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And so spoketh the local authority on all things related to fighter games. While you are around, did you play Drop Kick? I wondered if it's a joke or if there is tactical elegance in its simplicity.

The real question with the new Killer Instinct is: can you buy combo hits with micro-transactions?

At some point during the hanging, I thought there would be an uprising. I mean the show established his popularity in Iran and when a popular hero is suddenly labeled a murderous enemy of the state and in the span of three days is arrested, judged and executed, it sounds seriously fishy. It can...

Once bitten, twice shy.

I 'five star'-ed everything but the last stage in normal, but the last boss was so cheap it made me quit

How would you know? It's his first feature film. Maybe you saw his shorts?

To better understand the situation, it would really be interesting to have a somewhat reliable estimate of how many units Microsoft and Sony are able to produce. Be it because of yield issues, delay with the Kinect implementation for small market languages or just a strategy, Microsoft are...

I think there is a typo: where Christopher Nolan is written, you should read Terrence Malick.

More like the last decade you cared about music.

For all five french readers out there, I just finished the three volumes of 'Le puit des m?moires' (The Memories' Well). It's an award winning fantasy novel written by the friend of a friend of a friend of mine. Amusingly, the author created the story for a PnP RPG campaign, mastered it for a...

I did not mean 'worthless' in the sense of 'uninteresting', I meant it as 'unrecognizable by someone who is not a comic fan'. In recent years, Marvel did a much better job than DC at bringing a number of its characters to the mainstream, dramatically increasing the value of these intellectual...

It's a lot easier for Arrow to use DC characters, because they are pretty much all worthless IPs outside of Batman and Superman (who will not show up in Arrow). I am sure though that Marvel also has a bunch of worthless IPs to throw at Agents of SHIELD, but it's both easier and better to just...

You might want to check some youTube video of F-15 Strike Eagle 3 to refresh your memory... It's true though that some spaceships (most notably the big carriers that warp away) are very crude.

I did a search, but I half-ass'ed itI think labeling the game MMORPG is a bit of a stretch though and this topic is useful for the people who did not see the VGX and do not read the MMORPG forum!

The team that made Joe Danger (fun bike platformer thingy) are now working on a space exploration game where the content is procedurally generated as it is discovered. It's a pretty distant release so it's unclear what other layers or gameplay and systems will be implemented on top of the core...

That looks surprisingly decent.

The sound in movies is probably where there is the biggest departure from reality. The punching sounds and the gun/knife/sword brandishing sounds have been mentioned, but another category is the 'leading to impact' sounds. There was a whole documentary on the sound of Terminator 2 on the...

Blunt looks pretty sharp in this! HAH!

I agree you can give a red to Ivanov. The problem is giving him a red for a hand holding as last defender when, 1 minute before that, an intentional rugby tackle on Streller going alone to the goal got sanctioned by a yellow. For those that did not see, the offside on freekick. Note that to...

It was the day of the absurd... Napoli out with 12 points, Porto hitting the frame three times, Milan parking the bus or the linesman missing 4 offside players on a free kick against Basel... fun evening! Basel got supremely fucked over by the refs though, because before the unbelievable free...

The Juventus vs Galatasaray match is actually played right now (as I post, it's half time). The field is a swamp and it started snowing as they restarted! Snow only lasted 10ish minutes and last I saw it became a light drizzle. In some areas, all pass attempt on the ground is futile. It's old...

I think they picked it because the stakes were high and it had potential to be a great match (it will still be true tomorrow, but Basel plays Shalke!). I confess I did not check the other 2 national channels (in german and italian) to see if they showed something else, but I believe they buy the...

That was the one game national TV bought the right for Btw they will not replay it tomorrow, they will finish it tomorrow: it will be a 60min thing.

Another shock of cultures! Here is a map from wikipedia: Blue Sunday, Yellow Monday, Green Saturday, Red Wednesday. Amusingly, the portuguese week starts on Monday... which is called segunda-feira (heritage from the liturgical week in latin).

I enjoyed the episode, but there were some things that could be nit-picked: like 1) sneaking out of the hotel only to use the secret phone once back there, 2) needing the help of the israeli to provide a weapon that will transit through Javadi anyway, 3) Brody never communicating his intend to...

Only one way to find out.

My main beef is people saying "there is no choreography" or "we don't understand what's happening." The Bourne Ultimatum fight I linked is both brilliantly choreographed (with the constraints that it had to give a feeling of realism and danger - constraints that the hyper-referential Matrix...

The legibility or illegibility of a fight scene is the result of a number of factors. Using a lot of very short shots and a very nervous camera can result in illegibility (Batman Begins -> shaky cam) or legibility (Bourne Ultimatum -> master piece).

Amusingly that specific functionality is better implemented on PS4 as it accepts a broader range of names for the games. Oh and... Yay! Flower!

I am not opposed to alternative business models that allow a broader range of video game to exist, but I am opposed to microtransactions. Two reasons for that: 1) It is fundamentally dishonest as it is exploiting the fact people are more likely to spend 5 times $5 than one time $20. 2) The...

An opportunity to visit or revisit classic adventure games such as Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Sam & Max, Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle, Gabriel Knight... or recent but retro titles like The Shivah.

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Gal Gadot unfit to play Wonder Woman... There is a joke about comic book fans and the sharpness of knees in there somewhere...

I think Season 1 was more thrilling as a lot of things happened at a fast pace, there was no pussyfooting and the whole 'traumatized soldier tries to reconnect with his family' angle was very good (all the flashbacks with him and his captors, not so much). Season 2 kept the same pace but got...

Just spent 20 minutes listening to the first few seconds of several dozens of songs just to find which one the very beginning of that Perfect Circle made me think of. It's with great relief that I found the answer and may alleviate the pain who found themselves in the same conundrum:

Sucks to be in Brazil when it comes to buying consoles. I remember seeing similarly inflated prices from... I want to say Kuweit. I think it was there more a question of exclusivity than taxes though.

Flllllooooooowwwwwwerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Fffffffffffffffffffffllllllllllllllloooooooooooooo oooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr That being said: 1) Why would you worry about the swearing in the single player of CoD and BF4 if you don't worry about the realistic violence...

Wikipedia tells me it's a final 5 episodes season. I wonder how they will fix New Orleans in only 4 episodes!

A friendly reminder for those who, like me, enjoy this odd mix of music, television and sociology: the fourth season of Treme started last Sunday.