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[quote]undecimber wrote:

[quote]RSGZ wrote:

[quote]undecimber wrote:
Does anyone own a Nintendo DS/i/lite etc?

Would you recommended owning one?

I’m thinking about buying one, mainly for the good number of rpg’s that have been released + the adventure/puzzles that are available. (Castlevania, Valkyrie, FF, Dragon Quest).

They’re also pretty cheap atm.

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3DS is on the way, albeit not for a while.

I personally don’t like them, but loads of people swear by them. Certainly no problems with the devices, have you considered a PSP?[/quote]

Thanks for replying, how come you didn’t like them?

I borrowed a PSP from a friend of mine and while it was pretty cool, it grew old very quickly.

The 3DS should be pretty interesting considering its 3D without glasses, but theres the chance that the visibility could suffer if you were to have it on particular angles (fuzziness etc.) Starfox 64 is going to be a title on it, so I’m hoping that its good.

Considering the long list of PC/Platform titles that are coming out this year(DA:2, ME3, Skyrim, DE:3, Crysis 2 etc) I might wait a bit.

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I’m just not a fan of the platform, or Nintendo in general. But then again, I wasn’t one for the PSP either - so it may just be mobile gaming in general.

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[quote]kakno wrote:

[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
And the top model N phone (with 12 MP cam) has the best camera of any cell phone in terms of image quality. Nokia can do hardware pretty well.[/quote]
I bought the N8. Fantastic hardware, “meh” software. Great camera, built in FM transmitter (I like getting my music on the car stereo), good GPS, and you can connect USB flash drives and keyboards to the phone, which kind of makes it a small computer. With WP7, they’ll probably capture a big part of the “business man” market segment. I like where this is going. The competition will have to work harder as well.[/quote]

Nokia’s lack of good software is exactly why this partnership will do well.

Nokia is also integrating their offline maps, and together with their camera’s and build quality, it’s gonna be awesome.

I know that RIM is first on the hitlist, and Nokia’s CEO seems to have a good business plan.

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[quote]Soulja874 wrote:

That has potential but I wonder how much of the comic canon will be toss out the window to appeal to the masses.[/quote]

All of it. The original X-Men team was 5 guys. Cyclops, Jean, Beast, Ice Man, Angel. In the trailer you can see they have way more than 5, and only Beast is from the original team. 2 or 3 of the movie team members were created after 2001, so not exactly packing in the long time Marvel fan favorites. With all that said I think the movie looks good, and there is no sign of Wolverine which earns the movie +10 cool points. I think the movie looks pretty ggod and will catch it at the theater when it releases.

If you search youtube for “X-Men First Class Boycott” you should find a few retarded geeks with their panties in wad over this “travesty” of a film.

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[quote]SteelyD wrote:
I watched “Batman: Under the Red Hood” last night. Thought it was pretty good. Kudos to the writer who wrote the Joker.

Best line (Joker): “I’m going to need a big truck. And guards… but not these… because they’re… dead.”[/quote]

I forget who the voice actor was for Red Hood/Jason Todd, but I was pretty damn well impressed by his performance.

DC Animated recently released a DVD/Blu-Ray collection of all the short films they have done. Each film is only 15-20 minutes in length, but they pack a lot of action into every minute.

The 4 DC Showcase Films are:
Captain Marvel + Superman vs Black Adam
Green Arrow vs Merlyn + Count Vertigo (with special guest Black Canary)
Jonah Hex vs One Crazy Ass Bitch
The Specter just fucking up evil doers in mind melting ways

Plus there are a ton of animated shows from the DC series in the bonus section. Decent buy if you want all the short films in one place.

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[quote]Bujo wrote:

[quote]SteelyD wrote:
I watched “Batman: Under the Red Hood” last night. Thought it was pretty good. Kudos to the writer who wrote the Joker.

Best line (Joker): “I’m going to need a big truck. And guards… but not these… because they’re… dead.”[/quote]

I forget who the voice actor was for Red Hood/Jason Todd, but I was pretty damn well impressed by his performance.

DC Animated recently released a DVD/Blu-Ray collection of all the short films they have done. Each film is only 15-20 minutes in length, but they pack a lot of action into every minute.

The 4 DC Showcase Films are:
Captain Marvel + Superman vs Black Adam
Green Arrow vs Merlyn + Count Vertigo (with special guest Black Canary)
Jonah Hex vs One Crazy Ass Bitch
The Specter just fucking up evil doers in mind melting ways

Plus there are a ton of animated shows from the DC series in the bonus section. Decent buy if you want all the short films in one place.
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It was Supernatural’s Jensen Ackles. I’ve only seen the captain marvel/superman vs black adam short which I thought was really good, need to get around to seeing the others.

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[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]DJHT wrote:

[quote]Johnny T Frisk wrote:

[quote]DJHT wrote:
^ Such as? Spiderman was never one of my favorite’s anyway, but what makes you negative about it? Just curious. [/quote]

Posted one of the pics on the first page of this thread. Scrawny spidey plus high school drama meh, if people thought spidey 3 was to emo get ready.
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I remember seeing it but the story line starts in HS. Now the emo thing of course could be what they are going for, ready for Spidey/light, or Sparkle/Web.

Have you seen anything about the script? [/quote]

Main villain is The Lizard. My main concern is that Avi Arad is still on board as producer after pressuring Raimi into cramming Venom into Spidey 3 when he didn’t want to use him - Arad is all about business, and they may well fuck this up again because of that. With the success of Twilight, they may well be tempted to ‘moodyify’ Spiderman - I’m only surprised that they didn’t throw in Morbius and make him a petulant teen with a crush on the girl next grave for the vampire element.

Spoilers (for those few not familiar with the comic book).

Expect to see PP’s parents die relatively late into the movie (Campbell Scott plays his dad, so he’ s going do some acting), plenty of reason to mope around, slouch and kick rocks. Don’t expect wisecracks due to Parker being too occupied with feeling sorry for himself. Oh, and the director is called Marc Webb. With a surname like that, he can’t afford to mess this up.[/quote]

The Lizard is kind of weak for the main villain role. Traditionally he is just a geneticist who wants to grow back his amputated arm when things go awry. Usually sympathetic villains are pack ins to get the bad guy number up for the sequels. I’ll wait for the trailers. If I don’t like the trailers then I won’t go see the film. Not a big deal really. Plus it seems awfully soon to be rebooting the Spider-Man series.

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[quote]Johnny T Frisk wrote:

It was Supernatural’s Jensen Ackles. I’ve only seen the captain marvel/superman vs black adam short which I thought was really good, need to get around to seeing the others.
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That’s right. I had looked him up on IMDB weeks ago, but had just forgotten. The shorts are good. I highly recommend the one starring the Specter.

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Here is the initial test footage for the Thundercats Movie, now cancelled and rightfully so it would seem. This is a corny sunday morning cartoon version of Thundercats at best. Here judge for yourself:

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[quote]RSGZ wrote:

[quote]kakno wrote:

[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
And the top model N phone (with 12 MP cam) has the best camera of any cell phone in terms of image quality. Nokia can do hardware pretty well.[/quote]
I bought the N8. Fantastic hardware, “meh” software. Great camera, built in FM transmitter (I like getting my music on the car stereo), good GPS, and you can connect USB flash drives and keyboards to the phone, which kind of makes it a small computer. With WP7, they’ll probably capture a big part of the “business man” market segment. I like where this is going. The competition will have to work harder as well.[/quote]

Nokia’s lack of good software is exactly why this partnership will do well.

Nokia is also integrating their offline maps, and together with their camera’s and build quality, it’s gonna be awesome.

I know that RIM is first on the hitlist, and Nokia’s CEO seems to have a good business plan.[/quote]

I’ve liked both of my past Nokia phones, and if they can put together something comparable to the HTC Droid phones then they’ll be getting more of my money.

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[quote]Pootie Tang wrote:
Here is the initial test footage for the Thundercats Movie, now cancelled and rightfully so it would seem. This is a corny sunday morning cartoon version of Thundercats at best. Here judge for yourself:

http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2011/02/test-footage-from-the-now-dead-thundercats-movie-surfaces[/quote]

Did you try pulling your head out of your ass before watching the vid? It looks much better that way.

The animation is good, very good. Fucking outstanding considering it’s from a shelved project. I’m a bit perturbed by Lion-O banging his sword into rocks like that, but the smack talk was hilarious, especially the last few seconds. The art style, of course is up to personal taste and is debatable.

I believe the CGI Thundercats movie was supposed to be a kick off to an animated series similar to what the CGI Ninja Turtles movie failed to do and the Star Wars Clone Wars movie accomplished. The Ninja Turtle movie’s inability to generate interest in an on going series was probably key in the canning of the Thundercats film. Anyways looking at the picture above (a sample from the new upcoming Thundercats cartoon) it’s pretty obvious that the designs of Lion-O are quite similar. They are probably targeting kids 5-12 and not dudes 20-40.

Finally, Thundercats was a corny Sunday, err weekday cartoon. Do you not remember Snarf and the retarded surfer twins Wily-Kit and Wily-Kat? I’m sure if you watched a few episodes of Thundercats today it would not be the epic masterpiece you remember it as.

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I might have some revisionist memories because it was one of my coveted cartoons as a youth. Let me explain why the demo clip rubbed me the wrong way. In the cartoon Liono was about 5 or 6 on Thundera and had the traumatic experience of watching his family die and his planet get destroyed. When he awoke on 3rd Earth he was a grown man with those horrible memories and now the burden of being the leader of the Thundercats. So he was scared, impatient, and immature but not douchbag immature like the clip shows, he was more naive.

So The clip just takes a MAJOR part of the Thundercats history and shits on it. As far as the overall tone of the show is concerned yes it did have those stupid twins that no one liked and the annoying Snarf. But it also had it’s very serious moments as well; do you remember the trial of leadership Liono had to take? When he had to fight every member of the Thundercats and beat them at their own game? (He luckily beat Panthro at the test of strenght because Panthro got injured.)

Or when he fought King Arther and was killed by excalibur? Or when he had to fight Groon(sp) the conqueror who was Jaga’s nemesis back on Thundera who’s spirit was resurrected by accident. Groon fucked up the Thundercats and Jaga’s spirit had to fight him and was losing so Liono told him to take his strength when Jaga refused Liono said ‘As the Leader of the Thundercats I DEMAND, that you take my strength!!’ The shit still gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.

So dude don’t tell me I have my head up my ass. Thundercats had their silly moments granted but it also had its all or nothing moments where shit got real and they got serious. So that foolishness that was showed in the clip just looks halfassed and rushed and to be frank the dialogue is quite corny.

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[quote]Bujo wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]DJHT wrote:

[quote]Johnny T Frisk wrote:

[quote]DJHT wrote:
^ Such as? Spiderman was never one of my favorite’s anyway, but what makes you negative about it? Just curious. [/quote]

Posted one of the pics on the first page of this thread. Scrawny spidey plus high school drama meh, if people thought spidey 3 was to emo get ready.
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I remember seeing it but the story line starts in HS. Now the emo thing of course could be what they are going for, ready for Spidey/light, or Sparkle/Web.

Have you seen anything about the script? [/quote]

Main villain is The Lizard. My main concern is that Avi Arad is still on board as producer after pressuring Raimi into cramming Venom into Spidey 3 when he didn’t want to use him - Arad is all about business, and they may well fuck this up again because of that. With the success of Twilight, they may well be tempted to ‘moodyify’ Spiderman - I’m only surprised that they didn’t throw in Morbius and make him a petulant teen with a crush on the girl next grave for the vampire element.

Spoilers (for those few not familiar with the comic book).

Expect to see PP’s parents die relatively late into the movie (Campbell Scott plays his dad, so he’ s going do some acting), plenty of reason to mope around, slouch and kick rocks. Don’t expect wisecracks due to Parker being too occupied with feeling sorry for himself. Oh, and the director is called Marc Webb. With a surname like that, he can’t afford to mess this up.[/quote]

The Lizard is kind of weak for the main villain role. Traditionally he is just a geneticist who wants to grow back his amputated arm when things go awry. Usually sympathetic villains are pack ins to get the bad guy number up for the sequels. I’ll wait for the trailers. If I don’t like the trailers then I won’t go see the film. Not a big deal really. Plus it seems awfully soon to be rebooting the Spider-Man series.[/quote]

Yeah. I think the choice of villain and the relatively short time lapse between Spiderman 3 and the reboot is due to the fact that Sam Raimi considered doing a fourth movie with Maguire and co. returning, and Connors as the villain. Seems as though they went with the reboot as soon as Raimi jumped ship (and who can blame him really after Avi Arad’s meddling?).

I can only guess that Spiderman and The Lizard’s origins are somehow linked in this.

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[quote]Pootie Tang wrote:
I might have some revisionist memories because it was one of my coveted cartoons as a youth. Let me explain why the demo clip rubbed me the wrong way. In the cartoon Liono was about 5 or 6 on Thundera and had the traumatic experience of watching his family die and his planet get destroyed. When he awoke on 3rd Earth he was a grown man with those horrible memories and now the burden of being the leader of the Thundercats. So he was scared, impatient, and immature but not douchbag immature like the clip shows, he was more naive.

So The clip just takes a MAJOR part of the Thundercats history and shits on it. As far as the overall tone of the show is concerned yes it did have those stupid twins that no one liked and the annoying Snarf. But it also had it’s very serious moments as well; do you remember the trial of leadership Liono had to take? When he had to fight every member of the Thundercats and beat them at their own game? (He luckily beat Panthro at the test of strenght because Panthro got injured.) Or when he fought King Arther and was killed by excalibur? Or when he had to fight Groon(sp) the conqueror who was Jaga’s nemesis back on Thundera who’s spirit was resurrected by accident. Groon fucked up the Thundercats and Jaga’s spirit had to fight him and was losing so Liono told him to take his strength when Jaga refused Liono said ‘As the Leader of the Thundercats I DEMAND, that you take my strength!!’ The shit still gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.

So dude don’t tell me I have my head up my ass. Thundercats had their silly moments granted but it also had its all or nothing moments where shit got real and they got serious. So that foolishness that was showed in the clip just looks halfassed and rushed and to be frank the dialogue is quite corny. [/quote]

I’m betting had the movie been made, and even in the upcoming series we will see Lion-O grow from a punk-ass teenager to the noble leader. Nobody entices the audience by showing them the end of the movie. That vid clip was the hook, that was the punk-ass teenager. Unfortunately we won’t get to see if he ever made it to the noble leader role. 80s Lion-O went from 5 to 25 over night, and never had to deal with his balls dropping, and the assholish behaviors that induces. He just suffered from the occasional 5-year-old-child relapse when he hung out for too long with Kit/Kat.

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[quote]roybot wrote:

Yeah. I think the choice of villain and the relatively short time lapse between Spiderman 3 and the reboot is due to the fact that Sam Raimi considered doing a fourth movie with Maguire and co. returning, and Connors as the villain. Seems as though they went with the reboot as soon as Raimi jumped ship (and who can blame him really after Avi Arad’s meddling?).

I can only guess that Spiderman and The Lizard’s origins are somehow linked in this.[/quote]

No doubt. If my name was all over Spider-Man 3, I’d get the hell out of Dodge too. It wouldn’t be difficult to write the lizard as some maniacal genius looking to commit some act of evil. Personally I would have been more impressed had they chosen somebody like the Chamelion as the main villain. An assassin with the ability to impersonate anybody would be more interesting than two guys with nearly identical power sets fighting.

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[quote]Bujo wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:

Yeah. I think the choice of villain and the relatively short time lapse between Spiderman 3 and the reboot is due to the fact that Sam Raimi considered doing a fourth movie with Maguire and co. returning, and Connors as the villain. Seems as though they went with the reboot as soon as Raimi jumped ship (and who can blame him really after Avi Arad’s meddling?).

I can only guess that Spiderman and The Lizard’s origins are somehow linked in this.[/quote]

No doubt. If my name was all over Spider-Man 3, I’d get the hell out of Dodge too. It wouldn’t be difficult to write the lizard as some maniacal genius looking to commit some act of evil. Personally I would have been more impressed had they chosen somebody like the Chamelion as the main villain. An assassin with the ability to impersonate anybody would be more interesting than two guys with nearly identical power sets fighting.[/quote]

True. I’m actually really surprised that Sam Raimi never used him considering that Darkman’s abilities were along similar lines.

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Played the Killzone 3 single player demo. It was alright. I was disapointed by the jet pack. I thought I was going to zoom around everywhere but really all you can do is jump and hover 10 feet in the air and slowly come back to ground.

Overall, play a lot better than Killzone 2. More like other first person shooter out there now.

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[quote]Fuzzyapple wrote:
Played the Killzone 3 single player demo. It was alright. I was disapointed by the jet pack. I thought I was going to zoom around everywhere but really all you can do is jump and hover 10 feet in the air and slowly come back to ground.

Overall, play a lot better than Killzone 2. More like other first person shooter out there now. [/quote]

ya played it as well. About what I expected. Graphic just as good as KZ2 and it the weapons definitely felt more accurate.

I kinda like the jet pack though. I guess I was expecting the thing to just hover more so than anything else so I wasn’t let down at all. The the speed burst was cool.

I’m curious to see how the jet pack will be in multi player

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Has anyone tries the PlayStation Move?

I was thinking about getting it and the sharp shooter for Killzone, but I’m just not convinced yet.

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Slightly geeky, the best one is the second chick.

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^ Slightly?