Daddy's Home 2

Daddy's Home 2 is an absolute mess of a movie. I usually love Will Ferrel, but the tasteless meter of this flick places him in one of his first awful roles.As a family comedy, Daddy's Home 2 is akin in pleasure to a French Guillotine, with constant cracks at dead hookers, and Anti-Semitic jokes from Mel Gibson, who no longer cares about his public image whatsoever. This movie is a family-friendly comedy, in the same manner  as a chainsaw lobotomy to the genitals, it is an abhorrent offense in every possible category. 

Every second is the essence of trauma, an absolute bludgeoning to human sensation. Every joke either stale and formulaic or blatantly tasteless without style or substance to make it attractive, as other movies and video games have done successfully. Examples include We Happy Few upcoming in 2018, 1984 by George Orwell, or Brave New World by Adolus Huxley. 

Mel Gibson's performance is a far cry from his Braveheart days, essentially portraying a racist tough love based father, and comic foil to Will Ferrel's ultrasensitive father from the prequel. Gibson delivers little value. Weak, tasteless lines provided with zero passion or semblance of coherent sociocultural intelligence, (dead hookers are the flavor of the month for the script commissions) visual garbage on the screen. 

Occasionally the movie sidetracks from Holocaust denial humor to placate the festering boils of pus and blood across your saturated eyelids with a pratfall skirmish between the protagonists over a fucking thermostat, and another useless feud, a faux movie starring Liam Neeson, who doesn't deserve to be dragged into this ghastly poison of a flick – but both are immediately neutered out into stupidity and darkness by the sheer ineptitude and fatalistic malice that fuels the production of this film.

This film is an ugly Orwellian nightmare come true. It stinks of poison. No one anywhere within a million mile radius should waste one nanosecond of time watching its degeneracy and filth. Fuck everything about this sequel it doesn't deserve kindness, mercy or any compassion for being an eloquent rancid festering turd. A rock-bottom film for Mel Gibson, a blight on good actors such as Liam Neeson and Will Ferrel and a director Will Ferrel needs to get far away from to reclaim his glory, for he can do better than this disgusting travesty. Far better than such a trashy delivery and insensitive, maladaptive plot.

Final Verdict:
0/10 (Abysmal Garbage)

Back To Basics

In a disturbing chain of events, the revenue for microtransactions has doubled for game developers since 2012, just on PC-free-to-play games alone! Remember when unlocking content in video games merely required you to play the game itself? Now, this convenience is dying in favor of the EA, and Activision inspired "GIVE US YOUR MONEY GODAMMIT" model! 

PC microtransactions are expected to reach profits of 25 billion dollars by 2020 and its an ugly chain of events. This trend will influence more and more gaming developers to hop on the microtransactions bandwagon. Very soon, you will be paying out of pocket for every aspect of your gaming experience, not just the 60$ retail price! 

Gamers need to start voting with their wallets and not lining the coffers of the game developers who excessively rely on loot boxes and microtransactions as they are crippling the entire gaming industry! If we show the developers that we are unwilling to further support greedy industrial tactics, they will change strategy to reflect a loss of profits. Keep giving developers money for endless loot boxes and pay to win systems, and they will keep saturating the modern gaming market with cash grab after cash grab! It's that simple!

NIOH: COMPLETE EDITION

Team Ninja once again delivers a stellar action game. Redeeming themselves from the disaster of Metroid Origins, Nioh: Complete Edition takes you through a savage and wartorn ravaged Japan! Rebellious ninjas and samurai's competing to take control of the land. This game honors Japanese folklore at its finest, the story is complicated, nuanced, brooding, and filled with darkness and systematic betrayal. But Nioh's true breakout feature is its industry-leading combat system!

Every motion feels fluid and progressive in Nioh.  You have an endless arsenal of weapons at your disposal from katanas to crossbows to swords to ninjas stars it's all here! Even better, you can switch between weapons in the heat of combat on the fly, with a simple control scheme containing endless ingenuity. The difficulty is absolutely brutal and unforgiving of newcomers, this is a game from seasoned hardcore gamers ONLY! The boss battles are breathtaking, with armies of demon souls surrounding you as you slice and dice your way through nearly impossible odds. Its the video game equivalent of Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee dumped into hell itself for hours, and the fun is nonstop!

The graphics are classic Japanese folklore rendered with Pixar quality graphics. The soundtrack is an absolute delight, and the voice-acting is top notch! This game takes everything great about Dark Souls and injects it full of steroids, the combat is constant, and enemy variety is the best in the industry! Every combat encounter will make your hairs stand on end. Enemies use cover and will flank you ruthlessly, with pixel-perfect intelligence, your every move tracked. There is not one second of downtime as Nioh refuses to ever let up on the pressure until you crack, but every second is an absolute joy to experience! Nioh never holds your hand, it separates the pros from the casuals with no mercy! 

Team Ninja has crafted a worthy successor to Ninja Gaiden, an action RPG masterpiece and Nioh: Complete Edition is an absolute must purchase!!! Quite possibly the best action game of 2017! In a year filled to the brink with disappointing and underwhelming video games, Team Ninja still demonstrates that all is not lost for the gaming industry to deliver real classic gameplay, and innovative the standard tried and true formulas all at once!

Final Verdict:
Graphics: 10/10
Gameplay: 10/10
Sound: 10/10
Replay Value: 10/10
Overall: 10/10 (MASTERPIECE!!!)

Destiny 2 Still Sucks

Suprise surprise! Destiny 2 is still a terrible overhyped gaming experience! According to Kotaku Bungie has become forced to change how the game handles experience points, due to a rigged system that features...wait for it....rage boiling.... LOOT CRATES AND A RANDOM DLC LEVELING PAY TO WIN SYSTEM!!! FEATURING EXPANSION PASSES FROM THE 9TH CIRCLE OF HELL!!!! Bravo Bungie bravo! You have created a franchise that pales in comparison to Halo on every measure and underwhelms at every opportunity.

Destiny 2 has a broken leveling up system that just plain sucks all the color, fun, and life out of the experience. The more XP you get, your level climbs at first. Then you hit a paywall when Activision screams "FUCK YOU GIVE US MONEY GODAMMIT!!!" and you are forced to collect Bright Engrams *cough* *cough* shitty loot boxes *cough* which contain, you fucking guessed it. RANDOMIZED COSMETICS AND ABILITIES!!! What is the matter with you, the ungrateful consumer? You want to actually pick and choose your upgrades like in a quality video game? Well, no problem... ACTIVISION HUNGRY!!! GIVE US ALL YOUR MONEY BITCH!!!!

Destiny 2's bonus XP event is even more based on bullshit than ever before!  The players who game more extended hours progress much slower despite repeating the same activities. This is due to poor programming decisions from Bungie. No, it's not, it's just a cruel system designed to make your gaming experience a monotonous tedium unless you fork out the dough. Remember when leveling up in a video game was about skill and fun? Those days are over. Activision is bent in the head, and Bungie has officially fallen from grace. 

Destiny 2's Eververse is nothing more than a subtle microtransaction system designed to hide its true intentions to milk stupid gamers out of their money in small increments. The only alternative is grinding public events and repeating fucking Horde mode for hours upon hours. Your reward? Diminishing XP returns just to hopefully get a rare randomized item in the Loot Box tornado of despair and futility. Fuck Destiny 2!

TLDR: Microtransactions, Loot Crates, and Pay-To-Win systems have infected the gaming industry as true cancer, that needs to become sliced off at the root to save consumer confidence.

The Sims 4

The Sims 4 is a glitched out, poorly developed mess of a game. This game singlehandedly destroys all progress that EA made with The Sims 3, and adds in such frustratingly poor controls that it renders the game a nightmare to play through!

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The controls struggled with transitioning to consoles. All the exciting career choices are now gone! Terrain tools have disappeared. Sims neighborhoods are now ghost towns, and even the burglars are gone! Half the features from previous Sims games have been mysteriously removed from Sims 4 with no reasonable explanation! 

The bugs which plagued the earlier PC release of Sims 4 have not only failed to have been patched in the console release but actively made worse!  Sometimes your Sim's skill and health bars get stuck onscreen and will harass the player until you reload the entire game! The game also inexplicably erases game saves at will so you can lose all your hard work you did on your Sims in the blink of an eye with no explanation! A menu bug freezes all progress until you restart your game, multiple times in a row.

But it gets even more pathetic. Audio and animations often execute out of sync with each other. When you load Build Mode, the frame rate drops to a crawl! Even moving around your playspace can result in framerate spikes. Somehow the PC graphical errors have been made worse on the console ports, and none of the PC glitches EA has ever bothered to fix!The console version does add toddlers, pools, dishwashers and other features that the PC version still lacks, but it's not enough to salvage a broken gaming experience. 

This game is worse than mediocre its insultingly terrible! No cars even permeate the roads your Sims walk on. The shocking lack of detail in Sims 4 ruins the entire experience, its a definitive downgrade from previous installments with no innovation whatsoever. A waste of both your time and money!

Final Verdict:

Graphics: 4/10

Sound: 3/10

Gameplay: 2/10

Replay Value: 1/10

Overall: 2/10 (Garbage!)

NBA 2K18: Micro-Transactions Missing The Net

NBA 2K18 is an ugly sports game. It doesn't matter that the graphics are polished and crisp. It doesn't matter that the gameplay is above average. The fact that the game supports Pay-To-Win loot boxes and microtransactions to update your athletes attributes through essentially virtual steroids based on the size of the gamer's wallet makes this game an abhorrently voracious and unbalanced basketball video game.

Microtransactions have ruined video games. Flat out, ruined gaming. And because rich morons continue shelling out the bucks to greedy game developers who used to release fully functional games without paid DLC or microtransactions, unfair practices have seeped into the competitive e-sports market and destroyed all skill. This game would be a fantastic sports video game, complete with near photorealistic graphics and decades of professional NBA all-stars to chose from! But now player skill is determined by your wallet, and whoever has the most money gets the most durable athletes, not who is better at sinking nothing but net. The real world of sports frowns sharply on athletes who embrace steroid doping. Now thanks to microtransactions, this practice is subtly approved with a wink and a nod, because hey! "It's just a video game."

No, it's not just a video game. Its an extension of ourselves. When we buy into consumerist greed and play into profits over purity, we lose a piece of our integrity. When we allow game developers to exploit tactical skill for monetary gain, the honor of competitive sports, both in the NBA, the NFL, or E-Sports, becomes lost.

NBA 2K18 also throws insult to injury with a laughable story mode, weak supporting characters, and cringetacular cinematics. The gameplay is excellent, sans NBA players missing over 1/2 their standing layups. Yet due to loot crates and cash grabbing, skill means nothing in NBA 2K18. Constant grind fests abound unless your willing to shell out the bucks you will remain forced to sit through terrible cutscenes to level up at the progression of a snail! Only to get beaten by a competitive online player who merely spent money on all the player upgrades and saved themselves months of wasted time! 

Point blank you cannot advance in the single-player mode without spending money for squad and player upgrades. Any competitive value is lost on this title, and all the excellent gameplay in the world means nothing next to an infrastructure devoid of integrity or skill without compromise. Loot crates, Pay-To-Win video games and Triple AAA titles saturated with microtransactions spell the slow, agonizing and putrid death of the entire gaming industry if continued unabated, uncompromised, and unchecked.

Final Verdict:

Gameplay: 8/10

Story: 1/10

Sound: 5/10

Replay Value: 1/10

Final Score: 2/10 (Garbage)

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is a phenomenal racing game! The graphics run on a crisp, buttery smooth 1080p! The wide variety of course selection is only matched by the colorful and diverse cast of racers! The online battle mode is near perfect with little lag, and due to the Nintendo Switch's hybrid functionality, you can now experience a console Mario Kart on the go!

All the Mario favorites you have come to expect have returned, and even Link makes an appearance! Battle Mode has become wholly revamped from the ground up to support dedicated servers. Graphics have received an excellent 1080p boost!All the previous DLC returns to Mario Kart Deluxe from the Wii U which includes the Splatoon Inklings. Even better, now you can play split-screen multiplayer kart matches on the go! Take your Switch console with you, and enjoy up to 4 player support!

You can even create custom Mii racers, equipping them with custom cars and weapons! The only possible way this game could become any better is for support above sixteen players, and a custom racetrack designer! Every element feels perfect, this is the definitive Mario Kart title and a must purchase for the Nintendo Switch!

Final Verdict:
Graphics: 9/10
Gameplay: 10/10
Sound: 8/10
Replay Value: 9/10
Overall: 9/10 (Amazing!)

Gear.Club Unlimited

Unfortunately, it appears that every racing game installment after Forza Motorsport 7 has fallen woefully short of the quality of that game. Take Gear.Club Unlimited, released on the Nintendo Switch for example. This game has all the substance of Forza, but none of the heart and soul! The arcade style controls and variety of racing tracks do little to deviate from the standard racing-game formula. The graphics are slightly above average, but nowhere near the Nintendo Switch's actual potential.

 It's not that the game is without any merit. While the tracks render at below average frame-rates, the cars have excellent models. Eden Games gathered real-life brand licensees to represent your vehicles, and the selection of transports is expansive. Unfortunately, the arcade-style controls are rudimentary, simplistic, and leave little to the imagination. Poor steering controls, lack of any meaningful peripheral support, and oversensitive button mechanics hamper the experience at every turn. 

None of the cars parts and pieces are upgradable, a severe downgrade from titles such as Forza Motorsport. Every race follows the same stale format. The race begins, and the AI vehicles shoot ahead of you. Yet all of them are racing at the same speed! An utterly unrealistic loophole which removes all sense of urgency or challenge from any race! Within 20 seconds, it's easy to pull ahead and your miles ahead of minutes. That is truly pathetic! Most racing games such as Forza and Mario Kart make your opponents at least competent, whereas Gear.Club's approach to intelligent AI merely is, "fuck it!"  Even worse, there is zero online multiplayer support in this game, so if you get bored racing against subpar AI your out of luck!

 Gear.Club Unlimited falls flat at every turn against its competitors. The drift controls are so oversensitive, that precise turn mechanics are skewed, janky and unresponsive. Shiny graphics mean nothing if the gameplay is mediocre and Gear.Club Unlimited is without question a below average game next to quality titles such as  Mario Kart 8 Deluxe or Forza Motorsport 7.

Final Verdict:
Graphics: 7/10
Gameplay: 5/10
Sound: 4/10
Replay Value: 3/10
Overall 4/10 (Mediocre)

Player Unknown Battlegrounds

Most FPS or third person shooters give your player weapons at the start of a match.  Player Unknown's Battlegrounds will apply a new concept to the standard wear and tear formula. Players spawn in large, open-world environments with no weapons, and must fight to secure weapons and resources from other players. Essentially, Player Unknown's takes the concept of Survivor and adds machine guns. You are competing against your fellow players for survival and must outgun and overstack all resources to survive. The last player standing, or not emaciated from starvation wins! Essentially you fight while exposed, unarmed with no resources but fisticuffs and ingenuity. To construct your resistance to an onslaught of chaotic violence!

Your life meter depletes without enough food or protection, so the game forces each player to think as a hunter-gather to flourish. Player Unknown's Battlegrounds is the rare MMO and FPS/TPS scenario where you must think on your feet with no weapons, and fully utilize savage guerilla tactics to win.

Mod support will be standardized upon release, although the developer has mainly kept mum about other features. In BATTLEGROUNDS, you have servers where you can go Solo or discover a teammate(s) in Duo and SQUAD, much the same as in H1Z1. Dissimilar to in H1Z1, however, like in Arma 3, if your group of Solo servers you will get prohibited. PUBG likewise has Mod help for custom servers. 

Tragically, this Mod help won't be accessible until the point when full discharge (when it escapes Early Access, a half year from now). Mod help… H1Z1 doesn't have that. Mod help where you can make your own Battle Royale diversion mode (and distribute it to the Steam Workshop), have it (perhaps lease a server like in the Battlefield arrangement) and have your own particular group or gathering of companions play it. The third-person mode is also not currently always an option during combat by beta testers, a bug that the developer may desire to swiftly patch before release.

 PUBG is genuinely a strategic, resource gathering and ability based Battle Royale diversion that no other video game can imitate currently on the market, and it will remain a unique entry among the MMORPG and survival horror gaming pantheons. 

Okami HD

Okami HD has one of the most unique gaming premises ever devised, and now, its finally getting a 4K upgrade! The bright adventure stars Okami, a wolf hunter, exploring Japanese folklore as the sun-goddess Amaterasu.

Japanese history is celebrated in Okami, with mythical gods and samurai warriors replete throughout the adventure. The graphics remain stunning in this game! Emulating precise Japanese folklore paintings come to life onscreen. Amaterasu gains a magic brush giving players the power of resurrection and the ability to manipulate the enviroment around them to suit the players needs. Your brush can also transform into weapons Amaterasu can utilize on the battlefield to slay foes through katanas or machine guns. Shintoism is now rendered in majestic 4K, and a glorious cast of characters honoring Japanese folklore is now updated with 21st-century fidelity.

Okami is a visual tour-de-force. One which pays respect and honor to its cultural heritage. An already stunning action-adventure, now redesigned from the ground up to take advantage of next-generation consoles and PCs. Okami HD is well worth your reservation!

Halo 6 Wishlist Countinued

Halo 5 Guardians remained both a monumental leap forward and backward for the both legendary and struggling Halo series. One the one hand, the graphics are drop-dead gorgeous, even more so on the revamped Xbox One X release! The multiplayer is the grandest entry since Halo CE, with a fantastic weapon sandbox that tops every Halo installment since Halo 1 and 2. 

Halo 3 was an incredible game, but its multiplayer had horrible balancing, as only the BR and power weapons had any effect, leaving other armaments as useless. In Halo 5, every single weapon combo feels absolutely lethal. You can get a White Scar plasma pistol and still get a killing spree with enough skill! Halo Reach had an excellent campaign but was easily the worst Halo game ever made. The multiplayer was a sad joke, with horrible map designs, ugly graphical style and random armor abilities and bloom which ruined competitive Halo! Halo 4 delivered a stronger campaign and a better multiplayer experience but still was based on random AA combat with standard loot drops.

Halo 5's multiplayer has no such flaws, the combat is both satisfying, fast-paced, and fun. Too bad the REQ system in Warzone transformed Halo 5 into a Pay-To-Win scenario. Even worse was the removal of Split-Screen multiplayer! Want to know how bad this mistake hurt 343i and why all future Halo games will always have split-screen? A picture is worth a thousand words.

For Halo 6 to become the best Halo series yet 343i needs to step up their game on every level. I know that this company can do better. Unlike Bioware, 343i has made improvements and adjustments to Guardians to make it a better game. They brought it to Windows 10, and added a Custom Games Browser, and released an incredible version of Forge, the best in the series history! They are willing to admit wrongdoing with The Master Chief Collection and are revamping the game for Xbox One X( RELEASE THE MCC ON WINDOWS 10 343I DO IT!!!). They have shown that although they have a hard learning curve, they are dedicated to the Halo franchise and making it shine.

Halo 6 needs to focus on the Master Chief, as well as every future Halo title. Halo 5 had an awful campaign because most of the game focused on Locke, who no one gives a shit about. Halo 5 Guardians also made the mistake of eliminating the Flood, which Halo 6 needs to correct as the Flood were one of the greatest enemies in gaming history. Every species from the previous titles must return, and let's add some new ones. Give us the ability to have custom AI in multiplayer! Bring back Firefight, and allow us to customize it to the very last detail 343i! Re-release every Halo game on Windows 10 and the Xbox One X, and continue to port with each progressive system.

Imagine Halo 6, released as a game combined with Halo MCC. On a single...disk! Imagine every Halo game getting an HD upgrade for the Xbox One X and DirectX 12 Windows PC's. Imagine a port for the Mac! Imagine being able to construct custom firefight and single-player missions in Forge and being able to play every Halo game and level from a single experience. Halo MCC had so much potential which was ruined, and 343i needs to fix their mistake. Why not go bigger and harder, and combine Halo 6 with the MCC. I promise that a delay of even an extra few years would be worth it for a quality release. You cannot rush art. Quality needs to supplant quantity for Halo to reclaim its crown as the king of FPS's! 

Hand Of Fate 2

Hand of Fate 2 is one of the most unique dungeon crawlers released in a long time! The game runs at near 4k resolution and features expanded options from the prequel.  You operate your characters with a board of cards, using deck building styled resource management to control the flow of combat and leveling up your protagonists. Hand of Fate 2 borrows numerous concepts from the viral Hearthstone release. Both feature deck building controls and turn-based strategy. 

The difference is that Hand of Fate 2 has more personality, the NPC's taunt you and play mind games on the player in real-time. The game is designed around chaos and randomness, with an air of unpredictable elements that interrupt and dynamically change the flow of combat within seconds! Every component of Hand of Fate 2 adds strategy and chaos. You must prepare your deck and monsters accordingly, because the battlegrounds shift in real time, eliminating predictable elements from the gameplay. 

Hand of Fate 2 delicately crafts an RPG with a perfect symmetry between tension and humor. You are marooned in a city infested with diseases and unique story elements! Protecting a delusion man who hordes potatoes to finance a trip to find his lover. Or traversing cityscapes made of randomized cards, solving murder mysteries in a randomized world where everything operates through turn-based strategy. The narrative never feels boring in this RPG, because the world always evolves in real-time as you explore each level! These modular stories are captivating. Each area has an overarching anecdote but also contain sidequests based on the cards you choose when constructing your deck. 

Some are repetitive one-offs, like being entrapped by goblins or visiting a diviner, while others are linear stories that you struggle your way through from mission to mission. The customisable constitution of these stories and challenges allows you to nurse narratives in a way that is unique to your playthrough, and to modify difficulty based on the cards you choose.

Hand of Fate 2 is a perfect example of how to create an exceptional sequel! It improves on every aspect of Hand of Fate 1 while adding better graphics, better story, stronger combat, and more innovation to the franchise. As it stands, Hand of Fate 2 is Divinity II Original Sins only competitor for RPG of the year in 2017!

Final Verdict:
Graphics: 10/10
Gameplay: 9/10
Sound: 9/10
Replayability: 10/10
Overall: 9.5/10 (Incredible!)

LA Noire Switch Review

LA Noire gets a new lease on life released on the Nintendo Switch! The game's graphics lose little in the transition, with incredible next-generation facial animations as you traverse the seedy underbelly of a crime ridden, drug infused dark corners of Los Angeles gangland's. Now gamers can play this console hit on the go, thanks to the Switch's unique console portable hybrid design!

The game runs at native 1080p, and full 720p on the portable Switch feature! Built in motion sensor controls enhance the Nintendo Switch experience, making this one of the first ports that exceeds the capacities of both the PS4 and Xbox One versions. The detective elements of LA Noire are top notch, as you hunt down murderous criminals and drug cartels with an assortment of Mafia weaponry and studious connections. For a portable game, the graphics are top notch, and the game-play endlessly intuitive in the freedom it affords the player to explore a crime infested world any way players see fit.

Make no mistake, LA Noire is one of the best looking portable titles out there, with superb game-play to match. Rockstar has accomplished a major feat, crafting a sandbox with GTA levels of possibility, brought to a portable home console.

Final Verdict:
Graphics: 10/10
Gameplay: 9/10
Sound: 8/10
Replayability: 8/10
Overall: 9/10 (Great!)