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The Full Dragon’s Dogma 2 Experience Is Cheaper Than Ever, So Eat Your Heart Out

The Full Dragon’s Dogma 2 Experience Is Cheaper Than Ever, So Eat Your Heart Out https://ift.tt/4IkFvY5 The mark of a masterpiece expansion is that it becomes an essential part of the playthrough. Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty, The Witcher 3’s Blood and Wine, and Skyrim’s Dragonborn are some examples. Dark Arisen for Dragon’s Dogma 2 will be treated the same as those legendary DLCs I mentioned, and right now, you can get the entire experience at a great price. For those unaware and currently missing out on one of the best RPGs in recent years, Dragon’s Dogma 2 puts you in the starring role as your own Arisen--a character whose heart has been eaten by a dragon and who is destined to defeat it. Sadly, someone else has taken the role of Arisen as a false leader, meaning you and your party (a main Pawn and some stragglers you hire from the Rift) have to deal with a variety of issues. That means proving the false Arisen is, well, false, as well as fighting a bunch of creatures and...

Expendables 4 Review - They Made Another One

Expendables 4 Review - They Made Another One https://ift.tt/Vizl6C5

The Expendables franchise is out of step with the present. These movies are supposed to serve as homages to the silly, low-rent action movies of the '80s and '90s, when many of our biggest action stars made their names. But if this franchise wanted to keep going after a nine-year break, Expendables 4 (officially dubbed Expend4bles) needed a meaningful change to how it operates--something akin to how Bad Boys for Life added a welcome streak of self-awareness.

Amusingly, Expendables 4 borrows a number of elements from that third Bad Boys movie--like casting the actor who played that film's sub-villain, Jacob Scipio; an "old guy needs glasses" subplot with Dolph Lundgren; the addition of an entire group of younger-generation folks to contrast with the old hats; and a fighter who doesn't want to do any fighting because it's traumatic for him. Despite that, Expendfourbles doesn't manage any kind of self-reflection. It does, however, have about 20 minutes of really solid action that almost makes the film's remaining hour and change of excessively incoherent plotting worth sitting through. Almost.

This fourth Expendables movie sees the gang, led once more by Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) and Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), but without a lot of the past big names from the series, go up against a mysterious terrorist named Rahmat (The Raid's Iko Uwais), who is doing a pretty standard "steal a nuke to start World War III" villain plan. The Expendables try to stop him from stealing some fancy high-tech detonators, but things go wrong and they lose one of their own on the way to failing the mission.

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