BlackArachnia
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The fight scenes in the trailers look fun, and very over the top. I expect to have a blast.
What is Arrested Development? I have not had broadcast/cable in the last 5 years so I see very little TV. -
Dunno. I think they know how badly I have been wanting this and are teasing me.
*dons aluminium hat*
edit: Well they sent me an e-mail and it should be here Saturday. I won't repost in this again if this falls off the front page, but it would be interesting to hear others opinions on the artwork. -
Quote:I hate PDF. It costs more money for me to print it out, and as I do not own a laptop, there is a distinct lack or portability.Originally Posted by Tocharon
you can get it on PDF from Drive thru for $15
I love books. I mean I still have the original TMNT RPG book as well as the 2nd edition. -
Quote:Another recipe for the list. Yum thanks Imp KatOriginally Posted by Impish Kat
So, last night we cooked brats & andouille sausage... more specifically...
- Punctured uncooked mild italian sausages with fork or small knife (about 3 punctures on two opposite sides) and placed in stewpot.
- Poured a decent beer over sausage (we used Blue Moon last night) to the point that they were immersed completely.
- Last night, I was in the mood for spicy, so I added some already cooked andoullie sausage on top (punctured slightly to impart some of their flavor).
- Topped the whole mess with 4 (small) cloves garlic chopped fine, small (or half a large) onion, & 2 "julienned" green bell peppers.
- Cooked, uncovered, on medium heat for about 15-20 min. We used the handy side burner on the bbq so as not to heat the house up too much (we had a balmy 95 degree day). Some of the andoullies 'sploded, but I was okay with that... just gave the stock some good flavor.
- A few minutes after putting the pot on, we put some foil wrapped corn cobs on the grill.
- When sausages were well cooked, we pulled them out and grilled them briefly just to give them some nice char marks.
- Sausages came out slightly crispy on the outside, but oh so tender on the inside. Served in slightly toasted buns & topped with the cooked peppers & onions.
yum.
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Quote:Pearl Harbor, and Asteroid, were both chick flicks, not action movies, much as Titanic was. If you watched those by choice...Originally Posted by QuietAmerican
For instance:
Pearl Harbor was not about Explosions and Hyperviolence. In real life, yes, there were Explosions and Hyperviolence, but this was not what the event is about. However, Mr. Bay seems to belive so. There was no glory to be shot when the Arizona went down, yet Mr. Bay found exploitable glory shots.
Another weird Michael Bay moment:
Mini gun attached to asteroid rover in Arrmageddon. Why? Why did it have a minigun? Why? Oh it was a Bay movie.
That guy just sucks.
Well, I have to admit I watched Asteroid. My date wanted to see it. As for Titanic and Pearl Harbor, no way in hell. -
Quote:My fiance would go watch SP herslef if I tried t take her to Eat, Pray, Love.Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
People keep going on about Expendables because "They are MEN." I'm choosing Scott Pilgrim because "I am AWESOME". 'Course, my girlfriend just confided in me her extreme love of Julia Roberts, so not really sure. Maybe Eat Pray Love is going to get a whirl. O.o
Then make fun of me for my movie choice lol. -
The eyes are too human.
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The super hero genre will no more die down than the action genre. Both films are still being made. They are just being made a little more cheaply. The idea of the every-man hero such as Defendor, and Kick-A$$ will die down sooner, and that's due to the glut of those type of movies. It's like disaster movies or vampire movies. If they make enough of one type of movie, people stop going to that lastest asteroid flick, or the lastest vampire flick. As much as many people here dislike Twilight, it was not the standard vampire movie. if they kept remaking teen vampire romances, people would get bored, and that would kill the Twilight Saga in the movies.
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Quote:I miss those games. I love the stories and felt there was more depth in them to any of the sandbox games I have played. Sure, some of the NES titles lacked stories, or just had equally shallow story lines, but with the SNES, that changed.Originally Posted by Candlestick
To be fair, those ffamous RPG games are so painful these days because they haven't evolved in 10 years. It's the same tired gameplay, with the same tired stories. There is a difference between having a linear story, and spoon feeding you that story.
Compare it to say, a Star Wars RPG made by a bunch of crazy Canadians. While the story is still linear, which allows the pacing to be great, the story is not spoon fed to you via tons of cutscenes. You unravel it yourself through the game, which is what makes it enjoyable. That and I just think the writing is better.
I have found that the story in *sandbox* style games like you described to be lacking. The sandbox is good, the story is good, but the sandbox ruins any form of pacing the author may try and put in. You often forget entirely about the story, and focus on side-quest after side-quest, until you get bored and finally go back to the story. This has a tendancy to ruin emotional impact of the game. In fact, with said nuclear waste game, I actually got bored 3/4th of the way through the game, and havn't bothered to touch it since. The pacing of the story just couldn't keep me focused. It wasn't like a good book that grips you to the very end. -
Of the cast, there are only 3 people there that I would call actors. There are 2 people there that can't act at all that I have seen. 1 person I know nothing about, and 3 people that are action stars. Their films are fun with often no more substance than a twinkie.
Commenting on explosions and violence is the EXACT reason you people complain about Michael Bay. That is all his fiilms are. That's not manly, that's not good cinema. This movie is the twinkie. -
Here is a link to the game with a picture of the cover.
http://www.shadowrun4.com/wordpress/...-of-shadowrun/
Amazon has the game for $30.00.
The picture of the elf looks like a human. I did not even realize it was an elf until I saw the ears. Both the elf and mage look strung out. It's that faux realism. There is nothing I like about the samurai(?) in the lower part of the picture. Everything from his face, to his helmet, and his weird arms and armor, look like a low tech miner drawn from an anatomy course. If I had not really been looking forward to the game, I would be very disappointed in the art work alone not to buy the book. I can't speak for others, but the art work is one of the reasons I buy a gaming book. For a new game, if it looks cool, I am there.
edit: 12 day shipping from Amazon is pretty darn pathetic. Considering that they had it in stock and were offering immediate shipment if I paid extra. *shakes head in disgust* Let me rephrase that. It ships in 12 days, not how long it gets to me during the shipment. -
Cloverfield was ok. Unlike Godzilla, it failed to be a great American monster in popularity due to the fact that in was unlikable. Nothing about the monster made you feel for him. Perhaps with a standard filming we could have gotten a sense of the monster.
Even the American Godzilla had more personality.
So we have a movie with uninteresting monsters, (The poison sea crabs were.... weird and not needed.) unlikable characters, ( I had no desire to see any of them survive.) and shaky cam to make things more frightening.
Could have been better, could have been worse. A sequel makes no sense though. -
In a single person rpg, I prefer the over world versus the maps that click you from one point to the other. I am like the anti-sandbox type. I want to explore and look around, but I do not mind things being closed due to story line.
In a MMO, I want the massive overworld with contested dungeons in some games, and what we have here in Co* for others. Being able to hop from city to city in Co* is nice the way they have it set up. Sure no warwalls would have been better, but zones make the world larger to me. If you really look at the zoneless worlds, most of them are quite small. -
Quote:Some people like bland American, some people like brie, and some people like limburger.Originally Posted by docbuzzard
Expendables is my call for this weekend. I might see Pilgrim in the theater or not. I've not decided. I generally like superhero movies, and I like the director's previous work, but I think the style of cheese may not suit my palate.
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I am pretty sure it will have a loose adaption to the actual novel, while still being good. I have not read the books yet so that is a good thing. I will hold off until after I see the movie, as I have been looking at the series for awhile now.
A good example is Howl's Moving Castle. The movie was only loosely based on the book. I read the book first in that case. I can't say I was disaapointed, but I was surprised about how different the movie was. -
Open world gameplay has it's pros and cons. Over all, unless it is a specific game, I really do not care for it. In RPGs, I loved the over world maps and you pretty much do not see them very often anymore.
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I hope this does not count as a necro post as the OP still is relevant.
I just saw The Woods on netflixs. Actually a nice thriller starring Bruce Campbell.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0380066/
Mod 8, if this counts as a necro post, sorry about that. -
Talking the PnP game here, not a video game.
Specifically the art work.
I just ordered the book, (Will have to try to find a group soon after) and the one thing that turned me off was the artwork. The new artwork reminds me alot of the old Traveller stuff, (which I did not like.) instead of the style-ized world and art from teh first edition and some of the later editions. Does anyone else have the anniversary book? What are your opinions about the art? -
Yayy the food thread is back!!
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Quote:Ironically, both the Germans and Romans were meticulous record keepers.Originally Posted by JoeKent
LOL. The terrifying thing was your passion for efficiency made you so good at mass murdering. Other cultures never came close to achieving what the Germans did in the field of attrocity.
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Quote:Does this mean as long as it is within the new ironfisted guide lines, I can repost the thread?Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
They moved them all to the deleted section. Now the ones specifically requested to be saved are being moved back. If a thread's salvation wasn't explicitly requested, it wasn't saved.
Everything I just stated has been stated by TheOcho. Cautious on the doom cry, lovely.
*ponders*
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Quote:Everybody hates scrappers. Scrappers even hate other scrappers.Originally Posted by Santorican
Why?! Because Castle hates Scrappers! That's why!
Dang scrappers stealing my kills.
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I see they even nuked threads that fell within the guide lines of their rules.
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My biggest complaint is that it is impossible to make a Spider-man-esque scarapper. Martial Arts just do not cut it in appearance. Spidey is one of those super strength/agile characters. Super strength in the scrapper pool may not look like what I want, but it would help the over all feel.
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http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809718186/trailer
Tales from Earthsea. It looks great as expected from Miyazaki.