Off My Mind

You could say I'm a little late to watching this movie. If you had asked me when this came out a couple of days ago I might have said 2015 or maybe a year before. When I looked at the release date on Prime to see 2010 I had that "wait that cannot be right even though you know it is" feeling. This film is eleven years old and the reason for me thinking it was more recent is perhaps the way social media has blown up over the last five or so years. Watching this film made me remember back to the time I thought it came out, believe it or not but in 2014/15 everyone you met wasn't obsessed with becoming a YouTuber or influencer. Come to think of it I don't think those terms had even been coined at the time, social media was definitely on the rise and quickly but it wasn't as ubiquitous as it is now. Twitter for instance was still that thing that's "never going to be as big as Facebook" because it's just the status part of Facebook.   The film is s...

The master collection has been out one week today, I have been playing it a lot. I will check my total game time before publishing this post. Against my better judgment it has brought me back to the world of streaming and YouTube on the daily and that is something after some time away has hit me how bad it is for me right now.  I still have things on my mind that I wanted to do but after some reflection on it I realised they are things I only really want to do because I know it's almost guaranteed nobody else will. That highlights the very specific obsession I have with this stuff, when it comes to NG I mainly want to do the things nobody else does only because nobody else does. Instead I should really focus on what it is I actually want to do. Which right now is play Bayonetta and get back to Super Meat Boy.  I don't want to get too negative on here but this entry is going to be similar to my off my minds in video form but the main thing that has both disappointed me and anno...

Devil May Cry 3 I have been playing through DMC3 this last week on the HD collection on the PS4. I finished DMC1 and that game just gets better and better every time I go back to it so thought I'd go through 3 again to see how it would go. DMC3 has not aged as well as I thought it would, it's not as if the game is terrible now but it certainly has some aspects about it that I'm not too fond of. When I think back to DMC3s release the sheer difficulty of it was like this giant wall to tear down and once you got over that came the next logical step and that was getting even better, to the point where taking a single hit made you restart a level. I did a lot of that during my years playing it back then and even to this day SS ranking that entire game is still one of my proudest gaming achievements, but coming back to it now that just doesn't have the same appeal it once did. After clearing my first run the flow of the game was coming back to me and by the time I wrapped up ...

Apart from NG of course, that always stays in my while playing list. I have been going through my backlog trying to pick out games I either moved away from too soon or just straight up forgot I owned or played before. One thing I will get into later is that when you have played enough games it's quite bizarre to feel like you forgot playing it.  Streets of Rage 4 Actually was stunned to realise this game released over a year ago. I feel like it's almost impossible to have grown up in the SNES / Mega Drive era and not played the old Streets of Rage games. Between 3 games in 1, bundles and pack ins it felt like you could talk to anyone and they would have played one of these at some point.  I finished SoR4 when it came out and was originally intending to put quite a bit of time into it. The scoring and combo system is awesome and definitely scratches that fighting game itch that I've had over the last year or so. The characters are varied and look great, the enemies are fun t...