I'm completely off pace at this point. In fact, I keep ADDING to my backlog. Rather than playing old games I already own, I am buying old games I don't own and start those instead. I've moved the goal posts a few times this year, but I might refresh my backlog once and for all and try to polish up 12 games before December.
Fair. I generally don't even go to the movies at all anymore because I usually don't like anything I end up seeing, even if its been critically praised. So I run the risk of missing out on things I might end up loving for the certainty that I haven't wasted my time or money.
Sounds like you are doing the same thing with CG movies. I heard Big Hero 6 is really great and same with How To Train Your Dragon but I haven't seen either to confirm.
I have that same Dirty Harry collection you posted there. I rewatched Magnum Force for the first time in forever a few months ago. Its pretty awful but I remember loving this movie as a kid. Not nearly as great as the original imo.
Classical isn't completely dead though. Lots of movies have traditional 2D animation or at least scenes that are classical based on the needs to the script. Hell, even some 2D primetime comedy shows have cutaway scenes with lots of classical animation. Its just hard to tell because they blend it together so well with the rest of it. I personally like the old classical Disney animated films a lot more than the CG ones, but it exists in other places than just Disney.
Glengary Glen Ross
This movie is considered a classic and one of the best adapted films of all time. While I did enjoy it, and I think the actors all helped create believable characters, I think this movie had a lot of padding - even for a 100 minute film.
I felt like the first 45 minutes was gratuitous in its setup with scenes repeating the same points twice in a row (i.e. we need the Glengarry leads, our current leads are shit). From Wikipedia, I saw that the theatrical play is actually much shorter and even short by play standards so maybe the padding criticism is a result of having to film-ify a stage play.
I really like the premise of multiple characters driven to steal one object from their asshole boss, but again, it can't carry the whole film. I think if you can get on-board with some really solid human-like dialogue, and some really solid textured acting such as Levene being a scared old man with a dying daughter, while also having to put on the face of a stone cold salesman, then this movie is interesting. I just couldn't get on-board with it on the whole.
I hate when I watch a classic film for the first time and I don't appreciate it the same way others do. With all that said, its just my opinion and it takes nothing away from its classic status.
6.5/10
This looks very.... TV-ish to me. It doesn't have that kind of believable set design and costume as, say, The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire. This looks a bit more Power Rangers-y for me to really get into it.
This is more of a me-thing than an actual criticism to be honest. I have a really hard time taking TV shows seriously unless they nail the tone, art, writing, and acting all-in-one perfect harmony. Otherwise, I feel taken out and disconnected.
As a fan of The Witcher, I'll give it the ol college try.
I've only owned in my lifetime: GameBoy Color, SEGA Genesis, N64, PS1, GameCube, PS2, PS3, X360 (for a month before it broke), PS4, PS Vita, Switch.
Hard to pick your favourite. The Ninteno 64 has all the childhood memories, the PS2 has those sweet sweet middle school memories, and PS3 was my peak video game playing years.
I have to go with PS3. There were tons of amazing games, the graphics blew me away, the media features made it more useful than my laptop at the time. It was a full package system that released right when I had the most time in the world to play games.
Runner ups would be PS2 or GameCube.
Makes me feel great about the $500 I spent on the current Switch and the solid 2.5 hours I got out of Zelda on the airplane. The price point to actual quality is waaaaaaay off. At least its better now.
I gotta say, Tony Hawk is one of my top 10 "one more time" games but not necessarily for the reasons EZA wrote. They seemed kinda off the mark for why its one of those games. Its more about how the game creates the combo system where you can transfer your moves into one giant combo. A lot of the missions require using the combo system to perfection:
i.e. a 2 second time limit to collect all of the items, meaning you need to combo the entire mission or else you've failed and the clock stops. Mix that in with the fact that the longer you combo, the harder it is to balance. Therefore you fail a lot, but you also come so so so close. Then the reset button is just START > DOWN DOWN > RESTART CHALLENGE. Bam bam bam. 2 seconds later and you're back in it.
One more time!
I’m cool with a planned trilogy out of the gate. It likely won’t be a specifically planned trilogy with connecting threads. I bet it’ll be a more thematic trilogy like Nier.
God of War (2018) is allegedly the first of four games in the series but that definitely felt like a prequel to whatever God of War 2 will be. I doubt it’ll be that connected to future sequels.
Nothing was worse than Assassins Creed which was a planned trilogy which never actually ended and became aimless. I also doubt it’ll be like that.
I’m willing to bet Astral Chain has a beginning, middle, and ending
Before the days of Visa Debit, I'd ask my parents for their credit card a lot to buy video games on PSN or books on Amazon. They didn't mind and I would pay them back.
I guess parents should know their kid better. They knew I wasn't a shit head kid and wouldn't ruin them financially. I don't believe the typical kid-excuse of "oh I didn't know it costs money" a lot of the time. Parents know when their kid is a shit head or not.
My guess is stock music from something like audioblocks.com
I think Ian uses Twitter so you can ask him there perhaps?
You sure its dust? I was having the drifting issue in Mario Odyssey out of the box. I always thought the Joycon infrared was off because buttons become unresponsive in Tetris sometimes too. Usually sitting closer to the TV fixes it but my room is no longer than 7 feet in the first place.
Soooo yesterday when I read that Tweet I thought to myself... "Yeah. Has everything to do with Haas' performance and not you being some weird fringe company where nobody can even find where to buy your products in stores..."
Then jump ahead to today and I find this article:
https://www.espn.com/f1/story/_/id/27168496/haas-title-sponsor-asserts-commitment-team-rogue-tweet
So Jalopnik does some investigation to even find out who Rich Energy is and its super unclear. Then their weirdo CEO talks shit about the team he's sponsoring. THEN they go back on the Tweet and fire him.
Not gonna lie.... MAKES ME WANNA DRINK SOME RICH ENERGY BABY!!
Looks like some of the submissions for the Glinny's Cauldron game jam are spam submissions from people just trying to get their game out there. I was confused playing it when the games weren't so bad. Maybe 2-3 of the 7 so far aren't actually for Glinny's Cauldron.
Paragon 2 was ridiculously funny but I got stumped on the Mario Odyssey wall platforming with the duck. I had to give up.
EDIT: Just played "Ghost Ranch" it was surprisingly good but that damn spike section was brutal. I beat both bosses. Not sure if nothing happening is the abrupt ending?
EDIT 2: I beat "Swordcery by SWMedia. This game made me laugh out loud multiple times with the highlight being Mountain Dew and Skeezer. 10/10
Again, I’m less offended by the lack of features this has which the Switch Proper does have (HD rumble, detachable joy cons) and more annoyed at the fact they still call this a Switch when it’s not compatible with the current Switch’s out there.
We’ve been begging for a home console Pokémon for years and now we get one and it looks not much better than Pokémon Let’s Go. Now we know it has to be capable of running on this little guy as well as the regular Switch. Nintendo is kinda abandoning the idea of home console quality but also portable if this Switch Lite is not very powerful.
True but they'll spend an extra $100 on joy cons anyways when they realize Billy can't play Mario Kart with his sisters on Switch.
I’m not offended by the Switch Lite but it seems like it’s on its own isolated ecosystem rather than having anything to do with the Switch.
Like if one kid in the house has a Switch and the parent buys the younger kid a Switch Lite, they can’t even play Mario Party together.
It’s like they are two completely different products that don’t interact. Kinda weird.
Also, $250 CAD is steeeeeeep. The regular Switch is $350 I think.
I'd be glad to help but before I fill out the survey, you might want to revise it as some questions are unclear.
QUESTION 6 - Income
QUESTION 7 - 13
What does Patron's community mean? Like the greater Easy Allies or like the Patreon community? Not sure what that means.
Not that I'm specifically playing anything here but I just spent a solid hour and a half on Homestar Runner (.com)
I played a few games like Trogdor and Peasant Quest for old times sake. I have to say that this website and Knox's Korner might be the highest amount of nostalgia per capita on the internet for me.
Would anybody recommend me F1 2019?
I haven't played an F1 game since EA's F1 2001 on PS1 (lots of 1's) and I'm familiar with the quality to expect from a Codemasters game, but I'm more curious if this game is actually exceptional in any way or adss anything worthwhile to the racing genre. Especially considering I have and play GT Sport which is going strong. Is it fun to practice, qualify, and race throughout a season?