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I played many games of Descent and while it was globally a fun experience, I can see how that can be frustrating for some. We started playing it after playing the Doom game that has similar mechanics so we had a sense of how we should play, but the first few times we played Doom we got...

Who are these young fans who see and then ask as Christmas present an R rated movie?

They get a special 5 out of 4 stars award from me if the movie ends with Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins high-fiving each other in a control room.

Well... I am using Famtasia which is at 6.4%! I remember picking it ages ago because there was something it did that other emulator did not, but... I don't remember what!

And how old were you when you read The Hobbit?

For shit and giggles I checked youTube to see if there was stuff on there from the one album of prog-rock I own that is from a swiss band and guess what: NB: Quality is enhanced if you are a regular of the Astronomy thread!

If you don't have trouble falling asleep, couldn't your problem be fixed by a nap or two during the day?

Sub topic: best cover art for terrible games. Drop Rock Hora Hora on PC-Engine (Breakout clone... yep) Curse on Megadrive (terribad shoot-em up)

not sure which, but it must be someJunji Ito.

There are other games with similar design, like Tower of Druaga. On top of hidden items and hidden rules there is also an element of randomness in it. This sub-genre should be called Weird Japanes Torture or something...

The Ancient's idea, Milon's Secret Castle seems a strong contender for a adventure platformer game that requires a lot of 1-900 calls. Are you sure it's not it (setting is not asian though). My google fu made me find this blog calledChrontendothat is attempting to review all NES games and...

Let's make a little selection of (semi) recent italian movies. We could start with some Nanni Moretti... a kind of political version of Woody Allen in a way. He made two very funny auto-fictions in the '90sDear DiaryandAprileand followed that by a drama about a family of analysts ravaged by...

A very solid indie puzzle game isEnglish Country Tune. As you play it feels like the game mutates as new rules come into effect, new problems arise, old problems are suddenly seen through a different lens. Very carefully and cleverly done and very...

This is a great movie even if not flawless. There is a whole lot of mesmerizing night cinematography, each scene as its own flavor and is memorable, it's a bit on the slow side and the movie is long, but the diversity and the welcomed addition of some weird tongue in cheek humor makes for an...

There are some beautiful moments and, despite being the adaptation of a play, it has this raw energy, this narrative freedom, a bit reminiscent of these movies where the story is improvised or written by children. It suffers from the same problem though: it's ultimately unsatisfying as a fiction...

So my score is 29... I had to add the famicom disk system, the turbo duo and a tele-sports radotin (Pong clone), but if I cheat and add some that are co-owned, I can add a GBA SP, a GBA, a Gameboy Color, a Wii, an Xbox, an Xbox 360 and a Nintendo 64 for a total of 36! Oddly I was 99% sure to own...

At least you can't accuse them of trying to please everyone!

Who is the main character of Freecell? Shit... I guess I am

Man you ruined a perfectly good setup for a cinnamilk joke!

For what I see from the few and not super reliable data we have, the WiiU is the only home machine to sell well in Japan (5 times more than the PS3), it's lagging behind the PS3 and X360 in the US at about 2/3rd of the sales of its competitors and the PS3 dominates Europe with the Wii U a...

This has been a huge success in France. Both actors are very very good in it, Cluzet dealing blows with cold sarcasm and Sy being greater than life with a communicative energy, so the comedy works well and often. Often enough in fact that you can almost forget and forgive the bland film-making...

I have not read any China Mi?ville nor do I completely agree with his following quote, but I came across it as a kind of frontispiece to a french fantasy book I read recently (Wastburg) and thought it fit in the current discussion: Full quote When they met the goblin king, it seemed the guy...

I have never seen Baraka and only saw the first of the "qatsi" on VHS (a hint that it was not yesterday!). That said, there is absolutely no doubt that the cinematography in those films is stellar and that Ron Fricke is a grandmaster at his craft. There are some super smooth flying time-lapses...

So clich? of me! But year, chocolate in particular, but sugar in general...

Damn... I have seen all Tarentino movies (except Django who is not out yet around here) so you leave me with an unpleasant alternative! I'll go with another option though: I presented my point with unnecessary venom because I let myself be trolled (after all the claims I was rebuking were that...

I have not played it, but we have some Dragon Dogma fans around here I believe.

I was not and, unlike you, did not even sneak beers into the theater! Still, you should not have been drunk already during the opening: not a single line of dialogue, a great economy of shots and still everything is clear, potent, well framed and well paced. I found McQuarrie not as comfortable...

For me the movie found the right balance between willingly using clich?s and spicing things up with originality. The film knows full well that we all saw a billion cop shows and "who done it?" movies, so it can go very fast in its opening act where we see the crime, its preparation and the...

I never saw or played the 6 people version, but with the 28 you go all the way through no matter what, so it took maybe 20ish minutes? It's too long ago for me to remember the game mechanics though... pretty sure you get an individual grade/score in the end and that you can take damage (I...

I actually played the 28 players version of that in some Namco amusement park / super-arcade center outside Tokyo in 1995. Players were on a circular platform and surrounded by a 360? screen, but the kicker was that the whole room (or at least the platform) was on hydraulic pistons that faked...

I more in the camp of those who think Tarantino can't even come close to making a movie as good as the 25th Hour with his little video store clerk montages, but ok.

Google-Fu gives me: Gunblade N.Y or L.A. Machine Guns. Both by Sega and both available on a single disc for... the Wii!

He better have considering this is a remake (reinvention really) of a spaghetti western.

The director of Samsara was the cinematographer of Koyaanisqatsi but not of its two sequels. Koyaanisqatsi also was boosted to a quasi mystic experience by Phillip Glass' score.

There is an episode earlier in season 4 that is for me the best of the whole show. It's been a while so I don't remember exactly how it goes, but it's the one where Trinity opens up to Dexter a bit and sort of take him under his wing. The tension between the two characters is brilliant the whole...

Zero Dark Thirty, Lincoln, The Master and Django will all be 2013 around here :/ I still have some movies to see to make my 2012 list though.

50 director credits with 20 of those being theatre released feature films does not qualify as prolific or does the word not mean what you think it means?

I really liked Doakes right before his death. They introduced some of the military past of the character in relation to Cuba and that sounded very interesting and could have added a lot of depth to the character and even to the show as a whole... but then he croaked.

I am talking about the SNES version. Not that the arcade version is much better, but I doubt even you would defend the SNES version.