Arcade and Retro General Chat in Karkariko Village Tavern: Live Ocarina Music

DinoRex

It's crazy this type of thing hasn't been done before.

People are going to download the show regardless, AMC and Netflix might as well make some profit out of it.

Think how much money HBO could be making off Game of Thrones, which is the most pirated show, if they made it easily available online? I guess they see the deal with Sky worth more.

valleyoftheunos

DinoRex wrote: »

Someone was watching episode 1 on my Netflix account.

So when I logged on this evening to watch to new episode it gave me the plot synopsis for episode 2 and confused the hell out of me 'Sylar suspects her husband is up to no good.'

Breaking Bad X Heroes sex change mash up?:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Retr0gamer

Heroes should be left to rot, burn and be forgotten. MS should be ashamed even thinking about bringing it back.

CiDeRmAn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Heroes should be left to rot, burn and be forgotten. MS should be ashamed even thinking about bringing it back.

Boo hiss, I enjoyed that show, aside from the whole Ireland bit, awful awful stuff, whole plot lines were discarded after that.

Star Lord

Heroes had great potential which it showed in the first season mainly. The writers just didn't seem to know what to do with it after that!
If someone really talented was writing/making it, I'd love to see more.

Especially Hiro...

Nerdkiller1991

DamoElDiablo wrote: »

Heroes had great potential which it showed in the first season mainly. The writers just didn't seem to know what to do with it after that!
If someone really talented was writing/making it, I'd love to see more.

Especially Hiro...

Didn't it have to do with the show's creator leaving after the first season was done? That's what I've read from it, anyway.

Retr0gamer

It got stupid when absolutely everyone was a superhero. It got stupid because there were no normal people to contrast the superheroes with.

Actually that's being kind, there was a boat load of stupid to fill the titanic in it starting in season 2.

DinoRex

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

Didn't it have to do with the show's creator leaving after the first season was done? That's what I've read from it, anyway.

Pretty sure Kring was there the whole time... they just had the writers strike on while they were making season 2, they never seemed to be able to recover from that.

I have season 1 on HD-DVD, there's a pretty cool unaired pilot which is substantially different to the broadcasted pilot.

o1s1n

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Boo hiss, I enjoyed that show, aside from the whole Ireland bit, awful awful stuff, whole plot lines were discarded after that.

You never really were a bastion of good taste, were you? :P

johnny_ultimate

Heroes is probably the worst show I've ever watched. Forget about all that dross we can ignore (Big Bang Theory etc...) but Heroes is in the unique position of actually getting worse pretty much every single episode after a promising start. Absolute abomination of a TV show. Quit far too late and just stuck with reading the hilariously sarky AV Club reviews.

I do regret wasting time on The Walking Dead too. Both fascinating case studies in how to make the audience despise every single unbelievable character, even the once interesting ones.

Retr0gamer

I thankfully stopped halfway through season 2. I wasn't making the same mistake that I made with Lost. Watched that and gave up on the final season are years or dross. Told myself I'd watch it if the ending was good.

It wasn't.

DinoRex

There was one cool episode in season 2 where Peter goes to the future and Skylar is a good guy who has a kid.

CiDeRmAn

o1s1n wrote: »

You never really were a bastion of good taste, were you? :P

......
The Ban Hammer.....

She Grows Thirsty!!!!



I'm a Nemesis/Slaine/ABC Warriors fan, doesn't that give me an automatic seat at the "Good Taste" table?

DinoRex

I had the Nemesis the Warlock game on the C64, it wasn't very good... nice music though.

HeartOfTheCity

Started to watch BSG from the beginning again at the weekend. God, I forgot just how good it was.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

o1s1n wrote: »

You never really were a bastion of good taste, were you? :P

Cidey has good music taste, no comment on anything else though :P

o1s1n

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I'm a Nemesis/Slaine/ABC Warriors fan, doesn't that give me an automatic seat at the "Good Taste" table?

Ah yes, I forgot about that! Consider yourself absolved of your sins...for now!

DinoRex wrote: »

I had the Nemesis the Warlock game on the C64, it wasn't very good... nice music though.

The opening tune is the best thing about the game. Fantastic piece of music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdzfOXkZrY0

Myrddin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I thankfully stopped halfway through season 2. I wasn't making the same mistake that I made with Lost. Watched that and gave up on the final season are years or dross. Told myself I'd watch it if the ending was good.

It wasn't.

I've watched LOST in its entirety twice now, once by box set & once via Netflix with herself. I enjoyed it immensely I have to say, more so the second time even. I know it gets a bad rap about the later seasons & ending etc, and I think if I watched it over the space of five or so years, one episode a week broken up by ads I'd prob think that too. But watching it all in short succession I felt was far more enjoyable.

I done the same with Breaking Bad, just blitzed through it three or four eps at a time, no ads, no waiting a week per episode, no waiting months between seasons until now obviously, I find it a far more enjoyable way to watch tv.

CiDeRmAn

I remember the game alright, at least it was playable,
I had the Speccy version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UXoJfgKeeY

But the C64 was better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUSPEFX-3h4

the Slaine game was utter bonkers though,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_z3hgQr6l0

But the Rogue Trooper game was fantastic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbA76zfoDPY

richymcdermott

**** it i cannot hold it in anymore, sonic lost world looks better than mario galaxy

DinoRex

For some reason Slaine was in the Amiga version of Myth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUtpcEBMRA4

Atavan-Halen

Right, need a bit of help! (And no I'm not going to AA)

I have to get my hands in one of these before I end up paying mad eBay prices upon release. http://www.play-asia.com/nintendo-3ds-ll-pokemon-y-pack-premium-gold-paOS-13-49-en-70-6s0z.html

Hopefully play Asia will get more in stock but they sold out extremely quickly and amazon.co.jp sold out their allocation in an hour. Any other sites I can try or that anyone has used for preordering import stuff? I might just end up ringing a pokemon centre and see if they'll post one over!

Star Lord

richymcdermott wrote: »

**** it i cannot hold it in anymore, sonic lost world looks better than mario galaxy

You've taken too many Chaos Emeralds Richy! It looks good, but not that good!

Retr0gamer

atavan-halen wrote: »

Right, need a bit of help! (And no I'm not going to AA)

I have to get my hands in one of these before I end up paying mad eBay prices upon release. http://www.play-asia.com/nintendo-3ds-ll-pokemon-y-pack-premium-gold-paOS-13-49-en-70-6s0z.html

Hopefully play Asia will get more in stock but they sold out extremely quickly and amazon.co.jp sold out their allocation in an hour. Any other sites I can try or that anyone has used for preordering import stuff? I might just end up ringing a pokemon centre and see if they'll post one over!

Yes-asia and NCSX might have it.

richymcdermott

DamoElDiablo wrote: »

You've taken too many Chaos Emeralds Richy! It looks good, but not that good!

perhaps :pac:

Atavan-Halen

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Yes-asia and NCSX might have it.

I had a look on yes Asia but none there. Ill have a look at ncsx. There's a few on eBay for preorder but I'm afraid of getting a knock off 3DS. They haven't made knock off 3DS consoles yet have they?

Retr0gamer

Not that I know of. The security codes haven't been cracked either so you should be ok.

Atavan-Halen

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Not that I know of. The security codes haven't been cracked either so you should be ok.

I think I might go for one of those so. The price is ok too. If its not as expected can always stick in a PayPal claim!

Myrddin

I'm holding off on a 3DS XL in the hopes there'll be a new Zelda edition of it

Atavan-Halen

EnterNow wrote: »

I'm holding off on a 3DS XL in the hopes there'll be a new Zelda edition of it

Can always get the zelda 25th anniversary 3DS.

This'll be my 3rd 3DS that's an acceptable amount of consoles right?

Myrddin

atavan-halen wrote: »

Can always get the zelda 25th anniversary 3DS.

Maybe at some stage, hard to want to spend money on the original 3DS though, the screens are just too small. Those XL's though are sweeeet

This'll be my 3rd 3DS that's an acceptable amount of consoles right?

Absolutely, remember where you're posting! Moar consoles

Dr Bob

DinoRex wrote: »

Someone was watching episode 1 on my Netflix account.

So when I logged on this evening to watch to new episode it gave me the plot synopsis for episode 2 and confused the hell out of me 'Sylar suspects her husband is up to no good.'

Useless fact but yer wan who played Skyler was in the Legacy of Kain games..

Dr Bob

oh yeah , managed to disable the lockout chip on my snes , so I can use the super 8 nes/FC adaptor I got of BoNeill..score!
Have the switches fitted for the 50/60hz mod as well..but I'm putting that off for a bit (the pins on the 2 chips involved are TINY!)

Myrddin

Dr Bob wrote: »

(the pins on the 2 chips involved are TINY!)

Take your time with that part. Make sure you use a needle type tip on the soldering iron, & gently prise the pins up with a small needle, whilst briefly touching the iron off the base of the pin. Once lifted off the board, gently prise them up away from the other pins, & place some insulating tape under both lifted pins.

CiDeRmAn

I'm heading to the big smoke tomorrow, heading for Bookmart and Gamesexchange tomorrow.
They've a Facebook page that implies they've done interesting stock.
Principally there's a copy of Indiana Jones Greatest Adventures for the Snes on hold, happy days!

johnny_ultimate

CiDeRmAn

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Who the feck would get excited at the chance to be called names at 3am by a bunch of over caffeinated american teenagers?
This game is a real "buy 6 months after release for €30" kinda title, the only bit of it I'll play is the single player campaign which comes from the Clancy school of geopolitics, namely dumb as a bag of rocks.
I still haven't played either of the Black Ops titles, should I?

johnny_ultimate

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Who the feck would get excited at the chance to be called names at 3am by a bunch of over caffeinated american teenagers?
This game is a real "buy 6 months after release for €30" kinda title, the only bit of it I'll play is the single player campaign which comes from the Clancy school of geopolitics, namely dumb as a bag of rocks.
I still haven't played either of the Black Ops titles, should I?

It's more that it is a completely random, pointless tweet

CiDeRmAn

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

It's more that it is a completely random, pointless tweet

Oh....

I sorry....

I might have over-reacted....

Just a tad....

I'll go and watch Iron Man 3 again as punishment.... feck I hate that picture

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I'll go and watch Iron Man 3 again as punishment.... feck I hate that picture

they wouldn't even do that in Guantanamo (Iron Man in general is down there with Baby Geniuses and wet socks)

Nerdkiller1991

Sera wrote: »

they wouldn't even do that in Guantanamo (Iron Man in general is down there with Baby Geniuses and wet socks)

Speaking of Baby Geniuses...

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/mjtv/ss/39302-shameful-sequels-baby-geniuses-3

And I've yet to see Iron Man 3, so I'll have to wait until the BD release to see what the goddamn problem is with the movie.

deathrider

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

It's more that it is a completely random, pointless tweet

It's kind like stating that the new Fifa will have football in it.

Atavan-Halen

deathrider wrote: »

It's kind like stating that the new Fifa will have football in it.

Can you confirm this with a reputable source?

Star Lord

I like Iron Man...

DinoRex

Dr Bob wrote: »

Useless fact but yer wan who played Skyler was in the Legacy of Kain games..

She also popped up in Enemy of the Sate which also stared the TurboExpress.

We should play a game of 6 degrees of TurboExpress.

johnny_ultimate

Still fascinated by the various cameo appearances of a Wonderswan in Evangelion 2.0.

Star Lord

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I'm heading to the big smoke tomorrow, heading for Bookmart and Gamesexchange tomorrow.

Gamesexchange

Is that one of Retr0's Japanese games? :pac:

DinoRex

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Still fascinated by the various cameo appearances of a Wonderswan in Evangelion 2.0.

They've always been mad for the DAT players and G3 Powerbooks too.

DinoRex

Picked up Gone Home last night. Enjoying it a lot. It's everything I've been looking for in a game, all story and exploration with none of the mass murder that ruined The Last of Us and Bioshock Infinite for me.

Andrew76

Just read a great article on Eurogamer about the Fighting Fantasy books of the 80's, written by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. Used to love those books, rolling dice to fight the monsters and of course cheating so you could progress the story. Never knew they were behind the Games Workshop and that White Dwarf magazine.

It seems some of the books have been ported to Android (and iOS), a couple by Tin Man Games look good - Forest of Doom.

Anyone else used to read/play those books?