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Craig H

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  1. AEW rules the fucking world. PRO. WRESTLING. MOTHERFUCKERS. I didn’t think, as a wrestling match, anything would top Danielson vs Eddie. And then Ospreay and Take Soup fucking milled themselves. I was crying as the main event finished. Sting is completely one of a kind. I can’t think of anyone else who had this long of a career that no one has anything bad to say about and he still gave his all every time he went out at this point in his life and he got to end his career on his own terms. He didn’t need to come back in TNA or WWE or AEW because he was broke, he came back because the fans loved him and he had unfinished business. He didn’t let anything from 97 to the end of WCW eat him alive. He didn’t trash people in shoot interviews (I think). He’s a rare breed for his generation that generally put his family first. His body wasn’t a fucking train wreck. His brain wasn’t mush from headshots or drugs. And he got to end things like he wanted. This is someone who I almost instantly became a huge fan of in the late 80s and was the reason I watched WCW even when WWF was the cooler product with Hogan and Warrior and Macho. It was always weird to be asked when I was 9 or 10 who my favorite wrestler was, Hogan or Warrior or Macho or whatever and respond with Sting. And yeah, it sucks he never got the Undertaker match, but he got a run in AEW that showed the perfect way to book a legend and was probably the best ever booking for a legend. Sting was always my guy as a kid and teenager and adult. I think the only thing that compares to the sadness and numbness I feel now is when Jordan retired. The second time. I’m going to miss him. Again, truly one of a kind and a model person in this business.
  2. Rebirth is fucking incredible. I made it to the grasslands and I’ve spent so much time just exploring, finding mats, and practicing combat against whatever mobs are around. The other thing I’m addicted to is Queens Blood. I could never get into Gwent and so I always skipped it in the Witcher 3 even though that’s the gold standard for in game card games. Queen’s Blood just feels similar, but more accessible and easier to understand. If Squeenix decided to put out a standalone Queen’s Blood game in the style of Slay the Spire, I’d buy it in a heartbeat. But yeah, Rebirth is just everything and is really scratching about every gameplay itch I have. I think my one complaint is that with all the systems in the game, like party structure, folios, materia loadouts, and transmuters and crafting, there’s no quick and easy way to access them. I know it’s a dumb first world problem to have, but it’s a pile annoying to always have to go into the start menu find the thing I want to tinker with, go to another menu, and then another. It would be nice to get to that stuff with fewer clicks, but I’m guessing that won’t happen until a pc release.
  3. My group has made it to level 8. It’s doable, but we’ve dropped in on some areas that weren’t listed as dangerous and were immediately mobbed by chargers and bile titans. A couple of us having the orbital laser and orbital railcannon let us survive. Of course, extraction missions on suicide and above are still impossible, especially against Automatons, are still bugged for where there’s and impossible amount of tanks and hulks and about 4 drop ships at one time.
  4. So I watched that 20 minute Rock promo. I thought it was a little long and it did bury the fuck out of Seth, again, but my biggest complaint is the inclusion of what’s his name from Busted Radio. I fucking hate his voice. And after all these years, I don’t even know if it’s a shtick that he does where he’s such a dork. I think he really is just a huge dork.
  5. I think the Rock just setup Austin saving the day and clearing house so Cody can finish the story. There was way, way, WAY too much setup with the Rock saying that there's no one in the back that could stop him from doing whatever he wants to do to Cody, how he's the boss, etc., etc. I predicted that weeks ago, but with each week that goes by, it feels like it will happen. Add to that Austin uploading the Disturbed version of his theme to his Instagram a week ago with no comment or explanation for it and, yeah... Look, I can't possibly get more pants free than the thought of WM night 2 ending with the Rock and the Bloodline thinking they can do whatever they want, Seth gets taken out, Sami gets taken out, there's no one left, and the motherfucking glass shatters and Austin comes out calling everyone a motherfucker, talking trash, the Rock's eyes bug out, Austin beats the shit out of the Rock, the playing field has been leveled, Cody hits one Crossroads, hits another, and then beats Roman 1-2-3. Confetti falls down, Cody completes the story, and Austin toasts Cody with some Broken Skull IPAs. That crowd would be fucking molten.
  6. Played it some more and got through the flashback portion to where Nibelheim is on fire. I gotta say, that scene from the original is burned into my brain, but seeing it, ahem, reborn in 4k was pretty fucking cool. So now I’m back in the present day…? I think? And I still have no clue at what point that stuff with Cloud and Zack at the very start is supposed to take place, but my gut feeling is that since Cloud, Sephiroth, and the rest of the gang said fuck whatever the timeline was supposed to be let’s just fuck around and find out at the end of Remake that maybe this Cloud and Zack stuff at the very start is in yet another universe or timeline and given that most folks that reviewed it commented on the ending being confusing, I’m almost wondering if there is something of a Crisis on Infinite Earths thing going on. But again, I’m just taking some shots in the dark and I’m probably 100% wrong but speculation is fun. The other thing is, man, I went from being really, really good at combat probably halfway through Remake to getting so good at it that I beat the end without dying, and now I just completely fucking suck at combat. But in the almost 4 years since Remake came out, my muscle memory has gotten used to a whole bunch of different games, which is one reason why I may not get the Elden Ring DLC. As good as I was at that game, there’s no way I could get back to the point where I could beat Malenia or the final two bosses again, much less whatever hard as fuck bosses there DLC will have.
  7. I’m only at the very beginning where Cloud is telling everyone about his connection to Sephiroth, and I guess Tifa’s connection to him, but I’m very confused with the timeline. It starts with what looks like where remake ends, except it’s Zack and Cloud, and that’s not how Remake ends. Then it goes back to 5 years earlier, Cloud on the mission with Sephiroth and Tifa, and then back to present where Cloud is telling the story to the gang, but the beginning of the game makes it look like it’s the present talking about the tornadoes that ripped through, but that happens during the ending of Remake. I’m kinda spinning in circles here, but I’m hoping some of this gets cleared up.
  8. All That You Can’t Leave Behind has a pretty decent argument for being one of the best albums of this century. Or does 2000 count as part of the previous century? Either way, that was probably their last great album and it’s shocking how my songs off of it were hits. Not my favorite U2 album, but it’s up there.
  9. I’ve seen a lot of folks pointing to where they live and there being more unusual instances of cancer there than in other places. Just awful. All I can think of is their kids and hopefully their kids wind up getting regular screenings for cancer and other disorders yearly. Also, I guess the other part of Curt Schilling being a dumb fuck leaking Tim’s cancer news was that at the time Tim’s wife was going through a very rough time battling pancreatic cancer.
  10. My friend is a design manager at Insomniac and was the design manager on Spider-Man 2 and is having a real hard time seeing a lot of very talented people that worked on his team that made that game now be gone. No, hey, your last day is 30 or 60 days from now or anything like that. Just, all of you, the door is to your right, leave your badge on your way out. I wanted to ask him what their path forward is at this point, but I figure I'll wait a little bit.
  11. Weird random thought I just had after talking with a friend about the Leftovers. Justin Theroux is so awesome in it. And then I thought…he should be in the MCU. Then I thought, should he play Doom? So I guess the question is, should Doom be played by someone ridiculously handsome or should he be played by a CHUD like Adam Driver.
  12. On second thought after rewatching the entrance and seeing the end of the match, I think you’re right. I saw some people mention that Max’s rap got cut last week by management and this seems to be a response to that. That and Max not celebrating with the rest of the group makes me think it’s setting up the inevitable split where they hopefully take the trios titles off the Acclaimed. And I’m still stunned by how quiet and small these crowds have been. I think once it’s figured out what nights Raw and SD are going to be on, they should shuffle Collision to a different night.
  13. Welcome to the opening of every Botchamania, Max Caster. This show was embarrassingly quiet, to the point where you could hear the ref in the ring shout when they were back from break or how many seconds until break.
  14. Jesus. Arthur Ashe in June sounds like an awful idea. I just remember Roger Federer saying that when the roof is closed there’s hardly any air circulation and the humidity is insane. That was awhile ago, but probably not that long ago. Did they ever add actual AC to it?
  15. This is like disgusting levels of being a company man almost to the point where it sounds like Vince groomed and brainwashed him. Here’s a better take…Instead of talking about and saying repeatedly how you love the guy and he has a hill to climb, how about, oh, I don’t know, this is fucked up, what it looks like he did was fucked up, this was not the person I knew all those years but if this is the person he is then I can’t be associated with that and it sucks because we had a great relationship but it sucks even more for the life of a woman or even multiple women that he destroyed and THEY have an uphill battle to climb. Instead it’s this apologetic bullshit about loving Vince and he’s the one with an uphill battle and blah blah blah. like, fuck off man. We’re 2 days removed from Trump comparing Navalny’s murder to his own legal troubles of his own doing. The Venn diagram here has a lot of overlap. It's cool and all that Cena did all of those Make a Wishes, but this is such a fucked up response to the situation that in hindsight makes it feel like all of that charity work was a way to cleanse himself of the disgusting shit he knew was happening for years. And it’s equally likely that isn’t the case, but there’s plenty of examples of seemingly good people doing good things to make up for the bad shit they were witness to.
  16. We’d play Helldivers here and there on the PS4 or sometime on the PC if we wanted a change of pace. The only game I could kind of compare it to just from how different it was to everything else was Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime. The two games aren’t the same, but the style and how it played was just so different than everything else. HD1 was sort of a twin stick shooter where you get a loadout, fight hordes of aliens or cyborgs, complete objectives, die a bunch, and then try to hold out for a drop ship. HD2 goes from that top down, twin stick shooter style to one of the best and most competent 3rd person shooters I’ve ever played. The level of chaos is insane at times. My group is now playing some missions on Suicide difficulty, which is one step down from the toughest difficulty. There are 9 difficulty levels in all. Each level adds in more insanity, tougher enemies, etc. The neat thing is that at the higher difficulties, enemies don’t just become more of bullet sponge. They still die all the same. What does change are their tactics. There are way more of them and they’re smarter. Bigger bugs or robots get more agile, their patrols which you can avoid are more sensitive to your movements and can spot you and call in drop ships or more bugs rupturing from the ground, and so on. But again, killing then works the same at medium, level 3, as it would at suicide, level 8. And the sheer amount of craziness that happens at all levels is awesome. Even when we get stomped we’re not mad. We’re laughing and then trying to figure out what to do differently. It also leaves you with just tons of unique stories from your battles. Last night we saw something absolutely crazy happen. I was tiring to fight off a couple cyborgs, which are really just Terminators. These were huge terminators though with multiple rocket launchers built onto their shoulders. I threw out a beacon to call down a huge rocket strike on them, but it wasn’t a direct hit and so they’re still there. I’m hiding behind a big rock yelling out I need help and my buddy who is off in the distance to my left throws out his beacon to call down a railgun strike from our ship from up above. This is a huge fucking railgun and if it hits, it’s a one shot kill on even the biggest enemies. So in comes this huge streak of red light, but it stops and then thins out into nothing before it hits the ground. We’re like, what the fuck?! They’re still alive! What happened…oh shit! What happened was as the railgun strike is coming down, a dropship full of terminators flies in off to the right to maneuver into position. As it flew in, it flew into the path of the railgun strike and then just crashed and skidded across the ground. Mind you, all of this happens in a matter of seconds. And we lose it, bursting into laughter and excitement like little kids. It was a happy accident that fucking ruled because up to that point we had never taken down a dropship before. We came close with turret fire, but the ship survived and flew off. Thankfully, the Steelseries software on my pc and the Xbox pc software on my friends computer both captured the moment so we’re going to splice it together and throw it on YouTube. Despite the server issues which are happening only because the game was more popular than they ever imagined it would be, it’s the best $40 I’ve ever spent and even if it cost $70 it would have been worth it. We also played Remnant 2 and we’re not even looking back anymore. I just can’t believe the success of this game. This is practically a AAA game sold for $40 and because HD1 was a cult hit, people went crazy for this one. I think on day 1 they had server capacity for 250k players and thought that would be enough. They were short by 100k or more. That was last Thursday. As the weekend progressed, the amount of people trying to play the game kept causing their servers to crash so they had to implement a hard cap of 450k concurrent players leading to some queue times of 15 minutes or more. For us, most times it would take less than 5 minutes, but the longest was probably 30 minutes during the day yesterday. It looks and sounds like since we’re back to the week that they’re going to be and to quickly get some more server support pretty fast. I feel bad for all of the folks at Arrowhead Studios because they were literally working around the clock this whole weekend, but at the same time, it was for the best of reasons. That studio is minted now.
  17. The newer Hitman trilogy are the best puzzle games ever made. There were so many missions where I, or my daughter and me, would just sit there wondering, ok, what do we do here. Ok, let's try this. And then try this. Ok, that worked, so let's try that again, but then do this other thing differently. If you were a streamer when those games came out, it was just endless content you could milk. Plus, if you had a decent following, that's just more help you could get from people.
  18. I...don't think I liked much of the Krakoa era of the X-Men. I know dude from Comics Explained jizzed all over every single story from it, but it started with the Moira stuff and then, just like, a whole fuckton of other stuff that hasn't grabbed me, like, multiple Sinisters, white hot room stuff, etc. And then back to the Moira stuff to reset everything. It's not like I paid...well...much to read any of this, but I couldn't see myself going into my LCS to keep up with this X-Men storyline.
  19. SRS is pretty good for the most part. The other guy that works for PWI, the one that doesn't own the site, isn't bad. The rest though? Yeesh.
  20. I feel pretty fortunate that my closest friends are the same ones I’ve been playing games with since Goldeneye. We all got Xboxes, Halo, and would bring tvs over to a friends house to hook everything up to a LAN. And then lately it’s been Dota or Valorant or, briefly, D4, but now we have a solid 4 of us that are straight up hooked on Helldivers 2. There’s a few others who aren’t into it and that’s fine because they’re working on playing Path of Exile or FF14 or whatever. And I’m sure we’ll wind up with a group of 4 to play Last Epoch since we do crave some Diablo action that isn’t a shitshow. I’m sure we’d all play Enshrouded together if setting up a private server wasn’t a total mess. But for now, HD2 is where it’s at, although I’m kinda looking forward to Last Epoch, but I’m going to wait until a couple of us that aren’t playing HD2 get it and can vouch for it.
  21. Man, I can’t make any excuses for Meltzer anymore. I legit may just unsubscribe from the Observer because that shit is straight up embarrassing. If you’re not aware he lied/was dumb and said at the Vegas thing for Mania that Rock and HHH filmed a segment challenging each other to a match, but they “shelved” it and it leaked. Except, none of that happened. He’s referring to the face to face HHH and the Rock had on SmackDown almost 10 years ago to tease a final match or something between them. I’m not sure what’s more embarrassing - that or the Shibata thing. But one thing is for sure, his writing and thought process are way worse now. I know the joke is that he’s on the spectrum and he might be, but he’s also in his early 60s. He should be sharper than this.
  22. Helldivers 2 is my game of the year and it's not even close. It's going to be really tough to come out with another game that has drawn me and 3 other close friends like this game has and one of us doesn't even like shooters. Sadly though, he's all about the Automatons missions, which I fucking hate because it's just a nonstop onslaught of Terminators. What a cool, badass, motherfucker of a game. And again, ONLY 40 BUCKS. If it weren't for my daughter asking for FF7 Rebirth, I probably would have skipped out on getting that at launch just because I'm so heavily invested in this game. I'M DOING MY PART AND SPREADING DEMOCRACY! EDIT: Actually, the thing that would really solidify this as my game of the year this early in the year is if they can get cross platform progression fixed. As it is, I'm sticking with my PC for now, but playing this on my big tv was cool as fuck and I'm dying to get back to doing that.
  23. Their pants are still their tights. You can see their knee pads. The only thing that makes a difference is keeping the blazers on, but they allow for a ton of movement.
  24. I really love Malakai Black, but I’d rather he be Tommy End instead without the spooky perverts gimmick. I don’t dig on the supernatural shit. I really wanted Black to be a dude who eloquently talked shit and wrecked dudes and things just didn’t shake out that way. I figured he’d be this generation’s CM Punk. Aside from his NXT run, is just been nothing but spooky nonsense, most of which is his idea. The great thing is that Brody stands out so fucking much that it could just be Brody and Julia and that would be more than enough. I also think Julia is going to wind up in WWE. She’s way too young and getting better and better to not have both companies bidding for her and I think WWE would come out on top. I just get this feeling that she’ll get her bag from WWE and then eventually come back to AEW.
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