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Does this make Cliffy the next John Romero?

The only one I remember walking out of was the 2007 Rob Zombie Halloween re-make. I'd gone to see it alone, leaving my wife and five year old daughter at home. About 15-20 minutes in, I decided I'd made the wrong life choice, and went home. No regrets.

For watching movies at home, the only one that stands out is Moulin Rouge. Pretty much everyone we knew had seen it, and said really great things about it. We rented it one night, and made it about a half hour in before we both realized we were watching it because we thought the other one was enjoying the movie.

Black Panther: If you like other Marvel movies, you'll probably like this one. It has more depth/emotion than I'm used to seeing in these movies, which I appreciated.

My only nitpicks are with some of the CGI backgrounds that stood out as such, and distracted from otherwise good scenes. Not to be too vague, but there were times where it felt as if things in the background were either a little too close, or a little too far away. There were also a few times were it felt too obvious where the stage they were acting on ended, and the wall of curtains to make the background, began.

Back when I used to look forward to new OS's, I went to a midnight launch for one of the early Mac OSX editions.

I still do sometimes, but the game that made me cut way back on the practice was Assassin's Creed III. I loved the AC2 series of games so much that I pre-ordered ACIII, getting it in the fancy metal case. I finished the game but *damn* was I disappointed with it. This was also back when I used to get pretty much everything on disc, and a pre-order was just 5.00 down. I do almost everything on digital these days, so I'm less likely to pay full price up front for something I have no idea about.

I got into games early, when my dad brought home an intellivision, for reasons I'm not clear on. I suspect someone owed him money and gave him the game system to cover it. I was in and out of games over the years, but after a friend of mine gave me a spare PS2 around 2002, I've had a console in the house ever since. My daughter plays occasionally, mostly Skyrim and Diablo 3. My wife mostly watches; she gets a kick out of how good the graphics are, but that's about it.

@darkjohnny477: Sorry to hear you don't care for those parts. If PSN had a way to buy games from people, I'd be happy to do that in this case, because the things you described are part of why I liked the earlier games in the series.

I'm torn. I watched a Let's Play a few days ago, and maybe it was just the guy's style, but the game reminded me of Horizon: Zero Dawn. I really liked that game, but when I think of Assassin's Creed it's blending into crowds, tailing a target, knifing them in the back as I walk by, and then blending back into another crowd before anyone knows it was me. Or, getting spotted by guards, throwing a smoke bomb and dissecting them while they stand around coughing. Maybe that happens somewhere in the new game, but seeing the gameplay so far, I'm not getting the AC: GameName feel here.

If the game had almost any other name that didn't connect it to the AC series, I would probably be more on board, because historically I prefer 3rd person action-y games like this.

Same here. I've only bought a few new games this year: Horizon Zero Dawn, The X-Com expansion.....

Most disappointing game I bought this year is much easier: Dying Light. I got it during one of the PSN sales for $15 or something, and after a few hours just couldn't muster the interest to continue running to check points, bashing zombies in the head multiple times, and then running back.

@horseman6, @monkeyking1969, @tuxedocruise

Thanks y'all for the comments. I was already leaning towards a regular laptop, and this helped give the extra little push to stick with the tried and true format.