Roderick

I'm not 'bargoed. WARNING: this post contains a short, non-spoiler opinion on the game Epic Mickey disappoints on basically every premise and scale. The biggest grievance is that the whole thing feels and plays like a first-generation 3D platformer, one that you'd play on the N64. It has that same sense of terribly functional levels, a grandly inadequate camera system and sluggish controls. I'm also personally disappointed that there aren't more unlockable classic Mickey cartoons. You get two and that's it. I was expecting a whole suite, which may not have been realistic, but whetting my appetite with a pair is just cruelty.

I just finished it for a review in [N]Gamer (the Dutch mag, not the Brit one). It's... pretty terrible, unfortunately

Did the sun, you know, rise?

No I mean really, fucking show it, show me that you're a bigger fan, prove me wrong, I dare you. CRUCIO

Did you see the 'World's biggest Twilight fan' video? Face to face, they make an amazing couple. Both of them seem to be wearing invisibility cloaks though, seeing how easy it is to see through them. They both are so keen on stressing how little they care about what other people think about them --as long as you fucking understand that they're the fucking biggest fans! It's kind of important, because their whole identity rides on that crucial perception.

With their coats lined with money? I don't know what you expect Harvard students to sound like? They sound pretty normal to me. Of course, I wasn't expecting supermutant brainiacs. Like, a room full of floating brains in jars? I'd imagine it would sound squishy.

Gary Oldman is in my actor list.

So there you have it. Deathly Hallows: the Citizen Kane of Harry Potter movies. Look, it's not the best film of the year. I saw Buried last week and it that was a piece of work. Deathly Hallows was, a movie. I thought it was pretty entertaining. I didn't expect Lord of the Rings; I expected 2 hours of a bunch of kids dicking around in the woods and I was not disappointed.

I saw Deathly Hallows yesterday and thought it was pretty good. I may not have had huge expectations, so I was certainly not disappointed by it. There were some brilliant scenes all in all, . I particularly liked how they finally managed to make a Harry Potter movie that took the time to tell a story and was able to breathe a little, instead of having this cramped plot trying to shoehorn everything and their mum in. Splitting the book up into two parts was the right call.

Oh hell yes. I've been watching most of the Justice series, only a few more to go. They're a fantastic primer to (state) philosophy. Terrific.

Gary Oldman is purple robes is only emphasized in coolness because he's strutting around a parking lot. In the snow I'm sure it'll looke perfectly mundane

BOOM. Thanks, tm_drummer

How was fucking Japan, Thompson? Miffy: I have a faux fireplace too, and it adds so much ambiance to the room.

I should reread The Prince. When I first read it a couple of years ago I didn't catch the satirical undertone you're speaking of, I took the philosophy at face value. Worth digging into again, then!

I was also for the longest time under the impression that Brotherhood was a multiplayer expansion pack for AC2, but knew I was wrong. This video confirms though that I'll probably play this game in a couple of years, when I crave this sort of gameplay again. Midway through AC2 I just got really, really, really tired of freeroaming bullshit and it became a slog to the end that I don't wish to repeat any time soon. I'm sure it's a great game, but it seems also to be a lot of work. Just look how much time the guy in the video is spending in menus and on maps? It's ridiculous. They're so happy with their bunch of icons giving them missions on the map, but all I see is a lot of complicated chores. Sorry to be a bit of a downer In that respect, I absolutely love Fable 3 because it's so wonderfully uncomplicated and direct.

Oh yeah, that rabbi game. What episode of thumbs was that from, gotta relisten?

Say Joey... you ever been in a Turkish bath?

Buried. Engrossing and highly effective. They do SO MUCH with SO LITTLE. Surprising how they manage to keep it interesting throughout, considering the whole movie takes place in a coffin.

I get the overall impression that Fable 3 got a lot less love and care than Fable 2. The development time seems to mirror this: 2 years versus a multitude of that. As a result, it feels a little less meaty and well thought-out. For instance the Chesty sidequests. In part 2 there was a whole area involved and more side story. In part 3 it's a lot less, just a chess battle. Gnome placement seems a lot more lacklustre and less inventive than gargoyle placement. I could go on.

That already exists, Kingz. It was called 'Midtown Madness', made by Microsoft a decade ago. It was a rendition of Chicago (I believe?), you drove around in a vehicle like in GTA (although you couldn't exit it), cops would chase you if you went overboard speeding etc, but you couldn't kill anyone. People would hilariously all jump away at the last moment.

This news story is too weird and absurd not to post: http://kotaku.com/5686247/vampire-nazis-a-fat-lady-uwe-boll-oh-my Uwe Boll is not only making a horrible-looking (second) sequel to the atrocious (I sat through it) Bloodrayne, he's also making a spoof on his own movie called Blubberella, featuring a fat lady in the role of the half-vampire and Boll himself as Hitler. This is... insanely incomprehensible. I don't even know how to feel about this.

Funny, Rock Band 3 actually interested me a lot more than recent expressions of the genre because of the empahsis on learning a real instrument (keyboard, in my case).

Gwardinen, I had exactly what you experienced just last night. All in all, I liked playing the game though. Most of the times it felt like a rehash of Fable 2, perhaps a little less 'epic'. But there were moments of beauty in this game to parallel the best of the rest, and I really liked the king mechanic. And as I've stated before, the comedy is really something else.

Just for the record, I love that Uwe Boll exists. If he were shooting in my country, I'd do just about everything to get into one of the shots.

Speaking of tombstones, Fable (3) has some fantastic tombstone jokes. I swear, the Fable series are some of the funniest games I've ever played, as effortlessly good as the best Lucasarts offered. Strange that they're not known for this specifically. Or maybe it's exactly because they're not treated as 'comedy' games that the comedy manages to sparkle so brightly? Fable never obligates itself to be hilarious at all times, it has its moments of earnest gravity, of real terror. So whenever it's funny, it does so because it has something pretty hilarious to say.