C3PX

skyjedi2005 said: Lucas could drop his drawers and take a shit on a star wars fans head and they would defend it.

Oh man, that line had me cracking up! Awesome skyjedi quote right there.

Edit: Look like I was lucky to catch that bit, seems you edited it out while I was making this post. I understand why you removed it, but it was still funny as hell. :)

My two bits on the situation,

I agree with Sky, KOTOR as a series has a large fan base who love the games for exactly what they are and have long been eagerly awaiting a third installment. If the third installment never came ot fruitation, that would be one thing... but in this case, they are making something completely different in lue of an actual third installment and using the KOTOR universe as a means to sell their game. Star Wars games have sunk to the point of being a joke, KOTOR as a subseries of Star Wars holds a great deal of respect from both SW fans and non SW fans alike. It would be much better to leave it as a two part series with the third part never realized than to begin dragging the KOTOR name down by making subpar games with KOTOR in the title.

I do disagree with sky's feelings that the only way to get a real KOTOR III would be if this flops seriously. I think it stands to reason that if this become a hit and generates a good deal of attention, then the possibility of them deciding that making a real KOTOR II sequel would be worthwhile would be greatly increased.

Hey, that is a great new replacement line for "jumped the shark"!

"Man, did you see that last episode of Lost? Dude, that show has really nuked the fridge!"

So, am I the only one who feels that Heroes has jumped the shark in a bad way?

Not only is the story line failing, but aggravatingly, so many threads from last season seem to have just been forgotten or ignored this season. I guess the writers strike could be blamed for it, but it feels like lazy story telling to me. Heroes always has kept a lot of balls in the air at one time, but in season one they did a good of bringing each story to a close, season two left a lot of gaps, and season three has yet to comment on them, it feel like the writers have already grown bored with them and decided to move on.

Glad to see Malcom McDowell back on the show though, though his role is pretty small, feels like they just wanted to squeeze him back on the show and so wrote in a part for him. Which is fine with me, as he is awesome.

skyjedi2005 said:

IS summer Glau a good actress or just a pretty face.

I think she is a decent enough actress, but it is hard to tell because between this and Firefly/Serenity we have only seen her play creepy-psycho-girl roles. But I must say she excells at the being creepy and doing fight scenes.

She is at great risk of being typcast (which I guess she already has) as the weird socially challenged girl who could kick your ass. Hopefully Cameron will be her last such role.

In all fairness, Sky said "Metal Gear Solid" franchise and not "Metal Gear" franchise. So I guess that all depends on if you consider them two different series or not, since the numbering restarts, I tend to consider the Solids as a spin off series from the Metal Gear series.

Though I do not own a current gen console, if I were to get one it would be the 360. Though I think the PS2 is a thing of perfection, I have yet to be too impressed by the PS3 (though in all fairness, it is still in its infancy). I tend to like the titles that are released exclusively on 360 to the ones released on the PS3. Metal Gear Solid 4 possibly being a perpetual PS3 exclusive (technologically speaking, it seems as though it would be nearly impossible to port it to the 360) saddens me, but regardless, I still think I'd prefer the 360.

I agree with you sky that the SNES was better than the 64. I still consider the SNES the greatest console of all time. But I think the N64 deserves much more credit than a lot of people give it. Even though I don't consider the sixty four the greatest console of all time, it is my all time favorite console. It was an amazing intoduction into the world of 3D console gaming that didn't look like pixelated crap that took hours to load.

Typically when we say "shoot the film" we mean actors and scenes being filmed with cameras. As far as I know, the term "shoot the film" has never been used to refer to a photographer going on location to take photographs.

For example, if I were to make a film, and let's say sometime during the making of my film I go on vacation to London and take a few photographs and later incorporate those pictures into my film, could I really say that my movie was filmed on location in London even though all the actual filming was done in the states?

Solid Snake? No, I think of myself more as James Bond (from the Sean Connery era, of course), John Clark, or Sam Fisher.

Oh, the N64 was a brilliant system! Down right amazing. It had way more power than its contemporaries. Anybody who owned one knew the brilliance of the system, but those who did not missed out on a lot. Back in the day we had so many debates over why one console was better than the other. The PSX had it beat in two major places, the PSX was easier and cheaper to develop for, and thus had a vastly larger library than the 64. As far as number of titles, the PSX won that hands down, the 64 couldn't even pretend to be competition from that standpoint, which was unfortunate for it. The other area that the PSX had it beat hands down was capacity, the PSX disc had a whopping 600mb from the beginning (though it rarely used anywhere near that much space except when it was chock full audio and video), while the N64 cartridges only had 64mb. Which makes it even more amazing that so many 64 games looked so impressive while PSX games always managed to look like pixelated crap. PSX games also had the ability to contain full motion video and CD quality audio, which the N64 could barely dream of ever doing (to see how that dream eventually turned out, take a look at the port of Resident Evil 2, two whole compact discs compressed onto one cartridge and it managed to look even better than it did on the PSX, too bad they only managed to do this when the console was on its death bed).

When you take a look at amazing games like Ocarina of Time, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark and many others, and consider them in light of the consoles limitations (mostly due to the small cartridges), any arguments for the PSX being the superior machine fly out the window. While the N64 had a shamfully small library on account of the difficulty the cartridge system cause developers, the good games it did have were really good and lightyears ahead of anything on the PSX.

As mentioned before, most really good PSX games also had a far superior PC version. 

The controller was also wonderfully unique, while the PSX controller was basically the same sort of thing all previous consoles had, the N64 controller really went all out to do something new, and obviously they did something right because the PSX redid their controllers with analogue sticks, and most controllers since then have gone with an analogue stick similar to the 64's. The "rumble pack", like the analogue stick, was another idea that began a new trend in console gaming. Everybody uses a vibrating controller now, having stolen the idea from the rumble pack.

Gaffer Tape said:

It was alluded to that he used Gohan's crotch as a pillow when he was young, but, uh, I don't recall any painful grabbing...

What kind of creepy pedo crap is that!

Wooooohooooo! GA fixed the internet!

Pulled out my N64 the other day and plugged her into the tube. Think I am going to tackle some of my good ol oldies. Spent a few hours playing Perfect Dark, man, that game is still a hell of a lot more fun than the vast majority of games I have played in the barely less than ten years since it came out. I still feel sorry for all those people who never owned a Sixtyfour because they felt it was a kids toy, and instead hung tightly to the PSX. The 64 had many exclusive games that were just amazing, while the only exclusive PSX game that was really worthwhile was probably Final Fantasy. Most others were availible on PC and with much better graphics too.

When playing games like Perfect Dark, Conker's Bad Fur Day, and Resident Evil 2, it is amazing to see what they could do with one of those little gray cartridges and an aging console there towards the end of the 64's life.

I have pulled out a handful of cartridges I plan to play may way through over the next few months. The games I am going to tackle are:

Perfect Dark

Goldeneye

Conker's BFD

Star Fox 64

Rogue Squadron

Shadows of the Empire

maybe Turok

and since I recently played through Resident Evil DS, I might try to tackle RE 2 on the 64, but that is a long game that I only find fun for short intervals.

bkev said:

...if anyone, ignorant dicks like you who just post - save for politics - for trolling should be banned.

I prefer to think of all my posts outside of the politics thread as trolling. I like the idea of being a devilish rogue whose sole purpose on these boards is to stir up trouble and make people laugh at my incredible wit and then feel guilty for having laughed at a troll (because it only encourages them, you know). Of course, in real life I like to think of myself as a secret agent, on the road when other cars are following me, I will out run them, or turn off into an alley or something to give them the slip. And at work, when I go to make copies or get a drink from the water cooler, I like to pretend I am sneaking into a government facility and try to accomplish my tasks without being seen or heard. One time I was crawling on my belly into the copy/fax room, and my boss was in there, he saw me on the floor and he was all, "What the hell are you doing on the floor" and everything. It was kind of embarressing.

I agree with sky on the crappiness of MMOs. I like to keep my gaming life and my social life seperate. If I want to interacts with other real people, I will go out and do so in person... or at OT.com... but yeah, I don't like MMOs. I prefer a solo experience with an engaging storyline, and one that I can revisit years down the road and enjoy all over again if I so choose, and doesn't require monthly fees and the sacrifice of a massive portion of my life.

negative1 said:

skyjedi2005 said:

Spielberg lives in his own version of reality I like to call "Bizarro World".  Where the 1982 ET is perfect and the original was good enough to placate those Older fans who did not get his "vision".

Also ET was such a great character he needed to be turned into a cartoon figure, lol what sane person wanted that! 

Spielberg was seduced with the Dark Side of Cgi and it convinced him it would make ET better when Spielberg's original instinct was to shoot it without them and use traditionally bulit sets props and models and Glass Mattes.  He should have followed his first instinct. 

No lets take out the guns, and replace them with walkie takies, no one will notice.  I certainly did.

To this day i cannot fathom why  Spielberg still has a job in the film business i mean that movie was that bad.

 

again, a few corrections..

later

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This one is so stupid I am not even going to comment.

negative1 said:

vote_for_palpatine said:

Socks, plants, rival camps of fans, suppressing cinematic history - my God, Steven Spielberg is totally insane.

 

 there, fixed it for you.

later

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That "fix" makes NO sense, considering Spielberg hasn't caused any rival camps of his film's fans and he has not tried to suppress any cinematic history. You are just bent on trying to convince everyone Spielberg is as lousy of a film maker and as disrespectful to his fans as GL, but the evidence of this just isn't there. Before you argued that Spielberg made a bunch of crappy movies, many of which you simply labeled "boring" as the reason they suck, regardless of the awards and wide acclaim they recieved. GL's crap usually isn't taken seriously and doesn't win awards or acclaim, they might if he'd actually made some films in his lifetime. Spielberg has made a lot of films, some good, some bad, some terrible, but at least he takes chances and tries. Lucas is just a lot of talk and little action.

negative1 said:

more about the release:

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Although director Steven Spielberg eventually stepped in to make sure that both the 2-DVD and 3-DVD sets included the 1982 version, the studio only made this announcement at the last moment, after many had likely made their pre-orders for the box set online.

and so many people think Speilberg is great, when he does something

just as controversial, but no one seems to remember that, do they?

later

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Perhaps you didn't read your own post, or you didn't understand what you were quoting, but the 2002 DVD release DID in fact have both versions. And Spielberg didn't do anything controversial, he is the one who pushed the studio to include the original in the 2 disc set when originally it was only going to be in the three disc set.

It may seem to you like nobody seems to remember it, but that is probably only because the problem was fixed at the last minute before the DVD was shipped leaving no reason for anyone to still be talking about it. I remember the controversy very well, there was a lot of backlash at the idea of having to fork out tons of money on the ultimate edition just to get the original version of the film, it was a huge deal at the time, but like I said, because they realized it was such a big deal, they fixed the problem by including both versions. In other words, they decided they ought to please the fans and let them decide which version they want to watch, instead of making them watch the version they wanted them to see.

You could argue that George did the same thing with the 06 release, but he didn't really. If you have ever tried to watch the GOUT with a projector or on an HD TV it is so pixelated it feels like you are watching a damn youtube video in full screen. In a day and age where more and more people watch their DVDs on big widescreen TVs or with projectors, such a poor quality release holding to the quality standards of over ten years before is a meaningless gesture.

The funny thing about the 04 DVDs is that if you didn't read about them on the internet, or hear about the changes by word of mouth, just walked in the store saw them there and thought, "Hey, Star Wars is on DVD! I loved those movies when I was a kid, I ought to buy them for my kids for Christmas." When you watched them you'd be like, "What the hell?" Even if you were expecting them to be the 1997 films you would not be getting what you expected. You be getting three versions of the films you had never seen before. What other DVD set has ever done that to us before without so much as a warning in the form of the words "Special Edition" or "Director's Cut"? I cannot think of any.

Another thing that makes me surprised so many people are head-over-heels, paint me pink and slap me silly, what more could you possibly ask for, happy with the OT DVD release is its complete and utter lack of any special features whatsoever. No matter how you spin it, it is an incredibly bare bones set. I didn't realize that until just this week, when I finally broke down and bought the GOUT set (used, $3 bucks a piece, figured I might as well add them to my collection of nonanamorphic DVDs which consisted of the Planet of the Apes boxset and Monty Phython and the Holy Grail, both of which were released in the days when nonanamorphic was standard and both of which have had superior anamorphic transfers since then). Most bare bones discs at least come with a trailer or something to give people something else to click on after they watch the movie. These things literally only have the movie, scene selection setup, and a link to StarWars.com for some gay reason. First time I have seen an internet link on a DVD, brilliant stuff. Guess they wanted to make it look like it had more features than it does.

My GOUT set came with the 04 discs, and I am still trying to decide what to do with them. Maybe I will sell them on ebay, if I can make $9 off of them I will break even and my GOUTs will have cost me nothing. Not sure if I should sell the cases with them or not, the cases are seriously ugly, I could print off much nicer ones, but the ones I print off never quite look the quality of the original covers.

Holy shit dude, calm down! KillLucas posted that two days ago and hasn't been back since. Chances are he isn't coming back. Some people take the internets waaaay to seriously... it isn't worth freaking out like that over what some jackass said on a message board.

Gaffer Tape said:

I love TOS, and I like what I've seen of TNG.  Can't sit through an episode of it, though, C3PX?  I'm saddened.

Perhaps I should elaborate on that one. I have seen every episode of TOS at least once, if not more than once. I used to enjoy it alot, I popped in the tribble episode a couple of months ago, and was bored to death. Any time I try to watch an episode of it now, I never make it to the end. As lame as the stories are, I still enjoyed them (many of them, some episodes are downright crap) but having seen them all before and knowing the stories, I really have no interest to watch them anymore. So don't be too saddened Gaffer, I gave them their chance and they have had their turn. Presently, I much more enjoy what Star Trek has evolved into than what it has evolved from.

It is all related to that wet soapy look of Windows XP. People like bright and shiny things at present. I believe it is just a trend. Unfortunately, even old movies like Star Wars that are being put on DVD are being forced to follow this trend, and after the trend is over, there will be no evidence left of previous trends.

Chewy72 said:

cause he is so fricking funny!!!

 

Hey, hey, watch your language young man! What would your mommy say about you using such teenage level terminology?

Janskeet said:

 Nobody cares what you think by the way. Flaming is against the TOS and going to get you banned in a nano second. I have been here awhile and this board is full of conservatives not very tolerant of newbies and ignorance.

That is all a bunch of BS. As you can see, Janskeet is obviously not very tolerant. We do care what you think, newbies are more than welcome and as long as you obey the rules, you are not going to get banned. You don't get banned around here for stating your opinions. This is a pretty laid back place, and great place to hang out and discuss whatever you like.

However, you are not going to get anyone to rally with you to sue Lucas. You'd have no case for starters, and it just isn't the right way to go about things. As much as me and others here think Lucas is wrong in not releasing a restored OOT, he is well within his legal rights.

This is not the first time someone has come in and wanted to sue Lucas, someone like this has come in at least once before. But the world doesn't work like that.

Janskeet, we are usually a sancuary for people like this, no need to tell him off. He is a little over zealous with a name like kill Lucas and all, but he is probably just venting pent up frustration. We are not going to kill or sue Lucas, but of course KillLucas is more than welcome to stick around.

LordVader said:

just fast forward through all the reworked stuff in the 2004 SE DVDs.

 

Or, he could just not watch the pieces of shit at all. Which is what he already does.

negative1 said:

yeah great speilberg..

 

make a cg movie with a boy, and a 'talking' dog,

that's realism for you...

 

oh, and have them go to outer space while you're at it..

 

pot meet kettle..

 

hypocrite..

 

i'm glad Lucas kept Spielberg in check for Indy 4,

i can't even imagine what else he would have done to it..

 

later

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LOL, you just like to go against the grain don't you? I think no matter which way the river flowed, you'd always swim against the current. That could be a compliment in some cases, you know, think outside the box, but in your case it isn't so much thinking outside the box as it is disagreeing with and flipping around everything everybody else says.  Just an observation.

"I'm glad Lucas kpt Spielberg in check for Indy 4, I can't imagine what else he would have done to it..." That is completely nonsensical. Even taking into account the context of your previous posts and your feelings of Spielberg's incompetence still doesn't explain why or how ypu think he would have screwed up Indy IV had Lucas not been there holdong his leash. I am pretty sure you are only saying it because everybody else says that it was a good thing Spielberg was there to keep Lucas under control.

I also like how you act like Tin Tin being CG is the end of the world, but the Clone Wars being CG is an amazing and very mature show for adults. If Clone Wars can be so great in all its wooden CG glory, why can't CG Tin Tin even be given a chance?