LadyCrimson

Disappointed Giants lost last night, was rooting for them...still hoping they'll make the wild card. Boston/NY having their usual crazy games...one routs the other one night, the next night opposite result. Tonight, Beckett and CC...this could be epic.

The space/ship stuff does indeed look nice....but the ground action doesn't appeal to me at first glance. There were Starfleet with phasers standing toe to toe with a Klingon using a melee weapon...they were shooting their phasers at him from about a foot away...and the Klingon didn't go down immediately. It looked silly plus will the ground action consist of everyone standing still shooting at each other? I dunno...gameplay appeal hard to judge from that vid, I guess.

When I saw District 9 and saw the preview for a 'big' upcoming movie based on the 2012 thing, I immediately thought of this thread. I may not believe in the stuff, but the movie looks like it might be fun.

Brad Penny, I don't like you. You might be the nicest guy on the planet, but when you're on the mound against the Yankees...well, like I said..I don't like you.

Reaction? That doesn't, to me, necessarily have to do with how pretty/modern the graphics are. From the 12 minute actual gameplay vid, there was plenty of visual stuff...bodies exploding, spells effects, etc. I dunno...it looks like gameplay/battles move so fast I'd barely notice anything too fancy anyway.

I disagree that it's more fun. Prettier, yes...more fun...no. But that's just me.

Who gives a flying fart, really? I mean, this isn't an in-your face kind of game where graphic wizardry can mean a whole lot more in terms of immersion. It's a 'I can barely tell what the monsters face looks like' top down perspective. Even if they have a zoom function (not saying they do/don't, I don't know), I doubt many would use it while actually playing...just screenshots. It's much upgraded from the old games and looks fine for playing.

Wow... those are some pretty bad graphics, honestly. I don't mind color, but Diablo is supposed to be gritty. This just looks too clean, too shiny. I know very much what you mean about the graphic color atmosphere...D3 reminds me a lot more of Titan Quest in that regard...but if the gameplay is still as mindlessly addictive, I won't care about the graphics. Besides, Diablo2 had lots of beige desert sand, too..and it's grittiness was more due to 800 resolution and pixelation than anything else. We shall see.

Oh..that's where the shorter one came from I guess. I couldn't get blizzard.com to load for a while, either. lol

Wait, the one on YT isn't nearly as long. I'll wait for dii.net.

Oh...that's easier. But I'm in the middle of downloading diinet's, so I can have a hard copy.

I was finally able to get dii.net to load and start playing the actual monk gameplay video. I'm definitely making one of these first. The Witch Doctor/Barb is unappealing and the Wizard...well, maybe.

I also don't have 9 cats anymore. Only 1...and probably not for much longer. Won't be getting any new ones for a while, either. What I did yesterday: shoveled 5 garbage bags full of the stupid, tiny-sized and cat-attracting tanbark mulching that whoever lived here before us used to cover up all the dirt areas in the front yard. Replacing with more rocks and cement paver stones. Still tempted to remove the front lawn and pave the whole thing over and just use a few giant plants/trees in barrels for decoration. Lawns....meh.

I'm going to take a wild guess the Monk has "prayer" powers of self-protection/melee enhancement, with less focus on them helping other players.

I'm rarely impressed by any game trailer...since they're usually nothing at all like actually clicking your way through the game. But it is nice to see how the Monk will look (while moving) and using what I assume are some of his skillz. One of those skillz I'd guess to be a magic protection shield of some kind, form the way he responded to all the fire bolts falling down towards him.

District 9: A solid B, maybe a B+. I liked it quite a bit, although not quite as great as all the hype. Had some very intense scenes that may stick with you a while, interesting main character (in terms of his back and forth like/dislike he makes one feel) and a crowd-pleasing action ending.The allegory is almost too heavy-handed to be truly effective, but that's sci-fi for you, so roll with it. There are tons of subtitles, in case that sort of thing annoys you...and while the 'shaky' & super-fast cut camera work isn't all that bad compared to some, it's definitely there. My husband didn't like the movie overall to begin with, but he particularly dislikes 'shaky camera' trends and ranted on about it for quite a while.

Monk class! Awesome! I think it's a cutscene, not a cinematic. I assume they wanted to show off the actual class, not pretty chr. CGI that wouldn't be in the actual game.

Then what was the point in stating a specific date, if you're not refuting a specific predictive claim? I guess I'll just respond by stating my opinion that I think predicting the end of the world for a specific date/year is an exercise in general futility?

Well, as you said, such predictive nonsense has been around for ages and ages...nothing new....what I was actually more interested in was this part of your first post: I wasn't aware it was supposed to do that in 2012. (ie, what, exactly, is supposed to happen in 2012...or are you objecting to the predictive concepts in a more generalized way?)

1 - You know what? Rocks and stuff, even little ones, they're a lot heavier than they look. Just saying. 2 - Have I mentioned I found a use for Twitter, for a while now? Gabbing during baseball games w/other team fans. Like being in a bar/living room with random sports nuts. Yeah, kinda fun. 3 - Happy 40th, Woodstock. I wasn't there (since I was only a baby then), but the music of that time will be in me forever.

What? What new net viral rumor/fad is this? Link please.

No clue. Cable on-demand had the HD-extended version for "rent" and that's how I saw it.

This. Just like what happened with women and smoking (IIRC) at one point. There's probably other contributors, but I'd guess the above is likely the biggest one.

Saw directors cut of Watchmen. It was somewhat plodding in the first half but picked up for me after that...partly, I think, because by then the flashbacks had done their job re: characterization. The guy playing Walter Kovacs/Rorschach was great, and I loved his character. I think his character alone made the film, for me. Not the best movie, but a B or so for it's genre, imo. Now, I haven't read the GN...the new styles haven't appealed and I've ignored them for a couple decades. But I went to the bookstore and bought Watchmen. I preferred the movie, but not because it was all that different (except for a few key points) and not because I didn't like the story itself. The illustrative & narrative style/presentation in annoyed & distracted me I guess...along with the large text info segments. I think those would have worked better at the end of GN as appendix reads. Plus, Rorschach felt flatter and less compelling on paper, w/out a lot more 'inner thought' insights like a text novel might have...he was certainly less frightening/pathos inducing. Anyway...an all-text novelization I might enjoy a lot more than the GN...is there one?

The wildcard spot is still very up for grabs, but wow, I thought Boston was going to lose the game tonight. Awesome 9th inning...and no, not just because "my" team ended up w/a win, but as one of those games that showcases how exciting and 'not over until the fat lady sings' baseball can be. And why most fans don't leave until the game's last out. Well, unless their team is losing by 15 runs in the 8th, maybe. I've seen many late inning comebacks like that, from many teams...and they're always pure awesomesauce to watch.