some esense to this movie like how he did the original movie, and I wish he could have done the same with the rest of the movie. 

As soon as the crew gets to work after seeing a fellow crew member be burnt to a crisp in front of his wife, they don't wanna go back in the pods to become another burnt bacon strip and sleep for another month or two, I might be off. The captain of the colony finds a planet near by the ship that is habitable and is only weeks away, meaning no Cryosleep. They don't know what to do and don't wanna go to their designated planet and sleep in those death trap pods. James Franco's wife turns out to be second captain of the colony and has a private chat with the captain before going to this unknown planet. They argue whether or not they should do that instead of going to a known planet. The captain refuses to take any chances and goes to the unknown planet to save everyone's worries. And this is the only reasonable choice or action in the movie. The rest is either questionable or just plain, typical horror characters doing everything with mistakes. I wish this movie didn't have to come to this and is only one of my gripes about it. It just feels like the story was only reworked once and finished to make the movie more possible. I know that the movie was well funded and had of work done on it, but if they payed more attention to test audiences or went through different plots. I don't know the process of which they made this movie, but this is what I'm going to say before someone corrects me. 

They send an excavation team to go on the unknown planet and everyone is to see if the place is safe to habitize. They make samples of the terrain and water and as someone is doing that, a member kicks a shroom with spores spraying in his face and minds nothing of it. When I watched it with family, my mom argued they couldn't see it because it was microscopic. I can see her reasoning towards that, but I still question why show that to the audience? You had a sound cue of the plant bursting into the faces of the members, so why not have them react to it? I know none of the conflict could have happened if they wafted away the spores, but you could have made the spores fast acting, have the spores explode in the face of the crew member and have the crew react to that happening and have the guy be under quarantine along with any member who made contact with him. Have this conflict where this guy is bleeding uncontrollably and arguing with the engineer to come back or not. They refuse and they come too close to the ship and the engineer brings out a gun to stop them, or have the security on the ship point all weapons at them, threatening them to stay back before they get killed. That would have been interesting to me. That would have made the Chestbursters scene - oh wait, Backbursters scene - feel more intense, the captain of the excavation team trying to let this man in to have medical attention while having a few innocent people killed because of how peer pressured the engineer was trying to keep the ship safe and clean. Instead we got two guys infected with the spores and the engineer struggling to follow quarantine rules being contaminated with blood, slipped on blood and blowing herself up, while misfiring inside the ship, killing her along with the ship to get off the planet. 

I know this was to bring some kind of effect on the characters, but that basically put them in a corner. We blew up the ship, their only escape on the planet with no connection to the colony... Seems like the end. No, it's only half an hour long! We have to make it longer! Should we trash it and start over? No, pick up where we left off! It really feels like this is suppose to end right there. I know there was barely any alien to see and few Backbursters, but there is something here that feels like it was suppose to end. I don't know, this is mostly my opinion, so you can ignore that crap-fest.

Once you meet their savior to give them a new home, the movies starts to feel forced. The mysterious inclusion of the savior felt so cliche, just having this feeling that he watched these people do their thing on his planet. I guess this was the writer's intention, but they could done it a lot better without pushing this character in all of the sudden. I mean, they could have found a temple with writing to give some clue of someone still alive on the planet, a drawing or a living quarters in a cave before having someone get infected by the spores. Maybe have someone in the team find an H.R. Giger drawing on the floor, something to signify someone's presence on the planet. I know there was the signal that they found the planet with (sorry I didn't mention that), after seeing how corrupt it looked, the message seemed long time sent, so there was nothing to find other than maybe animals or plants.

Once the mysterious man shows who he was, they step in an ancient city that use to be alive on the planet. They discover the mysterious person is the same Android from Prometheus that got his head ripped off. Don't ask how he got his body back, they never explain. It turns out, when they arrived on the planet, the city was alive, with a city surrounding the new comer. The ship misfired pods that contained the spores and killed the entire city without warning. Elizabeth was killed during the landing, having David build a memorial to her name. David does explain how he got his body back, but that comes into play later. Walter (the Colony Android) comes to greet David and has some time to mingle and have some questioning thoughts put into Walter's robotica head by David, about how much Androids are restricted to think and how malfunctioning is when the Android is wrong. I liked the scene where they talk to each other, but when David tried to make out with Walter is a bit strange. I don't mind it, just doesn't fit the situation. I think I would have liked it better if they made it more of David making Walter question his existence and love with the wife of James Franco before he died in the movie. Making Walter want to rebel against his protocol and help David in his work. 

Speaking of David's work, it turns out he was studying biology the time he was on the planet. I don't know how since they accidentally killed all life on the planet, but he did. A model of a human and its organ structure depicting how long he was there, along with bugs that could be only from Earth. Questionable, but it builds David's character. With what he had, he studied the spores and found out it was Xenomorph cells. They don't say that, but I want to call it that. He used whatever life he had to experiment with the spores, seeing what new organic life he would find from these Xenomorph cells. He shows the Second Captain his findings along with some of the other crew. The rest were outside trying to get a signal to the Colony Ship. There was really nothing to talk about that. The scene is perfectly informative and this part of the movie explained everything pretty well. 

As that scene ends, one of the run-away Backbursters comes back for a meal and eats one of the female team members. He head floats in a pool of water as the monster dines on her body. David comes in and sees this happen. He tries to communicate with the creature and seems to be doing well. A d**che bag with a gun comes in and refuses to let the poor Android talk to monster and shoots it. As that happens, you get the most genuine "No!" in a movie possible. I'd say, Michael Fassbender did a good job with both the facial expression and passion in his voice for that single moment. After that, the unreasonable and question actions take place. David is demanded to show this d**che who shot the monster what's going on. He agrees and shows him the facehuggers room! You'd think every person known to man would not go near those things even not watching the movie Alien in the first place. He's asked to touch the facehugger eggs and he touches it. The burst open. David tells him to look inside, he looks inside like the good boy he is. Why would you do that? I was extremely confused as to why he would do this without refusing to do so. You just experienced two people die from Xenomorph Cells on this planet and you want to look into something you don't even know? You must have gotten straight F's in school and ran into walls, boy!

This is when you get an Alien for the first time! It's not a monster, but it's not what you would remember. When you watch Alien, the Chestburster is a snake-like creature, but in this movie, it's a literal baby Alien. A small little version of the awesome alien we all know and love. I guess this can be argued that this facehugger was an alternate version of what we know, but you could have tried to make some minor differences to the original serpent design of the original. Make it have little arms and legs, but still resemble the original chestburster, just a few redesigns that won't alienate the audience and fans to what they knew from the previous films. Again, there is a lot to argue this is a reboot of the original, but still is considered a prequel to the original. Moving on, Walter finds out that Elizabeth was actually experimented on and examined, finding her corpse with a large opening from her abs to the top of her neck, showing everything in her body. Turns out the misfire of the pods full of the spores (or Xenomorph Cells) were actually manually fired by David. It's a cool twist that I didn't actually see coming. I liked it for the most part and seeing Walter die was actually a suspenseful moment to watch, knowing how crazy David actually is, but who made his body? I mean, what material did they have to rebuild him back as a normal, function Android? It doesn't make sense since Elizabeth didn't escape in a human ship, but in an alien ship with no known materials. I guess David told her how to do it, but still that would have to take a long time to rebuild an entire Android body.

The rest of the crew finally gets a signal from the Colony ship and send for help. Two of the members gets suspicious about a few of the crew's absences. One find the body of the girl and her head floating in the water and David's lab. The Alien finds them and kills one of the two members. Suspense-wise, I loved this scene. I think I smiled once I saw the Alien, the villain I was waiting for. As David tries to stop the crew from escaping, Walter appear to be still alive, then another epic scene comes in. They start to fight in a robotic, karate fashion, but this is where the scene kind of falls. The fighting is too robotic, making it look very silly as they fight. I mean, yes when they fly through the air after getting punched is fun to watch, but can look silly in some shots. The fight cuts before we find out who won the fight and the crew is leaving as Walter robotically rushes towards the ship. As they get on the ship, an alien jumps on the belly of their escape. The eventually kill it as the movies seems to be over, leaving us with a small scene of the Alien killing things in an awesome and gory fashion. 

They get back on the Colony Ship safe and sound as a new sign of life is found on the ship! I don't know, this feels like they wanted to end right here, but an executive wanted more film time in the movie. The movie runs on with a few more scenes of the Alien on the ship killing a couple about the do it in the shower. An awful way to die, but I love the gore and how the alien gets his stuff done in this part. They make a final scene with the Alien just like in Alien, being in the Airlock and luring it near the Airlock hatch to kill it. They do that in a few minutes and it was fun while the alien lasted. The movie tries to end on a high note, but ti turns out Walter was actually David. What a twist! When you give me two twists, how David lied about Elizabeth and now this. It wasn't much of a surprise, but I can take it I guess. Then that's the end. He has the Colony Ship, reporting the deaths of the entire crew, with all two-thousand colonist to experiment on. How fun! It leaves a bad taste in your mouth after seeing that, but it had it's moments. Everyone was great in this movie, including Fassbender. I loved just about every scene with the alien, but there was so little. 

This movie, I would say, is not a good Alien movie. It works well without Alien in the title, since it has it's own moment that were good. I do wish there was more moments with the alien in it to redeem most of the movie's flaws, but I guess it would be an 8 in my list. I don't expect a sequel to this movie to come out, since they left on such a room place to continue, but I was wrong about Prometheus, so who knows? We might eventually get a good Alien movie with lots of scenes with the alien in it. I hope you enjoyed this Abstract review and 'til next time...

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