Reviews

One of those things I would have wished was available when I was much younger but showing that all ages can really give it a go at something they have a passion for is truly inspiring. I think I like that it has no competitive aspect to it, it's simply practical advise and quality mentoring with people who are already successful at their craft. This type of programming really is a public service in many ways as it's a way out and up for many people who may not know what direction to take and having sound and clear advise not only for the participants but also for the viewer. Really a gem of a show for this type of content. They deserve more accolades for creating this program.

The "feel" of the show has some of that 80's charm and it's largely being carried by John Larroquette the rest of the cast are falling into their roles, the more I watch it's becoming familiar and I've found myself enjoying it. It's a turn your brain off kind of program and so was the original. Just some goofy fun with some gags here and there and a sometimes touching lesson-in-life mellow-drama. They really have to tone down the laughtrack, it's horrendous for some parts, just glaringly obvious and distracting at times. I think the original had live studio audiences, but I'm sure they used a "laugh" "applause" sign system in that too. So it's not unexpected it's just poorly done in this series at times. I genuinely would like if they had the guts to actually do this show before a live studio audience, something like this would probably be popular and a local attraction for tourists to see an actual production this day and age of overly produced content. Why not let crappy jokes fail and let an audience be genuine for a change.

I just looked it up and apparently this IS filmed before a live audience. It really doesn't show at times and in editing they definitely turn up the laughs. Nice to see they went for it, I'd probably enjoy sitting in on a filming session and being a part of that crowd. Those days of Cheers and Taxi and a myriad of others back then is pretty much over, so nice they are at least giving this a try. Hope they just let it be, if material stinks, leave it in, it offers a bit of charm, even keep in the groans from the audience if it's truly bad. Honestly is not a common commodity and this show if it does it right will stick out from the rest.

SECOND SEASON: Have to make an edit to my rating, I just got into the second season and just a few episodes in and the laugh track is intolerable. It's basically the laziest job of hitting a button every time there is a break in dialog. It takes all the soul out of the show and it's completely unnecessary, whoever produced/edited this ruined whatever chance they had with this show.

I got really bored playing this after just a few sessions. I had no interest in playing the main missions they just didn't appeal to me. Wasn't likeing the story arc, if you can call it that, it's not really feeling like a story anyways that's really going anywhere and the only character that's got much of a personality just plane sucks as a character and don't have any desire to see anymore dialog from her. At first I would say I enjoyed about the first couple hours of gameplay, but mostly playing with the character creation which isn't all that enjoyable to navagate, it's really confusing at times switching between menus and the menus go 3 maybe for levels deep sometimes. They could have got rid of the color swatches and just had the color wheel instead, a lot faster as I'm constantly adding colors just to get a better tone of the colors in the swatch. It's still a good character customization but I'm not going to play a game just for that, and they put a lot of effort into it so much so they have a separate app just for this part of the game. Overall what it comes down to and this is what made me think it deserves such a low score is that so many of the missions after just one go, I didn't want to do them again and you look at the map it's the same stuff on every single section of the entire map, some new ones pop up but once I've played them in one region, there is no reason to do the same thing somewhere else. Another thing that absolutely sucks is the vehicle control, it feels so awkward from the camera controls to just handling, you hardly feel like you're in control and when you steer you oversteer very easily and it's just a pain to drive around the map and take corners accurately, it's not fun to navigate and go places in this game. I've got maybe 10% completion and I'm feeling like I'm done, I don't want to play anymore.

One of the fastest modes of transport I found that was easy to drive was a jetski, but there is so little in the environment I felt very alone in this game, very little to do in such a large space. I was looking around and thinking, where are all the boats docked. I couldn't even find one yet there were sailboats on the water and a random encounter with another jetski. And when you hit the map boarder there is this annoying 10 second timer telling you to turn around, talk about an immersion breaking game feature. This just made me feel that this game obviously was incomplete when released and it will never be finished or realized to a degree that this could have been. I just had the feeling that whoever made this game, didn't play it. So why should I.

Putting so much work into non-critical gameplay is such a waste, and clearly it was meant to sell skins and cosmetics as this is advertised on the splash screen. Well you got to have a good playable game for people to care about stuff like that and this isn't all that playable at least not for any length of time.

I could go on and on about what I don't like but it's just not worth the time.

At the beginning of video games using motion capture and qualified actors to play parts, it was predicted that in the future video games would be like playable movies. That promise has far from been delivered with shooters still mostly dominating top-lists. And a serial game like Mafia failed to follow through with it's gripping and well integrated story telling by largely abandoning it's story arc in it's 3rd release. And Grand Theft Auto has done a good job making lore and crossing over it's story to subsequent games but it's still under the hood a shooter most of all with a story tied into it. So where other games have left off with this difficult to pull off Game/Movie mashup, this game has so far made a great effort toward producing a playable story/film. It was from the beginning of game-play that the scenes were clearly scripted and blocked for the scenery, impressively constructed sets are clearly well thought out and organized to fit a narrative. Everything you see is intentional, but not in the sense that it feels rigid. It has really well though out game-play interaction. So although the idea of grabbing a controller and being in control of a movie hasn't happened or may never come to full realization, this game really has done a great job of providing an enjoyable and immersive experience.

I thought this was great, really enjoyed seeing Kevin James doing Standup again after so many years. I think the last one I saw was "Sweat the Small Stuff" and I loved that. Interesting that this was presented as a Series format as "Episode 1", so curious to know what the following content is supposed to be like, more standup or something in sketch format? Either way I'm interested and will look for the next release. I've watched a bit of his sitcom and he's good in that, but I am not really much of a fan of the show, what I saw of it is really good but never really went out of my way to watch it. So I'm happy to see he put this out because I've liked a handful of his movies but always remembered I liked him best in his standup routines. He's got a style that's uniquely him, it's a very illustrative expressive approach that a few comedians have done in the past, he picked out a good deal of perfectly relatable material that worked for me. And he's very close to my generation so I get a lot of his material. He got a good deal of laughs out of me and boy has that been a long time since it's happened watching a standup routine, so big gratitude for him putting this out there.

I really wouldn't have picked up a game like this and it was free in one of Epic Games giveaways so it's the only reason I own it on PC. It's got a good pace to it, decent visuals, pretty good combat system, controls are alright but the way the computer takes over with ducking or scooting through tight spaces feels a bit unnecessary as other games have manged to give you control without issues so no logic behind this decision, you can control the pace but not the initiation, maybe this was just implemented because it can be a frustrating dynamic if not used to it. It's not a big issue but can be a game immersion breaker at times. Ability and upgrades system is again, alright, I find this is a difficult and sometimes annoying part of games where you see all these abilities that you can get but then you have to scavenge to acquire them in a rather arbitrary manner. Having to make choices that are not evident if they are going to be beneficial or even enjoyable to use, so making a choice is sometimes just a coin toss. Story and characters are fun I guess, I'm not into the whole Marvel Universe but am fully aware of the fandom. It's just not my thing but can appreciate the enthusiasm. I will say for free it's an amazing game but at any other price it's a value for money discussion that I can't talk about because I just wouldn't have bought something like this.

I genuinely think it helps to be drunk when watching this to appreciate this movie, fortunately the first time I saw this in the theater I was a bit tipsy and went with a friend who was also a bit on the inebriated side of life and it was a lot of fun to watch. But I saw it again sober and it just didn't click as well, still had it's moments but it was easy to wander off and find parts of it boring and absolutely stupid beyond reason. I don't like all of their movies but this one I did enjoy under very specific circumstances. I think It's better than The Slammin' Salmon but nowhere close to Super Troopers.