Cal, are you part Italian? You keep saying "Nonno" on the podcasts (yeah all two episodes in the last like four months) and I'm now curious.
I'm currently listening to the cast now, and just thinking about all the stuff that happened in Episode 5 and how it happened has been making me like that episode less. Because I recall being ok with it when I had just finished the game. The dinner dream scene in Episode 5 is probably my least favorite scene in the entire game, especially when it came down to Max talking to herself...the episode had already become a mess of half-assed stealth sections, painting Warren as some weird psycho no matter what we as players chose, asset reuse in extremely weird dream scenarios that felt had come out of nowhere, etc.. I mean, we see Chloe and then TIME FOR CRAZY SHIT, and then we go back to seeing Chloe. I also disagree with Nick and Cassie about which ending was being the "obvious" choice. To me, sacrificing Chloe was always the conclusion I saw the game pointing us to. Not to mention, just watching the Bae scene made it so obviously clear that this was not the intended choice: it felt incredibly lazy compared to how much better directed and shot the Bay ending was. This compounds with Episode 2 having made Kate such a huge part of the story...sacrificing Arcadia Bay felt like betraying the choices we already made. I can justify the ending of sacrificing Chloe, but the fact that the story funneled down to this was....not well done. But all of those issues are symptoms of the real issue: Dontnod was rushed, hard, which is partly a result of having a smaller budget (Remember Me, the studio's previous game, looks better graphically for comparison.) The choices at that point were so regressive toward all of the decisions and relationships we were building up throughout the game. The most disappointing thing about the game's conclusion is that Dontnod didn't want it to end this way. Here's just one of the things that was abandoned. The art in the game's Limited Edition shows that there was supposed to be a street scenario with Max in a gown and seemingly losing control or maybe even gaining more superpowers. It looks sick. There was also a lot of build-up around Native American spiritualism...that was entirely dropped. I'm almost certain the developers straight up have said that this was not the original intended ending on podcasts or something. I also side with Misty about one of the main characters: why would you finish this game if you hate Chloe??? (And Ashly Burch DAMN I love her as Cassie Cage in MKX) She was for sure manipulative but....if anything, that made her feel more human (though she still has some really unrealistic qualities.) Still listening. I had some theories regarding Rachel that were proven wrong but if anyone is interested in seeing them anyway let me know. (also guys watch Steins;Gate it does a time travel story so well.)
I feel so very annoyed that people would make these generalizations. Thrice have played so many different variations of rock (I don't know The Drive-In) "Screamo" is its own kind of music. Ugh.
I totally see how frustrating that is, though I'm lucky enough to not really know anyone like that in my age range. Screaming in songs is kinda tough to get right, and it's pretty subjective just like all other things in music (I have a friend who dislikes The Beatles,) but maybe you could leak music that has a little screaming over a period of time?
My God, I haven't even played the demo yet but that looks terrible. Really thinking about holding out for the PC port at this point if they don't do far better. The textures on his sword are pathetic.
>In Arizona Hi here it is
I hate having to talk contrarily with internet service providers but if my family's paying for 40Mbps and I can't load a single YouTube video at 480p and various speed tests over weeks straight up stop, there there are obvious issues.
Sad to see Dark Souls III snubbed, but I guess the forum's tastes are a lot more different than I thought they were from mine.
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As Tale put it, there was already a big discussion about this, but I want to add that it's not censorship if they (apparently) were already considering removing it before they got the complaint. I'm not for removing stuff like this (because this instance the pose felt completely harmless) and I'm not a fan of how they went about making the change (one person complains so we use that thread to announce removing it instead of showing that they were already strongly considering it.) In the end, nobody forced their hand, so I can't call it censorship, and they didn't seem to do it unwillingly, so I can't say they lack creative backbone. It just could have been made optional (but I don't know how the Overwatch victory poses work so I don't know if there are already options.)
Mike Diva - Kazoo Kid - Trap Remix
I helped a friend build a gaming PC for him yay. Very true. Schumacher was making movies before cinematic universes were a thing. Snyder...oi.
I agree with basically all of this, though I think he'll have competition for public enemy number 1 in comic book movies with Joel Schumacher, who's still getting shit for Batman and Robin. I'm very excited for the movie that Ben Affleck is working on, because he gave the best performance so far of the Snyder-verse (not like there's much to compete with) and what I've seen of his directing and writing has been pretty good.
Spoiler I get what you're trying to say, but I don't think it's anywhere near that big a gap of quality personally. The Punisher stuff, the Wilson Fisk stuff, and the court stuff are all super interesting and well-done to me, but the Hand is just decent and Elektra is just overused. What I think they should have done is do a few flashbacks, but hold off on showing her as the assassin until near the finale. My girlfriend and I feel like it's maybe two episodes too long because of Elektra and her backstory. They felt like distractions from Matt's story rather than enhancements. There are so few things Rises did well to me that I just found the comparison too far removed. /shrug For me: DD S2 is "great" while DD S1 is "near perfect"
Spoiler I'm on Episode 10 of 12 so far and no way is this comparable to The Dark Knight Rises because that film was just an utter mess in every way. My main issues with this season have been with Elektra feeling like a distraction from the story, but otherwise it's still really damn good. But I do think we'd be fine ending it after the next season.
This is my favorite image ever: Don't worry, there's like twice as many shirtless shots that my girlfriend (and admittedly I) am appreciating.
I'm also weirded out about the actor change like Misty is, but if it's like MGS3 to MGSV, maybe the characters are different enough??? Whatevs I'm still excited for all this new Fantasy. Also about the song choice for the trailer...I don't remember hearing Leona Lewis in XIII (then again I haven't touched that game in more than 4 years) so I'm not too worried about XV lacking good music. It's just to get the appeal of a bigger audience.
I have most of the starters and dozens of Dragon-type babies. Lemme know if anyone wants anything.
