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As silly as the Resident Evil games can get the movies are a hundred times dumber.
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Groovelord Neato posted:As silly as the Resident Evil games can get the movies are a hundred times dumber. i really feel like this depends on if we're talking the first three movies, or the ones from Afterlife on after W.S. Anderson came back the first three movies are weird and unrelated to the games, more or less (Apocalypse tries but good lord that movie sucks), and are very definitely dumber than the games at Afterlife (#4) it takes a hard left turn out of nowhere and retools itself to get a lot closer to the games, and the movies from that point on are genuinely really fun, not any more or less dumb than the contemporary games (RE4/5/6), and if Monster Hunter is like those I ain't gonna be mad at all
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Oct 11, 2020 19:55
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John Murdoch posted:You could've chosen to get up and leave the theater whenever you wanted. So, it'll be Zach Snyder's Funny Games?
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Oct 11, 2020 19:56
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Vagabundo posted:So, it'll be Zach Snyder's Funny Games? I was gonna literally post that, haha.
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Oct 11, 2020 20:54
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John Murdoch posted:You could've chosen to get up and leave the theater whenever you wanted. Elmo Presents The Monster At The End Of This Movie
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Oct 11, 2020 22:12
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DeafNote posted:How would a movie adaptation of Spec Ops even work?
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Oct 11, 2020 23:14
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alsoDeafNote posted:How would a movie adaptation of Spec Ops even work? i could actually see it working really well, albeit not being the same experience, if it was just adapted straight. cut the metanarrative stuff that ties the player/viewer to the protagonist, and just have it follow the protagonist as the mission just slowly drives him more and more batshit and to greater depths of depravity. it's basically Apocalypse Now when you do that, but Apocalypse Now is one of the GOAT war movies and wasn't overly original to start with, so I struggle to call that a bad thing.
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Oct 12, 2020 01:08
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Jamie Faith posted:Zack Snyder will make the movie adaption of Spec Ops the Line and Hbomberguy will have a scorching hot take on it. That'll be the event that leads this thread to reach derail singularity.
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Oct 12, 2020 01:20
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DeafNote posted:How would a movie adaptation of Spec Ops even work? Pretty easily, you just take out the tutorial prompts and floating button hint boxes and you're done. A movie of a squad's descent into madness is complete, taking great pains to make sure the audience remembers how professional and efficient they were at the beginning and how they're not at the end as they're caving in people's faces with the ends of their guns to illustrate how far they've fallen.
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Oct 12, 2020 01:41
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A lot of the metanarrative stuff got overblown by thinkpiece writers needing to hit their minimum word count and weirdos who are still mad a loading screen was rude to them 8 years ago. Even without the commentary about modern military shooters, just the events of the game displayed on film would be fine.
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Oct 12, 2020 02:02
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Casey Finnigan posted:what if... killing... is bad? Please. In the Snyderverse killing is only badi f you off billionaire masterminds. Even touching them with your silly bat-brand is a no-no. Goons and collateral-damage civvies are fair game. His version of a Spec ops trip would ber to send a ragged mujahedin running toward you, and when you gun it down your squad pulls off his disguise and goes "What the gently caress, man! You killed Elon Musk! He was slumming here in the Middle East getting sample for his universal, free cancer cure! You've killed someone who matters, not just a faceless pleb, you monster!"
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Oct 12, 2020 02:22
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RareAcumen posted:I think maybe this one is but otherwise I disagree. Once again, I maintaint the opinion that the game is criticizng Walker's actions and not the player's.
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Oct 12, 2020 02:55
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RareAcumen posted:Once again, I maintaint the opinion that the game is criticizng Walker's actions and not the player's. Then why do the loading screens refer to Walker and You as two separate entities?
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Oct 12, 2020 03:28
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You guys...Me making fun of the fact that we have alot of derails around spec ops the line was not an invitation to have another derail about spec ops the line 
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Oct 12, 2020 03:29
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RareAcumen posted:Once again, I maintaint the opinion that the game is criticizng Walker's actions and not the player's. the thing is though, Spec Ops has a lot of little touches that are designed to equate Walker to the player. like, in the white phosphorous scene, watch Lugo's hand when he's calling out Walker- he's not pointing at Walker, he's pointing at the camera. the problem, though, is that a lot of the stuff that would have made this really properly work got cut from the game outright, because too many playtesters were taking the "good" options and not seeing the intended narrative. like, there was originally an option to just do your mission and get the gently caress out of Dubai and get a relatively happy ending... and the vast majority of playtesters rolled with that. in the white phosphorous scene, playtesters kept either ignoring the artillery entirely and just fighting the enemies with regular guns, or deliberately avoiding the civilians with the WP bombs... so they made the enemies respawn indefinitely until you use the artillery, and had a military truck pop into the civilian trench that you're required to bomb if you do the latter thing. looking over its development, it feels like a game that could have been near-perfect but got focus-grouped and micromanaged into a much more flawed gem. e: it's sort of like if, midway through development on Undertale, Toby Fox went "man, way the gently caress too many of my playtesters are doing the pacifist run and not the no mercy one" and cut two thirds of the game to force people to get the point of that route, whether they like it or not, and whether it actually applies to them or not.
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Oct 12, 2020 03:30
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Me making fun of the fact that the IP thread has lots of derails over spec ops the line: "I am a genius!" Me after that post causes another derail over spec ops the line: "oh no!"
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Oct 12, 2020 03:31
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Jamie Faith posted:Me making fun of the fact that the IP thread has lots of derails over spec ops the line: "I am a genius!" it's a combination of Spec Ops being genuinely interesting to analyze, even this far out from its release, and there not really being any actual good places to talk about it on SA so everyone just gets it out of their system when it comes up in an unrelated thread. i suspect this is also why Snyder causes so many derails: there is a grand total of one thread, on the entire loving live forums, where talking about that dude isn't either explicitly banned or generally a bad move. and it's in CineD, largely populated by fans of his, and not nearly as active as most of the threads where derails about him happen (which, on SA, is more or less equivalent to it being in a locked storage closet in the basement with a sign reading "BEWARE OF THE LEOPARD" taped to the front).
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Oct 12, 2020 03:33
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WeedlordGoku69 posted:it's a combination of Spec Ops being genuinely interesting to analyze, even this far out from its release, and there not really being any actual good places to talk about it on SA so everyone just gets it out of their system when it comes up in an unrelated thread. That's fine but it's going to devolve into another angry slap fight the second someone dares to say they didn't like it
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Oct 12, 2020 03:34
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Jamie Faith posted:Me making fun of the fact that the IP thread has lots of derails over spec ops the line: "I am a genius!" ya done hosed up!
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Oct 12, 2020 03:34
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50 Cent: Blood on the Sand was better.
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Oct 12, 2020 03:37
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The 50 Cent games are both pretty legit third-person shooters, I always felt embarrassed a bit like, early-internet-days for me when I'd think like, man the 50 Cent game was cool as hell and then later on embraced it especially once Blood On The Sand came out, they're just good times playing 50 Cent cleaning up the 'bad guys' in the hood and then in the middle east. I always kinda thought it was rad that Bulletproof, the first game, also had Eminem in it as like a super crooked cop contact that Fitty knew. Both games also had pretty slick soundtracks, I was into some 50 Cent in those earlier 2000's so like Bulletproof where it was so many of his earlier/blow up classics had me in the game's mood easy.
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Oct 12, 2020 03:58
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nine-gear crow posted:Then why do the loading screens refer to Walker and You as two separate entities? Hmm, fair point.  So, nine-gear crow, how many Americans have you killed today? WeedlordGoku69 posted:the thing is though, Spec Ops has a lot of little touches that are designed to equate Walker to the player. like, in the white phosphorous scene, watch Lugo's hand when he's calling out Walker- he's not pointing at Walker, he's pointing at the camera. Wow, it really got micromanaged to hell and back alright. So, what even happened, did all the playtesters just show up to work, play the game for 40 minutes and evac out of Dubai and just refuse to play anymore of it and go home? I'm having a hard time understanding how this works. RareAcumen fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Oct 12, 2020 |
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Oct 12, 2020 04:02
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RareAcumen posted:Hmm, fair point. I am not at liberty to answer that question, I am sorry.
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Oct 12, 2020 04:09
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nine-gear crow posted:I am not at liberty to answer that question, I am sorry. Ah, so not enough to unlock the achievement then.
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Oct 12, 2020 04:13
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RareAcumen posted:Hmm, fair point. i suspect this was less the "go through it painstakingly to find bugs" kind of playtesting, given the game's content was still in flux, and more the "stick an early build in front of a NDA'd focus group and see what people say" kind. i'm not really sure on the details myself, but that would make a lot more sense, and i know that's not an unheard of thing at game studios (Valve based a lot of their design decisions for HL2/Portal/Alyx on this kind of feedback). WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 04:21 on Oct 12, 2020 |
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Oct 12, 2020 04:19
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My favorite IP thread derail is when people pop in to announce that they love/hate Star Wars for like ten pages.
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Oct 12, 2020 04:58
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what's Star Wars?
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Oct 12, 2020 04:59
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I'm star wars
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Oct 12, 2020 05:07
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Captain Invictus posted:I'm star wars You must be Rise of Skywalker because you suck GOTTEM
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Oct 12, 2020 05:08
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Alaois posted:what's Star Wars? It's that thing about space with Adam Driver and Oscar Isaac. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSwO-k-RqNA
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Oct 12, 2020 05:25
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It's that thing about space with Adam Driver and Oscar Isaac. oh that sounds good
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Oct 12, 2020 05:26
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Alaois posted:what's Star Wars?
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Oct 12, 2020 06:23
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Dias posted:You must be Rise of Skywalker because you suck 
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Oct 12, 2020 06:28
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Alaois posted:what's Star Wars? A miserable little pile of retcons
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Oct 12, 2020 06:31
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Captain Invictus posted:nah I'm The Last Jedi, contentious and both liked and disliked by a wide variety of people, but generally better than you think I am and often hated by the worst people. which star wars has the widest variety of hats
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Oct 12, 2020 07:01
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Probably one of the prequels because of all the stupid politicians.
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Oct 12, 2020 07:05
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Speaking of Star Wars and internet funny people https://twitter.com/lazygamereviews/status/1303336772311691266?lang=en What does it say that LGR reviewed the knitting stuff pack but wont do a video on the star wars pack for sims 4?
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Oct 12, 2020 07:17
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The fact that its a shameless corporate ad for a shameless corporate ad is the real hilarious part imo. Like, there's so much potential for a Star Wars Sims if you had to take that route. And they use it to send you to Disneyland.
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Oct 12, 2020 07:41
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I only meant to make a joke about how often this thread derails into Star Wars discourse. I absolutely didn't mean to start a new one. I'm sorry.
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The Bee posted:The fact that its a shameless corporate ad for a shameless corporate ad is the real hilarious part imo. Like, there's so much potential for a Star Wars Sims if you had to take that route. And they use it to send you to Disneyland. im sad there was never a second stab at the Sims Medieval formula because that sorta thing would work really well for star wars imo
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