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Everything posted by Roderick
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Silent Hill 3 is excellent, my first entry into the series and probably for that reason my favourite. I haven't myself played the second though, so I look forward to doing that. I'd love to play an updated version of the first Silent Hill. They didn't put it in the HD remake because as a PS1 game it would've needed too much of an overhaul. There is a PSP version though, I believe. They could've put that in, but I'm not complaining. 2 & 3 are generally seen as the best entries in the series and the set will be available for a very modest price (30 Euros). I'm happy they're doing this in the first place.
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Yes we can: we saw it in the first season and they've shown themselves more than willing to adjust the material pretty far.
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WAIT, I now get why I'm not digging this new season of Sherlock! It's become a status quo show! So far we've had two somewhat nice cases, which is two-thirds of all we're going to get this year, and nothing has changed for Holmes and Watson. At the end of the episode they're the same as in the beginning with no development of their relationships or the politics of their surroundings. The first season evolved their situation every time.
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This Sherlock was quite effective as a scary romp through UK backlands. It felt a lot more confident and proper as a story than the first one. But in both cases I don't understand why they're 90 minutes instead of 60. There's a lot of filler material because of it.
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Is that the Wii title? I plan on playing that one, it's supposed to be really good. Wanna scoop it up in the bargain bin somewhere.
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Dear Boris, What did you think of Silent Hill 5: Homecoming? Or, officially it was already 6? I don't follow their irrational numbering. In any case, I played it in 2010 and thought it was pretty awful. Frankly, I have little hope that Downpour will be better. It's the same scenario: outsourcing the franchise to another developer. Look, only Team Silent can pull off that special brand of unpredictable, untransmutable insanity that makes a Silent Hill game great. Homecoming was a product of artifice, a game that tried to be Silent Hill but felt like counterfeit at every step of the way. Therefor, I'm first buying the Silent Hill HD collection in March to get that classic, awesome vibe.
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That's a nice take on it, Thunderpeel. What I've seen from IX seemed very magical indeed with nice character designs and fairytale sensibilities. There was a cross-promotion with Coca-Cola during its launch which lead to a beautiful TV ad (especially at the time): jsFFlyC4i64 It's really FF7 that gave me a hugely troubled relationship with the franchise, and the genre as a whole. It was the first JRPG I played and as such I stumbled over every single goddamn weird design choice stratified in that fucked-up genre. The games I played after that went down a lot better, so it wasn't entirely FF7's fault, it was just the sacrifical lamb. But I still find those types of games rather hard to digest, if only because they're tediously long and overwrought a lot of the time. At the moment I'm engaged in a huge playthrough of Tales of Vesperia on the PS3 with a friend. We play a couple of hours every month. It's a game+ situation, so basically I can just waltz through the fights, don't have to grind, and enjoy the lighthearted story and fun character dynamics. Yeah, it's a JRPG with lots of wonky dialogue and buckets of clichés, but I am enjoying it for what it is. It'll never be my favourite genre, but under the right circumstances I am susceptible to finding it very charming indeed.
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I without fail wave my hand before entering an automatic sliding door. I think I started doing it about ten years ago and it's become a complete habit
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Nachimir, you have some weird rituals for wanking there. E-mailing your boss?
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I always really want to dig into games like these, but invariably I don't have the time and then it's just a big waste. These games are super-niche, but for the people that do get into them, they're great. What I'm looking forward to is really standard: Mass Effect 3, Catherine (European release), Phoenix Wright vs Professor Layton and Diablo 3. Oh and the big reveal on E3 what the future for the Xbox brand will be! I have no real intel to assume this, but my gut tells me this is the year they'll announce the new generation. It feels right, and Microsoft have a lot to make up for in terms of F-bomb-inducing E3 presentations. Well, there were F-bombs, but not for the right reasons.
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The santa hat took a delicate amount of adjustment to make it exactly right, I wouldn't go messing with that willy-nilly.
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Time for THIS! 9l_YN-yRCVY
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When Adler said that she was gay, I took it instantly as just her toying with Watson. Nothing is face value with that woman. The Room is interesting to watch. I really enjoyed the joke of it being so bad when I saw it, but then I learned Tommy Wiseau is a money-laundering crook acting snooty about his movie, and that kind of takes the fun out of the 'idiot makes a hilariously awful film' premise. Still, the gratuitous sex scenes are classic, I mean, 80s George Michael would've thought them tacky. And then there are the outrageous loose ends such as the cancer scare
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It's funny, just yesterday I read A Scandal in Bohemia for the first time, and it's such a short, uncomplicated story. Almost no more than a vignette. There were many parallels with the show though, like the fire trick.
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It's amazing how his credibility is in no way compromised by his wearing a boot on his head.
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Having just seen the episode, I'm conflicted. Not by plot incongruities, which I can easily accept as 'Sherlock is so clever he'll have figured it out', but by the quality of the episode. On the one hand it was entertaining, but the whole thing didn't stop feeling like a first act. The stakes were hardly ever raised and apart from the there was never a real climax or momentous event that it all lead up to. An hour and a half of romantic filler in the life of Sherlock Holmes. Not unwelcome, but not exactly a grandiose return of such an anticipated show.
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Is that LEGEND?
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A friendly warning: do not see the Secret Agent movie with Christian Bale.
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Oh shit, gamse of the year
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It's a problem when you're small like me and the desks and chairs are simply too big for you. I can't lower them enough for me to be able to put my feet on the floor. I had RSI problems a few years ago, but I took it easy and at some point it vanished fortunately. I'm actually surprised I don't have it at the moment, I've been working myself to death for months now. Speaking of which, I am looking for a job. Anyone know of any openings for a skilled writer in Dutch and English with over a decade of experience with video game journalism and 2+ years writing for MMOs? Doesn't necessarily have to be in the vigi vigi vigi industry, I'm open to all sorts of surprising things short of shaving BBX's balls. I'll consider any location.
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I think we're messing up the discussion by likening cheaper eBooks to piracy. It's entirely possible to offer books much cheaper and still pay authors and make good profit. Another argument holds that amateurs can often make beautiful things in their spare time. It doesn't take a fulltime job to make something profound and magnificent. The fact of the matter is that these industries are changing rapidly, but it doesn't have to be to the detriment of quality. There are loads of great songs being made today despite piracy being rampant and there will always be demand for high-brow news reporting. Don't panic!
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Caius always seemed like a satyr to me because he has this reddish complexion (possibly due to interior lighting) and his pants look like hairy legs. Man, I envy people who go out looking for the Dwemer puzzle box for the first time.
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Good luck! (With shaving your balls)
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Thunderpeel, could you define what you mean with the quality of books? The printing quality? The editorial process? What we've seen in other fields when the means of distribution is freed up (webcomics, youtube videos, etc), is that there's a surge of cack, but that it actually doesn't diminish the quality or quantity of the good stuff. You just get a much bigger pool, and it's free to boot. The net results are almost always positive.
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Bah humbug, ebooks should be a whole lot cheaper. The biggest costs of books is the physical production, transportation and storage, so it's a completely artificial inflation of the price. Cheap ebooks would be too competitive for normal books, so they unjustly keep the prices the same. It's also appalling that Ubik, a 40-year-old book by an author that has been dead for 30 years, isn't public domain yet.