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Unlike the Yakuza games, time is running in these games. So if a guy tells you to be somewhere the next day at 3 pm, well... you have to be there the next day, but if you miss the meeting, you can go there the following day at 3 pm... so if you spend your days playing Hang-On in the arcade, the...

Two things came to mind, a super campy but marvelously written hong kong saber movie from the '70s, but I can't find the title... I'll get back to you on that. The other is a police comedy from Taiwan called Sweet Alibis. This is a very odd and somewhat worrying movie, because, as you watch it...

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It's about a megalodon, so it's not a dull fin................. sorry

Sony's position is pretty simple. Last gen they were globally neck and neck with Microsoft as far as installed base went and this gen they beat them more than 2 to 1. Also, all four Playstations are in the Top 6 of the most sold home consoles globally... So "We want cross play or else..." will...

Cursed be this thread and its bunch of crappy european dance tracks from the early 2000s featuring hot girls, because I just spent more time that I want to admit fighting with google, wikipedia and youTube to find three of these. Well, I found one, but I am empty handed with the other two. They...

I probably already mentioned this movie a few years back, but I recently watched again a marvelous argentinian film called Historias Extraordinarias (Extraordinary Stories). It's a film in three parts for a total length just north of 4 hours. It's a film all about story telling, packed with...

Memorable scenes in good films are too many to count, but trying to find a memorable scene in a movie I did not like is no easy task... A silly one came to mind. Do you know how in just about every movie involving prison guards you have the guys walking by the cells, sliding their baton on the...

Late to the party, but I saw this between yesterday and today. I think the pleasant thing in these Le Carré stories is that they show a spy game that is about people not gadgets. The cast works very well throughout, but I must say the plot is not without flaws and we even get get an ending that...

I think you have your timing all wrong with that one. There is a classic book about this question wrote in the early '90s called Hard Bodies: Hollywood Masculinity in the Reagan Era that ends with hints as to how things were already changing in the '90s. Before you throw Clinton at me, note that...

It would be interesting to analyze these M:I movies after seeing them back to back, but rereading some notes I took about Ghost Protocol, I feel something changed at that point. They used the back and forth with Simon Pegg's character to underline how ridiculous their plans were and then had the...

Just to put things into perspective, Gamera being in this is about as likely as Batman being in the next Avengers movie. Gamera was created by Daiei to compete with Toho's Godzilla (Daiei is no more though, but their IPs got bought by Kadokawa in 2003). I am not sure about domestic box office...

@Kiroy if you enjoyed this and What We Do in the Shadows, let me recommend another comedy from New Zealand that I saw a few years back: Housebound. It's about a young woman back to her childhood home with her mother because she is in house arrest... but something is not quite right with the...

This topic is pretty dumb, because "movies" is used as a shorthand for "Hollywood blockbusters" and "worse" is determined by a mix of criteria that are on different scales. The only way to not find dozens of good or great movies to see in any given year, is to be very very specific and really...

So I finished the post game stuff with Kiryu walking around town with Haruka who wants to eat all types of food and makes a number of mini games related challenges and one of the things you get from it is that Haruka gets to predict rolls in chou-han.... So I am like, whatever, let's play the 4...

I guess some people will, but I certainly will not buy a console where all games are tied to a service that will be discontinued at some point.

When exiting my screening of Skyscraper the other day that only had a couple dozen viewers (the average action movie watcher goes to dubbed screenings I guess, also summer + week day + movie out for a couple weeks), a human flood was leaving another screening: that crowd was for Mamma Mia 2. I...

@Juvarisx your post made me google it and a key info that was missing surfaced: Legendary won the bid, but Legendary is owned by a chinese conglomerate, the Wanda Group, since januray 2016! So I guess it is after all a chinese production, even if indirectly. That makes the cast a bit odd then...

Movie is ok at best I guess, but.... you would think it would be one of these big sino-american production done to get fresh chinese money and get distributed in China without being hit by the foreign movies quota, but, as far as I can tell, not a yuan was put in this and the large asian cast is...

@RobXIII this game in unhealthy for completionists, especially dumb completionists like me, because I spent a lot of time on grindy, not interesting stuff (leveling up, getting all soul points, getting all revelations, getting to N°1 in the coliseum with Saejima, getting max skill with all...

I was at the Neuchatel International Fantasy Film Festival a couple weeks back and here are some stand out movies. Note that, despite the name of the festival, just about everything goes outside the main competition. This year there was a panorama of films from New Zealand for instance... which...

I think the problem is that the Wild Arms thread did not pick up. So it's a bit weird to pick a new game when the previous game was barely played nor discussed. Now, did it not pick up because it's summer time? Because while a bunch of people voiced interest to play it, few actually could? Maybe...

110ish hours in Yakuza 5 and I have not finished it yet... I think I suffer from moving goal post syndrome. "Let's just do all the side quests and sub stories" turned into "Let's do that and also get everyone to level 25 and get all the abilities and why not get some of the top weapons and train...

I'm replying 2 years late, but in between I also played through Faxanadu... some of its mechanisms are extremely crude, even for the time. Most notably the fact they could not spare a couple bytes to store general game progression such as boss kills, unlocked doors or broken walls. This gives...

Schadenfreude is german alright! :p

Apparently real teams were fielded?

Unbreakable is peak MNS and The Visit and Split were decent movies, so I guess we can be reasonably optimistic about that one.

I don't remember how things went in the previous editions, but I suspect the only people interested in the 3rd place matches are the subs. It's a good oportunity to field the few players that did not get to play.

Very strange match. I only saw the first three sets and the very end of set five, but still... Federer started brilliantly. Serving well, returning extremely well, mixing things up very well in the few rallies that occurred... Anderson was rushed behind his serves and his returns and just could...

I wonder if some number cruncher / sports journalist ever tried to go down the history of national teams to compare their theoretical budget, if they had to pay for their players, with the budget of the top clubs of their era. My gut feeling and semi-educated guess is that at some point national...

Apparently, Croatia is the team with the highest proportion of goals scored during play (as opposed to scored on free kicks / corners / penalty). Let's hope they'll win!

Before the match the belgian coach said that they hoped to lose to be in the easier half and play all their matches in Moscow, so it was both unsportsman like AND pretentious!

Guys... Gulbis is playing. He qualified for the main draw and won three rounds with as many five setters! The last one against World N°3 Alexander Zverev with a stingy 6-0 in the fifth! We could have had a Gulbis vs Kyrgios, a feat of shot making, raw talent and pure bullshit, but the...

Eating crow with Belgium, eating crow with England and some more with Croatia considering they pass rounds as if they were kidney stones..... if it ends with a Belgium vs England final you can put crows on the list of endangered species...

I am eating crow with Belgium winning over Brazil... I have not seen the match though. Did Belgium suddenly manage to defend brilliantly or did Courtois just made 20 saves?

If Cavani were fit to play, I would have given the edge to Uruguay, but, last I heard, he is not, so I suspect France will go through.

In a match that spanned two days (thanks to the british weather) and that I absolutely did not see, Cilic (last year's finalist who just won the Queen's) somehow lost to Pella in five sets after winning the first two... and we are talking about a 28 years old journeyman who, before this event...

What I have seen of the match against Lacko makes me a little more optimistic about Federer's chances. Lacko offered a much stronger opposition than Lajovic, so we got to see some defending and counter-attacks from Federer as well as a nice array of backhands. The next round could have been...