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Gaming / Re: Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon

« on: March 05, 2009, 03:00:29 PM »

Maybe he's wildcard tier, like Eliwood.

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Entertainment / Re: The RPM Boob Tube Thread (56k warning)

« on: March 04, 2009, 07:49:12 PM »

The halloween costume, of coahse.

But I dunno, maybe he doubleclasses as Scout now?

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Gaming / Re: Majesty 2

« on: March 04, 2009, 07:41:07 PM »

Well. No, the only thing it has in common with Dungeon Keeper is that it's an overhead perspective sort of view.
Or eeh, it does have a sense of humor too, but it's more a background thing than part of the theme.

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Entertainment / Re: The RPM Boob Tube Thread (56k warning)

« on: March 04, 2009, 12:08:30 AM »


Game Overthinker v20

wherein our nerd "writes an open letter to Nintendo"

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X / Re: Rockman X music in Street Fighter 4

« on: March 03, 2009, 10:58:42 PM »

God damn that track is awesome, nevermind if there's a nod to Megaman in there or not.

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Gaming / Re: "A Boy and His Blob" announced for Wii

« on: March 03, 2009, 10:55:56 PM »

THIS WILL NEVER WORK

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**Fan Creations / Re: Rebirth of the Rockman-Themed Stolen Bleep Thread!!**

« on: March 03, 2009, 04:29:39 PM »

Quote from: Dr. Wily II on March 03, 2009, 02:38:38 PM

Some Roll, by this artist on Pixiv.

Hey, MMZ style! Cool.

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Off The Wall / Re: Reposted Picture Thread (56K Warning)

« on: March 03, 2009, 04:27:10 PM »

tough to say what's meant by "hardcore gamer"
i've been playing games for a long time and am pretty good at them, and generally learn about game-related news soon after they appear; does that qualify me? because even with that i dont dismiss games out of hand, casual or otherwise, or get hung up on small things like which platform they're for

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Gaming / Majesty 2

« on: March 03, 2009, 03:49:58 PM »


HD Trailer

Game set to release in summer apparently, woohoo! Was worried they completely abandoned it.

Majesty: the Fantasy Kingdom was an unusual game. It wasn't amazingly good or polished, but it was good fun and distinct, and that was enough. You can probably find a download without too much trouble...

As the name implies, you are the ruler of a kingdom. You are first presented with an overworld map sort of thing, where you choose an area (mission), with varying challenge and contents. Plenty of fairytale clichés make an appearance, but it has its own stories as well.

At any rate, after choosing a mission you start out with just a castle in the middle of nowhere (or was it just a few peasants? I don't remember...), and can order buildings built, as with any RTS... However, you don't have direct control of your loyal subjects - they'll defend themselves from monsters they come across, sure, and some types of heroes (attracted by specific buildings, such as Rangers Glade or Wizards Tower - each one is mutually exclusive to another IIRC, so no dwarves and hobnobs in the same kingdom) will take on jobs without being asked.
Rangers will explore, Warriors will patrol, Wizards will study in a library, that sort of thing.
Most of the time you need to assign bounties to motivate the heroes to do your bidding (explore, defend, attack), and if it's too small for their skills, they'll scoff at and ignore it.

So money makes the world go around, and in fact I believe it was the only resource.

Temples and the Wizard's tower attract spellcasters, but they also provide access to spells you can cast directly, like an explosion occuring where you click, or a select hero benig ressurected - for the right price. More money.

...I guess I'll stop here, as a description of a game is never as fun as actually playing. Hard to forget that one mission where a [tornado fang]ing dragon attacks you within 5 minutes of the mission starting. Had to get good fast, in some missions.
If nothing else, I can recommend it as a singleplayer strategy game that was actually challenging, but not at all impossible.

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Entertainment / Re: Who Watches The Watchmen?

« on: March 02, 2009, 10:50:15 PM »

Complete and utter SPOILERS for book and movie:

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Quote from: http://fightingamphibians.com/coy/res/1543.html

-A major alteration present is the more "stylized" and "outlandish" nature of the fight scenes instead of the more "gritty" and "realistic" approach taken by the novel. The costumed vigilantes more or less become "super heroes" as characters are seen punching through walls, inverting knees, jumping outlandish distances, and twisting heads backwards; to name just a few instances.

-Rorschach's first visit to Happy Harry's has been removed from the theatrical cut. Not entirely sure if the scene will make it into the directors cut or not.

- Rorschach's visit (warning) to Veidt has been removed and instead replaced with Dan Dreiberg visiting Viedt and warning him about the idea of a "mask killer" on the loose.

- Rorschach's commentary on Veidt with the line "Possibly Homosexual? Must Remember To Investigate Further" was removed from the theatrical cut.

- The two Bernie's seen on numerous occasions at the newsstand are given minimal screen time and no dialogue. Though scenes with them were shot and expect to see them restored in the directors cut.

-Laurie does not smoke at all.

- "The Crimebusters" are now referred to as "Watchmen."

- Capitan Metropolis is no longer a part of The Crimebusters meeting and is instead replaced by Veidt.

-Dreiberg's (Nite Owl II) impotency is not explicitly stated.

-Laurie no longer throws the bottle of perfume on Mars, but instead repeatedly hits the tower structure Jon built until it crumbles.

-Dr. Manhattan explicitly states that The Comedian is Laurie's father, rather than simply imply it like graphic novel chose to.

-The vivarium's been removed altogether.

-Hollis Mason's (the original Nite Owl) death was removed completely from the theatrical cut. No mention of it remains, although the scenes were shot and should be present in the directors cut.

-The fight scene between Rorschach, Nite Owl II, and Veidt has been altered to be more outlandish and stylistic than what the graphic novel originally portrayed it as.

- The scene where Big Figure and a fellow prisoner cut through the heavy set prisoner to get into Rorschach's cell was altered a bit to be more gruesome.

- Rorschach's backstory remains intact, for the most part. I hear he still murders Grice's two German Shepherds and tosses them at him just like the graphic novel...

Here's a rather length explanation of the altered ending and how it plays out...

- Veidt and Manhattan essentially team up to create a new form of energy. Veidt then uses Manhattan's signature energy to create numerous explosions in a select amount of major cities, although only New York is shown. Shot of blue explosion is displayed and the two Bernie's embracing to form the graffiti of the two figures on the wall remains. The world then assumes that the attack was emotionally driven by Manhattan due to the numerous media attacks against him (which were originally caused by Veidt, to begin with). Manhattan then decides to depart Earth in a similar manner to the graphic novel.

- The infamous scene in the graphic novel with numerous corpses piled throughout New York has been replaced with a landscape of rubble. Think of it as the aftermath of a large explosion, with no bodies present to provide the impact of the original scene in the novel.

-Rorschach's death is essentially the same, although Dan Dreiberg witnesses the moment to increase the dramatic nature of the scene.

Here's a rather rough run down of the final moments between Dreiberg and Veidt...

- Dan Dreiberg becomes enraged after he witnesses the death of Rorschach. He rips his cowl off and rushes inside to confront Veidt and delivers numerous punches. Dan wants Veidt to be the bad guy and attempts to solve the problem through fighting as a "hero." Veidt does not fight back and Dan realizes it's pointless and him and Laurie leave Veidt to ponder his actions.

- The sex scene between Dan and Laurie in Karnak has been completely removed.

And now for the final shot...

- The ending scene remains intact, with the exception of the addition of the line "Tonight, a Comedian died in New York" from Rorschach as the camera zooms in on Seymour's stained smiley face shirt. It's not explicitly shown that Seymour grabs Rorschach's journal and the open ended nature of the graphic novel's final panel still remains, albeit with the subtle nature of the reference to the Comedians stained smiley face badge ultimately being lost due to the addition of Rorschach's line.

And there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth, even though it's not even out yet.
Personally I'm not planning on watching it anyway so I'm pretty neutral...

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