"they wouldn't"

that is great.

oh, wait, this movie is going with an ENTIRELY ENVIRONMENTAL MESSAGE?

that's it, it's going to suck. hollywood can't pull off this hippie shit without sounding campy and hypocritical (at least not while they're still paying their actors in Hummers and cans of CFC.)

Kung Fu Hustle

man I just watched this like two days ago. I wanna watch it again now.

I'm all for special effects in movies but the movie still won't do anything for me if the rest of it is shit. kung fu hustle would have still been pretty entertaining on its own merits (although the fight scenes wouldn't have been so over-the-top and that was admittedly half the charm (there is something to be said for a movie in which guitar(or whatever that was)ists can use music to chop things in half)) but as far as movies go I will not accept something that's just LOOK AT THE PRETTY THINGS for an hour and a half.

man, when I first saw this I thought it looked kind of interesting until I remembered that the original story was some fairly anticlimactic piece that was mostly STRAIGHTEN OUT AND FLY RIGHT OR MY ROBOT AND I WE WILL GET MAD. I've lost a lot of my faith in screenwriters lately (okay well except for things like dark knight) and I'm not confident about the sort of liberties this guy would take to turn the original into something that fits the action-movie bill -- the story I recall was more a talky than anything else, and this seems like it's based on that in the same way the Cheaper By The Dozen films were based on those books. I haven't seen the original Day The Earth Stood Still movie so I dunno for all I know it might have been pulled off well in the past and might be in for another skillful rendition, but I also take keanu reeves as a bad sign.

dude can only emote, like, BEING PENSIVE and BEING MILDLY APPREHENSIVE. he does a good "ted" theodore logan, but he's not doing that anymore.

Laggy menus, bad balance, etc. can all be chalked up to a lack of sufficient time, consideration, and beta-testing (which is RIDICULOUS for a game which has been in development since before the XBox 360 was even on the market, by the way,) but the valkyrie thing simply baffles me. I can't see any reason why the developers would see this as a good idea. If you want to penalize the character for dying ingame, do it through the game mechanics like every other successful game out there! Take half the player's money! Lower his HP to 1! Give him a temporary status ailment! Don't make the player sit there for twenty-five seconds watching a cutscene that isn't even interesting after the first time you see it! That must absolutely kill player immersion. It's frustrating enough to die, but it's even more frustrating knowing that each and every time you do the action will stop abruptly and twiddle its thumbs until it feels motivated enough to get to work again.

I can't see how after nearly a decade of production no one brought up the fact that the valkyrie thing is annoying and completely unnecessary to the game's mechanics. Hell, after a decade of production, this game shouldn't suffer from any of these above problems -- as far as I can see, all these problems could be avoided by spending a little more time in the planning and testing phases, and time is certainly something they've had enough of.

Considering how well Eternal Darkness was designed (the insanity effect has to be one of the coolest ideas I've seen in a game,) I have a little trouble believing that this is from the same studio.

Speaking of which, I think they would have fared better if they had been developing another Eternal Darkness all this time. There's a whole other Elder God (or whatever) out there (the yellow one,) and I'd love to hear from him before the studio dies.

Sounds about perfect. I think I owe you a couple hugs for this.

Hello and welcome to GW.

What can I get you this evening?

Add a lower resolution version

I second this motion and move for the counsel to vote.

I'd switch to this in a jiffy if it wouldn't make it more difficult to simply use the editor. There are a ton of people here with average-or-smaller monitors, and I'm sure most of them would like it if this patch were made more universally accessible.

And while we're on the topic of "Miek bitching at Gutts for stuff," could you give me a hint on how to manage those multi-hit attacks with fewer animations? I think I might have an idea, but it's almost certainly dead wrong.

f*ck .org
f*ck ca
f*ck phanxgames
f*ck gw
f*ck rmxpu
f*ck rrr
f*ck ggz
f*ck Bram Stoker's Dracula
f*ck most contemporary robot designs
f*ck the Dark Tower series by Stephen King
f*ck mid-50s flapper girls

btw is your name pronounced "meek" hehe

I have no idea how Miek is pronounced, so do whatever you like with it.  :P

(I just say it like "Mike" because I lazy.)

Well, lookie here. After committing to actually being an active member here so many months ago, it seems like I'm actually honouring my promise.

Hi, I'm Miek, aka Chimmy Ray, aka uboa on IRC (and a lot of other stuff that's really of no consequence since I use them so sparsely.) I've been an ill-deserving mod over on .ORG maybe a couple months now, and a member there since I think December of last year. As you may recall, I dropped in on GW maybe three months ago to flame one of your new members into a teary suicidal fit and then left, satisfied with having brought misery to another human being.

I kicked around on mainly .ORG from that point, since I was up to my well-toned shoulders in schoolwork at the time, eventually shuffling over to CA since I had heard its name dropped more than once on occasion, and it happened to be where one former forum member decided to bring his armful of forum drama with him after quitting. I stuck around to watch the thread unfold and correct certain factual omissions or misinterpretations, and then decided to stick around a little longer since there were a few people who hadn't burned me at the stake for defending my forum. I now come to realize how nothing really interesting happens in CA, though, and I find it kind of difficult to mesh with the forum culture -- I could say something mean about forum standards right now, but I won't because I'm pretty sure it'd be an unfair comment and an entirely subjective one at that.

So now my amazing story brings me to you guys. I can only maintain membership on maybe two forums before my priorities start getting mixed up and I eventually abandon one of them altogether (and the events usually culminate in the total inexplicable collapse of my vacated forum due to a phenomenon handsome scientists refer to as the "Miek Effect.") With CA off of my plate, I came to remember you guys -- "Hey, those GW dudes seem pretty cool," I thought to myself. "Besides, that's where that Barkley game started out! I love b-balls!"

But, oh spite! Oh hell! To my shock and awe, GW was nowhere to be found! I was forced to sit on pins and needles for a full ten minutes while the dreadful events ran their course! There's really not much point to this aside from me saying that you guys gotta upgrade your version of SMF, dudes. 2003's model isn't going to cut it. :x

I am currently seventeen years old, and live in the frozen glacial fields of southern Canada. My hobbies include running, jumping, punching, laughing, loving, and being very verbose. Right now, I am putting off working on my RMXP game, Ghost's Town, largely because of the incredibly large agenda I need to complete it. Right now I'm working on my spriting and musical skill, and dabbling in a little horrible generic anime art with the intention of making it less horrible and generic. I've already stopped compulsively oversimplifying features (only eyelids for eyes, no eyebrows, dot-noses, pencil necks,) and hope to be a self-proclaimed DAMN GOOD ARTIST before the year is out. It's got quite a shopping list (a new template of my own creation, full custom music, an assload of scripts, and a similar assload of graphics,) but I don't think I'll be hiring a team anytime soon, simply because aside from maybe one other dude I'd share the spriting load with, I object to the idea of getting other people to make your game for you -- and besides, I don't trust a horde of other people to follow my mental pictures as clearly as I will.

Aside from that, uh, let's get the requisites out of the way. I gravitate towards a variety of musical genres, including whichever one System of a Down belongs to and whatever Jack Johnson is, I like good anime but hate bad anime (and unfortunately there's been a lot more bad anime out there since Death Note turned lame,) I don't really read manga, I have been a Barack Obama supporter since McCain started acting like a classic snaky Republican (but I can't vote in America so it's a moot point anyway,) and I joined GW to bring misery to a 16-year-old who founded his own religion. I came back because CA doesn't interest me at all and nothing interesting is happening in .ORG at the moment.

So, hi. I'm Miek. I'm back. Kiss me, darlings.