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Just finished it an hour or so ago and I would kill for a Punisher spinoff. He was easily the best part of Season 2.

Marvel said not too long ago that they don't want to do R rated movies, and that bummed me out because I've been hoping for a serious shit kicking R rated Punisher movie. But Season 2 of Daredevil went so far and beyond anything I thought I'd see from Marvel, graphic violence wise, that I think a Netflix show about The Punisher would be the hypest shit Marvel has produced.

In Season 2, they didn't make The Punisher a vigilante, they made him an almost-superhuman force of nature. It was an event. The entire city knew who he was an what he did. He wasn't some guy dropping bodies, he was galvanizing them. Jon Bernthal truly is The Punisher. He's also got the coolest version of the logo I've ever seen. I cannot wait to see what they do next.

WHERE WERE YOU JACK WHEN HULKAMANIA RAN WILD ACROSS THE COURTROOMS OF AMERICA BROTHER

I agree.

I never got along well with Demon's Souls, but I looooved Dark Souls. Dark Souls 2 seemed like very many steps in very many wrong directions. Bloodborne was pretty cool. I liked the idea of having a short amount of time to regain health upon taking damage, as well as the super cool dodge as opposed to the roll, but it was still pretty much the same game.

Dark Souls 3 coming out so soon after Bloodborne is doing nothing for me. In fact, I'm just not interested in it. I mean I just got done playing one of those things I don't want to do it again. I mean 3 years in a row, I'm kind of burned out.

The Talos Principle was the absolute shit. I completed it and the DLC recently and I just couldn't put it down. The entire idea behind it was so smart.

The DLC was even better, I think. After a while I wasn't even interested in the puzzles, I was basically fighting them just to get to the next terminal and see where the story would go next. It was quite good.

The base game maybe a little longer than I'd have liked. It seemed like after a point it just seemed to go on and on and on. But it was still great. And that soundtrack. Unf. So good. *it's on spotify if you are interested*

With that said Trespasser still seems to be saving its best stuff for the next Dragon Age. The twists at the end of Inquisition and the revelations of Trespasser all do a wonderful job of setting up a complicated, sympathetic, powerful villain for the next game. But it’s frustrating to have played so long for what is, essentially, an advertisement for a future installment. It’s somewhat like post-credit sequences on Marvel movies, promising something amazingly cool at the end of a competent story, and having that dominate the discourse.

Oh my goodness, THIS. Look, I get that these games were built to incorporate decisions and their consequences from the prior games into the future of the series, but holy crap I just hate when all you get to see is basically a huge "LIKE THIS PLOT? GET THAT PRE-ORDER MONEY READY BOI".

Great article.

Yo this game is great. Very hard. It's also fun watching people figure out there is a friendly fire mechanic. Had a whole game go up in smoke because everyone just sort of walked in front of a shotgun wielding madman. Very fun.

Also I'm not sure if I'm proud to say I immediately bought the DLC bundle. It comes with everything but one pack for like $12.75 or something. So far I've got too big ass mechs and a motorcyle along with a bunch of other stuff and it's all super raaaad.

Blade Runner. I'm sure I would have loved both had I read the book first then watched the movie, but that's not what happened and the movie absolutely blows the book right up out that water.

The reason I like Witcher 3 so much is because the ending is defined by the choices you take earlier in the game. Conversation choices, actions you take in the game, how you choose to resolve things, all come together and defines what ending you get. I prefer when games do this because it makes me feel like my decisions matter. I know that it's all scripted and nothing is truly random, truly unique. I know the ending I get in most of my RPG's are the ones a lot of other people will get. It's an illusion ultimately, but depending how it's done is the difference between having a satisfying ending or a disappointing one.

So I will say this is a great article you've written here. You've nailed why I dislike the Mass Effect 3 endings so much, albeit with much less strong language.

The biggest issue with RPG's and decisions in them are that, ultimately you are playing a game that was written and directed by these people. They are guiding the story in a direction that you can very seldom change entirely. Some decisions you make are huge with rippling consequences, and with Mass Effect 3 in particular you can see the result in some of these. But again, ultimately, you are playing a story that allows some freedom but not true freedom, and will ultimately see the ultimate ending of the ultimate game. I have no idea why I'm saying ultimately so much.

The biggest failures in this regard are people like Bioware who seem to give you a hefty amount of control and say in the game, then all of the sudden pull it back and say, welp, we've gotta end this game somehow! Say what you will about the narrative decisions that they made with the ending, having all of the control stricken from your hands is pretty intense.

Is this going to be a comic because it's insane and I think I want more of it.

Sometimes a video is just so much better. I don't use guides very often, but when the game gives bad clues and the written text can't help, a video is sure to cut straight through it.

But when it comes to things like collectibles, pictures are the way to go. Just "Here it is" and boom.