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  1. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It sure sounds like "THROW EVERYTHING WE HAVE IN" to me too. Legion, Naga, Emerald Dream, Pirate Isles? Honestly, aside from "Kill off the Old Gods and Titans", what dangling plot threads are left?
  2. Wombat

    Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)

    There was practically nothing in this movie that sticks in my mind two days later. It still may have topped Ultron for my #2 movie of the year. This is no Mad Max, but check it out nonetheless.
  3. Wombat

    The Dallas Cowboys Memorial (2015 Off-Season) Thread

    That's what many of us have been saying. Vegas still has Packers/Seahawks/Colts as better odds, but I sure as hell wouldn't bet on any of them over a Belichick/Brady team with a grudge.
  4. Wombat

    Fantastic Four

    It's as if the special effects for "Oh god, we're hideous monsters" was finished forever ago - long enough ago to be in theoriginaltrailer. It's as if the special effects for "Generic superhero movie #3,417" are being added up to the very last minute, as they rush to turn "Oh god, we're...
  5. Wombat

    The Dallas Cowboys Memorial (2015 Off-Season) Thread

    Can we move Bradygate* to a new thread? Because I'd rather have Itlan and Araysar back than listen to Azeth and (especially) Lenardo giving legal advice. Though nicely aggressive of the NFL to file first (presumably to keep it out of Minnesota and David Doty's hands). Safe to say any...
  6. Wombat

    Lord of the Rings Online

    Not only do I not understand what will happen with the servers, I don't even know what used to be going on with them. I.e. my main server suddenly got an EU or UK added to the name a couple months back... but all those servers were and are physically in the US, regardless of name?
  7. Wombat

    Dragon Quest XI announced for PS4, 3DS, NX.

    DQ8 was my RPG of the PS2 era, and only the sheer lunacy of Shadow Hearts: Covenant comes close. DQ9 was way more disappointing than most reviewers claimed, filled with archaic design decisions. Not to the game as a whole, but the modern stuff they added. "You can only hold 10 quests at a...
  8. Wombat

    Bill Simmons leaving ESPN.

    Even if Simmons got Sal the head writing spot, I doubt he'd leave Kimmel, especially when late night is about to get weird with Letterman gone. Speaking of which, any recommendations for Monday wrap-up podcasts until at least October? Dave Dameshek signal/noise ratio gets out of hand, Ross...
  9. Wombat

    Ant Man. July 2015

    Well, duh. 1) As you said, the 'no meaning' clause means they can bring her back 17 movies down the line if they want to, with an actress younger than anyone else involved. 2) At one of the scales while Scott's shrinking, there's a cloud that looks suspiciously like a woman pointing, so I...
  10. Wombat

    Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

    Having Batman be pissed at Superman for the massive property damage and lives lost inMan of Steeland Superman apparently creating his own archenemy, if the rumors are to be believed, due toseems waaaay too smart to be Zack Synder's work and smells more like the DC brass digging out of the hole...
  11. Wombat

    Ant Man. July 2015

    Yeah, that was another thing that bugged me. As near as I can tell, that scene takes placeduringCaptain America 3 (I can't recall another Marvel teaser that jumpsintoanother movie), which doesn't just require the audience to know the other Marvel movies to understand it, but requires them to...
  12. Wombat

    Ant Man. July 2015

    I liked it well enough, but it seemed like it had some significant editing issues.
  13. Wombat

    Bill Simmons leaving ESPN.

    /lecture mode: Cable channels, unlike oldschool broadcast channels, get their money from two sources: the first is advertising spots (like broadcast), and the second is what the cable systems (Time Warner, Charter, Comcast) pay the cable channels to air them every month (usually called...
  14. Wombat

    Fantastic Four

    Hollywood chatter isreallynegative on this (Josh Trank got fired from his next job directing a Star Wars spinoff already), with a bunch of reshoots to try and turn it from the original product (basically a big budget version of Trank's Chronicle (Oh god, we're all freaks now:emoji_nose: to something...
  15. Wombat

    Ant Man. July 2015

    That hole doesn't look that deep: Avengers 2 came out. Cap 3 is coming. Thor 3 is coming. Black Panther is coming. The 'Californian droughts' and 'Strucker dead in his cell' don't jump out at me though. As for the movie itself, I love Paul Rudd, and feel bummed for Edgar Wright...
  16. Wombat

    Spy

    I liked it at the time, but two weeks later, all I can remember is "limp-dicked unicorn". And probably the best non-sequitur of the decade, "There's a mouse on my tits".
  17. Wombat

    The Dallas Cowboys Memorial (2015 Off-Season) Thread

    It's entirely possible that the Steelers, Ravens, and Bengals are 3 of the 6 best teams in the AFC again, but the odds of them all being in the playoffs are low: those inter-division games they'll play screw up their in-division records (and the wildcard tiebreakers run through the in-division...
  18. Wombat

    Hannibal

    Nah, the assumption is Gaumont (who actually makes the show; they just sell it to NBC for peanuts in the US) will now have time to line up where Season 4 will go before the finale, or edit it to turn it into a series finale if need be.
  19. Wombat

    E3 2015

    Windows recognizes the 360 and Bone WIRED controllers automatically. The wireless versions need a USB dongle - either packed in the box (the 360 box will say 'for Windows' to let you know its in there), with the Windows 10 dongle coming soon. The PS4 version needs fan-made software...
  20. Wombat

    The Dallas Cowboys Memorial (2015 Off-Season) Thread

    What do you mean 'fans'?Everyonethinks that. Hell, I'm a pretty even-headed sports person, and even I think they're going to end up fourth in the division (though not anywhere near 1st overall draft pick).
  21. Wombat

    E3 2015

    Phil Spencer over at giantbomb.com , sounds like anything but Kinect and (for the moment) multi-disc games should be doable with Xbone/360 backwards compatibility.
  22. Wombat

    Final Fantasy VII Remake

    FF9 is one of my favorite entries. Even I admit the battle speed is downright snail-paced*, and the Necron fight is out of nowhere. As everyone should know, 9 didn't even start off as a mainline FF game, it was just a nostalgia remix that got bumped up to full numeral status. Fans of FF9...
  23. Wombat

    E3 2015

    There was dick-all for the WiiU. Good. Whether you are a Nintendo fan or not, the sooner they stop supporting the Dead System Walking that is the Wii U and start working on NX games, the better for the company.
  24. Wombat

    E3 2015

    He looks likeMark Duplass - IMDbwith an enormous fake chin.
  25. Wombat

    E3 2015

    Aside from the PS4 $400 year, Ubisoft has bizarrely had it on lock for years. I am tempted to give it to Bethesda for Fallout 4 alone.
  26. Wombat

    Final Fantasy VII Remake

    Nah, I liked 12 as well in its weird single-player MMO sense. The storyline though is garbage. "Brave hero finds out mystical beings have enslaved humanity, travels the world to collect artifacts to defeat them... until your party, pissed off that he rolled through your town for one of those...
  27. Wombat

    E3 2015

    Now that I think about it, the complete lack of Project Robot and Shield mentions in the Nintendo thing basically confirms they are smaller scale digital titles? I assume 2 out of the 4 Treehouse reveals?
  28. Wombat

    Final Fantasy VII Remake

    Oh god, yet another Final Fantasy ranking thread. So just to add fire: I have no interest in this game. FF7 was a good but not great RPG that was worse than its predecessor in a number of ways (music (aside from One Winged Angel) in first place). Square wasting their time and money remaking...
  29. Wombat

    E3 2015

    Man, I hope that PC conference has something decent, because I literally can't think of my highlight of E3 so far. Edit: I guess the South Park sequel? Although Obsidian isn't involved, which was half of the appeal of the first one?
  30. Wombat

    E3 2015

    Well, at least they are still supporting the 3DS for another year, even if they are just weird offshoots of the main brands (Fire Emblem aside).
  31. Wombat

    E3 2015

    Rockstar doesn't do E3, they don't need/want to share the spotlight on any game announcements.
  32. Wombat

    E3 2015

    Just a reminder to everyone: There isn'tanE3. There arefourE3s. 1) The original purpose is the retailer E3. "Hey Target, this year's Call of Duty is great! You better order 10% more copies than last time!" 2) Then there's the stock market E3. "Hey Pachter, this year's Call of Duty is great...
  33. Wombat

    E3 2015

    Sigh, even Madden is pointing out GB has no CBs anymore...
  34. Wombat

    E3 2015

    As expected, they can't spend much time on Mass Effect, when the "sci-fi shooter" time needs to go to Battlefront.
  35. Wombat

    E3 2015

    My mother bought Pele's Soccer after the crash for $5. I never bothered to figure it out. This story is more entertaining than this press conference.
  36. Wombat

    E3 2015

    I had heard $120 for the Xbox controller, but yeah, Steam Controller it is (or stick with Xbox 360).
  37. Wombat

    E3 2015

    I know this is the internet and hyperbole reigns, but did you actually stay awake for EA 2014? The list of games that did not exist, but wouldn't it be cool if worked on them? The Sims' "He laughed so hard, he died!" The Battlefield Hardline pyrotechnics? Yeah, this is real bad, but it's got...
  38. Wombat

    E3 2015

    Now you know why they mentioned Battlefront upfront, so you wouldn't change the channel 20 mins ago.
  39. Wombat

    E3 2015

    I always go to giantbomb.com so I can listen to the guys livesnarking. Gamespot has "clean" feeds.
  40. Wombat

    E3 2015

    Sitting here at lunch thinking about it, the biggest surprise of MS' show was whatwasn'tthere, presumably because Sony will use them to cover up their lack of exclusives - no Call of Duty, no Star Wars Battlefront, no Assassin's Creed, no Batman, no Metal Gear Solid, etc.