Redwolf's Journal (continued)

I started watching Altered Carbon a while back and ended up taking a break partway through because... hmm... perhaps because the episodes are an "hour" long plus general seriousness. But I came back and finished it, and I don't mean any of that as a knock against the series. It's set much more in the future than what I typically think of as "cyberpunk" but it very much holds true to the themes of the genre - AI, gentrification, questioning humanity. There's a mystery for the main character is hired to unravel that turns into much more along the way. It does all that well and looks good. The characters are generally solid. There are some truly great moments of acting when certain characters are dealing with their consciousness being loaded into very different bodies. I think the series leans a bit heavily into unveiling new things to open up more questions every episode or two. Whether that's a good or bad thing may be up for interpretation, but I c

The game was enjoyable to play. I have a lot of little nitpicks and criticisms, but really I've had fun with the recent Tomb Raider trilogy and this works okay as an ending or a break point in a larger story. The game looks good. It (mostly) plays well. I might revisit it if there is some story-ish DLC in the future. So what would I criticize about the game? Well, I ran into a few technical issues where the game slowed to a crawl - primarily in cut scenes or interactive sequences. Maybe my hardware is starting to show its age, but that's a drag. Also, it's one of those games where you might die a couple times in combat situations over the course of the game... but half a dozen times or more in sequence during an interactive/QTE scene because something comes up after 20+ seconds of quick reactions and you may not have time to process what you're doing wrong that causes Lara to miss a jump. I'd also say the pacing feels a bit off overall and I wish the scenes of bei

Y'know, the more I read the cheeky little comments on the internet about introverts , the more I feel like they explain my life (even if they're regularly oversimplifications). Lately, I've often thought "I need a hug" while also acknowledging consciously that an actual hug would probably be more awkward than comforting. So... on the entertainment front, let's see... I played through Vampyr . That was one that was on my radar, but the timing of it made it slip below the level of "must buy upon release." In general, it pretty much matched my expectations - one of those games that's fairly good, but distinctly on a tier below the top. Combat is sort of Soulsy (is that a word yet?), but doesn't quite have the responsiveness or feeling of deptch Dark Souls did. And with no fast travel, there's a lot of combat to wade through just while getting around, which felt a bit of a drag in the second half of the game. Some of the bosses can be ve