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The funny thing is how primed I was for that game to be good. I remember unlocking the first alien machine thingy and thinking "oh man, I can't wait to get back to the surface and see how my actions have changed the world." Oh, not at all? It's the same lovely desert but it's just habital now? Tell, don't show.
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Yeah, even after ME3 I was primed for MEA (I actually didn't hate the ending like a lot of people, it was really divisive) and lo what a loving turd that turned out to be. ME1 was about as close to a good Star Trek game as I can possibly imagine, maybe tone down the combat and offer more opportunities for diplomatic solutions, base your Paragon/Renegade/Etc archetypes on Picard/Kirk/Sisko/Janeway. Good lord I get the heebie jeebies just thinking about how good that Trek game could possibly be.
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May 22, 2020 06:02
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There's also a credible leak about a Mass Effect remaster, which is an obvious license to print money and they better not gently caress it up too bad
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FlamingLiberal posted:I just remembered that we see all of these Federation scientists on the Borg Cube but they just magically aren't on it when everything goes to poo poo Also, why is the creepy sister suddenly in charge of all the Romulans on the cube? Where are the Romulan officers running the Artifact project? Are they just fine with this crazy woman destroying their project and murdering all the XBs?
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May 22, 2020 07:49
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You could have made an entire series set on a slowly reclaimed Borg cube. The tension between the Romulan overseers and the Federation scientists, the mystery of the mad Romulan XB that Knows Weird Stuff, Hugh's struggle with being back in a borg environment, the motives of the Secret Romulan organisation... there's a lot there!
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precision posted:There's also a credible leak about a Mass Effect remaster, which is an obvious license to print money and they better not gently caress it up too bad Yeah I've heard that too, but I would hope there would be a separate team or a third party working on a remaster, with whatever passes for an a team at modern Bioware working on a proper sequel. Or given Bioware's most recent output, vice versa.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:You could have made an entire series set on a slowly reclaimed Borg cube. The tension between the Romulan overseers and the Federation scientists, the mystery of the mad Romulan XB that Knows Weird Stuff, Hugh's struggle with being back in a borg environment, the motives of the Secret Romulan organisation... there's a lot there!
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I was thinking it might be fun to include Curzon Dax on the Pike show, he seemed like a cool guy. Then I pictured some modern trek version where he’s just a drunk gambler pinching waitress rear end all day with zero redeeming qualities who only ever seems to remember or mention his past lives when the plot calls for a quick cheap solution. Like there’s a transporter malfunction and someone is like “who the hell here would know how to repair this old thing? And Curzon is all “Well actually Tobin...”, or they’re stuck in a pit of raptors and there just so happens to be some uneven bars overhead so here comes Emony to do some flips and poo poo over them.
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May 22, 2020 10:12
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Still slightly more interesting than Raffi.
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May 22, 2020 14:30
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Martytoof posted:Still slightly more interesting than Raffi. Raffi would be interesting if I were watching a 1980s police procedural and she were a sympathetic habitual drug user that the cops go to for the skinny on the dope slingers
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Brawnfire posted:Raffi would be interesting if I were watching a 1980s police procedural and she were a sympathetic habitual drug user that the cops go to for the skinny on the dope slingers Raffi as Bubbles then?
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precision posted:There's also a credible leak about a Mass Effect remaster, which is an obvious license to print money and they better not gently caress it up too bad My one hope is they get Earth round the right way in ME1.
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CubanMissile posted:I was thinking it might be fun to include Curzon Dax on the Pike show, he seemed like a cool guy. Then I pictured some modern trek version where he’s just a drunk gambler pinching waitress rear end all day with zero redeeming qualities who only ever seems to remember or mention his past lives when the plot calls for a quick cheap solution. Like there’s a transporter malfunction and someone is like “who the hell here would know how to repair this old thing? And Curzon is all “Well actually Tobin...”, or they’re stuck in a pit of raptors and there just so happens to be some uneven bars overhead so here comes Emony to do some flips and poo poo over them. Assuming the Pike show takes place around the same time as Disco, then Dax won't be Curzon for another thirty years. At this point the host would be either Emony or Audrid.
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Powered Descent posted:At this point the host would be either Emony or Audrid. Did they reference McCoys age when he hosed Dax? I'm sure they'd be tempted to include that...
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Of course they did;-)
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Zaroff posted:Did they reference McCoys age when he hosed Dax? I'm sure they'd be tempted to include that... He was at Ole Miss* at the time, I think? *ole miss sucks, geaux tigers
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CubanMissile posted:I was thinking it might be fun to include Curzon Dax on the Pike show, he seemed like a cool guy. Then I pictured some modern trek version where he’s just a drunk gambler pinching waitress rear end all day with zero redeeming qualities who only ever seems to remember or mention his past lives when the plot calls for a quick cheap solution. From DS9, it sounds like that''s what Curzon was like.
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Yeah, Curzon was a horny old man who fell in love with the much younger Jadzia when she was a student and then denied her entry into the symbiont program just because he didn’t want to be tempted. He was a prick.
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Ok, but at least he wouldn’t be brooding in a dark room with a bottle every day like most of Picard’s crew.
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So now I've seen two episodes of Discovery, the first and (to date) last. And yyyyeah, I don't think I'll be bothering to fill in the gaps. Things I liked (or that at least made an impression): Pike Saru Michelle Yeoh Waspishly sarcastic admiral lady The tumbling fight scene when the gravity malfunctioned The big closeup on the actual, literal rocks that came from an exploding console  Things I didn't: Everything being rushed and frenetic for no particular reason The Michael Bay "gently caress the frame" approach to shooting, editing and VFX The feeling that everything is way more advanced than it should be for a TOS prequel (especially the Enterprise) Starships being fighter carriers "Now let's never speak of Discovery again" Burnham - the main character - was just kind of... there. The biggest question I was left with was: why didn't they build the entire Enterprise out of whatever they used to make the blast doors? Because Pike was standing ten feet from a multi-megaton antimatter explosion and it didn't even mess up his Keir Starmer hair-sweep.  Pike and co made me interested in the idea of Strange New Worlds, but knowing the same people are behind it... maybe not.
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There is so much wrong with the torpedo detonation scene in the S2 finale i wouldn’t know where to begin
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:You could have made an entire series set on a slowly reclaimed Borg cube. The tension between the Romulan overseers and the Federation scientists, the mystery of the mad Romulan XB that Knows Weird Stuff, Hugh's struggle with being back in a borg environment, the motives of the Secret Romulan organisation... there's a lot there! There was 6 good shows in Picard and it danced around loving all of them
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apatheticman posted:There was 6 good shows in Picard and it danced around loving all of them It's as if they did that thing where you tease several overdone plotlines then do something original and interesting--except reversed.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:You could have made an entire series set on a slowly reclaimed Borg cube. The tension between the Romulan overseers and the Federation scientists, the mystery of the mad Romulan XB that Knows Weird Stuff, Hugh's struggle with being back in a borg environment, the motives of the Secret Romulan organisation... there's a lot there! The setting definitely upstaged the plot. Soji should have just been a junior officer on a science vessel or something.
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apatheticman posted:There was 6 good shows in Picard and it danced around loving all of them It's like they were writing for a road trip movie or road trip season of an episodic TV series, except that doesn't work when you create the expectation every episode will relate to the main plot. As a story element, they used the Borg cube like a haunted castle where the Mystery Machine broke down overnight on the way to find an ancient There are probably more interesting stops in a lot of road trip TV shows and movies I could've used instead there Toy Story: Pizza Planet Star Wars: Mos Eisley that kind of thing galenanorth fucked around with this message at 05:08 on May 24, 2020 |
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:You could have made an entire series set on a slowly reclaimed Borg cube. The tension between the Romulan overseers and the Federation scientists, the mystery of the mad Romulan XB that Knows Weird Stuff, Hugh's struggle with being back in a borg environment, the motives of the Secret Romulan organisation... there's a lot there!
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Cugel the Clever posted:Wait wait wait, how do we fit in ONE THOUSAND Federation ships doing battle with ONE THOUSAND Romulan ships in an incomprehensible assault on the eyes that ultimately had no stakes or effect on the plot whatsoever?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPKjrTKoe2A&t=147s
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Cugel the Clever posted:Pshaw, one thousand ships? What is this, a lullaby show for babies? Come on, guy, if you want this to be an action show, you're going to need ONE MILLION ships on each side, Or at least a few hundred thousand. Also set it to classical music. https://youtu.be/ZG-NvzAAJhw
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FuturePastNow posted:Content: From the RedLetterMedia thread. This is unironically better than most modern Star Trek. They should get this guy to play Picard instead of Patrick Stewart. SimonChris fucked around with this message at 10:13 on May 24, 2020 |
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SimonChris posted:From the RedLetterMedia thread. This is unironically better than most modern Star Trek. They should get this guy to play Picard instead of Patrick Stewart. the dude who plays picard is an actual picard imitator and not a pornstar and he was too embarassed to bone so he only did the bj scene. thats some trivia for ya. also lol its a better tng ep than like 60% of the real ones
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Holy poo poo you weren't kidding. Porn-level production values aside, that was a decent season 7 episode. They even included the classic "Worf getting clowned on" moment Retrowave Joe fucked around with this message at 14:30 on May 24, 2020 |
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May 24, 2020 14:22
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The places where the edits occurred are so obvious and totally hilarious.
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Hipster_Doofus posted:The places where the edits occurred are so obvious and totally hilarious. "I didn't want to cancel our date"
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Ramadu posted:the dude who plays picard is an actual picard imitator and not a pornstar and he was too embarassed to bone so he only did the bj scene. Picard to the core, what a method actor.
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Can't wait til Kurtzman and Goldsman write a Q story and turn it into a dour melodrama. Though if Q has to be brought in ala Mudd, who be a great re-cast? Other than just continuing to use John de Lancie.
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Keegan de Lancie should be the obvious choice here.
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feedmyleg posted:Can't wait til Kurtzman and Goldsman write a Q story and turn it into a dour melodrama. Neil Patrick Harris
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LinkesAuge posted:Picard to the core, what a method actor. Holy poo poo that is really funny and meta-y. Martytoof posted:Keegan de Lancie should be the obvious choice here. Absofuckinglutely. Assuming he still has decent acting chops. Has he been active at all? precision posted:Neil Patrick Harris This is also acceptable. Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tepVDyAUmc
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Hipster_Doofus posted:Absofuckinglutely. Assuming he still has decent acting chops. Has he been active at all? Sounds like he works for the UN and has no interest in acting from some interview I found.
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