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Dang, how do I un-add this stinker off my library...

MarcyWarcy posted...

its just a halfhearted retread of the beginning of half life, and after it they never attempt to do anything particularly interesting narrative-wise again

Good because Doom doesn't need hours of pace-breaking dialogue and exposition scenes in between the satisfying slaughterfests. It's gotta be just enough to fill in the breaks like an 80s action movie.

okay I sound overzealous here lol. Doom 3 left a disappointing taste in my mouth I suppose.

[Cyclops voiceover]
Previously on CE...

biden's gonna lose
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etc. every day

BFG's only good features are Doom 1, 2, and the DLC expansions packed in one disc. Everything else like autoflashlight pisses all over Carmack's original intention.

Game was stupidly easy after you acquire the plasma rifle and chainsaw too.

shitty af gimmick

lydiaquayle posted...

And yet, the very people that the author and director/writer mocks are the ones that love the film the most

Citation needed

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/3d5830df.jpg

both?

Touch posted...

Pojr about to be the next critikal

I sincerely hope he resists all the usual success story temptations to not become that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/movies/ai-blu-ray-true-lies.html

In 1998, Geoff Burdick, an executive at James Camerons Lightstorm Entertainment, was hunched in front of a 12-inch monitor at a postproduction house, carefully preparing Titanic for release on LaserDisc and VHS. A state-of-the-art computer process had made it possible for Burdick and his team to scour the film frame by frame, removing tiny imperfections embedded in the original negative: little scratches, flakes of dirt, even water stains that smeared the image. The computer could erase these blemishes using a kind of copy-paste tool, concealing the defects with information from another frame.

Burdick, now a senior vice president at the company, told me that this process seemed like freaking magic at the time. And yet the results were not entirely well-received. There were a lot of people who said that this was the most beautiful VHS theyd ever seen in their life, because wed gotten rid of all that gobbledygook, he recalled. But there were a lot of folks who said, This is not right! Youve removed all of this stuff! If the negative is scratched, then we should see that scratch. People were really hard-core about it.

In the decades since, home video formats have reached higher and higher resolutions, with VHS and LaserDisc giving way to DVD and Blu-ray, and eventually to ultra high-definition 4K discs, known as Ultra HD Blu-rays. As the picture quality has improved, restoration tools have evolved with them, making it easier than ever for filmmakers to fine-tune their work using computers. Several of Camerons films, including The Abyss, True Lies and Aliens, were recently released on Ultra HD Blu-ray in newly restored versions that are clearer and sharper than ever before the product of painstaking attention from Lightstorm and Cameron himself. I think they look the best theyve ever looked, Burdick said.

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Person is among a number of viewers who are skeptical of the need to use A.I. to enhance the appearance of films that seemed to look fine to begin with. Although he said that there were legitimate use cases for A.I. in restoration, such as when a films original negative has been lost or badly damaged, he suspected that with something like True Lies, they were using it just because they can.
The recent Cameron releases, and particularly True Lies, have become the subject of intense scrutiny and fervent debate online. Home video reviewers have described it as an overly sanitized presentation, with one faulting its routinely odd-looking images and another arguing that it appears almost artificial. Web forums are teeming with complaints, often vicious, while social media posts criticizing it have spread widely.

The A.I. can artificially refocus an out-of-focus image, as well as make other creative tweaks. You dont want to crank the knob all the way because then itll look like garbage, Burdick said. But if we can make it look a little better, we might as well.

For viewers like Person, the problem is what those minor enhancements entail: That uncanny smoothness, though perhaps more in focus, can look oddly fake. I dont want to sound anal, but it really is egregious, Person said. Its the same thing as TV motion smoothing they say its better, so you feel like youre the one person cursed with vision who can see that it looks bad.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/785438c8.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/602b45ad.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b828f51c.jpg

tl;dr version = everyone except James Cameron says the "smoother" 4K releases for those movies looked like waxed dogshit due to extreme usage of AI restorative methods.

Not that Alex Garland's movies require god-like IQs to interpret things whatsoever but it is amusing to tell the studio is terrified of the ambiguous, journalistic nature of the movie and pushed for it to be perceived similarly like the Modern Warfare promos.

Certain people are gonna be sooo pissed lol.

Major spoils: Dolph Lundgren's naked penis makes an appearance.

In 7, yeah she's awful. She has no impact to any character or plot whatsoever in Village though.

One game has the laptop gun and the other is Goldeneye.

Tough call but the spy shooter gameplay was way more refined in PD. Not to say Goldeneye didn't have stealth elements either but the nature of the game leaned into no-cost penalty speedrunning. PD had some missions where fucking up slightly resulted in a full restart.

AbstraktProfSC2 posted...

arent sony fanboys mad because every single one comes to PC
Demons Souls is the only good one I can think of that probably wont lol

who fucking cares.

Anyway TC can get more mileage out of a used Dreamcast bundle on ebay for the same cost. Probably get MvC 2 for less than $60

PraetorXyn posted...

It really is odd how all these facial scans of real people end up looking less realistic than an unrealistic idealized face from Japanese games. Its the uncanny valley.

Only Hideo's billion dollar scanner can accurately pull facial likenesses off to near 100% accuracy without jarring anatomical errors.

Can't believe Virginia has finally gone WOKE with their child wedding bans smfh /s

I don't really give a shit about that game but the precedent is still concerning enough that this practice should be fought tooth and nail, likely by EU.

imagine not liking crackheads

the fuck is wrong with you?????

dancing_cactuar posted...

Shitty American remake of good foreign movie, move along.

Or worse, 1:1 remake of a same foreign movie except with Hollywood actors.

Trailer gives away the entire plot and ending anyway therefore no one should bother unless they wanna be irritated on purpose.

NSO subs have absolutely no right to complain about Nintendo's emulation business model.

I don't like the way David Cross was gazing at those topless and fully nude chipmunks.

Heat
Goodfellas
MIdnight Run

thronedfire2 posted...

I always lost on the obstacle course at the end when I was a kid :(

Stupid rings you collide into or fucking shifting walls you also collide into. Pick yer poison, paperboi!

https://youtu.be/anJiAYz9PKE?si=JCBga2EQNI3gjGgd

Newspapers to be specific.

The actor, now 57, continued, We love Happy Gilmore, we don't want to let anybody down. People have talked to me about this for many years. ... We're going to work hard and make sure it's good

Yeah who hasn't said this before. What a bunch of horseshit lmfao

The second sequel that no asked for to the sequel no one asked for.

*downloads car anyway*

Many of my colleagues I supervise took today off to worship so I hope they're safe.

As for those suspects... [moderated response].

Chi----nvm
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The Untouchables

Justin2Krelian posted...

Didn't they already do that?

Like 10 years ago and no one gave a shit then either.

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/horror/ea-denies-rumor-that-it-canceled-an-in-progress-dead-space-2-remake/#article-comments

Another team at Motive continues to work on the studio's Iron Man game, and unless it's a big secret, no one there is remaking Dead Space 2.

According to Giant Bomb's Jeff Grubb, EA and Motive had planned to remake Dead Space 2, but the project was canceled due to poor sales of the first remake.
"They were working on Dead Space 2, and they are no longer working on it," said Grubb on today's episode of Game Mess Mornings. "It is on the shelf because the first game had lackluster sales, is how it was phrased to me."
Without specifying exactly what about the claim isn't truethat a Dead Space 2 remake was ever planned at all, or that it was cancelled, or that it was cancelled due to lackluster Dead Space 1 salesEA has denied Grubb's assertions.

"We don't normally comment on rumors but there is no validity to this story," an EA spokesperson told IGN.
Grubb stands by the information. "Dead Space 2 was definitely being planned," he tweeted. "It had a code name. And they aren't making it now."

I don't have any inside information on what EA is or was planning, but I think we can safely assume that, at the very least, it considered the possibility that it would remake Dead Space 2 if the first remake did well. The thought would've been unavoidable. How much thinking about doing something is required before you're "working on" it might be what's up for debate here.

Maybe Dead Space 2 will be remade, eventually, but putting the lead devs behind the first remake on another project doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
The Dead Space remake was mentioned once during EA's Q3 2023 earnings call, which took place just after it came out, when EA CEO Andrew Wilson said that it had "earned high praise from fans and critics alike, being dubbed a new benchmark for remakes and even one of the best games of all time." The remake isn't mentioned in the transcript of any subsequent EA earnings call.
On Steam, the Dead Space remake has over 33,000 user reviews which average to a "very positive" rating. The PC version is also available from the Epic Games Store and EA App, and there are Xbox and PlayStation console versions of the game.

I mean you can put two and two together and presume what's really going on since it's EA and a single player horror game isn't anywhere near a real money maker for them.

What's crazy is that whenever Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition went for sale on Steam and GOG, it was still listed less than FO4's $12.24 season pass.

CrimsonGear80 posted...

he was not the voice of Leon in the original game. That was Paul Haddad (RIP)

he voiced Leon in RE6

Which was a lazy as hell impression of Paul Mercier's performance.

KFHEWUI posted...

Hi, I'm Kenny Rogers... This is Jackass!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY9Sxg8L8SM

Always fucking lose it when they're just projectile spewing milk vomit at each other. Nothing more disgusting than that milk thrown up lmfao.

btw Will Sasso essentially created the Steve Seagal persona we 100% recognize today

The entire fucking arm??? Geeezus >____>

Jupiter posted...

Wtf did I miss?

Something that'll def make you blush.

Holy fucking shit that was incredible!!!

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


Supporting 1/6 was the real last straw.

Prestoff posted...

If you're not looking to play the game a lot online, get it when it's on sale because I still think the gameplay as a whole is a lot of fun and good

Arcade Quest is a fair compromise for a single player mode but not quite on the same level as Soul Calibur 2's Weapon Master mode imo.

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The Tag 2 era was soooo fucking fun wish it still had online.

https://gamingbolt.com/tekken-8-is-being-blasted-by-steam-user-reviews-following-battle-pass-introduction

Tekken 8 started off strong with widespread critical acclaim and impressive sales right out the gate, but Bandai Namcos post-launch monetization approach for the fighter has irked a fair few in its player base. The companys decision to add an in-game microtransactions store a few weeks after release was met with significant backlash, and the recent decision to introduce a battle pass has provoked a similar reaction.

On the platform, the games recent reviews show a Mixed rating, with 40 percent of over 3,100 reviews in the last 30 days being negative. Unsurprisingly, the majority of negative user reviews for the game call out its in-game microtransactions store and newly-introduced battle pass, with several also pointing out that the base game cost $70 to begin with.

A little over a month ago, in the immediate aftermath of the announcement that Tekken 8 was adding an in-game store, director Katsuro Harada defended Bandai Namcos decision to do so, citing rapidly increasing development costs, with Tekken 8 apparently having cost nearly thrice as much as its predecessor, and stating that consistent post-launch support for the game requires yet more investments.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/4bba3d95.jpg
Narrative's gone from no preordering games to not buying games at launch and now don't buy video game within 6-12 months of release...

also Tekken 7 had like over $150 worth of fighter pack DLCs and shit so not sure why people are surprised Bamco wasn't going to implement microtransactions, not that I'm excusing that type of scum fuckery.

Same thing that will happen to Billy Eyeslash (member her? nvm).

vycebrand2 posted...

Homemade wings.
86 calories per wing with skin. 46 without
Mind you this is baking.
Frank's wing sauce 0 calories amazingly
A lot of fat though

So 3 wings is around 300
So homemade is the way to go
Here is my source
https://www.nutritionix.com/i/nutritionix/buffalo-wing-sauce-1-tbsp/54cfd3f61d67eabd3ec4bbbc

None of these lyrics rhyme tho

Surely TC's story is the entire story and not whatever else he's eating besides chicken wings...

8.7/10

ctrl + f "The Human Fund" not found

It's like New Balance and Adidas had a fun dinner followed by some hot nasty sex last month and decided to screw consumers by jacking the prices up for everything by $30-50.

We knew there was going to be serious whiplash once the GOP took their Plan Z bargaining chip finally off the table. Now they have nothing to roll with it and Trump did that lol

The host continued his long-running stance that its morally wrong, there is no humane way to do it and any discussion of one is akin to coming up with the best way to fuck your mom, which is to say, theres simply no right way to do that.

Read this in John's alerted voice tone.