Mention you watch a British TV show to most Americans and their eyes glaze over. In their minds they imagine stereotypical British people, drinking tea, knitting, and being emotionless. They are so wrong about British dramas. By far, their dramas are more realistic, more heartbreaking, and more devastating than any American Drama. The crime drama Broadchurch is a wonderful example of this.
Broadchurch stars David Tennant as DI Alec Hardy, and Olivia Colman as DS Ellie Miller. The first season starts with the murder of Daniel “Danny” Latimer (Oskar McNamara) in the sleepy beach town of Broadchurch. A tight knit community where everyone knows everyone, or at least they think they do. As Hardy and Miller investigate Danny’s murder, secrets about the town’s residents come to light. In addition to the investigation, we see how Danny’s murder affects his family: mother Beth Latimar (Jodi Whittaker), father Mark (Andrew Buchan) and older teen sister Chloe (Charlotte Beaumont). Danny’s murder becomes page one media. But slowly dies away because Danny as one reporter puts it ‘isn’t a blonde haired blue eyed girl’. The police are also unprepared for such a case and make many missteps in the investigation.
Each episode keeps viewers guessing and speculating to who murdered Danny. And the deatils of how it came to be that his body wound up on the beach. While second season deals with Danny’s murder trial and the fallout from the events of Season One. It also covers solving a previous mystery investigated by DI Hardy. The third season is a whole new story involving the sexual assault of an older woman. It also features the Latimer family as they continue to move after Danny’s death.
Broadchurch is a well timed crime drama seeped in realism. It lacks all the soap opera stereotypes that constantly flood drama shows in America. With that being said, do yourself a favor and avoid the American version called Gracepoint.
Since the excellent Baldur’s Gate 3 has been out in the wild for a while, interesting data can be gleaned, such as how players choose to play an innovative new RPG from home. Stats from developer Larian Studios and posted on the PlayStation Blog show that most people want to play as a stealthy archer like in Skyrim when given nearly limitless options.
According to a fascinating graph, Rogue/Ranger is the most popular multiclass build, with over 175,000 players using it to snipe unsuspecting enemies from range. The next two builds reveal similarly. 150,000 played Barbarian/Fighter because they loved pummeling things, and 109,00 played Barbarian/Paladin, which lets players talk to their victims before beatings.
More sense emerges as you descend. If the Paladin/Warlock/Sorcerer/Bard has high Charisma, any combination can be interesting. Charisma helps these classes cast spells and abilities and interact with NPCs outside of combat.
Playing a single class through Baldur’s Gate 3 feels great, which is what most players do. A pure Fighter or Wizard becomes so powerful by game’s end that we don’t blame you for not mixing things up!
Play as a Tiefling Oathbreaker Paladin, Dark Urge Origin (which you must resist), or Bard for real moral dilemmas. You could also play pseudo-Aragorn again.
Techland is continuing to release Dying Light 2 content as part of its long-term support. This is surprising since the meaty Good Night, Good Luck update was released a few months ago. It’s nice to know what’s coming, but no timeline was given.
IGN-exclusive roadmap trailers reveal more co-op missions, board quests, a tower raid, and replayable GRE anomalies. Executions and finishers may be added to the April Gut Feeling update, which overhauled melee mechanics. Graphical options, weapon repair, gear, and mod dismantling are always welcome.
Knives, polearms, and more enemy variants are coming, including a Nightmare difficulty. Changes to NG+ include firearms. Players can finally dress to their hearts’ content with new cosmetic options.
Has Techland’s Dying Light 2 support lured you back? Would you rather focus on something new?
Epic Games expanded the Fortnite V-Buck “pricing alignment” after laying off almost 900 employees, citing “inflation and currency fluctuations”. Fortnite’s premium currency will rise in international markets, including the largest.
Epic Games will raise the price of V-Bucks and real money content packs in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Eurozone countries, Hungary, Japan, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Turkey, and the US (including all US Dollar storefronts) on October 27.
Raising the price of this fictitious currency was successful when the company trialed it in the UK, Canada, and Mexico, so it was decided to announce it worldwide now. These USD increases range from $1 (1000 V-Bucks, previous $7.99) to $10 (13,500 V-Bucks, previous $79.99).
How do you view Epic’s timing and pricing increase?
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