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They postponed the release of competitive to improve it following the near universal negative feedback they got on the previous iteration during the beta and a month later release something that is actively on fire.

Junkrat has the perfect quote for blizzard's ineptitude with competitive modes. "If at first you don't succeed, blow it up again!"

Anyway, i'm done with the game for now, did my placements, played a bit more, awful experience across the board. Not interested in quick play anymore either where no one puts in any effort to try and play at least somewhat seriously so...

Also the community in general is pretty awful. Reading the game's subreddit i see tons of comments from disgruntled League players switching over to Overwatch for whatever Riot did last to piss them off. Might explain why the community is so shit.

Vettel!!!

That start!

173.9 million of those United States dollars.

Jeff is a better host than Brad but the bombcast is better with Brad hosting.

That's because Jeff is even better and more entertaining when simply reacting to stuff and Brad was awfully boring before he started hosting. At least now he's more engaged and active in whatever discussion is going on.

But really, Vinny is the best.

This thing is insane. When they announced 6 episodes it sure sounded like a mini series type thing with 6 main story arc episodes which isn't unlike the number of main story episodes previous seasons had in between all the monster of the week episodes.

But no, instead they hit every check box of what an X-Files season is supposed to be. A terrible main story episode, an ok monster of the week episode and now even a rare comedy episode.

It's not good X-Files, in fact i'd say it's a lot closer to the bad X-Files of the last few seasons but it's definitely X-Files, as if nothing changed in that 13 years break. I don't get where they're going with this but whatever, this week's episode was alright.

I have no strong feelings one way or the other.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens. 4/5

I liked everything in it. What i didn't like is what's not in it. Too many movies are too long but this one is the opposite. It could have used another 20 minutes worth of exposition and character and world building. Everything happens fast, too fast and often too conveniently. I hope there's an extended cut at some point. Still great fun and a solid foundation for the rest to come. Rey and Finn are fantastic leads.

The Revenant. 5/5

A real feel good movie for the whole family!

If you know exactly what you're getting into when you watch it and aren't immediately turned off by the premise it does what it sets out to do extremely well. I would bet on Emmanuel Lubezki winning the oscar for best cinematography for a 3rd year in a row. It's one of the most beautiful movie i've seen this year.

@yummylee: "We got him out of his element, he's near laundry, he's never done that in his life"

I lost it right there!

I think they should stick to one winner and 2 runners-up for the game of the year itself instead of a meaningless top 10. Every year is the same, there's always at best 2 to 3 games that are actually in the running for the top spot, usually games that all of the crew have played significant amount of and most will have beaten. Passed that the list is filled with a bunch of games that got play time from 3 people, 2 of which might have finished and you get all these hypothetical and ridiculous arguments going no where. It's always baffling to hear the crew argue in circles for hours for games they have played very little or not at all in some cases.

Honestly the final top 10 feels like the last remnant of GB still sorta trying to be a traditional video games website and they shouldn't. There's so little reviews and editorial content on here that this just feels out of place.

1. Life is Strange
2. Cities: Skyline
3. Resident Evil HD Remaster
4. Axiom Verge
5. Persona 3 FES
6. Persona 3 FES
7. Persona 3 FES
8. Persona 3 FES
9. Persona 3 FES
10. Parasite Eve

Haven't played to many new games this year but that's fine, Life is Strange is the best game of the last 2 years, maybe more. Cities: Skyline is awesome too. I played Persona 3 for the first time this year and is realistically the second best game i've played this year. Also replayed Parasite Eve for the first time in years and it continues to be the best game of 1998 (where is that unpopular opinion thread when i need it?).