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Continuing through my NES archive, I played some Star Wars.... there is an idea that is somewhat intriguing in the way the story is told. The key scenes of the movie are in the game, but a lot of it is optional, so, apparently, you can end up with a version where R2-D2 is still with the desert...

Something is wrong with your numbers I think, unless there are non-square pixels in there.

There are design choices I find suspicious in the game, but that might be related to the way I played it. - You unlock 865654 fighting moves, but I used a couple at most (the shield bash to break the enemy defense, throwing projectiles back at enemies once in a while and.... throwing rocks when...

Apparently, Full Metal Jacket was shot in 1.37, reframed in 1.66 for the theater release in Europe and reframed in 1.85 for theater release in the US. Kubrick wanted it in the most square format possible, so all releases for home consumption have been in 1.33. Usually that would mean a pan and...

I read a dual interview with the director and a french cosmonaut, the guy enjoyed the movie, but was like "I am not sure about Apollo, but the Soyuz I took to go to the ISS did not shake that much!" :D

I did not mean to imply consoles would die (it would with the streaming scenario, but I don't believe in it), more like the endless race for increasingly marginal power gains could actually end, killing with it the idea of console 'generation'. You could still have increases in powers, but, just...

The question is: will it be the last gen console? The thing will most probably deliver 60fps on 4k screens (two values that have no actual reason to ever need to go up) with all the bells and whistles and only super AAA games can afford to use all the bells and whistles anyway. I guess what...

Hah! A third (fourth?) play session was delayed by finishing stuff in God of War and playing an indie Zelda 2 / metroidvania thing (Elliot Quest), but now the game is beaten! All in all it's not *that* difficult with the exception of several short but lethal passages in two or three levels. With...

Not sure if I should post it here or start a new thread, but I have a Smartphone question. I have a low end Samsung (Galaxy J3) on Android 5.1.1, never had a single issue with it, but yesterday it went nutty. Out of the blue, without me doing anything special (no new app, no setting change, but...

This is not going well... with a little patience and a little farming you can basically have infinite continues (by killing a certain type of enemies in trivial replayable levels) and a sizable life bar (soldiers drop bullets that act as experience points basically and in many area they...

Playing Bionic Commando.... that will take more than a day. If you asked me after 30 min I would have said that game is impossible. Now that I played a couple hours, cleared several levels, learned how to get continues, I would say I have the feeling it might be possible to beat the game.

Another day, another NES game: Disney Adventures in the Magic Kingdom... A theme park attraction gave us a pretty neat movie franchise in Pirates of the Caribbeans, so maybe the whole theme park could allow Capcom to make a good NES game right? Not really. You are tasked to recover 6 keys in the...

Played another NES game today: Kabuki Quantum Fighter. The american nuclear weapon program has been infected by a virus! Obviously the only solution is to digitize the mind of a 24 years old US Military colonel so he can fight the virus inside the computer! Don't ask questions ok! Especially not...

Rocky Balboa >>>>>>>>>>>>> Creed. Creed is a pretty good movie though, and I will watch Creed 2 for sure, but Rocky Balboa is a masterpiece. Other than being a kind of time machine, the beauty of Rocky Balboa lies in the way the antagonist is written. Clichés after clichés are piled on, but he...

I am more worried about Bradley Cooper being a good director.

I know knees are weird, but I looked at a video and don't understand how he hurt himself nor why it's specifically trying to not land on the QB that caused the injury.

I think the difficult job for Phoenix will be to not mimic previous Jokers and find his own. He has the potential to deliver a very weird and unsettling performance, so , at the very least, seeing him wrestle with the character should not be boring. Hot take: it could also be interesting to...

Troy had its issues, but I remember the movie for two (well, three) things: the kinda Beowulf aspect of characters wanting to leave historical marks that was very strongly reinforced by just a mundane shot of a greek beach (something happened here more than 3000 years ago and we still talk about...

I guess there is room for debate with the NES Classic and the PlayStation Classic (since even their original controllers were kinda meh), but for the SNES Classic, the thing was barely above the price of two good controllers, hardly making it overpriced. Also, mileage may vary, but I played...

Well... if they also went the Raspberry Pi route, by December 5 you'll be able to upload all the games you want in it.

I have two concerns: the first is that most PS1 games aged very poorly. I mean, good luck enjoying Jumping Flash as anything other than a piece of video game history. It’s not really a surprise too, since most are using a technology, polygonal 3D, that was in its teens back then and is all grown...

December 3 (US, Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia), $100, 2 controllers (standard, not DualShock 1), USB powered (no AC adaptor). The game list is currently incomplete. The total number of games will be 20 (ish?) and we know of 5 for now: - Final Fantasy VII - Jumping Flash - Ridge Racer...

I guess it's easy to miss in the clip if you have never seen the whole film, but the big explosion is from a WWII era bomb that was dropped but, obviously, never exploded (a kind of "metaphore" for the problems the brits left behind that are bound to blow up at some point).

On a side note, I am not familiar with the character at all, but watching the trailer she kinda made me think about Haruhi Suzumiya, a character who can (unwillingly and unbeknownst to her in the case of Haruhi) change reality. Is something like that in her power set?

I guess that's my cue to inform people who have not seen Room or Short Stay 12 or her small part in Remember the Daze or even seen her in United States of Tara, that Brie Larson is, off the top of my head, in the Top 5 of the best actors/actresses in the MCU. She has without the shadow of a...

Another World is pretty interesting as it is what I call an orphan game. There are some great ideas in it, but somehow these ideas were almost never reused in other games, even in supposed heirs like Heart of Darkness or Flashback (I guess a game without heir should be called sterile rather than...

She got the warning for coaching before she was a break up in the 2nd and she shattered her racket when Osaka immediately broke back. Oh and breaking your racket on purpose is always resulting in a code violation. There rare occurrences when a broken racket is not penalized are when the player...

To be fair, Profondo Rosso >>>>> Suspiria. EDIT: Also I have not seen A Bigger Splash and Call Me By Your Name, but Io sono l'amore was an impressive movie (possibly helped by the John Adams score, but this time he has Thom Yorke so he is also getting helped!) EDIT 2:

There are lots of parts of the movie that reenact events that were filmed/televised at the time. They made some adjustments to streamline the plot and avoid the things they did not want to talk about, but other than that it is very faithful (even things that seem totally over the top like the...

It's true. One won an Academy Award postumously while the other won one while being alive... EDIT: @Daezuel :(

The break down is this: in tennis, like in many other sports, there is a code of conduct. I am not sure of the exact terminology, but there are minor infractions and major ones. Major ones make you lose the match instantly. This happens from time to time, usually it's when a player throw his or...

Tomorrow we will see a number of articles about all the drama surrounding Serena Williams in the US Open final (again). Hopefully, we will also see many articles about the more interesting story: the incredible level of play of 20 year old Naomi Osaka, who after a semi final were she saved a...

Always used WiFi personally and I don't feel it is the bottleneck when things go slow.

Instead of watching Bushwick or as a companion piece to it (in a different tone and style), I recommend Joe Dante's The Second Civil War (possibly a bit hard to see though as it was a TV Movie back in the mid '90s).

I have not seen this movie since its original theater release, so take this comment with a grain of salt, but I don't remember it being very good... it goes way over the top with some story elements or situations to enhance the drama, for a context that really does not need it, and its technical...

I wish I was pharmakos' car dealer right now :p

The few KB+M players on console will be matched with the majority of the PC players, but that also means the few PC players that play with controllers will be matched with the majority of console players.

What about a PS3?

@Arbitrary I think the main problem with the 2nd one is that a core element of the first is missing. In the first film they went in the past, so it's all about some bitter sweet nostalgia, correcting your past mistakes and having the spectator, like the main characters, be in the know of the...

I mostly watch small or medium streamers, but the only time I saw them run ads is when they go afk or at the end of streams ('That's it for today boys and girls, I'll end the stream with a couple ads, so you can stay around while they play as a way to support the stream').