I don't think it was a pilot. I think it was an actual TV series. No one in the UK will've heard of it though, it was on Channel 5, back when they were the porn and bad american movies channel (in the last few years they've gone a bit more upmarket). I don't think it was in primetime though...
I did, but it was on Sky Movies[1], and I don't pay the Sky subscription.
God, it's pretty bad sci-fi. It's obviously strait to video fodder. No redeeming features, bad direction, stupid blue filters everywhere. Not a very interesting story either.
And then the millenia old Harrier Jump-jets turn up. That still work, despite the oodles of millenia they've been lying around. They then manage to fly one of the hardest to fly aircraft in existance with no training.
I can't remember what happens at the end apart from the evil bad guy being locked up in Fort Knox, and the alien planet blowing up, but I'm in no rush to watch the film again. Ever.
Gah!
I still want a refund, despite not paying anything to see it.
[1] Well, it was actually Sky Moviemax as it was before Moviemax and Premiere were merged into one set of channels. Sky loves changing the names of it's movie channels every couple of years.
I thought The Matrix was alright, but the sequels sucked in comparison. They're probably not the worst films ever, but some of the most disapointing. They made a rather nice brainless action movie, then go way to weird and into mysticism in that later movies. And the final battle sucked (along with the ending in general), which is the most important thing in an action movie anyway.
I'm planning to get rid of my Matrix Reloaded DVD at some point, and pretend the last two films never happened. The first film is staying though.
How dare you insult Sonic 3 & Knuckles! It's the best Sonic game (well, it's technically two Sonic games). It's also one of the best looking Megadrive games ever.
But the 3D games have mostly been average I agree. I half feel like getting a Sonic Advance game to see if they're better.
Well, the main CPU was about twice as fast, which should give the Megadrive / Genesis a bit of a performace advantage, although the SNES / Super Famicom had more custom chips.
I think the SNES had better graphics and sound, but it was mostly becuase of the custom chips, and the Megadrive does better with heavy CPU bound stuff, note that only Virtua Racing ever used an extra chip on the cartridge, unlike the loads of SNES games that did.
Perhaps he's talking about the hidden bonus stage game? (Press A+B+C+START on the message you get if you plug a non Sonic 2 / 3 cart in, I think you might get different levels depending on what cartridge you plug in, but don't hold me to that).
It's a conspiracy - there are no missing episodes of Doctor Who. The 'missing' ones are held by the secret cartel... I've said too much... no, there here... not the... no! mercy... knickers... arghh * CARRIER DROPPED *
I'd guess it's part of the Nintendo's libraries, seeing as I've noticed it does that as well. I think in some games (eg: Zelda: Wind Waker IIRC) it trys to keep on going for a while before the message appears though.
I'd presume there are provisions for multi-disc games on the Gamecube, it would be a bit stupid not to have it (on the Dreamcast for example the auto-reset could be turned off for the disc swap messages).
(True to movie tradition it will actually be shot in Dallas.)
Actually, some of the new series is being shot with Cardiff standing in for London (the series is being produced by BBC Wales). Although they are doing some London shooting, probably due to Cardiff's lack of London landmarks.
The Gay Daleks have already appeared in the Channel 4 series TV Offal, and it's creator, Victor Lewis-Smith wanted to bring them back, but failed to get the rights to use the Daleks (how he got them the first time is a mystery).
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They've fixed that problem now, an Ariane hadn't blown up for months!
The Dreamcast had some nice internal politics as well. Sega Of America also designed a console, based on 3DFX chips rather than PowerVR. Sega chose the Japanese one, but this caused then to be sued by 3DFX, and pissed of EA (who owned shares in 3DFX). So Sega ended up paying 3DFX a load of money, and lost and chance of EA supporting them. Nice job!
But the main reason the Dreamcast failed was that Sega basically ran out of money, mostly because of the failure of the Saturn had already lost them tons of money, and public support.
I think there's a line between boring, and total crap. I think to qualify as boring the game has to actually be playable first, and ROTR certainly isn't.
Ahh, it must of stuck with tsch because I upgraded from 10.1 to 10.3. I wondered why Apple left the shell partly broken (the autocomplete and command suggesting stuff turned themselves off, I had to do some un-Mac-like textfile hacking to fix it). Not that I'm gonna bother to change myself, it's not worth it with the little command line stuff I do.
Yeas, but do you have the right grade of card to make a guaranteed-to-look-tatty-in-a-couple-of-years cardboard case like the early PAL copies (it comes in a normal case now though).
That US cover definitely sucks though. For some reason the US seems to have a special trick of giving games with good covers bad ones instead.
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The one thing I find weird with Apple adding stuff to bash is that's Mac OS X's default shell is tcsh. But it is nice of Apple anyway...
In Europe Square obviously agree, as all the Final Fantasy games (apart from compilations) have plain white covers with just the logo on them, which does look distinctive and classy. I think Japan might use the same style as well, but it obviously isn't brash enough for US consumers (or what marketing people thing US consumers want).
I do agree simplicity is nice - one of my favourite covers is the European version of Sonic The Hedgehog, which is just sonic on a cream background which has some feint[1] drawings of Robotnik / Eggman and some animals. Sonic And Knuckles was nice as well (the logo on black, apart from a small diagram of the lock on thingy), pity you can never find a boxed copy because it came in a cardboard box[2]. On the other hand the Japanese covers for the Sonic games always seem way too busy and frantic, although this can work, I don't think the Sonic ones did.
[1] Or is it faint? [2] Cardboard boxes are the evil, snapcases are far nicer, another reason why the Megadrive was better than the SNES.;-)
The Game Gear and Nomad both had a big problem - there lovely nice backlit screen drained six AA batteries in a matter of hours (I think the Lynx had a similar problem). The SP gets away with it because it has a built in rechargeable battery instead of using replaceable. But other systems used reflective screens, and got far better performance out of a couple of AAs. One of the things people are worrying about with the PSP is a lack of battery life (from the screen, and the disc drive), even though it also uses a rechargeable battery.
I know this is an American website, but Odeon Cinemas is a chain of cinemas, not theatres (which are this marvellous new thing where actual real people act the story out in front of your eyes, no film involved!)
Doom 3 will apparently require 25 Megawhotsits[1] (231059 tetradongles[2]) of disk space. Due to the relatively low capacity of current hard disks, a dedicated RAID array is recommended.
Due to a mistake during media ordering, Doom 3 will in fact come on 2^10000000 3" floppy disks[3], with 5" disks available by mailing the form in the box. NeXT Magneto-optical discs will also be available shortly.
[1] Hard drive Manufacturers megawhotsits. [2] Common-or-geekdom terradongles. [3] One copy will be placed in the Tate as a modern art installation.
This seems to be a slight problem with Future's games magazines. Hell, it seems to be a worrying trend in particular with UK games magazines in general. There was a load of stuff about that with Driver 3 as well, being given exclusives and glowing reviews in UK mags. Edge makes up for Futures share, but because it has to compensate for a dozen mags, it shoots the other way and is so far up it's own retro, Japanese-loving[1] arse it's come back out the other end.
[1] Edge apologises for giving Gunstar Heroes 6/10 in the first issue. Admittedly they were wrong, but do they have to apologise for it every time they mention Treasure?
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
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The Empire Strikes Back
The Godfather Part 2
I can't actually think of any more myself. Perhaps I should of said "There are a few good sequels, and tons of bad ones"
I don't think it was a pilot. I think it was an actual TV series. No one in the UK will've heard of it though, it was on Channel 5, back when they were the porn and bad american movies channel (in the last few years they've gone a bit more upmarket). I don't think it was in primetime though...
Hell, my wife hated Lord of the Rings.. you guys would probably stone her to death. :-)
No - she's a obviously a witch. Now what do with do with witches?
BURN THEM!
;-)
I did, but it was on Sky Movies[1], and I don't pay the Sky subscription.
God, it's pretty bad sci-fi. It's obviously strait to video fodder. No redeeming features, bad direction, stupid blue filters everywhere. Not a very interesting story either.
And then the millenia old Harrier Jump-jets turn up. That still work, despite the oodles of millenia they've been lying around. They then manage to fly one of the hardest to fly aircraft in existance with no training.
I can't remember what happens at the end apart from the evil bad guy being locked up in Fort Knox, and the alien planet blowing up, but I'm in no rush to watch the film again. Ever.
Gah!
I still want a refund, despite not paying anything to see it.
[1] Well, it was actually Sky Moviemax as it was before Moviemax and Premiere were merged into one set of channels. Sky loves changing the names of it's movie channels every couple of years.
There are tons of good sequels as well as bad ones. It seems that a number 2 is either going to be great, or really shit. There is no middle ground.
;)
This is where someone posts a counter example of an average sequel.
I thought The Matrix was alright, but the sequels sucked in comparison. They're probably not the worst films ever, but some of the most disapointing. They made a rather nice brainless action movie, then go way to weird and into mysticism in that later movies. And the final battle sucked (along with the ending in general), which is the most important thing in an action movie anyway.
I'm planning to get rid of my Matrix Reloaded DVD at some point, and pretend the last two films never happened. The first film is staying though.
How dare you insult Sonic 3 & Knuckles! It's the best Sonic game (well, it's technically two Sonic games). It's also one of the best looking Megadrive games ever.
But the 3D games have mostly been average I agree. I half feel like getting a Sonic Advance game to see if they're better.
Well, the main CPU was about twice as fast, which should give the Megadrive / Genesis a bit of a performace advantage, although the SNES / Super Famicom had more custom chips.
I think the SNES had better graphics and sound, but it was mostly becuase of the custom chips, and the Megadrive does better with heavy CPU bound stuff, note that only Virtua Racing ever used an extra chip on the cartridge, unlike the loads of SNES games that did.
Perhaps he's talking about the hidden bonus stage game? (Press A+B+C+START on the message you get if you plug a non Sonic 2 / 3 cart in, I think you might get different levels depending on what cartridge you plug in, but don't hold me to that).
It's a conspiracy - there are no missing episodes of Doctor Who. The 'missing' ones are held by the secret cartel... I've said too much... no, there here... not the ... no! mercy... knickers... arghh * CARRIER DROPPED *
I'd guess it's part of the Nintendo's libraries, seeing as I've noticed it does that as well. I think in some games (eg: Zelda: Wind Waker IIRC) it trys to keep on going for a while before the message appears though.
I'd presume there are provisions for multi-disc games on the Gamecube, it would be a bit stupid not to have it (on the Dreamcast for example the auto-reset could be turned off for the disc swap messages).
It would fit with other Playstation stuff for it not to have an auto-reset. The other Playstations don't.
It's only the Sega consoles and the Xbox that (usually) auto-reset if you eject a disc.
(True to movie tradition it will actually be shot in Dallas.)
Actually, some of the new series is being shot with Cardiff standing in for London (the series is being produced by BBC Wales). Although they are doing some London shooting, probably due to Cardiff's lack of London landmarks.
The Gay Daleks have already appeared in the Channel 4 series TV Offal, and it's creator, Victor Lewis-Smith wanted to bring them back, but failed to get the rights to use the Daleks (how he got them the first time is a mystery).
They've fixed that problem now, an Ariane hadn't blown up for months!
The Dreamcast had some nice internal politics as well. Sega Of America also designed a console, based on 3DFX chips rather than PowerVR. Sega chose the Japanese one, but this caused then to be sued by 3DFX, and pissed of EA (who owned shares in 3DFX). So Sega ended up paying 3DFX a load of money, and lost and chance of EA supporting them. Nice job!
But the main reason the Dreamcast failed was that Sega basically ran out of money, mostly because of the failure of the Saturn had already lost them tons of money, and public support.
I think there's a line between boring, and total crap. I think to qualify as boring the game has to actually be playable first, and ROTR certainly isn't.
Ahh, it must of stuck with tsch because I upgraded from 10.1 to 10.3. I wondered why Apple left the shell partly broken (the autocomplete and command suggesting stuff turned themselves off, I had to do some un-Mac-like textfile hacking to fix it). Not that I'm gonna bother to change myself, it's not worth it with the little command line stuff I do.
Yeas, but do you have the right grade of card to make a guaranteed-to-look-tatty-in-a-couple-of-years cardboard case like the early PAL copies (it comes in a normal case now though).
That US cover definitely sucks though. For some reason the US seems to have a special trick of giving games with good covers bad ones instead.
The one thing I find weird with Apple adding stuff to bash is that's Mac OS X's default shell is tcsh. But it is nice of Apple anyway...
In Europe Square obviously agree, as all the Final Fantasy games (apart from compilations) have plain white covers with just the logo on them, which does look distinctive and classy. I think Japan might use the same style as well, but it obviously isn't brash enough for US consumers (or what marketing people thing US consumers want).
;-)
I do agree simplicity is nice - one of my favourite covers is the European version of Sonic The Hedgehog, which is just sonic on a cream background which has some feint[1] drawings of Robotnik / Eggman and some animals. Sonic And Knuckles was nice as well (the logo on black, apart from a small diagram of the lock on thingy), pity you can never find a boxed copy because it came in a cardboard box[2]. On the other hand the Japanese covers for the Sonic games always seem way too busy and frantic, although this can work, I don't think the Sonic ones did.
[1] Or is it faint?
[2] Cardboard boxes are the evil, snapcases are far nicer, another reason why the Megadrive was better than the SNES.
The Game Gear and Nomad both had a big problem - there lovely nice backlit screen drained six AA batteries in a matter of hours (I think the Lynx had a similar problem). The SP gets away with it because it has a built in rechargeable battery instead of using replaceable. But other systems used reflective screens, and got far better performance out of a couple of AAs. One of the things people are worrying about with the PSP is a lack of battery life (from the screen, and the disc drive), even though it also uses a rechargeable battery.
I know this is an American website, but Odeon Cinemas is a chain of cinemas, not theatres (which are this marvellous new thing where actual real people act the story out in front of your eyes, no film involved!)
;-)
Bloody yanks...
Doom 3 will apparently require 25 Megawhotsits[1] (231059 tetradongles[2]) of disk space. Due to the relatively low capacity of current hard disks, a dedicated RAID array is recommended.
Due to a mistake during media ordering, Doom 3 will in fact come on 2^10000000 3" floppy disks[3], with 5" disks available by mailing the form in the box. NeXT Magneto-optical discs will also be available shortly.
[1] Hard drive Manufacturers megawhotsits.
[2] Common-or-geekdom terradongles.
[3] One copy will be placed in the Tate as a modern art installation.
This seems to be a slight problem with Future's games magazines. Hell, it seems to be a worrying trend in particular with UK games magazines in general. There was a load of stuff about that with Driver 3 as well, being given exclusives and glowing reviews in UK mags. Edge makes up for Futures share, but because it has to compensate for a dozen mags, it shoots the other way and is so far up it's own retro, Japanese-loving[1] arse it's come back out the other end.
[1] Edge apologises for giving Gunstar Heroes 6/10 in the first issue. Admittedly they were wrong, but do they have to apologise for it every time they mention Treasure?