Greatoneshere

I should have made clear earlier it's always been the same screenname since I registered in April 2001. I don't like the screenname very much (I didn't come up with it) and I use a different one everywhere else but since it's been the same community here since the IGN days I've kept up with this screenname here.

1 hour ago, HardAct said:

DS1 Remake was/is a FANTASTIC remake of a Fantastic game period. I don't understand what make the remake a "Success" but I was under the impression that it did very well. They couldn't have thought it would have better sales than the original could they?

With EA it's certainly possible.

9 hours ago, Xbob42 said:

I tried the demo for this and it was probably the worst gaming experience I've ever had. A completely and utterly incomprehensible "narrative," literal clipart for world map stuff, voice acting so abysmal it'd make Chaos Wars jealous, combat that's super zoomed in so you can never actually read what's going on, even when attacking enemies. Just a total clusterfuck of garbage on every level, with a godawful mobile UI to boot. What a huge piece of shit.

Every single one of these fucking Youtube videos has 10 times the polish and total budget of the game itself. The fucking thumbnails have more effort than the entirety of the plot.

Out of curiosity, have you played any of the previous SaGa games? If so, what's your take on them?

3 hours ago, TUFKAK said:

I think I joined the boards in 03 and got sponsored, remember that shit, in like 04. Don’t remember when I found the CEB/got active but guess during the Bush administration in like 09/10.

But Obama was in office starting in 2009.  

The show is great so far, nails the black satire of the games well, I'm 3 episodes in.

59 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

The entire bear scene in the second episode 

44 minutes ago, johnny said:

don’t play fallout because the controls are fucking terrible but the first 2 episodes are really good. bear scene made me lmao 

The bear scene, especially with the reveal of the actor in the suit, was so good. "Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck".

1 hour ago, SaysWho? said:

You could have an avatar and access certain boards if you paid for an IGN Insider thing, which was $20 for a year. People begged to be "adopted" by an insider, but like... shit, $20 even then for an entire year wasn't that much.

 

The CEB and DVD General Board were behind the paywall, and I enjoyed those two boards the most, even if the Vesti had some really fun and memorably weird moments. 

When you're 14 years old in 2001 and having to ask your mom for their credit card so you can pay for online features of one website, it's a lot of money.  As most here know I was mostly on the Anime Community Board and Anime General Board only for many years before eventually jumping to the DVD General Board (which is where all movie and TV discussion mostly happened). Most of those peeps did migrate to Bad Cartridge and then to D1P though most I remember from that time have now left, unfortunately. The strength and diversity of conversations during those days were so good, I miss that vs. the very little to absolutely nothing we get on the board these days. Everyone just goes: "this is how I feel" and moves on, I miss the days of dissecting scenes and really breaking things down. Everyone just presenting their feelings and moving on isn't really discourse.

28 minutes ago, Air_Delivery said:

Seeing conservatives repeatedly not understand movies explains so much. Its like some didn't realize the Cobert Report was a parody or complained Rage Against the Machine went political.

Indeed, we just discussed this very thing in this thread: 

9 minutes ago, Brick said:

As someone who's never played the games yet, would I enjoy it? I'm guessing the answer is yes, but even moreso if I did play them. 

You definitely understand and enjoy the fan service and easter eggs and nods to the games, of course, but this is easily a show anyone could enjoy. As a game player you already understand everything that's going on, I imagine as a new viewer everything comes off as more of a mystery but the show plays out as if most won't know the games so it being somewhat "what is this world?" works.

As a huge fan of the Fallout games, two episodes in this is pretty great! Not only a good show so far, but a good adaptation. It's nice that it's a canon story within the universe, but not an adaptation of any of the games. It takes place 11 years after Fallout 4 in 2296, 219 years after the bombs fell in 2077. 

Edit: Walton Goggins is so damn good, as usual. The slo-mo V.A.T.S. system shows up too!

52 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

 

 

Convicted child rapist and murderer who is sentenced to death - woah woah woah we can't allow that!

 

Convicted billionaire who is sentenced to death: 

I don't think realistically anyone is saying to genuinely put billionaires to death, that's a disingenuous argument to make. People are just so sick of how powerful and consolidated that power is with billionaires, so much so that they get away with almost anything, that to see such a harsh repercussion on a billionaire elsewhere is refreshing. It's just indicative of how bad the billionaire problem is, not that us regular progressives want more, not less, capital punishment, but only when we say so.  

54 minutes ago, Ghost_MH said:

 

Wasn't it free and then access to some features or some boards or maybe the whole thing was put behind a paywall or something? I remember it being fully free when I first registered and then it went to paid and I got to sneak in under the radar because I wrote a few terrible articles for them back when I was in college.

This is correct, as I remember it. It was initially free, but by the time I registered in April 2001 all the message boards I believe were put behind a paywall, alongside some additional features on the main website, etc. And yeah I never got a magazine, which I believe they had promised.

I love Conan, but why be gross about it? Still, I'll be watching.

It's been 23 years this months since I first signed up (and paid!!) for access to the IGN message boards. Good lord 23 years. I was 14 when I signed up and I am now 37 years old.

Get working on the second Command & Conquer Remastered Collection! They've hinted at it recently, let's hope these sales help make that happen.

20 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Homelander is the good guy bro

MAGA incel chuds really are the dumbest.

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3 hours ago, Kal-El814 said:

The “it’s not fascism it’s authoritarianism” crowd is really flexing their “technically it’s ephebophilia” muscles. 

You gotta love distinctions without a difference.

29 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

People are actively not getting that Helldivers 2 is satirical right now, so that tracks.  

So true, it's like, "tell me who you are without telling me".  

1 hour ago, ort said:

I haven't actually seen the Barbie movie, but my understanding is that it is basically the Lego Movie, but slathered with over-the-top anti-patriarchy messaging. I'm guessing a monopoly movie will be the same thing, but for capitalism?

Barbie is indeed The Lego Movie made live-action and about dolls for girls as opposed to lego bricks for boys but "over the top" is a bit harsh. Its messaging is right on point for the dum-dum mass audience its appealing to in the same way that The Lego Movie's messaging did the same thing (aka: have fun with your toys between parents and children). The patriarchal messaging is funny and amusing in what is mostly a comedy, if one doesn't get a laugh out of the scene of all the dudes explaining The Godfather or playing the same song on guitar or at the naming of "Mojo Dojo Casa House" I'd say that person is pretty insecure.

Then again, this is the same board that felt Nope's messaging was over the top and heavy handed but then when I ask a regular person they've never even seen the movie, and the few that have "didn't get it". So not sure how "over the top" something can be when casual dum-dums aren't getting it.

Edit: I mean, there are MAGA incel chuds who don't get Fight Club or American Beauty or American History X. They take the wrong message that the films are actually skewering. So "over the top" seems hard to imagine with people who can't even understand basic film language.

9 minutes ago, thewhyteboar said:

A turd is still a turd, no matter how you dress it up. 

I know a lot of people say this, but it's not an analogy that really works for films. If the theatrical cut of a film is, let's say, a 4/10, and a director's cut of that same film is a 6/10, that's a difference worth noting even if someone is a viewer that wouldn't bother with 4/10 films or 6/10 films. So not every turd is equal. 

17 minutes ago, Chris- said:

 

Yes, many!

Better ones? Doubtful.   

8 minutes ago, Chris- said:

So can you nerds finally tell me if Children of Dune is worth reading? I liked Messiah - in some sense maybe even more than the original (Scytale and Hayt rule). But I don't want to read it if it sucks.

All six books are excellent (the ones written by Frank Herbert). If you liked the first two books, I think they only get better (but more dense/esoteric). Yes, read it. Why, you got better books waiting in the wings?  And yes, agreed, Scytale and Hayt rule, they better nail them (and the entire counter-Paul council) in the movie adaptation. 

1 hour ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

It's a complete story for Paul, who can basically be assumed to be soon dead at the end, if you so choose to believe. It's open-ended in terms of the fate of the universe and his children, etc, but that's okay if you assume the first and second book are about the effect he's had on the universe a singular, terrifying figure. It's the same how you could have ended the Star Wars series after the original movie and still be satisfied—yes, it leaves the universe unexplored, the primary story (that the movie set out to tell) has been told. 

Agreed, but it's a pretty unfulfilling ending in broad terms, to me at least. Even assuming what happens to Paul is vague (a good ending though), it takes Children of Dune to confirm it. I dunno, maybe I'm too biased and am too much of a Dune fan but I'd be pretty disappointed if we stopped at Dune Messiah when more could be done. On the other hand, I never thought I'd even get a good Dune adaptation, so I'm also grateful for anything at this point.  

4 minutes ago, Brick said:

I hope she can replicate that success from Barbie. 

Yeah, just get Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach to write the screenplay and get Gerwig to direct and then you're good. Robbie producing and starring in something will be meaningless without good writers and directors. I guess Ridley Scott's version of this announced ages ago is out then (though one can just watch All the Money in the World for his take on Monopoly).  

5 minutes ago, Brick said:

Look at what a monster those #ReleaseTheSnyderCut chuds have created. 

Agreed, but I think no one will disagree that even if you don't like the director's cut version, his director's cuts are universally better than his theatrical cuts, so that's something.