Roderick

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Wow, what a shocker =) After all the 50s lovey-doveyness I certainly hadn't expected this. But it's great nonetheless, I really like this little villain-piece and am certainly considering getting it on DVD when it appears.

I'm rooting for the woman turning out to be evil all the time and, discovering Horrible's true nature, goes for him after helping him kill Hammer. Really liked the second act's ending by the way, with the giant doctor trampling the city. Good emotional build-up there! Signed Bad Horse

At first I thought that Dr Horrible was Fillian as well, it took me a while to realize he wasn't. They look mightily alike though. As regards the songs: I love a good musical. Between this and Buffy the musical, Whedon shows a penchant for writing nice songs, but they always lack a certain sophistication that most 'real' musicals have. Stuff like Rocky, JCS, Nightmare Before Christmas, hell, even AD/BC, are all made up of evergreen material. Whedon's songs are a bit shallow and sappy in comparison. Despite the interesting ideas (overlapping/contrasting refrains sung by two people) they're not very layered or brilliant. [EDIT] Except for the Bad Horse bits with that unfiltered Rawhide vibe. Sheer genius.

I just saw the Duke trailer a second time and I finished watching it and I take back everything I said. This is comedy genius

When I saw it earlier, after expecting the footage to come which didn't come, I turned it off quickly. What a despicable load of crap. I'd be pretty interested in Duke 1 and 2 on the DS, along with 3D. That's a good package. I'd like more PC platformers to make their way to the DS! Bio Menace and Halloween Harry. Or Commander Keen!

Quite sensible. Also, as an addendum, I am amused that I'd describe the Sony presentation as 'humble', when there was a five minute wank-fest of designers ejaculating over the machine. And I still stand by it! That's the amazing thing!

I was a bit surprised by the Sony conference today; specifically at how casual it was. There was almost a feeling of humility: it was mostly just Jack Tretton standing in front of screens calmly explaining, with a soft voice, what was in store for the PS3 and the rest of the Sony lineup of hardware. It felt very genuine, a lot more so than the boastful rhetoric of the Microsoft presentation. It was just so surprising to see Sony take a less bombastic tone. Drawbacks were the presentation's exhausting length (it felt like two hours, but it must've been closer to 1,5) and, despite the raised sympathy for the platform I now have, still a huge lack of anything noteworthy on the gaming front. Little Big Planet is still the only interesting thing that's exclusive for the PS3 (though Resistance 2 had a very good demo, slightly piqueing my interest). That's a shame, because the hardware is definitely shaping up as easily being able to match and exceed anything the 360 can throw at them. But until they get at least ten or so great games that I can't get on the Xbox, I'm not investing top Euro in a fantastic piece of non-gaming hardware.

It's no surprise you're suddenly interested in the game again; same here, because of the recent slew of GoW2 info. I never got very far in singleplayer because I co-opped with someone who wasn't really interested in it. It kinda lessened the experience. So now I want to do it by myself. Oh, and the first time I threw down a controller in anger was recently as well; during the final mission of GTA4.

Oh, I'd also wish to express disappointment at not hearing a beep about Brütal Legend on the conference. There's probably no news at all, but it would've rocked if Tim went onstage to play a demo.

Well, the surprise announcement at the end was that Final Fantasy 13 is coming for Xbox 360 as well. That's pretty surprising, actually, and the small 360 fan inside me can't help giggling at the idea that the PS3 is being stripped of yet another powerful exclusive. You have to wonder how much this has cost Microsoft, of course. Also, the president of Square-Enix came on stage to deliver the good news and give a speech in semi-English, sounding weirdly (yet amusingly) divorced from reality.

Bwah, My Xbox can't go online so a gamertag would be pretty useless. I just have an offline profile unfortunately. Of course it could be that I'm leeching internet from my neighbours, why it doesn't work

Eternal Sonata was apparently a bit of a letdown, but I can personally vouch for Lost Odyssey, assuming that you don't mind the playing style of Japanese RPG's. I usually don't, but still enjoyed LO because of its interesting characters and storytelling devices.

It was an overwrought way of sayng you really feel immersed in the environment; like when Altair climbs up stuff. The cities feel... like you're touching them

Wow, totally missed this thread in 2007. Fantastic title, by the way. Don't ever stop, Toblix. But I played Double Agent on the 360 until about... mission 4, which is the snow/tanker mission? At that point I kinda lost interest. For no real reason, actually. It just didn't catch me as the first game had. By the way, I'm also looking forward to playing Assassin's Creed. I played it when it came out and loved it. I don't give a crap about all the critique there is, justified or not. The atmosphere is just freaking great and the tactile sensation almost unparallelled.

Super skunk? Honestly, what does that even mean? This is just as ridiculously inbred as that whole rapper culture in America. I take fantastic pleasure in watching drivel like Making The Band when I'm working out. In it, the self-crowned king of rap, P. Diddy, explains that people need to 'keep it real' and 'get nekkid'. His brilliant idea for a new album consists of ,,something about the ups and downs of relationships. Something with real emotion, nomsayin? Songs like 'I love you' and 'I hate you'." I salute you, King of Rap. For making that hour on the treadmill so very much filled with pity and mockery. Mind you, this guy makes millions on shit like that.

Actually, that was a thought that had crossed my mind recently as well; that Diablo 3 might be closer linked to Starcraft 2 than WoW. Just a feeling.

Wow, you do see the inkling of what was to be Thumbs there, but it's mostly very very empty. And blue.

I have no fucking clue. You people and your internet lingo =(

Ooh, those are good recommendations! Turning off the GPS! And getting 100%, though I'm still far off at 66%. Good to know that achievement too. I know what I'm gonna play tonight again!

I got so frustrated with that one that I threw my controller away for the first time ever. I had to do it some 14 times before succeeding, and every stinking time you had to do the same fucking boring easy shoot-out before being blown up or failing simply because you don't know you have to go at breakneck speed to catch the helicopter or need to chase the chopper or avoid missiles or whatever. It isn't the difficulty that's too much, it's the tediousness of no checkpoints, forcing you to do boring shit fourteen times. Huge design flaw in the longer missions: no checkpoints. Also, once you finish all the missions, it's ghastly to see how quickly Liberty City becomes an empty place that just doesn't feel alive anymore. It feels like they should've done a bit more end-level game there, with houses you could buy with the usually nigh-million on your bank account. What's all that money good for if you can't buy anything with it?

You just need 1 scroll of town portal in a tome =)

Thank you If only I could find a way to transform that into hard cash...

They've got ZP t-shirts now with some model in it? At least make them fun, corporate entity behind the merch. Also, I agree. Most webcomics are shit, and webcomics about gaming samey. Of course, everything I say is highly suspicious because I could just be jealous that their shit is gathering 1000 times more traffic and attention than my reasonably less shitty own webcomic which I've been doing for almost four years now to no effect whatsoever