J Marv

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  1. Ant-Man, Marvel - Writer and director engaged

    Thor, Marvel - Writer engaged

    The Avengers, Marvel - Writer engaged

    I just don't think any of these will work. Maybe Ant-Man but the writing would have to be PERFECT. And well, that just isn't going to happen.

    Iron Man, Method Films (France) - 26, 30 minute episodes in development

    :w00t:

  2. battle system was a pain

    I don't get this at all, really. The default settings are a little annoying, but d20 is incredibly adaptable. The XBox controller was a little iffy with it at first, but once you got it down it worked great (IMHO, at least). I'm not sure what you expected, though. If you wanted turn-based control you could get it (just check pause after every round), but it's too tedious for my tastes, as you could just queue up commands in real time.

    I'll admit that beginning pacing is a fair criticism. The opening planet does seem like it takes forever, but you do need the plot exposition (plus, the swoop racing minigame is pretty cool). It gets a lot better once you get your lightsaber and more of the supporting cast.

  3. I was going to null, but now I have to vote for KOTOR.

    Please explain to me how that makes any sense. I'm assuming you were going to null because you haven't played all of the games in this round? And that you're only now voting because KOTOR wasn't winning?

    Well, according to his post, Yoda hasn't played everything, either. And he voted, so I don't feel bad about it.

    As for what I haven't played, it was Jade Empire (waiting for the PC version, although I've seen enough of it to know that I'll probably prefer KOTOR) and Steel Battalion (which you yourself admit nobody else has played, I'm not a mech sim fan anyway, so even if I had played it, I doubt it would sway my vote).

    So get mad that KOTOR will win because it got an extra vote if you want to, I don't care. But I call shenanigans if anything other than Jade wins because you probably are the only person who HAS played everything.

    Still though, why didn't you like it?

  4. It's not a patch. It's not even technically a mod since Rockstar does not actively support user generated content for GTA (as say Bioware does for NWN, and Bethesda does for Oblivion), and the mod is therefore in violation of EULA. It's even worse in the case of the PS2 and Xbox where the "patch" or whatever to get to it involves a rather tricky hack of not just the software, but in some cases the hardware of the consoles.

    Of course, heaven forbid somebody actually read their EULA. Which should protect Rockstar in this, and for some reason it isn't.

  5. Ugh. From Ars Technica (link):

    Take-Two dealt setback with Hot Coffee lawsuit

    10/29/2006 5:22:08 PM, by Eric Bangeman

    A federal judge has handed Take-Two Interactive a setback in its fight against one of the lawsuits filed after the Hot Coffee incident. Ruling in a case filed by 86-year-old grandmother Florence Cohen, Judge Shirley Wohl Kram denied Take-Two's attempt to bar Cohen's lawsuit from seeking class-action status.

    Cohen sued Take-Two after buying Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for her 14-year-old grandson. Apparently untroubled by the violent nature of the videogame, she was disturbed by the sexual content unlocked via the Hot Coffee mod and sued Take-Two, accusing the developer of violating consumer protection laws by misrepresenting the game's content.

    Cohen seeks class-action status for her lawsuit, which would allow all of those who bought GTA: SA prior to the disclosure of the Hot Coffee mod and subsequent recall of the game to join in the litigation. There have been four other cases filed in federal court making the same allegations, and Take-Two is fighting to keep them from being consolidated into a single, class-action lawsuit.

    In her opinion, Judge Wohl Gram wrote that "If class certification is granted, the Court will have the benefit of a well-defined class and a more fully developed treatment of potential choice of law questions. As such, the Court will be in a better position to analyze the various laws that are actually at issue in the instant case and to determine whether the Class has standing to assert claims arising thereunder."

    Judge Wohl Gram will make the determination on whether Cohen's lawsuit will be class-action status at some point in the future.

    Beyond Cohen's lawsuit, Take-Two still has a couple of other pieces of unfinished business relating to the Hot Coffee mod. A Manhattan grand jury is investigating the Hot Coffee patch and has issued subpoenas to Take-Two with an eye towards possible criminal charges. Out in California, the company is battling a civil suit filed the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office that accuses Take-Two of unfair business practices by not disclosing GTA: SA's sexual content and avoiding an AO: Adults Only rating.

  6. Ha. There are some crazy ones in Guild Wars. The best is probably presearing, where you go get a bushel of apples for this chick, but whenever you're carrying the apples, you get attacked by spiders. It's actually somewhat entertaining for that reason.

    Frontier Gate Fugitives and the Black Moa suck though. Back and forth and back and forth. Especially with Black Moa, though at least that's near towns/outposts, so the map travel helps. By far the most annoying quest in Factions.

    In general they aren't that bad, usually. As long as there's a decent story around it and other stuff can be done along the way, they usually aren't too bad.

  7. Out of the following, what would be the toughest to overcome and why?

    - being in a club that has a lot of girls doing what they like to do

    - having a girl as you right hand

    - being in an all boys school and being forced to crossdress

    I'll respond later with this one

    1) Huh? You need to be more specific with this one.

    2) What would be difficult about this? Unless you mean like D's Left Hand, then that would kind of suck. (Yeah, I went there. Sue me.)

    3) :unsure:

  8. Well, the voting has started on the make Optimus speak, or whatever contest it's called. I know my submission wasn't the greatest, and it didn't make the top 100, but it has to be better than some of the ones they picked.

    "I can't explain the flames, they are just cool."

    "These pretzels are making me thirsty."

    'I must break you."

    "I'll be back."

    "It's Prime time!"

    "It's clobbering time!"

    I guess it was too much to think they would take this seriously.

    Surely there's some sort of copyright violation here, no?

    Seriously.

  9. Some spoilers follow, but to answer your question, they're necessary:

    The only time he shows any "powers" are when he pops out a set of adamantium claws while fighting Wolverine. He then utters this line (to Wolverine, who is the only X-Men conscious at this point): "I don't pop the claws for just anyone. I've gone through thirty years without a healing factor to make me better than you could ever hope to be. It's over, bub." (parts bolded to reflect the way they were written in the book) So yeah, he appears to be an alternate future Wolverine, or at least some sort of related Weapon X project/clone/whatever.

  10. I like it, sort of.

    I REALLY like it because I feel that the Ultimate universe should be significantly different from the regular universe. Like Sabretooth started out as a big blond version of Wolverine in the Ultimate universe, then they turned him randomly back into the more beastial version, and it sucked.

    Whether he'll work as a character or not remains to be seen. Probably will though. Since apparently he's Wolverine, and people fucking love Wolverine.

  11. A) WTF happened to Parker? He looks in a bad way. Stark must have gone medieval on him.

    Read Amazing Spider-Man #535.

    I have, hence the "Stark must have gone medieval on him." Man, why are they turning Stark into this bad guy? He's even less likeable than paranoid Cap. And I hate paranoid Cap.

    I wish they would have made him a guy reluctantly doing his job, since he's personally against the SRA. He seems to be taking some pleasure in it now.

    B) I thought general consensus was Castle was going to be Anti-SRA, so why is he fighting Spidey, who is going Anti-SRA?

    My guess is that Castle has saved Peter from his doom. Look at Frank's guns: they're pointed up, away from Spidey. That tells me he doesn't see Parker as a threat.

    Parker's begging him off though. It might be that Stark just knocked him down there in front of Castle, and Castle just pulled his guns as a reflex, but the impression I get is a confrontation.

    Thanks a lot for the timeline, it's very helpful, and clears up a couple of things for me.

  12. Ok.

    A) WTF happened to Parker? He looks in a bad way. Stark must have gone medieval on him.

    B) I thought general consensus was Castle was going to be Anti-SRA, so why is he fighting Spidey, who is going Anti-SRA?

    Somebody needs to print a timeline of all the Civil War tie-in events so I know what happens when.

  13. I want supreme power and lots of naked women at my beckoning. In which anime can I attain this? :devil:

    If you're ok with dying, you have plenty of choices. If not, you're choices become considerably more....limited.

    Initial D - Fujiwara Bunta