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  1. Szlia

    Generation Zero

    I guess mileage may vary but some games in the past had poor success that was blamed on this type of price range. The perennial example is the first american release of Yakuza which had a similar kind of "budget" price point. The problem, apparently, is that it makes people think the game is a...
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    Indie Games

    I was not sure if I should post in the new similar thread or bump the OG indie thread... I went for the bump. I have been playing the puzzle game Baba Is You. It's in a the sokoban familly of games I guess (top view, grid based movement, you often push things around), but it has a delicious...
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    Retro Game of the Month: Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (Famicon/PS1/Saturn/PSP)

    I don't have clear memories of the game, but I kinda remember a mission like that that took several attempts. My gut feeling is that'its one of these mission where you need to have an army composition designed specifically for the task at hand (which can be an issue depending of how you managed...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I don't care about baseball and even less about sport games, but I always wanted to try one of these version of The Show just for it's supposed absurd level of visual fidelity and attention to details. I assume the latest entry will up the ante even more?
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    Game Streaming Services - Stadia, Geforce Now, xCloud, PS Now

    The only interesting thing I read about that whole announcement thing is the state share idea. I feel there must be some cool things to do around that. EDIT: Note that it's an idea that can work in a way or another on platforms other than Stadia.
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    Widows (2018)

    It's a pretty ok movie with several good scenes and Elizabeth Debicki can do no wrong in my book, but as a heist movie it's pretty lame and as a portrait of Chicago where crime and politics are tightly woven, I preferred something like the lone season of The Chicago Code.
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    The Matrix (1999)

    Man I am trying to figure out which was the first R rated movie I saw in theater, but it's so tough. I am 100% sure I saw Alien 3 (1992) in theater. 100% sure I have not seen Aliens (1986) in theater. I am almost certain I saw Total Recall (1990) in theater, but again I am also pretty sure one...
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    The Fountain (2006)

    The two main things I remember about this movie are that the whole last chapter is some serious new age doodoo and that Rachel Weisz in the part of the dying wife was great.
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    Captain Marvel (2019)

    Argue? All your permises are wrong. From Rotten Tomatoes: - Wonder Woman: critics' average rating 7.64/10 (the ridiculous praise), audience's average rating 8.6/10 (the "objective" score). - Black Panther: critics' average rating 8.26/10 (the ridiculous praise), audience's average rating...
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    Dune (2020)

    Hot take: the weirding modules are more interesting and sound (pun!) a lot less stupid than the weirding way.
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    Captain Marvel (2019)

    Two things: When you spend the whole year saying movie critics are pompous assholes that are not to be trusted and then drink their words like ambrosia when they don't like a movie you hope will tank, it's a bit dumb. I am going to the gym weekly as part of the training regimen for my sport...
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    FOH Inaugural MtG Arena Tournament -3/11- Winner: Kiroy

    The title of this thread confused the heck out of me..... FOH Inaugural Magic The Gathering Arena Open 3/11 That is all.
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    Poll MARCH - Retro GoTM: Final Fantasy Tactics Ogre

    Just a warning: How Long To Beat has the PSP version at 50 hours for main story, 100 hours for main story + extra and 250 hours for completionists. 35 and 70 for the SNES version. Good thing March has 31 days I guess. For reference, they have Final Fantasy at 18 hours and Phantasy Star IV at 20...
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    91st Academy Awards - Hoping to be the most woke Academy Awards ever!

    It's the only nominated performance I saw, but I found Bale's Cheney in Vice pretty impressive. Now, Oldman won last year for his portrayal of an overweight politician, so maybe that's why he got skipped!
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    Poll MARCH - Retro GoTM: Final Fantasy Tactics Ogre

    3 way tie at this point!
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    Fun Ass Indie Games for < AAA

    Papers, please! Historico-political satire, brilliant execution of a simple concept. My GOTY for 2013. Stephen's Sausage Roll The best puzzle game ever designed. 100% meat, 0% fat. My GOTY for 2016. Proteus Almost more of a therapeutic tool than a game. It's about walking around on a low-fi...
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    Poll MARCH - Retro GoTM: Final Fantasy Tactics Ogre

    @PunieHop The game you have on N64 might be Ogre Battle 64, which is a different game in the serie (a sorta remake of the SNES Ogre Battle?). Tactics Ogre is available on PSP, PlayStation, SNES, Wii, Saturn and Wii U.
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    Captain Marvel (2019)

    Oh! I guess I was technically correct since it's produced by The Weinstein Company and not Miramax, but obviously this is a case where technically correct was not the best kind of correct. That being said, that does not make your statement less stupid since the movie that made Lawrence's career...
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    Captain Marvel (2019)

    Last I checked, Black Panther did not bomb in China. It performed on par with other super hero movies. Same in Europe. The movie massively over-performed in the US though.
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    Captain Marvel (2019)

    I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news (well... bad news for you), but Jennifer Lawrence never worked in a Miramax picture.
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    The Wandering Earth (2019)

    To get the full inverted experience, I recommend Operation Red Sea or, even more extreme, Wolf Warrior 2.
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    MARCH - Retro Game Nomination - Let's play!

    I played the PSP version of this during train commutes. So I played it one hour a day, five days a week and it took me I think a couple months to reach one of the endings and for a long while after that I was doing aternative paths, triggering secret events, etc, etc.... This is one hell of a...
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    Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (From Software)

    It's difficult to understate how stupid it is to assume the new ideas of a dev team that had dozens of great ideas will suddenly be bad. No one knew they liked Souls games before From Software made Souls games. If Sekiro is not a Soul game, great! Maybe we'll discover we like Sekiro games even...
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    Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)

    Yeah. I have seen more than my fair share of asian movies and still from time to time I get confused (usually if it's a classic story that does a poor work at exposition or if it's a, let's say, experimental story and the ambiguities leaks out to who is who). Though I saw it more than 20 years...
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    Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)

    @Void Oh ok! My confusion came for the fact that googling for an Attack on Titan movie only gave me the Warner Bros version that is in development. Thanks for nothing Google!
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    Gloomhaven

    I replaced a couple times in a group that plays this game. Pretty fun. I also played the Mindthief and my only troubles were not understanding why I would not always use the damage augment and when would be a good time to summon rats. In the first game I did not take the rats, and in the 2nd...
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    Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)

    Are you from the future to compare the cast of two unreleased movies or am I just confused?
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    @spronk Ghost of Tsushima is made by Sucker Punch (the american studio of Infamous), Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is made by From Software (the japanese studio of Dark Souls / Bloodborne). I suspect the Sucker Punch will be more impressive on a technical level, but that the From Software game will...
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    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    I am not 100% sure of the details, but my understanding is that the 3DS is a crippled version as far as sharing levels you made and playing specific levels other people made. I would investigate a bit before jumping in if I were you. I think the people who want that never made an actual decent...
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    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    I might buy a Switch to ride the SMM2 wave from the start.
  31. Szlia

    Dune (2020)

    Let me Google that for you.
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    Apex Legends new free to play battle royale game from Respawn

    It's not really a top 3 when one game has 90% of the market though.
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    Apex Legends new free to play battle royale game from Respawn

    Checked a little bit of this: Grey characters shooting at grey characters in a brown level. I can't muster even the tiniest bit of interest for this.
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    Retro Game Of The Month ~- CONTRA -~ NES - Feb

    "You can consider yourself a hero." Most passive-aggressive congratulation text ever....
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    91st Academy Awards - Hoping to be the most woke Academy Awards ever!

    To go back to the Academy Awards for 2005, I would say one thing they had going for them is that the best song was "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp"! Seriously though, the field was not so hot with Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Good Night & Good Luck and Munich (4 solid but not exactly stellar...
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    91st Academy Awards - Hoping to be the most woke Academy Awards ever!

    In your analysis, you all seem to forget that Black Panther is also 2018's highest grossing film in the US. Infinity War is not that far behind, but it's behind.
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    Retro Game Of The Month ~- CONTRA -~ NES - Feb

    By the way, the pal version of the game uses robots instead of people and the japanese version of the game was on a custom cartridge that allowed more room for animated backgrounds and cut scenes between levels. I *think* the fact it used a custom cartridge makes it unplayable in some (all?)...
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    Retro Game Of The Month ~- CONTRA -~ NES - Feb

    You should not. It aged surprisingly well and is very enjoyable. I said it in the other thread, but I'll say it again: I recommend playing with the 30 lives code through the game several times and before you know it you will no longer need the code!
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    91st Academy Awards - Hoping to be the most woke Academy Awards ever!

    Oh and some notes about the Best Foreign Language Film category: Capernaum: released around here, Not seen. Cold War: released around here. Not seen. Looked a bit formulaic to me and I was not in the mood for this type of story (woman in love with crappy man). Supposedly very good though...