The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Gears of War: E-Day is pretty much what I expected. A good solid Gears of War experience with a story going back to the tone of the original trilogy. This could have been another disappointing filler title like GoW: Judgement was, but thankfully it's not. It's far better. 010
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026So why exactly did CD Projekt Red choose to remaster The Witcher 3, a game that's already readily available for anyone to play instead of, oh you know, The Witcher 1 and 2? The two games that nobody seems to care about that could use the attention to make them better just like The Witcher 3! 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As much of an inconsistent mess Halo has been the past decade, I don't think rebooting the franchise should be the answer going forward with new devs at the helm. Infinite is still fine enough to follow up on. Not to mention all the other potential stories and characters to follow and build upon. 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Current favorite modern Castlevania list before Belmont's Curse launches: 1. Symphony of The Night 2. Portrait of Ruin 3. Aria of Sorrow 4. Dawn of Sorrow 5. Harmony of Dissonance 6. Circle of the Moon 7. Order of Ecclesia Can't wait to see where Belmont's Curse will slot in for me. 010
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Granted one of those is maybe stretching that claim but it's still surprising given their current reputation in the wider landscape now. 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If I had a nickel for every time Ubisoft made a one of a kind PvP multiplayer experience that's yet to be replicated by anyone yet, I'd have two nickels...which isn't a lot but it's crazy it's happened more than once. 100
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Breach mode in Deus Ex MD makes me feel like a decker from Shadowrun. Though the clear pay to win nature of this mode is omnipresent which keeps me a bit hesitant to engage with it for long 020
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It makes me sad that Deus Ex: Mankind Divided was surrounded by so much corpo BS that it overshadowed a good chunk of the actual good game underneath. It's a genuinely well made stealth action RPG, but it unfortunately suffers from it feeling incomplete, and now we'll probably never get that sequel. 011
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Remember when Deus Ex Remastered was announced a while ago where the trailer for it made the game look so cheaply done and awful that they postponed its release indefinitely? I wonder what happened to it and if it's actually still coming some day. 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Just unlocked my last achievement in Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy. The second playthrough really helped make the game click with me a bit more. Though I still didn't find it as impactful for me as Requiem, this game is still worthy enough to stand by the other two games in its own way. 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I finished Resonance: A Plague Legacy. Overall my opinions are positive. Solid enough gameplay despite the genre shift, the story was solid with great characters, and it didn't overstay its welcome. However, the other two games simply resonated (hehe) with me more than this game did in comparison. 🐀 010
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I am very excited for Rainbow Six Tactics. It may not be a shooter like Vegas, but a turn based tactical game just fits perfectly for this series. I also didn't expect them to call back to more classic Rainbow Six lore as the new Six is actually the player character Bishop from Vegas 2. 010
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 25/08/2026So far I've been playing game number four in the WW1 game series, Gallipoli. Loving the desert/beach maps after spending the last game in the mountains. It's nice to see the class system from Isonzo being built upon, and the new game mode does change up how attacking works. 000
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The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 22/08/20262XKO ceasing further development not even a year in is embarrassing. Riot really pulled an "I tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas". Multiversus lasted longer, and that was arguably a worse game. 2XKO isn't even a bad game, just criminally mishandled. 000
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The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 04/08/2026A game can be really good on paper, amazing even. It can even have the right things to appeal to you. But sometimes the game just doesn't click with you no matter how much you try to play it. It's okay to shelve it and move on. 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Doom: The Dark Ages Revelations is a really fun expansion for the game. Shame that Microsoft in their infinite wisdom decided to gut everyone at Id and basically leave its future in jeopardy. Microsoft is pretty much the new Embracer group right now. 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 30/07/2026So my final verdict, Halo: Campaign Evolved is fine. Nothing amazing and nothing awful. I had fun with it, but it's Halo CE so of course I would. There were some good changes and some changes I didn't like or thought were strange. It being 50 dollars is the worst part. Just get MCC to play Halo CE. 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Tbh I would love to see Halo 2 get the same treatment. Halo 2 also has its own set of flaws that could be tweaked to make it better. Also due to Halo 2's troubled development, it could be a chance to officially reimplement some concepts that had to be left out of the final game. 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Halo CE is not a perfect game, it has glaring flaws, and I appreciate Campaign Evolved going back to parts that people didn't like and trying to tweak them for the better. I don't see Campaign Evolved as better or worse than the original. It's just a different take on it. 100
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Regardless of anyone's opinion on Halo: Campaign Evolved, whether they liked it or hated it, I don't think it was a bad idea. In the end, Halo MCC still allows you to readily play a version of the original Halo 1 campaign along with the 2011 remaster. 100
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 28/07/2026It feels so surreal to play a full remake of a game that you've played so much that you know it like the back of your hand. 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Time to finally play Halo: Campaign Evolved 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Pre ordering a game or buying a "special edition" just to play it a few days or a week early is the biggest scam and waste of money ever. Is it really that hard to wait? Also given how games are now you're getting the worst experience of the game since they're never actually ready at launch. 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Replaying Shovel Knight again reminds me of just how fantastic the soundtrack is. To me it's Jake Kaufman's best work and the best 8-bit soundtrack of all time. 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Finishing Shovel Knight: King of Cards for the first time was draining. I swear, fully completing this one campaign was longer than fully completing the other three campaigns combined. I am thankful to never have to 100 percent this again because unlike the other ones this was a complete chore. 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Replaying Shovel Knight again, and it's still as fun as it was all those years ago when I last played it. The King of Cards chapter though tried my patience. The music is still A+, some of the best 8 bit compositions ever created. I wonder if Jake Kaufman's music in Mina the Hollower is also good. 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Maybe I'm in the minority, but the craziness of this new Marvel Rivals experience has made the game more enjoyable for me. I genuinely would prefer this game to ditch competitive Overwatch style balancing and just embrace being something casual that anyone can hop on and enjoy. 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 10/07/2026It's too early to tell now, but I hope the new rework to Black Widow this season ends up being a success or at least a step in the right direction. Black Widow deserves to be more than the Tachanka of Marvel Rivals. 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 08/07/2026There are games underneath some of these gacha that are genuinely engaging and fun. It makes their inevitable expiration sting even more. I would play an offline version of some of the now dead gachas. Blazblue Alternative: Dark War and Dissidia Final Fantasy: Opera Omnia come to mind for me. 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 08/07/2026The biggest kick in the teeth of how bad gacha is comes when the servers shut down. All that time and money invested is rendered unplayable and stolen. Imo, fully offline versions should be released gacha-free to play when official support ends. See Mega Man X: Dive for an example of that. 100
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I still wish for a RWBY fighting game by ArcSys to be made after getting a taste of what that could be like from Blazblue: Cross Tag Battle. 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Marvel Tokon looks like it's going to be so fun. Too bad I'll have no way to play it. 😭 100
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Gacha games' mere existence is a moral failure. We have failed as a society for tolerating gambling infecting every corner of entertainment. 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Can't believe Trinity is going to be the new Blazblue character. A bit of an obvious choice but still a welcome one. I'm having the same hype as I did 9 years ago when Jubei was announced as dlc. The new character select art of her is awesome and I can't wait to see how she plays. 030
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Blazblue Centralfiction is getting a new character after 9 years? I'm so excited! I'm super curious as to who it will be, but the fact new content is coming at all is incredible. 010
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 21/06/2026I finished South of Midnight. The story was pretty good and I did like Hazel as a main character. The art style is very pretty, but the stop motion style of the cutscenes is a bit strange and looks off. The gameplay is engaging enough but suffers from being repetitive and lacking in depth. 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 20/06/2026I'm currently playing South of Midnight and so far it's been pretty fun. It has a similar vibe to Alice Madness Returns and I love the aesthetic of the game. It's not often we get to see the deep south represented. It's not a perfect game though but it's enough to keep me engaged. 010
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I'm genuinely surprised why anyone wants to work in game development anymore. No matter what you do you are going to be fired or let go. You're a glorified contractor by that point and not an employee. Why support an employer who'll never support you. Let these publishers crash. 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 16/06/2026So Xbox wants us to be excited about the future of the brand only to immediately turn around and start closing even more of their studios. All they're doing is giving us even more reasons to be worried about said future by making it uncertain who's going to be at the end of it. 001
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Some of you so called "leftists" can end up spouting some pretty backwards and intolerant rhetoric of your own trying to one up the right. Bigotry doesn't beat bigotry. 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Simply going "this is bad...BAN!" is the government equivalent of a parent going "because I said so." It doesn't address or explain to the person what is bad or what's not okay with what is happening. One approach treats us as people capable of thought and learning, the other treats us like idiots. 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 15/06/2026It's rough to have to wait for half a year for it, but I'm looking forward to Melty Blood: Twi Lumina next year 000
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The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 12/06/2026After another playthrough of Blasphemous 2 playing the Third Sin update, I really think Blasphemous and Blasphemous 2 may be my favorite Metroidvania games period. They may not be complex in exploration, but the world building and the combat are so engaging that I never feel tired of replaying them. 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Never in a million years did I think a Touhou game would get an official remake, and on consoles no less. Not only that but it will also be the first Touhou to get an official translation in English and many other languages. 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Rayman Legends new remake has me conflicted. The game already looks fantastic so they really couldn't do much except for changing the art style entirely. While it isn't bad, some parts of it don't look the best. I'm hoping it's just because it's an early build and that it'll be touched up by release 100
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 06/06/2026They're actually going to try Crossfire again? It's not been very successful at branching out of Asia, with the disastrous Crossfire X and a VR game (which to its credit is pretty decent). If anything this new attempt will be interesting to keep an eye on. 000
The Expressive Poker Face @owendurst.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Sometimes I think the fans of a game hate their game more than the "real" haters. 000