LAN play is the only time I ever had fun with Starcraft, ever. Also Quake III and various Wolfensteins. Nintendo DS multiplayer is vastly more entertaining in person than over WFC... and while internet access has high penetration in SCII's likely markets (South Korea, US), I just can't see five or ten gaming geeks having a satisfactory all-in-the-same-college-lab multiplayer experience when ALL of their game traffic has to leave the building in order to get to the neighboring computers.
No LAN is a huge "BOO!" for me, and apparently for a lot of other commenters.
They can make up for it by fixing the AI - the SC1 AI (and losing contact with my SC buddies) is why I haven't played the game in years. Give me an at-home no-lag AI experience that doesn't feel like acid bukake and I'll live the lack of LAN multiplayer.
Pr0n with.... dancing? How does that work, exactly?
Interest == piqued.
An io9 post that isn't a paragraph with some jpegs.
Excuse me, I have to go lie down now.
@PrimroseHabitus: Follow-up : I'd be slightly more worried about Ein. :)
@PrimroseHabitus: My friend Glenn's girlfriend, for one.... though given the essential attitude of Ed, I wouldn't be surprised if a brutally perverted studio decides to "cast" Ed as a CG character. >_<
I have a deep, DEEP love for CB.
And when it comes to a live action version..... I can stomach/see Reeves as Spike. But. The casting of the rest of the bebop is critical. As Guitaratomik says above, Ron Perlman could be a great choice for Jet. It really depends on the script.
Fact is, this isn't garden variety anime. Bebop is on a par with Macross or Akira in my book - you can't just flip it over to Hollywood Live Action and rake in the loot. It has to be done right.
There are at least 100 ways to translate Bebop Right... and maybe 50 of those ways can feature Reeves as Spike. It really depends on the script.
Is Rha's al Ghul immortal? It depends on the script.
So. Let's assume Neo == Spike. Who's writing? Can they HANDLE IT?
@Little Time Bomb: It's not CSI or NCSIS, so it doesn't matter HOW successful it is. It could be the only show anyone in north america watched and CBS would still shit on it, because it's just a hair outside the ironclad jello-mold they call "programming."
@Final: Having seen both and followed io9's coverage of both, I can can say this:
The io9 staff is biased. Deeply, deeply bent in favor of Fringe and against anything else (unless it has spaceships).
I'm firmly of the opinion that someone with management superpowers is being paid off by Fox.
@LMAO-SteveDave loves this guy->★: It DOES sound an awful lot like The Royale.
Can't imagine them having a valid excuse to hit the "real" Vegas. Really!
Bale brings the strong-jawed stoicism that makes the recent Batman movies and films like Equilibrium work
That said, I haven't seen much of a RANGE out of him.
Will Smith, conversely, brings a certain balance of Serious and Funny to the roles that he plays - he's proven that he has a definite range, even if there may not be much of a middle ground with it.
In terms of Roles Taken, Will Smith seems to go for (or have scripts written for) characters who can do Serious and Incidentally Funny (as opposed to straight slapstick). Bale..... well, he's Serious. And he does it well.
But.
We have yet - in my experience, anyway - to see Bale do an Independence Day or Hancock - style role.... so it's ultimately apples and oranges, with Vin Diesel in between.
Me, I'm waiting for the three-in-one, Wonder Twin Powers Activate movie where the aforementioned actors all get to do what they're best at - Bale being Serious, Diesel being a Muscular In Between, and Smith playing for the Funny Yet Serious crowd.
Dude, it would ROCK.
The X-Files is "sci-fi" the same way The Enquirer or The Weekly World News is "sci-fi." It's a steaming pile of headline-of-the-week with a pastiche of legitimacy. It's Art Bell with a bigger audience.
Me, I love Duchovny - and I happen to think Fox is his weakest role. He's MUCH more fun to watch in Twin Peaks or Californication........ neither of which is "sci-fi"
(though Twin Peaks is as much sci-fi as the X-Files)
@Palliard: Admittedly, it's been a good 12-15 years since I read the books - in high school a lot of subtext was lost on me.
While Gateway may be difficult to get right, it's no Solaris!
@evildead1971: As well they should have.
But, damage done. Nathan and Sylar surviving S1 really kicked the show in the balls for me, and the fact that they're still around is the cherry on the sundae, as it were.
@Belabras: I'd settle for a better soundtrack than Sunshine. A Giant Musical Orgie flagellating the climax may have worked with The Godfather, but it hasn't fit anything since - and Sunshine is no exception.
Let's get some HeeChee action up in here.
Seiously. Gateway is one of those books that fits most of the bill and could probably be "updated" without too many sci-fi fans screaming for blood.
Sounds great to me. But for my inner fanboy, it's far, FAR too late - I lost interest in Heroes early into season 2 and nothing I've read or heard has managed to reignite that interest. Reading or hearing "oh, hey! It doesn't suck anymore!" won't do much good if I have to slog through a season-plus of brain-gouging sludge to get "up to speed" with wherever the show's at when it stops with the hurting.
@Smeagol92055: The plug, it burns.
Seriously, though - the artistic uses of such a device are potentially limitless - especially for those of us with imagination in excess of our other abilities.
Forget the courtroom. Give me print rez results, give me access, and LET ME GET MY COMIC DONE IN MY LIFETIME.
Seriously. I can see it all in my head. It's taking far, FAR too long to get it out.
Gimme.
Crap like this is why I watch the movies and don't buy the comics.
@PantherShade: I haven't stopped buying comics, but I HAVE stopped buying the Monthly Superhero Soap Operas - mainly for crap like this... though "killing" characters only to bring them back when sales start to slump, or Marvel's practice (in the late 90s, anyway) of moving artists from title to title to get the fans of said artists buying more titles.... ick.
