EnderAndrew

Do you bite your thumb at me? Romeo and Juliet, anyone? Pepsi has never once led in the cola wars. This is fact. Pepsi copies every move Coke makes, such as Splenda, C2, Vanilla Coke, Coke with Lime, etc. Pepsi's innovations clearly suck like a Lewinski. Pepsi Blue and Pepsi Spice anyone?

Something has to give. Consumers are complaining about the price of games, yet the cost to make games has gone up tremendously. A console title might cost on average $5 million to produce. Halo and GTA will turn huge profits, while many titles might lose money in a serious way. Despite $5 million dollar budgets, there still isn't enough money to properly pay the development staff, and now voice actors are screaming for a portion of the pie. Some development houses are in constant crunch, of 60-70 hour weeks with no paid overtime. As graphics increase, the need for more detailed models, and tons of them increases. More and more games are using full voice recordings for every line of dialogue. Companies are now paying for major soundtracks to their games, etc. Something has to give.

Well, Sony and M$ started throwing about terraflops and raw processing power and no one cares about that.

I get down with the Jungle Boogie.

Has anyone else noticed his Spongebob boxers? I just noticed them. That is all.

Well Damon and Affleck are poor lays. Thusly he doesn't enjoy it, and isn't happy, nor gay. How can one be happy when you look like Smith, yet get to have sex daily with a hottie, and get paid millions of dollars to make **** and fart jokes with your friends? His life is hell.

Fools! He merely has sex with Affleck and Damon to prove he doesn't enjoy it!

In the beginning the universe was created. Since then this has been widely regarded as a bad move.

I've always wanted a European copy of Ten.

If you're talking comics to movies, people keep leaving out movies like the Crow. Damned good movie. Too bad the sequels blew.

I say it was the prologue to an epic trilogy, soon to be laden with fat merchandising deals.

Kevin Smith is married to a hottie. The dude's brother is gay, and he's down with gay content, but I think the guy is pretty honest and comfortable with his sex life. He talks about it quite a bit in his online blog. If you're using the term gay as an all-around pejorative, then you need to grow up. Furthermore, Kevin Smith rocks.

Prepare to jump to Ludicrious speed!

The movies don't have 30 years of comics worth of stories behind them. I think it's a bit premature to randomly kill off several major characters. How about resolving the stories started in the first two movies first?

She promised to tell you everything in the end. Overall I liked the story, but I think that end scene with Kreia could have been much better.

AICN does often use hyperbole. They either really love things there, or hate them. I'm not reading into their reaction of whether or not they like the plot. I'm just looking into what the plot is, and then making my own judgement over whether or not I think it's a good idea. I like the character of Angel, but overall I think the plotline is pretty weak, and the character deaths are poorly done.

Is LucasArts forking over money for another patch? Unlikely. Atari is also a bad publisher. I don't expect them to be any better. Atari refused Troika money to work on patches for ToEE. Eventually there was a Troika employee who did patches on his own time, for free. However, NWN:2 has a much longer development cycle, and both the toolset and rendering engine were rewritten from scratch early on. I think we'll learn very early on here whether or not Obsidian has a good programming staff. Troika designed pretty good games, but they had poor programmers.

Yep. ShadowPaladin said: And he's right.

Singer took alot of his staff, and his two screenwriters over to Superman. I thinkt the character of Superman is incredibly boring, but I'm more excited about Singer's Superman than I am over X-3 right now. That's sad.

People say that fans were just upset because of change. Zelda 2 was completely different from 1, and I really liked it. Zelda 3 offered the mirror world, tons of new items, magic spells, and changed gameplay. Link's Awakening on the Gameboy was quite different, and didn't even feature Hyrule or Zelda. Zelda: OOT jumped to 3D and people loved how the series changed greatly. Major's Mask again completely changed gameplay with the time element, and the masks. No one greatly complained. All the Zelda titles have changed. Only one title alienated most of the fans and got all these complaints. Twilight Princess features Link turning into a wolf while a monkey rides you. People are open to that, so I think Zelda fans are fairly open and optimistic that Zelda titles will automatically be good. Ask most people, and they will tell you the game they are most excited about is Twilight Princess, as we know nothing about it.

See, I'm not racist. That's just what the game is like.

It's overtly busy. X-Men 2 was masterfully paced in the first two acts. The movie moved quickly, but it was still a character drama. Each character had atleast one moment to shine and develop. There were tons of inter-character relationships explored. Arguably, the third act was a bit slow. I think Singer was trying to build tension, and it doesn't pace as well as the first two acts. However, all the set-up is thrown out the window. Where is Nightcrawler and his interactions with Storm? Just vanished with no warning. Where is Pyro? I think Magneto's seduction of Pyro was a great storyline. Cyclops was the only character that didn't get his due, though he got to display some emotions over Jean's death. So he gets a quick, lame death because writers can't give him a good scene? That's bad writing. We cram in Angel, Beast, Gambit, Juggernaught, Kitty Pryde, and a new mutant just to produce a chemical. Why? Did we need so many new characters at the expense of the existing story lines? Will any of these characters really get time to shine? Angel likely will, but Beast is used in the script mainly for CGI action sequences (the Nightcrawler replacement). Gambit is mentioned, but mainly absent, and Juggernaught does nothing, and only comes in 75% through the movie. Kitty Pryde also appeared briefly in the first two. Why suddenly recast her for a small bit now? And I really don't care for Maggie Grace. I only know her from Lost, but I think she's rather unattractive, and annoying. Kitty Pryde is cute and a character we sympathize with, who develops into a rather strong role. Her whole story arch revolves around her relationship with Colossus, and her unrequited love. Yet the two are very close, in almost a sibling manner. She was so dependent on Colossus's strength and eventually has to be strong enough not only to take care of herself, but the Excalibur team. They've thrown her whole character out the window to have her flirt with Iceman and sell her as a sex symbol. Too bad she's a size zero with a plain face. I actually find her rather unattractive. Okay, I'm done bitching about Maggie Grace. Basically, we ignore all the existing storylines, drop characters with no explanation and cram in new characters that are used poorly. Then we kill two major characters, and turn two major mutants into humans. One of the characters they kill off is flat out unforgivable.

I actually really want to buy Eternal Darkness. It's one of the few third party games that is a Gamecube exclusive, and it's a mature title to boot. Metroid Prime I've played in kiosks and I'm just not grabbed by the game. I really prefer games like System Shock, Deus Ex, Ghost Recon, or Half Life 2 as far as shooters go. Viewtiful Joe also doesn't grab me. I will eventually cave in a fork over $20 for Wind Waker. It is Zelda afterall. I played it in a kiosk, and the animation is incredible in how a 3d world can so fluidly look like 2d cell animation. However, playing as a 5 year old elf is a big turn off. The visual style is a big turn off. I've been told there is a companion named Tinkle, or something, and it's rather annoying the whole game. Add to that the sailing portions are supposed to be boring, and it's a pain to explore. The dungeons are supposed to be good, but I've never seen a Zelda with so many complaints. If it wasn't a Zelda, I wonder if the game would be nearly as successful.

I don't think Ratner is the worst director in the world. Red Dragon was pretty good, for instance. But he has had one really good movie (Red Dragon) and a few mediocre movies. He's a big step down from Singer. This isn't Ratner's baby though. He didn't cast it. He had no say in the story, the script, or any of the preproduction. Vaughn stepped into Singer's baby, made some changes, and now Ratner comes in right before principle photography and is taking over the work of two other directors. The plot is what bothers me the most.

I haven't read all 27 pages. I apologize if this was already mentioned. What about Chirstian Bale as Atton?