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i'm looking forward to the information seeing as my Strix gtx 970 died earlier this year, right in the middle of the graphics card price hike. Dunno if i'll be grabbing the new cards at their inevitable high price or if i'm hoping the older cards will drop in price. Built in ray-tracing sounds significant from what i can tell.

Judge Dredd - Yes the Sylvester Stallone one.

So i've been reading a lot of the early Judge Dredd comics and the 1995 was a curiosity that i expected to be bad and avoided up until now. My thoughts, if Judge Dredd (this movie) was an ice cream cone, it would be a scoop of generic formulaic action movie with some Judge Dredd (the comic) sprinkles. Stallone actually played a decent Dredd WHEN he was playing Judge Dredd...Stallone was 1/8th Dredd early on in the film and then just became a generic action hero in a generic action movie. It's peppered with a bit of fan service, references to the comics, but ultimately these references, like most fan service, don't go anywhere and just come across as deflating.

I've only read the comics up until 1989 and what i like about them is that Dredd is a very repressive entity. In a way he's more the bad guy than anything else and you come to care more about the citizens of Mega City One more than anything else. The movie makes Dredd a more emotional and sympathetic character which, from what i've read so far is not what the character is about. If the comic leans more towards the emotional side of Joe Dredd than i may be walking into disappointment in future reading...Hopefully it was just the movie that was shitty.

Also, despite what you may have heard from one Jeff Gerstmann, Sylvester Stallone never says, "I must be a judge". i was shocked.

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I assumed the "mortally challenged" bit was just a lame joke regarding, "overly politically correctness". But now that it's become a focus, hopefully way overblown, i worry that the lore they say they're expanding upon will become a forces of hell VS humanity thing? Sounds a bit lame to me, i wouldn't want a direction where they try to humanize the demons, which that single joke does, hence why i think it's lame. I'd rather the demons remain animalistic, from a narrative perspective, and just represent the destructive byproduct of human greed rather than take it to an our world VS their world kinda thing.

Hopefully i'm just blowing it out of proportion with the focus on a single, throw away, line of dialog. Regardless, if the gameplay matches, and expands on the last Doom game then i'm good. The jokes in game will be easy enough for me to ignore.

Meh, i liked JA: Back in Action a lot.

I half suspect this JA:Rage to be a clone of the modern X-Com: Enemy Unknown so i don't expect it to be much more than a half hearted cash grab.

The two that always comes to mind when i hear this question are

The Spiderman theme from the Atari 2600

...and The music from Interstate 76

The amount of mobility options makes me wonder if they're going for a more "Metroidvania" style of level design. Looked as good as i expected, the traversal systems look pretty dense.

The Dark Souls-like invasion system seems like it could be pretty cool if you just want a quick multiplayer game. Didn't hear anything other than the invasion mode so i'm curious if that's all they're going to do as far as multiplayer is concerned.

Rage 2 continues to look really good as well.

If you're looking for someplace that showcases new releases pretty regularly i'd check out Game Informer on YouTube. The GI crew are a fun bunch and their content is a bit more consistent than GB's.

As for discovering new content, i've never felt like GB was the place for that. A long time ago you'd occasionally get a QL that came outta nowhere but for the most part GB is where you go to hear the staff talk about the things you already knew existed.

AS for your QL requests. you can find the ones you've missed here: Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, GNOG, 20XX

i voted, "i liked the way it was" but i'm not too far off from, "i dont care, i'm playing it either way". But the episodic method was something i've never experienced in a positive way before and i liked hot the drip feed worked out a great deal. I'll still be playing Hitman 2 though, eventually when i figure out if i can update the base game to get the "season pass" content later. If they try to hold the content hostage then i'll likely go without until i can get a sale.

Oh damn, i don't even remember if i mentioned the last few new games i've played on this thread.

Dice Town - hated it. With everyone at the same odds, the poker feel just isn't there for me and most of the strategy is, "try to get the most aces" or you feel you need to counter that strategy by being the guy who gets to steal cards. It was just kinda crap to me.

Small World - I liked Small World. It's basically a Risk variant with dynamically changing character traits. When i played it though, the two other people i played with kinda just wanted to pick on each other so the game was far too easy for me to win in that scenario. So it's a case where it depends on the group you play with. If they're aggressive and strategic, it's a good game.

Viticulture - I think this is my first worker placement game that i've played and i don't feel like it's blowin my socks off. Mostly everybody just tends to their own fields and the only time you feel any player conflict is setting up the turn order. Could be i just haven't caught on to the strategies or my play through may have been tainted by finding out i was missing a meeple out of the box (they sent a replacement).

Champions of Midguard - being the second worker placement game i've played, it struck me as a bit better than Viticulture but i'm still not fully getting the appeal. The more restricting placement areas made player conflict more obvious, which i liked, but it all still seemed like you were just doing your own thing. Could just be i need more playthroughs to fully get it, but playing board games has become a twice a year event at this point as i don't have a very committed group of players.

Seems like i have to put my asocial ways aside and find a boardgame meet up group if i want to get back into board games.

That said, i did recently manage to order Snake Oil: Elixir (more adult themed version of snake oil) to complete my Snake Oil collection as Snake Oil is still the best party card game and the reason no one should ever play CAH.