To be fair, I have no issue with 3D... especially now that I have a pimp ass Vizio 60" Passive 3D HDTV. That said, while the gaming industry is content on letting 3D be an enhancement on Microsoft and Sony's part, Nintendo is slapping people in the face with it screeching, "SEE! SEEEE?!?! Now will you play these rehashes of old game concepts?!? THEY'RE IN 3D!!!"
In fact, you kind of have to know to even look in the case of Microsoft's 3D efforts. Gears 3, Halo Anniversary, and Batman Arkham City are all 3D on the 360. After the flop that was Avatar the game, I think they understand that you really need to build a base of solid material BEFORE you go 3D... otherwise you end up with the Smurfs movie.
Hollywood is at least getting the right idea with 3D now. Film the movie in 3D in the first place, and don't do any of that goofy gimmick 3D like the IMAX 3D films were shooting for. (I'm looking at your shitty ass Fly Me To the Moon) If it doesn't stand up in 2D, you can't expect 3D to save a crap flick.
Nintendo kind of made the same mistake with their launch of the 3DS. Rather than have solid games at launch, they went with the gimmicky stuff that people would buy just to have something to play.... which sells games that otherwise wouldn't, but in general pissed people off. The fact they STILL haven't delivered the first game announced for the unit, Kid Icarus, is a slap in the face to all their fans. Had they used Kid Icarus and the new Mario as launch titles, the system would have sold gangbusters.
With this level of incompetance you have to wonder if they'll bother to have a Zelda ready for the WiiU launch... despite whetting people's appetite about it with a killer tech demo.
I think it's more about their typical game drought... they make people invest in their system, then just like clockwork either fill the library with shovelware or just trickle the releases down to one title or less a month. The problem here is that this latest generation Nintendo won over, the casual set, casually forgot they had a Wii in the first place rather quickly... probably after one or two bouts of motion control shovelware.
There was a time, not so very long ago, where Nintendo cared. Now they're blinded by dollar signs. "Oh, we have this new 3D product... everyone will want it!" What ever happened to making good games to push hardware sales? Back in the day people couldn't WAIT to get that latest Nintendo offering... these days the midnight release lines are always for other systems... other developers. One really has to wonder if the company is run by people wearing blinders, as they seem happy to ignore everything going on around them. "Oh, Sony is putting another analog stick... how silly... we've always had one... no need to change." "Oh, Microsoft is trying to cater to the HD market... nobody owns those tvs... how insane!"
Nintendo needs to take a long hard look at the non-creative forces within the company and figure out where the glitch lies. I've got my fingers crossed for them, but it's rather sad that they followed the same flawed logic at the end of the last few consoles. Knowing how die hard Nintendo fans are, you'd figure Nintendo would see the hardware as a way to move software... not the other way around.
Give me the good ol' days of the N64...
They're out there if you do enough digging, although only George can confirm if they're kosher or not. Unfortunately, as you said, the net was kind of flooded with fakes at the height of prequel frenzy. The key difference in those drafts was that they were very rough, and didn't have any mention of Jar-Jar, midichloreons, nor the majority of players the movies ended up having. Why? Because IMHO Lucas didn't have much interest in the prequels back then... he was only writing down basic ideas and concepts that would set up the original trilogy.
For one thing that's guaranteed legit, the original first draft of the original Star Wars, aka Starkiller, has a lot of weird elements that were worked into the prequels. Worth a look if you've never read it...
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! So you've ruined movies and now you're working on ruining tv? Oh wait, Star Wars Holiday Special... you already did that too.
George George George. Stop putting the blame on us. Truth be told, you've gotten fat and lazy... a vertible Jabba the Hutt of film making. You surround yourself with people who're too afraid to call you on your initial decisions, and are willing to spend endless hours attempting to take a crazy idea most writers would toss into something workable.
We don't want you to stop making things... we just want you to put some of that creativity and passion back into the process. Challenge yourself. Don't let yes men and women tell you your shit don't stink when it does, and you won't end up with a 2 and an half hour SFX reel.
For starters, why not actually sit through a bit of humble pie and watch the Plinkett reviews on the Star Wars prequels you made? He points out where your problems lie, and any artist who refuses to listen to critique of his work is a very poor artist indeed.
So, do we hate you? Of course not... you just got in over your head. After all, I saw your drafts for the prequels you wrote back in the 80's... and there was none of this quasi-political nonsense, no JAR-JAR, and while those were sparse and incomplete... they told a far more interesting story than you ended up with.
In the end Mr. Lucas... don't expect us to beg you to return to movie making. Take some personal responsibility, get some artistic fire back in your soul, and knock us out with something on par with your earlier work... because I gotta tell ya, I liked WILLOW better than the prequels... because at least with Willow you could tell you had a story you wanted to tell.
Walk into a Gamestop... the biggest selection of used games is 360, most of those being under $30. At this point in the console battle, it's pretty much come down to bang for your buck. In fact I'd wager that a lot of people who own either a PS3 or Wii are picking up 360s now simply because for a few hundred you can nab dozens of titles dirt cheap.
For those bargain hunters new to the fold, Earth Defense Force 2017 is epic.
Lol... I own the uncensored version. I just see a zombie that turns into a giant bat thing and say, "Yep, Lifeforce!"
... erm, you mean this ISN'T Lifeforce 2?
HERE HERE! I've always wondered why Kobolds are never more widely used. More interesting playing the lesser races that usually end up on the bottom of a Paladin's boot.
4 is pretty easy. Chip and the rest of the Beast's servants were transformed into formerly inanimate bodies, so they don't age. Bust one into a million pieces and the result won't look pretty when they all change back either. The Beast ages because he's meant to outgrow his ways. I do wonder if the person who cast his curse wasn't planning ahead a bit... and if the staff would have turned human again either way the story turned out.
The Black Hole's curse is that Alien came out so very close to it. By comparison, yes, The Black Hole didn't do so well... but on it's own the film did rather good, especially considering how weird Disney was at the time.
All in all, the movie is rather brilliant... and nothing since has captured it's sense of both adventure and dread. It's got just the right amount of exploration, discovery, mystery, horror, and weirdness to make for a truly memorable ride... and the ending is just so insane as to be brilliant. I mean seriously, look at these weird angles, strange shots, an eye close up that wouldn't be out of place in a Hellraiser film, and finally the most vivid depiction of hell EVAR!
To be fair, the visuals are creepy... and a lot of reviewers were turned off by the idea of a scary Disney movie... but I've always heard it was a major flop thanks to an utter lack of information. Thanks for restoring my faith in on of my favorite flicks!
Sorry, but the Akira movie is already coming out... or at least a VERY similar story of teens with powers. Behold, The Chronicle... which has a ton of Akira style moments from what the trailer has shown.
Now before somebody immediately poo-poo's that this is similar to Akira... let's compare. Kids with telekinetic powers? Check. Scene with giant teddy bear, check! Backwards flying, check! Friend goes psychotic, check! Psycho friend finds a junkyard to use his powers, check! Standoff with authorities, check! Sure there's no drug abuse, motorcycles, or giant mutant flesh baby... but a lot of the other elements are there.
Can't copyright an idea... as long as they aren't stealing code or other assets, Atari doesn't have a leg to stand on.
While I'm really happy for diehard fans who oppose the FPS version, I sincerely hope the 2013 delay isn't because of this version's development to appease them.
As for me, I played the original... but was never as hooked on it as my friends. What can I say, isometric tactical turn based rpgs just weren't my thing... especially with deeper strategy games like Dune II to play, or more intense scifi combat like Wing Commander.
The FPS version of the game looks like a winner to me. It's an interesting take on converting a game I really didn't care for much into something more accessible. Sure it's got tactical elements, but at the same time I can choose to ignore them if I choose. Much like Deus Ex, it seems like the key to it is in letting the player decide just how to handle things, and that's brilliant.
*shrug* Just my opinion.
Sorry, but the best trailer for me involved hulk hands, lightsabers, and the portal gun...
I'ma gonna leave this right here...
Ahh... then I'll have to watch it and report back. On the whole I find most takes on it, aka the gross oversimplification of a people, to be understandable if unfortunate. It never sat right with me that some people feel the need to change past works to reflect a more PC mood. Peter Pan fights pirates and indians... it's every boys' fantasy come to life. That doesn't make either foe a "bad guy"... it just means they have differing motivations.
As a part "native american" I agree. You don't perform racial genocide on a story because it's uncomfortable, you make more of the story about why it's uncomfortable and address the problem head on.
Also, if this is the response seeing the SyFy Channel version of Peter Pan incurs, maybe I won't watch that tonight... lol.
Also, if this is the response seeing the SyFy Channel version of Peter Pan incurs, maybe I won't watch that tonight... lol.
Signed and shared. All fellow MST3K fans should do the same... ^_^
Black Ops, in and of itself, would not be so popular had they not put out all those zombie DLCs. ^_^
Skyrim's single player, at least IMHO, trumps CoD's multi. Multiplayer games are hard to keep fresh after awhile, little trolls, spawn campers, glitch snipers, and trash talkers tend to come in and ruin things for everyone given enough time. For every Black Ops that balances this and keeps the experience fresh, there's a Halo 2 that has it's multi go from awesome to suck.
Skyrim on the other hand is such a massively huge game that once people "beat" it, they tend to start a new character and do it all over again. I've lost track of how many times I've played through Oblivion and Fallout 3... (New Vegas not so much, lol)
My point is, no matter how many multiplayer games you play... you're just retreading the same ground over and over. The main limitation is the number of maps, and how many times you can stand to play them. That means that DLC becomes insanely important, and with Battlefield 3 out there competing, there's no guarantee that CoD will continue to have the most interesting multi for military shooters.
Skyrim on the other hand will rule until a better fantasy RPG comes along and kicks it off the throne.
Of course this is just my opinion, only time will tell if I'm right.
Skyrim's single player, at least IMHO, trumps CoD's multi. Multiplayer games are hard to keep fresh after awhile, little trolls, spawn campers, glitch snipers, and trash talkers tend to come in and ruin things for everyone given enough time. For every Black Ops that balances this and keeps the experience fresh, there's a Halo 2 that has it's multi go from awesome to suck.
Skyrim on the other hand is such a massively huge game that once people "beat" it, they tend to start a new character and do it all over again. I've lost track of how many times I've played through Oblivion and Fallout 3... (New Vegas not so much, lol)
My point is, no matter how many multiplayer games you play... you're just retreading the same ground over and over. The main limitation is the number of maps, and how many times you can stand to play them. That means that DLC becomes insanely important, and with Battlefield 3 out there competing, there's no guarantee that CoD will continue to have the most interesting multi for military shooters.
Skyrim on the other hand will rule until a better fantasy RPG comes along and kicks it off the throne.
Of course this is just my opinion, only time will tell if I'm right.
Heh... and yet which game will still be played and talked about six months from now? COD and Battlefield games are fine for multi, but that's about it.
