Shakesbeard

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  1. Posted

    RE: GTA4 with a knife

    I'm betting.

    Sad, but most likely true. I just want to scuffle in a saloon dammit! Let me sock a guy in the gut and drag him down the length of a bar! (wishful thinking)

    Where the fuck have you been? Glad to see you back though :tup:.

    Patters! Life caught up with me and limited my use of the internet for a while, good to see you though. If your sig is telling the truth we should hit up some Dawn of War II co-op sometime.

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    Don't get too attached to the Ultimates, it goes to shit pretty quickly after the second or third TPB (if I remember correctly...).

    People seem to be divided over Planet Hulk, but I liked it. The way it's tied into the events of Civil War and seeing everyone sorta backed into a corner when it comes down to figuring out what to do with this walking wrecking ball is pretty interesting.

    We3 is excellent and illustrated by Frank Quitely, so if you like it then that's just one more reason to check out All-Star Superman (same creative team, seriously, I'll keep suggesting this to you until I die :deranged:).

  5. Posted

    Ah!!! My curse of reading through the thread too quickly. I'm going to read every book you recommended in that post. Eventually.

    Well it looks like we have similar tastes (aside from Transmet, which boggles the mind...) so I'd imagine you'll have a pretty good time. Based on the classic superhero stories comment, I'd start with All Star Superman, as it fits the bill perfecty.

  7. Posted

    Not a Fan, personally - always found Dee Jay spammy and annoying. I don't like Tekken's Eddy Gordo for the same reasons--he's basically a copy of Dee Jay anyway.

    Would much rather Capcom diversified things a bit and maybe looked at bringing in some fighters from other franchises, like Darkstalkers ferinstance. Or even some others from the Zero/Alpha series', like Rolento and Guy.

    Right there with you, my best friend used to roll with Dee Jay/Guile when we played SF, Eddy when we played Tekken, and a combo of Raiden/Baraka when we played MK. I have a natural bias against those characters thanks to him.

    Also, they have to save something for Super Street Fighter IV: Hyper Fighting/New Challengers/Turbo Alternative Edition

  11. Posted

    You can't go wrong with the Batman classics like A Long Halloween, The Killing Joke, The Dark Knight Returns and Year One. My personal favorite is Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, mainly because I think Dave McKean is the fucking man and I'm a sucker for Morrison's writing.

    There have been two trades released so far, so you should definitely track down All Star Superman. When I was big into reading comics a little while ago it was one of my favorites, and Morrison has a certain reverence toward the character that shines through even as he breaks him down to his base properties. It's outside of DC continuity, meaning that issue one really is issue one, and you won't have to worry about getting caught up on some crazy backstory.

    I hear the new Green Lantern series is pretty solid as well (Rebirth I think?).

    If you're looking for something lighthearted to break things up a bit, I found Warren Ellis' Nextwave to be pretty refreshing (maybe a little too jokey for you though).

    Oh god, more Ellis...I know it's not a capes book, but have you read Transmetropolitan? Nach recommended Planetary (seconded, it's great) and it reminded me of another awesome Ellis work. It's the sort of suggestion that someone always makes in these kinda threads, so I feel kinda silly, but I do feel like everyone should read at least the first TPB.

  12. Posted

    Played a bunch more last night, got the

    batclaw

    and chuckled to myself when Bats explained to Oracle

    about the Arkham Batcave

    , he really does think of everything!

    The

    Bane

    fight was entertaining enough, a little more variety would've been nice though. I lost on my first try and was treated to a nice nod to the Batman fiction,

    the Bane back break is one of those iconic images that really sticks with me.

    Really enjoying the exploration aspect of things and the combat has really started to open up. Cycling though regular strikes while trying to get crits, stunning with the cape, reversals, quick batarang throws, it all feels really tight and...I dunno, smart, if that makes sense.

    Looking forward to running into

    Scarecrow

    again, hoping that it retains a puzzle vibe versus just another combat situation.

    (sorry, my post looks like a military document, I just don't want to ruin even the smallest thing for anyone who hasn't played yet...)

  15. Posted

    The beginning of this 'cast made me sad. I really hope there's a dialogue option in ME2 to tell the generic 90's in-your-face experiment girl to fuck off. Or perhaps I can shoot her in the face? Ugh, just thinking about the things she says makes me angry and kinda sick feeling.

    "NOW who's the badass biotic...bitch"

    "Joined a cult...kept the haircut"

    "and some of them are for *bleep* YOU"

    *fingers crossed for Susan Greene, well-mannered experiment gone horribly right, with whom I can chill on our spaceship between missions and sip tea*

  16. Posted

    I love the humor in this game, it really looks like a love letter to old school rpgs, with knowing winks in the dialogue and presentation. I'd heard of it from a friend but the QL totally sold me on it (as always).

    In Knight and Wizard mode, players must exterminate all the monsters by protecting the wizard and waiting for the timer to reach zero

  17. Posted

    Yay. I was hoping it might come to this. Some time ago when this issue was hot, I took a look at the US trademark law out curiosity and noticed that there was maybe something about TM's having to be actively used or somesuch, but it was somewhat vague. That paper filed by EA mentions some precedent, I think that may have established how the law is to be interpreted? (I don't really know how the precedent stuff works)

    Well, you see Erkki, all precedents begin as dreams dreamt by a wizard. If the wizard crosses the path of a scorned widow then he shares it at the town council. Now it is a hypothesis and it’s time to drown the wizard. If he floats he is an evil wizard and must be burned alive. If he drowns then the hypothesis is true. The king is told and he consults with his menagerie of birds. If the king is satisfied then it becomes a precedent and law is once more advanced.

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    The YouTube comments there are mind-numbing and/or hilarious though. I imagine this one in Chris Remo nerd voice

    Oh that is too good to be true. "IS we ever"?! THREE instances of Crapcom? Okay fess up, it was a Thumb. ...right guys?;(

  19. Posted

    My walk to and from work go from being mundane and repetetive to something I look forward to (at least once a week). I would also like to throw my wizard hat into the ring as I have also made myself look like a goddamn lunatic in public on multiple occasions because of the Thumbs.

    In particular, and most recently, was the "horrible future of video games" tangent which came about as I sat around waiting for my motocycle safety inspection to finish. Surrounded by a bunch of old biker dudes, I had multiple laughing to the point of crying fits. The increasingly obscure and horrible devices, the puppet master, the infectious laughter, it was all too much.

    Oh and horse bag. Every. Time. And those are only the last couple weeks. Considering I only started listening around episode 25 or so, the week or two it took me to listen to the archive contained many more similar situations.

  24. Posted

    Oh wow, I was not keeping up with the SFIV rumors and whatnot, this is crazy. The gaf thread is going to keep me entertained for the day, the amount of bile some people can spit over this sort of thing is hilarious.

    The stuff I've seen has Dudley listed as one of the new playable characters, but having two boxers like that would be a little weird. Balrog is annoying enough as it is :fart:

    That's because Balrog is GUTTER TRASH