Hey, it’s Snyder Month!
Regardless of how you or I feel about the upcoming Snyder Cut, it’s well on its way, and it will be hitting HBO Max on 3/18/21. And there has been a segment of fans who have been rabidly awaiting this moment in pop culture history. Between those fans and the morbid curiosity of others who want to see what the big deal is, Justice League will undoubtedly be one of the defining entertainment media moments of 2021. Maybe of the 2020’s.
But will it be… good?
It will be impossible to ever determine. There are certain folks who will praise it no matter how objectively bad it is, and there are others who will poke holes in it no matter how high the quality is. People have long since made up their minds on this.
Last year brought RPG gems like Disco Elysium. Was there an RPG as good released in 2020? We ve updated our list of the best RPGs of all time to reflect the best of the past year - and there s still dozens of older classics, too.
As always, we ve taken a broad view of the genre rather than splitting hairs over how many upgradeable stats a game must contain before it qualifies. Whether you want Japanese RPGs, party-based dungeon crawlers, turn-based combat or frantic brawling, you ll find something below. The main rule is that the game needs to still be fun to play today, and not simply groundbreaking when first released.
Published 8 Feb, 2021 The folks of Failbetter Games announced the next story-based adventure in their Fallen London universe in December. They re now kicking off a Kickstarter campaign for Mask Of The Rose, a visual novel set in their gothic, underground London setting. It s to be part romance and part detective story following several characters as they navigate the newly underground and destroyed London. Although they ve been writing in this universe for quite some time in Sunless Skies and Sunless Sea, Failbetter say that Mast Of The Rose will be a good starting point for folks new to the setting. It takes place shortly after London s fall, making it a prequel to their other games, which sounds like it may help to ease the less familiar into the weird setting.
Kez Whelan
, January 20th, 2021 09:23
Don t worry about the metal whoppers taking part in the recent attempted coup, says Kez Whelan, there are a lot more relevant statements being made out there.
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Any hopes 2021 would see a return to relative normality have been dashed in record time as Iced Earth guitarist Jon Schaffer made headlines for the first time in, ooh, well over a decade this week, after being snapped amongst the armed, riotous mob of MAGA terrorists that stormed the US capitol.
It’s depressing, but hardly surprising; Schaffer has always been a reactionary right-wing idiot, as anyone who’s had the misfortune of sitting through his unbearably maudlin 9/11-themed ballad, When The Eagle Cries will attest.
UK black metallers Antre find the darkness within on new EP, Dark Spectrum…
Words: Olly Thomas
The soundtrack to Cyberpunk 2077 is probably one of the last places you’d expect to find a black metal band from Nottingham. And while a multi-million dollar game seems an odd fit for as resolutely underground an outfit as Antre, the four tracks on offer on this excellent EP reveal that their razor-sharp racket is brilliant in its own right, with or without any high-profile multimedia collaborations.
Through These Dead Eyes kicks things off, a brief atmospheric intro soon giving way to vicious blasting and the unrelentingly harsh vocals of Patrick MacDonald. It’s abundantly clear that Antre can summon forth the fiery furnaces and icy chill that have long fuelled black metal, but as the EP progresses, they prove that they can harness other methods of attack. Mask Of The Saviour channels everything from melodic death to hardcore to post-metal, even throwing in a spoken word se