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  1. 10 points - Gears Of War (It came around at the peak of my gaming fandom. Fantastic campaign and still the best online shooter I've ever played) 9 points - Pro Evo 4 (I debated long and hard over which Pro Evo to include but I probably put the most hours into this one) 8 points - Super Mario 3D World(The platformer has probably always been my favourite genre, and nobody does it better than Mario) 7 points - God Of War (PS2) (Combined platforming excellence with a smooth, satisfying combat system and some great gore effects. Still disappointed they went the sub-RPG skill-tree route on the new franchise) 6 points - Crash Bandicoot Trilogy (Did a brilliant job of remastering 3 platforming greats) 5 points - Mario Kart 8 (It helps that I got really really good at this online, which is rare for me!) 4 points - Burnout Revenge(It was a toss-up between this or Paradise - this one just about won out due to the superior soundtrack) 3 points - Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (One of those games absolutely perfect for unwinding) 2 points - Smackdown 2 (I probably wouldn't be a wrestling fan today without this game) 1 point - Mercenaries (Just a game I have a lot of fond memories of, and instantly takes me back to a simpler time. Life was good when this game was out!)
  2. Dominic Mysterio was quite impressive at Summerslam 2020 against Seth Rollins. Probably been overshadowed by Logan Paul's debut since, but at the time I remember thinking he looked really good.
  3. I'm only watching AEW and ROH at the moment (and ROH is mostly a 'on in the background while I do my tea' kind of watch, unless it's somebody that I like wrestling). AEW is on fire for me at the moment, I'm having a good time with it. I tried Impact but, while a fun watch, it lacks that 'must-see' factor. And I'll watch the odd New Japan show/match if I hear good things but I find they put on way too many shows with way too many inconsequential tag matches for me to keep up to date with them. I'd like to check out more AAA/CMLL but have no idea how to even go about it. Their shows rarely turn up in the usual places. I keep going back to WWE a couple times a year and always end up feeling like I've wasted my time. Fair enough people are enjoying their shows now, but I still find the vast majority of it to be a terrible pro-wrestling show. They did put a few good shows on around the Rumble but then The Rock sapped my interest for it and that shite Elimination Chamber PPV killed it stone-dead. But like the dickhead I am, I'll check it out again in another 4/5 months then be back on here to moan about how shit it is!
  4. I quite like him in-ring, but this backstage promo was the pits. Just the most generic, don't-really-say-anything-at-all babyface promo. And he delivered it like a CAW on a Smackdown vs Raw game. Like I say, I like him but I think putting on bangers on ROH TV is absolutely his level. Instantly a fan of Jacoby Watts Southern preacher 'the good book' gimmick. Lets hope they actually do something with it, unlike The Righteous who are meant to be a cult yet never do anything cultish and just wrestle wrestling matches like very ordinary wrestlers. Kingston vs Briscoe and Shida vs Athena should both be crackers. Does make me feel sorry for the amount of people who turn up on ROH TV every week who never get a shot at the PPVs mind.
  5. It's mad looking back that at the time, a lot of online fans/forums etc had Ted Dibiase down as the man who would end Undertakers streak (I've no idea where the idea came from but I remember it gaining a lot of traction online at the time). And then he faded into obscurity whereas his bland tag-team partner who didn't wear kneepads is on the verge of being the next WWE megastar.
  6. Fandango beat Chris Jericho in his first Wrestlemania appearance, then spent the next 4 or 5 arsing around in the Get Everyone On The Card Battle Royale.
  7. Thought that was another cracking Dynamite. I'm a big Mercedes fan so excited to see what she can do in AEW. The company is in a good place right now. A loaded roster, the vast majority being used well and it seems they are slowly picking up steam and momentum every passing week. Ospreay is incredible.
  8. It wasn't great, but it was better than The Wasteland which always looked like the most basic of set-up moves. The Bull Hammer was probably a bit ahead of the times as a finisher. It would fit in now where loads of people used strikes for finishers. At the time it seemed a bit weak.
  9. One of my favourite Bad News Barrett moments was his promo against RVD in London. "There's no way I'm losing my title to a bloody YANK" got a great pop and was funny as fuck. He suffered from having one of the all-time worst WWE finishers though. The Wasteland was absolutely dreadful.
  10. Picked up The Collected Stories Of Richard Yates at the weekend, so making my way through his collection 'Eleven Kinds Of Loneliness' for maybe the tenth time. Good grief, his work breaks my heart everytime but his prose is incredible. I've never read his 'Liars In Love' collection or any of his other short stories, so I'm excited to crack on with those. Well, as excited as you can be for something that's going to make me incredibly sad.
  11. Lisa Frankenstein - It's all over the place and doesn't always work, but as a mashup of teen films and daft horror schlock I found it to be a lot of fun. Kathryn Newton is always great and Liza Soberano is one to keep an eye on. Dune: Part Two - My feelings for this pretty much echo my thoughts on the first one. I like it and admire the achievement, but it just lacks any kind of emotional engagement for me to love it. Honestly a bit disappointed Denis Villeneuve seems to be going back to this series again, I'd much rather he knocked out something akin to Arrival or Prisoners again. American Star - Ian McShane is a hitman who floats around Fuerteventura for a while. It's good and McShane is great, but while its obviously intended to be a mood piece/character study, I did find the looseness of the plot infuriating at times. Spaceman - Adam Sandler in a serious role is always worth watching, but it's not great. Better than Sad Astra, not as up its own arse as Intersteller And The Bookshelf Of Time, not as good as Moon. (Yeah UKFF, I like Sam Rockwell, and what of it?!) I am getting bored of these genre films (mostly horror or sci-fi) where the emphasis is on PAST TRAUMA rather than an actual plot, but they keep getting made so maybe I'm alone there. Hopefully seeing Soul on the big screen this weekend.
  12. I hated him at first, but Kevin Kelly had really settled into his role in the past few months and the Kelly-Nigel-Tone team was often a highlight of Collision. I'll be sad if he's gone.
  13. Forgot to take a picture, but I was in Waterstones the other day and saw a copy of 'The World According to Garp'. Instantly started chuckling to myself.
  14. There's also the point that if you look at all the talent that was on that PPV Sunday, and think there's still Pac, Omega, MJF and Adam Cole to return (and maybe Okada coming in), it's increasingly hard to see where Guevara fits in amongst all that. As harsh as it sounds, AEW could maybe do with a mini WWE-style culling. Guevara is ice cold. Ricky Starks doesn't look like he wants to be there and is a big victim of Khans stop-start booking. And there's a few acts that just haven't evolved enough in the last few years - Private Party, Dark Order, Preston Vance just feel like hangovers from AEW's early days.
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