Dan_Dare

the second game actually has a much better rpg element than the first. The move to divorce morality decisions from the skill upgrades for one means that your choices in game are no longer influenced by any constraints or pre determined narrowing of choice. You get to play a much more fluid role than in the first game.

Very much planning on seeing this. It looks awesome, and who doesn't love the Franco? Easily one of the best male leads in Hollywood.

It actually sounds like it could make a decent snowboarding game- maybe in the same way Skate did skateboarding. I just resent them using the SSX brand because a) It's not fucking SSX b) by doing this, it means they'll never do another proper SSX, so am crai.

I just checked and you can get Chew volumes 1-3 (paperback) for around £10 or so in all on Amazon. Will be doing so myself in the near future.

You'd have to exceed £50 on deliveries but given that prime is so fast, that's not actually hard to do anyway. After that it'd be free.

Na that's a shit thread too.

I've realised that I totally missed TWD #79. Not sure how, exactly, but I guess with work n stuff....oops.

It's not free- you paid £50 for it!

Well, naturally. That verse from Hello, Good Morning is so, so sick. absolutely love it.

"Objection, motherfucker!"

That's what I mean- to some extent that's actually RDR standing there, being Tony Stark in this big ol' suit. Not always, but I think they integrate it really well.

It's funny how hard CGI dates like it does. Even LOTR looks a bit shonkey nowadays. Films that use it to enhance rather than replicate generally do far better. Scott Pilgrim, for example, is a film that uses a lot of CGI but I don't see it looking dated in a few years time because, fundamentally, the footage is actually on film too. Similarly, old Sci-Fi like Alien still look amazing because the special effects are solid and believable. Anything they couldn't do flat out, they replaced with canny camera work and shadows. If you watch Aliens now, it's amazing how well they create the sense of a swarm without actually showing all that many xenomorphs on screen- those that they do are often shown in cut shots where it's basically an animatronic head, then a cut.

Yeah that's what I like about him- even with his powers being so minor at best, he's still shoulder to shoulder with Iron Man and has the full respect of an actual Norse God. Even amongst his peers, he's legendary. I think they're on the right track calling the film The First Avenger because that's so key to his modern characterisation; he was the worlds first super hero and, displaced in time, is this living inspiration to all the people he lives amongst.

ooh, Torchlight! Nice.

Man, I'm actually quite looking forward to this one. I used to hate Captain America (I mean, really? that's the name and costume you're going with?) but more recently he's been shaped in to a really interesting character with a lot more going on than was ever envisioned during his days of commie bashing fisticuffs. He's a really interesting take on symbolism and myth in super hero comics now, so hopefully they'll capture some of that essence in the film. Also, there's something very cool about his powers. Being just one step above normal humans makes him quite exciting in an action sequence in a similar way to, say, Wolverine or Spider-Man but also more vulnerable. It's a great mix.

Happy birthday dude!

The steering is a bit weird- at least at first. I had loads of trouble, all my cornering sucked and I generally made a pigs ear of the whole debacle. Then it clicked when I got my hands on the Mclaren f1- something in that course / car combo forced me in to a new mindset and it came together pretty well after that. It's all about getting a feel for the mass of the car, the pull of the brakes and the rhythm of the racing line. Another thing is that, unlike Burnout, it's as much about holding back from a powerslide as it is pulling a sick slide out.

Hemsworth is freakin huge in Thor, it's absolutely ridiculous. Evans definitely looks the part though- Athletic as much as he is ripped, I think they've got that 'human, only more' thing just right. Hopefully when he's with Hemsworth in The Avengers he'll look suitably humble by comparison. Thor should tower over everyone else on screen.

Peter Parker is a douche

That'd be Fopp, which was my favourite shop of all time until it closed.

It's mostly about content and patches. I play WOW and that gets a balance patch once a month or so, plus content patches every three months I think (each one being pretty huge, story driven and more like expansion packs for other games). It's not so much that you're paying for servers per se, but that the game constantly evolves and expands as you play.

HMV is literally the only shop in Sheffield city centre that sells CDs now. I'll be fucking pissed if that closes- just because it'll make it impossible for me to go out and buy music. There's Meadowhall, but Meadowhall is an Pit of Obsidian Hate and must be avoided/ Purged by Fire if at all possible.

...I'd keep a spare knocking around if I was Cap

Seconded, yo.