xhonzi

Sort of like Quake 2 -> Half Life but usually on a less grand scale.

Nuffin'

Not really a complaint as much as an observation:  I usually browse new posts on a forum by clicking on a post, reading the new stuff, and then clicking back to get back to the thread list.  Today, I have to click back twice to get out of a thread page and back to the thread list.  Kind of funny, right?

I really want to buy some new games, but I have all of these older games which I'm currently burning through:

Shadow Complex - DONE!
Tomb Raider Legend, Anniversary & Underworld - DONE!
Uncharted - DONE!
MGS4 - (played 2 hours of it (watched 1.5 hours of it, played .5) and DONE!)
Ghostbusters - DONE!
Riddick - Butcher Bay - DONE!
Riddick - Dark Athena - DONE!
COD4:MW - DONE!
inFamous - 30%
GRAW2 - 15%
Mass Effect - 30%
Terminator Redemption (for the old xbox! - 50%)
Mercs2 Co-op: 50%
Left 4 Dead Co-op: 50%
Left 4 Dead 2 Co-op: 0%
Gears2 Co-op 85%
LBP Co-op 30%
Burnout Paradise - 10%
Metroid Prime 3 - 50%
Reistance - 15%
Dead Space
Batman: AA
Uncharted 2

I guess it's a pretty good problem to have.  :)  But I really want to pick up Darksiders, MW2, Assassin's Creed II, Bioshock 2, Mass Effect 2, and Fallout 3: GotY.

Ghostbusters is my most recent conquest.  I actually started designing a Ghostbusters TC for Quake II 15 years ago- so I think I was the prime target for a game like this.  I thought it was pretty fun- except that I played it on the hardest setting and found it to be EXTREMELY frustrating in 3 or 4 places.  I don't use terms like "throw my controller at the screen" lightly... but I got pretty close.  I won't claim it was a great game, but I found it to be good enough.

I played Butcher Bay once before on oXbox, but wanted to play it again since I have it on 360.  It's also very punishing on hard.  I'm playing it on easy now and it's still a bit of a challenge.  I guess I just don't like sneaking games that much.

Grrr! I've been stalled on Gears2 for about 6 months.  My co-op buddy has been too responsible recently to find time to play!

Sweet!  Where can I download it?

Baronlando said:

 they try to sell you every possible anniversary-related thing except the actual thing that is turning 30)

 Oh, the irony.  It is painful.

veritas said:

I have to disagree on that one.  The Rebel fleet on started to win after Palpatine was killed.  Palpatine was probably holding the Imperial fleet together with some kind of battle meditation.  Once that was gone the Rebel fleet was able to gain the upper hand.

 You have to disagree with which one?  I said:

I said:

Luke joins the Emperor as they use the dark side to guide the Empire to victory.

So I agree with you.  Were you disagreeing with someone/something else?

Terrible movie, but I liked the idea in "Lost in Space" that most of the "piloting" was done by the computer and the "navigating" was what the pilot did... until stuff got real and Joey had to use a "joystick" to actually pilot the ship.

I always went by the "You father was already a great pilot when I met him" line more than the "Just a navigator on a spice freighter" line as far as what the PT or NPT would actually show.

So, the Crane brothers have both been banned.  Do we get to know who they were now?

Thank goodness.  He was way too stupid looking in MI:SE.  I really missed the semi-real paintings of the characters (the close-ups).  Here's hoping there's a little lip-synching this time.  I know the original didn't have it, but the original didn't have voice to synch to...

Davnes007 said:

I can predict what Warbler will ask and answer his questions before he asks them!!!

 Sure, whatever...  Prove it!

Warbler said:

Oh... now I get it.

Versus when?  Are you traveling backward in time somehow?

TV's Frink said:

xhonzi said:

Warbler said:

ah, a backpack.

 What's a backpack?

Voila!

ah, a rucksack.

Too late?

Warbler said:

ah, a backpack.

 What's a backpack?

I meant to post this link with comparison pictures (sorry, 005).

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/22270/LucasArts-Announces-Monkey-Island-2-For-XBLA/

I would wecolme new and good Lucas material with open arms.  My dislike for Crystal Skull is not based on my hatred of the SW Prequels.  I wanted to give Crystal Skull a shot- I thought it couldn't be as bad as people were saying... in my opinion- it was every lick as bad as they were saying.

Hooray! Monkey Island 2 Special Edition!  I already own 2 copies of the original, but I'll gladly pay for the update.

http://www.shadowlocked.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=91:why-are-women-portrayed-so-negatively-in-film-&catid=40:rant

This article seems to be on the subject.

We watched Casino Royale again the other night (right before it came up in the sexism thread, coincidentally!).  I love the movie, but someone really needs to come up with a de-Sony Marketing edit.  They don't actually have to remove all 4 Sony Viao laptops, or all 7 Sony Ericsson phones, or the Sony Blu-Ray player, etc... but if they could dim/remove the superbright Sony logo on everything...

Man, I can't believe Campbell put up with that amount of corporate branding.  And every car save the classic Aston Martin is a Ford, I believe.  That one is pretty obnoxious too- but not as overt as the giant Sony logos on everything.

Also, it seems it would make sense to take the ~2.5 hour Casino Royal and shift maybe the last half hour of it to the ~1.5 hour Quantum of Solace.  We saw QoS a couple years after our original viewing of CR and found that we really needed a refresher or a "Last time on James Bond" to make sense of the movie.

OT.com's Lost Thread!  Featuring the Acronymic Stylings of Master VFP!

I am also glad to see Widmore's return to the island.  I, like C3PX, feared that his storyline would have been considered capped.

My friend thinks that perhaps the alt2004 stuff is the "temptation" that the MiB/EIG is offering the losties-  This is the life he is offering them if they join his side- This is the the life they are giving up if they join Jacob's side.

Doubleofive!  That is the cruelest thing I have ever seen you say!  I can't even quote it!  I think you owe bkev an apology!

Why don't you try to be helpful instead or being a jerk, which is what you are!

Yes, VideInfra78, let's hear your ideas.  I wanted to keep discussing this topic, but I think we got lost in some details where no one could agree on the right way forward.  But if you start posting, I'll start caring and contributing again. 

It is.  I guess I might have mentioned that in the first post.  Not sure when it's coming to PS3/Wii.  But I do believe it's a "when" and not an "if".

I never really took the time to answer my own question here, so I think I'll pluck this little gem from page 3 and put 'er back on top:

I think Luke would have lost.  And I see two or three scenarios in how he would have lost.

1. Luke would have been presented to the the Emperor.  The Emperor would have tried to turn him- first by talking to him and then attacking him.  (All very much in line with the events of the end of RotJ- except for the absense of Vader)  Luke would have stayed cool, however, and not taken the bait from the Emperor.  The Emperor would then realize that Luke was not going to be turned, so he must be destroyed (again, like the ending of RotJ) and Luke would die.  Perhaps he gets to be a Force Ghosty and hang out with Ben and guide Leia into becoming a Jedi.

2. Luke would have been presented to the Emperor.  Luke would be ready for the clean kill- a proper "light side" way to rid the Galaxy of the Evil Emperor.  But before he gets the chance, the Emperor begins to goad him and make him feel bad/fell mad.  Then he justifies his strikes against the Emperor and his usage of maybe just a little bit of the Dark Side to strike him down.  Luke has the Emperor on the ground and poises to strike him.  He is full of dark side energy. 
2.a  A look of peace crosses Luke's face.  Reluctantly, Luke lowers his arm and shuts down the sabre.  He bends on one knee in front of the fallen Emperor.  The Emperor rises to his feet and demands fealty from young Skywalker.  Luke, corrupted by the Dark Side, swears allegiance to his new master.  He watches as the Emperor returns his attention to the battle out the window.  Luke joins the Emperor as they use the dark side to guide the Empire to victory.
2.b Luke has the Emperor on the ground and poises to strike him.  He tries to push the dark side from his mind.  But his emotions outweigh his thoughts- he angrily swings the sabre and slices the Emperor clean through.  Luke gets ahold of himself.  He has done it.  And it did not, as the Emperor warned, cost him his soul.  He has not only rid the galaxy of the Evil Emperor, but he has used the Dark Side of the Force and bound it to his Light Side will.  He has nothing to fear of the Dark Side.  It is his ally.  It is under his control.  And he can bend it to his will.  It will not control him.  Ben was a fool to think it would.  Yoda wasn't strong enough to control it.  Not like Luke is.  Luke is truly the master of the Whole Force.  And with it, not only will he bring down the Evil Empire- he will bring peace to the Galaxy.  He will bend the galaxy to his will, just as he has done the Dark Side of the Force.

2.a - I think this is really hard to pull off.  When the Emperor says things like "Strike me/Vader down and your journey to the dark side will be complete!"  I think Luke must be thinking: "I bet I can strike him down and not be totally won over to the Dark Side... Why would killing one or two evil men, even in anger, makeover my moral view of the galaxy and instantly make me join an enemy?  He can't be serious!"  I can't really see Luke deciding to serve the Emperor in the near future no matter what happens in the Emperor's throne/thrown room.

2.b Rather, I think Luke would kill the Emperor, with the Dark Side, but not chose to serve him.  He would emerge from this experience less afraid of the Dark Side.  More sure of himself.  Palpatine and Yoda both said that just a little taste of the Dark Side would change Luke forever... Well- they were wrong!  It didn't change Luke.  He was the same as he ever was.  In fact, he was better!  He no longer had to fear treading down the dark path and becoming his father.  He was above that!  And of course, it would be these feelings of triumth and disregard for the warnings he had been given that would ultimately be his downfall.  The Emperor taunting him about instantly becoming a servant of the Dark Side would cause him to focus on the near term effects (which don't really exist) and ignore the long term effects. 

The 2.a scenario is along the lines of Anakin's fall in RotS.  I can't for the life of me think of how this single scene could be changed to make it end with Anakin joining the Dark Side full time.  I can see him momentarily employing the Dark Side to get himself out of a jam- and then maybe losing his fear of the Dark Side to where he's using it a lot... and then finding that he doesn't agree with every point of Jedi doctrine... being outcast from the Jedi once they hind his usage of the Dark Side to be unrepentant... and before long... he's a Dark Jedi.

PDO seems to be the best.  Yes, you have to get the Pepekura viewer, but then you can see how it all fits together IN 33333333DDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!