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Arizona doesn't do Daylight Savings, so that may be screwing with the time you're looking at. Though whether that's in effect still or not I don't know because...well, we don't do it.

And yeah I screwed up that post because I typed faster than I thought.

Yeah my title was made before my other post.

Yeah, it's summer, though I don't know the relevance.

It's 10:34 PM right now for me.

Surprised at no spot for Monster Hunter Generations. I'm very interested due to the changes to the combat system to make it more fast-paced.

Oh don't worry, 2016 is trying.

I'm...not sure this is the right context to share that video...

Too bad Square were like "LOL ONLY IF YOU BUY THIS OTHER GAME"

I'm seriously annoyed with how convoluted some demo availability has been lately. Resident Evil 7's being PS+ only, Ni-Oh's only being available for a limited time, etc.

Is Armada the one where Sideswipe was a purple and yellow motorcycle? Because I had that toy and it kicked ass honestly.

I'm pretty sure that's the one where Starscream overpowered Megatron and had some stupid big sword and yeah I liked that stuff. Maybe when I'm less swamped by my big game and series backlog I'll go into it. I still need to finish Prime...

Hmmmm...if you're one who dislikes leaving series unfinished like I do, then your idea definitely works better than mine, which would be playing just 2 (and maybe 1 if it ends up being your kind of thing)

I've only played Mass Effect 2 and 3 and I love 2, so I can at least strongly recommend that. 3 has some good stuff too honestly.

The gameplay really isn't deep or challenging at all, just very simple third-person shooting, but they're mainly fun for me because of the writing and characterization and world design.

I saw snippets of Armada when I was a lot younger, but I was never invested enough to give it a good watch. Can't judge it properly right now.

Also I just finished the Final Fantasy XV Platinum Demo.

...is that REALLY the combat system they're going with? That was literally half an hour of me running around empty areas and, when the same two types of enemies popped up, I held down Circle and just won. Granted the Iron Giant at the end was a lot more interesting but even that was pretty damn dull.

Yeah that's probably the worst, but I have been in a situation where our van broke down in the middle of an Arizona summer and we had to fix shit up right there in the sun. Of course that was one incident compared to a regular routine.

There was also the line for Phoenix Comicon registration that I was luckily not in where for the first time (in I think 7 years of operating?) the line went out the doors and into the 115+ Fahrenheit heat for hours. The staff apologized after that.

Andrew only does better as Spidey because he gets more joke lines. Tobey didn't get nearly enough, because he was fun too when he did get to have comedic lines.

Oh no question, MJ and Tobey kinda sucked in the Raimi films, but Garfield Parker wasn't very believable to me, especially with how much charisma Stone Stacey had.

I basically stay in air conditioned facilities as much as I can.

Which sucked whenever I was outside for Comicon in costume.

YO YOU'RE IN MY HOME HELL ZONE

Just going off a whim here:

This ain't gonna be all of my issues, and they're probably very poorly articulated right now, because I'd have to rewatch the movies, which I honestly don't really want to.

Preface all of this with "in my opinion" obviously:

• Andrew Garfield's version of Peter Parker is wholly unrelatable and misses what Peter Parker should be: an awkward science geek who isn't liked by most people outside of his family and a few friends, is raised with a different perspective on life that includes being very frugal and humble and nice.
• Instead, Garfield Parker looks ridiculously handsome (though this is in no way rare with many modern superhero film protgaonists), buys his official (as in, not the ghetto-looking version) hero costume off the internet (instead of making it himself), is a really good skater (not that I think you can't be both a skater and an awkward nerd OFC, but this is screenwriting for a superhero character and feels like a very odd choice),
  
• There was no good reason to waste the first Amazing film as an origins story. Not only was/is Sam Raimi's first Spidey film wildly popular, I'd guess that at least half the people who know the name "Spider-Man" already know the basics: spider-bite, dead uncle, "With great power comes great responsiblity" (which they, for whatever reason, avoided saying outright in the Amazing films)
• The Lizard looks terrible. Not only is the CG not used well, the design is uninteresting to me and just ugly, though how he fights is pretty good.
• Peter's parents' scenes are wastes of time. Neither is an interesting character, the spy thing isn't done well, and they don't hold much relevance.
• "Here's a super duper secret laboratory that you can just FUCKIN SNEAK IN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY ON A FIELD TRIP!"
• The death of Uncle Ben was badly directed, written, and shot. It shouted "contrived."
• That stupid fucking crane scene...I dunno the last time I cringed so hard in a theater.
• Green Goblin in Sam Raimi's first Spidey film has a clear Darwinian motivation for what he's doing: he wants Spidey to join him and basically the strongest will do whatever the hell they want. Amazing 1's Lizard...just wants everyone else to be weird lizard people I guess?
  
• "By the way, here's Harry, your best friend who we just never saw fit to show or reference at all in the first film for reasons!" It felt so forced because they had zero chemistry on-screen.
  
• Peter not living up to Captain Stacy's promise...really? I wanted to yell at Peter the whole time. Just added to why I didn't give a shit about Garfield Parker. He doesn't seem to learn jack shit from his experiences.
  
• Green Goblin looks fucking BAD. Worse than The Lizard for me.
• Amazing Harry is nowhere near as interesting to watch as either Willem Dafoe or James Franco. And him going after Peter and Gwen felt so out-of-nowhere and cartoonishly evil, going against the semi-serious tone of the films. I couldn't get behind him at all as far as motivations go.
  
• The death of Gwen, THE BEST CHARACTER IN EITHER FILM, was shot and directed so, so, badly. "CGI Web Hand" says about all I need to say I think. That and all the lame foreshadowing and obvious death flags throughout the film.
  
• Electro's character and personality is basically chucked out the window once he's all blue and electric.

But something in general that both films (and partly the Ultimate comics that inspired such films) do badly in my opinion is change Peter Parker's becoming Spider-Man from chance and choosing to take up responsibility to that of heritage and family history. NOT THAT THE SECOND IS NEVER GOOD, but the Spider-Man I like embodied the idea of anyone being able to become a hero with the right mentality and upbringing and abilities, not just the son of a special family.

This isn't to say that either film lacks good stuff (I REALLY like the Spidey-Sense slow-mo scene and Peter doing tech stuff in Amazing 2, and Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy is super fun to watch,) but I'm just so disappointed by both, especially after what I consider to be near perfect Spider-Man films with Sam Raimi's first two. The train scene in Spider-Man 2 alone is just...so good.

Nah, I genuinely think the Amazing films suck. I'd go on if anyone cares to hear why.

So this basically confirms that the HD ReMIX games are going to PS4 as well since they already ported Final Fantasy X/X-2 THREE TIMES.