Jimboxy

Yeah it looks ok. Maybe this is a trailer issue and not an issue with the actual film, but Deadpool is one of those characters/franchises that people think they know how to write jokes for ("huh huh it's be pretty fucking cool if Deadpool did <insert cringe 4th wall joke that includes fucking something and a different media>") but generally can't, and the other two films I think understood the character a bit better and still had those jokes but managed to keep it just about on the right side of funny. This one, I'm not so sure about yet.

On 16/04/2024 at 13:43, Maf said:

I got 30mins in to TMNT Mutant Mayhem today and it's not very good

I'd stick with it dude. I'm on no way a Turtles guy, but I really enjoyed what they did with the characters. I think the first battle you're talking about is kind of the point in that battle. They've never actually applied these learned skills in anger before and win by educated luck and not just pure luck.

On 10/04/2024 at 15:51, one-armed dwarf said:

wait for the whole thing to release and more complete opinions come out as well

It's all been released in one go, so no need to wait

Stardew Valley

Picross

Super Mario Odyssey

A Forza Horizon game

GTAV

1 hour ago, Nag said:

6. @Jimboxy - 0 points

Slow and steady

10 minutes ago, Maf said:

Got hit by some impulse in CEX

 

 

That Spider-Man game is one of the most bastard hard games I've ever played

8 hours ago, Sly Reflex said:

No, MK is a mobile game now where you dress up Sub Zero and make him solve puzzles on a cutesy farm. 

I don't hate that idea

2 minutes ago, retroed said:

 

 

Reverse cover.

Still doesn't look great, like a year 9 kid knocked it up in their IT class

Albeit, better than the main cover

4 hours ago, one-armed dwarf said:

They have said they want to adapt the next one, and make that a sort of finale. But Villeneuve is in no rush apparently

I think that's because he's probably read the second book and gone "fffuuuuuuuuuuu, that's a problem for later Denis"

19 hours ago, one-armed dwarf said:

Sometimes twitter is ok

 

 

I don't understand what any of this means

I think I should really like Denis Villeneuve's films as clearly he's one of the best film makers working at the moment, but I find his movies to be emotionally lacking, and characters do take somewhat of a backseat to the visual. I do love DUNE, and it is a proper cinema film. I watched it again at the IMAX the other week and it just looks and sounds amazing. I liked his blade runner movie as well, although could do with going back and watching it again, Sacario I enjoyed as well but has the character problem mentioned above. I've seen Arrival when it came out but can't remember a whole lot about it. Not sure where I'm going with this but my take on that quote is a little bit of he doesn't know how to do that aspect of filmmaking well, so is being dismissive of it. He nails the other stuff though

20 hours ago, Maf said:

What;s short for that?

"Influencers"

I just had to turn it off before I launched the wiimote at the TV screen in frustration. It's going well

Just bumping this as I started it properly last night for the first time. I've completed Galaxy twice in the past but never the sequel, but it always seems to rank highly both in 3d Mario games (my favourite type of Mario game) and general games lists as well, but I think this may have set my expectations a little too high.

It is a very well-designed game, incredibly innovative, but also it takes no prisoners in terms of challenge. Normally that's fine but so far with this the levels are challenging, but I'm fighting the controls as well, which has tipped it over from fun to frustration for me. I'll still be sticking it back on again this evening mind

5 minutes ago, Maryokutai said:

I can see it on Switch with some bonus content, like a red cap for Joel and a peach dress for Ellie for maximum immersion.

5 minutes ago, Maryokutai said:

I can see it on Switch with some bonus content, like a red cap for Joel and a peach dress for Ellie for maximum immersion.

I've not played it, but Joel has a brother as well, right? It writes itself

2 minutes ago, Maryokutai said:

You can't really overrate Mario 64. It is for 3D gaming what the wheel was for transport.

You obviously never played Crash Bandicoot

oofff, I regret selling my copy of 3D All Stars if that is what it is going for now!

1 hour ago, Maryokutai said:

I've been thinking about that Citizen Kane comment all day and yeah, we don't have one, don't we. Progress in games has been way too fractured across different titles from different eras for that to have been possible. But I guess that makes the medium's history just as interesting to observe and analyse.

I guess it depends on how we relate Citizen Kane to film and apply the same standard to games. For example Tetris could be the Citizen Kane of games. Timeless, highly regarded, influential, some people hate it, often imitated, ground breaking etc. But does it need to be something narrative driven to count? Maybe it could be a hot topic question

3 hours ago, Maf said:

It's not that I think it's a strange black box. It's just I'm very clumsy, heavy handed and stupid. Not a great combination to then go mucking around with expensive equipment. 

 

You're not wrong, it's just a confidence thing 

I'd offer to come over and do it for you, but I think you'll a little far from me.

29 minutes ago, Nag said:

Pedro Pascal really is the new Michael Fassbender...

He played Magneto dude

11 hours ago, shinymcshine said:

I really quite enjoyed DI Riptide

Wasn't that the guy from The Bill?

The "I Expect You To Die" games are fun lateral thinking puzzle solving VR games, I enjoyed the two I played a lot, not a whole lot of replay value though. Red Matter was also a fun space horror puzzle game, not too scary as I would never have played it, not sure if that is on the PSVR store. Cubism was a good 3D block puzzle game. I can't remember what else I played now on my Quest 2

9 hours ago, Maf said:

I don’t know if he’s clearing up the shitty bits, but rewatching the trailer the snowy forest bit does look like the beginning of Age of Ultron, and the TVA are there so maybe Deadpool drags Wolverine around MCU history or something?

 

Maybe it’s sort of like the 2nd act of Avengers Endgame where the Avengers revisit bits from previous films. But where as that felt like an over extended pat on the back/victor lap, maybe Deadpool is just fucking around in different MCU films and doing things “in the background” which changes context for some events. Unlike Endgame where it was ‘serious’ Deadpool is just a fuck up and taking the piss. Maybe that’s why he says he’s Marvel Jesus

 

Or maybe it’s just a snowy forest, I dunno. 
 

The action already looks so much better in this film

I think this is probably about right. The scene where he gets punched through a wall into something, is the 20th Century Fox logo. I imagine they'll be hoping about between all the Marvel stuff they've done so far, super meta, probably too much so

I guess I'm looking forward to this? I liked the other two Deadpool films, but also find them a bit try hard as well, and worry that this will just amp up the try hard stuff beyond my tolerance, we'll see though

15 hours ago, Jimbo Xiii said:

I think mine was Castlevania on the GameBoy, I can't think of anything else before that. I don't think I had any Capcom games on the Master System

Just realised that's Konami isn't it. I'll turn in my badge and gun now