Gamer Guy with Two Cents

 Many years ago my girlfriend at the time surprised me with a gift copy of Alien Isolation for the Playstation 4. We ended up playing it together (meaning I played it and she watched) and I remember liking the experience and feeling very immersed into the world that Alien Isolation created. It was almost as if we were smack dab in the world that Ridley Scott had created with his film Alien back from 1979. The retro-futuristic steam punk style with checkerboard patterns, clean white hallways decked out with pipes, valves, wiring panels and industrial food coolers etc. really lend to Alien Isolation becoming a truly immersive video game that I would argue rivals many video games today.   Now if you remember for those of you out there that did read or watch IGN reviews you know or heard that IGN found the game frustrating, some of course disregarded those statements as ridiculous but after having playing a few hours these last couple of days to be in the spook season mo...

The Boys first dropped on Amazon Prime back in twenty nineteen and immediately left an impression on anybody that watched. The first episode especially let the audience know that this was not some cutesy, fun romp through a comic book world like people may have been used to through watching the multiple MCU movies and even DC movies that Disney and Warner Bros. had released. This show was going to be a gory, nothing held back roller coaster ride where we find ourselves in a world where superheroes are essentially these undisciplined drug addicts, sex fiends or worse because the world has essentially been handed to them on a silver platter for no other reason than they have super powers. Superheroes are not people, nor are they really heroes, they are simply brands and faces on the side of energy drinks, kid's meals and even sex toys because it can sell on the marketplace. Whenever there is a crime and a particular superhero comes along the way to save the day? It is most likely sta...