Frenetic Pony

You know what I mean you sarcastic assed sonofabitch! He's the funny, jolly kind, you know, the stupid kind so we can laugh at him.

So why do you play the story? I never did in GTA games, never saw the point. And while I'll buy Saints Row 4 at some point, I'd rather spend my money on the two hundred million dollar, ridiculously huge, multiplayer included extravaganza. It's not like I enjoyed GTA 4 either, even not trying to take it seriously. But then I didn't enjoy Saints Row 3 one iota really. It's not like I'm ditching that series altogether because of one bad game. Besides, it's not like either of you are giving 5 a fair shake. One of the main characters looks like psychotic, serial killer meth addict. I'd hardly call that "too serious".

World War Z is fine! Ok, the middle, I.E. Israel and Korea, are just plain pointless, but at least they were slightly entertaining in a mindless way. But the beginning and ending are solid enough to enjoy, even though you should be compelled to be vastly disappointed that it wasn't rated R with the India scene from the book in it. Also Hellboy 1 is average and Hellboy 2 is lame. At least to me, I'm surprised to see Hellboy 2 score a bit better on IMDB. It was pure cheesy pulp without embracing cheese or pulp, often quite self serious despite how silly it felt. Not to mention the whole "us magical creatures that actually exist but are hidden from humans are oppressed, help I'm being repressed!" Talk about a lame cliche story point that didn't do anything at all to advance itself beyond being a lame cliche story point. Also, Clue is still hilarious, "Yep. Two corpses, everything's fine." Tim Curry's frantic zipping back and forth at the end really sells the whole thing though.

It's not even officially confirmed, despite the studio head "being open to it" and some guy seemingly officially hired to do it and etc. It's not like any other GTA was a day 1 PC release anyway. As to the map, I'm both perfectly satisfied and disappointed. I mean, yeah it looks as huge as it promised, but it's not Godus which is the size of Jupiter or even Just Cause 2 on which that island would be only one of several the same size with huge oceans in between. I mean, you can always want more you know? I also wish I could buy it digitally. I'd really prefer to buy it and download it and just have it. But I'd need to it be bought digitally from Gamestop because I have gift card to there for $40, and really that would be immensely helpful. As far as I know that means I'm going to have to pre-order it and pick it up physically at the store if I want it day 1, unless someone would correct me?

Actually it's because of the "God Particle" a stupid assed name some reporter invented for the higg's boson, the particle that is proof of the higg's field, the field that imparts mass on particles. Thus the "Satan" particle would be a particle that removes mass from particles. The religious reference does however play into Miffy's pun perfectly well.

Oh good, because my shot is in the middle of the day, thanks for proving my point! And I didn't mention the setting guys, c'mon! I mentioned that the art direction and assets and programming produced a washed out, indistinct blocky brown blur (say that 5 times fast) rather than something that looked, you know, good. You can't tell me the PC version with mods and the brown removed doens't look way better:

Honestly almost as bad as X-Men 3 for me, I just couldn't re-watch it. Fassbender is good at being angry, but he and McAvoy just pale in comparison to McKellan and Stewart. The two could put more subtlety and the sense of a once friendship broken into a single scene as the entirety of First Class All of First Class was just so, comic booky, all the schlocky melodramatic things wrong with comic books were overly present. Kevin Bacon showing up at the CIA compound, murdering everyone, including one of the mutants own, and saying "Hey you should join me because I plan to cause a nuclear holocaust" is just. Ugh. "Oh sure, I'll go enthusiastically murder people for you. On the one hand you're a murderous insane madman that wants to end civilization. On the other hand some people made fun of me so now I hate everyone." It feels like it should be a comedy "Wait, I don't want to blow up half the planet, I live there! I mean, where else will I put all my stuff?" I'm glad Singer is back for Day's of Future Past, maybe we can get a good X-Men movie for the first time since he left.

Just to remind ya'll what a brown, blurry, kind of fugly mess GTA 4 was in comparison.

I sort of meant, not the emotions, it's a very in your face film there. The pacing and dialogue, people aren't constantly talking about the big objective, or doing much beyond just being people. There's no singular "goal" throughout any section of the movie, there's no "point' any scene is getting towards. No one has to save the world, catch the crook, and even scene by scene they're going through their lives. Often in a movie we'll be introduced to a scene and know why the character is there and what they're doing and what they're looking for. In Goodfellas they're often just, living. We often don't know why we saw a scene until it's mostly over with. For example As for the restaurant burning, I actually think most other scenes work towards other parts of the movie. Obviously the opening, the bar scene, plays out later. But others do as well. I'm not even complaining about the painting, that was a great scene, but it also revealed something about the mother and Pesci's character as well. My problem with the restaurant sequence is, it goes over already established characterizations and the general sense of what it is the mafia is about, introducing us to nothing new to speak of.

Goodfellas: So I've seen much of the IMDB top 250, yet have missed this until now. Well no more! Ok, it was good. A rambling tale of a mans rise in the mafia from a kid in the mafia heyday of the 50's to the decline of the 80's, apparently based on a true story. And by rambling I mean it's a more "story of this guys life" rather than the traditional movie arc of "intro to characters, intro to objective, intro of obstacles, overcoming obstacles, movie ends". Well of course it was since it's based on a true story! And it does indeed do a good of job of showing a connected series of snapshots of this guys life, making them feel more naturalistic than you'd otherwise get out of Hollywood. That being said naturalistic has been done better before and since. Sometimes it felt like it was going on for the sake of going on, and yes I realize that's what life is like. But as I've said other movies have also portrayed a naturalistic look at life while maintaining more momentum and interest. It's not that Goodfellas ever really gets sidetracked, it's that it often feels like it's flirting with doing so. One example is of (very minor spoiler) Sure it was an example, assumedly a real world example, of how the mafia operated its "business" and made money, but the entire sequence didn't really add or reveal anything at all to any character of consequence or any later event. The entire sequence probably could have been cut and I'm not sure anyone would notice. Still, it's a good movie well worth seeing.

This is the most excited I've been for a game in quite a while. I didn't even really like GTA 4 a whole lot, but I loved Red Dead Redemption. It was one of the only games that really nailed what I've always seen as one of the huge potential things to do in an open world, and that is just to wander around, take in the sights, and find neat things. Many open world games claim to have such things available, but I've often not found it. Oblivion and Skyrim were too ugly to look at in some ways and too boring in their things you could find. The Assassin's Creed series always got too monotonous too quickly, the gameplay locking into almost the exact same loop early on and a real lack of variety in art assets and lighting conditions; same goes for Far Cry 3 and even 2 if I'm to be honest. But so far GTA V seems to be nailing it. I just know one of the first things I'm going to do is steal a fast car and just drive around exploring the world while listening to one of the talk radio shows.

Uhhhh... good luck? I just, JUST bought a computer for my little sister, similar requirements. Less than 2 weeks ago, here's what I got for her: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AM7MM84/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 That's about as good as you're going to get. Play Saints Row 3 on medium settings? You're basically going to have to get a bigger budget. The good news is the above comes with, as far as I can tell, an empty MXM (Mobile PCI Express) port. Meaning I'm going to be upgrading my sisters laptop for christmas with something bought off Ebay (the only place you can buy MXM cards) so she can play Just Cause 2. And I was lucky enough to pick up a returned Amazon item from Amazon warehouse for $400 so the price for the laptop was pretty good too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mdgLn5BFRQ I had to look this up on youtube after I heard it on Forza Horizon. Man I hope the second Horizon improves on the first one, but even if it doesn't I'm happy to look up whatever they have for the soundtrack.

Speaking of Into Darkness, I wrote to Abrams about the screenplay: http://intodarknessscript.blogspot.com/ Delivered via twitter to Bad Robot, why yes the blog does have 11 views not my own! It's quite long, but leave it to paraphrase as "your script sucked." Obviously JJ read it, and the news that writers Orci, Kurtzman, and Lindelof aren't writing the third Trek is entirely down to me, and if Paramount doesn't offer me my due royalties I'm prepared to sue. You hear that Paramount! Though seriously, if you read it my review I think you'll at least see just how bad Into Darkness is as a screenplay.

I'll be seeing personally, I wasn't able to get in on the kickstarter but I'll be there day one for Steam Early Access.

I'm having one of those "Did I just get transported to a nearly identical alternate dimension?" days. I'm listening to music, and some classic songs, like Behind Blue Eyes, don't sound like I remember them. Oh the lyrics are the same, I think, maybe not even that. But some of the background composition is... different. I listen to NWA's "Express Yourself" and listening to it again I am absolutely SURE the high pitched whistle, or something, was never there before. But Multiple World's Interpretation doesn't allow for interacting universes, hell it's not even real, different multiple universes depending on who you're listening too. Maybe it's my memory being alter post creation, but that would be weird for incidental and specific sounds in songs.

I can confirm a smartphone is totally worth it those few times you might really need it. I don't do shit on mine 99.9% of the time. I've got a Windows 7 phone and I say "good enough" except when I want to play Tiny Thief. Otherwise, when I really need to look something up online right now (I love finding new coffee places if I'm somewhere outside my hometown) or am just going somewhere new it can be absolutely essential. Stocking up on something like Ting.com and a $100 older phone from craigslist is worth it, simply because you won't actually pay almost anything and yet you'll still have GPS and internet when that .1% of the time comes up.

I love that Ben and Jerry's liked Phish enough to make an icecream for them, or I'd have never heard of them in a thousand years:

God's damn it, why were there no good looking cars in the 90's. Ok, there was the McLaren F1, but otherwise. I need 3 badass cars for my movie, and I've already got a 1969 Corvette C3 with the ZL1 Big Block engine. Not only does it look badass But the damned thing could apparently be rated up to 560hp from the factory, pulling up to a 10.75 second quarter mile, perhaps the fastest of any car that year or for quite a while. I need two roughly equivalent cars, preferably from different eras, different manufacturing locations, and just as rare as the one year only Corvette C3 with the ZL1 Big Block. But the problem with the intervening years (80s-90s) is that the Porsche 959 can't be brought into the US as it never met exhaust specs, and every other car from those 2 decade looks like crap. Box crap from the 80's, kinda a amorphous squishy crap from the 90's. Gah!

2DS, Zelda Remakes, "New Super Mario Bros" out your ass. I want to make a video, if I was interested at all in video editing. It would be Gollum having a conversation with Nintendo. "We... don't, need you, anymore." Nintendo "What? What's it saying precious?" Gollum "We don't need you anymore!" Nintendo "What's is SAYING?" Gollum "Leave now, and never come back!" We seriously don't, I've come to the sad conclusion. What's the difference between a DS and a smartphone? Well the smartphone is potentially already cheaper, has a much better battery life, a lot more memory for downloading games, much higher specs, has access to 3g and maybe 4g internet, and has access to a hell of a lot more games and apps. What does Nintendo have in its favor hardware wise? A little thumbstick thing and a few dedicated buttons. Give a dedicated keyboard phone a thumbstick and the entire DS/Gameboy hardware line is caput as a hardware concept. The Wii-U is similarly worthless in terms of hardware. It's a last gen spec'd machine that costs more than last gen machines and has a "controller" with no novelty for games and terrible battery life. And Nintendo doesn't even have games I'd pay for their system anymore. After learning all the cut dungeons aren't coming to Windwaker HD it dropped off my "must play!" list, Smash Bros already looks obsessed with more characters rather than bringing back fun stages and other things, something which did no favors for Brawl. Metroid is totally MIA, Mario Kart still rather peaked with Mario Kart 64, even Mario Party is said to have gone downhill by most accounts I've heard. Nintendo, I loved the Nintendo 64 and playing Rogue Squadron and Ocarina and Goldeneye, ditto with my gameboy and Pokemon. I didn't regret buying a Gamecube and playing Windwaker and Metroid Prime and Sunshine, but I do admit to having at least as much fun with Halo and other games on my Xbox. I did regret buying a DS because Animal Crossing didn't really Wow me, and Pokemon was just, well, I'm not a Pokemon fanatic. And I definitely regretted buying a Wii, which was used for some Wii Sports with my family and that's about the long and short of it. And there's no fooling me into a Wii-U or 3DS anymore, and the only thing I wonder is how long it will take many more others to agree with me. It already seems to be happening on the Wii-U front.

This is perfectly true, Dead Rising 3 is one of the only games I can see actually putting the hardware to use at launch for gameplay reasons, of course with each successive jump gameplay reasons become less and less hardware bound anyway. Regardless, games like GTA are still bound a lot by hardware requirements for gameplay, which doesn't mean they're going to change a thing gameplay wise for a next gen console for GTA V. PS3 version for me, I want to play multiplayer but haven't had Xbox Live Gold for quite a while. I'll probably end up getting PC version when it's cheap and there are mods and etc.

Jack Reacher is surprisingly solid for the pulpy, serial fiction feel of it. After long consideration I've come to the conclusion that O Brother Where Art Though is the Coen Brothers best movie. It's their best shot movie certainly, their best soundtrack, and while it might not be their funniest the charming characters, humor, story, editing, and everything overall make it an absolutely wonderful movie few people ever mention. Did I mention the soundtrack? By itself it's not something to amaze at like the Tron Legacy soundtrack, but when put together with the visuals and etc. of the movie I think this may be the only movie I've ever seen to use diegetic music like this.

Yah, read it, definitely seems dev problems were partly responsible. I can't help but wonder at all the well published whining which suddenly turned up a game that sounded more like what the whiners wanted. Ohwell, just speculation.

So would I, but there was so much whining that it wasn't exactly like the original X-com and it wasn't tactical enough and blah blah blah. So 2k changed it until it was everything people were whining for and now the game is mediocre and all those people that whined about it aren't buying it. I think this makes a big case for certain times being very good for not listening to fans. Thanks for the Polygon piece! I'd noticed it on there but thought it was a just a timeline of PR releases rather than an actual story of what happened.

Well sure, in a perfect world, well perfect for business, everyone would pay the maximum they'd be willing to pay, regardless of however much someone else payed. But we don't live in that world, and if someone else gets a "better deal" then everyone is going to want that. Also, supposed music list is out: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1kyndb/complete_gta_v_soundtrack_leaked_list_of_songs/ I believe it's real, mostly because like with GTA 4's radio I don't like any song at all on it. It's like whoever chooses this stuff for Rockstar has the opposite of my taste in music for every genre.