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  1. Szlia

    The new Gen has started: Where do you stand?

    We have 236 votes at the moment and I doubt the proportions will change much from there. Unsurprisingly, considering the history of the board, PC dominates. It might be helped by the fact that even PC that are three or four years old are still 'current' because of multiplatform development...
  2. Szlia

    Homeland

    They will probably never explain it indeed, but I don't find it that unbelievable if you consider it from the angle of a chain of opportunities rather than a complex machination. If you are a mossad agent in Mumbai and notice the wife of a top level CIA guy is around, it can't hurt to try and...
  3. Szlia

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

    This Bomberman clone looks terrible. Camera angle + light effects = seeing jack shit in a kind of game where seeing clearly the situation is key.
  4. Szlia

    Homeland

    The thing is, there really is no good way to go about it and here they managed to make both the "16 days later" title AND the montage! The best solution could be to still have plot elements during the training period for the other characters and periodically hop back to the guy in training or...
  5. Szlia

    Homeland

    The training montage was a bit laughable, but overall it was still a strong episode. I like the play and liked how Saul handled the senator issue. I would say something about the mossad guy being a little easy to catch, but a few year backs a couple mossad agents were arrested in Switzerland...
  6. Szlia

    The Mentalist - Now With More Spoilers!

    I don't watch this show but... shouldn't big spoilers for a recently aired episode be in the thread for the show allowing people who will watch it later to avoid the thread instead of the whole TV forum?
  7. Szlia

    The new Gen has started: Where do you stand?

    What do you plan to do with the sound?
  8. Szlia

    Describe your poop with a movie title.

    With your avatar, Superbad was the obvious choice.
  9. Szlia

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

    The lack of archiving of the streams with Twitch on PS4 makes me think a subscription model to allow PS4 users to save their streams is in the cards.
  10. Szlia

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

    Yeah.... the 'playroom' :Castle Vidcons: Comic #123- The Playroom
  11. Szlia

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

    I guess the Kinect is not meant to be put directly on top of the XB1?
  12. Szlia

    Answer the question above you, no matter what it is

    At 400k to keep, I would have given it a long consideration. At 40k, it's a no brainer to me: I spend 40 millions in a month. That probably requires some planning though, because it's a lot of money and little time to only spend on services and consumables (assuming you cannot make donations or...
  13. Szlia

    Describe your poop with a movie title.

    This whole topic should be called Legends of the Fall.
  14. Szlia

    What did you just read?

    Just finished reading a small dictionary of architecture (what can I say, it's instructive and convenient to read during 5-10 minutes bus travels), andSnow White, a pretty brilliant play by early 20th century swiss authorRobert Walser(a genius). It's set after the events that lead to the tale...
  15. Szlia

    John Carmack leaves ID Software

    I still don't see it. I am convinced that a good VR headset could provide a great gaming experience, but I am also convinced that it simply cannot be anything else than a niche of the video game market. Why? Because it is too extreme an experience, too removing, making it socially difficult...
  16. Szlia

    Nymphomaniac

    If porn was defined as 'something you can masturbate to' pretty much everything would be porn for at least a small group of people.
  17. Szlia

    The new Gen has started: Where do you stand?

    Huh? What happened there? The only scenario I can think of is that you had a mod'ed PS1 and that improved region locking down the road made the mod no longer work.
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    Nymphomaniac

    I doubt titillation is the goal of Von Trier.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    In the streamers' defense, 'playroom' sounds like an inviting euphemism.
  20. Szlia

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

    I don't know the specifics for Madden, but if the match-making uses latency as a factor, a bigger user base should help getting more often matched with people closer to you. That being said, the latest Madden sold only about 25% more on X360 than on PS3. The older the editions the bigger the gap...
  21. Szlia

    The new Gen has started: Where do you stand?

    127 people voted. We can do better than that!
  22. Szlia

    Describe your poop with a movie title.

    Romancing the Stone
  23. Szlia

    Dark Souls Movie

    It would be tough to make it work. At least if you want to preserve the mood, pace and narrative style of the game.
  24. Szlia

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

    For reference, the 1+ million XB1 sales happened in the following 13 countries: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Spain, United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand. Note that Australia and the UK were strong Xbox 360 territories.
  25. Szlia

    Describe your poop with a movie title.

    Splash
  26. Szlia

    The new Gen has started: Where do you stand?

    Bummer, but a good reason.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    IGN has all the luck because one of their XB1 has this issue. Conspiracy theorist will say that they got so much hits from the PS4 issue that claiming to have a problem with an XB1 would make business sense!
  28. Szlia

    The new Gen has started: Where do you stand?

    What am I looking at?
  29. Szlia

    The new Gen has started: Where do you stand?

    Do you use your PC to play old or non-demanding games or just don't game?
  30. Szlia

    The new Gen has started: Where do you stand?

    Looking at the early number, I see the PC data will be a bit shitty because someone already chose both 'own one' and 'upgrade soon' which kinda makes sense considering with PC gaming there is a big gap between the power needed by the games and the power available with high end hardware.
  31. Szlia

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

    I made a new poll to see where we stand now that all three consoles are out:The new Gen has started: Where do you stand?
  32. Szlia

    The new Gen has started: Where do you stand?

    The poll in the PC vs PS4 vs XB1 thread was created months ago and now the consoles are here, so I thought we could do a fresh census. Handhelds are not included, and I'll let you decide in your heart of heart what a "current gaming PC" is (for me: able to decently play current AAA releases)...
  33. Szlia

    Captain Philips

    Great thriller with a very efficient contextualization of the events. The final few minutes shall earn Hanks some more well deserved awards for his cabinet. Greenglass' nervous filming maintained the tension, but this is no Bourne Ultimatum where every action scene had amazing use of space and...
  34. Szlia

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

    The only problem with a Japanese PSN account from abroad is that you can't use a credit card, so you must order store credits from PlayAsia or some similar import shop which adds to the costs (at least that's how it worked a couple years back when I bought Suda 51's The Silver Case that was in...
  35. Szlia

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

    I just saw an ad for Ryse on TV. I am not sure what went through their mind, because the first half is cheap live action and the second half is from cut scenes with a big "not actual gameplay" banner at the bottom. Why would you do that when you have a game that is praised unanimously for its...
  36. Szlia

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

    Only the PS4 is skewed!
  37. Szlia

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

    On the 'how to play fps with a controller' tutorial, I would like to add that people not used to analog sticks tend to treat them like they are analog in direction and digital in amplitude. What I mean by that, is that they only use the extreme of the range of movement of the stick. Key to...
  38. Szlia

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

    I expect a similar failure rate for the XB1, but significantly lower sales, resulting in significantly less reports of DOA consoles.
  39. Szlia

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

    I checked the Zero Punctuation for AC4 the other day and that must have been the most positive review I ever heard from him. The only negative points I can remember are him not liking tailing missions and fearing Ubi will make Assassin's Creed games for all eternity.
  40. Szlia

    Answer the question above you, no matter what it is

    I think I would choose a classic book that I had to read during school and that I did not enjoy because I was too young, too dumb and forced to read it, leaving a sour taste in my mouth that prevents me to try to re-read it. Which one though? Maybe C?line's Journey to the End of the Night...