Post by Uesugi-dono on Apr 1, 2018 11:47:42 GMT
So sorry for my long absence. I may have neglected to mention that I was off for a week due to my children's spring break combined with the lack of a babysitter. I needed it following the hell week prior to it. (6 days with 5 of those as 12 hour days.)
I mostly did a lot of "necessary" stuff that I never had time to do, the majority of it revolving around our two "new" cars. We replaced my wife's shitty Dodge van with a 2006 Honda Odyssey over a month ago and since then it has just sat in the driveway waiting for me to transfer title and tags. Finally got that done. Dumped about 900 more dollars into my new car fixing some of the shit the shifty Arab I bought it from neglected to tell me. (I still have more to go but I ran out of money.) Oh, and I mowed the motherfucking grass, a task which I LOATHE. One of these days I'm going to make good on my threat to replace ALL of it with bamboo.
On to the good stuff,
I had 50 dollars on a gift card from my birthday plus enough Power Up Rewards points to yield a 25 dollar gift card so I decided to take the plunge into Far Cry 5. I am not disappointed. What I've found is a game that is much better than Far Cry 4 in pretty much every single way except one: I miss crafting gear from animal elements. I've heard people say that Joseph Seed is a poor antagonist compared to Pagan Min but I disagree... a LOT. The Father is terrifying. Absolutely terrifying because he is BELIEVABLE. People are out there running loose right now who are basically this archetype. In fact FC5 is overtly BELIEVABLE. This was my major worry; how do you have the chaos of a Far Cry set in America? But they nailed it, Ubi nailed it and the end result feels like a homegrown revolution. It is helpful that you can call up to two AI controlled partners (with upgrade) to help you take on missions (I'm not sure if you can have 3p co-op as I haven't even gotten into co-op yet) but it's hard not to make one of those partners Boomer, the dog you rescue early on. Boomer's biggest issue is that he won't get in a vehicle with you. Instead he runs behind you and gets hit by a car every fucking time requiring you to turn around and revive him. *ahem* Requiring you to turn around and revive him. Yes, you WILL go out of your way to save Boomer in ways far more extraordinary than your human companions. I digitally burned to death trying to save Boomer in the middle of a firefight because his furry ass went down next to a fire and was at risk of burning. The simple truth is Boomer is a better stealth companion than anyone else. He autotags enemies and doesn't set off alarms if he gets spotted. (Although to be fair your AI companions do a good job of not stumbling into enemy camps; they just fail to reposition if imminent discovery is about to happen.) Overall opinion? Get Far Cry 5. This is game of the year material. Ubi hit a home run with this one.
Moving on,
I've said it previously and I'll say it again as many times as I have to: Star Wars Rebels is the best Star Wars there is. I finished the series and all I can say is that I cried. I literally cried. This is the Star Wars we deserve. This is the Star Wars we waited for. Dave Filoni needs to be in charge of the entire SW universe in my opinion because he gets Star Wars. Taken as a whole the power of Rebels is undeniable. This is Star Wars for Star Wars fans, for the people who grew up with Star Wars and not for spoiled millennials who want to see trans-justice bullshit everywhere they look. Whatever Filoni does next... I am there. I support him 110% and I cannot wait for his next project.
That's pretty much my week, barring For Honor and a little XCOM 2. I had multiple opportunities to see Black Panther and made other choices so I am apparently still an unrepentant racist. I did see the animated movie In this Corner of the World.
This is a rather disjointed tale of a rather disjointed and distracted girl living in 1930's Hiroshima. Always drawing and always spacey she marries a man from the next town over. At first you think "Hiroshima? No thanks, I've already seen Barefoot Gen" but you'd be remiss. The atomic bomb plays a relatively small part in her tale; rather the defining moment comes from a conventional bombing of her new town Kure and the rather devastating consequences of a delay-action bomb that changes her life forever. It is a poignant portrait of common life for a Japanese family during the war and just how far removed from all of it they were... until they were not. I'm sure Koreans and Chinese would sneer but it also helps you understand that the entirety of the country was not mindless nationalist imperialism but rather day to day life and common concerns.
At any rate I'm back. Now I have to catch up... and start this damn algebra again!
I mostly did a lot of "necessary" stuff that I never had time to do, the majority of it revolving around our two "new" cars. We replaced my wife's shitty Dodge van with a 2006 Honda Odyssey over a month ago and since then it has just sat in the driveway waiting for me to transfer title and tags. Finally got that done. Dumped about 900 more dollars into my new car fixing some of the shit the shifty Arab I bought it from neglected to tell me. (I still have more to go but I ran out of money.) Oh, and I mowed the motherfucking grass, a task which I LOATHE. One of these days I'm going to make good on my threat to replace ALL of it with bamboo.
On to the good stuff,
I had 50 dollars on a gift card from my birthday plus enough Power Up Rewards points to yield a 25 dollar gift card so I decided to take the plunge into Far Cry 5. I am not disappointed. What I've found is a game that is much better than Far Cry 4 in pretty much every single way except one: I miss crafting gear from animal elements. I've heard people say that Joseph Seed is a poor antagonist compared to Pagan Min but I disagree... a LOT. The Father is terrifying. Absolutely terrifying because he is BELIEVABLE. People are out there running loose right now who are basically this archetype. In fact FC5 is overtly BELIEVABLE. This was my major worry; how do you have the chaos of a Far Cry set in America? But they nailed it, Ubi nailed it and the end result feels like a homegrown revolution. It is helpful that you can call up to two AI controlled partners (with upgrade) to help you take on missions (I'm not sure if you can have 3p co-op as I haven't even gotten into co-op yet) but it's hard not to make one of those partners Boomer, the dog you rescue early on. Boomer's biggest issue is that he won't get in a vehicle with you. Instead he runs behind you and gets hit by a car every fucking time requiring you to turn around and revive him. *ahem* Requiring you to turn around and revive him. Yes, you WILL go out of your way to save Boomer in ways far more extraordinary than your human companions. I digitally burned to death trying to save Boomer in the middle of a firefight because his furry ass went down next to a fire and was at risk of burning. The simple truth is Boomer is a better stealth companion than anyone else. He autotags enemies and doesn't set off alarms if he gets spotted. (Although to be fair your AI companions do a good job of not stumbling into enemy camps; they just fail to reposition if imminent discovery is about to happen.) Overall opinion? Get Far Cry 5. This is game of the year material. Ubi hit a home run with this one.
Moving on,
I've said it previously and I'll say it again as many times as I have to: Star Wars Rebels is the best Star Wars there is. I finished the series and all I can say is that I cried. I literally cried. This is the Star Wars we deserve. This is the Star Wars we waited for. Dave Filoni needs to be in charge of the entire SW universe in my opinion because he gets Star Wars. Taken as a whole the power of Rebels is undeniable. This is Star Wars for Star Wars fans, for the people who grew up with Star Wars and not for spoiled millennials who want to see trans-justice bullshit everywhere they look. Whatever Filoni does next... I am there. I support him 110% and I cannot wait for his next project.
That's pretty much my week, barring For Honor and a little XCOM 2. I had multiple opportunities to see Black Panther and made other choices so I am apparently still an unrepentant racist. I did see the animated movie In this Corner of the World.
This is a rather disjointed tale of a rather disjointed and distracted girl living in 1930's Hiroshima. Always drawing and always spacey she marries a man from the next town over. At first you think "Hiroshima? No thanks, I've already seen Barefoot Gen" but you'd be remiss. The atomic bomb plays a relatively small part in her tale; rather the defining moment comes from a conventional bombing of her new town Kure and the rather devastating consequences of a delay-action bomb that changes her life forever. It is a poignant portrait of common life for a Japanese family during the war and just how far removed from all of it they were... until they were not. I'm sure Koreans and Chinese would sneer but it also helps you understand that the entirety of the country was not mindless nationalist imperialism but rather day to day life and common concerns.
At any rate I'm back. Now I have to catch up... and start this damn algebra again!
