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Kim Justice posted:Jeez, there's been lots of things in this thread while I've been away. Way too much to even consider going through (I mean, games journalists are rubbish but that's not much of a take) Yeah. I don't really follow speed runners though. We hit a point where you really can't bullshit about that kind of stuff anymore thanks to capture cards and twitch.
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Terrible Opinions posted:It also bothers me that the two new major species of alien look like humans in bad Star Trek make-up despite living in a totally different galaxy. Though human looking aliens in general bug me, Andromeda's are especially egregious in how much they looked like bad Voyager aliens. Also the original Mass Effect species actual look like they've had some measure of natural evolution applied to their design that suits their homeworld's environments. Save except maybe the Asari, because they're the deliberate fanservice species, but even then the bits about their history still try to infer an evolution path and environment similar to that of Humans. The Ket and the Angara, on the other hand, look like someone said "yep, looks alien enough to me!  " and signed off.
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So patrons already have access to Lindsay's Bright video. Again, thoughtful analysis of a movie that I will never bother watching. What does she think? Well: https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/958182409668911104
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That movie so blatantly wanted to be set in Shadowrun and thankfully that was denied.
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I’ve been watching her videos for a few months now, she’s great. Her stuff is just very much in line of what I want out of video essays.
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Yardbomb posted:That movie so blatantly wanted to be set in Shadowrun and thankfully that was denied. On top of that, I can't think of anything less Shadowrun than making the heroes cops.
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Jan 31, 2018 13:53
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The only good part of Andromeda was the Hall of Cultural Outreach or whatever that was supposed to teach Andromeda species about Milky Way species and the little displays were full of blatant bullshit and straight-up lies that whitewashed the hell out of each species' history. It only works if you have the context of the previous games, but it felt like someone on the writing team had a little moment of "all this poo poo is hosed up" and decided to point that out in the one self-aware part of the game.
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Paladin posted:On top of that, I can't think of anything less Shadowrun than making the heroes cops. There aren't really cops in the sense we know it in Shadowrun, anyway. The closest thing is Lone Star, which is just a respectable-looking protection racket. Very, very, very different.
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Paladin posted:On top of that, I can't think of anything less Shadowrun than making the heroes cops. I feel like you could make a cool story out of some Lone Star guys trying to do a good thing and getting screwed over for it, that sort of idea, but even if they'd had Shadowrun, Bright was too dumb of a movie to have done anything that neat.
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Yardbomb posted:I feel like you could make a cool story out of some Lone Star guys trying to do a good thing and getting screwed over for it, that sort of idea, but even if they'd had Shadowrun, Bright was too dumb of a movie to have done anything that neat. This is part of the plot to SHadowrun Hong Kong.
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Serf posted:The only good part of Andromeda was the Hall of Cultural Outreach or whatever that was supposed to teach Andromeda species about Milky Way species and the little displays were full of blatant bullshit and straight-up lies that whitewashed the hell out of each species' history. It only works if you have the context of the previous games, but it felt like someone on the writing team had a little moment of "all this poo poo is hosed up" and decided to point that out in the one self-aware part of the game. That and the Krogan parts, because apparently they're the only aliens that the writers seem to actually care about.
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Bioware projects are largely incoherent messes with no consistent artistic vision so I doesn't shock me that there are glimpses of nuance hidden away in minor content.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:So patrons already have access to Lindsay's Bright video. Again, thoughtful analysis of a movie that I will never bother watching. Looking forward to this; Even outside of Max Landis being a turd of a human being, Bright is just a loving mess of a film. Yardbomb posted:That movie so blatantly wanted to be set in Shadowrun and thankfully that was denied. It's so painfully obvious that it wanted to be Shadowrun.
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Testekill posted:It's so painfully obvious that it wanted to be Shadowrun. Yet it didn't even bother having any cyberpunk. Just take a contemporary buddy cop movie and throw fantasy races into it.
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I didn't dislike Bright, and I also didn't like it. It was just a bunch of wasted potential, squandering an interesting concept on a mediocre movie that I struggle to recall weeks later. And if Max Landis wanted it to be Shadowrun he sure didn't understand poo poo about Shadowrun. Which, given his whole deal, isn't terribly surprising.
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I feel like Landis escaped having his life destroyed when he was outed as a rapist, and I don’t like that. But maybe I never noticed because Landis is a pathetic twerp below contempt.
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Kim Justice posted:Jeez, there's been lots of things in this thread while I've been away. Way too much to even consider going through (I mean, games journalists are rubbish but that's not much of a take) I'm only finding about this now because I recently followed a dude who helps run The Internet Archive. Which reminds me: donate to the Internet Archive! One day you just may need to be reminded of something stupid you did 10 years ago. https://archive.org/donate/
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Kim Justice posted:Jeez, there's been lots of things in this thread while I've been away. Way too much to even consider going through (I mean, games journalists are rubbish but that's not much of a take) Just watched a video on this. It's hilarious that this guy got away with posting records that were literally, obviously impossible, as in getting a score that ends with a "90" in a game that increments its score by 50. I guess it helped that these were games that not many people actually played. The funniest one is him posting the exact same, ridiculous 15 million point score for both Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. Like, what? Augus fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Jan 31, 2018 |
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Serf posted:The only good part of Andromeda No, the only good part of Andromeda is pre-insane Kevin Sorbo as "Not Riker", wearing sweet, stupid red leather uniforms. 
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lornekates posted:No, the only good part of Andromeda is pre-insane Kevin Sorbo as "Not Riker", wearing sweet, stupid red leather uniforms. doesn't he literally become Jesus in that series
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TheMaestroso posted:That and the Krogan parts, because apparently they're the only aliens that the writers seem to actually care about. I will poo poo on Andromeda all day long for just about every part of its terribleness, but the Krogan Colony section is indeed a lot of fun. Not the story-related parts, but digging through the news entries and logs where someone clearly had a lot of fun. Things like Krogan courtship rituals due to co-habitating with females (they generally live apart from the males in caves for protection); "Do not sing like in the vids". "The Dance was a huge success. Those who perished during it will be mourned." Also Drack is the only well-written character in the game; He's a Grumpy Krogan Grandpa pushing 1400 years old (most live about 1,000) who is too old for this poo poo, only alive because he's killed everyone else who tried to kill him, and just wants to see kids grow up healthy, safe and happy  . And he will brutally slaughter anything that tries to harm children.
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lornekates posted:No, the only good part of Andromeda is pre-insane Kevin Sorbo as "Not Riker", wearing sweet, stupid red leather uniforms. did they find some leftover costumes from the Rocketeer for this?
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Kim Justice posted:Jeez, there's been lots of things in this thread while I've been away. Way too much to even consider going through (I mean, games journalists are rubbish but that's not much of a take) Though his stuff sounds fishy, all I'm finding so far is for 5.51 "we tried and couldn't do it via TAS" which feels a bit flimsy. Still, the guy has a lot of records that are most easily explained by being able to hack a CRT output and taking a polaroid of it. I almost wonder if the limited architecture and short race time means you can almost exhaustively model the outcomes, though that would probably still need some serious computing power. business hammocks posted:I feel like Landis escaped having his life destroyed when he was outed as a rapist, and I don’t like that. But maybe I never noticed because Landis is a pathetic twerp below contempt. He got lucky with his timing by the looks of it. The smoke has been there but didn't turn to fire until after Bright was out and most of the money had been made; it appears entertainment media loves to tie this together to sell drama with an upcoming release instead of reporting lovely behavior as lovely behavior. His wikipedia/IMDB show a serious lack of anything with a set date upcoming, and some of that was things that were canned, but I'm sure some of that is also him lying low. That or his dad is really good at covering up.
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Arcsquad12 posted:He's just the lovely product of a helicopter parent. That’s the perfect version of that joke.
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Paladin posted:On top of that, I can't think of anything less Shadowrun than making the heroes cops. You could make a decent Shadowrun cop movie if you had them working for something like Lone Star where the guys out there on the street are a minority of former cops just trying to keep some vague semblance of law and safety mixed in with corporate bootlickers gleefully enforcing their protection racket in the post-magic New World Order. I guess you could argue that a cop movie is inherently anti-punk no matter how you frame it. New Butt Order fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Jan 31, 2018 |
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 https://www.forbes.com/sites/mitchw...s/#67099414200a  EDIT: Oh, also this: https://twitter.com/xmeetsdarksouls/status/958774469891309568
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Max Wilco posted:
You know, I think that shotgun shell was photoshopped in. E: Also again, man gaming journalism must be really easy cause literally all you do is reference dark souls
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Leal posted:E: Also again, man gaming journalism must be really easy cause literally all you do is reference dark souls It's even easier than that. You just namedrop Dark Souls and you're done.
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Truly Dark Souls is the Dark Souls of Dark Souls shameless namedrops.
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As time goes on Monster Hunter will just become more and more a sad reminder that our actual megafauna are largely extinct or in the process of becoming extinct due to our own actions. There's nothing wrong with the fantasy of hunting large animals, that's a primal human activity that we've largely lost access to. But there is an element of these games that seems to embody our desire to be in awe of something larger than us in the way that animals like elephants and whales provoke. That experience is going to be largely lost as well in a few decades.
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http://www.somethingawful.com/news/emeat-is-emurder/ Yesterday's parody has once again become today's reality.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi4CMOawBb8 MrBtongue is back!!!
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SimonChris posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi4CMOawBb8 gently caress. YES. 
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DoubleCakes posted:MH is definitely warranted to Dark Souls comparisons, stop whining But I've seen it pointed out that Monster Hunter predates the Souls games by about five years (first Monster Hunter came out in 2004, Demon's Souls released in 2009). MH has had a fanbase long before Souls did.
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Max Wilco posted:But I've seen it pointed out that Monster Hunter predates the Souls games by about five years (first Monster Hunter came out in 2004, Demon's Souls released in 2009). MH has had a fanbase long before Souls did. Granted I've only played DS3 so I can't speak to what Demon Souls is like, but my first impression of DS3 after having played tons of Monster Hunter games is, "hmm wow some dev played a lot of Monster Hunter"
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