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I tried Witcher when it first came out. Couldn't get into it. I should probably give it another go.

 

Ah definitely do. I'm nowhere near finished and I already think it's one of the best games I've played. For me it's one of those "I'll just do this one last thing and then turn it off" games where that one last thing becomes another and then another.

 

If you're still in that first area of the game, go to all the question marks on the map. Some of them are Places of Power where you instantly get a skill point. I've put most of mine into sword fighting and the Igni sign. I just set guys on fire and then slash them to death. There's also a skill called Gourmet where you can eat food and it will constantly regenerate your health for 20 minutes of real life time. At the start of the game I was getting a bit annoyed at having to eat to regen my health, didn't have much money and was running out of food. Nice not to have that even if I'm maybe a bit overpowered now...

Witcher 3 is one of the rare games where I want to do side quests and visit every question mark on the map before moving on with the main quests. 

 

My tip for Gwent is to play anyone and everyone you can! I didn't do this, I skipped it because I wanted to get on with the fighting but if you beat someone, you get a card from them. This will be added to your collection so you can eventually play with more powerful decks and have a better chance of winning. 

 

Definitely give it a go if you just found it tricky at first. Be tactical. Use the weather cards to your advantage and play them at the right time. I love it when the other player is putting loads of cards into the close range combat line and I've got the freezing weather card that will wipe out most of his points. The spy cards are good too, place them in their row to add to their points but you get 2 more cards for yourself which can give you the edge and make it a smart sacrifice. 

 

I can't beat anyone who plays with the Monster deck at the moment, they just have too many special cards that can put them into the 50s quite easily. 

 

So yes, if you see a merchant, barkeeper or armourer, check to see if you can play them...also look to see if merchants are selling cards and buy them if they are. 

 

Only thing I don't understand about Gwent is some games I can use my leader card and other games I can't...no idea why. 

Sweet Jesus has anyone played The Witcher 3? I started it a couple weeks ago and I've done 48 hours on it already. I wasn't sure whether it would be my type of game as I wasn't fussed on Skyrim but it's incredibly good. I don't remember the last game I played where you had important choices to make on side quests...decisions that aren't obviously good or bad at the time that can result in people dying later on. Really impressive. Great graphics, fun combat and jeze even the card game Gwent is really fun. I wouldn't have thought I'd enjoy playing a card game on ps4. 

I have Sky Sports and I download it the next day because it's easier to skip through the bad stuff and matches on my laptop. I can't imagine sitting through the entire 3 hours. Those fans are hardcore to be able to do that. 

I'm really enjoying Shadow of Mordor at the moment. I bought it well over a year ago and only played a bit of it before getting distracted by other games (Last of Us online is really addictive)

 

The story isn't something I'm following too closely but the gameplay is just really satisfying and fun. Very similar to Batman but easier to do.  Here's a clip from yesterday where I came murdered a gang of Uruks walking in a straight line...

 

Wow that was a show full of bad promos.

 

Foley SHOUTING AT THE TOP OF HIS VOICE about the danger awaiting the women was so over the top. Just don't go on top of the cell and you'll be fine, girls.

 

It doesn't help that Charlotte and Sasha aren't good on the mic. You just get the sense that they're friends playing a game of pretend to cut a promo. When they're talking, you don't sense the other is really listening, more like thinking about their next line. Charlotte was doing too much shouting too and it just comes across as awkward and not genuine. I don't really feel these two hate eachother. I don't feel any wrestler hates any other wrestler these days.

 

I felt Bret truly Austin and Bret hated Shawn. I miss those days.

 

Baley and Dane Brook - I agree that the show needs more non wrestling stuff. I don't want to see them wrestle and I don't want to see them arm wrestle. It's lazy.

 

Rusev and Regins doing their boring pre tape promos. The only interesting thing was watching Rusev's eyes moving side to side as he was reading his lines.

 

Remember the Austin V Rock fued where they were both interviewed backstage with JR sat between them? It felt real and I don't know why they haven't done that kind of thing since (if they have, I don't remember it)

 

Heyman and Brock was a total waste of time. They waste Brock so much. When he's in the arena, why don't they have him do something?! Standing next to Heyman, occasionally laughing...boring. They could even just have him bump into someone backstage to set up stuff for the future. Brawn Strowman coming out of his locker room and Brock walking into him and just looking before walking off would be better than nothing.

 

Heyman having to suddenly try and turn Lesner is so stupid. Why are fans supposed to hate Lesner now? Ripping on the fans for chanting Suplex City when you've encouraged it for 2 years? It's so panto to do the "I hate it when you chant Gooooldberrrg" and then leave a gap hoping that they'll chant Goldberg. It felt like WWE just thought "fuck it" and played Lesner's music to end the promo early since it wasn't going anywhere and had no point to it at all. As someone else wrote, it's poor planning to do this kind of thing in someone's home town.

 

Jericho is entertaining and funny but the show has too much comedy and sthick. He needs to revert to his "do anything to get booed" approach.

 

Rollins was really damaged by coming back from injury to a big pop and then turning heel again. Now he's a face because....the authority turned on him? How does that make him a good guy? In real life if there's 2 bullies and one bully stops being mates with the other, that doesn't make one of them admirable. They're both still dicks.

 

TJ Perkins is boring and just looks too plain to be a star. Kendrick talking about this being his last chance doesn't really seem based in reality. No one is looking at him like he's some old timer with maybe one run left in him. He's 2 years younger than AJ Styles!

"Sparklecrotch". Who writes this shit? You've got a massively promoted show, perhaps a new, old audience. And you open with this fucking garbage. I don't like Seth but the guy hasn't got a fucking chance.

 

Imagine if Goldberg could talk like that in 1998? It'd have been printing money.

 

Goosebumps from that last line. Genuinely spinetingling.

 

Seth should try and have a CM Punk style to his promos. Doing 10 year old child type insults isn't cool. Crazy how the fans will chant pretty much anything.

Speaking of tapping out, I loved the daftness of Dean Ambrose stopping AJ Styles from tapping out by grabbing hold of his right hand...with everyone just ignoring that AJ's left hand was free to tap.

Plus the fact AJ could just say he quits!

Speaking of tapping out, I loved the daftness of Dean Ambrose stopping AJ Styles from tapping out by grabbing hold of his right hand...with everyone just ignoring that AJ's left hand was free to tap.

Plus the fact AJ could just say he quits!

Watched Louis Theroux's Scientology film yesterday...it was strange because it didn't seem to have a point. Nothing of note was happening and large parts of it were him having people audition to play the head of the church and Tom Cruise. Him being filmed and stalked by people from the church didn't go anywhere. Quite a strange 90 minutes. I've seen much better docs on the topic.

 

What's wrong with a Rusev/Reigns match? They work well together.

 

Yeah I'm sure if you like them it would be fine but I'm not interested in seeing them wrestle, I just question taking up 40 mins of the show on that one segment.

I download Raw and skip through most of it, can't imagine how bad it must be to watch live. I just played the file and the first 28 minutes of the show was Rusev Vs Reigns?!? With adverts that must have been around 40 minutes at least. The show feels so lazy, everything is stretched out just to fill time. I feel like I'm becoming Vince Russo because I don't care about most of the matches at all.

 

Cesaro is so cringey. "Hey if you want them to be quiet why don't you just fsdff tell em one of your funny Irish jokes"

 

*no crowd reaction*

 

If you're going to improv, make sure it's good. I can just imagine Vince backstage reacting to that line.

Does it seem stupid to anyone else that Cessaro is the Swiss Superman but comes out with a James Bond entrance?

 

Foley "putting over" the cruiserweights before they came out was so bad. If it's not about size, DON'T MENTION THEIR SIZE!!

They'll probably do their worst ratings ever on Monday as it's July 4th Independence Day and no cunt will be watching, so that won't help if they are drip feedin information.

 

They're trying their best to do that by starting the show with no mention of anything that's due to happen on the show.  I think Russo is right when he says ratings are down because they don't appeal to casual fans. I've been a fan since 1994 and I have no interest in watching Rusev Vs Titus O'Neil so why would a random casual fan want to watch them? Matches go on too long in this 3 hour era.

My favourite part about anything WWE related at present is "DRINK IT INNNN MAAAAAAAAAAAN", he cuts his promo and I'm sat there going "go on, get that line in please, make my time invested in watching this show worthwhile"!!! Bloody love Jericho.

 

Yes! Jericho acting like a hippy cult leader is great. Pretty crazy that he doesn't have anyone to feud with at the moment.

I wish WWE put more attention on the details.

 

Why have Seth act like he's doing a CM Punk and going off scrpit and then have the tweet appear on the titantron? It kills the suspension of disbelief. He could have just read the tweet off a piece of paper, would have felt more like he was improvising without approval.

 

Imagine Punk's pipe bomb promo if it had used visual aids on the tron.

I've just seen the opening segment and came in to post the same thing. Horrible stuff. The whole thing was completely cringeworthy. Hopefully the rest of the show has to improve from that.

 

The show doesn't have any ass kickers does it? Everyone tries to be cute. I turned the TV off to watch E3 after the promo finished and then flicked it back on at 1:30 and they were all still wrestling. So the entire first 30 + mins of the show was dedicated to tag teams I can't take seriously.

Opening segment was so badly written. It's hard to know who the show is aimed at. If it's aimed at children then the sexual stuff about the trombone is creepy. If it's aimed at adults then that entire segment was childish and no one came off like they were tough. Even Gallows and Anderson "we hate to be the fun police but.." ....badass men shouldn't talk like that.

The worst thing about NXT is how almost no match has any heel heat. 90% of matches are just dualing fan chants. It would be much more fun to watch if Samoa Joe was hated and Balor was loved and the fans were desperate for him to win. Surely if things were booked properly they could get the fans to respond to heels and faces correctly?

 

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Another thing I don't like about modern wrestling is all of this "let's do the move on the apron/hardest part of the ring" - it's not worth the risk, the move looks just fine when done inside the ring and I don't think fans see it as being more devestating just because it's closer to the edge so why bother?

 

Surprised no one mentioned how shite Rollins looked with his wet locks slopping all over that suit jacket. I get why long haired wrestlers wet their hair before a match, but for a fucking promo, c'mon, use a damn hairbrush, tie it up, anything. No one looks 'the business' in smart clothes  if there's all damp patches on them

 

Absolutely agree! I noticed this and it bothered the fuck out of me. So few wrestlers these days know how to dress the part, they just don't know how to look like stars. Rollins actually looked pretty sharp in the suit, which is a minor miracle for a WWE wrestler, but let himself down with those wet patches all over his shoulders.

 

 

Why do they wet it anyway? Is it just because wet hair looks cooler than dry hair?

Titus O'Neil's "you're nothing but a Bulgarian....blowhard" line was so bad.

 

Call him a Bulgarian bitch!

 

That would have had some impact.

 

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If Cesaro is the Swiss Superman, why does he have the James Bond entrance? And why doesn't he have a t shirt that rips off the classic blue/red Superman shield underneath his suit?

Another bad promo from Big Cass.

 

Why are they referencing Urkel? A charachter from a TV show that started in the 80s and finished in 98. Kids aren't going to know who he is and then he makes fun of Bubba's stuttering. When did he last stutter? 1999? (a babyface shouldn't be making fun of someone stuttering anyway, that's not cool. Pick on traits that are actually heel orientated, not something that kids / people in the crowd could have to deal with) ) And since when did Bubba look like Fred Flintstone? You're going to knock him back to the stoneage? Wow.

 

Why don't they write some actual tough guy promos for him? He doesn't have the charisma to be funny, especially with his dead eyed face.

Nathan Drake must be the most likeable video game character ever made.

 

And one of the most psychotic

 

Kills a bunch of dudes, gets back into the jeep and resumes light hearted banter with the boys...as if he didn't just murder some people.

Uncharted 4 is the most beautiful game I've played. The attention to detail is incredible. Luckily the game play holds up as well. I found myself getting bored half way through Uncharted 3 because it was all getting quite repetitive - enter area, goons flood in from all angles, cover/shoot till they're dead. U4 having stealth is such an improvement. It's not perfect - goons won't notice half their crew suddenly going missing unless they see a dead body on the floor and I really wish there was a silencer for the guns - but it's great fun and I'm actually following the storyline which is rare for me in video games.

Anyone else unimpressed by Cass's mic skills? His delivery feels really amateurish and his facial expression is pretty blank and dead eyed. The line about getting a receipt for the gift and taking it back to the store wasn't clever or funny either.

Tribeca is better than McGruber. It's more like a dumbed down version of Touch of Cloth  (parkour chase scene in one episode seems ripped off from it)