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CyborgSage00x0
06/07/19 6:03:58 AM
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I did indeed like Godzilla as well.
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I_Abibde
06/07/19 8:24:12 AM
#307:


Had a good time running a one-off session of FATE Accelerated for my D&D group yesterday (because there are members on vacation and the others thought a change of pace might be a good idea). They played time travelers going back to the year 1996 to change the future ... by saving the life of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas. And that was before things went off the rails. Good fun. Would not mind running a FATE session again.
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shadowsword87
06/07/19 8:27:50 PM
#308:


FATE is great if you have a group of DM or writers.
It works very well they're creative and good at crafting short, powerful sentences.
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Zeus
06/08/19 1:43:02 AM
#309:


Huh. Bray Wyatt has certainly taken an interesting direction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDD0RC0PKBM" data-time="


I guess his gimmick is that he's trying to brainwash kids? And in addition to getting buff, apparently he's had a kid with ring announcer JoJo. Good for him... well, other than cheating on his wife and ditching his kids.
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ParanoidObsessive
06/08/19 2:57:03 AM
#310:


shadowsword87 posted...
FATE is great if you have a group of DM or writers.
It works very well they're creative and good at crafting short, powerful sentences.

I blame it on the fact that it was originally created to run Amber games.

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I_Abibde
06/08/19 11:40:02 AM
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And I have you lot to blame for getting me into it. :-P

We're going to do either White Star or One Dice next week. I haven't decided yet, but it's going to be a sci-fi theme, regardless.
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CyborgSage00x0
06/09/19 9:01:52 PM
#312:


Good lord, I straight up forgot E3 existed at all this year.

Blame it on my backlog keeping me disinterested in what is coming out.
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The Wave Master
06/09/19 10:16:34 PM
#313:


The Microsoft press conference was meh. Except the inclusion of Ted Theodore Logan in Cyberpunk 2077, which is not a Microsoft game. Overall, it was boring and Sony will be greatly missed unless Square knocks it out of the park tomorrow.

Hope8they will.
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The Wave Master
06/10/19 2:20:05 AM
#314:


And then the heavens opened up and gave us what we wanted, unlike Microsoft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPmDeliU1Sc" data-time="


March 3, 2020.
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ParanoidObsessive
06/10/19 3:39:35 AM
#315:


CyborgSage00x0 posted...
Good lord, I straight up forgot E3 existed at all this year.

I stopped caring about it years ago, because it's pretty much a giant cock-tease most of the time anyway, and anything worth knowing will wind up online afterwards regardless.

I won't go so far as to say it's the Oscars of gaming in terms of complete irrelevance, but it's close.



The Wave Master posted...
And then the heavens opened up and gave us what we wanted, unlike Microsoft.

That game is going to be so, so shit. I can't imagine any scenario where it doesn't wind up being a massive disappointment to the vast majority of people obsessing over it now.

And that's not even a "Older games are better and should be preserved exactly the way they originally were!" mindset, or even a "You should never remake good games/movies/shows/songs/books/etc because they will never live up to the nostalgic appeal of the original" mindset (even if both of those things are usually true), because it IS possible to remake an older, popular game and "modernize" it without losing what made it so appealing in the first place (RE2 did a good job of this, I'd say). But I get zero impression that Squeenix even understands what made FFVII so popular in the first place, or are capable of ever properly translating that into something that will appeal to both old and new audiences. This is going to be a clusterfuck with a capital C, and a capital fuck.


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I_Abibde
06/10/19 7:22:44 AM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
But I get zero impression that Squeenix even understands what made FFVII so popular in the first place, or are capable of ever properly translating that into something that will appeal to both old and new audiences. This is going to be a clusterfuck with a capital C, and a capital fuck.


'Tis going to be a veritable event horizon of butthurt, and my inner sadist (i.e. my inner FF6 fan) is looking forward to seeing it, really.
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Zeus
06/10/19 9:10:31 PM
#317:


Ew. Apparently the Marvel Legends Wendigo BAF is going to be going to an Alpha Flight-themed wave. Not sure why they couldn't have instead done that with Sasquatch, considering he has an actual team affiliation going there. Instead we get a Caliban wave where I was tempted to pick up stuff but didn't care about the BAF and a Wendigo wave where I like the BAF but don't care about the lineup.

Granted, I have 4/6 Sasquatch pieces so I guess I could just paint them white or something... although Wendigo has a different chest piece so I'd be stuck buying--- shit, Guardian. Was hoping it was at least Boomer. Hasbro *usually* packages a female character with the largest BAF piece, which is why X-23 and Jubilee came with BAF torso pieces.

I guess I can hope for re-release or variant release down the road (since I don't love the headsculpt anyway). Otherwise I'd have to buy the BAF by itself which can cost almost as much as buying the whole wave. Or *maybe* down the road Diamond Select Toys will do a better-looking version

The Wave Master posted...
And then the heavens opened up and gave us what we wanted, unlike Microsoft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPmDeliU1Sc" data-time="


March 3, 2020.


Well, it managed to get me interested.

ParanoidObsessive posted...
The Wave Master posted...
And then the heavens opened up and gave us what we wanted, unlike Microsoft.

That game is going to be so, so shit. I can't imagine any scenario where it doesn't wind up being a massive disappointment to the vast majority of people obsessing over it now.

And that's not even a "Older games are better and should be preserved exactly the way they originally were!" mindset, or even a "You should never remake good games/movies/shows/songs/books/etc because they will never live up to the nostalgic appeal of the original" mindset (even if both of those things are usually true), because it IS possible to remake an older, popular game and "modernize" it without losing what made it so appealing in the first place (RE2 did a good job of this, I'd say). But I get zero impression that Squeenix even understands what made FFVII so popular in the first place, or are capable of ever properly translating that into something that will appeal to both old and new audiences. This is going to be a clusterfuck with a capital C, and a capital fuck.


If it's not an action-RPG, I'll already be disappointed.
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Metalsonic66
06/11/19 2:14:32 AM
#318:


I actually do have hopes for the VII remake, but I'm still gonna wait to hear opinions about it before I spend money on it
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Zeus
06/11/19 3:53:07 AM
#319:


Finally sat down and read the Old Man Logan TPB I *thought* I had mentioned buying in this topic. It was... well, overhyped. The story is cool in its own way, although it feels like it cribs waaaaaaaaay too much from Millar's earlier Wanted on a basic conceptual level and there are a lot of logical inconsistencies (Mysterio somehow being able to fool all of Wolverine's senses, areas just seemingly going to hell simply because supervillains rule them, and a lack of explanation for why the military, etc, never seemed to step in). And the work as a whole just felt really rushed, given how quickly they got into and out of situations.

However, the little touches like what became of the heroes, villains, etc, was really nice. Things like Hammer's Fall give a sense of lore and other remnants (like Pym's giant-sized skeleton) instill a sense of wonder. While I know that Old Man Logan was used afterward, I'm kinda curious what other stories are set in that continuity.
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ParanoidObsessive
06/11/19 4:43:17 AM
#320:


I've never been able to stand anything Millar writes. He always comes across like too much head-up-his-own-ass edgy teen writing for my taste.

He's far from the only writer I feel that way about, though.


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Korruptor
06/12/19 7:34:23 PM
#321:


If it's not an action-RPG, I'll already be disappointed.

I'm disappointed that it doesn't use the same combat system as the original game and it's one third of it at most. Good job Squeenix, all you had to do is just give a new coat of paint, add voice acting, and possibly some extra content. (2/3's that you have already done decently). Not a ****ing re-imagining.
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The_tall_midget
06/12/19 7:39:44 PM
#322:


Korruptor posted...
If it's not an action-RPG, I'll already be disappointed.

I'm disappointed that it doesn't use the same combat system as the original game and it's one third of it at most. Good job Squeenix, all you had to do is just give a new coat of paint, add voice acting, and possibly some extra content. (2/3's that you have already done decently). Not a ****ing re-imagining.


"This is different! This is not what I am used to!"
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Metalsonic66
06/12/19 8:28:14 PM
#323:


Yeah, getting rid of the turn-based combat is a good thing
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Zeus
06/13/19 2:16:15 AM
#324:


Just watched Ninja Assassin for the second (or third?) time and still absolutely love the film. While the action is hokey whenever you stop to actually consider it (people are cut apart waaaaaaaay too easily), the visuals are incredible and the slowdowns are handled with quite a bit more style than usual. I'm still surprised that the movie's reception was less than favorable and it had a lukewarm box office take, which I assume is why it never saw any sequels featuring the other clans. Granted, it's the kind of film where -- in the absence of a sequel -- I'm okay with it not getting a sequel.

ParanoidObsessive posted...
I've never been able to stand anything Millar writes. He always comes across like too much head-up-his-own-ass edgy teen writing for my taste.

He's far from the only writer I feel that way about, though.


I get that. The forced edginess was one of the things I disliked about Wanted, although I still *really* like Wanted on the whole. It's probably in my top 5 favorite TPBs, or at least top 10.

Korruptor posted...
If it's not an action-RPG, I'll already be disappointed.

I'm disappointed that it doesn't use the same combat system as the original game and it's one third of it at most. Good job Squeenix, all you had to do is just give a new coat of paint, add voice acting, and possibly some extra content. (2/3's that you have already done decently). Not a ****ing re-imagining.


A new coat of paint would have bored me. I still have my original discs and I could download the original on PSN if I wanted the original mechanics, etc.
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Korruptor
06/13/19 7:39:35 AM
#325:


I expect a remake like it says in the damn title, not a reboot.
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ParanoidObsessive
06/13/19 9:33:02 AM
#326:


The_tall_midget posted...
"This is different! This is not what I am used to!"

To be fair, when you're selling a game almost entirely on nostalgia, and the only reason you're making it is because fans of the original game have basically spent the last 20 years saying they wish you'd remake it with better graphics, changing literally every single significant thing about it is probably the most phenomenally stupid thing you can do.



Props for the Brian Regan reference, though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgT8C47m2_0" data-time="




Korruptor posted...
I'm disappointed that it doesn't use the same combat system as the original game and it's one third of it at most. Good job Squeenix, all you had to do is just give a new coat of paint, add voice acting, and possibly some extra content. (2/3's that you have already done decently). Not a ****ing re-imagining.

I'm more annoyed by the fact that they've openly admitted that they're rewriting elements of the plot and quest progression, so it's apparently less a remake or re-release than it is a re-adaptation of the original work.

It's part of why I have zero interest in this. "Hey, remember that game you loved once? The one that's had a huge nostalgic impact on your life? Well, we're remaking it! Except we're changing how it looks. And how it sounds. And how it plays. And how some of the characters look. And we've adding voice-acting, which will probably be mediocre at best and terrible at worst. And we're changing large chunks of the plot. And we're breaking it up into episodic releases. But hey, in spite of being an almost entirely different game in every way, we're hoping your nostalgia will trick you into buying it regardless!"

It also doesn't help that, in the current climate, I'm half-expecting it to eventually be revealed that they put microtransactions in there somewhere.


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Raganork
06/13/19 10:02:17 AM
#327:


There's one issue I have with the remake that stands above any other complaint I have, and it's the sole reason why I have no faith in the title, and that reason is that Squeenix openly admitted that they're attempting to flesh out the lore and story.

This is an issue because we're talking about taking a 30 hour game that already had pacing issues, and dragging it out into a 100+ hour experience. Not only that, but we're dealing with modern Square Enix writers who have proven themselves incapable of telling interesting tales.

Plus you've got the cutscene-ification of everything that drives me up the wall. Take the Aeris flower-selling scene for example. In the original, you had the choice of buying a flower from Aeris or telling her no, and when you meet her later on your action will alter her dialogue. This remake forces a canon choice that Cloud gets the flower.

Another example would be turning the tutorial boss fight into a cutscene-laden, 10 minute affair where you must watch the scorpion jump about on walls and peform special attacks until he lands back on the main platform. This entire game is a drawn-out mess that spits on everything that made the original good.
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Zeus
06/13/19 10:53:00 AM
#328:


Korruptor posted...
I expect a remake like it says in the damn title, not a reboot.


...that's still a damn remake. A reboot would involve entirely changing the plot and characters, as well as launching a series of continued games. Barrett isn't turning into a woman, a la Starbuck.

ParanoidObsessive posted...
To be fair, when you're selling a game almost entirely on nostalgia, and the only reason you're making it is because fans of the original game have basically spent the last 20 years saying they wish you'd remake it with better graphics, changing literally every single significant thing about it is probably the most phenomenally stupid thing you can do.


Not really, though. The nostalgia isn't purely mechanical, it's based on the characters and story as well --- and usually more so. And there's little reason to release essentially the same game *when* the same game is already available on the platform.
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ParanoidObsessive
06/13/19 11:03:37 AM
#329:


Zeus posted...
Not really, though. The nostalgia isn't purely mechanical, it's based on the characters and story as well --- and usually more so. And there's little reason to release essentially the same game *when* the same game is already available on the platform.

But if they're changing the look of the characters, and giving them voices they didn't have previously, and changing elements of their personality and the narrative they're in... are they really the same characters?

There's a reason why so many film remakes of old TV shows or movies have been hot garbage. When you change everything but the most superficial surface elements of a character, you're sort of changing what was appealing about that character and their story in the first place.


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CyborgSage00x0
06/13/19 10:21:25 PM
#330:


Zeus posted...
Not really, though. The nostalgia isn't purely mechanical, it's based on the characters and story as well --- and usually more so. And there's little reason to release essentially the same game *when* the same game is already available on the platform.

I was always under the impression that when people actually ask for modern updates of past games, that they basically just want a visual face life. That they already like the game mechanically, just wished it looks more modern. I know when myself or others wished something like GoldenEye would get that treatment, that's all we want (thank you, GE Source!).

Which ofc is different than wishing some old games would get modern sequels, or would spruce a game up to modern mechanics standards as well (Skies of Arcadia and Eternal Darkness immediately come to mind).
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Zeus
06/13/19 11:57:33 PM
#331:


ParanoidObsessive posted...
Zeus posted...
Not really, though. The nostalgia isn't purely mechanical, it's based on the characters and story as well --- and usually more so. And there's little reason to release essentially the same game *when* the same game is already available on the platform.

But if they're changing the look of the characters, and giving them voices they didn't have previously, and changing elements of their personality and the narrative they're in... are they really the same characters?

There's a reason why so many film remakes of old TV shows or movies have been hot garbage. When you change everything but the most superficial surface elements of a character, you're sort of changing what was appealing about that character and their story in the first place.



You say that, but the Battlestar Galatica and Doctor Who reboots among others have been hits. Granted, Doctor Who is *somewhat* of a special case, given that it plays into what became a central gimmick. However, if we're talking strictly film remakes of shows, that's a bit silly because the biggest issue is the change of format.

And film remakes tend to flop *because* they're bad, not because they're remakes. And the majority of anything is going to skew mediocre, remakes just catch more heat given their connection to the original material.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...
Zeus posted...
Not really, though. The nostalgia isn't purely mechanical, it's based on the characters and story as well --- and usually more so. And there's little reason to release essentially the same game *when* the same game is already available on the platform.

I was always under the impression that when people actually ask for modern updates of past games, that they basically just want a visual face life. That they already like the game mechanically, just wished it looks more modern. I know when myself or others wished something like GoldenEye would get that treatment, that's all we want (thank you, GE Source!).

Which ofc is different than wishing some old games would get modern sequels, or would spruce a game up to modern mechanics standards as well (Skies of Arcadia and Eternal Darkness immediately come to mind).


Goldeneye is a key example of things just being mechanically outdated. However, the problem is much more than the fact they changed the mechanics. And with Goldeneye it was at least *partly* a matter of it being brought up to modern standards and the standards themselves being underwhelming, unlike say Pokemon FRLG which vastly improved upon RBY and is probably still the best Pokemon game in terms of campaign.
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ParanoidObsessive
06/14/19 9:31:28 AM
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Zeus posted...
You say that, but the Battlestar Galatica and Doctor Who reboots among others have been hits.

Yeah, but I'd say both of those examples sort of prove my point more than disprove it. Both are cases where the new series kind of pissed off most fans of the original versions (doubly so in Battlestar's case, because it preempted and ruined attempts by Richard Hatch to get an actual remake/reboot/continuation of the original series that was more faithful to the original), and both only really succeeded because they were able to cultivate an entirely new audience (in Doctor Who's case, almost entirely due to David Tennant).

Ironically, both of those shows also went on to alienate that new audience (albeit in different ways), hurting themselves in the long-run. Battlestar tanked hard after the writers' strike, and when the audience realized the writers had absolutely no idea what the answers were to any of the questions they were asking (see also, Lost Syndrome), and Doctor Who's been slowing bleeding off viewers as the writing keeps getting worse/lazier and with the general perception of the overtones getting more and more social justice-y.

But there are plenty of other examples of properties that were rebooted drastically different from the original, which alienated the original audience, and which failed as a result. Arguably, the current situation with Star Trek might fall into that category.

From the perspective of FFVII, it probably will do well - with people who never played FFVII (especially since they're likely aware of its reputation), or who are fans of that genre of gaming in general (ie, the same people who bought FFXV), and because pervasive pre-order culture mentality will have people buying it before reviews come out to dissuade them. But the fans who've actually been pushing to get the game made for 20 years are also the ones most likely to backlash hardest against it - Squeenix won't care because a lot of them will still BUY it (again, the entire point of pre-order culture), but they'll also slag it off big-time online. Which in turn will probably fuck Squeenix over because they stupidly decided to release this thing episodically, which means later episodes are going to suffer from whatever backlash the first episode creates.


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Entity13
06/14/19 5:12:56 PM
#333:


So on the site where I'm audience testing my novel, "Elysium Shining," the novel has so far become the 24th longest story of 3800-ish, and may become the 20th when I've posted the remaining chapters and epilogue.

Meanwhile, the buddy of mine who is proofreading it for the minor errors I'd missed, as well as asking a few questions in case I need to add a line or paragraph somewhere, is up to chapter 28. I estimate that, at 3k words a day, the hopefully-final draft will be ready in about forty days.

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CyborgSage00x0
06/14/19 7:18:40 PM
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Goldeneye is a key example of things just being mechanically outdated. However, the problem is much more than the fact they changed the mechanics. And with Goldeneye it was at least *partly* a matter of it being brought up to modern standards and the standards themselves being underwhelming, unlike say Pokemon FRLG which vastly improved upon RBY and is probably still the best Pokemon game in terms of campaign.

Nah, Source keeps all the same mechanics (universal ammo, simple health/Body Armor system, etc.), because that's exactly what people wanted. And was basically the whole point: it's not like playing as Bond characters or w/e was why people loved the game. It was nostalgia, and nostalgia for the simplistic but fun levels and mechanics. So Source gave it a face lift and kept everything else, and it's great for that.

Your Battlestar point is a good example, although I'd counter in that case, the original was never that good anyways. So anyone being real upset for the update and having nostalgia for the OG probably stems from not knowing any better/having nothing better at the time. It doesn't mean the original was actually GOOD, though.

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So on the site where I'm audience testing my novel, "Elysium Shining," the novel has so far become the 24th longest story of 3800-ish, and may become the 20th when I've posted the remaining chapters and epilogue.

That's actually fantastic. I'd like to hear more about this, especially since I've been trying to do the same for years, and my actual jobs keeps me too busy to do so. Want to hear about your story, the process, and the process you have no that you are trying to enter the publishing phase.
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Entity13
06/14/19 7:40:06 PM
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CyborgSage00x0 posted...
Entity13 posted...
So on the site where I'm audience testing my novel, "Elysium Shining," the novel has so far become the 24th longest story of 3800-ish, and may become the 20th when I've posted the remaining chapters and epilogue.

That's actually fantastic. I'd like to hear more about this, especially since I've been trying to do the same for years, and my actual jobs keeps me too busy to do so. Want to hear about your story, the process, and the process you have no that you are trying to enter the publishing phase.


It's mostly sci fi genre, and is shy of 180k words. It took me two months to write the first draft, using a little time in the mornings, when I wake up, and evenings, before bed. It's the fastest I've ever come up with a story, its characters, and written it.

Once I got to around chp.30 I started posting chapters of the first draft on one site, which I'll take down a week before I go to publish. The feedback thus far has been good. Also at that time I copied chapters to a Google Doc for a buddy of mine to go through.

After finishing the first draft I ran through the story real quick for minor adjustments and typos that I could catch, and then re-copied those chapters (with my friend's early suggestions) to the Google Doc. He has thirty-four chapters (including Epi) to proofread. The main and Google docs are in my preferred format as well.

I'll update my process when I get to the publishing part of the deal, but my friend said to me not to sign any exclusivity, such as Amazon likes to do. So yeah, more on this later.
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Zeus
06/15/19 12:22:40 AM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
Yeah, but I'd say both of those examples sort of prove my point more than disprove it. Both are cases where the new series kind of pissed off most fans of the original versions (doubly so in Battlestar's case, because it preempted and ruined attempts by Richard Hatch to get an actual remake/reboot/continuation of the original series that was more faithful to the original), and both only really succeeded because they were able to cultivate an entirely new audience (in Doctor Who's case, almost entirely due to David Tennant).

Ironically, both of those shows also went on to alienate that new audience (albeit in different ways), hurting themselves in the long-run. Battlestar tanked hard after the writers' strike, and when the audience realized the writers had absolutely no idea what the answers were to any of the questions they were asking (see also, Lost Syndrome), and Doctor Who's been slowing bleeding off viewers as the writing keeps getting worse/lazier and with the general perception of the overtones getting more and more social justice-y.


The problem with that assessment is that the shows in their ORIGINAL runs went on to alienate fans and that they came so long after their original run that many of their original fans weren't able to watch the programs in their nursing homes. More so, you're arguing that these shows are ultimately failing because they've either ended or hit fatigue, but the same is literally true of the original --- and, I should note, the Battlestar remake ran far longer than the original show.

And the Whoboot's declining quality aside, it had a number of great episodes and seasons.

ParanoidObsessive posted...
But there are plenty of other examples of properties that were rebooted drastically different from the original, which alienated the original audience, and which failed as a result. Arguably, the current situation with Star Trek might fall into that category.


Star Trek is a weird example because it's had multiple spinoffs, etc, at this point. The first effective reboot, TNG, ran twice as long as the original. And even cult favorites like DS9 had reasonably long runs.

ParanoidObsessive posted...
From the perspective of FFVII, it probably will do well - with people who never played FFVII (especially since they're likely aware of its reputation), or who are fans of that genre of gaming in general (ie, the same people who bought FFXV), and because pervasive pre-order culture mentality will have people buying it before reviews come out to dissuade them. But the fans who've actually been pushing to get the game made for 20 years are also the ones most likely to backlash hardest against it - Squeenix won't care because a lot of them will still BUY it (again, the entire point of pre-order culture), but they'll also slag it off big-time online. Which in turn will probably fuck Squeenix over because they stupidly decided to release this thing episodically, which means later episodes are going to suffer from whatever backlash the first episode creates.


So then you're arguing that FFVII isn't banking on nostalgia? >_>

Frankly, having played the original, I'm MORE excited for the new version with these changes whereas I and countless others who played the original might simply feel fatigue at a mere graphical update.
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The Wave Master
06/16/19 9:20:08 PM
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I plan on playing Final Fantasy VII again before the remake drops ea4ly next year. I'm excited for the game, and the Square Enix people seem to be very dedicated in making, and are excited with the results. Sure, it may never reach the heights of the original or create the nostalgic feelings from when I was a teenager, but I am looking forward to what this game holds.

Tje Grandia collection for Switch is going to be a fun trip down memory lane too.
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I_Abibde
06/17/19 9:23:08 AM
#338:


*looks up from Star Trek: Discovery*

I'm a little sad they didn't include Grandia X-Treme ... but I'm glad they didn't include Grandia III. Either way, I'll look into how much that's going to cost. Might get it, but I still have the original versions, so ... I don't really have to, but it'd probably be fun.

I should probably do another play of the original FF7, too, but I've got to make time first.
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Zeus
06/17/19 3:27:57 PM
#339:


You know, the other month I was thinking it was be kinda cool if they made a Gauntlet Legends-style game where the heroes had instruments for weapons.... and now today I learn Aerea is a thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6QeCHMHj1w" data-time="

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ParanoidObsessive
06/19/19 10:26:31 PM
#340:


Reading your post, the first thing I thought of was Loom.

And then I thought of Eternal Sonata.

Not that either of those really fit what you're talking about.


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WhiskeyDisk
06/19/19 10:31:34 PM
#341:


Just give me Nevan from DMC3, and I'm ready to rock.
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Metalsonic66
06/19/19 10:39:59 PM
#342:


WhiskeyDisk posted...
Just give me Nevan from DMC3, and I'm ready to rock.


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I_Abibde
06/20/19 8:20:43 AM
#343:


ParanoidObsessive posted...
Reading your post, the first thing I thought of was Loom.


I still have the old issue of Game Player's that goes over that game. Good stuff.
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Entity13
06/20/19 6:54:11 PM
#344:


I have finished posting chapters of "Elysium Shining" at that one site with the test audience. People are loving the ending so far that have read it, which is a good sign. Meanwhile, my proofreading buddy and I are about halfway through the final edits. I'm estimating 33 days worth of work left to do if he goes over 3k words a day.

So it's a matter of supporting myself, somehow, until some point after I've published online. I'm confident that this novel will make a living for at least a good while.

Hopefully I'll have another story or two ready to publish by that point too. We'll see. @_@
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Zeus
06/20/19 11:13:17 PM
#345:


idk, strikes me as being a little too risky to devote so much time to writing and proof-editing when you're in dire straits. =x

Out of curiosity, though, what site are you using?
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06/21/19 4:52:37 PM
#346:


Zeus posted...
idk, strikes me as being a little too risky to devote so much time to writing and proof-editing when you're in dire straits. =x


Not as much time as you might be thinking. When I was writing the first draft or doing the first revision I had only dedicated 2 hours per weekday and 3 per Sat or Sunday. Now I check my Google Doc once a day, six times a week, for little edits that take up less than a half hour per day for me (possibly longer for my buddy).

Zeus posted...
Out of curiosity, though, what site are you using?


A site I would link if it didn't risk being against the ToS. There aren't any obscene images there, but some of the stories are erotic in nature, so the mods and admins here might frown on it. On the other hand, family friendly stories exist there as well, and my latest novel is somewhere in the middle.
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I_Abibde
06/22/19 11:38:21 AM
#347:


My Thursday night D&D group is taking a brief hiatus because one of my players had to fire another one of my players from a job. That type of awkwardness requires a little time to diffuse. *shrugs* What can you do, right?

In the meantime, I've been continuing my research into different types of OSR play (i.e. D&D retroclones). Got immersed in the differences between the White Hack and the Black Hack, so, surprise, there's one dev who took bits and pieces of each and made a sort of 'zebra' hack called Macchiato Monsters. Going to give that a try and see how it plays, though I'm at the the point where I'm using White Box FMAG as my measuring stick. (There's also a Red Hack, a Blue Hack, and so on; it's a bit silly.) Missed the window to back Old School Essentials (formerly B / X Essentials) on Kickstarter, but I'm looking at backing the Red Book, a massively upgraded version of the Black Book, which is itself derived from the Rules Cyclopedia.

There's a saying about standing on the shoulders of giants, but I guess this is a bit more like stacking up dwarves until one of them can see the horizon.

The table next to mine at the Wednesday night session (the D&D 2E one I mentioned way above) is running Mutant Crawl Classics. I don't play that, but it's a lot of fun to listen to.
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Zeus
06/22/19 11:06:47 PM
#348:


I_Abibde posted...
My Thursday night D&D group is taking a brief hiatus because one of my players had to fire another one of my players from a job. That type of awkwardness requires a little time to diffuse. *shrugs* What can you do, right?


Kek kek kek kek. What kind of job are they doing?

At any rate, a friend lost some members from his D&D group and he's been asking me to play. I really don't want to.
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The Wave Master
06/23/19 6:29:31 PM
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Just checking in, nothing major to report.

I started watching SGDQ, and I have enjoyed a few of the speed runs, so that's nice.

Otherwise, it's all quiet on the western front. It is freaking hot though. Otjer than the movies I'm over summer.
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I_Abibde
06/23/19 8:26:07 PM
#350:


Zeus posted...
Kek kek kek kek. What kind of job are they doing?


Except for my wife, all of us work at the same pizzeria. Kinda like the party in Critical Failures, but not as destructive to their surroundings (and each other).
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Broken_Zeus
06/25/19 12:25:50 AM
#351:


Huh. Just learned that Rockstar Spud has apparently been with the WWE for a while now. I've got to say, the WWE is getting pretty damn close to making me want to watch again.

Also finally watched Goblin Slayer, which is probably one of my favorite fantasy anime now. It also reminds me I need to finish watching Lodoss War, which I started like 15 years ago. Speaking of, I know that animation is so much bigger in Japan than the US, but it's weird that Japan has so many Western/European-style fantasy series while the US has... well, I can't even think of a single example. (Granted, I'm sure part of it is the difference in demographics between the nations, as well as the fact that anime versions exist helps to cover an otherwise unmet demand here.)

I_Abibde posted...
Zeus posted...
Kek kek kek kek. What kind of job are they doing?


Except for my wife, all of us work at the same pizzeria. Kinda like the party in Critical Failures, but not as destructive to their surroundings (and each other).


Kind of a neat concept and I imagine it has certain conveniences.... well, other than scheduling issues since I'd guess you can't all get the same time off to play.
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WhiskeyDisk
06/25/19 12:29:49 AM
#352:


Any geeks been to NYC? Have you ever crossed Central Park West? Was it difficult? Especially at night?

It takes the X-Men nearly 20 minutes in Dark Phoenix.

This is really all that anyone ever needs to know about this film. The X-Men and...other mutants take 20 minutes to complete a task that millions of mehums pull off yearly without difficulty.
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ParanoidObsessive
06/25/19 1:16:20 AM
#353:


Broken_Zeus posted...
Huh. Just learned that Rockstar Spud has apparently been with the WWE for a while now. I've got to say, the WWE is getting pretty damn close to making me want to watch again.

He's "Drake Maverick". And you're not really missing anything, as they basically hired him to not wrestle.

He's been the General Manager of 205 Live (the cruiserweight show you can only see on the WWE network that literally no one watches), which basically means they use him to facilitate other people having matches by having him stand backstage and tell other people to have matches. Though he does tend to wear snazzy jackets.

In his very sporadic appearances on the main shows he was originally just the manager of the Authors of Pain (a tag team they brought up from NXT and utterly failed to push in any meaningful way until one of them got injured and they just disappeared pretty much forever), and the highlight of that particular run was that he pissed himself once because Big Show frightened him (and I mean literally pissed in the sense that they showed a wet stain slowly form on his pants via a squirt bottle hidden in his pocket he clearly squeezed at the appropriate time). Oh, and he also urinated on Bobby Roode's robe once, because the WWE is a sick animal no one has the courage to put down.

Drake's been slightly more interesting in the very recent past, as he's mostly been sparring with R-Truth (K-Kwik/Ron Killings) over the 24/7 rule, and by "sparring", I mean showing up in videos they're mostly just making themselves which are like 99% shenanigans and 1% people getting pinned, but no actual wrestling.

Oh, and they turned his real world real wedding into a sketch involving it last week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ6jsdrAZWA" data-time="




WhiskeyDisk posted...
Any geeks been to NYC? Have you ever crossed Central Park West? Was it difficult? Especially at night?

It takes the X-Men nearly 20 minutes in Dark Phoenix.

This is really all that anyone ever needs to know about this film. The X-Men and...other mutants take 20 minutes to complete a task that millions of mehums pull off yearly without difficulty.

To be fair, it IS as much as half a mile wide. Now granted, I used to be able to jog that distance in about 4 minutes without breaking a sweat (and in about 2 1/2 minutes or so when I actually ran the 800m), but I also possess the super-power of not being in a poorly written film.


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WhiskeyDisk
06/25/19 1:46:13 AM
#354:


ParanoidObsessive posted...
Broken_Zeus posted...
Huh. Just learned that Rockstar Spud has apparently been with the WWE for a while now. I've got to say, the WWE is getting pretty damn close to making me want to watch again.

He's "Drake Maverick". And you're not really missing anything, as they basically hired him to not wrestle.

He's been the General Manager of 205 Live (the cruiserweight show you can only see on the WWE network that literally no one watches), which basically means they use him to facilitate other people having matches by having him stand backstage and tell other people to have matches. Though he does tend to wear snazzy jackets.

In his very sporadic appearances on the main shows he was originally just the manager of the Authors of Pain (a tag team they brought up from NXT and utterly failed to push in any meaningful way until one of them got injured and they just disappeared pretty much forever), and the highlight of that particular run was that he pissed himself once because Big Show frightened him (and I mean literally pissed in the sense that they showed a wet stain slowly form on his pants via a squirt bottle hidden in his pocket he clearly squeezed at the appropriate time). Oh, and he also urinated on Bobby Roode's robe once, because the WWE is a sick animal no one has the courage to put down.

Drake's been slightly more interesting in the very recent past, as he's mostly been sparring with R-Truth (K-Kwik/Ron Killings) over the 24/7 rule, and by "sparring", I mean showing up in videos they're mostly just making themselves which are like 99% shenanigans and 1% people getting pinned, but no actual wrestling.

Oh, and they turned his real world real wedding into a sketch involving it last week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ6jsdrAZWA" data-time="


WhiskeyDisk posted...
Any geeks been to NYC? Have you ever crossed Central Park West? Was it difficult? Especially at night?

It takes the X-Men nearly 20 minutes in Dark Phoenix.

This is really all that anyone ever needs to know about this film. The X-Men and...other mutants take 20 minutes to complete a task that millions of mehums pull off yearly without difficulty.

To be fair, it IS as much as half a mile wide. Now granted, I used to be able to jog that distance in about 4 minutes without breaking a sweat (and in about 2 1/2 minutes or so when I actually ran the 800m), but I also possess the super-power of not being in a poorly written film.



I'm talking about the three lane street itself. The X-Men have difficulty crossing a three lane street at night and that sequence amounts to 1/6 of the film's runtime, and about half of the third act. And Nightcrawler is in fact present. Pretty sure Quicksilver is too, though the film is so forgettable that I'm not entirely sure...
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Broken_Zeus
06/25/19 1:54:15 AM
#355:


ParanoidObsessive posted...
He's "Drake Maverick". And you're not really missing anything, as they basically hired him to not wrestle.


Given his in-ring work, that might be for the best >_> I always preferred him as a personality.

ParanoidObsessive posted...
He's been the General Manager of 205 Live (the cruiserweight show you can only see on the WWE network that literally no one watches), which basically means they use him to facilitate other people having matches by having him stand backstage and tell other people to have matches. Though he does tend to wear snazzy jackets.


Ohhhhh.... =x

ParanoidObsessive posted...
Drake's been slightly more interesting in the very recent past, as he's mostly been sparring with R-Truth (K-Kwik/Ron Killings) over the 24/7 rule, and by "sparring", I mean showing up in videos they're mostly just making themselves which are like 99% shenanigans and 1% people getting pinned, but no actual wrestling.


Which, again, is probably better than actually seeing Rockstar wrestle, although R-Truth was always fun in the ring even if he lacked variety.

ParanoidObsessive posted...
Oh, and they turned his real world real wedding into a sketch involving it last week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ6jsdrAZWA" data-time="



O snap, was that EC3 next to him? Is EC3 back in the WWE? Are they actually going to do something with EC3 this time?
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