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Post by Quorthon on Aug 10, 2005 9:35:49 GMT -5
Okay, so obviously, we're all a bunch of media entertainment whores around here. Movies and music we worship and feed into our systems as though it were precious nitrogen (yeah, that's right--eat shit oxygen!!). So here's the "What video game are you playing these days?" thread.
And, of course, I'll get this ball a-rolling:
Golden Sun: The Lost Age for Game Boy Advance (playing it on my GameCube, though)
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Post by spacer on Aug 10, 2005 10:08:18 GMT -5
Okay, so obviously, we're all a bunch of media entertainment whores around here. Well, I don't feel like being a hooker yet, but I love your witty comparison anyway ;D Movies and music we worship and feed into our systems as though it were precious nitrogen (yeah, that's right--eat shit oxygen!!). That must be your alien metabolism. Let me guess some more cows have been missing lately in Minnesota?To the point: I'm a real addict of Crimsonland. A pretty simple shootout with lots of gore, spiders, lizards and zombies but with an awful richness of guns which you are given in a random matter to kill these beasts. Laugh at me and pity me but am enjoying it for more than a year  |
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Post by Phoenix on Aug 10, 2005 10:38:58 GMT -5
Spider-Man 2 was on sale at Target last week so we got it and it is NOT just your run-of-the-mill movie game. It has baddies like Mysterio, Shocker, and, of course, Doc Ock. Plus Black Cat aids you on some missions. You have the whole run of NYC and help people get their lost balloons, stop purse robbers, etc. Worth 15 bucks! Love it!
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Aug 10, 2005 10:53:14 GMT -5
Ummm...dividing whatever time I spend playing video games between Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 (which I always feel guilty playing) and Star Wars Battlefronts, which is kinda fun.
Really, the only game I'd sit down and play for hours at this point would be Kingdom Hearts II. I love the first one.
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Post by Termination on Aug 10, 2005 14:33:45 GMT -5
Still dig Star Wars: EP III for X-box & Gran Turismo 4 for PS2.  |
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Post by Quorthon on Aug 10, 2005 14:55:04 GMT -5
Spider-Man 2 was on sale at Target last week so we got it and it is NOT just your run-of-the-mill movie game. It has baddies like Mysterio, Shocker, and, of course, Doc Ock. Plus Black Cat aids you on some missions. You have the whole run of NYC and help people get their lost balloons, stop purse robbers, etc. Worth 15 bucks! Love it! Did Bruce Campbell narrate the tutorial mode in that one, too? He narrated the "how-to" tutorial mode in the Spider-Man the Movie game (the first one)--and it was hilarious. "Now for those of you with a short attention span... which is.. all of you..." And Spacer--I couldn't help myself--I was unemployed for damn near 3 months--and those cows were just STANDING there!! |
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Post by Phoenix on Aug 10, 2005 16:41:45 GMT -5
Quorthon - Bruce Campbell did indeed do the tutorials in this game as well and they are also hilarious!
I've had a lot of him in my entertainment lately....
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Aug 10, 2005 16:49:39 GMT -5
Still dig Star Wars: EP III for X-box My nephew was playing that one while he was down here...it looked pretty cool. |
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Post by frankenjohn on Aug 12, 2005 10:13:04 GMT -5
I just destroyed "Burnout 3: Takedown."
About to start "Final Fantasy X."
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Post by Quorthon on Aug 12, 2005 10:28:26 GMT -5
I just destroyed "Burnout 3: Takedown." About to start "Final Fantasy X." You lucky sonuvabitch. Burnout 2 was one of the greatest racing games ever made, but as a Nintendo guy I can't play the third. We got the shaft on that one-- again. |
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Post by frankenjohn on Aug 12, 2005 21:37:38 GMT -5
And nintendo can't play online.  |
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Post by Quorthon on Aug 15, 2005 8:29:16 GMT -5
And nintendo can't play online. The DS Wi-Fi goes online this fall. The Revolution will be Wi-Fi out of the box. Hopefully "better late than never" won't kill the company off. |
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Post by spacer on Aug 18, 2005 1:31:08 GMT -5
And Spacer--I couldn't help myself--I was unemployed for damn near 3 months--and those cows were just STANDING there!! You know everything begins and ends with cows. Circle of life. ;D Do you really mean cows among Spiderman villains ;D |
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Post by Phoenix on Aug 23, 2005 11:20:34 GMT -5
From scifi.com, Halo movie news:
Fox and Universal have closed their deal to make a movie based on Microsoft's hit video game Halo, with plans to release it in 2007, Variety reported. Universal will oversee the production and is handling domestic distribution, while Fox will take foreign distribution. The studios will split revenues 50-50 out of a shared pot, the trade paper reported.
Former Columbia president Peter Schlessel, who served as a Hollywood liaison for Microsoft, is producing. 28 Days Later writer Alex Garland was paid $1 million by Microsoft to write a script that met its approval. He'll now do a rewrite with studio notes, after which Universal will go out to directors.
Microsoft is guaranteed extensive consultation on the project, but won't have approval over any elements. Several employees at Bungie, the Microsoft-owned development studio that created Halo, will serve as Microsoft's creative consultants
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Post by Quorthon on Aug 23, 2005 12:02:06 GMT -5
That's a movie that better be 'R'
Which brings this to mind: Anyone seen the Doom trailer? Sure it stars The Rock, but hot damn, it's rated R! Rumors told for nearly a year that the movie would be PG-13! However, it does sound like the story's been butchered somethin' fierce. And that could really suck.
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