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    Once Upon a time in America is good; its been awhile since I've heard his The Mission. But he is so prolific that he did it all from crime films, to dramas, to comedies, to actions films and westerns. Diverse stuff like mod spy film Danger: Diabolik to John Carpenter's The Thing. Always liked his The Untouchables soundtrack too... I like Goldsmith but he has a lot of good sountracks on bad films to be fair (I don't recall Gremlins 2's music at all, though). And for me Hans Zimmer is a bit hit or miss; like some of his stuff but others don't grab me. I do like Giacchino a good bit though. And I'm fond of Danny Elfman's work although I understand why others don't like him as much. RE: Rita - caught a bit of Cover Girl the other day and the look stuck with me. Was a pain finding a picture I could use though...
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    Gah...read the comments on the Jensen interview...
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    There used to be an adage in film reviews that if a modern film held significant narration it was because the developers tested the movie with audience who came out confused so the now panicked producers decided to do verbal info dump to explain the stuff the movies natural narrative failed at conveying. Now I don't think that's 100% true (I like a number of films that use narration) but I think it is true that often narration is a crutch in storytelling - and one that I'd be wary of using but sparingly in video games for fear of the player losing the immediacy of playing the game (and if 99% of the players are going to hit spacebar to skip the narration to get to the gameplay...there's no point in having it).
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    good stuff. am partial to ennio moricone for movie soundtracks/themes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oag1Dfa1e_E we can be a bit cynical at times, but is tough to be complete jaded when you hear something so beautiful. that being said, we thinks that jon brion is one o' the most under-appreciated composers doing movie themes today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s0VetAuYDY HA! Good Fun! You can't go wrong with Morricone; and Ron Goodwin did a number of fine sountracks including Where Eagle's Dare, Force 10 from Navarone the 1960 Village of the Damned and Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines. I'd still probably stake Bernard Herrimann's soundtracks higher than either personally (for adventure soundtracks, his Mysterious Island is great but for me North by Northwest is the best title theme in film, probably (and probably just me personally) closely followed by Ronald Stein's The Haunted Palace in second place... Not sure who I'd go for for modern composers in film, there are a few I like (I've liked Brion on Paranorman and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind but can't say I'm as familiar with him as I am with others).
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    Only time I had green or red show up on a monitor (old style, not new LCD screens) the monitor was going bad. But that was the whole screen while yours sounds like its only part. Since you're on PC - are your drivers up to date? Have you verified the game files through STEAM to make sure there's nothing wrong with them? Have you downloaded the latest patch?
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    Have you tried switching buddies before trying to go to the next screen? Is the PS3 patch available internationally yet (it seems its available in the US, but I don't know how the international scene is shaping up) to see if the patch helps at all?
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    J. Burke posted his PS3 game updated so the patch for PS3 seems to be live - http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/65376-o-canada-quest-bug/?p=1440630
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    Yeah a compelling story is probably one of the things that appealed to me in the TRreboot. I enjoyed the story as it unfurled and also finding the various text pieces that hinted at the back stories going on.
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    I like the music. It has the great of effect of feeling new yet familiar at the same time which works for a game harkening back to the IE series without being the IE series.
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    I liked the first Tomb Raider when it came out (I'd been watching out for it back when the press of the time was presenting it as an action/exploration game with a male and female lead...) I thought that the second Tomb Raider wasn't as good as it exchanged exploration and puzzle solving for more killing AI people. I couldn't finish TR3 because it pushed away further from what I liked about TR and that was it for the series for me. Paradoxically, even though Lara is a murder machine in Tomb Raider Reboot and probably kills more people than Lara in TR 2 and 3 combined, I enjoyed exploring the island and I liked the system enough that...yeah I really enjoyed the new game even though I recognize that it has its own set of problems. I do hope that any sequel has more puzzles and exploration to it (most of the puzzles were perfunctory or unnecessary to the completion of the game in the reboot) and yeah...I'd be okay with a similar combat system coming into play.
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    The last anyone from Obsidian posted about it, the 3.0 patch was being tested by Ubisoft for release on console - http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/65338-patch-notes/ It released for PC on the 5, so I'm a bit surprised we haven't heard anything about the Consoles yet (almost two weeks).
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    The patch should be available through steam according to the Patch notes http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/65338-patch-notes/
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    Have you verified your game files through Steam? Do you have the latest patch (3.0)?
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    Then by all means help me gain some perspective by explaining it to me. What you write here doesn't give me much to go on aside from you disagree with me, which would hardly be the first time. So I imagine there's more to it than that. Ideally, if I may, I'd prefer you give your response in prose because I find the character provides an unnecessary layer of obfuscation that wouldn't be necessary and would increase the likelihood of me missing your point. I don't know in the 15(?) years I've seen Gromnir post that I've ever seen him post out of character. If I did I purged it from my mind so I could only remember the in-character posts. That's why you do History of the World Part 1 jokes instead...
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    Adding to the soothing blowpiping of enemies in SACRED 2, I've also taken to JP grinding in Bravely Default.
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    Just to check, you're still on the first day correct (ie the first night with the aliens hasn't happened)? If not, there is a bug where you're sent to your room for getting lost in the woods on the first day and that triggers the first night incorrectly and messes up the school fight so that it can't be completed (until the patch comes out).
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    But then I generally like the series, and do think it has improved over the season.
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    Isn't the whole point of **** measuring to have "more" not "less"? Seems a counter-intuitive suggestion...
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    Ah the Bradford Pear tree. I've seen that tree around. Nasty smell indeed. Oh god. Why would you plant such a tree? Its fast growing (unfortunately its breaks easy in heavy wind, IIRC).
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    Is that the tree that smells like rotting flesh when flowering?
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    Watched OCCULUS which was a pretty good horror film. More creepy vibe than jump scare, but I thought it effective. Then I rewatched RIDDICK. The Director's Cut adds some stuff in that I think help expand the story connections between this film and the last as well as the next. If you like Vin Diesel running around and tough-guy outsmarting everyone, this is the film for you. Then I watched MIGHTY JOE YOUNG (the original) which I hadn't seen since I was in the single digits age wise. Its a fun film, with some goofy aspects. Also includes - for a brief seen - a roster of period boxers and wrestlers including Primo Carnera, Bomber Kulky (later better known as the 1st Chief of the Boat on the TV Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea), Man Mountain Dean and Tor Johnson's "Swedish Angel" name rival Phil Olafsson. After that was THE CAT AND THE CANARY with Bob Hope and Paullette Goddard and the typical old dark house + comedy routines. Nice to see George Zucco and Gail Sondergaard show up as well.
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    Do any of these apply to you - https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2235-YXVB-8261 Direct link to programs that interfere with STEAM - https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289 There's some talk of drivers causing this issue as well.
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    This may be fixed in the 03 Patch when it is released after approval - "Fixed a potential crash while playing in the Portuguese language." More on the patch here - http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/65338-patch-notes/ - but no update yet on release to PSN or XboxLive
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