http://www.examiner.com/article/arno...ooting-january

Did they have to pick such an unflattering picture? :D

http://www.deadline.com/2013/06/liam...ls-in-taken-3/

How many Albanian gangsters can there be in the world?

Liam Neeson is going to find out, that's for sure. ;)

Playing The Last Of Us. Single player is long and very difficult, but very rewarding and a rich experience. And it takes a lot of thought to get through, especially since there's no Mook Chivalry where enemies wait their turn to attack so you can skillfully counter them; they just all attack at once, including shooting you repeatedly when you're in melee combat.

Multiplayer? Totally different from most other shooters. You only start with about 7 to 10 rounds for each of your weapons (in some cases that isn't even a single full magazine), so stealth and accurate shooting are the key. It only takes two or three shots from most guns to drop a guy as well, so running and gunning is nearly useless (you have to walk to shoot anyway). There's a lot of sneaking around in groups, setting up ambushes, and laying traps behind you.

Or bum rushing the last guy and beating him to death with 2x4s.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/06/...n-new-trilogy/

Three films in four years!

I've just recently started watching Yu-Gi-Oh: the Abridged Series and I have to say that its fucking hilarious.

Here's a couple other series

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6kJKxvbgZ0

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXPp5_X3LNM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NgTEQrhgMY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBsajFvgc7Y

I've never even heard of Sword Art before, but that was pretty hilarious.

Sort of like a Let's Play for anime; Let's Play shows you games you couldn't be bothered to play, Abridged gives you the basic idea of a show you couldn't be bothered to watch.

Well Abridged series is more like Let's make fun of the little things in a show we've all seen

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/liv...men-fox-582372

Hopefully, they won't allow anyone who was involved in the film near this.

Saw The Lone Ranger on Monday. It wasn't that good; rent it, don't go see it

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...ct-24th-583864

Not only can Sam Mendes do an action film, they want him to do two.

He'd be the first director to do consecutive Bond films since John Glen did five in a row in the eighties.

Started and finished MoH: Warfighter last night. The campaign was certainly pretty, but ridiculously short. It sort of felt like Act of Valor: The Video Game, and I think the navy dropped the ball by not going for a tie-in. It's a shame that EA has taken it out of the rotation. With a little work, it could've been a great game.

I'm of the type that would rather play a short campaign that's more impactful than a long boring one, but that's just my preference. Not trying to argue with you.

Considering the Navy punished the SEALs who consulted on the game for allegedly revealing classified info (though nothing I saw in it from gear to weapons to tactics was really new to me and the only "based on real events" mission I recognized was Hat Trick being a reproduction of the Maersk Alabama rescue, which the details of are pretty public), I find it highly unlikely they would have even considered going that route.

To me it is a great game because of its authentic feel, but unfortunately the majority of gamers want to be doing the Hollywood crap like hunting stolen nukes or fighting WW3 instead of seeing the more mundane and everyday stuff that these guys do in reality.

If nukes fell into evil hands as often games and movies portray, Jericho would be far more than a TV show. :rolleyes:


Like I said, not trying to argue with you or change your opinion, just offering my viewpoint.

Yeah, 2010 was a bit more "based on real events" since it was just Operation Anaconda with the serial numbers filed off and a different Dramatis Personae.

Saw Pacific Rim yesterday, and it was fucking awesome. My dad said from the previews, it looked similar to the Transformers movies, but I can assure everyone, it is the complete opposite of them (for starters, Pacific Rim doesn't have any retarded jokes in it).

I knew about the SEAL consultants being disciplined before I started, so I had it in the back of my head when I played, but I don't think I heard anything I hadn't heard before.

I'm with you, a short, good campaign is preferable to a drawn-out, bad campaign. The problem is, EA was going to charge the same no matter how long the campaign was. For the ten bucks I paid for it, it was fine. If I had preordered it and paid the full sixty, I would've been outraged. (Although, I suppose if you preordered it, you were probably just interested in the multiplayer and didn't care about the campaign.)

I thought it was funny they they emphasized the realism for about 90% of the game, and then had Preacher go Rambo and single-handedly take down the freighter. Even Modern Warfare 1 had an entire SAS squad.

The thing that bugged me the most was that you had no choice on your loadout. Realistically, these Tier 1 guys should get to take whatever they want, right? And I didn't like how Stump toted around a sniper rifle the entire time but only pulled it out on certain occasions. But otherwise, I loved how they handled the guns. I liked being about to choose between semi and full auto, and I liked how they allowed using iron sights and adjusting zoom.

Saw Pacific Rim yesterday, and it was fucking awesome. My dad said from the previews, it looked similar to the Transformers movies, but I can assure everyone, it is the complete opposite of them (for starters, Pacific Rim doesn't have any retarded jokes in it).

I had a few problems with the 2010 game in that it was trying to be more Call of Duty than Medal of Honour; the whole point of the original CoD was it was more "average soldier" rather than "hero doing exceptional things" like MoH. Hence both of their names.

Also, MoH 2010's plot was so badly described that all I really got was 'everyone wants to climb a mountain for some reason,' and I could only keep track of which protagonist I was by who he hung around with. And then I was supposed to care when one of them died rather than going 'wait, which one was he again?'

Plus rather than trying to make you feel like you were a Tier 1 it tried to nag you into acting like one. If a game is going to hand me a sniper rifle I've never used before it should make the effort to make me feel like a pro, not have my spotter complain at me for not hitting the bad guy with my first shot.

You know, I have to confess, I don't remember anything about the plot of the 2010 game. When Voodoo says "For Mother, for Rabbit" right before breaching the final door, I couldn't remember who Rabbit was. Nor could I remember who Dusty was when he finally showed up in the end.

(BTW, did they market the game as "Medal of Honour" in the UK or was that just you spelling it the way you normally would? If they marketed it that way, that's pretty messed up.)

I think the game would've done better if they hadn't tried going head to head with CoD, especially given the response to the previous MoH. If you only had sixty bucks for one game, I don't know anyone who would spend it on this if CoD: BO2 was going to be available at the same price only two weeks later. Maybe a May release? Tie it in with Memorial Day?

Naw, that's just my typing without thinking. They used to "translate" things into British English back in the 80s or so when GI Joe became "Action Force" ("In-tah-NASH-an-al Heroes!") over here, but that stopped slowly when they realised we didn't care either way. T2 was always "Judgment Day," it was always Pearl Harbor and the MoH games have always been Medal of Honor.

Edit: Though my copy of Tora! Tora! Tora! is subtitled "The attack on Pearl Harbour," so I guess they didn't always bother with the US naming conventions for places either.

My buddy and I are still waiting for the prices to drop on Army of Two: Devil's Cartel and Gow: Judgment, so I decided to check XBox Live activity just to see how popular they are.

http://majornelson.com/2013/06/26/li...ek-of-june-17/

The short answer is, they're not, but the results are surprising.

- Four COD titles in the top twelve, in order of release. Number 12 is MW2, which came out 2009.

- I didn't think Halo 4 would be as low as it is. I'm sure it'll be back up once Spartan Ops is back on. Halo: Reach is still number 14.

- The number two title is Minecraft?

- Gears of War 3, which came out in 2011, is sixteen. Gears of War: Judgment, which came out in March, is out of the top twenty. Ouch.

- GTA IV, which came out in 2008, is still number nine. Wow.

I think I'm most surprised at four CoD games beating Borderlands 2.

Especially one from 2009.

Less than a year ago, there were FIVE COD titles on the list.

http://majornelson.com/2012/08/22/li...-of-august-13/

(And GTA IV actually managed to go UP one place in ten months. Now I have to try the multiplayer, it must be incredible.)

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...online-support

It appears that none of these pages are complete. If they are not completed by 1/28/14, I don't think it'd be possible to ever complete them.

New promos from the Robocop remake.

http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2013/07/...m-jose-padilha

If that's a real gun in there, they hid it really well. Maybe a USP?

There's bigger multi-angle images on the OCP promotional site.

http://www.omnicorp.com/products/ni-408.php

It's also kind of funny that they say the ED-209 is programmed with 1,500 different languages. Either that's function bloat or the UN has branched out into organised crime.

Edit: The 360 rotation image shows it has an ejection port on the right but the page images don't, either the right side image is flipped and the logo flipped again, or the on-page images are of a non-firing prop.

WTF!

http://www.videogamer.com/ps3/ace_co...tember_25.html

PS3 only?!

It isn't set in Strangereal, so I may pass. :( Besides, I'm not a big fan of DL only titles.

I thought since it implied there would be a huge natural disaster, they'd move it back to wherever it was before.

I only played it for the campaign anyway, and I'm guessing there won't be one if it's free-to-play.

Bought it today so my buddy and I would have something to do. It's pretty fun (I definitely feel like I got my $30 worth), and I personally like it somewhat more than the previous two. It isn't really anything particularly special, but it's certainly worth a look

My buddy and I were fans of the previous two games. And you're right, the universal opinion appears to be that the games in the series are the greatest $30 games ever. It's just too bad they're asking $60 for them.

The Pacific Rim was a fun movie to watch and enjoy. I really had a great time.

*Sigh* Why won't September 17th get here faster? :(

The Wolverine was pretty good. A LOT better than the other one

One thing I've never really worked out in Spec Ops: The Line...

...Just why were they trying to evacuate a coastal city by air?

Because Idiot Ball.

Or Because DA PLOT REQUIRES IT.

I'm reading up on it and I'm amazed how many people go with the "CoD is jingoistic Americans shootan" angle, to the point I wonder if they every paid attention in any CoD game they might have played.

IW seem to have designed the original CoD as a response to "Americans in other people's history" in Medal of Honor, where even in the Russian levels in Spearhead you're somehow still an American. If you actually look at the original CoD, the American campaign is the smallest scale; the most major thing is Brecourt Manor, while the Soviets get Stalingrad and Berlin and the British get ridiculously daring raids and a solo attack on a battleship.

It even carries over to Modern Warfare where generally the US characters achieve the least and the things they do achieve have the least effect on the overall plot. The US campaign in CoD 4 is a rushed, confused action that ultimately causes every single bad thing that happens in the rest of the series, the only thing an American player character in MW2 achieves that has effects outside the US causes everything bad that happens in MW2 and 3, and Frost in 3 fails at the only real job he's given to do with effects outside the US (rescuing the Russian president's daughter) and leaves the British / Russian team to pick up the pieces.

Um...Hooray?

<<Spoiler>>


The villain in in MW2 was also an American, an American general no less.

I think it's an easier to argue that the Treyarch games are more jingoistic. That scene at the end of BO looked like it came out of an episode of GI Joe.

sssssssssssssspoilers:


Hudson: Hey, you! Sane the hell up!
Mason: Wow, that Russian was all in my head. Now I know!
Hudson: And knowing is half the battle.
<chorus>CoD Blaaack oooooooooooooops</chorus>