General gaming discussion

I replayed Soul Reaver earlier this year and man, it's not even as tanky as the TR games but those controls are all over the place, especially just trying to control the camera with the shoulder buttons (which feel like they're the wrong way round).

Might be one to watch for fans of immersive sims, although I wasn't a huge fan of Weird West personally.

It was doomed to fail, you can't cast geriatric have beens and still expect success from something that from start have limited appeal.

Id wait for public reviews over "movie critic" reviews before throwing it in the ignore forever bucket, you really cant trust movie critics anymore, especially these days. They either don't get it or the movie doesn't lean into their political ideals.. so id give it a bit more time, if both critic and audience scores are low, then yeah its likely a stinker, if critic is low with audience high then its like at least a decent movie 😁

You really cant trust the likes of gamespot or IGN for fair reviews, they were either bought and paid for or weren't bought and paid for and weren't happy about that 😄

So i either watch a freelance critic on youtube who i have learned to trust or skim metric sites to see what might be accurate, or come here and see if a poster i trust liked it..

I do this for both movies and games, though these days its easier to get a read on games..

Yeah I wouldn't say geriatric have beens, though I did think it was strange they cast someone of Cate Blanchett's age to be Lilith simply because I thought the character was much younger. Same way I never thought of Kevin Hart as Roland. But in terms of acting pedigree, the movie and their roles seemed so far beneath most of the cast (maybe not Kevin Hart in this instance but certainly Blanchett and Jamie Lee-Curtis).

The few reviews I read said that most of the cast were good in their roles, but had no real chemistry with each other and the rest of the film was just hot garbage. You really can't blame the cast for this. Seemed like a disaster waiting to happen from its very conception.

Maybe I was too tough but I wanted a good Borderlands film, and they cast actors that are 30 years too old and quite likely didn't even know what Borderlands is.

I'm not blaming the cast, I'm blaming the casting.

In fairness, the guy who voices Claptrap doesn't voice Claptrap any more. The original guy was fired after a falling out with Randy Pitchford as well as saying he was offered substandard pay and accusing him of assault, and they brought in a soundalike for BL3.

Either way, it's as much about name recognition and doing press to advertise the movie rather than just movie performance.

Been getting through Bloodborne. Beat the Witches of Hemwick last night. Not having too hard a time; Vicar Amelia took me about 5 tries but other than that not much problem, even did Bloodstarved Beast first try which surprised me. Now using Ludwig's Holy Blade which is very good. Only issue I've been facing is running out of Blood Vials a few times and having to go farm them a little. Man I miss flasks….

Still don't know if this replay will ever hugely change my opinion of the game, but enjoying it nonetheless.

Yeah I don't remember ever running into too much trouble before for most of the game. Feels like the same for most Souls games; once you start hitting your stride, get the main levelling/upgrade methods underway and better know your own limits, the main enemy of the game just becomes your own impatience.

Well, that and all the Frenzy/Curse/Deathblight insta-kill bullsh*t….

A good place for farming vials early game, go to the first lamp in the game, go through the shortcut on the left and kill the two giants, good for practicing parrying and they give a good amount of vials, run back to lamp and touch it to respawn them and rinse and repeat, then use the souls you earned from them to buy a load of vials.

Became habit for me to just spend any remaining blood echoes on vials in the hunters dream after levelling up just to keep them topped up.

Agreed on just having a vial that recharges, but vials mid-late game is no big issue, just do a farm run or two and spend it all on vials and that will likely set you straight forever..

I'm guessing they didnt go the recharge route as it didnt fit the lore of it all? Would be a good question for the devs 😁

And Penn, Regarding the mob respawn with the lamps, i cant recall been years since ive played BB, im still waiting for the 60fps version they promised for the ps5.. But you might be right in that you need to leave and come back for the reset instead of just a quick touch reset.. You will have to test it and report back 😜

Sony don’t seem bothered with these sort of QoL updates, if it was up to FromSoftware we would probably have 60fps by now.

I would be shocked if we don’t get a BluePoint remaster at some stage though, probably as a launch title for a new console.

I found the blood vials made the game easier. It felt like I had 20 Estus flasks starting off the game

but this was the last FromSoftware game I played so was always going to find it easier than the rest

PT is 10 years old today. The only game that has made a controller jump out of my hands with fright.