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  1. Szlia

    E3 2017

    This week end I was watching on twitch some Dark Soul 3 and some Bloodborne and then I watched some Skyrim... I understand that these games are pretty different at their core, but the guy in Skyrim was fighting Otar the Mad (a sorcerer guy) and by contrast with the other two games it looked...
  2. Szlia

    NBA 2016-17 Season Thread - Knicks in 6

    You are quite the oracle! Only 99% of the people with even just a cursory interest in the NBA predicted that outcome.
  3. Szlia

    NBA 2016-17 Season Thread - Knicks in 6

    When you conquer without risk, you triumph without glory.
  4. Szlia

    E3 2017

    The games showed were interesting, but outside the VR portion only Utnayan cares about, no new IP and very few new titles were shown. I mean the only two reveals were Monster Hunter and the Shadow of the Colossus remake (maybe the Call of Duty game too?).
  5. Szlia

    E3 2017

    He did work actively to limit casualties though!
  6. Szlia

    E3 2017

    Shadow of the Colossus 2??? Wait... remaster more likely.
  7. Szlia

    Beyond Good and Evil 2

    As far as the writing go, before being worried with questions of representation and diversity, I think they should have worried about tone. I am not sure I am ready to root for a couple who just crashed a flying fortress on a city (even if the people manning said fortress thought it was A-Ok to...
  8. Szlia

    E3 2017

    The latest installments kinda lost steam, but the IP as a whole started in 2009 and sold more than 50 millions units (7 games, all formats). Considering they cost about 3 bucks to make (music rights notwithstanding), it is a ridiculous cash cow. Also I am not counting the many spin-offs (there...
  9. Szlia

    E3 2017

    I am exited for a game set in ancient Egypt. Not very exited that it's an AC game...
  10. Szlia

    New Atari Console?!

    Too expensive :( Also about 20min battery life...
  11. Szlia

    E3 2017

    It's ill advised to do a drinking game during the MS conference if you drink at every Xbox games that will also be available on PC.
  12. Szlia

    The Mummy (2017)

    I have not seen the movie, but I suspect that in a Marvel movie they work based on the assumption that people know who Nick Fury is, while in this they work on the assumption that people do not know who Dr Jekyll is. A bit like when they made the movie version of League of Extraordinary...
  13. Szlia

    New Atari Console?!

    Also the Lynx had a total of 74 games of which about 74 were crap. The screen was in color but was crap (the GameBoy screen was crappy in a different way, but in the right light conditions it was very comfortable). And what do you even mean with "maturity level"? Last I checked, killing God with...
  14. Szlia

    New Atari Console?!

    The GameBoy had head to head multiplayer in 200+ games... in fact a dozen games had 4 people multiplayer with a gizmo. There is even one game that allowed 16 players at the same time by chaining 4 players adapters, but I doubt it ever happened outside the devs office though.
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    New Atari Console?!

    Nothing like a handheld console with a 160x102 screen that can't fit in any kind of pocket and that runs through 6 AA batteries in 4 hours!
  16. Szlia

    E3 2017

    I hear the new game from the people who made the brilliant Brothers: A Tale of Two Souls was shown at the EA conference? I'll play that for sure.
  17. Szlia

    NBA 2016-17 Season Thread - Knicks in 6

    When was the last time Curry made a grand total of 4 shots in a match?
  18. Szlia

    NBA 2016-17 Season Thread - Knicks in 6

    If you are a star player and can count past 3+1, I think you can realize it's a good investment in your brand to get a lower salary in a winning team.
  19. Szlia

    NBA 2016-17 Season Thread - Knicks in 6

    As a Lebron hater I must say I find it pretty funny that this match ended with him bricking a three, getting three'd by Durant and then getting stripped by Iguodala! I think there is also a missed lay-up in there somewhere? But still, good job keeping it close.
  20. Szlia

    NBA 2016-17 Season Thread - Knicks in 6

    At the very least that was a competitive game!
  21. Szlia

    NBA 2016-17 Season Thread - Knicks in 6

    If the Warriors win the next two, some soul searching will be needed at the NBA, because your product is not very interesting if at the start of the season everyone knows exactly what will happen and it happens exactly.
  22. Szlia

    NBA 2016-17 Season Thread - Knicks in 6

    To be fair, if Curry had to defend James one on one he would also look pretty ridiculous!
  23. Szlia

    NBA 2016-17 Season Thread - Knicks in 6

    Is everyone healthy on both teams?
  24. Szlia

    What are you listening to at the moment?

    Spending waaay too much time on youTube these past couple days....
  25. Szlia

    Alien: Covenant (2017)

    Midichlorians?
  26. Szlia

    Retro Gaming Thread

    Fun and not too hard? Tiny Toon Adventure on SNES?
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    Alien: Covenant (2017)

    Considering the work of H R Giger who designed the bestiary, there is very little doubt of the sexual nature of the facehugger.
  28. Szlia

    Retro Gaming Thread

    My gigantic backlog shook on its base today as, 28 years after buying it, I finally beat Batman on NES. Never beat the 4th stage back in the days, but, with increased maturity and some advice from EndySWE who holds the 2nd best time for the speedrun of the game, the Joker got thrown off the top...
  29. Szlia

    Elementary

    I still religiously watch this. I love that most episodes feel like they picked three topics out of a hat and dared themselves to craft a story that makes sense with all three. The balance between investigation and personal drama is also very well done. Not a huge fan of the two parts final...
  30. Szlia

    Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)

    It's pretty simple: Gore Verbinski directs? Good to great. Rob Marshall directs? Meh. Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg direct? Wait and see.
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    Alien: Covenant (2017)

    I was not masochistic enough to rewatch Prometheus before this one, but as far as I remember the engineers' planet was the one in Prometheus and what I gathered from the flashback sequence in Covenant was that it's taking place on a whole other planet.
  32. Szlia

    Alien: Covenant (2017)

    These numbers are not all of the same nature! Those about where the action takes place add up to 100% The one about the Alien-ness of this film could only reach 100% if it was a shot for shot remake of Alien.
  33. Szlia

    Alien: Covenant (2017)

    To answer @spronk
  34. Szlia

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I am pretty sure some aspects of these games did not age well, but that should give me a reason to finally play them to completion.
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    Alien: Covenant (2017)

    It's pretty easy: one is the film where the main character goes back and forth through the whole ship to save a cat when a xenomorph is roaming, the other is the film with just about all the memorable sequences and characters associated with the Alien franchise.
  36. Szlia

    story of a Philippino slave and her family

    My empire is built on the callous hands of a mid XXth century portuguese domestic worker! For shame!
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    story of a Philippino slave and her family

    I did eat her cooking but to my defense she died when I was a child! After a little investigation it happens that Rosa who worked for my grandparents from an early age and helped raise their three children was actually paid. Like with the woman in the article, she was a country girl with no...
  38. Szlia

    story of a Philippino slave and her family

    This story is a bit similar to the one of the maid who worked for my grandparents. She had her room though and possibly maybe was paid? I shall investigate.
  39. Szlia

    Alien: Covenant (2017)

    It is a lot better than Prometheus (which is not saying much), but it feels more like a spin off than a main line Alien movie as it is mainly about a "what if" scenario. You still get the religious bullshit on the side and a gooey center of philosophical babble, you also get the weirdest penis...