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I liked 2018 a lot less than the original three, "levelling" and "loot" are total fun-killers in any game. It's a testament to how good everything else is about it that I still liked it and am still hyped for Wednesday.

I hope it manages to not spoil me in the hint screen this time, I got a very helpful "to use the Blades of Chaos press blah blah blah" barely an hour into the last one!

Finally! Anything short of Essien reincarnated and this delayed build hasn't been worth it.

56 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

I bothered. It was better than the fourth but still shite. 

Until you've sat through two seasons of the MTV Scream series that I'm pretty certain was made for 12-16 year old girls, you don't get to express regret!

Was this an innocent warning post? Or a genius bit of shithousery making sure that you're aware that it's actually a thing while you're torturing yourself compulsively watching all things Scream? Time will tell.

Nobody will think any less of you for being a quitter who could only make it less than half way through the complete Scream saga.

If I can do the same skill it doesn't really count as being a great entertainer. Especially against Moldovan opposition. Pull off a La Gravesinha in a competitive league, then you can call yourself an "artist".

Gangs of London season 2 was still absolute trash, but again the action was so good it was worth persevering with the "acting".

6 hours ago, Carbomb said:

He had really good chemistry with Samoa Joe too, I distinctly remember - they had some pretty decent matches.

Nash's on again/off again mentor/enemy thing he had going on with Joe in the first half of 2008 made for some really good TV. Their Turning Point match late in the year was excellent and really underrated. Joe, even in defeat rarely looked better than when he had a 7-footer pinballing around for him. Nash needing to bust out two Jackknifes, a chair shot, an exposed tunrnbuckle, a low blow and a feet on the ropes pin to just about keep him down made Joe look great.

The polar opposite to the Booker T feud in that Summer that killed Joe's title reign and any ounce of momentum stone dead. Whoever decided to have them work 50/50 and have Joe only able to win after cheating, at the second attempt should have been fired!

Gerrzan stands a good chance at being the more entertaining pundit when they move on to part three of their war, tbf. "Me Steven, you Gary, this studio. Next Monday... we... go... again?" beats "Can I go to bed now? Hahahaha, no but seriously, that was a great game of football".

I was worried I was starting to like him after that cold stare he gave the Everton fans. I'm glad it's become increasingly clear that he couldn't coach me to grow a stiffy if Elisha Cuthbert was spreading her bumcheeks for me.

I'd love to know how long it took Kiefer to voice all his lines and how much he was paid per-line. For about every two hours of dialogue in the game he's good for an "OK" or "Got it".

SID vs Goldberg, Halloween Havoc 1999: Big guilty pleasure of mine. Sid comes out bleeding already (It's more fun not looking for context why), it eventually turns into an absolute gusher and the match, weirdly, consists of heel Sid valiantly fighting from underneath, taking a beating and eventually passing out from blood loss. The fuck? An odd mess. I like it!

Pentagon Jr. vs Villano IV, mask vs mask, Triplemania XXX Part 3: I'm still chasing that Blue Demon Jr. vs Dr Wagner Jr. high from a few years ago. This wasn't that good (there was no forklift staredown!), yet a really great, bloody, emotion-fueled match all the same. I don't know or watch much lucha but the drama and crowd investment in these mask matches are insane, loads of tears in the post-match scenes (not saying the result as it's only a few days old). Some great visuals, topless Penta pissing blood through his ripped mask looked amazing! Recommend.

Cool spoiler image...

Money!

Kepa took my Cudicini post to heart! I'm not at all prepared for him being good now, I couldn't react any other way than piss myself laughing at the triple save and didn't think I'd ever breathe again after the one from the header. What is he doing?

It's weird the crowd were so desperate to get their shit in that they played along with such an obviously disingenuous promo from Bray (and if he wasn't deliberately going for that look then he's even worse an actor than I ever thought). It was like a really shit version of Hogan's amazing No Way Out 2002 "but God bless all of you too!" promo while wearing 12 crosses round his neck.

It's good to have a little cliffhanger and mystery around someone again, mind. I'll let it play out, but being Bray I don't have much hope in it being passable. Not a great start.

Bayonetta 3 looks great and will be the first time dusting off my Switch since Dread. I need to support it as it's in a dying genre, but what a shitty situation and pathetic offer.

@Devon Malcolm You were right about Monster Hunter. Surprisingly okay. Like all Anderson films it achieved what it set out to do (make Mila look sexy and cool*) pretty well, some good chemistry between her and Jaa, some decent action and very little dialogue/character development/explanation of what's going on, which is great because no one cares! No RPG-related property has any right being this not boring or crap. Netflix should let Anderson do The Witcher, I'd watch!

* For the sake of clarity, I again have the count at mostly sexy.

Not on my watch.

10 minutes ago, Tommy! said:

MK: Monks was a really surprising game in that it's not a strait MK game but is actually really good (mythologies & special forces being the norm to then). I really enjoyed playing it when it was new and most of the MK lore and in jokes likely went over my head. I really should look at replaying it.

It's criminal there's no modern port or sequel. I'd love to play it again even solo, but as a co-op experience there's been very few games that have came close to being that fun.

5 hours ago, Lorne Malvo said:

There's a few there that I remember loving on the PS2, especially THUG, Black and Mercenaries, so I'm looking forwards to getting stuck into them. But are there any lessor-known games I should seek out?

Cold Fear is a gem. A Resi 4 knock-off on a boat, I love it. A lot of people slept on Total Overdose too, a mad Mexican Max Payne-like shooter that's a lot of fun.

None of the following are lesser known and you might have already caught them on PS2, but I'm going to list them anyway as a reminder that they're now available for you to play/replay: The Punisher, The Warriors, Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, Scarface and the three best Bond games are all fire.

Avoid the temptation to try any of the WWE games, they're all trash.

One of the finest sculptures the world has ever seen... and The Great Sphinx of Giza!

As much as Werner, Pervertz (he's obviously still a living legend though) and Jadon No-show have put the fear of god into me from buying from Germany, I'm still excited by the prospect of this. Please just work!

A beat of mysterious origin that kills people who listen? Just when you think Hollywood's ran out of great ideas, this comes along!

I hope they have to beatbox an ancient spell to break the curse.

The new collection, The Extreme, has added a couple of classics to the Network for the first time. The Slaughter/Patterson alley fight from 81 and the Hogan/Race Texas death match from 87. Highly recommend both and it's nice to have them in better quality!

Remember when Ashley Young drank bird shit, turned into Tony Yeboah and started scoring bangers for a while*? I'm interested in seeing what she can do now.

* No one correct me if any part of that timeline is wrong. It's better my way.

Walton Goggins is in Fallout, so it has a fighting chance at being not shit. His scenes anyway.

Ninja Terminator is the best. Sometimes I'm a little ashamed thinking about how much time I wasted getting stoned and watching terrible shit in my late teens, but the Ninja Terminator experience was special. I don't know how we all made it out alive!

If they brought out a wireless version of that Garfield phone I'd still buy the shit out of it in tribute.

Your turn, Demba!