LadyCrimson

Tried the latest demo thingie for the War for the Overworld Kickstarter project. I guess it's just a dug-out dungeon that you can wander around in, look at stuff, and "possess" an imp to wander around in 1st person if you wish. So it's not much. But it does look nice. Altho, it has the usual 3d inside-out face issue, apparently. Imp eyes! edit: game title correction. I keep wanting to call it something slightly different than its actual title...

I spent too much of my time contemplating who the villain in the next Star Trek movie really is going to be. With the first 9 minutes of the movie now being reported on, all kinds of stuff to rumor-monger about. Latest bit of news/rumor (from an industry tweet that is already deleted) is the blond chick is actually going to be Carol Marcus, which makes you wonder. At least if you're a ST nerd. Which I am. Even on rebooted franchises that sort of annoy me. Their marketing/keeping the mystery is a great ploy, darnit. ...now going to eat some pizza and watch TV.

Brad Pitt is a far better actor (now) than Cruise, imo. Pitt has grown a lot more and is able to express more depth. Cruise is still just playing Cruise in every film, I can get so tired of his one-note shouting-"I'm angry"-delivery. But I did think he was great in Collateral. I think that type of role is what he should be doing all the time...it fits him better than stuff like 4th of July or that Jerry movie. P.S. I'm not a huge fan of Pitt either.

I'd like to mention that if you go "online" with Steam, if you can get into the download view menu and click "pause" on any downloads that automatically start happening, that stops the games from updating. Of course, if the update is very tiny, and your connection speed fast, it may update before you can even click. But if it's bigger, then chances are you'll have time to click pause. And it will stay paused until you check restart, even if you go offline/go back online again later. And yes you can still play the game offline. If paused like that, the directory Steam creates to download the patch will be there, but the files aren't finished downloading, so nothing happens. At least, that's been my experience. But the only failsafe way is to copy the directory of the game you want to preserve elsewhere on your HD, and copy it back over again when you're done doing other stuff online/have gone back offline.

Not many can convince me to pull out my CC on the internet, but after some thinking ... I'm in. I've been waiting/wanting a DK3 for soooooooo long, this may be the closest thing to it. And it's gotta be better than what EA would likely come out with, right? Altho, I might wait for their updated playable tech demo first, which looks to be coming out very very soon. My main problem is the amount to put in. Being in the US, I'm in that conversion-rate + shipping bottleneck this time around. Heh. I'd like to give them a decent amount but don't care about the physical stuff...

In other movie news, I re-watched the first (extended) LoTR movie yesterday, since it had been a while. It's interesting how certain movies, no matter how much you loved them when you first saw them, won't hold up to many repeated home viewings over years. Still, the whole Mine sequence is da awesome. The LoTR trilogy is like that for me ... made up of several great sequences separated by boring to irritating segments. Unlike something like Seven or even Seabiscuit, where I love almost every bit and still have no urge to FF through any part.

I'm sure they'll be likely to also keep a few people around as easy, inexpensive labor for their meat, catnip and milk farms.

A technologically advanced alien race comprised of very large cats with laser beams on their heads will visit Earth and be horrified that their "kin" are enslaved as pets. Only those with cats who will vouch for and plead for their humans will be spared. If you hurry, you can adopt a cat, give it lots of hugs and treats, and perhaps survive the coming Furpocolypse.

Bad Tom Cruise movie: Legend. Sorry, I don't care if it's "lyrical and dreamy", it's horrible. Then-bf dragged me to it because he loved Tangerine Dream, who did the soundtrack. The soundtrack was ok, but I would have walked out of the movie if the bf hadn't wanted to sit through it all. Vanilla Sky is also quite terrible, imo. I personally have no love for Top Gun or Days of Thunder, either. As an actor, Cruise has matured a bit over the years. Not as much as others from his era, but some. Knight and Day was occasionally kinda cute - Cruise's performance was the least of its problems (Ditzy Diaz was the biggest problem...). The Last Samurai was an entertaining film, once you get past the conceit of Cruise being a star samurai. With the unreleased Jack Reacher, so far it's just fanbois whining that Cruise isn't "tall enough" to play the character.

There's that too. Got around to watching some of The Hobbit trailers and blog videos. I have mixed feelings about it. Love the actor who's playing younger Bilbo. But my concern is I'll feel too much like I've seen it before, if you know what I mean. eg will I find it all as enchanting as seeing LoTR the first time or will it seem too old hat...

Those are some most excellent looking shoes/booties.

That Oblivion trailer doesn't make the movie look all that interesting, outside of some sci-fi visuals. Looks rather predictable story-wise tho. Watched The Great Escape last night. Always a classic.

Can't believe it's going to be 2013 already, so soon. I'm still getting used to the idea that it's 2012. Have spent 0 minutes on gaming past few days and about 23409812 minutes on home mortgage and various tax research instead. It's about as relaxing as having your kneecaps pulled out. I'm not very good with this sort of stuff. Giving up and going to bed.

How is this better than connecting a current PC to your TV? I can already play controller-friendly games via Steam in the living room doing that. ....then again, I guess most people don't want to build multiple PC's for multiple rooms like we do, so I suppose there's a market.

Hmmmmmmmmm......this one actually looks promising. Sandbox and editor tools a huge huge huge ++++++ in my book. Hmmmmmmmm.....

That Oblivion trailer seems to have been pulled, since it's not officially supposed to be out until tomorrow I think. Anyway, I can't see it. I'm not a fan of Cruise as RL persona or actor, but I think he has been in some decent movies. He (or his agents) know what scripts to pick, most of the time. I generally like him better when he's playing the stoic, action type (like in Collateral or MI) vs. the heroic, human drama type. Most of the time I ignore him and just focus on the movie/other actors. Anyway, I'll look for the trailer tomorrow. If he's playing a loner-type in a sci-fi movie, I might find that decent.

Yeah....the sister-in-law's son did that Boy Scout overnight thing too. I think they should do that for adults as well ... pay more, get to stay overnight. Maybe they do, for all I know. Heh. Didn't know that about The Rock bit tho...I love that silly movie. Well, parts of it anyway. Had a giggle-filled night with the hubs (only he can make me laugh like that all the time.... ), soon off to dreamland.

This website/article still has it up (it's not a YouTube embed). Both the VGA intro and the trailer (at about 5minutes in): http://www.polygon.com/2012/12/7/3741834/south-park-the-stick-of-truth-vga-trailer ...I still have no interest in South Park, but the Spock joke moment made me lol.

There's The Kickstarter thread in the "Computer and Console" forum, with occasional dedicated threads to a few specific projects as well. The C&C is the forum for generalized/other game/gaming news discussion. Edit: ...that's if you were asking about a place on the Obsidian fora. If not ... nvm, just ignore me. :laugh:

YES!! this was a key reference image that I used. Again this drawing was exploratory, to contribute to the conversation of architectural style. It's not necessarily going to be in the game. There are others, and they are all color, but i didn't post them yet. Can you post the buildings location in Google maps?? Are there other buildings in your town like this, because yes! we do like Romanesque. For some reason, I find this really awesome. That someone came to this forum, looked at the pics, thought one of them reminded of something in his town, mentions it....and it turns out they're right and it was a major part of the inspiration.

It's cute, but it would have been more funny if the cat was stamping its paws on the keyboard and at the monitor or something. Even the GoG version of BG1?

One of those games eh? Can you run up to them and talk to them first, or does that have the opposite issue of running up to say hi and they shoot you dead?

I don't like unrelenting tension in games. Wait, no that's not entirely true. I admire/respect it, because games that manage to put me in that sort of state are rare, but I won't generally get far/play a game of that type even if I think it's awesome (Amnesia). I don't want to play an RPG to be sweaty-palm stressed out all the time. :laugh: So I'd rather not have that. Horror graphical elements, horror-like creatures to set a mood in some dungeons etc. are fine tho.

I was briefly engaged to Pac-Man once. Unfortunately he was too much of a celebrity and it caused some strife, plus that mouth of his...he just would not shut up.

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