twmac

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  1. This is my favourite bit of fan art: https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/830203870522542001/7EB99555A8BD4D6BE027E9FE2EB6A1D18E3D88A5/
  2. Hhaah, yeah, I got to that point and Jeff just going 'that kind of undoes everything you just said'. Soo good.

  3. The Big FPS Playthrough MISSION COMPLETE

    twmac replied to Ben X's topic in Video Gaming

    Hhahaha, yes, the Eagle Feather! That bit in the Villa is the best bit for sure. If you were able to tolerate that game - you will enjoy both other games much more. Just avoid The Cartel, that game is real disappointing after Bound in Blood.
  4. I spent time asking Dan about Cup head's release date on Twitter, so I have been following this for a while.
  5. Oh god, Dan's little rant about Ass Creed is perfect. Vinny making a half-hearted defence of it... I was so pleased to hear someone on a podcast finally say it. I thought I was alone.

  6. The Big FPS Playthrough MISSION COMPLETE

    twmac replied to Ben X's topic in Video Gaming

    Oh god, Call of Juarez... We did a marathon session of this game by playing through it and two of its sequels. That game is a goddamn mess, Bound in Blood and Gunslinger are both tighter, more interesting games. I will say there is a brilliant bit in Call of Juarez where you have to climb up a cliff, it is broken and awkward but has a brilliant sense of scale.
  7. They also got Dan to admit that his progress through College was bullshit and bad in the last podcast.

  8. Movie/TV recommendations

    twmac replied to ysbreker's topic in Movies & Television

    I also recommend Snake Eyes as a completely terrible, brilliant film. It has tons of great camera work and Nic Cage is an awful genius.

  9. Dead Rising 3

    twmac replied to twmac's topic in Video Gaming

    Yeah, sadly the DLC didn't really live up to the full game so I would recommend not bothering with that. Multiple playthroughs are less fun to be fair.

  10. Movie/TV recommendations

    twmac replied to ysbreker's topic in Movies & Television

    Went to a film festival in Lodz, Poland and got to catch 3 films over the weekend: Son of Sofia - Story about a Russian Boy moving to Greece to live with his mother. There is a lot I liked about it - the sense of shots being setup as triptych paintings, the smart feeling of out of time, where people were wearing period dress but using digital cameras, but also listening to Cassettes and watching video tapes. The film gets dark as well, with casual conversations about paedophilia and then there are bits where the boy fantasises about being a stuffed teddy bear. It lost me a bit in places. El Bar - Went to see it because of a picture on the film brochure, expecting it to be chilled out, slice of life story. And it is for about 5 minutes and then it becomes something else entirely. I don't want to spoil it but it is about rising tension between a bunch of occupants in a bar and it is mostly good until it runs out of steam in the last 20 minutes. Avanti Popolo - Dark comedy about two Egyptian soldiers trying to get back across the Suez Canal during a cease fire. The film relies on gallows humour and some of the acting is a little over the top, but as an Israeli film it is surprisingly balanced in its views about the two sides, especially for when it was made.
  11. My favourite part of Mission Impossible 2 was, in the middle of the cinema, my friend stood up and shouted 'This film is bullshit!' then walked out. Still one of my most treasured cinematic moments.

  12. Johns Wick 1 & 2

    twmac replied to Patrick R's topic in Movies & Television

    Wow, given that John Wick some shittily handled fight sequences that is pretty damning for JW2. Rewatched Dead Man - that film is still great.
  13. MGSV will let you make things easier but give you a Chicken Hat. I believe that Armoured Core does a really interesting thing in this regard, worth reading through this thread and looking for discussions on how to unlock crazy weapons by losing repeatedly: You should also just read that thread because it is great. Lork should seriously consider making this into a Youtube series or a book or something.

  14. Baby Driver (Boss Baby Successor)

    twmac replied to Ben X's topic in Movies & Television

    That music video is basically Hudson Hawk then?

  15. E3 2017

    twmac replied to Cordeos's topic in Video Gaming

    " And this character feels that this world, in a way, is maybe a bit hopeless. Because nobody has any job. So sure we have universal income, which is great, but at the same time maybe the social ladder is completely broken now. There's no way to really grow up. And maybe the families that were wealthy before are still wealthy, and there is no way to have redistribution because it's completely static now. It's something I'm trying to explore. " As opposed to the present day where this never happens.
  16. I've seen Rare Exports.... Fuuuck this is going to give me nightmares. I don't like Christmas at all, so when horror elements creep into it, I really don't like it.
  17. As the gang were describing the Krampus stuff, I was imagining puppets in the vein of Labyrinth or Dark Crystal and it was a series of terrifying images of each of this grotesque characters doing lewd things as they stared at me. Ugh, thanks, that will seep into my goddamn nightmares.

  18. Recently completed video games

    twmac replied to gdf's topic in Video Gaming

    Careful, Sniper Elite v2 will not go well after your expectations have been set so high by SE4. Each game has been a an escalation in quality, Sniper Elite III probably still holds up but the open ended levels are bottle necked at certain points to allow for the weaker 360 to handle the wide-open spaces. v2 is extremely linear with very little open-ended gameplay.
  19. I saw that, and I think that might have been proof of a higher force controlling everything. As for Ben, he has grown on me a bit more in the last few podcasts. The E3 podcast with Austin Walker and the MBMBAM guys made me laugh a lot, Jeff Gerstmann did a great job of letting people talk. The woman in the new Star Wars Battlefront was in parts insightful, funny and veering into drunken idiocy (I liked it).

  20. Beyond Good and Evil 2

    twmac replied to Bjorn's topic in Video Gaming

    So, I know this has been in the E3 conversation, I thought I would return to this thread instead: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-06-22-beyond-good-and-evil-2-reveals-awe-inspiring-in-engine-demo I don't even know what this game is anymore. Ancel keeps saying it is like the first game by saying things like 'In the first one you started with nothing, you do the same in this game'

  21. Fortnite

    twmac replied to melmer's topic in Video Gaming

    You are very hopeful. I guess my problem is that I haven't seen enough evidence to justify paying 50 quid for a tower defence/Horde game. I get that there is likely more to the game, but no one has explained what that is exactly. Once reviews start coming out and there is a little more detail, I might be interested but the pricing is kind of nuts.
  22. That is a pretty good list - makes sense to have Elm Street III on there as it is the best. In my mind Halloween II is better than Halloween so I totally get it.
  23. Wow, two Marx Brothers films, that is pretty cool. Otherwise, a lot of this is good, safe, and kind of boring.

  24. Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain

    twmac replied to Thrik's topic in Video Gaming

    Well, if that video is anything to go by, I am glad I never had to listen to it in game. It would have driven me up the wall. Horses for courses.

  25. E3 2017

    twmac replied to Cordeos's topic in Video Gaming

    Ellie Gibson, once again, delivers: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-06-17-ellie-gibson-on-e3