PS2 Backlog Committee

Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes (PC) - May 11
Outbound (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, PC) - May 11
Call of the Elder Gods (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2, PC) - May 12
Clockwork Ambrosia (PC) – May 12
Directive 8020 (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PC) – May 12
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (Switch 2) – May 12
Nitro Gen Omega (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, PC) - May 12
Feline Forensics and the Meowseum Mystery (PC) - May 13
Hotel Architect (PC) - May 14
Sektori (Switch 2) – May 14
Subnautica 2 early access (Xbox Series X|S, PC) - May 14
The Caribou Trail (PS5, PC) - May 14
Whirlight - No Time To Trip (PC) - May 14
Gold Gold Adventure Gold (PC) - May 15
Rugrats: Retro Rewind (PlayStation 5, Switch) – May 15
Steel Artery (PC) - May 15
Summerhouse (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch) – May 15
Myst (PS5, PS VR2) - May 16
Riven (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PS VR2) - May 16


Finished: LEGO Horizon Adventures (platinum)

Now Playing: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Added to Backlog: Nothing

Current Backlog: 36 games

Got the plat in LEGO Horizon. They make you get all 4 characters to the highest level, which cannot be done playing through every level. You have to just keep replaying levels over and over for like 5 extra hours, which is just a bit too much...I used the time to just have fun with the combat and character differences.

Played recently: Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake

Finished: nothing

Added to backlog: nothing

I decided to get back into DQ3, the only one I haven't finished. (I started a while back but got sidetracked.) I started fresh and just got to the first new area. Good times.

Is it just me, or is this board incredibly slow these days?

Games added: Yeah! You Want "Those Games," Right? So Here You Go! Now, Let's See You Clear Them! 1+2 (that's a mouthful! ), The Good Old Days, Undernauts: Labyrinth of Yomi (all 3 from an Aksys Golden Week sale) - Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Hell Is Us, White Day (these 3 from my local mom & pop store w/ some store credit)

Last week: Finished nothing, played Crimson Desert & some weird free-to-play Korean game on the PS5. Weird name, something like Everness to Neverness? It's very odd.

This week: Crimson Desert.

Still loving CD. I checked last night & I have 166+ hours in it now. Finally got to the desert.

And now it's time for Argyle's Retro Movie Review!

So I like to go back & watch oldies that I missed back in the day but have heard a lot about. Like last year I think it was I finally watched The Godfather I & II. Fantastic movies, 100% lived up to the hype, and yes I should have watched them way sooner. Anyway, this time the pick was 48 Hours. I've always heard it was the birth of the "buddy cop" genre, people speak very highly of it. Eddie Murphy's first movie. So I finally gave it a go. Yeech. That movie is...not good. As a comedy, it ain't funny, and as an action movie, it's very flat with a plot that's by-the-book and characters that I found impossible to like. I'll grant you that the plot might not have been as well-worn when it came out, but watching it now with zero nostalgia for it, since nothing else was doing anything for me the plot didn't help. I found it a struggle just to finish it. I will say that Eddie Murphy was good, he showed glimpses of what he'd go on to do - but man, give me Beverly Hills Cop any day over this. Nick Nolte is also an actor that was in the movie. Yeah. So it was about 1:15 of two people who absolutely loathed each other - I mean, not the playful "I can't stand you" of later movies in the genre where you can tell they do actually have some respect for the other person, just sheer unfiltered hatred. Then for the last 15 minutes they do a 180 where they love each other. It's about as sudden & unexplained as why Eddie Murphy's character was let out of prison in the first place. All we got basically was "Hey, you used to do jobs with this guy, what do you know?" "I can only help you if I'm out." "Ok."

I looked up a list of other movies that came out that same year (1982). Absolute legendary bangers such as: E.T., Conan the Barbarian, Tron, The Dark Crystal, The Secret of NIMH, Blade Runner, The Thing, Poltergeist, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan...48 Hours just absolutely doesn't stack up.

Next up: American Gangster from 2007. Not exactly an oldie, but...wow, almost 20 years old now. I have high expectations from this one just based on it being a Ridley Scott film w/ some great actors in a genre I'm all about.

argyle wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2026 10:55 am Like last year I think it was I finally watched The Godfather I & II. Fantastic movies, 100% lived up to the hype, and yes I should have watched them way sooner.

True classics. Glad you finally got to them. In my top 10 of all time for sure, maybe top 5.

argyle wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2026 10:55 amAnyway, this time the pick was 48 Hours. I've always heard it was the birth of the "buddy cop" genre, people speak very highly of it. Eddie Murphy's first movie. So I finally gave it a go. Yeech. That movie is...not good. As a comedy, it ain't funny, and as an action movie, it's very flat with a plot that's by-the-book and characters that I found impossible to like. I'll grant you that the plot might not have been as well-worn when it came out, but watching it now with zero nostalgia for it, since nothing else was doing anything for me the plot didn't help. I found it a struggle just to finish it. I will say that Eddie Murphy was good, he showed glimpses of what he'd go on to do - but man, give me Beverly Hills Cop any day over this. Nick Nolte is also an actor that was in the movie. Yeah. So it was about 1:15 of two people who absolutely loathed each other - I mean, not the playful "I can't stand you" of later movies in the genre where you can tell they do actually have some respect for the other person, just sheer unfiltered hatred. Then for the last 15 minutes they do a 180 where they love each other. It's about as sudden & unexplained as why Eddie Murphy's character was let out of prison in the first place. All we got basically was "Hey, you used to do jobs with this guy, what do you know?" "I can only help you if I'm out." "Ok."

I looked up a list of other movies that came out that same year (1982). Absolute legendary bangers such as: E.T., Conan the Barbarian, Tron, The Dark Crystal, The Secret of NIMH, Blade Runner, The Thing, Poltergeist, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan...48 Hours just absolutely doesn't stack up.

That's interesting. I admit I haven't seen it in decades, but my memory is most of the juice game from Eddie being Eddie. Nolte was good in the role of irritable cop, as I recall. But I get how it could be seen as not funny enough for a comedy and not action enough for an action movie.

My favorite movie from 1982 is "Diner," but much of the appeal comes from the Baltimore setting.