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Post: #297299
Topic: Army of Darkness - The Primitive Screwhead Edition (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/297299/action/topic#297299
Time: 14-Sep-2007 9:07 PM

Is this article avalible online anywhere?

Post: #297297
Topic: DOOM (game) and STAR WARS
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/297297/action/topic#297297
Time: 14-Sep-2007 9:01 PM

Wow, I didn't even known online play existed back then. It didn't for me because I didn't have internet. But my friends and I would link our computers via null modem cable or later by LAN. One of the games we played the most was Red Alert, but we did spend a good deal of time using the force to push each other around in JK. That will really the highlight of multiplayer in that game, the force powers. Honestly the lightsabers sucked. They looked cool but the dueling system wasn't much.

Post: #297248
Topic: Army of Darkness - The Primitive Screwhead Edition (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/297248/action/topic#297248
Time: 14-Sep-2007 1:52 AM

Originally posted by: jephyork
I'll also need a Laserdisc player

d'oh!

Post: #297247
Topic: Why the hell did the lazy Emperor even think Luke would join the dark side and become his new apprentice?!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/297247/action/topic#297247
Time: 14-Sep-2007 1:33 AM

ADM, I honestly think you should do a fan project where you "prequelize" the OT. You could go through the whole trilogy and rewrite the dialogue in subtitles. It would be funnier than Backstroke of the West.

Post: #297245
Topic: DOOM (game) and STAR WARS
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/297245/action/topic#297245
Time: 14-Sep-2007 1:23 AM

Yeah lordjedi, I don't know what you are talking about. Dark Forces predated the online multiplayer, while Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight had multiplayer from the get go. You could fight any character with any character, with lightsaber, force powers or even just blasters. It was a lot of fun actually. And yeah, there were a lot of mods for it, so you could have a lot of fun with it. Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast also had multiplayer right from the start. As did Jedi Academy.

My goodness, that is one messed up series of games!!! We go from Dark Forces to Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight, then with the third game instead of Dark Forces III they decide to continue it from the previous games subtitle as Jedi Knight II (so Dark Forces III: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast??? hehe), then instead of calling the next one Jedi Knight III, they just outright rename it to Jedi Academy (I guess Dark Forces IV: Jedi Knight III: Jedi Outcast II: Jedi Academy would have been kind of hard to print on the CD). But with all that said, I for one am glade that they dropped the name Dark Forces from the title and renamed the series, since Jedi Knight had very little in common with DF gameplay wise. Kind of sets Dark Forces away from all the extra baggage the later installments brought to the series.

Hmm, I just noticed another minor similiarity between DF and SOTE, the N64 cartridge of SOTE features a StormTrooper, very much like the cover of the original DF box art.

Post: #297201
Topic: no KOTOR 3 because of force unleashed?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/297201/action/topic#297201
Time: 13-Sep-2007 12:37 PM

Originally posted by: Crygor64
I'm a bit disappointed with this news.

Honestly, The Force Unleashed feels like the new Shadows of the Empire to me.

Marketing filler until the bigger projects arrive.

Hey, Shadows of the Empire was a great game, filler it may have been, but it was some good filler. It was like finally having a real Dark Forces sequel. And with Shadows being filler before the prequels, it is sad it came out so much better than them, both storywise and in feeling like it fit with the OOT.

Post: #297175
Topic: Army of Darkness - The Primitive Screwhead Edition (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/297175/action/topic#297175
Time: 13-Sep-2007 3:02 AM

Whoa!! Are you kidding?! That is amazing! I'd say this is a great preservation project even without removal of subtitles or any other cleanup. If you still need help transfering the data from the laserdisc at the best possible quality drop into the General Preservation and Fan Edits, Requests and How-To's and Technical Discussion section, the guys over there will be happy to help you out. Here is a link that section http://www.originaltrilogy.com/forum/categories.cfm?catid=12. You are going to need a video capture card on your computer and a good deal of HD space, I have done a lot of VHS transfers but never LD, so that is as far as I can help you. Good luck.

Post: #297167
Topic: DOOM (game) and STAR WARS
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/297167/action/topic#297167
Time: 13-Sep-2007 12:35 AM

Yeah, I have an old disk of it somewhere too.

As far as clones of video games go, I think of a clone as something along the lines of someone making a Pac-Man game that isn't really Pac-man but tris to get that same kind of feel to it. Usually clones are made as a cheap ways to cash in on or make a freeware version of something original. Dark Forces could be considered a clone because it was made back when Doom/Wolfenstein were the original FPS and there wasn't really anything else like it, but I think of Dark Forces more as one of the pioneers of the FPS genre, afterall I don't think it really tried to emulate Doom so much as it tried to be its own thing. Certainly it was inspired by Doom in a "Hey, that is a great idea, what can we do with that concept?" sort of way. And for Halo clones, maybe Halo had a few original ideas and others picked up on those, but I think we are past the point of cloning when it comes to FPSs. In all honesty the FPS genre doesn't have much variety, there are countless titles, but they are all more or less the same. We need as many Half-Lifes and Halos as we can get. Games that take a step beyond and try to add something new, it is to be expected that newer titles of the same genre are going to pick up on those things. I don't think that makes them clones, I think that is the normal course of evolution for video games.

Post: #297166
Topic: no KOTOR 3 because of force unleashed?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/297166/action/topic#297166
Time: 13-Sep-2007 12:17 AM

Originally posted by: Johnny Ringo
regardless it looked to be a lot of fun.

I agree. Sorry to hear Lucas Arts can't cope with more than one project at a time. If they always worked at this rate they might only get one or so releases per year, fortunately they spit out silly little crappy Star Wars titles left and right, as well as hire others to make SW titles for them then slap their name on it, so that it looks like they have been busy. Oh how the great have fallen. If you told me back in the late eighties and early nineties, or even in the mid-nineties, the kind of games LucasGames Ltd./LucasArts would be releasing by the year 2007 I would haved laughed in your face. I sure do miss those old games. Well, at least we still have Bounty Hunter and Star Wars Super Bombard Racing...

Post: #297157
Topic: no KOTOR 3 because of force unleashed?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/297157/action/topic#297157
Time: 12-Sep-2007 8:18 PM

Is that the Indana Jones game that they are always bragging about being amazing in the fact that every character has 100% unique facial expressions when punched that never get repeated? Because it always cracked me up at what a big deal they made out of that. I mean, I have made many complants about things in video games, but the fact that characters used recyled facial expressions has never actually been one them. But yeah, I agree, an Indiana Jones game is always a lot cooler than a Star Wars game these days.

Post: #297151
Topic: Potter eclipses Star Wars and Bond
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/297151/action/topic#297151
Time: 12-Sep-2007 6:07 PM

Originally posted by: GoodMusician

Sorry... I always saw Casino Royal as a separate take on Bond... I didn't see it as bad, but I've never read the book and knowing that it was written years ago... there is no way that movie was even loosely based on it...

Actually, Casino Royale is amazingly similiar to the novel on which it is based. I would almost go as far to say that it is one of the closest book to film adaptions I have seen in a long time. I have only read a few Bond books, but I have seen every film, and usually they are very loosely based on the novel, I was surprised when I saw Royale. Even the carpet beater sequence is almost straight out of the book.

"Never.... Ever.... Compare Novel to Film. They are two separate media. To say one is better or worse then the other is simply not possible."

That is an interesting thought, and to an extent I would agree with you. But I think it is not only possible, but inevitable. I agree both are art forms, no doubt about it, but we are not talking about the Great Gate of Kiev of the Modest Mussorgsky suite here. Those are too completely different styles and types of art, but both film and liturature are subcatagories of the art of story. And when it comes to books to films or films to books we are talking about one of these subcatagories retelling and already existing story. It would be more like Leonardo repainting the Mona Lisa but this time with water colors instead of oil paints. Of course people would compare the two, some would say they like the new dynamic brought to the work by the water colors, others would say it was a great painting before and that it was silly repaint it, while others would say they both unique and wonderful works of art. But they would be compared, no doubt about it.

When somebody writes a great novel and years later it is converted to film, of course people are going to compare the two. Some will like both, some will hate one and love the other, and others may hate them both. But they are anything but on comparable. Unlike the Great Gate of Kiev and the Modest Mussorgsky suite, Jurassic Park the novel and Jurassic Park the film are forever intertwined with one another, even if both incarnations are both excellent, as in the case of Jurassic Park, one is still a retelling or reimagining of the other.

As for Narnia, the reason it had such a theological message was because of how close it stayed true to Lewis' book. Those analogies from his original works were carried over to the film, being as it is the heart of the story, it would be impossible for it not to have been and to have stayed the same story. It is interesting you say you were stuck comparing it to the Bible and felt it was a knock off copy of the New Testament, because it really has very little in common with the Bible other than the theme of the savior and the sacrifice of an innocent life for a guilty one and the resurrection. Countless people have read those books and never picked up on any religious tones. As far as narrative goes, there is absolutely nothing in common with the New Testament (except perhaps for the resurrection, but you really have to be pulling to come up with that. Last time I read through my New Testament Jesus didn't run into battle with the women on his back right after he was brought back to life the very morning after he died). I think the problem with Narnia was that when it was released there were too many religious groups pushing the thing and preaching sermons on it. I can't even remember how many church billboards I passed that had some mention of The Chronicles of Narnia in it. Even the woman who drew the illustrations for the books didn't know that the book had anything to do with religion until much later, and was surprised when she found out. The comparisons in Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe are pretty abstract, I don't think many people would pick up on them if it wasn't hinted to them before hand. Sorry to hear you didn't enjoy it, it really is a great story, I think all of the religious groups pushing that film didn't help it any, I am afraid I have seen many people get too hung up on the religious "analogies" that they didn't see the story for what it really was. So, you are not the only one GM. Even Lewis' did not intend the thing to be a religious work. Aslan isn't even really suppose to be Christ. The idea Lewis had behind Aslan was more of "what if other worlds existed? If God were to send them a savior as he sent us Jesus, what would that savior be like?" Lewis was a theologian, so it stands to reason that he would throw a fair amount of theology into his fiction.

Post: #297112
Topic: Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/297112/action/topic#297112
Time: 12-Sep-2007 1:31 AM

Originally posted by: generalfrevious

virtually EVERY movie has had a DVD release

Oh really? I can name three that have never been released and will never see the light of day with either format. So why bother with this whole HD wars if the OOT is never going to show up in regular standard forms. The whole HD war is way too soon (8 years after DVD had been introduced into the market), and 20 years from now we will have to suffice with laserdisc quality "bootlegs" two or three video generations down. The GOUT at that time could be over 50 years outdated by then.

Technically the SW trilogy has been released on DVD now with the GOUT, it just happens to be an incredible poor quality release. But yeah, it is incredible far fetched to say virtually every movie has been released on DVD, there are TONS of movies not on DVD, sadly. The most popular of the films that haven't officially been released have fortunately had fan made VHS or LD transfers, but the less popular films are probably doomed to never be officially released.

Post: #297023
Topic: Indiana Jones IV
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/297023/action/topic#297023
Time: 10-Sep-2007 11:59 PM

Kingdom of the Crystal Skull... ouch! Feels like something out of an episode of the old Ewok cartoons. Temple of Doom was cool enough of a name, Raiders of the Lost Ark was great, and The Last Crusade had a nice ring to it, but Kingdom of the Crystal Skull????? Does it feel like it belongs on the shelf with Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, and The Last Crusade? Or does it feel like it belongs in a box under the bed beside other titles like The Phantom Menace, The Attack of the Clones, and The Revenge of the Sith? Goodness, Philip K. Dick himself could come up with a better title than Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. When I read that was the title I really hoped you guys were just making fun and that the title had not been anounced yet.

Post: #297022
Topic: General Harry Potter Discussion
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/297022/action/topic#297022
Time: 10-Sep-2007 11:44 PM

Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
Since when is George Lucas a fantastic story teller?

Since he came up with Star Wars. It was great and a lot of fun, a very enjoyable story. That is why I said he is a great story teller, but horrible at writing. The only reason the majority of us are at this site is because we really enjoyed the story Lucas had to tell. But as we have seen proven beyond a shadow of a doubt from the prequel trilogy, the man is a horrible writer. Even the overall stories of the PT were not that bad, the writing and execution of it was the bad part. A good writer could have made something great out of Lucas' prequel trilogy, unfortunately somewhere along the way through years and years of fan worship, dollar signs and having his ass kissed George has come to think of himself as the master storyteller and writer that knows no wrong, and therefore decided that he could write and direct the whole thing by himself and not take a bit of creative criticism from anyone. George is a very creative guy and he came up with a lot of cool concepts and characters and story ideas, he is a good story teller, I don't think we can doubt that. That is what makes the PT (as well as ROTJ) so disappointing, there was so much potential there, but so little came out of it.

Post: #296967
Topic: no KOTOR 3 because of force unleashed?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/296967/action/topic#296967
Time: 9-Sep-2007 6:37 PM

Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
if this is really the case then i hope lucas burns enjoys the fact that he ruined another good aspect of the expanded universe.

Who is Lucas Burns?

Post: #296950
Topic: General Harry Potter Discussion
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/296950/action/topic#296950
Time: 9-Sep-2007 3:26 AM

Well, if it is R1, then I am pretty sure it would be Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, since both the book and the movie were only released under that name in North America. They figured the Americans would be too uneducated to know what a Philosopher's stone was. As far as I know the only existing NTSC copies of HP and the Philosopher's Stone are DVD-rips of the PAL version with the video converted to NTSC, right?

Must be something deeper to this question than meets the eye, the ADM I know is far more competent in video knowledge than I am and therefore could not be asking such a simple question. ADM, you live in NTSC land, right?

Post: #296924
Topic: General Harry Potter Discussion
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/296924/action/topic#296924
Time: 8-Sep-2007 5:42 PM

Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
even though I thought Rowling, a competent writer, did a really poor job with the Harry/Ginny romance.

I don't know, I think sometimes we mix up "good writer" with "good story teller".

George Lucas is a fantastic story teller. Rowling is a fantastic story teller, but I don't consider her that good of a writer (though not bad either). But there are also certian aspects of her stories that just never come out right. The Romance sections are definitely one of those sections. A middle aged woman writing a story about a teenage boy is a little off. Middle aged women never experienced nor ever will experience what it is like to be a teenage boy. Rowling did her best, but things like the Romances (especially Harry and Cho) and disagreements between Harry and Ron (going for months without talking to each other, what guys do that??) just didn't quite seem right.

Post: #296906
Topic: Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side (the TM edit) (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/296906/action/topic#296906
Time: 8-Sep-2007 1:32 PM

If you would like to avoid the ever annoying real player I think there is a mac version of real alternative, which like the name implies is an alternative solution to playing real player files. Just google "real alternative".

Post: #296893
Topic: Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/296893/action/topic#296893
Time: 8-Sep-2007 3:44 AM

DVD cases were really cool, for the first time we have movies, games for PC and all consoles, software, everything sharing the same shape and size of case. I was enjoying that, it is annoying they decided that they needed to change it. It would have been nice to put DVDs and Blu-Ray/HD-DVD on the same shelf and have then blend in flawlessly... oh well. I like how Nintendo with the Wii's white cases and Xbox with the green cases customized them and made them immediately distinguishible by the color of their case. Blu-Ray would have been cool if they would have merely changed the color to some shade of blue.

Post: #296868
Topic: General Harry Potter Discussion
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/296868/action/topic#296868
Time: 7-Sep-2007 4:11 PM

Region 1 is always NTSC, so yeah, it wont be PAL.

Post: #296867
Topic: Jericho
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/296867/action/topic#296867
Time: 7-Sep-2007 4:09 PM

Yeah, I bookmarked it on my browser, I intend to watch the pilot when I get time.

Post: #296863
Topic: Jericho
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/296863/action/topic#296863
Time: 7-Sep-2007 3:37 PM

No, I have never seen the show. I have only heard the name of it and the suggestion that it was good, but I never even knew what it was about until I read your post and looked into it more.

My buddy is a nuclear engineer and we talk about this stuff all the time and run over and discuss different disaster scenarios. He always tries to urge me to build a shelter and keep it stocked. I am sure he has never heard of this show either, otherwise he would have mentioned it to me.

Post: #296856
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/296856/action/topic#296856
Time: 7-Sep-2007 1:42 PM

A buddy of mine recommended Oblivion to me just a couple of days ago, unfortunately none of the elder scrolls games are for the PS2 and my computer is a dinosaur who can barely run Halo 1 if I turn everything down to the lowest quality. Marrowind might work, but I think my system would choke to death on Oblivion. I beat God of War, I was surprised how easy the end battles turned out to be. Honestly that room with the spinning wheels and conveyor belts where you have to fight the harpies and the archers was by far the hardest part of the game for me, it took me days to beat that part, much harder than the Ares and the evil Kratoses.

Post: #296855
Topic: Jericho
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/296855/action/topic#296855
Time: 7-Sep-2007 1:41 PM

Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
If you think the show is just fiction ... if you think it couldn't happen ... consider this.

Reassuring, huh?

Nonsense! It could never happen! Nuclear weapons are all a myth! A myth made by our governments to scare us.

Of course it could happen. I think people like to tell themselves it can't because they can't cope with the possibility of it. Although if people would prepare for it, it wouldn't be as bad. So in the end, avoiding the idea isn't helping anyone.

Post: #296718
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/296718/action/topic#296718
Time: 4-Sep-2007 9:09 PM

Haha! No. I said it reminds me of the days when graphic were crap but gameplay was fantastic. I meant the gameplay in God of War reminds me of older games I used to play (not in style so much as playability). It seems like so many games these days look nice but aren't worth much.