ShadowCat

ShadowCat, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

It’s crazy to think that Xbox has owned Halo since basically the beginning and have given them one demo each year at their big summer showcase, if they have something to show. They own Call of Duty for less than a year and it’s already getting a show for itself.

It’s no wonder 343 is failing when Microsoft themselves clearly don’t care enough about it

ShadowCat, 9 days ago

Haven’t seen Boom yet but maybe that’s because the season isn’t hitting for me.

I enjoyed the 60th and the Christmas specials, but the first 2 episodes of this season were just fine. They weren’t terrible like the Chibnal era but they also weren’t as good as RTD’s first era.

I’ve not had much to do this weekend so it’s not like I couldn’t watch the episode, in fact I felt like watching Doctor Who earlier and I instead watched some S1 even though Boom is still to be watched.

I really hope the season gets better as the show has so much potential for more great stories, they just need to be made by the right people

ShadowCat, 19 days ago

To be honest, as a huge Halo fan, I was surprised when seeing those studios closed that 343 wasn’t one of them. The studio is just cursed, even a leadership change isn’t going to save them.

Either make Halo games from all the studios under Microsoft or start a new one with people who are actual fans of the franchise

ShadowCat, 19 days ago

Honestly I thought it was buffering when Eris was staring at Kazuma, that was comedy gold. Plenty of moments in this episode had me laughing. Especially the body swap it was so good. I was expecting the main content of next week’s episode to be in this one but I’m glad it’ll be in its own as it’s another part which will be amazing if they adapt it well, and after how good the season has been thus far I’m sure they’ll deliver

ShadowCat, 21 days ago

Seems kind of strange to announce this way I wonder if they’re expecting a big leak to come out so they’re getting ahead of it? Otherwise, why not just mention at the end of that June direct that you’ll talk more about this in the coming months

ShadowCat, 23 days ago

Revenge of the Fifth

ShadowCat, 24 days ago

I’ve wanted to see Barriss become an inquisitor for a long time and I’m glad she acted like she did since she technically wasn’t fully wrong for her actions in the clone wars, she just went about it in the worst way.

Episode 2 really showed how she was a good Jedi, but for what the Jedi were supposed to be, not soldiers which is why she did what she did.

I do wish we got something more with Vader given that she was the one who basically triggered Ahsoka into leaving the order in the first place which surely helped with his fall to the dark side.

Also I really hope she died at the end, we’ve had too many people surviving lightsaber wounds in recent years, bacta can’t heal everything.

ShadowCat, 24 days ago (edited 23 days ago)

Episodes were fine I suppose, but I feel as though there could have been a better character to focus on instead of Morgan.

Thrawn is meant to be the next big villain for the Star Wars universe after the Ahsoka series and he wasn’t exactly great in that so why not give us 3 episodes showing why he should be a threat

ShadowCat, 26 days ago

Overall I think it was a very good series. Season 1 was decent, season 2 got really good in the back half and season 3 was very good throughout.

After season 2 did explore more of the “clones after the war” plotline I was hoping for a resolution this season but it is “The Bad Batch” not season 8 of clone wars. I do hope they finish that story though, seems like a single season special could do it but not sure they’d want to do that.

I do like that the brainwashed clones were just regular clones, not like resurrected Tech or someone else we knew. Not everybody needs to be a known character.

Was quite surprised to see the whole batch survive, definitely thought Crosshair would’ve done some self sacrifice to save Omega but a happy ending for once is nice.

Glad Rampart went out like that, we didn’t need another redemption arc for an Imperial. And Hemlok got what he deserved.

Overall I think it wrapped up the series nicely, there are a few unanswered questions but hopefully they will be addressed in other upcoming media.

ShadowCat, 26 days ago

where the king

Just so you know that’s not the King, he’s just the Lord of Axel.

Another great episode, I totally thought they were going to cut the mirror scene but glad it stayed. Can’t wait for next week’s episode though, if they adapt it properly it’ll definitely be the highlight episode of the season

ShadowCat, 1 month ago

Full backward compatibility is definitely great to see, if it didn’t have it I probably wouldn’t pick it up for a few years

ShadowCat, 1 month ago

Very good episode, wish we’d gotten more of Kazuma hanging around the castle, bothering Claire and Rain and playing with Iris but what we got was nice.

Now to go after the noble thief, I wonder who they could be…

ShadowCat, 1 month ago

1 step forward, 2 steps backwards. The classic 343 move.

I barely play the game anymore, it’s fairly obvious that they aren’t putting the effort into Infinite anymore and are focused on the next game so you’d think that whilst Infinite still is the current game they would actually make good systems to keep the players, who are still playing, playing

ShadowCat, 1 month ago

Can’t believe it took over 2 years for the plasma pistol to gain the ability to emp vehicles again, that’s been a thing in every halo game since 3

ShadowCat, 1 month ago

Shock weapons should’ve done some kind of overcharge thing, like forcing a warthog to go at max speed for a few seconds. Keep the plasma pistol as it is and given them a new ability. Hopefully if Halo 7 has shock weapons they’ll have a more unique ability like that but we’re a good while away from that

ShadowCat, 1 month ago

The best part would be if you could do it to teammates too so it can be used against you or for your benefit like running the flag back to base.

Or you know, to troll your friends

ShadowCat, 1 month ago

Re read book 6 and 7 ready for this season so I had a better memory on what to expect this season.

Episode 1 was 90% anime original but the scene with the monster girl was actually meant to happen on their way to the Crimson Demon village in the movie iirc so was cool to finally see that get made. All the stuff with Kazuma’s PTSD over Sylvia was pretty entertaining.

Episode 2 got back on track to the source material and was pretty much how I expected it to play out. Enjoyed it overall. Now that we’re in the capital we can get to the real good stuff for this first half of the season :)

ShadowCat, 1 month ago

I wonder if gen 4 will be announced, been a while since the auditions opened. (Can’t remember if they closed)

ShadowCat, 1 month ago

I’ve always thought that Barriss would become an inquisitor, so glad to see that finally happen.

Loved Tales of the Jedi so hoping this continues to be a thing, just a short mini series fleshing out some characters using the beautiful Clone Wars art style.

Hopefully we will have another animated series using the art style soon after Bad Batch ends, but one of these every year would also be great

ShadowCat, 1 month ago

Ina cute

ShadowCat, 2 months ago

Granted I haven’t read the article so might just be making stuff up, but if it’s more for “Oh you own this game on the Epic store on PC, well you don’t have to buy it on the Xbox store” then that’s a reason to have them on there. That’s how a lot of Xbox games work, since I bought them on Xbox I still have access to them on PC through the Xbox app so it’d be expanding that to other stores

ShadowCat, 2 months ago

I would say Outer Wilds is very good. You have the ability to beat the game as soon as you start, but you don’t have the knowledge to beat it.

Without spoiling it as it’s a very spoiler sensitive game, you can spend as long as you want gathering all of the knowledge to beat the game, you aren’t punished for taking your time. And all the knowledge you collect is stored in the games computer as long as you save so you can play for 22 minutes if you want, or multiple hours.

I beat the game over the course of a few weeks playing for various amounts of time. Recently played the DLC too and that went the same.

ShadowCat, 2 months ago

Wow I was not expecting 1.6 to be this big, I thought a few new features and the modding stuff but wow this is worthy of starting a new playthrough before doing mods

ShadowCat, 2 months ago

So, in the UK which is the shows primary audience and we fund the show by paying the license fee get to watch it on iPlayer at midnight.

Then the American’s get the nice 7pm time slot? Thanks Disney

ShadowCat, 2 months ago

Yes? The episode will premiere on iPlayer at midnight for the UK. At which point it will be ~7pm in America. It will then air on BBC One hours later, presumably at the usual UK time slot.

So if I want to watch it as it goes live I’ll have to stay up till midnight and for the duration of the episode. Whereas in America, it’ll be a normal time for them.

And yes I can wait till later in the day to watch the episode but then I’ll be missing that feeling of watching it with everyone else and not to mention it’ll have to be the first thing I do for the day if I want to avoid spoilers