So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

CiDeRmAn

Enterprises last season was amazing, some of the best trek in years, all the way up to the lousy inclusion of tubby Riker and Troi in an unnecessary ending, doing to usual fan appeasement of trying to tie everything together neatly.

But, they accomplished so much that year, the previous story in the Delphic expanse was good but dragged out too far and was too hard to drop in and out of, more like the grand arcs of DS9.

Had they performed the miracles of the last season a year earlier we probably would have had the 7 year cycle completed.

Of course, that may have had the knock on effect of bring more trek to the tv and the movie not being made... perhaps in a mirror universe, the one where all the men have goatees and the women dress like they fell out of a harem, this came to pass.

Sparks43

In a mirror darkly

Best Trek episode ever

CiDeRmAn

I liked the short arc of the genetically enhanced humans and how Klingons lost their ridges, also the Terra Prime stuff with Peter Weller was great too.
Such a good season.

OwaynOTT

'You cannot escape.'
'You will be the one escaping.'

Capt. America and The Avengers, I actually kinda like it. Second stage is a side scrolling shoot em up as well but I do question how Hawkeye can fly the little cab, when the has to constantly use his bow and arrow.

CiDeRmAn

I've just been playing Limbo and Sine Mora, both neglected by me in the last while.

Dr Bob

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Enterprises last season was amazing, some of the best trek in years, all the way up to the lousy inclusion of tubby Riker and Troi in an unnecessary ending, doing to usual fan appeasement of trying to tie everything together neatly.

But, they accomplished so much that year, the previous story in the Delphic expanse was good but dragged out too far and was too hard to drop in and out of, more like the grand arcs of DS9.

Had they performed the miracles of the last season a year earlier we probably would have had the 7 year cycle completed.

Of course, that may have had the knock on effect of bring more trek to the tv and the movie not being made... perhaps in a mirror universe, the one where all the men have goatees and the women dress like they fell out of a harem, this came to pass.

Last 2 eason being decent was down to the fact that manny coto( who worked on DS9 I think) replaced rick berman/ bannon braga as the show runner, stopped trying to 'de-trek' it for the masses and did what the fans wanted. I still reckon its a better show than voyager.

Dr Bob

Dr Bob wrote: »

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Enterprises last season was amazing, some of the best trek in years, all the way up to the lousy inclusion of tubby Riker and Troi in an unnecessary ending, doing to usual fan appeasement of trying to tie everything together neatly.

But, they accomplished so much that year, the previous story in the Delphic expanse was good but dragged out too far and was too hard to drop in and out of, more like the grand arcs of DS9.

Had they performed the miracles of the last season a year earlier we probably would have had the 7 year cycle completed.

Of course, that may have had the knock on effect of bring more trek to the tv and the movie not being made... perhaps in a mirror universe, the one where all the men have goatees and the women dress like they fell out of a harem, this came to pass.

Last 2 eason being decent was down to the fact that manny coto( who worked on DS9 I think) replaced rick berman/ bannon braga as the show runner, stopped trying to 'de-trek' it for the masses and did what the fans wanted. I still reckon its a better show than voyager.

Last episode was **** though.

Myrddin

Dr Bob wrote: »

I still reckon its a better show than voyager.

It is. Vastly superior.

o1s1n

I've never actually watched an episode of Enterprise. Can't make it through that damn opening song - always turn it off in a rage :mad:

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

I've never actually watched an episode of Enterprise. Can't make it through that damn opening song - always turn it off in a rage :mad:

After the first few eps, which are always shaky in a new series, it gets really good. There's some great arcs throughout its four seasons

The Last Bandit

Enterprise was pretty good really, that hot vulcan in tight clothes sure didn't do it any harm either !!
Not on patch on Firefly or Babylon 5 though.

o1s1n

Babylon 5 is another one I tried to watch, but just couldn't take it seriously because of this -



Maybe I need to stop being so superficial when it comes to scifi :pac:

MrVestek

Started playing Crazy Taxi 3 and Max Payne there the other night after fixing a botched XMBC upgrade on my Xbox 1. Max Payne was such a good game, way ahead of it's time. Pity it never saw it's intended Dreamcast release.

I wonder if there's a beta of it floating around out there anywhere...

Retr0gamer

Was never a fan of Max Payne. The dialogue was painful, it might have been taking off badly written visual novels but it didn't have to be badly written itself. It looked gorgeous though. My main bugbear with the entire series is that it's so samey. It took me weeks to beat the first two because I could only play them for a short while before getting chronically bored of them.

CiDeRmAn

Better than some of Voyager maybe, I loved the Captain Proton eps, and I quite liked the year of hell episodes.
The big let down in Voyager was always that...
1- Janeway and Chakotay never got down.
and
b- Harry Kim hadn't the decency to die and stay died.

MrVestek

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Better than some of Voyager maybe, I loved the Captain Proton eps, and I quite liked the year of hell episodes.
The big let down in Voyager was always that...
1- Janeway and Chakotay never got down.
and
b- Harry Kim hadn't the decency to die and stay died.

No... the biggest crime with Voyager was that Seven of Nine didn't stay naked long enough when Baby Q was prancing about on board.

DinoRex

o1s1n wrote: »

Babylon 5 is another one I tried to watch, but just couldn't take it seriously because of this -



Maybe I need to stop being so superficial when it comes to scifi :pac:

He's one of the best characters in the show. The relationship between him and G'Kar is what makes the whole series.

For the most part all the human characters are pretty dull.

CiDeRmAn

Hmm, it was all a bit WTF at times, with refugees from other science fiction show turning up to do a bit here and there.
Plus the real star was the Amiga doing the CGI!

Tons of unreliable science fiction on tv then, the 90's to early 00's, Earth: Final Conflict, great first season WTF for the rest, Earth 2, Andromeda, plenty of X-files clones.

The best, for my money, was Millennium, "Soylent Green is People" FTW!

Myrddin

Try out Space: Above & Beyond. Ran for one series & got cancelled, but I thought it evolved into a really really good show about a quarter way through the series right up to the end

Myrddin

Space Precinct for some serious 90's cheese & Red Dwarf-esque effects

CiDeRmAn

EnterNow wrote: »

Try out Space: Above & Beyond. Ran for one series & got cancelled, but I thought it evolved into a really really good show about a quarter way through the series right up to the end

More like Sh1te: Above & Beyond, never liked that one at all.

And how could we forget the not so great car crash that was Seaquest?

Myrddin

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

More like Sh1te: Above & Beyond, never liked that one at all.

And how could we forget the not so great car crash that was Seaquest?

It's one big arc though, did you watch it from start to finish? Honestly its really good {I think so anyway }

Seaquest? Yeah, never bothered with it at all

OwaynOTT

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Hmm, it was all a bit WTF at times, with refugees from other science fiction show turning up to do a bit here and there.
Plus the real star was the Amiga doing the CGI!

Tons of unreliable science fiction on tv then, the 90's to early 00's, Earth: Final Conflict, great first season WTF for the rest, Earth 2, Andromeda, plenty of X-files clones.

The best, for my money, was Millennium, "Soylent Green is People" FTW!

We're on a bit of a Millennium marathon at the moment. Just starting season 2 tonight.
Music is terrible in it and anyone of the family scenes are so full of cheese that it would give anyone enough cheese for ham sandwiches for the month.

Steve X2

OwaynOTT wrote: »

We're on a bit of a Millennium marathon at the moment. Just starting season 2 tonight.
Music is terrible in it and anyone of the family scenes are so full of cheese that it would give anyone enough cheese for ham sandwiches for the month.

Aren't they supposed to be in the early stages of making a movie of Millennium?
Not a cinema movie now, I thought there was some rumours of a TV movie a while back?

OwaynOTT

Steve SI wrote: »

Aren't they supposed to be in the early stages of making a movie of Millennium?
Not a cinema movie now, I thought there was some rumours of a TV movie a while back?

If its anything like the last X-Files movie, I'm staying the hell away.

CiDeRmAn

The show was fine as it was, after season 1 and the "serial killer of the week" formula was jettisoned it got much better and spookier.
The scientology or rather Selfosophy episode, Jose Chungs Doomsday Defence was incredible and brilliant.
Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me is another fantastic episode,

o1s1n

Enjoy New Super Mario Bros 2 a little bit more now - apart from one bloody annoying thing which is driving me mad.

THE STUPID A CAPELLA MUSIC!

It was 'fun' in the first one. Oh listen, it sounds like a voice singing the music. How 'cute'.

Now it makes me want to rip off my ears. Totally ruins the game. I've resorted to playing it with no sound.

OwaynOTT

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

The show was fine as it was, after season 1 and the "serial killer of the week" formula was jettisoned it got much better and spookier.
The scientology or rather Selfosophy episode, Jose Chungs Doomsday Defence was incredible and brilliant.
Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me is another fantastic episode,

Yeah, I've read that it picks up for season 2. There over reaching arc didn't really develop until the last few episodes of season one and then it felt rushed.
The ending of S1, would of been some cliffhanger at the time.

Andrew76

Played a little bit of that Resonance adventure game some folks here mentioned. Pretty good actually. Would be perfect to play on a tablet.

CiDeRmAn

My son has taken to playing Portal 2 and reading The Colour Of Magic... I am so proud!