Posts by Erratic

  • What have you watched recently?

    I can accept some resistance to apocalypse now. It's a demanding watch and can test your patience but it's one of the greats so you might just have to eventually come to terms with your bad taste.


    Also I wouldn't be so dismissive about the source material. Painting Coppola as the port-studio equivalent of a film maker is some pretty damning shit. My goodness. Patton was quite good and disqualifies at least that portion of your argument.


    I haven't read shit from Grisham but I'll go out on a limb and say he ain't a high water mark for PROSE FICTION. What's usually regarded as low-brow reading is often turned into high-art films, not because the source was so good but the film turned it into something more. Like The Shining.


    But I like Godfather III so maybe I'm not the best one to talk to about this.

  • WiiU

    It's a good little machine it just doesn't have a lot to play. Mario and DK are geat, even if 3D World is probably the weakest 3D Mario. I'd say the 3DS 3D Land was better overall. Still ridiculously well made game though. Tropical Freeze is great, start doing the time trials and you see just how well made the levels are. And you can actually do them this time since you don't have to shake the controller to roll, which straight up ruined time trials for me on the Wii version.

  • Dark Souls 2

    I did a two handed wanderer/katana dex/stamina playthrough first go and a spear/shield/strength play through after that. Shield/Spear was a lot of fun, attacking while blocking is too good.


    I don't think I've ever played a straight up mage before in these games. I remember doing a bit in Demon's Souls but it was a cake walk for the first couple levels.

  • Dark Souls 2

    I made it to level 100 or so and somehow manged to miss the entrance to huntsmans corpse. So I've sort of been playing this shit in reverse lmao. Just stomped through that forest like it was nothing.


    I sort of did the same thing in Dark Souls where I cleared the fucking catacombs before touching the area passed the dragon in undead burg. That was an interesting first experience through the game...

  • Dark Souls 2

    Quote from Rick_D

    i can't play this game offline, so fucking annoying, so i went back to dark souls. i never actually finished it (haters gonna hate)


    Fucking fraud.

    I'm replying to this while I wait for people to get auto invaded for the rat king.


    True Gamer™

  • Dark Souls 2

    Quote from Vilham

    summon someone


    beta souls


    though enemy health scales based on player count now at least. I ended up summoning help for the 3 dicks before sinners rise. I felt appropriately bad afterwards.

  • Dark Souls 2

    I"m around level 84 now. Series is still in a class of its own level design wise. It practically doesn't get any better. The world structure and pacing set the bar some time ago and I don't know that it's been matched.


    Destroying people for the rat king is some devious shit. Poor people that wander into that place, I'm honestly not sure how I've got this many so far since there's about fuck all to find in the graves but they keep coming. Pretending to be a stone rat statue to back stab someone may be the highlight of my life.


    Trying hard not to reply to that abomination of a post above, whoo boy.

  • Battlefield 4

    Yeah, I mean, the game was a fucking mess. Just not quite the mess that's been reported.


    Expecting measured reactions from the internet is pretty fucking stupid of me though, I'll admit.

  • Battlefield 4

    Game's been playable on PC since 2 weeks after release. Worst thing still occurring is apparently PS4 rubber banding on high player count servers. That shit sucks but the PC side has been fine for awhile if a crash here or there doesn't make you furious and storm off to twitter to tell the world precisely how mad you are in a post that clearly shows what a calm, collected individual you are and someone we'd all want to hang out with sometime.

  • What have you watched recently?

    The Counselor. I don't know but I got this feeling that this is some shit Kubrick would have done if he'd been alive these days. It's got a special weirdness and deliberateness just done by Ridley Scott instead.


    Of course everyone fucking hated it but that sort of makes this retarded idea even more plausible.