Lounge of Justice - Part 90

[Black Narcissus]

 

[heatvision38]

Enjoy your playthrough, I heard the game was a real “hole in one”

I havent ever played TLOU, I’m not gonna play the TLOU but my word people seem traumatized by this game. I feel bad for all the disappointed fans of the franchise, I really do. Video games have come such a long way in terms of presenting cinematic experiences to the player but this seems to have been a bridge too far. Sounds like they turned the series into a Nicholas Wynding Refn movie lol

Finally finished the game. Was this a pun?

Spoiler: Not really spoilers, just a general impression

I can see why some are upset with some story decisions. At the same time, if people are upset about some other decisions, they need to open their minds a bit. Not as good as the first game and I found myself frustrated more than once, but it does come together nicely enough to give it an 8. It's important to note, this isn't called Last of Us 2, it's called Last of Us Part 2, and there's a key distinction there.

 

[Black Narcissus]

When you find out JCVD has a daughter.

Spoiler

 

[Superherofan123]

When you find out JCVD has a daughter.

Spoiler

Yes, she’s absolutely smoking hot.

 

[heatvision38]

Ok, the more I think about Last of Us 2, the more annoyed I am.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

When it comes to these certain few Naughty Dogs games I feel.... distant, not relating to the general opinion.

I feel very distant and uninterested in the first Last of Us game, too uninterested I did not even feel any need to vent anything against news of its sequel I do not follow.

And Uncharted... I've heard and read a great deal of praise for that series, and I played the first and the second for the first time ever last year.... the games are technically very well done in area design, collectibles, and camera movement, story and characters are great.... but I play games for the gameplay more than I do for any of the rest of the stuff, anything else is fluff compared to the value of gameplay to me, and those two Uncharted games are way too linear and unimaginative, you have to stick to a very strict path and pattern of things to do and how to do it, there is nothing there for the players imagination and I feel removed from that stuff.

That stealth part in the first area of the castle before Nathan's partner reveals he was using him is way too restrictive, I wasn't allowed to select the order of which I could take first without alerting the enemy, and that's not fun.
The most repeated pattern in Uncharted 1&2 is walk until you reach a hoard of enemies you must shoot to advance that are hard to locate -I always find one by receiving a few bullets from his offscreen hand- and that's not my kind of games, at all. There is the occasional puzzle solving to break the monotony at least.

While classic side scrolling beat 'em ups are this simple and linear, there is a certain charm to them, like no off-screen enemy attacks you if you're not by the edge of the screen, and games of those generations were simple anyway, and offered a selection of characters with different play styles.

Classic Resident Evil games have restrictive environments and mechanics, but they are more fun to play cause at least I can pick the order of things to do before I unlock a certain area, the first game and the third game in the PS1 trilogy have more flexibility, and then there is the option of shooting enemies or walking around them in all games unless you're stuck with a boss fight... Uncharted doesn't offer that freedom.

So yeah, I don't play Naughty Dog games outside of PS1 Crash Bandicoot. If there is a game that is worth recommending to my tastes from their studio, I'm willing to try it, as long as its title doesn't have the words Uncharted or the Last of Us.

 

[KalvinEllis]

Many things can be said about The Last of Us Part 2, but the most appropriate word I can find is disappointing.

 

[Arachnerd]

Ok, the more I think about Last of Us 2, the more annoyed I am.

Welcome to the club. I honestly didn't need the game to remind me how nihilist and s***ty the world and people can be since 2020 seems to be doing a bang up job of that, though that's less its fault and more the timing of release.

 

[kguillou]

I bought the second volume of Geoff Johns’ Doomsday Clock and im amost done and i gotta say this is probably his magnum opus. I aways knew Johns was a solid writer but he really channels Alan Moore and pulls out another layer to his writing style i didnt think he was capable of. This story is basicaly the antithesis of Watchmen, the official rebuttal to what Moore was trying to say about superheroes in his original book and so far this is real good stuff.

 

[MbJ]

Hopefully they show the Catwoman costume at Fandome.

 

[KalvinEllis]

I bought the second volume of Geoff Johns’ Doomsday Clock and im amost done and i gotta say this is probably his magnum opus. I aways knew Johns was a solid writer but he really channels Alan Moore and pulls out another layer to his writing style i didnt think he was capable of. This story is basicaly the antithesis of Watchmen, the official rebuttal to what Moore was trying to say about superheroes in his original book and so far this is real good stuff.

I think it's another example of why he should've never ventured to the movie side or taken a corporate position in general. Johns is a writer, not a suit.

 

[kguillou]

Agreed. I just finished the book. Damn well done. May be Johns’ best work and I’ll say it, I think this is the best possible “sequel” to Watchmen there could possibly be. I just loved the message of the book and I think it gives the characters of Watchmen a TRUE ending. This was both a thesis about Alan Moore’s dark cynical look at the world In the original book and an epic thesis about Superman and what Superman means. Really riveting stuff.

This would make a Hell of a movie one day, in the right hands.

 

[Aurakles]

I am not a fan of Doomsday Clock, the very concept of a direct sequel to Watchmen is folly in my mind. The book is a ouroboros circle, with the end looping back to the beginning.

If you're looking for a rebuttal of Watchmen, I'd recommend Pax Americana by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely. Was part of Multiversity, using the original Charlton characters, an exquisitely engineered comic.

 

[Detective Conan]

 

[heatvision38]

Why is Batfleck trending?

 

[STARMAN]

Possibly a concerted effort by fans to get WB to hear them. They got the Snydercut, some want Affleck too. I think the news of Keaton might of spooked some, including bloggers that have been teasing Affleck's possible return after the Snydercut announcement.

 

[Last Of Krypton]

Why is Batfleck trending?

He’s back in shape

 

[Arachnerd]

While I would not be opposed to seeing Bale back, would he really be willing to come back?

 

[Herolee10]

The thing is though is that people should respect Ben's decision to retire from the role. If it were a case where he wanted to continue like Affleck then I could understand fans letting their voices be heard. But if the guy doesn't want to come back then let him be.

 

[MbJ]

The Keaton news definitely rattled some people. I think the SC being announced convinced some fans that the entire original plan for the DCEU, including that Batfleck solo movie, was now back in the works for whatever reason.

The Keaton news was probably a bit of a shock since just a week prior a bunch of the scoopers had been claiming that Jeffrey Dean Morgan would be returning from BVS as Flashpoint Batman.

 

[Superherofan123]

The Keaton news definitely rattled some people. I think the SC being announced convinced some fans that the entire original plan for the DCEU, including that Batfleck solo movie, was now back in the works for whatever reason.

The Keaton news was probably a bit of a shock since just a week prior a bunch of the scoopers had been claiming that Jeffrey Dean Morgan would be returning from BVS as Flashpoint Batman.

Further proof that these “scoopers” know next to nothing.

 

[Aurakles]

I thought he dropped out because of what happened to Snyder. He signed on because he liked Snyders vision, but BVS got cut down then JL got frankensteined.
Why risk investing yourself when the studio might gut your work before it reaches cinemas? I can imagine during the JL reshoots he might have been thinking this might happen to his film

If my thinking is right here, perhaps Snyder being given control back has given Affleck confidence that his work won't get the JL treatment.

 

[heatvision38]

The thing is though is that people should respect Ben's decision to retire from the role. If it were a case where he wanted to continue like Affleck then I could understand fans letting their voices be heard. But if the guy doesn't want to come back then let him be.

I don't see any issues with people voicing their support for Affleck as Batman. If he doesn't want to come back, it's all good. It's only an issue if people are harassing him to play the role.

 

[STARMAN]

I feel like some of these bloggers are spreading rumors to create interest so WB will take notice. Thus hoping the studio reacts to fan demand and turns a rumor into reality.

 

[KalvinEllis]

Just when you think you know what acting is, you're reminded of what acting really is.




Lawd, you'd think that Shakespeare wrote that specifically for Olivier.