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I’m not sure how to describe this game. It’s an oldschool oldschool point-and-click game.
I think I would have liked this back in the day, but these days I find a bunch of the mechanics and gameplay too frustrating to deal with.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4378456/
was https://www.fox.com/second-chance/
An old retired cop is reborn into a younger, stronger, version of himself, and fights crime.
Seems fairly good, though I’d bet it would be bland without the pretty girl.
Cancelled 2016-05-12
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1399664/
https://web.archive.org/web/20210721174231/www.amc.com/shows/the-night-manager–108
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03g13rt
A dude begins his career as a night manager for some place somewhere but gets used by British intelligence to act against an arms dealer.
Fairly decent, but I suspect it’s only because this is another show with a British accent being thrown around carelessly.
Based on The Night Manager (1993 book), by John le Carré
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3489184/
https://www.nbc.com/constantine
A man attains mystical powers originally for selfish reasons, but they taint with a life fraught with danger and demons.
Not a bad show, but the lead character’s personality isn’t attracting, and there’s the old celestial stick-up-the-ass personality in another. The lead female is hot. Hotty hot hot.
This was cancelled after one season. Back in the 90s this show would have done well, but I’m guessing this genre has alternately been well-poisoned or saturated. This show has too much it has to be better than to catch enough attention to survive. I think that it’s magic-fantasy was competing with an extraordinarily-strong superhero-fantasy genre.
.. which in turn is based on the DC comic book series Hellblazer.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1486217/
https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/archer
A spy does spy stuff, drinks, hits on women and makes a jackass of himself while being surprisingly competent.
A fun, light, series which has a whole lot of laugh-out-loud moments.
Though I’ve seen it all, I didn’t begin taking notes until later on.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190198/
(archive of the original website)
A military unit is sent on missions in a future where all of humanity is at war with alien insects.
The show is animated, and not “anime”. As such, it has not held up well with time. The music is fantastic, though. Truly. However, its other high points do not make up for the visual issue I have.
While it doesn’t do it for me, I would recommend this for fans of the movie or movie series who can also handle the visual style and jerky movement that to me is reminiscent of ReBoot – (1994 show).
Based the movie Starship Troopers – (1997 movie), and is definitely not a sequel to it.
DO NOT BUY. DO NOT TRY.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/275850/
https://www.nomanssky.com/
Explore, survive, gather and trade while making your way to the galactic core.
Every single described goal of this game has failed. It is a bad flight-simulator, with bad crafting, bad technology, and bad survival mechanics. It is set on procedurally generated planets so vast that nothing matters, in a procedurally-generated universe so vast that nothing matters. What’s worse is that it is so godawfully crowded with hand-holding that it becomes both easy and repetitive. Being ugly and with abysmal performance, it’s not even an exploration time-waster.
Perhaps in some years they will change/fix many of its issues, but I believe it has a fundamental casualness to it that anchors its core gameplay problems. This is not a game made for gamers.
2017-05-07 update: I tried it again, and it just isn’t worth it. If its graphics were the same as before (they’re busted now) then maybe. I have another video card but I’m not going to swap things around or fiddle with installing an old version of my card’s drivers. I just don’t want to bother any more.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/
Shoot stuff and things.
I played the open beta. I found it fun, but not worth money. When I was given it for free a while later, I didn’t find it all that great.
Overwatch 2 – While it has PvE to some degree, the full talent trees and upgrades concept will not be implemented. (source)
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Entertainment > Games >
(on Wikipedia)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190810154034/http://twistedtreegames.com:80/proteus/
Open-world exploration.
It’s like an even crappier-graphics Minecraft, only with nothing to do. At first I thought it was quirky and interesting, but for some reason I got lifted in the air and after a long, long, while the game ended. I redid things, and this happened the second time too.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.twitch.tv/
A video broadcasting service. It’s generally used for live-streaming gameplay.
The concept of twitch or other video streaming services confused me until I thought a bit more. See Why would live streaming be popular?
