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  1. Wombat

    Ant Man. July 2015

    I liked it well enough, but it seemed like it had some significant editing issues.
  2. Wombat

    Bill Simmons leaving ESPN.

    /lecture mode: Cable channels, unlike oldschool broadcast channels, get their money from two sources: the first is advertising spots (like broadcast), and the second is what the cable systems (Time Warner, Charter, Comcast) pay the cable channels to air them every month (usually called...
  3. Wombat

    Fantastic Four

    Hollywood chatter isreallynegative on this (Josh Trank got fired from his next job directing a Star Wars spinoff already), with a bunch of reshoots to try and turn it from the original product (basically a big budget version of Trank's Chronicle (Oh god, we're all freaks now:emoji_nose: to something...
  4. Wombat

    Ant Man. July 2015

    That hole doesn't look that deep: Avengers 2 came out. Cap 3 is coming. Thor 3 is coming. Black Panther is coming. The 'Californian droughts' and 'Strucker dead in his cell' don't jump out at me though. As for the movie itself, I love Paul Rudd, and feel bummed for Edgar Wright...
  5. Wombat

    Spy

    I liked it at the time, but two weeks later, all I can remember is "limp-dicked unicorn". And probably the best non-sequitur of the decade, "There's a mouse on my tits".
  6. Wombat

    The Dallas Cowboys Memorial (2015 Off-Season) Thread

    It's entirely possible that the Steelers, Ravens, and Bengals are 3 of the 6 best teams in the AFC again, but the odds of them all being in the playoffs are low: those inter-division games they'll play screw up their in-division records (and the wildcard tiebreakers run through the in-division...
  7. Wombat

    Hannibal

    Nah, the assumption is Gaumont (who actually makes the show; they just sell it to NBC for peanuts in the US) will now have time to line up where Season 4 will go before the finale, or edit it to turn it into a series finale if need be.
  8. Wombat

    E3 2015

    Windows recognizes the 360 and Bone WIRED controllers automatically. The wireless versions need a USB dongle - either packed in the box (the 360 box will say 'for Windows' to let you know its in there), with the Windows 10 dongle coming soon. The PS4 version needs fan-made software...
  9. Wombat

    The Dallas Cowboys Memorial (2015 Off-Season) Thread

    What do you mean 'fans'?Everyonethinks that. Hell, I'm a pretty even-headed sports person, and even I think they're going to end up fourth in the division (though not anywhere near 1st overall draft pick).
  10. Wombat

    E3 2015

    Phil Spencer over at giantbomb.com , sounds like anything but Kinect and (for the moment) multi-disc games should be doable with Xbone/360 backwards compatibility.
  11. Wombat

    Final Fantasy VII Remake

    FF9 is one of my favorite entries. Even I admit the battle speed is downright snail-paced*, and the Necron fight is out of nowhere. As everyone should know, 9 didn't even start off as a mainline FF game, it was just a nostalgia remix that got bumped up to full numeral status. Fans of FF9...
  12. Wombat

    E3 2015

    There was dick-all for the WiiU. Good. Whether you are a Nintendo fan or not, the sooner they stop supporting the Dead System Walking that is the Wii U and start working on NX games, the better for the company.
  13. Wombat

    E3 2015

    He looks likeMark Duplass - IMDbwith an enormous fake chin.
  14. Wombat

    E3 2015

    Aside from the PS4 $400 year, Ubisoft has bizarrely had it on lock for years. I am tempted to give it to Bethesda for Fallout 4 alone.
  15. Wombat

    Final Fantasy VII Remake

    Nah, I liked 12 as well in its weird single-player MMO sense. The storyline though is garbage. "Brave hero finds out mystical beings have enslaved humanity, travels the world to collect artifacts to defeat them... until your party, pissed off that he rolled through your town for one of those...
  16. Wombat

    E3 2015

    Now that I think about it, the complete lack of Project Robot and Shield mentions in the Nintendo thing basically confirms they are smaller scale digital titles? I assume 2 out of the 4 Treehouse reveals?
  17. Wombat

    Final Fantasy VII Remake

    Oh god, yet another Final Fantasy ranking thread. So just to add fire: I have no interest in this game. FF7 was a good but not great RPG that was worse than its predecessor in a number of ways (music (aside from One Winged Angel) in first place). Square wasting their time and money remaking...
  18. Wombat

    E3 2015

    Man, I hope that PC conference has something decent, because I literally can't think of my highlight of E3 so far. Edit: I guess the South Park sequel? Although Obsidian isn't involved, which was half of the appeal of the first one?
  19. Wombat

    E3 2015

    Well, at least they are still supporting the 3DS for another year, even if they are just weird offshoots of the main brands (Fire Emblem aside).
  20. Wombat

    E3 2015

    Rockstar doesn't do E3, they don't need/want to share the spotlight on any game announcements.
  21. Wombat

    E3 2015

    Just a reminder to everyone: There isn'tanE3. There arefourE3s. 1) The original purpose is the retailer E3. "Hey Target, this year's Call of Duty is great! You better order 10% more copies than last time!" 2) Then there's the stock market E3. "Hey Pachter, this year's Call of Duty is great...
  22. Wombat

    E3 2015

    Sigh, even Madden is pointing out GB has no CBs anymore...
  23. Wombat

    E3 2015

    As expected, they can't spend much time on Mass Effect, when the "sci-fi shooter" time needs to go to Battlefront.
  24. Wombat

    E3 2015

    My mother bought Pele's Soccer after the crash for $5. I never bothered to figure it out. This story is more entertaining than this press conference.
  25. Wombat

    E3 2015

    I had heard $120 for the Xbox controller, but yeah, Steam Controller it is (or stick with Xbox 360).
  26. Wombat

    E3 2015

    I know this is the internet and hyperbole reigns, but did you actually stay awake for EA 2014? The list of games that did not exist, but wouldn't it be cool if worked on them? The Sims' "He laughed so hard, he died!" The Battlefield Hardline pyrotechnics? Yeah, this is real bad, but it's got...
  27. Wombat

    E3 2015

    Now you know why they mentioned Battlefront upfront, so you wouldn't change the channel 20 mins ago.
  28. Wombat

    E3 2015

    I always go to giantbomb.com so I can listen to the guys livesnarking. Gamespot has "clean" feeds.
  29. Wombat

    E3 2015

    Sitting here at lunch thinking about it, the biggest surprise of MS' show was whatwasn'tthere, presumably because Sony will use them to cover up their lack of exclusives - no Call of Duty, no Star Wars Battlefront, no Assassin's Creed, no Batman, no Metal Gear Solid, etc.
  30. Wombat

    E3 2015

    That's my point, saying "Windows 10 Exclusive" instead of "Console Exclusive on Xbox" is not actually any additional support.
  31. Wombat

    E3 2015

    As far as the conference itself, it was a couple-years-off new IPs (Recore & the Pirate thing), it was the usual franchises (all of which look like they're up to their usual quality, but when don't they at E3), it was learning you can play old games (the Rare collection) and old games (360 games...
  32. Wombat

    E3 2015

    Did I miss something, or was MS' increased PC focus just admitting the games were coming out for PC, and not using weasely console-exclusive language?
  33. Wombat

    E3 2015

    Statistically speaking, all 360s have Red Ringed by now, so we'll let you play on your XB1. Hey, I get to pick between Steam Controller and this new version at least. Dammit, I need more than three seconds of Cuphead!
  34. Wombat

    The Martian (2015)

    Considering that the book version of her is a weird, Asperger-y computer type that is revealedif anything goes wrong, no-emotion is likely the right vibe. And I'm sure they will cut some of the tech out, but it looks like NASA will be pointing the rover in the direction of yes/no notes, which...
  35. Wombat

    The Martian (2015)

    Much like Edge of Tomorrow, the trailer finally got me off my ass to read the actual book. I thought the book was great (on the higher-end of Scalzi) and the trailer is pretty faithful (then again, virtually everything that was wrong with Interstellar was in the stuff they didn't keep from...
  36. Wombat

    E3 2015

    Gimme that Fallout 4. I also want to see Mass Effect 4, but wonder if they won't push it hard given the Star Wars they also have to promote. I wouldn't mind seeing the inevitable Far Cry 4 Blood Dragon equivalent. Didn't Darksiders get the HDer treatment recently? I wonder what Three will...
  37. Wombat

    Fallout 4

    Internet scuttlebut suggests the codes that come with some versions of the game EXPIRE on Oct 31, implying the game is out in early Fall. Between Witcher 3, Fallout 4, Bloodborne, XCOM 2, & Pillars of Eternity (and have Persona 5 & Xenoblade been ruled out for the US?), this is a hell of a...
  38. Wombat

    The Dallas Cowboys Memorial (2015 Off-Season) Thread

    http://podcastone.com/pg/jsp/program...583&pid=500333, starting about 5 minutes in. One of the NFL's head schedulers all but admits that putting together lineups that will rate well (and bring in ad money) for all the broadcast partners is the #1 criteria of the schedule. And the Cowboys got...
  39. Wombat

    Fallout 4

    Is there more to the story than "Obsidian gets $X more if it hits Y score, game doesn't quite hit Y score"? Because there's no corruption in that sentence.
  40. Wombat

    Fallout 4

    The graphics aren't fantastic, but anyone that thinks they look like (unmodded) Fallout 3 is literally delusional. I still think Boston is a bad idea - too similar geographically and historically to D.C. - and still think prequels are almost always a bad idea, as we know where the story...