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It didn't include the mechromancer (Gaige) either. But most of the rest of the DLC made it worth getting the season pass, there. Especially Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep.
The Season pass has Gaige, the pirate one, Mr. torgue, and assault on dragon keep. But it has none of the holiday dlc (which is, admittedly, dirt cheap) or Kraig.
How could anyone be? It's a 7-minute Futurama sketch, but without the talent, stretched into 90 minutes, with Kevin James as The President Of The United States and Adam Sandler as The Hero. It's the sort of movie that will see heavy rotation in Gitmo.
As I said in my comment on the video (watched it this morning): Damn, he was harsher on this than he was Green Lantern. I mean, yeah, he hated the Amazing Spider-Man movies, but those just made him depressed more than mad.
It's a modern Adam Sandler movie: everyone will say it sucks but it will make millions because of whatever devil deal Sandler made.
The thing is that in better hands, Green Lantern and the Amazing Spider-Man movies could have been alright. Green Lantern wasn't really even finished when it was trebuchet'd onto movie screens. But there's nothing about PIXELS that makes it worth watching, except maybe Peter Dinklage. And that, ironically, is a very big maybe.[DOUBLEPOST=1437604446,1437604399][/DOUBLEPOST]
This. So very much this. Jack & Jill was a fucking crime against humanity.
The only Adam Sandler movies I like are Click and Hotel Transylvania - I didn't even realize he was in the second one until I saw the credits.
The list of Sandler movies I've enjoyed is short: Wedding Singer, Click, 50 First Dates, Spanglish, and Punch-Drunk Love. The latter is one of the few serious work he's ever done. Which is a crying shame, because he was great in it.
Never really liked the comedies he's most well known for. But then, I don't think I've ever sat down and watched any of them in their entirety.
Never really liked the comedies he's most well known for. But then, I don't think I've ever sat down and watched any of them in their entirety.
Surprise! Early reviews are shitting all over Pixels, one even calling it "soul-sucking and empty."
He literally showed up at a presser for Hotel Transylvania 2 wearing shorts, sandals, and a t-shirt. His co-stars were in something actually showy.
He literally has no fucks left to give. He's getting 80 mil for a bunch of movies exclusively for Netflix. Sony ain't his paycheck anymore.
The new Tomb Raider is coming to Xbone in November, PC in early 2016, PS4 in late 2016.
What an odd release schedule.
What an odd release schedule.
HA! All hail the PC Master Race!
....you know, after you're done hailing Microsoft.
It's funny that I'd rather see a 3rd party exclusive go to Sony, since they usually don't care if or when there's a PC version. Microsoft on the other hand seems to like to dick over PC at every opportunity (and then, when they have a new OS to ship, make some claims at E3 how they value the PC as a gaming platform).
Whoa, good week for PC gaming.
This might be known to some, but I only just saw it. Zelda: Triforce Heroes will have download play--you only need one cartridge. After so many 3DS games not having download play, I really wasn't expecting that.
Cool, so if my brother and I want to play we just need one cart and to find and befriend another 3DS owner.
Yeah, it's still annoying that it won't support just two players, but the download play makes it less of an issue to me. Hell, we have a spare 3DS we could turn on and just let sit out of the way when able. Wouldn't be too much different from the single player I guess
.Take this news with a grain of salt, since these are the same guys that reported that Microsoft were buying the Silent Hills franchise. But even if part of it is true? As a long-time fan of the series, this makes me incredibly sad.
It's really no excuse. Valve has alternate methods of finishing out the story. They could certainly do a CGI movie instead.
Christ, I hope not. I want it finished as a game. It's a game series. Why would a CGI movie even make sense? It doesn't.
It worked for Final Fantasy: Advent Children. It wasn't AMAZING (well... graphically it was) but it certainly felt like a proper expansion/finale to the story.
I wouldn't call it a proper finale at all. Final Fantasy VII had a proper ending. It ended. You didn't need to watch Advent Children if you didn't want to. You beat the game's big threat and that was it. Calling it an extension (an unnecessary one at that, because aside from the animation, I didn't think it was very good) is the most appropriate term. So no, it didn't work for Advent Children because that was just an extension of a game that had already concluded.
The last time we saw Half-Life the big bad guys hadn't been defeated. In fact, they struck a fatal blow right at the end. It was an Empire Strikes Back ending. The series still doesn't have a proper conclusion.
The last scene of Final Fantasy 7 was literally Holy and the Lifestream destroying Meteor, with no implication that anyone (other than Red XIII) survived the event. We don't learn what the planet's choice was, we don't get resolution to the story arcs of the protagonists. It just ends, like someone forgot the last reel of a movie. People can go into the deepness of this message and it's environmental meanings all they want; even Dr. Seuss made his point clear in the Lorax.
But the bad guy was still destroyed. The threat was eliminated. In these kinds of video games, that's the most important thing: that you beat the bad guy. And Sephiroth was pretty soundly defeated.
The Advisors were not.
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It doesn't matter that Sephiroth was killed because the ending left it open to possibility that he'd won anyway. Plus Rufus and the Turks were still around, meaning it was entirely possible that they saved the world FOR NOTHING because he'd just fuck it up again. OH WAIT, that's exactly what happened in Advent Children.
Except he didn't win because life continued. Pretty sure that was the point of showing Red XIII or their ancestors at the end. Whether the ending was ambiguous or not is irrelevant because you did beat him. And again, the movie is still an extension of what was already a game that left most fans - myself included - satisfied with the conclusion. A villain popping up again doesn't matter because the main villain of the game was defeated. People wanted to know what happened to Cloud and company, but people weren't demanding a new ending or a sequel or anything.
Whereas Episode 2 STILL left you with a nail-biting cliffhanger and the main villains still out there to wreak havoc.
Regardless, the idea of doing Half-Life 3 as a CGI movie is probably the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
I actually agree that bringing Sephiroth back was kind of pointless... the plot should have simply been the characters dealing with the fact that people were still dying despite their actions and the attempts of everyone to simply deal with it. That would have been a much more interesting movie. Sort of an nihilist's take on environmentalism: Sure, we may have saved the planet and ensured that it will survive... but what's the point if we don't get to enjoy it?
I'm with Nick. When I hit the end of FF7 (I think I was 14 or 15), I had no idea whether the planet decided humans should live or not, but we knew the planet and life overall had survived. Aeris's presence as the force in the lifestream lends to the hope that humanity survived, but we don't know. And I thought that was a perfect ending.
To me, Advent Children felt like extra, unnecessary bits, much like every other Final Fantasy 7 thing we've gotten since the game itself.
To me, Advent Children felt like extra, unnecessary bits, much like every other Final Fantasy 7 thing we've gotten since the game itself.
It was also really bad. Looked cool, but bad.
It's still better than Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.