Back in the old side scroller days, they had an Animaniacs game for the Genesis and probably SNES. You should try to find the ROM*clears throat loudly* cartridge for it if you didn't try it when it came out.
"... or you could actually visit the site right here and check there actually are some bad reviews not being deleted?" [sic]
Ok, scanning for negative reviews.
There weren't any. There was only one PSP review that was 6/10, and even that one said that the PSP was a "technological marvel" but too expensive. I guess there might have been more negative reviews when you posted the link, but it looks like GameFaqs deleted those too.
Answer: Hopefully not enough to supercede the cat with the buttered bread on its back... or... you know.... that joke... with the power generator.
Actually, Adams is a pretty relaxed guy, I'm sure if this move did suck, he'd laugh it off, and then in his afterlife make some sort of book that somehow insulted the movie. Allow me:
"Finally, Earth v2.5 was built. But everyone noticed that it looked nothing like Earth v1 or Earth v2. When asked why, the mice responded that the archetect of the original Earths had died and...." well I'm not as good as Adams but you get the idea.
Most movies force the producers into some sort of comprimise due to budget/time/movie length restrictions. If these restrictions were lifted so that you could add one more thing to this movie, what would it be?
If you don't like it you can get rid of it. Right click an empty part of the toolbar or menu bar, pick "Customize", and do whatever.
I put my bookmark toolbar into the menu bar, stripped my 30 favourite bookmarks of everything but their icon, and put 'em all in the toolbar, so the icons are on the same line as "File, Edit,...". Sucks if you go to a site that doesn't have icons though.
"We'll spend all the money we'd use to make it smaller and put it toward advertising and marketing towards today's demographics! Consumers will love that."
"The maker of the SAT and the GMAT -- has a new test called the Information and Communication literacy assessment."
The ICLA? How am I supposed to respect a test like this? The website is poorly done, the example question sucked, and to top it all off, the test doesn't even end with "AT"!
Don't get me started on Enter The Matrix (too late). 70 hallways of bland gray walls pierced only with giant blue Powerade vending machines. That's video game product placement gone wrong.
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as 'a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes,' with a footnote to the effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent."
"MJ Simpson defines the marketing division of Beuna Vista Pictures as 'a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.'"
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
"This movie is bad. Really bad. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly bad it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down to [insert bad movie here], but that's just peanuts to this movie."
I dunno, to me it's the sign of the opposite; backward compatibility so non-Xbox owners are attracted to both the Xbox and Xbox2 games.
But this is just a good step overall for them to make. Not everyone want to buy next-gen consoles as soon as they come out. They should sell a lot of games this way.
But most AAA titles will probably be directed to selling XBox2s.
Actually, what I hated about Enter the Matrix more than anything is that it got some decent-scoring reviews. Expecially from those hacks from IGN. "Above average" was used in that review. Either way, though, a lot of people would have bought it without reading any reviews. Just shows the state of the industry:
Licenses > Franchises >>> Gameplay.
A few of my friends sorta kinda liked the game too. I thought it sucked.
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"I've had every other favorite book of mine trashed - Lord of the Rings, Dune, I, Robot and a quintillion others."
.hack series on the PS2.
I, Robot does have a tendency to break up one's sentences. just like that
There is only room for one genre-defining slealth game, and it's Pac-Man! Pac-Man ownzorz your boxxors !!!1
(apologies)
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Let's get this over with, here's a link to the WikiQuote page. No more quotes!
Back in the old side scroller days, they had an Animaniacs game for the Genesis and probably SNES. You should try to find the ROM*clears throat loudly* cartridge for it if you didn't try it when it came out.
"It's a review by a person, not a magazine. Of course it's going to have personal opinion in it."
:)
You're implying that magazines don't have personal opinions. Please don't do that
Interestingly, if you read Gamespot's Review Explanation page, it says their reviews are facts. And freedom is slavery and so forth.
"... or you could actually visit the site right here and check there actually are some bad reviews not being deleted?" [sic]
Ok, scanning for negative reviews.
There weren't any. There was only one PSP review that was 6/10, and even that one said that the PSP was a "technological marvel" but too expensive. I guess there might have been more negative reviews when you posted the link, but it looks like GameFaqs deleted those too.
So... back to discussion!
Ouch.
Answer: Hopefully not enough to supercede the cat with the buttered bread on its back... or... you know.... that joke... with the power generator.
Actually, Adams is a pretty relaxed guy, I'm sure if this move did suck, he'd laugh it off, and then in his afterlife make some sort of book that somehow insulted the movie. Allow me:
"Finally, Earth v2.5 was built. But everyone noticed that it looked nothing like Earth v1 or Earth v2. When asked why, the mice responded that the archetect of the original Earths had died and...." well I'm not as good as Adams but you get the idea.
Anyone see The Incredibles DVD? It had a special feature that let you scan through a bunch of superhero logs. Mostly static, but had audio files.
I'll bet anything the H2G2 D1V1D1 will have a similar treatement with Guide entries.
"If we do, the universe will be destroyed and replaced by something even weirder."
We have a winner! The prize? Those with the mod points will get to decide *cough*ModInformative*cough*...
"From the bad-language-theirs-not-mine Department"
Most movies force the producers into some sort of comprimise due to budget/time/movie length restrictions. If these restrictions were lifted so that you could add one more thing to this movie, what would it be?
If you don't like it you can get rid of it. Right click an empty part of the toolbar or menu bar, pick "Customize", and do whatever.
:)
I put my bookmark toolbar into the menu bar, stripped my 30 favourite bookmarks of everything but their icon, and put 'em all in the toolbar, so the icons are on the same line as "File, Edit,...". Sucks if you go to a site that doesn't have icons though.
Ok, that's enough OT for today
"The Tetris theme is based on a Russian Folk Song"
Not to mention Mortal Kombat. That was made by Midway in the United States, right?
(d-dun d-dun d-dun d-dun d-d-dun d-dun d-dun d-dun d-dun d-d-dun d-dun d-dun d-dun d-dun d-d-dun MMOORRTTAALL CCOOMMBBAATT!)
The original Super Mario Bros theme was remixed into a capella in Super Mario Sunshine.
:)
But you know, Super Mario Sunshine didn't have music videos, and that one was... beyond compare
"as an excuse for a lack of innovation?"
So that's why they always wanted to get their hands on the original text.
(So they could destroy it).
"We'll spend all the money we'd use to make it smaller and put it toward advertising and marketing towards today's demographics! Consumers will love that."
:(
That's what happens a lot of the time
Look at the original Star Trek, or look at Farscape... or B5 or Firefly or ... Family Guy.
Granted, Family Guy wasn't a sci-fi series, but it had that episode that showed Ireland before they invented alchohol.
I'm so glad it's coming back *sniff*
"The maker of the SAT and the GMAT -- has a new test called the Information and Communication literacy assessment."
The ICLA? How am I supposed to respect a test like this? The website is poorly done, the example question sucked, and to top it all off, the test doesn't even end with "AT"!
"Pepsi Cola - Neo's beverage of choice! Try one today!"
Technically, that's Powerade.
Don't get me started on Enter The Matrix (too late). 70 hallways of bland gray walls pierced only with giant blue Powerade vending machines. That's video game product placement gone wrong.
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as 'a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes,' with a footnote to the effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent."
"MJ Simpson defines the marketing division of Beuna Vista Pictures as 'a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.'"
If this movie sucks, I say we get 'em!
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
"This movie is bad. Really bad. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly bad it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down to [insert bad movie here], but that's just peanuts to this movie."
As soon as I saw the word Russia in the title, I knew it was an inevitability. If you didn't do it, someone else would have.
Therefore, in Soviet Russia, forgiveness for the corny post finds you (!)
"...the lack of the white/black buttons on the new controller may be[a problem]"
Hmmm, perhaps the Xbox2s will support XBox controllers the same way PS2s supports PS1 controllers.
I dunno, to me it's the sign of the opposite; backward compatibility so non-Xbox owners are attracted to both the Xbox and Xbox2 games.
But this is just a good step overall for them to make. Not everyone want to buy next-gen consoles as soon as they come out. They should sell a lot of games this way.
But most AAA titles will probably be directed to selling XBox2s.
Actually, what I hated about Enter the Matrix more than anything is that it got some decent-scoring reviews. Expecially from those hacks from IGN. "Above average" was used in that review. Either way, though, a lot of people would have bought it without reading any reviews. Just shows the state of the industry:
Licenses > Franchises >>> Gameplay.
A few of my friends sorta kinda liked the game too. I thought it sucked.