Opinion – Page 27 – Savior Gaming

Masterminds (2016)

Masterminds starring Zach Galifinakis and Kristin Wiig is the story of a robbery gone right believe it or not. A cool $17 million and a trip to Mexico. The problem is after David (Zach) is sent to Mexico before meeting up with Kelly (Kristin) whom has no intention of going there he is betrayed by Steve (Owen Wilson) and the feds are now after him.

Things get worse for David when Steve sends an assassin, Mike (Jason Sudeikis). Luckily for him the fake name they used for Dave happens to be Mike McKinney. Yes they used the assassins name and life as his alias. In a weird twist tho they become friends.

The movie itself is pretty solid but isn’t great. The most interesting thing about it tho, is it is actually based on a true story and to this day around $2 million dollars of the $17 million in the Loomis Fargo Bank heist is still missing. Feel free to check this one out, if only just for the story. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Red Dead Redemption 2 Breaks Sales Record

To the surprise of nobody anywhere Red Dead 2 sales are off the charts with over 700 million done in the first three days. $725 million to be exact according to Forbes which would make it the biggest opening weekend in entertainment history. Not gaming, entertainment. The biggest opening in entertainment history counting the entire week however belongs to Grand Theft Auto V with over a billion dollars, meaning the 2 biggest launches in entertainment history belong to Rockstar, which is pretty impressive. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

5 Of My Favorite Multiplayer Games

Before I start I should say that these aren’t in any order and they certainly aren’t on the list because I consider them to be the best, they simply are on the list because they were fun for me personally at one point in my life.

Mario Party 2 was responsible for many sleepless nights in my childhood. My best friend and I would play this for hours and when I got older we would play it as a drinking game and I will even go so far as to say this game has helped my sex life. That isn’t a joke by the way, it really did. How can this game not be one of my favorites?

Goldeneye 007 is another N64 era game that I spent a ton of time playing as a child, but don’t go play it now. It did not hold up very well. The game was amazing, and me and my friends spent tons of hours killing each other. Proximity mines to this day piss me off and giving everyone rocket launchers was still a hilarious idea. And yes that short bastard was cheating.

Battlefield 4 is obviously more recent, and is actually the only game on the list me and @torstenvblog played together. We would do ok but mostly we would try to kill each other by flying planes into buildings and such. We always had a good time. He was the worlds worst battle buddy tho to be honest.

Diablo 3 is that classic kill and loot rpg that you either love or hate, and me and my daughter have spent hours playing it together. We have quite different taste in games so when we actually find one we like it always feels special to me. It is why this game and the nest are on the list actually.

7 Days to Die is a survival game where you essentially gather supplies, build a base and kill zombies and on every 7th day a huge horde tries to kill you. This game may be my favorite on the list not only because of the hours and hours me and my daughter spent playing it but because of the countless hours spent playing it with friends. It is far from the best game out there and probably isn’t even the best on the list, but it is the best on the list in terms of value for me. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Daddy’s Home 2 (2007)

Daddy’s Home 2 is a rather odd movie for me. The movie has a ton of talent with Mark Wahlberg, Will Ferrell,Mell Gibson and John Lithgow. The movie weirdly tho bounces between a by the numbers comedy and a hilarious comedy. The acting as you would expect is always top-notch however.

The story is quite simple. Take two families, and 2 grandparents with mixed style of parenting and stick them in a cabin and watch as things progress. The issue is the laughs that exist are amazing, they just come few and far between. There isn’t anything wrong with the story or anything like that it is just hit and miss with the script.

There are some memorable moments tho, for example the hunting scene is one of my favorite scenes in recent memory and it was quite hilarious when Wills character cut down a cell phone tower instead of a tree. The movie isn’t truly bad, it just isn’t as good as one would expect. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Our Favorites Day 31: Slither (Savior)

Here we are, Halloween and the final day of our favorite horror movies. You will notice that me and @torstenvblog are both doing a movie today and it happens to be the same movie, Slither Slither 2nd opinion (2006)

Why are we both covering a movie we have both already reviewed? Well a long time ago we both worked at the same place and didn’t know each other. He was some guy pushing carts in the parking lot and I worked in the garden section. He did his thing and I did mine. One day I got dragged out of my department and sent outside to help that dude in the parking lot and while bullshitting about our shared hatred for our job we discovered we had much in common. Video games, books, horror movies and mostly that we hated our damn boss.

About 6 months later I left that hell hole for good, but he needed help moving and of course I had my friends back. We got him settled in, unpacked played some games and decided to get together for what would become a tradition we have followed ever since. Once a year for Halloween we get together and watch horror movies, but the first one I remember was this movie.It had it all, some silly jump scare attempts, a mayor screaming for his Mr. Pip, death and gore and the greatest love song of all time.

I don’t care what you all say, it’s a love song. “Queue The mother fucking Yahoos!” Seriously, I got that text from @torstenvblog the day him and his girlfriend broke up. She was insane. Seriously upper tier insane.

Regardless that is why I love this movie, it solidified what became the best friendship I have ever had and gave us one of the best inside jokes I have been part of. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Project Hospital

As some of you may remember it wasn’t to long ago Oxymoron Games Hooked me up with a beta of Project hospital, which you can see my thoughts on here. Well the game today, and the fine folks at Oxymoron games were kind enough to toss us a copy last week so we could review it. It is always appreciated and never goes unnoticed to be chosen.

I won’t go into too much detail about the beta, you can go back and read that yourselves if you are interested. But a lot of things have changed. The graphics don’t appear to be greatly changed but do seem a bit more polished, the tutorials are still intact as you would expect but now there is full on campaign and challenge modes. (screen shots taken before they were played)

As you would expect each one gets a bit more challenging as you unlock each one new level. There are also more options for the sandbox mode.

There are various sizes of empty fields to build your own hospital or different pre-started hospitals, and you can even turn off deaths. If you turn off deaths the patients will simply be taken to a new hospital.

The game play is solid and is more simulation oriented than you will find in Two Point Hospital and less about laughs. ( Not that i have an issue with that, loved Theme Hospital) There are a few issues with the game however, for example tutorial 3 had a small glitch where the doctors and nurses wouldn’t treat the patient but when I restarted it I had no issues at all and once when patients were going into an x-ray room the chose to go outside and around the side of the building and hopped on the machine thru the wall. It was actually kind of humorous and was probably caused by my placement of the machine but realistically shouldn’t have happened and will probably be patched anyway.

Neither of these issues took away from my enjoyment of the game,but I felt obligated to mention them regardless. The day-to-day running of the hospital, the ambulances coming and going can all be very exciting. There is also the new twist of managing a day and night shift of the hospital which was a different and yet nice experience. Once while playing he day shift left and I realized i had zero doctors on my night shift to run my emergency room.

The game isn’t perfect but no games are, and if you love simulation and tycoon games this one is worth checking out. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Razerewire:Nanowars

Over the weekend I got to talking to one of the guys making Empire In Ruins ( you can learn more about that here Empire In Ruins, Revisited.) and he hooked me up with another game he made with Screwdriver&Pigeons. You can find them on Twitter here @screwdriver&pigeons or here @eir_td ,where they are making Empire in Ruins. They are great guys that always seem to make time to for fans so go give them a follow.

As for Razerwire, I was not sure what to expect. I kind of thought I was getting an Indy twin stick shooter that I would play for an hour think it was pretty neat then never touch again because I don’t much enjoy them. This is not at all what I got. What I got was an easy to play hard to master addictive game that had me saying one more round for 5 hours the day I started playing it. In fact I said “I just want to get into the top 10” on the global leaderboard then the top 5, well at the time of writing this I am #1 in both score and kills.

Graphically the game has a very nice retro feel to it with the bugs and colors looking great and the ever-changing background never-failing to match what it is going on.

Free advice by the way, don’t shoot the jack-o-lanterns. The controls are flawless, they work off your mouse and you simply slide it around your wire follows you around the screen killing the enemies, with a catch. If you go to fast it will go thru the enemies without killing them. This isn’t a glitch or anything, the game actually warns of this and tells you it has something to do with particles or something. There are also numerous power ups to help you in your quest to knock me off the top of the leaderboards.

The icons to the left will upgrade your overall abilities such as how fast shields recharge or max health. The icons to the right are all your semi randomly appearing power ups. They do various things from killing everything on the screen to slowing down enemy movements.

The game is fun and oddly addictive and at its price point of $2 ($3 if you want the DLC) there is honestly no reason to not try this game out, so head on over to Steam and give it a shot. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Supposedly Eternals Movie Takes Place Millions of Years Ago

Lately there has been talk that in 2020 Marvel would be releasing an Eternals movie and Black Widow movie. The interesting thing is that ScreenRant is reporting that it could take place millions of years ago. This could be quite interesting and would make it quite removed from the Marvel universe in the present day which in itself could be quite interesting. I actually would enjoy seeing this to see how it happens. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

The Next Purge Could be the Last

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According to a recent Screenrant article the oddly successful The Purge franchise could be coming to an end. It has reported that the creator thinks the next could be the last. They have quite steadily been releasing since 2013 so really it may be about time. Not to say they don’t have their place but at some point its best to let even a good thing go while people still enjoy it. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Red Dead Redemption 2 First Impressions

First let me say this is by no means a comprehensive review. I played about 5 hours and these are simply my first impressions but I will have a full review later next week, there is a lot of ground to cover in this game both literally and metaphorically and I don’t want to miss anything. That being said I will post links to the game on Amazon for those that want to help us out and buy the game, since it is already being touted as the game of the year, and by some the game of the generation. So without further wait, here we go.

First, I should state I am playing on PlayStation 4 on a 4k t.v. and the game is possibly the most beautiful I have ever played. From the snow sticking to your cloths and the mud and the dirt clinging to your horse. I thought many of the praises people sang in this department were exaggerated, they are not. You are in for a treat here.

All the graphics in the world however mean nothing if the story and controls mean nothing. The story so far is solid but to be 100% honest I have no played enough to truly comment on this. I won’t say how it starts to much as I don’t want to spoil it, but the start of the game sets it up nicely and will teach you how things work fairly well, tho I do wish some things were explained a bit better, but that is strictly a personal thing. Half my friends have this game and I am the only one to think so.

The controls, well truly this is the best a horse has ever controlled in history of gaming I think tho admittedly the carriages are a bit stiff and I did get one stuck. Aside from the one thing the controls are fluid and responsive, the aiming works amazingly and I never felt like me dying or falling was anything other than my own fault.

As I said earlier this isn’t a full review and much of this could change, but as for now I don’t see any way this isn’t game of the year as it is absolutely amazing so far. Picking this one up seems to be a a great call. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory, and remember feel free to check out the links for Amazon.

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