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What Was The Point Of Preacher’s First Season?

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I am not one for spoilers, but I have decided that I have to talk about how the first season of Preacher ended, so take this as your spoiler warning.  The show ends with a town wide explosion.  Which is similar to the comic book (in the comic it was only the church), but the comic book did it in the first two pages not after eleven hours of television.  We had no attachment for anyone in the comics yet, so the explosion just set the tone for the wild and crazy graphic adventure.  In the show we know everyone, so they just killed a bunch of people we have some sort of interest in.

What was the point of the first season then?  To show that Jesse is kind of a jerky know-it-all?  Trust me if they had followed the comic books people would have come to that realization anyway.  I don’t think Preacher needed a prequel, or this prequel at any rate.  It didn’t show us anything relevant or new about these characters.  It did show us that they are going to try and be as weird as the comic books, but just at a much slower pace.  Maybe the writers just wanted us to be asking the same question as Jesse, Tulip, and Cassidy, “What is the point of it all?”.

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No Man’s Sky Is What Is Wrong With Pre-Ordering!

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I am not here to jump on the No Man’s Sky hate bandwagon.  That wagon is already filled to the brim.  No I am here to tell all the bandwagoners that this is all their fault.  People love to get excited about things, and when they get excited about things they want to do something.  In the case of videogames the only thing that they can do while they wait is pre-order, but once again this has burned them.

People let the hype work them in to a tizzy, and they were ready for No Man’s Sky to be the best game of all time.  You would be able to fly to the infinite number of planets and make them your own.  Each planet would be wondrous and filled with adventure!  The space simulation would be pitch perfect.  This would be the ultimate game!  As it turns out No Man’s Sky is Terraria (in the Minecraft family), but in space.  Which is not a bad thing, but it is not the be all and end all to gaming.

Understandably people who thought that they would never have to buy another game ever again are upset they spent $60 on something that was different than what they expected, but had they waited less than a week until after No Man’s Sky came out they would have understood what the game was, and then made an informed decision.  Honestly once that week was over a lot of them probably would have got the game anyway because people who have accepted the game for what it is seem to like it.  It is relaxing and it is fun to wander around and see what is next.  Sure the space combat is kind of wonky, but there is still the thrill of landing on or jumping to new worlds.

All of this to say that the current system of pre-ordering needs to stop, and in this age of digital downloads there isn’t even a need for it.  For most games the reviews are out the day before launch which is still enough time to read the reviews, and then buy the game and have it download to your console or PC in time for go-live.  In situations like No Man’s Sky where we had had to wait a while, the reviews were still up pretty quick, and since it is not multiplayer no one was missing out on anything.  Do yourself a favor and save your money until you know what you are buying.  You will be happier.  I know I am.

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Titanfall 2 Tech Test Update!

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I didn’t have a lot of kind things to say when I last wrote about Titanfall 2’s Open Tech Test, but I still gave it another a try this last weekend, and I am happy to say it is getting better.  The new map they let us play Forward Base Kodai was much more vertical allowing for more ways to get around, and it did feel like Titans were falling from the skies more often.

Unfortunately since Titans still can’t go anywhere important they still feel a little useless in Amped Hardpoint because you are constantly having to get out, but I do think I am figuring out how to pilot these new mechs a little better, so I am having more fun in them, which I guess is the whole point.  If Respawn Entertainment is able to make changes to the game this fast, Titanfall 2 is worth keeping an eye on this October, but it is still is no longer a must buy.

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Fox Wants You To Know That They Are Not Done Making X-Men Movies!

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Fox is making a New Mutants movie that is supposed to come out in 2018, and according to The Nerdist just to remind you of that they are teasing their lineup:

  • Warlock: A mechanical alien shape-shifter
  • Mirage: Danielle Moonster who can make things appear
  • Magik: Illyana Rasputin who can teleport and do general magic stuff
  • Wolfsbane: Rahne Sinclair who can transform in to a giant wolf
  • Cannonball: Sam Guthrie who can fly and has a shield that forms around him
  • Sunspot: Roberto da Costa who use the Sun to zap people

This was kind of an odd announcement since Fox didn’t say who was playing any of these characters, but it is fun to know the line-up anyway.  I will have to help Fox by trying to cast them all.  Though I did notice that they left out Teenage Negasonic Warhead, and since she was so popular in the Deadpool movie that is kind of surprising.  Oh well, it appears that this movie is well underway.  I will add it to 2018’s large list of movies to watch.