Strange Brigade… played by an even stranger person….

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Tally ho chaps, seems there’s some new undead silliness occuring and who better to fail miserably at showing off what gun-ho fun can be had within Strange Brigade than a strange man pretending to be a lord?

Seems quite a lark if you ask me!

Yep, Rebellion the scamps who gave us Sniper Elite goodness through the years returned with a new co-op shooter set in what can only be described as a B-Movie. But it has arrived with very little fanfare and indeed the reviews have been not been resoundingly a success.

So can Strange Brigade with it’s puzzles and undead naughty people make the Lord of Leisure howl with excitement or will we be better off staying home with lashing of tea and crumpets?

Huzzah!

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Hearthstone Happy Hour: The “Maybe I’ll be awake this time” Edition

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Joined by followers far and wide, along with Kackhase hiding behind a new name (you couldn’t catch me out!) we battle against the forces of meh with help from RNGesus…. if we prey correctly that is.

This week, I was 100% more awake and while playing the new single player puzzles in Hearthstone, we also briefly touch upon social justice reviewers in magazines who decry lack of representation in historically accurate games along with WOOness about what was going on at Gamescom.

A rich full time you will agree and so, as usual, enjoy!

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Monster Hunter World. Oh what a world, what a world…..

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At first, this Monster Hunter World livestream went rather well if wonky with the usual weirdness one expects to find with Japanese titles.

In fact it was rather like Metal Gear Solid where you were, if you were only playing games on PC like I was back in the day, thrown in at the deep end with a lot of things making no sense at all.

But after the fun and frolics of learning where we were and the fact we were basically in Jurassic Park was clear, the combat of a certain monster is the point where I actually broke and got jolly annoyed.

A fact I would later learn is on purpose as the combat is clunky by design and thus the only way you may be OK with it, is to play with things that have fast recovery times….. But I only learned that off livestream and in essence, I came away not wanting to play this ever again really……

Oh dear…… Still, it started out as a laugh, right?

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Hearthstone Happy Hour: The “Shut up Meg” Edition

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This episode of the Hearthstone Happy Hour was called the “Shut Up Meg” Edition because that’s all I thought about when the film “The Meg” was released.

Still haven’t watched it though at this point! Oh, this was the day Diablo 3 was announced for the Nintendo Switch so had to remark on that for a few minutes too before playing a children’s card game!

Anyway, this week overall I have to admit, wasn’t as good as the week before, got to be honest, the Tavern Brawl this week was just a crap Arena run where everyone just build decks known to win from what people have posted and so we were doomed to lose so why bother?

Never mind, after that we returned to ladder with a wild “Mech” deck designed to annoy the hell out of people and then some proper pretend decks, mainly as I hadn’t really had the time to go through and make things to experiment with. Pinky promise that next time will be better!

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We Happy Few…. Or perhaps even fewer happy people?

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We Happy Few, We Band of Brothers, we wee wee all over the floor….. moving on…..

We Happy Few was released out of Early Access after being absorbed by Gearbox for publishing purposes and thus the original game that Compulsion Games had originally promised had ballooned into a full price promise of treachery and deceit in a world where Joy is a pill you take to forget the meh.

But given recent reviews and clear bug ridden examples for all to see, did we end up with a different kind of treachery?

Only one way to find out, so play on dear campers…..

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A mini meh about…. Tomb Raider (The 2018 film, not the game)

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Would you want this raiding your tomb?

Video game films….. yep they are still for the whole part, chronically shit. Remarkably we came close to a good one earlier this year with Ready Player One in which happily, I can now report that I was wrong about the film going onto being a Box Office flop. It means that potentially, Hollywood will be more willing to try different things again and we the public get better choice in gaming films going forward.

However there was another film based on a gaming franchise to rear its head onto the big screen this year, Tomb Raider and oh my….

It was easy to not get excited about the latest attempt at Tomb Raider when it was due for release during March 2018. The trailer was about as gripping and exciting as you would expect sadly; Evil Orgnaisation blah blah, dead dad, blah blah, some action and shit collapsing. The film included the look from the recent game reboot and some of the ridiculous torture porn which I’ve come to associate the new series with too. But it was left unwatched. It was while at a friend’s house, he of course suggesting we putting it on for a laugh, that I even gave Tomb Raider: non Angelina-Jolie version a look at all.

So how will we get to our arse-kicking raider of the tombs we know and love? Well turns out Daddy Croft (Dominic West) via the gift of early narration uncovered a weird japanese lady ruler who held the power of life and death was buried alive and now a naughty bunch of bastards called Trinity are trying to dig up said lady to use her killing powers. But lo, he’s dead and Lara Croft (played by Alicia Vikander this time round) grows up to be a well-rounded asshole.

An asshole who hasn’t a pot to piss in and entirely obnoxious in almost everything she does.

She also never signed a piece of paper to inherit her father’s insane wealth because of….. why? No, no, we’ll come back to that (and the damned “fox hunt” bollocks) later. It’s too tempting to rush into the problems with this…. Patience. Continue reading →

Hearthstone Happy Hour: The “Non Naughty Experimental” Edition

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Another day, another Hearthstone Happy Hour with copious laughs, some great games and a fat dude in his dressing gown….. seems to be a thing now, doesn’t it?

We carry on with our launch week fun and frolics by playing basically nothing other than Whizbang the Wonderful in a deck, where we have a potential 18 random decks we could get. Playing those against people who are clearly playing proper decks trying to win etc, will not go well would it?

The answer may surprise you….

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Dead Cells or…… How to make yourself cry.

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It’s a very unusual livestream this time campers, with the full release finally of Dead Cells, a roguelike platformer thingy where you die over and over again to make progress in the game, picking up upgrades as you go.

Not only was this a fact finding mission about what the game was like in its final state, this time, Twitch Integration was turned on and lo and behold, our friend Kackhase was on hand to become “Captain Chicken” who would either help or hinder me in my epic quest of epicness.

Seriously, someone in Twitch chat can appear as a chicken which can then heal you when they feel like it. It’s rare for me to do anything like this, and became what was just a great game into a damned excellent time for all to enjoy.

Dead Cells I had no trouble recommending and from this livestream, it won’t be hard to see why. Even with my bad dodging.

Enjoy!

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Hearthstone Happy Hour: The “New Card Time / I spent how much?” Edition

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From Nosy neighbours to terrible Mech Warrior to getting way to overly excited about getting the cards I actually wanted, this Hearthstone Happy Hour will have it all! This livestream had the thrills and spills of the new expansion, the Boomsday Project unleashed upon us all and with that, you know there’s going to be new decks made, new memes and new ways to lose badly.

So sit back and maybe even skip the first hour of this if you don’t want to see expensive card packs being opened, instead wishing to see the fun and frolics of SCIENCE! … well, science in children’s card game form.

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A mini meh about….. Logan Lucky

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Lucky it wasn’t Logan’s run….. look jokes are hard. Don’t judge me.

Direct from the UK Premiere in the West End, it’s time to meh about the Steven Soderbergh directed heist comedy, Logan Lucky. Or at least it would have been had I actually bothered to write about the film directly from the premiere! Lucky for me at the time, I did also do an Aftermath video which you can view here.

That video was recorded over a year ago and since then this film has gone mostly under the radar in a lot of respects. It’s made it onto Amazon Prime recently, hence one reason you may suspect for returning to writing the mini meh about Logan Lucky. But there was another reason to do so actually and it’s thanks to Ocean’s Eight. You see, we’ve not really had a damned good silly heist movie in quite some time. At least, not one based in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I’m looking at you Ant-Man….

Why would I say we’ve not had a good heist movie in some time? Ocean’s Eight was supposed to be a return to the hit Ocean’s Franchise, only time time with 8 sexy gals proving they can steal just as well as any man. While perhaps the film ticked boxes for some people, as written on here in fact, the only conclusion I could reach was; It was boring and pretty much proclaimed it to be the cinematic equivalent of rice with nothing else served with it to make it a proper meal. I may have written it that way as I was feeling hungry at the time, but the point still stands. Continue reading →