Doom VFR

Doom VFR is an excellent PlayStation 4 Pro release. The original Doom action, now executed with full 360 degrees immersive VR combat sequences!

This is among the best VR shooters of 2017, with incredible 4k graphics matched to the Oculus Rift and other VR headset devices! Every superior Doom weapon returns, complete with blood splattering FPS executions you can initiate with gesture commands! This is a VR experience gone with the failed days of the Virtual Boy, the real beginnings of VR's potential to become the future of video games!

This is one of the first Oculus Rift to support native 4k, so every monster you vanquish bleeds with realistic textures and lifelike sound immersion. The music runs in full, crisp Dolby Digital surround sound, attached to the VR experience, an immersive shooter like no other! This is a Doom that needs to be experienced on the Oculus Rift to be believed, with Bethesda studios delivering not one but two supreme next generation Doom titles in under a year!

Every moment is pulse-pounding, and with VR immersion the fear factor is more significant than any previous Doom installment. Imagine stalkers and large skeleton husks grabbing you by the back, and feeling the tactile response in your own shoulder blades. These are the kind of potential realities we may see with future patches of Doom VFR from Bethesda. A powerhouse 2017 release, and one of the best, if not THE BEST games for the Oculus Rift! A must purchase!

Graphics: 10/10
Gameplay: 10/10
Sound: 10/10
Replay Value: 10/10
Overall: 10/10 (Masterpiece!)

Microtransactions Poem In The Spirit of Christmas

Oh, Microtransaction Tree Oh Microtransaction Tree. Your paywalls are always a fiendish nightmare for me! Oh, Microtransaction Tree Oh Microtransaction Tree. Pay-To-Win stupifying garbage underneath loot box DLC pass fees!

Where money dictates outcomes instead of raw skill. Where every cosmetic costs money and a test of your will. Oh, Microtransaction Tree Oh Microtransaction Tree. How gamers absolutely detest and players worldwide loathe forever three!!! When DLC leaky hole patches steal more bags of your cash!!! When you grind for hours because EA cares for you less than trash. Oh, Microtransaction Tree Oh Microtransaction Tree. How you've ruined video games worldwide globally!

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands is one of the premier shooters of 2017.The single-player campaign features strong AI and an endless arsenal of guns!Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands is the most recent franchise entry in a storied establishment that is showed up on a few stages since it was the introduction in 2001. The Ghost Recon name has dependably been synonymous with strict, coordinated gameplay that remains deliberately bundled around a deep and complex storyline. 

Shockingly, its Achilles heel has dependably been the diversion's powerlessness to stray from the endorsed way. Phantom Recon: Wildlands smashes that thought by not just expelling the indicate travel from linear path A to point B killing generic waves of useless enemy AI. Ghost Recon removes confinement for a gigantic open world, however, does as such in a one of a kind way that it must become experienced directly. Phantom Recon: Wildlands is another new, new, and imaginative first-individual shooter that is going to massively contest for 2017 game of the year. 

The current year's portion takes some quantum jumps forward by at long last giving players what they need through deliberately obtained components from pretty much every one of its antecedents, specifically Grand Theft Auto, Just Cause, Call of Duty, and Battlefield. The setting is exceptionally GTA-esque, with a living open world that offers fundamentally more connections with regular folks, weapons, vehicles, and everything in the middle. Bolivia is your stepping ground crosswise over 21 districts; all pressed with various atmospheres, vehicles, weapons, and subcultures. Every one of a kind one gives you new and exciting approaches to battle foes in what surely may be one of the most magnificent open-world territories the FPS gaming stage has ever observed. 

The environments are not only beautifully rendered in 60 FPS and 4k Resolution, but destructible! Every weapon combo feels lethal, and the scale and expanse of open-world combat dwarf anything from Call of Duty in years! Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands is an adrenaline pumping, nonstop carnage masterpiece of open-world FPS gameplay done right. It stands to compete with the latest Far Cry series, another excellent open-world FPS. As remarkable as Halo is functioning as a linear shooter, in all honesty neither Bungie nor 343i have yet to produce a satisfying open world Halo game, which the franchise sorely needs!

Halo 3 ODST attempted to be the first open-world Halo, but besides the excellent combat, the open world involved hours of walking with little enemy engagement for long stretches, which harmed the game despite excellent graphics and the fantastic Firefight mode.

Where Halo 3 ODST failed, Ghost Recon Wildlands succeeds in blending close-quarters combat mechanics with exact open world gameplay. It is a must buy, the action sequences are so rich and vivid in detail the experience leaps off the screen. You can destroy nearly every object in the open-world, leading to the inventive use of cover, and thousands of ways to engage a complex and diverse subset of enemy AI. The only way to make Ghost Recon Wildlands more satisfying would be to re-release this game for VR. A real competitor to Halo, Far Cry and Battlefield, head and shoulders above the current Call of Duty rehashes, and a must play for 2017!

Final Verdict:
Gameplay: 9/10
Graphics: 10/10
Sound: 8/10
Replay Value: 9/10
Overall: 9/10

Electronic Arts Is Greedy And Evil

Electronic Arts honestly can go and screw themselves for what they have done to the gaming community and anyone who trusted the scum! This company has officially reached rock bottom with gamers. They have single-handedly managed not only to fuck up Mass Effect, The Sims, and Battlefield (not to mention every other franchise they touch) but ruined Star Wars Battlefront II with an infuriating loot-progression system! How dangerous of a complete disaster was Electronic Arts greedy interference in DICE's Battlefront 2? I will tell you, enough for EA to take a hit of 3.1 billion dollars in lost stock revenue!

As far as I'm concerned this is excellent, wonderful news! Perhaps EA losing money will pull their heads out of the quicksand they have shoved their heads under and start catering to gamers instead of their paychecks! Sales went down 61% due to EA's insistence on the broken Pay-To-Win loot progression system. The gaming industry needs to evolve microtransactions to become more acceptable to mainstream consumers. EA could not care less, however! They only care about money-grubbing as much of your cash as possible, and who cares about quality control when we can get rich from blatant microtransactions and hidden LootBoxes behind an evil Pay-To-Win abomination! 

Between letting a delusional, dangerous and sadistic racist jackass handle the destruction of the Mass Effect series, and EA's refusal to make constant changes to their broken microtransaction system, this company is heading straight down the toilet! Gamers can only hope the company turns an about face and does the right actions, hiring a new set of developers to return Mass Effect to its original glory, and quit digging their hands up DICE's ass so they can adequately release a game!  But we all know that this will happen when hell freezes over, so fuck EA!

Seven: The Days Long Gone

Seven: The Days Long Gone underwhelms on every conceivable level. Imagine Diablo with fewer combat options, less open worlds to explore, less satisfying gameplay and fewer exploration mechanics. Get very comfortable with less, as Seven: The Days Long Gone, strips the Diablo mechanics down to bare bones execution, and the result is truly mediocre.

The game starts with an abrupt cutscene introducing Teriel, the main protagonist. Teriel attempts to swipe an artifact, fails horribly and is relocated to an island prison where he must serve the Emperor by locating more artifacts. All the characters and quests focus on monotonous world-building mechanics, rather than unique storytelling! It's a standard RPG, talk to NPC's, acquire items and skills by completing quests, kill enemies, and obtain stronger weapons. Yet the entire experience would be average at best even if it worked without convoluted game design choices that ruin the experience! 

Seven: Days Long Gone places fast-travel locations inside enemy bases planted by aggressive foes. The map is so poorly designed, that you can warp from one area into a firefight and get killed in the blink of an eye! The game rips off Diablo but removes all satisfying combat, all smart AI. There is no depth in combat variety, just button mash against wave after wave of mindless monsters. Stealth attacks are so glitchy that sometimes you can assassinate a target and they won't die! Guards sprint unpredictably between points with such low inventory variety that you end up reusing the same weapons and assets over and over again!

Overall, Seven: Days Long Gone is a terrible experience! This game downgrades everything fans love about Diablo and replaces those mechanics with shallow gameplay, a boring story, and poor design mechanics. I suggest you avoid this underwhelming game at all costs!

Final Verdict:
Graphics: 4/10
Gameplay: 3/10
Sound: 3/10
Replay Value: 2/10
Overall: 3/10 (Terrible!)

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)