Hey there everyone. It's me, Scroo, and it's time for the weekend WRUP. I'm late because yesterday happened very quickly and I never got time to come sit down here and put something together.
I went to se Shang Chi yesterday and I have to say that I enjoyed it quite a bit. People are upset about the CG in the movie but I didn't find it bad or distracting. Overall I felt like it told a pretty good story and even Ben Kingsley made an appearance again to redeem his role as the Mandarin, or as it was, the actor who played the Mandarin. It's cool. I'd suggest watching it since there are some familiar faces and genuinely legendary martial arts actors in the film. Though if you ask me there are far too few scenes involving the foo dogs.
Looks like Marvel hasn't given up on the Marvel's Avengers video game yet. Spiderman is coming to the title and I'm sure there are tens of people still playing so they can also enjoy the new raid. More here from Polygon
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is getting a remake because of course what we need is more full price remakes. Don't worry though if you're an Xbox player because you can't have it. It's a PS5 timed exclusive for consoles and will arrive on PC as is the will of our overlords. Here's the official page from Sony
I saw a pretty fun preview for a game called Evil West and I'll tell you what, I'm intrigued. Looks like Doom but with a cool old west protagonist doing the baddie beatings with some kind of wonderful mechanical glove from the future. You know what, I'll just link the premier here from the Youtubes.
Finally, an unrelated story involving a man who put a jet engine on his bicycle, but that's illegal so he was fined a surely life changing $6.50. Read it here
What the actual crap is on the plat this weekend?
Yoda: Well I downloaded the New World Open Beta.Pretty meh so far. Way too much like ESO, but with even worse combat somehow. But idk, I'm only a couple hours deep so I'll give it a fair shake this weekend
Greywolfe: well, it's friday again. and i have access to my proper machine once more, hooray! but i'm still playing both victor vran [still an incredibly 5/10 diablo game] and system crash. system crash is mostly ok, but it's prize structure for doing anything is completely out of whack with the prices on it's black market. [the place you go to buy cards.] - typically, for doing a "good" mission, you get 2k credits. good cards on the black market are 10k [!] - that's some terrible balance for sure. [and that, by the by, is 10k PER CARD. so if you need four - which is the upper limit per card you can have in your deck, that's 40k [!!] credits [which is absurd.]]
Scrooloose: Well, SnowRunner released season 5, so I have a lot of work to in season 4 still to be able to get there. I also may give Surviving Mars a try since I've been seeing so much about it lately. I dunno what else...
AJ: I just picked up Neo: The World Ends With You on the Switch because I'd always heard good things about its DS prequel. So, I'll be giving that a whirl and also probably playing some Tony Hawk 1 + 2.