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Pianta

Mar 24 2013, 02:13 PM

The worst movie ever was definitely The Room by Tommy Wiseau. Not only the acting was terrible and laughable but there was a non-excising story line which made the movie even less believable. When you watch it you can only wonder what they were smoking while making this. They were actually taking this serious... Though, the director, writer and lead actor were all the same person. IMDB gives it a 3,3.

Next you have Birdemic: Shock and Terror. I attempted to watch this when I saw a few reviews - they claimed it's the best worst movie of all time, so I figured why not? The first few minutes were somniferous, I couldn't even continue it at that moment. I might finish it someday though, with enough alcohol in my system. IMDB gives it a 1,9 and there's a part 2 in the making. Unbelievable. xD

Fenroar

Mar 31 2013, 12:22 PM

Ah, wait, I actually follow that Twitter account.

Unfortunately, I recalled them saying it would be unlikely, but they hope to make a game as great as Banjo-Kazooie. They want to start off with indie games and then something greater.

I could be wrong though, but I don't think that description in their twitter account was referring to Banjo.

I would be fully ecstatic to play Banjo again, so I hope it's true. :V

Special Operative Blaire

Mar 30 2013, 03:05 PM

Wow, that's pretty damn cool! Where'd you find this Neo?

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But when you look back his whole career, from developing the hit Marble Madness at the age of 18 to getting Sega of Japan to create 3D games on the Master System at the age of 21, or from launching such franchises as Crash Bandicoot and Spyro for Universal to helping save the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise for Sega, there really is no one in the games industry who has enjoyed such a varied career.

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At the age of 21, Sega asked Mark to move to Japan to work on games for the Master System, and he convinced the company to do 3D games. After working in Japan he met a lot of talented developers, including Yuji Naka, who was porting a lot of Sega's top arcade games to the home consoles. Naka created Sonic the Hedgehog -- but when he didn't get the credit or reward for making Sega's first million selling game, he quit. So Mark was able to convince Naka to come to the U.S. to work on Sonic the Hedgehog 2.

Ludichaos

Mar 29 2013, 05:15 PM

I somehow get the feeling that an Epic Lulz would only prove the point that the Anti-Shack crowd is trying to make. ¦D;

Also you need to redownload Skype anyway. I've got you on my contacts but you're never around.

BlizShadow

Mar 29 2013, 03:21 PM

EDIT: Also, it may help to start advertising again, so we can get some fresh blood in here who actually care to discuss and comment on things.

YamiShadow

Mar 29 2013, 11:24 AM

In short, I first read reviews, previews, articles and such to see if there's anything in a game that catches my interest. Reviews, whether paid or not, are people's opinions, and so I take what is said in them with a grain of salt. This grain of salt is in the form of previews and at least mostly unbiased articles, such as what one might find on Wikipedia. Between these two things I can begin to formulate some sort of an opinion on whether or not a game is one that would interest me.

I move onto videos only if it does catch my interest, because I have fairly limited internet bandwidth, and I usually try to use it as minimally as possible. These videos will add to the previous conceptions I've had of the game by showing me roughly what it might play like.

If there's to be something like a "try before you buy", I'll only move onto try this if watching gameplay videos catches my interest enough. As said, my bandwidth is fairly limited, so I start small and only work my way up if something interests me enough. Trying it will add onto the information I received by watching gameplay videos, because it will teach me some amount of the controls.

So really, for me, "try before you buy" will be just adding one thing to my foreknowledge of a game before getting it. If others jump into the "try before you buy" thing more quickly than I do, then that's great. I like my deliberate and slow method of determining whether or not I really want a game, but I don't begrudge those who would rather choose a bit more quickly.

Flameburst Vulpix

Mar 29 2013, 11:25 AM

Maybe I'm missing the point here but don't reviews normally come out before a game is released?
The "Try before you buy" thing sounds like it would be available on release day, So why couldn't people read reviews to decide what they want to try before they buy?

YamiShadow

Mar 29 2013, 07:10 AM

In my particular case, I doubt reviews are going anywhere.

See, how I work with games is I first hear about them, then I read about them at length (reviews, articles, information, etc.), then I watch gameplay videos. It takes me over a month to decide whether I want a game or not, simply because I'm a cautious shopper. Sonic games are my only exception, but I usually give those a couple of weeks to mull over still before deciding. If anything, "try before you buy" will simply give me a final step to the process, for after gameplay videos.

But, then, I can't speak for everybody. Maybe others will jump upon the "try before you buy" idea without a second glance and things will change. It's hard to say.

Master of Darkness™

Mar 29 2013, 07:11 AM

So Sony are trying to reinvent the demo?

This won't affect anything, I'll be betting this scheme is heavily limited... just like a demo. Which most games already have. I point y'all towards XBL - you can even rate games out of 5 and you'll see the average score. I think Sonic Generations is 4.5, rated by a few thousand players...

/thread

BlizShadow

Mar 29 2013, 09:46 AM

Here's some things to talk about concerning Sonic that no one is talking about here, directly lifted from SSMB:

Unanswered Sonic Questions (unexplained concepts, vague story ideas, plot holes, etc.)
Forgotten Sonic Music
Best Sonic Fanart
Combat in Sonic Games
Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions Concept For a Sonic Game
Sonic Jump vs. Sonic Dash
Sonic Unleashed Vs Sonic Colors
Sonic Unleashed Generations Mod Project
Knuckles: Relic of a Bygone Era or Major Character?
Sonic 1 & 2 Taxman Remakes
Hunnid-P Working On Music For the Next Sonic Game

And my topic:

The Problems of Sonic as a Theatrical Hero.


There's shit to talk about.

BlizShadow

Mar 29 2013, 08:33 AM

This topic demonstrates the problem I have literally always had with the Shack and Casino in general ever since I signed up here: people are going to come for the spam and chatter and not actual forum discussion, the latter of which being the reason a forum exists, not to parallel a Skype chat. The moment this happens, the moment a section like this is allowed to grow, every other forum section and dare I say the entire community pays the price. Your community is held together by spam. The goings-on have a rippling effect on the way people type and behave board-wide, which in turn makes it that much more difficult for staff to do a good job.

This idea that there's nothing to talk about, even in terms of the Sonic section, is also ludicrous. I point to SSMB (who used to have a spam forum) which has bustling Archie and general canon/character discussion, large topics about Sonic Jump and Sonic Dash, and news on Sonic 1 and 2 remakes by Taxman. The Sonic section alone is going strong even without news of a boxed game in sight, so I think the excuse that there's nothing to talk about is just that- an excuse. The issue is that people never saw SB as a discussion forum first and foremost in the first place, so it's not being treated like one.