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I have done one of the two paths in the demo, this game seems fantastic. I just hope they tone down the vignetting around the edge of the screen a bit for the final release.
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VeryInsane posted...

Hasn't this been advanced screened already to pretty good reviews

Regardless, most Franco/Rogen comedies have a high floor/low ceiling so as long as it matches those I would be satisfied watching it

Yes, it's getting early Oscar buzz. I am a bit surprised by the reactions in this topic to be honest. I think the film looks great. If nothing else he nails the laugh.
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http://opencritic.com/game/4498/metroid-samus-returns

http://www.metacritic.com/game/3ds/metroid-samus-returns

Basically glowing reviews across the board.

Finally
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Sonic Mania

Turns out it's actually a Billy Hatcher sequel.
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tabiicat42 posted...

I'm bewildered but also unsurprised at the implication that there is an acceptable time for people to say the n word

I guess you never listened to a song with it in it?

I know that you love to strip language of its historical context, but it's never ok for a non-black (and especially a white) person to use the word in any manner. This coming from someone who used to sing along with those songs and use the word.

Actors, historians, teachers, of course there are acceptable situations. This simply is not even close to being one of them.
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Nanis23 posted...

Why would he
Pewdiepie is a fucking douchebag

But you don't UNDERSTAND

FREE SPEECH

Even though this has nothing at all to do with freedom of speech and everything to do with being a douchebag and getting criticised for it.
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redrocket_pub posted...

What exactly makes It a genre blender?

The film's basically Stand By Me with a shapeshifting monster clown in it. I would say it's as much a coming of age film and an adventure film as a horror film, though it is definitely a horror film.
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MZero11 posted...

what did pewdiepie do now

Use the N-word on stream I think.
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Honestly Destiny now strikes me as a free to play game that accidentally got a ton of money spent on it.
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This is easily one of the best King adaptations. Shawshank is still the best but It's not far behind.

CaptainOfCrush posted...

I'm glad fans of his books are calling this a faithful adaptation. As someone who's never read King, I enjoyed it simply as its own movie. It did an amazing job holding that perfect level of suspense for over two hours (surprised it was this long), and I was most impressed a movie driven almost entirely by children could stay so gripping and powerful. Apart from Pennywise, adults had very, very little dialogue, and that turned out to be a good thing.

Regarding the length the book is an 1100 page doorstopper without much fat. It is called a horror epic for a reason! Strange in a genre known for brevity but It definitely makes this work.
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Well it is fairly similar to Hannibal in that they're both horror genre blenders with beloved source material books (well, the book series in Hannibal's case...). Of course Hannibal is a sequel and fairly different to It otherwise, but I would compare It to that before Paranormal Activity 3. Although It doesn't really have any straight comparisons.

It's really good by the way. The best studio horror film since I don't even know.
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One use shaders is a lame design decision honestly, and the microtransactions make it worse. The upset is justified. Destiny at it again.
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Its first two days were bigger than Deadpool's (and its Saturday beat Rogue One's... insane). Now, Deadpool didn't drop at all on Sunday. It can beat it if there is only a small Saturday to Sunday drop which is absolutely possible. We shall see, either way it's gonna be down to the wire.
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I can't disagree more! Really strange to dismiss the film which is not only ending the mainstream release drought but also one of the most exceptional box office stories of the year. It now looks like it might challenge Deadpool. The previous horror record holder didn't do half that!

Incidentally I think the fact that Hannibal was the previous record holder also shows how horror films that have appeal outside the genre can perform much better. Apparently around 45% of It's presales were to non-horror fans too. That being the count that most heavily skews to genre fans.

Regarding the horror elements thing - how stringent are you? Does Jurassic Park count? Seems like a strange thing to discount given how widespread they are.
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Well part of what makes it so impressive is that it's not behaving like a horror film. There was a very good hold from the Thursday night previews and it is getting an audience that doesn't usually see horror movies. This makes sense considering the nature of the film.
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You can lose the probably for It - $51 million opening day. Wow. That's almost as much as Hannibal and Paranormal Activity 3's entire first weekends. It's also bigger than Deadpool, Spider-Man Homecoming, Logan, Wonder Woman. Incredible stuff.
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https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/60266/4-New-Versions-of-L-A-NOIRE-Coming-November-14?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lanoire-09072017&utm_term=newswire

Three distinct versions!

The Switch version will have HD rumble and modes for gyro and touch controls.

The PS4/Xbox One version will have new graphical features.

Both will have all DLC and new camera angles.

The VR version will have seven cases from the original in VR.

Weird that tgey would do this, but kind of cool.
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Also perhaps the best loved series of recent years is the new Planet of the Apes trilogy, especially when Matt Reeves took over. Also the rare trilogy to improve with every installment.
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It's completely pointless to try and find a series that's universally loved because no opinion is universal. If your question is whether it is the last big budgets series to be generally lauded, no. There are lots.
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Looks like the drought in both tentpole quality and box office is going to end this weekend with It, which is getting great reviews and is looking to have the best horror opening ever by a very long way.

The current record holder is Hannibal with $58m, Paranormal Activity 3 if we discount that with $52.5. It should be well over $70m.

Looking forward to it (har har) too since the film looks really good!
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Guess that's what you get for directing The Book of Henry.
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Kind of fitting for Knack, really.
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Well that came out of nowhere. Hell of a rate of increase for PUBG. I honestly wasn't aware it had had such a burst of sales. I suppose it will be up there.

Not really! it's been selling 1M-1.5M a month, every month, is the most-watched game on Twitch, and the most-played game on Steam.

Lightning Strikes posted...

Anyway, I am thinking long term for Odyssey. 15 million should be a realistic shout, if not higher.

So if Super Mario Odyssey sells 15M, it will be the only 3D Mario game to do so. The best-selling original 3D Mario game to date is Galaxy on the Wii (12.75M), although 64 is at 23M if you include both the original and remake (12M and 11M, respectively).

Lightning Strikes posted...

Of course, the Switch is going to be well well above 5 million by now anyway, and it is consistently outpacing Nintendo's estimates.

Yes, it has sold more than 5M, but the last official statement put it at 4.7M WW at the end of July. Since then it's sold 250k in Japan, so it's not that much higher, hence the 'north of 5M' statement.

Wrong on two counts. First, PUBG sold 6 million in two months. Second 4.7 million to the end of JUNE, not July, when the figures were announced. The Switch has sold well over 500k in Japan since then, and the Japanese sales have been about 20% of the total, so...

Total Switch sales are probably in the 7-7.5 million range now.
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Well that came out of nowhere. Hell of a rate of increase for PUBG. I honestly wasn't aware it had had such a burst of sales. I suppose it will be up there.

Anyway, I am thinking long term for Odyssey. 15 million should be a realistic shout, if not higher.

Of course, the Switch is going to be well well above 5 million by now anyway, and it is consistently outpacing Nintendo's estimates.
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Total players has always been a pointless figure when talking about sales or even current players. I am also feeling very bullish about Odyssey's sales but I won't go into my reasoning now.

Also, PUBG is selling extremely well but it's sold what, four million in four months? I have a hard time seeing it entering the 15-20 million range any time soon. Maybe very long term. Even then, I dunno.
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Who's "you people"?

NPD isn't great nowadays anyway. You don't get the numbers, and they do stuff that obscures sales of some games like splitting Pokémon versions, they also lack several retailers.
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HashtagSEP posted...

The top 3 selling games for 2014 were CoD, Madden, and Destiny. And that was the year a Smash Bros came out, so.

Pokemon may oust it out of the top 3 if CoD and Madden hold their spots, but I doubt Mario will, and Fifa certainly not. NBA may, though, too. But CoD fell out last year, too, so who knows.

I'd be surprised if Destiny isn't top 3 or atleast damn close, atleast.

In the US! Fifa is substantially larger than Madden worldwide. I also forgot to mention Battlefront II, which will outsell Destiny.

Also there's the Watch Dogs problem. Watch Dogs outsold Destiny's first month worldwide by almost two million yet the sequel failed. Because the first game wasn't very good. That could hurt Destiny 2. I don't think it is a guaranteed smash hit by any standard.
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It seems like a kind of a last chance for them.

is there anyone out there who believes this will not be one of the 3 best selling games of 2017

I never mentioned sales, though given that there's a Pokémon, a Mario, a CoD, and a Fifa... Yes.
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To be fair to LtM, there was a wave of initial optimism, especially after the beta which then quickly turned into negativity, including in reviews.

Destiny 2 looks like it could go either way. It seems like a kind of a last chance for them.
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scarletspeed7 posted...

Anyone who thinks I didn't know Rock is playing Black Adam must not know anything about me.

Rock is out of this movie; it's Shazam only.

I didn't post it for you!

swordz9 posted...

Feels like a huge missed opportunity for Rock to not be in this movie especially with DC kinda already blowing for most of their recent movies. I mean is Shazam even gonna last the 3 total movies it might take for Cena and Rock to meet?? Best case scenario they meet in like Justice League 2 if it comes out after Black Adam and Shazam

The quality hasn't been great other than Wonder Woman but they have all made money so I'm sure they'll last.
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Ah so I see they have gone from bad to simply mediocre.

Nice.
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Dwayne Johnson is still playing Black Adam by the way, he's just not in this movie.
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Corrik posted...

Age and Citizenship requirements - US Constitution, Article II, Section 1
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.


Yep, sounds qualified to me. It is the people who act like someone isn't because they disapprove of his performance which are amusing.



Chances on war with North Korea? 15%? Taking the higher or the lower on that number.

You realize "eligible" and "qualified" aren't the same thing, right.

Just because I'm eligible for the NFL doesn't mean I'm qualified to be on a team.

Those are the list of qualifications necessary for the job. Nothing else is required.

I suggest you separate from what you personally find acceptable for the job and what the actual qualifications are.

You are trying to be subjective with an objective matter which is clearly stated.



A lot of the countries listed would drop trade with NK to keep their trade with the US besides one major notable exception: China.

Qualified as in fit for the job, not qualified as in eligible. I wasn't aware it was an ambiguous statement.

Why would other countries kowtow to the US rather than just call this idiotic bluff? If they give in to the US on this they're basically just allowing the US to push them around. And being easily manipulated by a waning power is Trump's job...
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LordoftheMorons posted...

Completely fucking unhinged:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/904377075049656322

I assume China trades with NK

So wouldn't that kill us?

Yep, as does most of the world. The EU, China, Mexico, Brazil, India, most of the US's biggest trading partners. What Trump is suggesting here would remove a large majority of the US's trade, and destroy its economy.

We all know this. Is there anybody left who actually thinks he's qualified for office?
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Part 17 was a masterpiece and the best episode of the entire series. It was a fantastic conclusion to The Return.

Part 18 was... interesting. Definitely not an ending and there pretty much has to be a season 4 now.

And hey, if there isn't one, we can just all pretend the series ended with 17.
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I never would have thought that One Punch Man would end up playing a major role in Twin Peaks.
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TBF, it is more complex than that. There were a lot of reasons involved, and a lot of misinformation floating around. I mentioned my grandparents voting remain, but my grandma on my mum's side did first have to be told that no, it won't help the NHS.

However with that said, the racists only voted one way.
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It's a letter to the editor.

It's pretty funny and gets to the point of how incredibly the old shafted everybody else while those most affected (EU citizens in the UK, long-term UK expats, 16-17s) couldn't vote.

Incidentally, bless my grandparents for voting remain.
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Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom...


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foolm0r0n posted...

I think at most it will be "niche" like PC gaming is "niche" which is okay

The PC market is bigger than consoles now. It's not really niche. VR isn't getting bigger than consoles any time soon.

I think there is a future for VR but it's not in he form of personal use. An arcade style experience would be a better way of doing it. With investors dropping out in large numbers, I do think it will fade, but not die necessarily.

Or maybe it will just go away and come back in twenty years.
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If Littlefinger's plan had worked, he would have been in charge of the North, Riverlands and the Vale. That's half the country, and would easily allow him to sweep in and take the Iron Throne. I feel it isn't emphasised enough how close Littlefinger came to an enormous amount of power. Sansa outplayed him though.

Secret episode MVP by the way is definitely Yohn Royce for telling Littlefinger to shove it.
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Rhaegar's other son being named Aegon is indeed mentioned in the show. This naming makes sense though, Lyanna would not care and Rhaegar is a dick who clearly didn't care about his previous wife. Also he was obsessed with The Prince who was Promised. This actually frames one of the House of the Undying visions in the books in a different light too.

SeabassDebeste posted...

jon has always been something of a golden child for the show, and i didn't feel he'd done anything to earn it in the first two or three seasons. but by season 5, all the better characters were sidelined (tyrion, arya) or dead (robb, tywin) and jon suddenly became by far the most interesting character on the show. it was impossible to look away when jon was on screen in S5.

seasons 6 and 7 have been mostly bland for jon with isolated moments of real greatness, but he's bought himself a lot of leeway from me for his performance in S5.

This is also true for book 5 as well. Tyrion and Dany's storylines were bad, Arya, Jaime, etc. were barely in it, allowing Jon to shine. He had the best storyline in that book other than Theon.
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Stick of Truth got 85/85/82 and Far Cry 4 got 85/80/82 across their different versions (that had a score) so the same or lower.

It's easier to do well with one version of course, but still very impressive!
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I need to double check this, but I think this is Ubisoft's best reviewed game since 2013.
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For what it's worth I think the first act is the weakest by far. After reflecting on it I actually like the third act quite a lot.

Also this version of Light is more edgelord school shooter. Although, I'm not American, but are there really not preppy golden boy types there?
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Okay, decent overall although it does seem like 5 minutes got chopped off the end there. It also isn't really a straight adaptation, it is more a new story with that setting and characters.

The deaths were great. Almost all the characters were spot on with some really good performances. L and Ryuk were standouts. It looks nice, and has some top-tier music placement near the end (this will be divisive).

On the downside, the pacing is really weird, and Light is a totally different character. Also the aforementioned ending issue.

Overall a fun easy watch, not a classic but alright.
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I'm 25 minutes in. So far it seems... Fine. Ryuk is predictably the best part.
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So with Trump's complete incompetence, do you think this will mean that in the future there is not as much power in the hands of the executive? Because that would be nice.
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I think this season has been alright but lacking in any proper "all-timer" episodes. Spoils of War was great but I don't know if it's top ten. The season currently feels like a mix between a rushed season and half a season. The standings in my opinion are currently something like this:

4>3>1>2>6>7>5

Let's see if the finale will change that
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Jeff mentions he played a good game he isn't allowed to talk about yet.

That has to be Mario + Rabbids right?
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