That's funny! I saw that clip the other day. :lol:
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That's funny! I saw that clip the other day. :lol:
Your online friend. You've taken issue with Fromsoft on here and Twitter and wished for them to drop the Soul style of games; I'm actually with you on that one. I miss the old Fromsoftware and wish they would go back to the likes of O.TO.GI, Ninja Blade and the like.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leynos
I bought Elden Ring hoping that the more open world would mark a change in the style of the game, but it just Souls only in a more barren world, where making the Map so large has come at great cost to the game engine, the whole game looks and plays like a game from last gen .
I was hoping for the 'WOW' Fromsoftware moment I used to get from their games, especially on the OG XBox, but even on the last-gen seeing Dark Souls 3 or Bloodborne for the 1st time was a WOW moment, even if I sucked at the games, I did enjoy watching my nephew play through DS III . I got none of that from Elden Ring and no doubt you'll rip the game to shreds but thought Assassin's Creed Valhalla looks far more impressive other than art direction (which like always it's amazing by Fromsoftware) and actually more fun and enjoyable game to play.
Still, I got to sell it for £44 on eBay so only a tenner down, not too bad. Nice to see you got a PS5, Xbox Series X next :)
Top comeback fairplayQuote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
I once had to drink half a pint of camel piss in Ibiza on a Club 18/30 Holiday in 1999 in the group challenge. It was the vilest stuff I've put into my mouth
He's a true friend dude. Go fuck yourself. How do you derail every thread. GTFO
Just some food for thought: George Lucas seemed to think every Star Wars he made was crap but a lot of people felt differently.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leynos
Talking about the business side, not a creator's side. SE created a studio for Naka. The game was a disaster and the studio dissolved. Even tho I hate meta, publishers pay attention to it. Sony canceled Days Gone 2 over the first games meta even tho fans liked it. Where Days Gone seemed fine for what it is. Balan is just broken from a design and mechanic standpoint. I don't know how much of Balan's failure is on Naka but SE has been bad at managing a lot of games last few years that end up disasters. The Quiet Man, Left Alive, Avengers, Balan, Babylons Fall. They lost money on Avengers and Babylons Fall they had Platinum stop development and restart development late because SE wanted a GaaS game instead and had the game rushed out the door.Quote:
Originally Posted by JCU
Balan reminds me of the one time I was doing work for Regal theaters. Certain areas of town have large populations of people from India, so Regal Theaters would show movies from their country. The movies would seem to be alright, right up to the point, when all of the sudden, some dude would be dancing in the street with a bunch of people dancing behind him. You could tell he just inserted himself into the movie (director?), because the camera kept jumping all over the place, as if it was just pasted together, so as to make look like his old ass could actually dance that long. The movie ends with a couple jumping off into a volcano and everyone is celebrating their death. WTF?!
Balan is sort of like that. You got these okay looking platform areas, then all of the sudden it’s cutting over to this romper room dancing segments that looks like it was made to entertain pre-schoolers. Even if it shows up on Game Pass, I’ll Pass on it.
Didn't most of the cast and crew think the 1st film was a joke and the only person who said the film is great was Steven Spielberg during early screenings?Quote:
Originally Posted by JCU
The best part of Leynos rant on Balan is that it plays and feels a lot like a Dreamcast game. No doubt many of the quirky Japanese DC games Leynos says he loves on the DC are ripped to shreds by the general public and IGN, but he'll call them out of it, maybe hell even ask have you played them. He'll also in another thread, pretend he cares for staff working in the industry while celebrating people like Naka losing his job.
Speaking of From and quirky Japanese DC games and seeing as I've finished my week shifts. I'll play and joy these games today despite what the public and Leynos thinks
https://i.imgur.com/6ewwjtH.jpg
The British actors made fun of Star Wars while on the sets. Mark Hamill said that he’d heard one extra say “bunch of wankers” while they were standing around on set. Alec Guinness despised being known as Obi Wan, even though it made him world known.
Early screaming of the film didn’t go over too well, so Lucas reshot the Tie Fighter scenes after showing the special effects crew footage from WWII fighter pilots engaging the bombers. Marsha Lucas edited it, removing unnecessary scenes like Luke and Biggs on Tattooine. When the movie debuted in Japan, the audience left in silence. Lucas thought that they didn’t like it, until someone informed him that it was just the opposite. They leave in silence as a show of respect for the film. The rest is history and the movie stayed as the highest grossing film of all-time, until it was passed by Titanic some 20 years later. AFI ranked Star Wars #13 movie of all-time, when they celebrated 100 years of film.
It wasn't just the British, didn't Harrison Ford say you can type this shit, doesn't mean people got to say it .Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
My 1st hand experience of how wrong reviews can be, or it doesn't matter on revenue generated (over a film quality) was with The Thing (82) . Most reviews slammed it, in fact one UK reviw called it a sick film, it lost millions at the box office and thanks only to the recommendation of the boss of Village Video (my local VHS rental) did I try the film.
Harrison Ford didn’t want to be typecast as Han Solo for the rest of his life, and Alec Guinness was also a stage actor in theater long before Star Wars. Star Wars was never panned, unless a snob like Roger Ebert reviewed it.
I’ve seen Swamp Thing. It was an okay movie, but I can see why it would get panned by some critics and viewers.
Loads of people slagged off the film, not just the British, but what did they know?Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
It happened with games and films. I loved NightBreed and Day of the Dead nor matter what reviews or box office said
I still to this day love Blue Stinger, Night Trap, Deadly Premonition
By all accounts Guinness was a weirdo so anything he said should have been taken with a grain. No offense to Obi Wan, I'll always hold Cushing at the top (or close to it) when it comes to British actors. Ford? He comes across as an egotistical douche bag who is alright being typecast as an elderly archeologist but a scoundrel is a no no?
As a gamer or viewer of older movies, my opinions tend to differ greatly from those involved in some capacity with the production or those getting paid for reviewing.
I always thought that Richard Harris was near the top for British actors.
Fuck me, he’s Irish?
Roger Ebert actually gave it a glowing review.Quote:
Originally Posted by Team Andromeda
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/star-wars-1977
These days what's the difference? I've a lot of people I've known online for years as friends. One of them being a lady I've known for close to 20 years who I found out passed away due to serious medical complications. It hit me pretty hard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Team Andromeda
A real friend who's online, Vs a online friend? Who you don't now and never metQuote:
Originally Posted by BonusKun
KNown each other for 12 years and came through for each other in some tough times. Know secrets about one another. But have your own narrative. Later today I will actually post something on topic. Imagine that. What a novel idea.
Again, What's the difference?Quote:
Originally Posted by Team Andromeda
I’ve met several people that I’ve been friends with online. Hell, about 14 years ago, a bunch of members from the TNL forums got together in Dallas for a meet up. We all met at a restaurant and eventually headed over to a pool joint for beer, pool and darts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Team Andromeda
PS5 now branded
https://i.imgur.com/7Rbky57.jpg
Agreed. The game is borderline unplayable in its current state, at least on PC. It has potential if they can patch it to fix the performance issues. Maybe it's better on consoles? On a brighter note, I got my copy of Kirby and the Forgotten Land, now there's a fun game. Performance is nothing to write home about but for a Switch game it's about what I expected.Quote:
Originally Posted by Team Andromeda
That's a perfect description of Balan. Would rep you again if possible. At first it looks OK, then out of nowhere there's these WTF moments. The only part that really pissed me off though was that strobe effect during the last boss fight, not cool at all for people with epilepsy. Simply inexcusable at this point. Thankfully that was fixed in an update.Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
My condolences.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonusKun
Thanks Axel. She was a good friend I'd known for years. We used to talk a lot on Teamspeak, Discord and what not. Her husband died in an auto accident years earlier so that's probably what contributed to her health going downhill. For some people who've been married for years, losing your spouse can be a hard thing to accept & thus you just to start giving up on life. :(
Sorry to hear that. I know the feeling, after I lost my wife there was a long time where I felt like there was no reason to go on. Thankfully I had friends and family who helped me through that.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonusKun
I don't have a problem with ER being too familiar. I have a problem with it being a busted, unbalanced POS. Difficulty levels are all over the place, questlines are so vague From had to put markers on the map (not that it helps much), etc. Some areas have mobs that are much harder than the boss, and some bosses are so ridiculously OP that you get the same result after grinding (I'm currently level 175 with 152 hours in). The game is abusive to melee players, something the Souls games were not. There's a reason why every YT video you see has people playing as casters. Melee combat in this game blows.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leynos
Also, while I love the open world, some areas are horribly designed. Haligtree and Elphael are terrible and turn the game into a slog. The mobs in those areas are ridiculously OP. Hopefully, From will balance them with a future patch.
I've met a few of the forum people too, including a hilarious drunken meet up in Cardiff when some of the Japanese and New Zealand members of the Panzer Dragoon forum were in town for the world cup rugby and where no one could understand what on earth one was saying. To this day I'm still friends of the Dreamcast Technical pages group and was gutted when the wonderful Core lost his lifeQuote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
The way you act/talk online is different from how you are in real life. And you can bring up one review of Star Wars, in the early test screenings it was ripped apart and so many films have had dire reviews or lost loads, 1982 The Thing being a prime example
And Leynos misses the point. It's got nothing to do with a game doing anything new, it's just how everything about ER is distinctly last gen, right down to the graphics, frame rate and sound
Anyway back on topic, loving this from my 2nd fav Arcade corp. Hatrick Heroes is still as good as ever
https://i.imgur.com/xsTBFGh.jpg
The Thing wasn’t a great movie by any stretch. It was an okay watch at best and shouldn’t even be in comparison to something like Star Wars.
If you say that we'll never agree and let's move on, because it pointless to have an argument
I just love my Egret
https://i.imgur.com/x4H1UMG.jpg
I'd get one of those, but really don't have any room for those mini arcades. I love the game lineup that machine has.
I thought about an Egret Mini II, the price, and the fact that I have a majority of the same games on the 4 PS2 Taito Memories compilations eased it up for me not to get one. The Arkanoid games are the draw for me for it, but that requires buying the spinner controller, and the SD card the games are on (along with 7 other games, Puchi Carat one of the games on the SD card, I have on Taito Memories PS2 and on PS1, Arkanoid Returns I also have on PS1). Too rich for my blood. Must say though, from the reviews I have seen, the cab is solidly built, has that nice rotatable screen, and can be hooked to one's TV, though Joe from Game Sack talked about shimmering issues with it (that don't really bother me too much though to be honest).
The sticking point for me though, the price.
It's ace. Hattrick Hero is still to this day awesome and so much fun, Me and some of my old mates, still to this day (and I'm not making it up) remis about playing Hattrick Hero in a Barry Island arcade pissed as farts in 1990 on trip run by the local pub. Back in those days, our local pubs used to run trips away to the seaside in the summer. Your parents would get drunk, give you loads of money for you to go off and leave them alone in the Pub/on the beach. We were totally underage, but one pub allowed us young boys to drink, we got wasted (it only took like 2 pints LOL) and Hatrick Hero had just come out and in one of the Arcades in Barry Island they had it on a massive screen and it was a riot playing in 4 player mode drunk. we even liked to aim your shots to hit the camera men/women on the sidelines and I love how it zooms in when you score a goal.Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
The unit is quality too. I don't have much room either mate, which is why my Mini's are in my PC room.
My games room is full to the brim these days
I am very happy with it, it's a nice fun and well built novelty system. I have no issues with the shimmering ones gets. I've always liked it in Saturn High Res games or when you would see it when games used massive amounts of scaling or rotation effects. I love TAITO too after SEGA they're my 2nd fav Arcade corp. If you find it for a decent price, get it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bloodreign
I'm very much looking forward to SEGA next Astro system
Episode IV was highly overrated. V & VI though? Excellent.
Considering what came before Star Wars, I’d hardly call it over-rated. The movie stayed in theaters for over year after its release.
Fuck Star Wars as a movie and as a franchise. Anyway, Has anyone else bought any games? The Arcade thing looks neat. I did pre-order the Taito Legends collection coming up for consoles. The only way I will ever own a physical of the Arcade Ninja Warriors
E.T. was in for over a year. According to certain movie sites, Star Wars was screened for 44 weeks but none of that means it was a great movie. Hell, didn't Marvel re-release one of those films just so it could pass Titanic or Jurassic Park?
Data East Arcade Classics for Wii should be here any day now.
Edit: I have thought about purchasing the physical version of Capcom Belt Action Collection.
I guess you aren’t old enough to remember it then. 1977 was the year the word Blockbuster was used to describe Star Wars. It was followed by Close Encounters, which was also called a Blockbuster. I lived in a small town and had to wait until late summer for the movie to arrive at our drive-in theater.Quote:
Originally Posted by JCU
But no, ET did not beat the ticket sales of Star Wars, which was the highest grossing film for a very long time.
Pure tickets sold, only Gone with the Wind sold more tickets at the box office.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/22/top-...inflation.html
*Edit* Now that I’ve thought about it. I did not see Star Wars until the summer of 1978. We saw Close Encounters at the Summer drive-in and would not see Star Wars until the following year. I had to wait a really long time for my stupid town to get the film.
Belt Action collection is worth it.Quote:
Originally Posted by JCU
The opinion you hold about the quality of Episode IV is one thing but how long it remained in theaters is fact rather than an opinion. Not taking anything way from Lucas' space opera nor some of the other long winded theatrical runs, quality isn't necessarily THE reason why some were in the theaters for close to a year or more. Even bona fide piles of crap benefitted from longer than expected runs.Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
I started noticing films and such around the time of 1980 (Empire) and 1981 (Raiders). One of my hobbies is watching old (70's and 80's and now 90's) commercials online and there have been a number of pictures hyped with all sorts of adjectives implying greatness that ended up disappointing in terms of quality.
I have the Japanese version of Capcom Belt Action under consideration. What I would give for a new or port of the Activision compilation from the PSP complete with patches, commercials, etc..,
Belt Action Collection is in English if that helps. Yeah not sure why they don't put in old ads and stuff. The artwork is nice but I remember loving that Sonic Collection on Gamecube. They had a video on the history of Sonic and the intro of Sonic CD. Kirby Collection on Wii was great with the entire history in detail with some Episodes of the Cartoon show. The Falcom Collection on Saturn had video features. Some games in the PS2 era either had on disc or came with a making of DVD. I would love to have that kind of stuff in games again.
Quote:
Originally Posted by JCU
The AFI totally disagrees with your sentiment. It’s in their top 10 of 100 years of film rankings. The Empire Strikes Back is further down the list. Is Empire the more enjoyable film? Yeah, I don’t necessarily disagree with that, but the OG was the more significant film and certainly not bad by any stretch of the imagination.
It may be different for you, because you saw Empire 1st. The original Star Wars had a cult following like no other at the time, and according to Wikipedia, it had a nearly 4 year run in theaters. The 44 week run you talked about was probably for the Special Edition run in theaters. I certainly had to wait until the second theater run in 1978, before it finally came to our small town.
My opinion is not influenced by the AFI. Most of the films people lose their nuts over are ones I find avoiding. Saying episode IV is over-rated is not the same thing as saying it is bad. With many franchises the feeling of the original subside or change as time passes.Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
I have to disagree about the 44 weeks as I guess that means mainstream theaters because the '97 re-release(s) eclipsed three months. What were the main theaters in the 70's and beyond? General Cinemas and what else?
Edit: Since we should at least mention the original topic, I did pick up Kirby and I am awaiting the new S.W. Lego in a week.