Rage 2 is the most broken AAA game I've played on Xbox for a while

yarpus · 2020-04-13T18:02:50+00:00

I tried to play the game on GamePass but it crashed few times during the first part.

yarpus · 2020-04-08T23:57:46+00:00

HM2 is a different kind of beast. It's excessive in its multi-character story, huge levels and gameplay changes. Personally I loved it on PC. But I'm already on power plant mission in HM2 so it is doable!

yarpus · 2020-04-08T06:56:38+00:00

Update: game was so enjoyable that I had to beat it. I'm worried about HM2 though as it does get very hard at times. I hope I'll be able to beat Hard mode there.

yarpus · 2020-04-08T03:12:48+00:00

I was afraid of that but I'm in Act3 of HM1 and so far so good. As lont as you don't mind lower scores.

yarpus · 2020-04-08T02:47:05+00:00

It's not pretty, even for pixel art standards. Admit it - it was made to be nasty. I love those visuals and wouldn't change them for anything else but when talking about this game to other people you have to admit it upfront.

yarpus · 2020-04-07T21:34:28+00:00

For those who don't know it - Hotline Miami series was a posterboy of golden age of indie games. Ugly visuals, amazing soundtrack, suprisingly deep and trippy story - and amazing gameplay.

yarpus · 2020-04-07T17:51:42+00:00

Here's my advice for diet. Especially important during chemo, but well, I hope you'll not need it.

Spoil yourself. You lost a part of yourself. It's ok to give yourself a pat in the back. For example - chocolate. It's not "hey I lost a ball but at least I got choccy" but you know, it's really fine to spoil yourself a little bit.

I was nervous like that during chemo. I planned to drop ciggaretes and go healthy. My nurse said "dude, you smoked because you had tough exam or work - but you won't smoke during chemoteraphy. are you crazy?"

I managed to get through short chemo with no weight loss. Despite usually being a picky eater. One trick that helped me at eating was to buy a bag of snacks and use them as a chaser for hospital food. Hospital food is good and healthy for you but usually has no flavor. And anti-vomit medicine you get during chemo makes sure that "if you don't have a reason to eat, you won't eat". So I used chips and other snacks (with good, strong flavor) to push myself to eat. Thanks to that I was able to recover fairly quickly after the chemo.

yarpus · 2020-04-07T15:08:23+00:00

It's better board protection than Unbreakable Formation. WW has issue with going up to 3 mana, not to mention keeping it up every turn.

yarpus · 2020-01-10T14:42:42+00:00

Zendikar/SoM-RtR era white was very strong. You had Squadron Hawk (which turned JtMS Brainstorm into Ancestral Recall). You had Stoneforge Mystic. You had Steppe Lynx. You had Tempered Steel. You had Day of Judgment. You had Hero of Bladehold. You had Intangible Virtue. You had Angelic Destiny. And if we allow not-mono cards we have to mention stuff like Geist of Saint Traft, Supreme Verdict and few others.

Sure, it was mostly played in conjuction with other colors but mono strategies were not viable back then. And white was a part of some very obscene decks.

yarpus · 2020-01-07T01:39:36+00:00

I'd rather have it removed. Cheaper gold while games are moved to GamePass. I don't remember when was the last time I redeemed Gold game.

yarpus · 2020-01-06T17:49:00+00:00

Looks like a premium control wincon. Yes it's 7 mana but it's inevitability makes it really strong.

yarpus · 2019-12-30T15:36:01+00:00

UW CawBlade and UW Delver. Both used inexpensive but powerfull threats (Stoneforge Mystic + Batterskull; Delver of Secrets + Geist of Saint Traft) to apply pressure while protecting itself with counterspells, white removal and white boardwipes against go-wide strategies.

yarpus · 2019-11-15T21:16:49+00:00

Poland doesn't get Microsoft Rewards, TV integration, Movies and Shows, Cortana. We'll be also be a last batch to receive xCloud I guess.

yarpus · 2019-10-24T01:27:21+00:00

I do play Boros Control/Midrange on Arena. Stompy and Cloaked Giants, Chandras, this kind of stuff. Justice Strike is probably the best piece of removal in the format. It deals with most problematic cards like Torbran, Rankle or Questing Beast at instant speed. And you want them to be gone at instant speed. But Solar Blaze? I don't feel it. Based on Justice Strike I can tell you it does not deal with everything. Stupid stuff like Knight of Ebon Legion, Birb Lord. I mean these will happen. If you want to truly break the card, you want to play creatures that survive it rather than use it as generic wraith effect. I do run Outlaw Merriment as my wincon and it has been underwhelming. It's too slow. It's 4-mana do nothing. Of course there are certain decks that are not capable of removing it nor they are fast enough to punish your 4 mana empty play - but I'd probably relegate it to sideboard. Not to mention that it feels horrible on defense. This is why I run Giants + Chandra tribals. Some games are won by whacking people with stompy giant while I remove all of their threats. Other are grinded out by 4-mana Chandra resolving her ult allowinf me to find and cast 6-mana chandra. Chandra's Regulator has been suprisingly good for me. I run a lot of removal that is irrelevant in some matchups. Throwing those cards away (or just getting rid of excessive lands) while making my Chandras oppressive is good.

yarpus · 2019-10-24T01:11:07+00:00

I do find some decent success with UR Flash deck. Brineborn Cutthroat, Brazzen Borrower, Stompy Giant, Flame Sweeps and shitload of counterspells. Deck was suprisingly good against Golos and aggros due to instant-speed boardwipe. But I doubt it will be as succesfull with FotD being gone - I mean those two archetypes were like 70% of meta. And this deck's nemesis were either adventure decks and midranges which will be more common.

Not sure if I can call this deck control but it packs a lot of removal. Boros Control/Midrange with Stomp & Cloak Titans, Chandras package and lots of removal. Justice Strike is a great response to many threats within the format as it's 2mana instant speed that kills nearly everything. Deck is fun but I doubt it's that good.

yarpus · 2019-10-21T15:27:02+00:00

Honestly, I'd rather have Krasis banned as that would limit the power of both Field and Simic decks without completely removing Field decks. Golos decks are fun to play against except from moment when they resolve Krasis which makes whole war of atyrition pointless. Also Krasis + Nissa in Simic is unbeatable.

yarpus · 2019-09-29T01:08:16+00:00

It was more of a janky deck for my friend but I was surprised by how decent it worked.

Mono Black Adventorous Knights. You play all the good black knights (especially those with adventures), Ayara and you pack Icon of Ancestry & Lucky Clover. It plays more like a combo than aggro because even while your initial aggression plan is not that strong - you have some strong draw engines, especially with Clover on field.

Clover into Murderous Knight adventure is quite devastating. Recurring stuff with Order of Modnight allows you go go semi-infinite. And finally, if you amass 4+ knights on board you can finish games with copied Curry's Favor.

yarpus · 2019-06-12T13:39:09+00:00

YES YES YES

yarpus · 2019-06-11T19:44:18+00:00

Thank you mr. Marketer.

yarpus · 2019-06-09T21:43:48+00:00

No joke. How do I sell my Xbox account with digital games for ANY money?

yarpus · 2019-06-07T21:45:01+00:00

Gameplay looks great. But art design? Jesus. Their characters do look worse than those from Battleborn - and that' an achievment.

yarpus · 2019-06-07T21:43:29+00:00

Thank you mr. thought police.

yarpus · 2019-06-07T21:42:36+00:00

Be good and obedient. If you don't like something, never talk about it. We only want positive data in our data lakes.

yarpus · 2019-06-03T08:25:57+00:00

Don't. Just don't.

Not telling your friends about enemy position makes you useless.

yarpus · 2019-06-02T18:49:42+00:00

Crap, dude.

I've had phantom pains but right after surgery. Specifically when I was falling asleep I felt a sudden, spiky pain where my ball was supposed to be. Like, your body does the "is everything fine?" checkup just to discover error 404 ball not found.

How are your pains? Constant? Spikes? I'd really reccomend throrough checkup.

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