FlashFan207

I will not feel comfortable subscribing to any gaming subscription service ever, but will continue to happily own some of my games digitally, and others physically. I will be the one to decide which is which.

Is it wrong to find it a little funny that Mortal Kombat 11 outperformed Mortal Kombat 1?

Mortal Kombat 1, Arkham City and Pokemon Scarlet for me!

@betterthanvegas Ha, yep. One of my first comic books I ever read was The New Flash #1 when I was a little kid in 1987. This was when Wally West officially took over as The Flash and I was hooked on his character ever since. The JLU series treated Wally very well, for sure.

@XandertheWise That sounds awesome! I haven’t had a chance to try it yet, but even before the update I’ve been enjoying the game, despite its flaws. It was a very sizeable update and I admit to getting distracted with Arkham City and now Indigo disk lately. Well, time to get my butt kicked online again!

Edit: After playing for a bit it looks like there has been a huge improvement to loading times across all aspects of the game, in and out of fights, and even while negotiating the menus and kustomization screens.

@betterthanvegas Okay, so after reading your comment I was curious and I stumbled upon jetsetradio.live. I’m not sure if that’s the place that you go to, but wow I am enjoying the content on there. I really appreciate you bringing it up because it looks like I may be visiting there quite often.

Having logged about 20 hours into Arkham Knight so far I’ve come to feel that calling it “unplayable” is simply not true, and saying it’s a technical disaster is perhaps a little unfair.

I loved both Asylum and City when they were originally released, but missed out on Knight, so this trilogy release was a no-brainer for me. Maybe I should have replayed through the first two before starting on Knight to allow some more time for the developers to patch it, but I just couldn’t wait. Save for the odd slowdown or stutter while driving the Batmobile, and some intermittent frame drops while gliding through the sky, the game actually runs well enough for me to enjoy the play mechanics.

However, even at this early stage in the game, it is undoubtedly my least favourite of the trilogy based on the scatter-brained delivery of the plot and a story that does not quite have me entranced yet, as the first two did immediately for me. All in all, I think this review got it about right: two great remakes of old games and a bit of a sloppy port of game that was already sort of mediocre to begin with. It’s worth your time though, I feel.

Oh man, seriously?! But I’m still working my way through the Arkham Trilogy…

@MarioBrickLayer My feelings exactly.

@SpeedRunRocks There’s some good riffs from the Death and Anthrax offerings, but that midpoint instrumental in Ghosts of War is so awesome.

@joechiaxxa Agreed, honestly. Graphics are lower on my list of requirements in a good game compared to simply playing well. Graphics tend to look better if the game just runs smoothly.

@Truegamer79 Whoah, honestly if you haven’t read the Invincible comic before, then Prime has a very well done animated series you truly have to check out. The comic was a favourite of mine for years, and the series actually does it justice. My wife isn’t necessarily the biggest superhero fan, but she happily sat through the series and appreciated the fresh take on the genre (if you value a non-fanboy’s review).

@blockfight
My first time in a Party Crash too. Had a good time. I did my part, had a good run with Brass over the weekend.

@coolaggro
Lol, me too! The Dualie Squelchers are the closest for me, but I pretty much never use the sub in that set. Waiting for a Dualie Squelcher Custom/Neo set to launch.

Well, the Wii U was awesome, anyway. I don’t care what ANYBODY says. Those who missed out, really missed out on a ton of terrific games.

@Ahiam94
Yes exactly, they’re available on iMessage for iPhones.
😉

@McHaggis
Wow, yeah. Even though I may disagree with your smartphone choice, I still found your post to be fair and well thought-out. Of course there are many things that an iPhone can do that Android can’t like Handoff, AirDrop, iMessage, 3D Touch, and being prioritized by app developers to name my favourites.There are even several file sharing apps that support drag and drop, along with the native Files app.

But there are still those that say there is a significant difference in the performance of any of the main flagship smartphones, and I feel that is ignorant. There’s very little difference now and it comes down to personal preference, like you said. I always find it interesting to hear different stories as to why someone switched from one platform to the other because there’s a lot of parity in the industry now.

So I applaud your respectful assessment and keeping things polite. I have been dragged into some very pointless debates because many people spread some pretty silly misinformation. But I guess folks just feel passionate. Can’t blame them, really. We spend a lot of our time with our smartphones.

@HipsterDashie
I believe that in large part that sort of thing is due to the fact that, from a developers’ perspective, Apple is much easier to program for than Android. For instance there’s what, maybe two dozen Apple products they have to keep in mind when developing an app? A few iPhones and iPads, and if they want to get really crazy an Apple Watch app too. But there’s literally thousands of different devices running Android.

“We had ideas in our head (pre-release) of playing as the Champions, or perhaps continuing the story as hinted by the 'true' ending. In hindsight some may say those were unrealistic hopes, but they wouldn't have been unprecedented additions.”

This is exactly how I felt too and I’d be lying if I didn’t admit I was maybe a little bit disappointed. But still enjoyed all the DLC to its fullest and would say it was money well spent.

So awesome.

Aaaggghhhhh!!! I totally forgot about this! I’ve been playing DOOM, Rocket League and Mario Odyssey so much. Not too mention I just picked up Sonic Forces and Gear Club. Dang! I was really an avid ARMS player at the beginning and I played a bit when the Misango update was released. Oh well... I may have missed the event, but I’m still game to play it again!

I’m all in on this game.

DOOM!!! Some more DOOM!! And then a little of the SplatFest tonight.

My gosh, what a gorgeous game on the Switch.

@Kalmaro
I love the Wii U too.

@Dev
Mmmmm yeah, those are all good. I really like cereal, but dang! Now I’m hungry...

@NerdNoiseRadio
No worries. By the sounds of it you’ll be back soon. 😉

@BoFiS
There are free Super Mario ones. It’s jyst this pack that’s not.

Aaaannnnddddd... Purchase!!!

@16bitdave
Get some play time in with ARMS before Odyssey drops! I’m in the exact same boat as you. Splatoon 2 is so good, but I revisited ARMS today and had a blast.

@JaxonH
Lol, okay cool, let me know which team you’re planning on joining and I’ll just pick the other one, yeah?

I’m kidding, but honestly, why don’t people just simply pick the team they like better? Makes it more satisfying to fight for something you believe in, doesn’t it? I mean, I genuinely feel that flight is a cooler superpower than invisibility and vampires are cooler than werewolves. And it’s fun to splat people who disagree with me!

Splatfest, baby!!! Go Team Vampire!

@TomKnows
Wow! 😮 Right on!

@Discostew
“Read speed.” Hmmm, didn’t even know that was a thing (I’ve never really used SD cards before). Thanks for that tip, though. I’ll look out for that.

@Dash000
Yeah, this seems super easy. I was looking at some larger SD cards, but the price was a little intimidating. I guess I’ll just start with a smaller one, and go up from there.

@Daz-brum
It’s on my buy list too. The devs for Project Cars can suck it. Did you hear they want us to go to their website and beg them to port their game (that was supposed to have been released on the Wii U) to the Switch? They’re not getting that from me.

@MonkiPlays
Yes you should, lol. It’s awesome.

Team Vampire!!! See you all out there next weekend!

p.s. I chose Vampire because I’ve seen them use superspeed in the past, so that makes them cool in my books.

@Danpal65
Awwww, man! I gotta wait that long? Oh well, looks like there’s lots to keep me busy until then. All this coming out and I’m STILL playing Splatoon 2, Pokken and ARMS.

When is Doom supposed to be out? I thought it was November. Oh well, maybe in the next batch. In this one it’s Odyssey, WWE and Sonic Forces for me to start off with, if I can even afford them all.

@Yasaal
Yeah, I’m holding out hope it’s something a little cooler.

@DeltaPeng
Haha, nothing like a good ol’ SplatFest to make you start trying new things!

@aesc
Such an awesome Demolition Man reference. The three shells! I wonder how much longer it’s gonna take for society to adopt that system? I can’t remember what year that movie was supposed to have taken place in.

@Yasaal
Oh, fair enough. Reading your comment over again I see what you mean, my mistake. That said, I was on the Mayo and Flight teams, lol. Ketchup is good too, but c’mon, Flight is a way cooler superpower.

@GoldenGamer88
That’s so true! Aquaman is so badass and people just say, “Oh he just talks to fish,” or whatever. Even that on its own is incredibly powerful considering the sheer amount of aquatic life on the planet. But the super strength, invulnerability, super swim speed and Atlantean tech, the guy deserves to be mentioned in the same conversation as the other Justice League heavy hitters. Obviously I’m a Flash fan, but he is the second character I am most interested to see portrayed in the movie. Both very excited and apprehensive.

When I first read that there was no wireless connectivity I was like, “ohhhhh... awwwww...” Then when I saw the price I was like, “Oh! Cool!” Might see if I can grab one of these or a Wii U one somewhere.

@GoldenGamer88
Don’t know who those two guys are, but your Black Manta profile animation is super crazy awesomeness. Is that from Injustice?

@Yasaal
Forgive me if I am mistaken, but weren’t both mayo and flight Pearl’s teams? They were both the cooler picks, too. 😉

@N1ntendodo
This is gonna be extremely one-sided, unless some folks just join the clearly inferior back-roll method to make it more fair. Or just because they don’t wanna be pink, lol.

Lol, and everyone thought ketchup vs mayo was ripe for puns. Looks like one of the event organizers had a little spat with their significant other over bathroom etiquette...