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Additional post for a side note: from my personal and hence very subjective history of television watching, I am tempted to say the first modern television show was Wiseguy (known to french tv viewers as Un flic dans la mafia - A Cop in the Mob!). Each new episode was the highlight of my...

That's a hot take when you consider The Sopranos and The West Wing started 3 years priors! And you have early '90s stuff like Twin Peaks or Homicide: Life on the Streets. I guess the question to answer first though is... what is "modern television"? Heavy use of locations over sets? Single...

Over the last few week I played through Shenmue with a friend with the recent PS4 remaster. If you try it, be sure to patch it, because without the patch the sound is totally messed up. The voices and music are totally drowned out by the sound effect so you have to aggressively correct the...

I would say my biggest problem with the show is the first episode. I guess it was a pilot so it had to strike hard to make an impression, but then, through all seasons you compare the moral conundrums of the characters and the repercussions of their actions to the first episode and the more out...

In which of these games is the dance sold individually?

For a good moment of WTF I invite you to check the wikipedia page on Aladdin. The story is actually not part of the 1001 Nights, it was added to it by the french translator in the 18th century, based on a tale by a Syrian storyteller. The only sources in arabic that mention Aladdin have been...

Mmmmmmmmh.... did not hate it, but ecstatic I certainly was not. It felt like it's reusing the formula of the previous episode but sorta forgot the dosage of the ingredients.

@Therage Yeah someone tells you where to go, but that someone only tells you that after your get the levistone. Also, that someone is not really in a place that makes sense! More help? Even more help????

Epic's main problem is that they are selling the dances (directly or indirectly), so it will be difficult to claim fair use. They are clearly making money off the notoriety of the dance they digitally mimic. Something is not quite right, but lawyers will have some fun because it's all a bit murky.

Well.... In my NES backlog I have Wrath of the Black Manta, A Boy and His Blob (puzzle platformer I guess?), Ghost n' Goblins (not easy), Batman: Return of the Joker and for a more well known choice: Super Mario Bros. 3. Technically I also have Super Mario Bros. 2 but the last time I tried to...

There is a spot in a later town where I got locked by a wandering NPC for about 10 hours! Ok... maybe 1 min, but that sure felt like 10 hours!

I guess the good solution would be to be able to choose between the iMax version, with its different ratios through the movie, and the regular theater version, with some cropped sequences but with a constant ratio.

I don't think the devs realized that making a "death trap" area with tough encounters on every tile was really making a "grind fast" area since it removes both the wait time between random encounters and the possibility to have lame encounters. When you discover the area it's pretty neat though...

@Therage I think mechanically, at least for melee characters, the important levels are 11, 21 and 31 as their max number of hits per attack increases.

Same composer: Junkie XL Also, you (and probably others) need to realize that when a big name director has his name attached to a movie he is not directing, it's futile to presume the movie will explore similar themes or have the level or even type of direction you come to expect from said big...

If I have it and have not already beaten it somewhat recently, I'll play it. So at this point only The Sword of Hope (despite its extremely extremely familiar cover art) and The Sword of Hope II are out. Against my better judgement I kinda want to vote for Wario Land as I never played it and...

In your lists you guys are forgetting the somewhat recent The Visit (2015). Not a great film, but at least a decent one, unlike The Last Airbender (2010). I guess it can be considered the starting point of Shyamalan's return to form. Also missing from the lists, probably because it's better to...

Gamera is with Batman in the next Avengers movie.... Again, it was made by a competing studio (Daiei) that went bankrupt and got bought by another studio (Kadokawa Pictures). The studio that owns Godzilla (Toho) is still around and kicking.

Wuwu! Beat the game! The final fight was dangerously close. He started spamming these super cinematic versions of hit all elemental magic and there is just no way to out-heal that, so it turned into a dps race I barely won. I probably got a little lucky though because he is supposed to have a...

I expected at least 10 posts and a 3000 words essay by the resident Young Boys fan on their victory against Juve... and there is nothing? I guess he's too drunk to post or something :p

Does not look bad, but it does not look very original.

@Xadion scared me! My party being level 29, the notion that I might have to grind to 60 to beat the game was not a pleasant one!

Rainy Sunday. Planned to go to the movies, but the rain made me stay home and grind through more of FF.... so... I have all 4 Crystals now! I am glad I did not try to play this game back in the days. Going through it blind must be extremely annoying considering how disjointed the progression...

You did not painted the game as a pioneer of the genre, but as a pioneer of party system, using this as a reason why the balance between the classes is a bit iffy. I am just pointing out that a party system was not such a new thing in 87. To be fair though, it's very likely the balance between...

Objection! :p Final Fantasy was released in December of 1987. The three main video game influences for it where Dragon Quest and transitively Ultima and Wizardry. As you mentioned, Dragon Quest II featured a party of characters and was also released in 87 (January). BUT Ultima 3, the first of...

Got through the earth cave and the castle of ordeals, team is at 19 now. It's interesting how the game tries to have a different flavor for each dungeon or even different areas of a same dungeon, like in the earth cave that loop that serves no purpose but which has encounter on every tile...

There is an odd design idea in the march cave: there seemed to be linked chests. For example, you can find a steel armor (or whatever it is called in english) in a number of different chests, but once you grab it, all these chests become opened. I guess the idea is that you want to the player to...

The WonderSwan Color version has some quality of life improvements: auto retarget, party based item pool (instead of character based), buying in bulks, forgeting memorized spells to make room for others, but it still has the stupid Dungeon & Dragon inspired magic system. On a side note, these...

I have posted the full scorecard, so let me tell you you would lose that bet :P

Just to put things into perspective: Star Citizen currently has gathered $200 millions in more than 6 years of crowdfunding, Fortnite reached $1 billion in less than a year and that was back in June. We are probably at more than $2 billions now considering May alone was $318 millions. This is...

On the whole list I think I played only 3 of the games: God of War (beat it with some extra), Celeste (platinum'ed + some extra) and A Way Out (beat it and tried some variations). If nothing has been better this year, it's a bit of a sad year. I suspect Dragon Quest 11 and Return of the Obra...

Everything is in working order... that allowed me to discover my 10 min play time estimate was in fact 6 hours... but with a warrior - white mage - black mage - monk party I probably went just about nowhere in the game (I am at an elf town with levels at 13 9 7 7), so I'll restart with some more...

Well... I have never played the game for more than 10 min and I have it on WonderSwan Color. So I guess I'll dig that out, see if it works properly (I fear dead pixels and dead cartridge battery) and give it a go.

On a side note, it felt to me that the round 9 knockdown was more of a trip than anything else. But maybe I have not seen a good angle for it.

If, like me, you were wondering how the scoring system works exactly, HowStuffWorks by way of Google says this: So, to get 115-111 in favor of Wilder, you need to give him 10-8 for the two rounds with knockdowns, which leaves 95-95 for the other 10 rounds and that can only be reasonably reached...

It's difficult to take boxing seriously when it feels like the accountants are filling the score cards...

Why is Fury fighting Lady Gaga?

This is a poorly educated guess, but I would suspect people running online chess sites are interested in having as few cheaters as possible and it sounds reasonably trivial to randomly sample games and check what the winner did against the top move choices of the most popular engines and if you...

That game 1 of rapid though had ups and downs for both sides. It felt like white had a crushing position, but suddenly the best option became trading everything to find yourself in a rook and pawn endgame. The computer was all "white wins that no problem", but for humans it required extremely...

It should be noted though that the format of the World Championship changed several times. We currently play in a "best of 12" format, but for the longest time it was a "first to 6 wins" format. The obvious advantage of the latter is that you need to win to win (with the current format all the...