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viewmaster_pi posted...

I think Vermintide 2 is actually getting PVP at some point

I'd love it, but the player base is so small :/

Malfunction posted...

Maybe if they cancel his last 44 birthdays what he did might be legal

Do we actually know what he did, or do we just know he did something awful(and probably with someone underage)?

Actually come to think of it, Marvel could do an amazing secret invasion based game on this....

I've seen multiple L4D clones(Vermintide being the best) where you're fighting against a bunch of AI controlled mobs.

I've seen plenty of versus games that have four players on one side but then just a single on the other.

I haven't seen a single one that does one team going for the objective and one team setting up ambushes and trying to stop them. It's such an immensely fun concept gone to waste.

I've been reading the Marvel backlog from Disassembled on(haven't done Marvel Cosmic much yet so I haven't read annihilation, but that's on my list). Disassembled was fun but largely a bunch of different stories, not one huge cohesive one. House of M was a great story, but its tie-ins were largely disappointing and don't add to the feel. Civil War was....Civil War. Great idea, godawful execution. World War Hulk was a lot of fun, but still felt pretty short and the tie ins didn't add much to it.

But Secret Invasion is awesome. All the tie ins lead directly into the major conflict, and it actually feels like a conflict. We're seeing several fronts of the same war, each tie in presents its own engaging story, and the whole thing ends up feeling like an awesome experience.

Hopefully Dark Reign and Siege are as good. I doubt it, but hopefully.

Everyone always focuses on big event arcs, but I'd love to see more single movie adaptations like winter soldier and civil war.

BurmesePenguin posted...

Malazan is pretty bad. Every situation is solved with a deus ex machina and the power levels of a plethora of characters is so far beyond the chart that I find it impossible to suspend my disbelief that civilization in that universe, or even life itself, has continued for however many hundreds of thousands of years it has

It's definitely not my favorite but I mention it because it does have a very dedicated fan base.

vigorm0rtis posted...

OctilIery posted...

Such as? I don't remember many.

Well, there were those Narnia movies, they made at least one Eragon movie and I think planned to adapt the whole series but it bombed, Mists of Avalon and 10th Kingdom got miniseries, a bunch of garbage D&D branded movies, those are the ones that just spring to mind but there were a fair bit more. You probably don't remember because they were, for the most part, so bad.

Ah I remember eragon and other YA ones, I just attributed them more to chasing the Harry Potter dollar. Fair enough in dnd ones.

Allanon23 posted...

OctilIery posted...

Want a series similar in style but with far better characters? First law Trilogy.

Want a modern series with a huge dedicated fan base and massive potential for additional material? Mistborn.

Want a new long series to build a bandwagon for(with bonus better reliability in release schedule)? Stormlight Archives.

Want to do an epic fantasy you can reliably adapt under a single movie? Lies of Locke Lamora.

Want a series with enough epic scale to bankrupt your company? Malazan book of the Fallen.

There are many options as good as or better than game of thrones.

I'm pretty sure companies have been trying to get everything on this list adapted for years. Malazan I'm not sure of, but the Gentleman Bastard series has been optioned forever.

I'd love love love a Gentleman Bastard series though. Each book has been amazing in its own way.

There have been back and forth discussions for Sanderson movies but the only one optioned is his YA series Steelheart iirc

vigorm0rtis posted...

Hollywood had a glut of fantasy after LOTR and most of it was shit.

Such as? I don't remember many.

LightHawKnight posted...

So what you are saying is that they should adapt stuff Brandon Sanderson writes?

I gave four authors as example.

Freddie_Mercury posted...

everything is getting a show and most of them will be terrible

I only know of two fantasy series getting adaptations right now and both look great(golden compass and wheel of time)

DarthAragorn posted...

They should learn to wait for a series to be finished

All of those are complete except stormlight, which has an author that actually treats it as a job and won't cause issues in that regard.

Want a series similar in style but with far better characters? First law Trilogy.

Want a modern series with a huge dedicated fan base and massive potential for additional material? Mistborn.

Want a new long series to build a bandwagon for(with bonus better reliability in release schedule)? Stormlight Archives.

Want to do an epic fantasy you can reliably adapt under a single movie? Lies of Locke Lamora.

Want a series with enough epic scale to bankrupt your company? Malazan book of the Fallen.

There are many options as good as or better than game of thrones.

Game dev simulator meets Sims, so much fun

DarkRoast posted...

Bluharvest posted...

Yesh but how many people have vr

A lot of people have PSVR. Something like 5 million IIRC. It's nowhere near full-on console sales numbers but decent enough that a must-buy game like HL:A would have a very high attach rate if Valve wasn't being Valve.

Probably has something to do with psvr being a LOT more limited and less powerful.

At this point, vr is a legitimate gaming platform. It can create an experience like no other, and people have shown massive amounts of potential.

The only thing really needed is a major studio to put out a big budget exclusive that feels like an actual game. A full campaign, just like you'd see on in any console, bit built from the ground up for vr and available nowhere else.

It could do for vr what half life 2 did for physics and make it a mainstay of the genre.

Alyx looks fucking amazing though, and VR has made some goddamn huge strides. It's a legit gaming platform at this point.

Hexenherz posted...

OctilIery posted...

ok I remembered there was some controversy between Planet Coaster and another coaster game, couldn't remember which was the good one lol

There are three big ones now.

Planet Coaster is arguably the best, with features including... park scenery ratings, security staff and camera equipment and pickpockets, hotels, restaurants, staff training and fatigue, and a few other features. Though you can play it pretty straightforward it does have a huge emphasis on creating things. It does integrate with the Steam Workshop so you can download new blueprints too, if you're like me and just want to build and manage the park without micromanaging every single piece of fence.

Then there's Parkitect. It's got that isometric perspective like the classic Rollercoaster Tycoon games (though with more ride options and cleaner graphics). It's also a really solid choice, just not as expansive as the fully 3D Planet Coaster for various reasons. I do like that they add supply/stock as a mechanic - you have to set up distribution between your warehouse and your stalls and stuff like that.

The one to avoid is Rollercoaster Tycoon World. It was garbage at launch, it took a year for them to add certain save features, building a rollercoaster caused the game to crash half the time, it had a fraction of the prop options that Planet Coaster or Parkitect have (and when they *did* add props it was literally like five things for Halloween... embarrassing). Plus it just looks like garbage.

Thank's for that! I really like Planet Coaster and am strongly considering it. I'm playing Software Inc right now, which is a spreadsheet heavy corporate software development sim. I'm amazed so far, especially since what I'm playing is just early access.

ok I remembered there was some controversy between Planet Coaster and another coaster game, couldn't remember which was the good one lol

Oh my god Software Inc is amazing

Shotgunnova posted...

Railroad Tycoon II 4 Lyfe

Too old :( I'd love a good updated take on it

Lorenzo_2003 posted...

Yeah, I do wonder about that. I guess the Super Skrull could be the rogue enemy event that @OctilIery mentioned. On the other hand, it might be worth considering making him a new super hero instead. Its bound to piss off a lot of comic purists, but would be a new take, I guess.

Ehhh I'd rather they pull up one of the many existing Skrull heroes. There are a lot of great characters that show the better side of Skrull civilization.

Planet coaster worth it?

Lorenzo_2003 posted...

It would be interesting to see, but I dont think thats the direction Disney or Marvel wants to go. They already changed the creepy villainous Skrulls into misunderstood, family-focused and quirky good guy refugees. Presenting them, even if its some rogue faction, as the opposite of that would be confusing to some audiences and criticized by a whole bunch of so-called woke media. It would just be easier for them to continue with depicting the Kree as the real threat to defeat.

I should clarify, even if they don't want the skrull invasion I want their next big event to cover a whole phase.

City or park builder in particular, but any good sim is fine. What is the best city builder? Best theme park game? Any great Sims on the humble sale?

Unlike any of the other phases, which are building up the personalities and relationships of the characters while they deal with only loosely connected threats, they should do a phase where every movie deals with the same main threat.

Like, say it starts with Gotg finding a rogue skrull faction and it being revealed at the end that the faction has a plan in motion involving a major invasion of earth. The next movie involves the skrull invasion being revealed. Each movie builds the story and offers revelations before the final one concludes it.

boxington posted...

^ you should check out Burning and Parasite

the former is one of the best movies from last year, and the latter is one of the best from this year, IMO.

they're both dramas/thrillers, but expertly toy with various genres.

But I keep hearing that about Korean movies. Something just keeps not clicking with me :/

Amenadeel posted...

A gross, really bizarre movie, great fight scenes be damned.

Yeah, gotta say I didn't love it. Haven't loved any Korean thrillers so far

TheDreadedWave posted...

Neither

Not a true answer

I want splosions, can the first Far Cry in Murica out-splosion JC4?

And I just threw away the ones I've been holding onto "just in case" for a decade this weekend.

DirkDiggles posted...

Yes. We caught one last week. Guy had a old Walmart smock. It was the lighter blue one and tried to walk out the store with a 58" Hisense tv. lol I mean, come on, man.

On the other hand, we've had people literally walk into the back rooms of Walmarts in a smock and take away multiple TVs without getting stopped.

Awesome! The old games are still great experiences, but gameplay wise they've aged like milk.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

DeathVelvien posted...

Do you actually trust Hollywood to handle Thrawn right

Even his own books didn't handle Thrawn well.

This. Thrawn isn't a good villain.

Smashingpmkns posted...

After seeing Interstellar I'd rather Christopher Nolan never do another movie related to space ever again tbh

To be fair, the space parts of Interstellar were goddamn amazing. It was the feelings part that sucked.

Which still means no Star Wars lol

A retooled Zahn Trilogy would be the best option. Especially if they make the villain better.

fusespliff posted...

SoundNetwork posted...

no i dont

Gobstoppers12 posted...

That would be the thing that would finally convince me not to see a Star Wars movie for the first time.

These.
Only a fool would hand the reins of a space opera about space knights and space magic to the man who who took on a fantastical concept like superheroes and was determined to kill every fantastical element about it. Nolan is a great director, but this isn't his wheelhouse.

Not to mention those are not among the better EU examples. Especially Yuuzhan Vong.

No_U_L7 posted...

American version or original

Original

I've heard spoilers but don't remember them, hopefully the movie surprises me

Just tuned in to the end of Reanimator, such a classic

DespondentDeity posted...

EverDownward posted...

OctilIery posted...

The Slumber Party Massacre. Actually a great movie too.

I, too, like Dead Meat

Came to post lmao. Knew what this topic was about from the title alone too.

Yeah it wasn't subtle lol

vigorm0rtis posted...

Anteaterking posted...

So if you look at something that's supposedly feminist with a female writer and a female director and it's indistinguishable from a ****ty slasher film of the time period, how can you make an argument that it's feminist?

Gotta be honest, I'm often a little vague on what people mean when they say a piece of art is "feminist." Both the writer and director say they created it to be a metaphor for the fear of getting laid for the first time. I'm a modernist, so I'd argue that yeah, that probably makes it feminist, although not particularly successful at it.

It's not just that, but that it does a great job of showing women in a variety of roles without making it out to be anything out of the ordinary. Carpenters, electricians, martial artists, etc etc.

Anteaterking posted...

vigorm0rtis posted...

Making a film so hamfisted that you can guess the gender of the director isn't a merit.

That's not what I'm saying. The movie gets attributed as "feminist" because it was directed by a woman and because the original script was written by a feminist. But the shooting script was changed to take out most of the parody elements of it and it was directed in a way that completely downplayed those elements.

So if you look at something that's supposedly feminist with a female writer and a female director and it's indistinguishable from a ****ty slasher film of the time period, how can you make an argument that it's feminist?

It's feminist because it's showing competent women in a variety of roles usually only portrayed as men.

Anteaterking posted...

Slumber Party Massacre isn't a good movie though

Lol

Gamerguymass posted...

OctilIery posted...

Nope. There's nudity, sometimes very blatantly exploitative, bit the characters always act like real, believable people.

I was going to say pass, but if there are lots of naked chicks in it then maybe. Horror films were never my thing to begin with. Is it on any streaming service at least?

Amazon prime

I'm in a very vintage mood lately, watching slumber party massacre. Especially want slashers.

Gamerguymass posted...

OctilIery posted...

Slumber Party actually does it well because the characters are very solid, smart, and capable. Plus it's a hell of a lot more subtle about its undertones.

Are there pillowfights while wearing skimpy nighties and experimentation in the movie?

Nope. There's nudity, sometimes very blatantly exploitative, bit the characters always act like real, believable people.

RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted...

i spit on your grave says hi

Slumber Party actually does it well because the characters are very solid, smart, and capable. Plus it's a hell of a lot more subtle about its undertones.

epik_fail1 posted...

OctilIery posted...

I maintain that Todd is a good person. He has his own issues that he's figuring out about himself, but he's a good friend, very nice, and sets boundaries when he needs to. PC too, though she does a couple awful things.

The worst thing he did was his relationship with the girl he didn't feel attracted to... I don't think it's enough to make him a bad person.

I don't think that was even him doing a bad thing so much as coming to terms with himself and being in denial. I felt bad for both of them :(