I've always wondered what's with that casting choice. Couldn't the Australian guy play the brit?

Just curious, to Americans does Stapleton's accent sound noticeably off?

His native accent bleeds through once in a great while (the most glaring example was in the beginning of S2E7 when he said "fuck" in it quite clearly), but other than that it sounds fine to me.

Speaking of Strike Back...

http://www.avclub.com/articles/cinem...season,104805/

Isn't sci-fi/horror Treyarch's thing?

http://kotaku.com/next-months-call-o...ens-1453467012

I really have no hype for the new COD coming out.

And yay for more Strike Back, my new favorite military show

New X-Men trailer is out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK2zYHWDZKo

Battlefield 4 for $43 via eBay Daily Deals.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Battlefield-...epn=5337259887


(should we just have a deals section?)

Captain America Winter Soldier has a better trailer. I feel barely anything for the X-Men since Wolverine left and bringing him back won't changed the 3rd movie from happening.

Meh, I am playing Assassin's Creed IV

I'm thinking I'm going to wait until I get an Xbox One for ACIV. I heard it looks incredible.

I lost faith in microsoft after it's DRM bullshit and reversal policies. I'm getting the PS4, which is a much superior console in hardware.

I'm ticked off it's not backwards compatible, but I love Halo and Gears of War.

They actually said the One will be backwards compatible now

From what I can tell, XBONE backwards compatibility is a possibility in the future. Even then, it doesn't appear you'll be able to use the game I already own.

which is why I am still getting the PS4. I am going to wait until prices are down for the new console and to wait until they get the initial bugs from the first generations of the new consoles worked out before I actually buy one.

I think what Microsoft means in terms of Xbone backwards compatibility is that you'll be able to buy a download copy that'll work.

So yeah, you have to pay again for games you already own.

That's fucking bullshit!

New Jackie Chan movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXOE5zm2UH0

This year's live action COD commercial is out. It appears the token celebrity this year is Megan Fox.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNxh7umVOZ0

I've started to watch Sword Art Online, and it's very good. I love Kirito.

Look up the abridged series http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6kJKxvbgZ0

The show has an interesting premise but leaves a lot of questions unanswered

Well, so far Ghosts is what I expected; IW taking a very silly story way too seriously, very pretty levels with the same old-console design ethics, and ignoring most of the good changes that Treyarch made (ie boosted health and hipfire accuracy in single to make the game more mobile, and the equip screen). Underwater level is interesting because I don't think the APS is hitscan and it felt like you could actually dodge enemy fire.

Also the central Rourke / Elias / boring silent player character plot gets way, way too much screen time compared to that whole thing where the US is being invaded by a genocidal-for-no-adequate-reason South American superpower.

Though the fastest tank in videogames is almost as much fun as Menendez. If only it went ARRRRGH occasionally.

Only adapting two of the light novels in a series of god knows how many will do that.

Also that has to be the stupidest post-credits sting in the series, what the hell was that even supposed to mean?

So Assassin's Creed IV is the best pirate simulator ever created. That's all I can say about it.

COD: Ghosts for $45 today only.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Call-of-Duty...epn=5335869999

Playing COD Ghosts right now. Apparently they forgot that the FAL has a bolt release near the mag release, or that the X95 has an ambidextrous mag release (they keep using the left side button and have your left hand press it.) and so far in the campaign universe the only handguns that are in use by both armies are M9A1s and P226s.

I think I'm going to skip it. The plot is just looking like a flimsy excuse to work through the writer's issues with Hispanics. And it apparently seems to imply that they all secretly want to destroy America. It's just a massive right-wing conspiracy fest now.

Wasn't that sort of the plot of BOII as well?

(And who plays COD for the plot?)

Me. I always play games for the plot.

Naw, Black Ops 2 it was all about conspiracies and drones and stuff and was actually interesting. This one, the main problem in terms of actual story structure is that they have a secondary antagonist and then...Nothing. You just have this guy who has nothing to do with the main plotline who's supposed to be the big bad guy even though he kills about two people during the course of the story.

Oh, that and that he turned into a bad guy because SECRET AMAZON TRIBAL TORTURE TECHNIQUES, can't forget that.

Blops 2 at least knew it was silly. This really, really doesn't. Plus you could sympathise with Menendez because you got to see how massively he'd been dicked around by the US in the past, while here it's just that everyone South of Texas has suddenly gone full-on genocidal for absolutely no discernible reason.

Extinction mode is fun, though, it plays like the old Survival mode with the addition of an actual point or Zombies with more enemy types and without all the moon-logic puzzles where adding cheese to a banjo makes an ICBM or whatever. Not that those were always bad, but it was something of a chore trying to figure out what the level's collection of random objects did while dead people were trying to eat your shoes.

I pretty much stopped playing Zombies because it just got too complicated with all the parts to collect, switches to be flipped, etc. It's great if you're playing with three friends or even three people who actually talk, but most of the time you're stuck with one guy who actually knows what he's doing and three people who have no idea what that one guy is up to because he's too cheap to spend ten bucks to replace his headset.

I really liked Survival on MW3 and I'm really disappointed they didn't bring it back. I don't know why they couldn't make it four player like Zombies. It had a certain logic to it that Zombies lacked. Certain guys are harder to kill because they wear more body armor, fine, I get that. Zombies get harder and harder to kill because... magic?

Seriously, what was Menendez? plan anyway? How was getting killed going to really make a martyr of himself to the point of total anarchy? What is Cordis whatever supposed to be about and how did it get a billion followers?

I believe the idea of Cordis Die is it's trying to stoke up existing anti-Western feelings, with the drone attack and destruction intended to send a message that the West is weak and it's time for revolutin', hence Menendez's other objective of destabilising the Chinese-led power block in the East. I don't think he really cared about much more than that the revolution would be a bloody one as revenge for the numerous acts of dickery against him in the past.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hea...riginal-654171

Meanwhile, DC has trouble keeping shows like Young Justice and Beware the Batman on the air.

New Lone Survivor trailer out. Wow.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=111187

Saw that trailer a couple weeks ago. The title gives away the ending

The actual event it's based on gives away the ending as well. ;)

Well, my patience with the Call of Duty wiki is waning, fast. Apparently the rules on speculation (aka "We don't take any information that isn't explicitly stated in game") don't apply if enough people speculated the same thing.

I'm surprised you've lasted this long.