New Video Games/ Movies

[Mr.Ice]

Just got Far Cry 3 and its pretty good. It honestly reminds me of Dead Island but without the zombies and melee weapons.

[Excalibur]

Originally Posted by Mr.Ice

Just got Far Cry 3 and its pretty good. It honestly reminds me of Dead Island but without the zombies and melee weapons.

It's better than Dead Island

[funkychinaman]

Originally Posted by Mr.Ice

Just got Far Cry 3 and its pretty good. It honestly reminds me of Dead Island but without the zombies and melee weapons.

So it's nothing like Dead Island?

[funkychinaman]

And the top debut in Bruce Willis' career is... G.I. Joe 2.

That's just ...unbelievable. It's astounding.

[Excalibur]

Originally Posted by funkychinaman

And the top debut in Bruce Willis' career is... G.I. Joe 2.

That's just ...unbelievable. It's astounding.

So the movie is...bad?

[funkychinaman]

Originally Posted by Excalibur

So the movie is...bad?

It's more that I just can't believe that with all of the good movies he's made in all these years, the biggest one is where he plays third lead behind The Rock and Channing Tatum.

[commando552]

Originally Posted by Excalibur

So the movie is...bad?

I quite liked it. It was ridiculous but fun. I think it suffered quite badly from editing it down to under 2 hours though (probably due to that extra Channing Tatum stuff), making some of the exposition very rushed and possibly hard to follow if you weren't familiar with the source material. There were parts I remembered from the trailers and promo images that weren't in the film. In the credits they even had little clips and freeze-frames from the film, some of which were from scenes which weren't in it at all. Oh, and RZA was absolutely awful as The Blind Master.

[funkychinaman]

Originally Posted by commando552

I quite liked it. It was ridiculous but fun. I think it suffered quite badly from editing it down to under 2 hours though (probably due to that extra Channing Tatum stuff), making some of the exposition very rushed and possibly hard to follow if you weren't familiar with the source material.

One of the reviews I read said that was a positive thing though, that it was a G.I. Joe film for G.I. Joe fans.

[funkychinaman]

I DL the Unjustice: Gods Among Us demo and played as Batman (of course.) Graphically, it's a very beautiful game, although I wasn't a fan of Batman's costume. It's a mix of the movie Batman and Arkham City Batman costumes, using the cowl/helmet from the films with the suit from Arkham City, and it looked a bit off. The demo only featured three playable characters, Batman, Wonder Woman, and Lex Luthor, and a boss, Doomsday. The fact that Batman beat Doomsday is absolutely ridiculous.

Batman's always been a bit out of place next to the rest of the Justice League, because he has no powers. I know it's a pipedream, but I'd like to see a DC fighting game with just people from the Batman books, who all have similar powers and abilities. Nightwing wouldn't stand a chance against Superman, but Nightwing versus Red Hood, Robin, Red Robin, Batgirl, Catwoman, etc, would be interesting.

[commando552]

Originally Posted by funkychinaman

One of the reviews I read said that was a positive thing though, that it was a G.I. Joe film for G.I. Joe fans.

Due to the cutting though some of the exposition is really clumsy and rushed. In particular there is a bit were Snake Eyes is sparring with Jinx and the Blind Master is giving this info dump about how Jinx is the cousin of Storm Shadow who Snake Eyes doesn't trust because he killed the Hard Master but they must work together to save the G.I. Joes and restore honour to the Arashikage (with no explanation of what the Arashikage are). It really doesn't help that the whole thing is delivered by an awful actor with an American accent doing an Asian accent that is so bad its almost racist. It would have also been nice If Cobra Commander had a bigger part as he isn't really the main villain it is more Zartan, but as they are now confirmed for a sequel I imagine he will be more front and centre in that. It had HISS tanks though, so I don't care about any of this.