The End? Not really, but as we prepare for the new Around Comics we take one more leap into the e-mail bag. There are lots of interesting topics that pop up including Batman, Spawn, Black and White reprints, what to do when visiting New York, and… Kid Nation? All that and more on this last episode before we blow things up and launch the new formats next week.
> Оливия Харрисон, вдова гитариста The Beatles Джорджа Харрисона, станет сопродюсером полнометражного документального фильма о музыканте, который готовит режиссер Мартин Скорсезе. Как сообщает Variety, сбор материалов к картине, предназначенной для проката в кинотеатрах, уже начался, первые съемки начнутся в конце 2007 года, но работа над проектом растянется на несколько лет. У него пока нет даже рабочего названия.
Скорсезе пригласил участвовать в проекте Ринго Старра и Пола Маккартни. Режиссер также ожидает помощь от студии Apple Records, поскольку Оливия Харрисон является партнером компании.
Скорсезе планирует, что в фильм войдут эпизоды из эпохи The Beatles и из времен сольной карьеры Харрисона. В частности, режиссер рассчитывает уделить внимание кинопроектам, в которых участвовал музыкант, в том числе комедиям Терри Гиллиама “Monty Pythons Life of Brian” и “Time Bandits”.
Скорсезе в 2005 году завершил успешный документальный проект о Бобе Дилане “No Direction Home”. На 2008 год назначен релиз картины “Shine a Light” о группе Rolling Stones.
Ride the machine
02:12 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
So Halo 3 is finally out, and thank the almighty Robot Jesus. Hopefully now we can all shut up about it, and focus on a game that really deserves some anticipation. Like Mass Effect. Now there’s a game I could almost get excited enough over to go to some ridiculous midnight opening for… but still not.
Don’t get me wrong here, Halo 3 is a good game. All three Halo games are good. They’re solid titles with good graphics and good gameplay. I played some Halo 3, I enjoyed it. But it just seems like we’ve done this exact same dance twice before.
It has some new features, new weapons, new maps, all of which are really cool… but to me the game plays and feels exactly like the previous Halo. The graphics are okay, but they’re hardly the best the 360 has to offer. They’re obviously not ugly, the visuals are clean and attractive, with some cool effects. But coming off a weekend of straight Bioshock, a game that seemed to really push the lighting and textures and effects to a new level, it’s hard not to draw parallels, and Halo 3 comes up shorter.
I do love the new features that are there. The forge and theater options are really fun and great. The party/online system is one of the best I’ve seen so far, with regards to finding exactly the games you want to play, and avoiding the retards as best as possible. The new weapons are neat, the maps seem pretty cool, especially seeing the updated ones from Halo 2.
But that’s the point. They all seem more like… an update to Halo 2, than a whole new game. And that’s not to belittle the sheer amount of work that I know went into designing those systems. I can only imagine that the theater playbacks themselves were a herculean effort of coding and computer wizardry. And the result is a really cool feature.
But I just can’t get behind this “greatest game ever” stuff. Personally, I think a lot of the review scores were given in the reviewers heads before the game even arrived, and some of the score may be attributed more to the juggernaut franchise that Halo is, and less to the actual game itself.
That said, it is a good game. I do enjoy it. I’m hardly bashing Halo here, I enjoy playing it. I just think some people are going overboard with the hype. Though I’m laughing at the people who stood out at midnight because they just had to get their copy at 12:01 now, in a couple of months I’ll probably be the one salivating uncontrollably at the Pavlovian bell that is Mass Effect. I guess the hype hits us all for different things, for different reasons.
That said, I may be on playing Halo anytime between 9am-3pm EST (when the children are in school), so if you see me on, feel free to jump in. I usually leave my games open to my friends list. I pruned my friends list for inactives (anyone who hasn’t signed on in more than a day) last night, so I should have some spots open, if you want to send me a request. First come, first served.
Also, the demo for the new Crash Bandicoot game was pretty cool. I watched my girlfriend play it yesterday afternoon, and it looks really neat. I haven’t played a Crash game since… well since the very first one on the PS1. But I really liked the cartoony style for this one. May have to grab that when it comes out.
Server stuff, and Heroes talk (spoilers)
02:28 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
Regarding the issues with the advertisements and our forums, there is a small technical issue with the server on which those two systems reside. The server monkeys are aware of it, and working to fix whatever has been exploding.
And how about Heroes, huh?! I’m most confused about what’s up with Nathan. It would make sense that he got burned up pretty badly while carrying Peter to explode in the sky. But why isn’t it showing? Why did he only see a flash of it in the mirror? Or was he healed? Argh!
And Peter… glad to see he isn’t dead, I didn’t expect he would be, but why did the Haitian wipe his memory? That’s my assumption because he’s wearing the Haitian’ necklace when the Irish find him. We know that the Haitian worked for Angela Petrelli, so she must have ordered it…
Actually I’m glad to see that nobody really died (Matt, Nathan, etc) though it would have given the show a sense of real mortality for the characters. Oh well. Good stuff.
So that’s how it is huh?
02:31 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre
First “The server guy” and now “Server Monkeys”… I used to have a name! I see how it is.
Yeah
02:32 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
It’s because you haven’t showered in a while, and now you smell like monkey.
Sniffle
02:45 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre
<Chris Crocker>You don’t appreciate anything! WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!</Chris Crocker>
Ugh
04:12 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
I can’t believe you wrote his name on my website.
Ah!
04:13 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre
That’ll teach you!
Plus, who knows. Might give you some additional traffic via google ;).
Good idea
06:51 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
Let’s get even more traffic here, and they can all see your broken advertisement server.
“Ooohhhhhh, no he di’in’t!”
Yes. Yes I did.
Heroes (spoilers): Mirror Image
10:56 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
Some people have emailed me to say that the person Nathan is seeing in the mirror is Peter, all burned up. I beg to differ.
Ignore the strands of longer hair. The jawline is unmistakably Nathan.
Ride the machine
02:12 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
So Halo 3 is finally out, and thank the almighty Robot Jesus. Hopefully now we can all shut up about it, and focus on a game that really deserves some anticipation. Like Mass Effect. Now there’s a game I could almost get excited enough over to go to some ridiculous midnight opening for… but still not.
Don’t get me wrong here, Halo 3 is a good game. All three Halo games are good. They’re solid titles with good graphics and good gameplay. I played some Halo 3, I enjoyed it. But it just seems like we’ve done this exact same dance twice before.
It has some new features, new weapons, new maps, all of which are really cool… but to me the game plays and feels exactly like the previous Halo. The graphics are okay, but they’re hardly the best the 360 has to offer. They’re obviously not ugly, the visuals are clean and attractive, with some cool effects. But coming off a weekend of straight Bioshock, a game that seemed to really push the lighting and textures and effects to a new level, it’s hard not to draw parallels, and Halo 3 comes up shorter.
I do love the new features that are there. The forge and theater options are really fun and great. The party/online system is one of the best I’ve seen so far, with regards to finding exactly the games you want to play, and avoiding the retards as best as possible. The new weapons are neat, the maps seem pretty cool, especially seeing the updated ones from Halo 2.
But that’s the point. They all seem more like… an update to Halo 2, than a whole new game. And that’s not to belittle the sheer amount of work that I know went into designing those systems. I can only imagine that the theater playbacks themselves were a herculean effort of coding and computer wizardry. And the result is a really cool feature.
But I just can’t get behind this “greatest game ever” stuff. Personally, I think a lot of the review scores were given in the reviewers heads before the game even arrived, and some of the score may be attributed more to the juggernaut franchise that Halo is, and less to the actual game itself.
That said, it is a good game. I do enjoy it. I’m hardly bashing Halo here, I enjoy playing it. I just think some people are going overboard with the hype. Though I’m laughing at the people who stood out at midnight because they just had to get their copy at 12:01 now, in a couple of months I’ll probably be the one salivating uncontrollably at the Pavlovian bell that is Mass Effect. I guess the hype hits us all for different things, for different reasons.
That said, I may be on playing Halo anytime between 9am-3pm EST (when the children are in school), so if you see me on, feel free to jump in. I usually leave my games open to my friends list. I pruned my friends list for inactives (anyone who hasn’t signed on in more than a day) last night, so I should have some spots open, if you want to send me a request. First come, first served.
Also, the demo for the new Crash Bandicoot game was pretty cool. I watched my girlfriend play it yesterday afternoon, and it looks really neat. I haven’t played a Crash game since… well since the very first one on the PS1. But I really liked the cartoony style for this one. May have to grab that when it comes out.
Server stuff, and Heroes talk (spoilers)
02:28 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
Regarding the issues with the advertisements and our forums, there is a small technical issue with the server on which those two systems reside. The server monkeys are aware of it, and working to fix whatever has been exploding.
And how about Heroes, huh?! I’m most confused about what’s up with Nathan. It would make sense that he got burned up pretty badly while carrying Peter to explode in the sky. But why isn’t it showing? Why did he only see a flash of it in the mirror? Or was he healed? Argh!
And Peter… glad to see he isn’t dead, I didn’t expect he would be, but why did the Haitian wipe his memory? That’s my assumption because he’s wearing the Haitian’ necklace when the Irish find him. We know that the Haitian worked for Angela Petrelli, so she must have ordered it…
Actually I’m glad to see that nobody really died (Matt, Nathan, etc) though it would have given the show a sense of real mortality for the characters. Oh well. Good stuff.
So that’s how it is huh?
02:31 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre
First “The server guy” and now “Server Monkeys”… I used to have a name! I see how it is.
Yeah
02:32 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
It’s because you haven’t showered in a while, and now you smell like monkey.
Sniffle
02:45 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre
<Chris Crocker>You don’t appreciate anything! WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!</Chris Crocker>
Ugh
04:12 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
I can’t believe you wrote his name on my website.
Ah!
04:13 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre
That’ll teach you!
Plus, who knows. Might give you some additional traffic via google ;).
Good idea
06:51 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
Let’s get even more traffic here, and they can all see your broken advertisement server.
“Ooohhhhhh, no he di’in’t!”
Yes. Yes I did.
Ride the machine
02:12 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
So Halo 3 is finally out, and thank the almighty Robot Jesus. Hopefully now we can all shut up about it, and focus on a game that really deserves some anticipation. Like Mass Effect. Now there’s a game I could almost get excited enough over to go to some ridiculous midnight opening for… but still not.
Don’t get me wrong here, Halo 3 is a good game. All three Halo games are good. They’re solid titles with good graphics and good gameplay. I played some Halo 3, I enjoyed it. But it just seems like we’ve done this exact same dance twice before.
It has some new features, new weapons, new maps, all of which are really cool… but to me the game plays and feels exactly like the previous Halo. The graphics are okay, but they’re hardly the best the 360 has to offer. They’re obviously not ugly, the visuals are clean and attractive, with some cool effects. But coming off a weekend of straight Bioshock, a game that seemed to really push the lighting and textures and effects to a new level, it’s hard not to draw parallels, and Halo 3 comes up shorter.
I do love the new features that are there. The forge and theater options are really fun and great. The party/online system is one of the best I’ve seen so far, with regards to finding exactly the games you want to play, and avoiding the retards as best as possible. The new weapons are neat, the maps seem pretty cool, especially seeing the updated ones from Halo 2.
But that’s the point. They all seem more like… an update to Halo 2, than a whole new game. And that’s not to belittle the sheer amount of work that I know went into designing those systems. I can only imagine that the theater playbacks themselves were a herculean effort of coding and computer wizardry. And the result is a really cool feature.
But I just can’t get behind this “greatest game ever” stuff. Personally, I think a lot of the review scores were given in the reviewers heads before the game even arrived, and some of the score may be attributed more to the juggernaut franchise that Halo is, and less to the actual game itself.
That said, it is a good game. I do enjoy it. I’m hardly bashing Halo here, I enjoy playing it. I just think some people are going overboard with the hype. Though I’m laughing at the people who stood out at midnight because they just had to get their copy at 12:01 now, in a couple of months I’ll probably be the one salivating uncontrollably at the Pavlovian bell that is Mass Effect. I guess the hype hits us all for different things, for different reasons.
That said, I may be on playing Halo anytime between 9am-3pm EST (when the children are in school), so if you see me on, feel free to jump in. I usually leave my games open to my friends list. I pruned my friends list for inactives (anyone who hasn’t signed on in more than a day) last night, so I should have some spots open, if you want to send me a request. First come, first served.
Also, the demo for the new Crash Bandicoot game was pretty cool. I watched my girlfriend play it yesterday afternoon, and it looks really neat. I haven’t played a Crash game since… well since the very first one on the PS1. But I really liked the cartoony style for this one. May have to grab that when it comes out.
Server stuff, and Heroes talk (spoilers)
02:28 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
Regarding the issues with the advertisements and our forums, there is a small technical issue with the server on which those two systems reside. The server monkeys are aware of it, and working to fix whatever has been exploding.
And how about Heroes, huh?! I’m most confused about what’s up with Nathan. It would make sense that he got burned up pretty badly while carrying Peter to explode in the sky. But why isn’t it showing? Why did he only see a flash of it in the mirror? Or was he healed? Argh!
And Peter… glad to see he isn’t dead, I didn’t expect he would be, but why did the Haitian wipe his memory? That’s my assumption because he’s wearing the Haitian’ necklace when the Irish find him. We know that the Haitian worked for Angela Petrelli, so she must have ordered it…
Actually I’m glad to see that nobody really died (Matt, Nathan, etc) though it would have given the show a sense of real mortality for the characters. Oh well. Good stuff.
So that’s how it is huh?
02:31 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre
First “The server guy” and now “Server Monkeys”… I used to have a name! I see how it is.
Yeah
02:32 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
It’s because you haven’t showered in a while, and now you smell like monkey.
Sniffle
02:45 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre
<Chris Crocker>You don’t appreciate anything! WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!</Chris Crocker>
Ugh
04:12 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
I can’t believe you wrote his name on my website.
Ah!
04:13 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre
That’ll teach you!
Plus, who knows. Might give you some additional traffic via google ;).
Good idea
06:51 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
Let’s get even more traffic here, and they can all see your broken advertisement server.
“Ooohhhhhh, no he di’in’t!”
Yes. Yes I did.
Ride the machine
02:12 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
So Halo 3 is finally out, and thank the almighty Robot Jesus. Hopefully now we can all shut up about it, and focus on a game that really deserves some anticipation. Like Mass Effect. Now there’s a game I could almost get excited enough over to go to some ridiculous midnight opening for… but still not.
Don’t get me wrong here, Halo 3 is a good game. All three Halo games are good. They’re solid titles with good graphics and good gameplay. I played some Halo 3, I enjoyed it. But it just seems like we’ve done this exact same dance twice before.
It has some new features, new weapons, new maps, all of which are really cool… but to me the game plays and feels exactly like the previous Halo. The graphics are okay, but they’re hardly the best the 360 has to offer. They’re obviously not ugly, the visuals are clean and attractive, with some cool effects. But coming off a weekend of straight Bioshock, a game that seemed to really push the lighting and textures and effects to a new level, it’s hard not to draw parallels, and Halo 3 comes up shorter.
I do love the new features that are there. The forge and theater options are really fun and great. The party/online system is one of the best I’ve seen so far, with regards to finding exactly the games you want to play, and avoiding the retards as best as possible. The new weapons are neat, the maps seem pretty cool, especially seeing the updated ones from Halo 2.
But that’s the point. They all seem more like… an update to Halo 2, than a whole new game. And that’s not to belittle the sheer amount of work that I know went into designing those systems. I can only imagine that the theater playbacks themselves were a herculean effort of coding and computer wizardry. And the result is a really cool feature.
But I just can’t get behind this “greatest game ever” stuff. Personally, I think a lot of the review scores were given in the reviewers heads before the game even arrived, and some of the score may be attributed more to the juggernaut franchise that Halo is, and less to the actual game itself.
That said, it is a good game. I do enjoy it. I’m hardly bashing Halo here, I enjoy playing it. I just think some people are going overboard with the hype. Though I’m laughing at the people who stood out at midnight because they just had to get their copy at 12:01 now, in a couple of months I’ll probably be the one salivating uncontrollably at the Pavlovian bell that is Mass Effect. I guess the hype hits us all for different things, for different reasons.
That said, I may be on playing Halo anytime between 9am-3pm EST (when the children are in school), so if you see me on, feel free to jump in. I usually leave my games open to my friends list. I pruned my friends list for inactives (anyone who hasn’t signed on in more than a day) last night, so I should have some spots open, if you want to send me a request. First come, first served.
Also, the demo for the new Crash Bandicoot game was pretty cool. I watched my girlfriend play it yesterday afternoon, and it looks really neat. I haven’t played a Crash game since… well since the very first one on the PS1. But I really liked the cartoony style for this one. May have to grab that when it comes out.
Server stuff, and Heroes talk (spoilers)
02:28 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
Regarding the issues with the advertisements and our forums, there is a small technical issue with the server on which those two systems reside. The server monkeys are aware of it, and working to fix whatever has been exploding.
And how about Heroes, huh?! I’m most confused about what’s up with Nathan. It would make sense that he got burned up pretty badly while carrying Peter to explode in the sky. But why isn’t it showing? Why did he only see a flash of it in the mirror? Or was he healed? Argh!
And Peter… glad to see he isn’t dead, I didn’t expect he would be, but why did the Haitian wipe his memory? That’s my assumption because he’s wearing the Haitian’ necklace when the Irish find him. We know that the Haitian worked for Angela Petrelli, so she must have ordered it…
Actually I’m glad to see that nobody really died (Matt, Nathan, etc) though it would have given the show a sense of real mortality for the characters. Oh well. Good stuff.
So that’s how it is huh?
02:31 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre
First “The server guy” and now “Server Monkeys”… I used to have a name! I see how it is.
Yeah
02:32 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
It’s because you haven’t showered in a while, and now you smell like monkey.
Sniffle
02:45 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre
<Chris Crocker>You don’t appreciate anything! WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!</Chris Crocker>
Ugh
04:12 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
I can’t believe you wrote his name on my website.
Ah!
04:13 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre
That’ll teach you!
Plus, who knows. Might give you some additional traffic via google ;).
Good idea
06:51 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
Let’s get even more traffic here, and they can all see your broken advertisement server.
“Ooohhhhhh, no he di’in’t!”
Yes. Yes I did.
>
Короткая роль в новом фильме актера Уилла Феррелла “Step Brothers” (”Сводные братья”) была продана на благотворительном аукционе за 47 тысяч долларов. Эта сумма пойдет в фонд Cancer for College, помогающий людям, больным раком, сообщает Associated Press.
Выкупленная на аукционе роль без слов достанется десятилетнему мальчику. Его отец, житель Техаса, профинансировавший участие сына в кинопроекте, попросил не разглашать его имя.
Съемки комедии “Step Brothers” начнутся в октябре. Феррелл написал к картине сценарий, он же играет в ней главную роль. Режиссер фильма - Адам Маккей, вместе с которым Феррелл сделал в 2006 году успешную комедию “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” (в российском прокате - “НАСКАР”). Фильм выйдет на экраны в 2008 году.
Ride the machine
02:12 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
So Halo 3 is finally out, and thank the almighty Robot Jesus. Hopefully now we can all shut up about it, and focus on a game that really deserves some anticipation. Like Mass Effect. Now there’s a game I could almost get excited enough over to go to some ridiculous midnight opening for… but still not.
Don’t get me wrong here, Halo 3 is a good game. All three Halo games are good. They’re solid titles with good graphics and good gameplay. I played some Halo 3, I enjoyed it. But it just seems like we’ve done this exact same dance twice before.
It has some new features, new weapons, new maps, all of which are really cool… but to me the game plays and feels exactly like the previous Halo. The graphics are okay, but they’re hardly the best the 360 has to offer. They’re obviously not ugly, the visuals are clean and attractive, with some cool effects. But coming off a weekend of straight Bioshock, a game that seemed to really push the lighting and textures and effects to a new level, it’s hard not to draw parallels, and Halo 3 comes up shorter.
I do love the new features that are there. The forge and theater options are really fun and great. The party/online system is one of the best I’ve seen so far, with regards to finding exactly the games you want to play, and avoiding the retards as best as possible. The new weapons are neat, the maps seem pretty cool, especially seeing the updated ones from Halo 2.
But that’s the point. They all seem more like… an update to Halo 2, than a whole new game. And that’s not to belittle the sheer amount of work that I know went into designing those systems. I can only imagine that the theater playbacks themselves were a herculean effort of coding and computer wizardry. And the result is a really cool feature.
But I just can’t get behind this “greatest game ever” stuff. Personally, I think a lot of the review scores were given in the reviewers heads before the game even arrived, and some of the score may be attributed more to the juggernaut franchise that Halo is, and less to the actual game itself.
That said, it is a good game. I do enjoy it. I’m hardly bashing Halo here, I enjoy playing it. I just think some people are going overboard with the hype. Though I’m laughing at the people who stood out at midnight because they just had to get their copy at 12:01 now, in a couple of months I’ll probably be the one salivating uncontrollably at the Pavlovian bell that is Mass Effect. I guess the hype hits us all for different things, for different reasons.
That said, I may be on playing Halo anytime between 9am-3pm EST (when the children are in school), so if you see me on, feel free to jump in. I usually leave my games open to my friends list. I pruned my friends list for inactives (anyone who hasn’t signed on in more than a day) last night, so I should have some spots open, if you want to send me a request. First come, first served.
Also, the demo for the new Crash Bandicoot game was pretty cool. I watched my girlfriend play it yesterday afternoon, and it looks really neat. I haven’t played a Crash game since… well since the very first one on the PS1. But I really liked the cartoony style for this one. May have to grab that when it comes out.
Server stuff, and Heroes talk (spoilers)
02:28 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
Regarding the issues with the advertisements and our forums, there is a small technical issue with the server on which those two systems reside. The server monkeys are aware of it, and working to fix whatever has been exploding.
And how about Heroes, huh?! I’m most confused about what’s up with Nathan. It would make sense that he got burned up pretty badly while carrying Peter to explode in the sky. But why isn’t it showing? Why did he only see a flash of it in the mirror? Or was he healed? Argh!
And Peter… glad to see he isn’t dead, I didn’t expect he would be, but why did the Haitian wipe his memory? That’s my assumption because he’s wearing the Haitian’ necklace when the Irish find him. We know that the Haitian worked for Angela Petrelli, so she must have ordered it…
Actually I’m glad to see that nobody really died (Matt, Nathan, etc) though it would have given the show a sense of real mortality for the characters. Oh well. Good stuff.
So that’s how it is huh?
02:31 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre
First “The server guy” and now “Server Monkeys”… I used to have a name! I see how it is.
Yeah
02:32 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
It’s because you haven’t showered in a while, and now you smell like monkey.
Sniffle
02:45 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre
<Chris Crocker>You don’t appreciate anything! WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!</Chris Crocker>
Ugh
04:12 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
I can’t believe you wrote his name on my website.
Ah!
04:13 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre
That’ll teach you!
Plus, who knows. Might give you some additional traffic via google ;).
Good idea
06:51 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
Let’s get even more traffic here, and they can all see your broken advertisement server.
“Ooohhhhhh, no he di’in’t!”
Yes. Yes I did.
Ride the machine
02:12 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
So Halo 3 is finally out, and thank the almighty Robot Jesus. Hopefully now we can all shut up about it, and focus on a game that really deserves some anticipation. Like Mass Effect. Now there’s a game I could almost get excited enough over to go to some ridiculous midnight opening for… but still not.
Don’t get me wrong here, Halo 3 is a good game. All three Halo games are good. They’re solid titles with good graphics and good gameplay. I played some Halo 3, I enjoyed it. But it just seems like we’ve done this exact same dance twice before.
It has some new features, new weapons, new maps, all of which are really cool… but to me the game plays and feels exactly like the previous Halo. The graphics are okay, but they’re hardly the best the 360 has to offer. They’re obviously not ugly, the visuals are clean and attractive, with some cool effects. But coming off a weekend of straight Bioshock, a game that seemed to really push the lighting and textures and effects to a new level, it’s hard not to draw parallels, and Halo 3 comes up shorter.
I do love the new features that are there. The forge and theater options are really fun and great. The party/online system is one of the best I’ve seen so far, with regards to finding exactly the games you want to play, and avoiding the retards as best as possible. The new weapons are neat, the maps seem pretty cool, especially seeing the updated ones from Halo 2.
But that’s the point. They all seem more like… an update to Halo 2, than a whole new game. And that’s not to belittle the sheer amount of work that I know went into designing those systems. I can only imagine that the theater playbacks themselves were a herculean effort of coding and computer wizardry. And the result is a really cool feature.
But I just can’t get behind this “greatest game ever” stuff. Personally, I think a lot of the review scores were given in the reviewers heads before the game even arrived, and some of the score may be attributed more to the juggernaut franchise that Halo is, and less to the actual game itself.
That said, it is a good game. I do enjoy it. I’m hardly bashing Halo here, I enjoy playing it. I just think some people are going overboard with the hype. Though I’m laughing at the people who stood out at midnight because they just had to get their copy at 12:01 now, in a couple of months I’ll probably be the one salivating uncontrollably at the Pavlovian bell that is Mass Effect. I guess the hype hits us all for different things, for different reasons.
That said, I may be on playing Halo anytime between 9am-3pm EST (when the children are in school), so if you see me on, feel free to jump in. I usually leave my games open to my friends list. I pruned my friends list for inactives (anyone who hasn’t signed on in more than a day) last night, so I should have some spots open, if you want to send me a request. First come, first served.
Also, the demo for the new Crash Bandicoot game was pretty cool. I watched my girlfriend play it yesterday afternoon, and it looks really neat. I haven’t played a Crash game since… well since the very first one on the PS1. But I really liked the cartoony style for this one. May have to grab that when it comes out.
Server stuff, and Heroes talk (spoilers)
02:28 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
Regarding the issues with the advertisements and our forums, there is a small technical issue with the server on which those two systems reside. The server monkeys are aware of it, and working to fix whatever has been exploding.
And how about Heroes, huh?! I’m most confused about what’s up with Nathan. It would make sense that he got burned up pretty badly while carrying Peter to explode in the sky. But why isn’t it showing? Why did he only see a flash of it in the mirror? Or was he healed? Argh!
And Peter… glad to see he isn’t dead, I didn’t expect he would be, but why did the Haitian wipe his memory? That’s my assumption because he’s wearing the Haitian’ necklace when the Irish find him. We know that the Haitian worked for Angela Petrelli, so she must have ordered it…
Actually I’m glad to see that nobody really died (Matt, Nathan, etc) though it would have given the show a sense of real mortality for the characters. Oh well. Good stuff.
So that’s how it is huh?
02:31 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre
First “The server guy” and now “Server Monkeys”… I used to have a name! I see how it is.
Yeah
02:32 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
It’s because you haven’t showered in a while, and now you smell like monkey.
Sniffle
02:45 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre
<Chris Crocker>You don’t appreciate anything! WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!</Chris Crocker>
Ugh
04:12 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
I can’t believe you wrote his name on my website.
Ah!
04:13 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre
That’ll teach you!
Plus, who knows. Might give you some additional traffic via google ;).
Good idea
06:51 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
Let’s get even more traffic here, and they can all see your broken advertisement server.
“Ooohhhhhh, no he di’in’t!”
Yes. Yes I did.
Ride the machine
02:12 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
So Halo 3 is finally out, and thank the almighty Robot Jesus. Hopefully now we can all shut up about it, and focus on a game that really deserves some anticipation. Like Mass Effect. Now there’s a game I could almost get excited enough over to go to some ridiculous midnight opening for… but still not.
Don’t get me wrong here, Halo 3 is a good game. All three Halo games are good. They’re solid titles with good graphics and good gameplay. I played some Halo 3, I enjoyed it. But it just seems like we’ve done this exact same dance twice before.
It has some new features, new weapons, new maps, all of which are really cool… but to me the game plays and feels exactly like the previous Halo. The graphics are okay, but they’re hardly the best the 360 has to offer. They’re obviously not ugly, the visuals are clean and attractive, with some cool effects. But coming off a weekend of straight Bioshock, a game that seemed to really push the lighting and textures and effects to a new level, it’s hard not to draw parallels, and Halo 3 comes up shorter.
I do love the new features that are there. The forge and theater options are really fun and great. The party/online system is one of the best I’ve seen so far, with regards to finding exactly the games you want to play, and avoiding the retards as best as possible. The new weapons are neat, the maps seem pretty cool, especially seeing the updated ones from Halo 2.
But that’s the point. They all seem more like… an update to Halo 2, than a whole new game. And that’s not to belittle the sheer amount of work that I know went into designing those systems. I can only imagine that the theater playbacks themselves were a herculean effort of coding and computer wizardry. And the result is a really cool feature.
But I just can’t get behind this “greatest game ever” stuff. Personally, I think a lot of the review scores were given in the reviewers heads before the game even arrived, and some of the score may be attributed more to the juggernaut franchise that Halo is, and less to the actual game itself.
That said, it is a good game. I do enjoy it. I’m hardly bashing Halo here, I enjoy playing it. I just think some people are going overboard with the hype. Though I’m laughing at the people who stood out at midnight because they just had to get their copy at 12:01 now, in a couple of months I’ll probably be the one salivating uncontrollably at the Pavlovian bell that is Mass Effect. I guess the hype hits us all for different things, for different reasons.
That said, I may be on playing Halo anytime between 9am-3pm EST (when the children are in school), so if you see me on, feel free to jump in. I usually leave my games open to my friends list. I pruned my friends list for inactives (anyone who hasn’t signed on in more than a day) last night, so I should have some spots open, if you want to send me a request. First come, first served.
Also, the demo for the new Crash Bandicoot game was pretty cool. I watched my girlfriend play it yesterday afternoon, and it looks really neat. I haven’t played a Crash game since… well since the very first one on the PS1. But I really liked the cartoony style for this one. May have to grab that when it comes out.
Server stuff, and Heroes talk (spoilers)
02:28 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
Regarding the issues with the advertisements and our forums, there is a small technical issue with the server on which those two systems reside. The server monkeys are aware of it, and working to fix whatever has been exploding.
And how about Heroes, huh?! I’m most confused about what’s up with Nathan. It would make sense that he got burned up pretty badly while carrying Peter to explode in the sky. But why isn’t it showing? Why did he only see a flash of it in the mirror? Or was he healed? Argh!
And Peter… glad to see he isn’t dead, I didn’t expect he would be, but why did the Haitian wipe his memory? That’s my assumption because he’s wearing the Haitian’ necklace when the Irish find him. We know that the Haitian worked for Angela Petrelli, so she must have ordered it…
Actually I’m glad to see that nobody really died (Matt, Nathan, etc) though it would have given the show a sense of real mortality for the characters. Oh well. Good stuff.
So that’s how it is huh?
02:31 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre
First “The server guy” and now “Server Monkeys”… I used to have a name! I see how it is.
Yeah
02:32 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
It’s because you haven’t showered in a while, and now you smell like monkey.
Sniffle
02:45 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre
<Chris Crocker>You don’t appreciate anything! WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!</Chris Crocker>
Ugh
04:12 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
I can’t believe you wrote his name on my website.
Ah!
04:13 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre
That’ll teach you!
Plus, who knows. Might give you some additional traffic via google ;).
Good idea
06:51 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim
Let’s get even more traffic here, and they can all see your broken advertisement server.
“Ooohhhhhh, no he di’in’t!”
Yes. Yes I did.
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