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Keep Calm And Discuss Retro Generally!

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  • #752
    Jack burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,798 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Well I'm trying to repair it to sell it on and get a NTSC one haha, Im having dinner and watching adventure time now because I've been cleaning stuff for ages, I'll give it another go with some different cables in a bit and see


  • #753
    Jack burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,798 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Normal cable, works first go!

    Lovely jubbley! Thanks chaps!

    Now another question, Should I sell off my entire PAL N64 collection and go for NTSC or keep some of the choice ones I have like Mario 64 and Banjo kazooie and a few others


  • #754
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    Jack burton wrote: »
    I've been cleaning stuff for ages

    You're always cleaning stuff. You're not... 'the cleaner' are you? :eek:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4wBLUBa8YI


  • #755
    Jack burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,798 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    ................Dirty...........


  • #756
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    Jack burton wrote: »
    ................Dirty...........

    I want to clean your cups.


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  • #757
    Jack burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,798 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Jasons special biscuit!


  • #758
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,313 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


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  • #759
    Retr0gamer
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    Also, put me in The Dark Knight Rises was a bit silly and crap camp.


  • #760
    DinoRex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    Just played the demo of the new Transformers game.

    Feels a lot more polished than the last game, which despite some great moments was pretty wonky overall.

    Doubt this one will come close to the old PS2 one either though.


  • #761
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,754 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Now that game was a corker!
    It's one of those PS2 games I've evangelised about, along with Secret weapons of the Luftwaffe and Cold Winter, but few listen.
    Outstanding game, aside from the all too easy end boss.


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  • #762
    MrVestek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,275 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Also, put me in The Dark Knight Rises was a bit silly and crap camp.

    See that door over there? ---->

    Please don't let it hit you too hard on yer arse on yer way out.


  • #763
    Retr0gamer
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    The story was pretty ridiculous with lots of inconsistencies
    Oh Bruce Wayne gambles all his stock away at the same time there's a break in at the stock exchange, now that has to be a conincidence.
    Not to mention another thing I saw a mile off thanks to the lazy trope of
    my accent is too eastern european, therefore I have to be a bad guy.
    There's plenty of other things that didn't add up.

    This would be all fine if the action scenes were good but none of them where.

    It was enjoyable but it wasn't great, expect Anne Hathaway in that catwoman suit, rawr!


  • #764
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,754 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    The Dark Knight Rises, despite it's few faults, was the best blockbuster of the summer, and one of the best superhero movies I've seen.
    We are living in a great age of good/great Marvel movies, here's hoping Nolan's Batman trilogy is a new start to the DC universe, after a poor Superman and Green Lantern iterations.
    There seem to be more than a few cynics out there that say they didn't enjoy DKR at all, and this I find very hard to believe.
    Accepting there was a fairly flaccid middle act, much of which could have been tightened up in the editing suite, and the return to the turkish prison bit was a bit meh, the rest of the film was excellent, imho, and was good enough for me to attend a second viewing.
    There are no superhero stories that aren't silly.
    If constumed vigilantes made sense in the real world, we'd have them on our streets, therefor some suspension of reality is needed to accept their stories as legitimate.
    I haven't seen a Batman or Comedian in many recent news stories.
    .
    ..
    ...
    Perhaps Rorschach might have a place in the world, on reflection!


  • #765
    Retr0gamer
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    Better than the Avengers?

    Well for me TDKR won't be watched a second time, once was enough for me. It was enjoyable but the serious tone of the film was at odds with just how daft it was.


  • #766
    Optimus Prime
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    I have to say i wasnt blown away by it, it was good sure.. but there was stuff all over it i rolled my eyes at. personally id rank it the worst out of the 3. the best thing in it for me was Bane. my main problems with it..
    His miracoulous recovery from not only an 8 year old limp but also a broken back by getting punched in the spine.

    Did we really need another film where the hero flys a nuke over the bay at the last minute? that was lazy writing, done a million times.

    Heres a prison in the middle of nowhere, with a UPC connection so you can watch tv! plus, look theres no roof, theres a way out! also make sure when you get out you throw down that rope up there so all the other murders and rapists can escape.. cheers.

    My biggest gripe, might sound stupid.. but it took me out of the film.. it was all the bit part actors in it.

    Weird looking guy from Torchwood.
    T'ealc from Stargate
    Quinn from Dexter
    Mathew Modine was a waste, i dunno why he was even in there??

    it felt like half the cast was in there because they where mates with the director or something.

    Talia al ghuls death was pathetic. a car crash, then the old speech before dying.. also Comissioner Gorden was in the back of that without a seatbelt on and a loose Nuke in there and he didnt have a scratch on him! haha..

    I didnt like how they handled that guy being Robin either

    Best thing about the film for me was BANE. i loved his character, loved the voice, the walk everything. I NEVER thought i was going to like Bane in this and ended up thinking he was the best thing in the film by far. I did actually enjoy the film, i seen it twice, but i was let down by it.. it was a bit messy in places.


  • #767
    DinoRex
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    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Better than the Avengers?

    Well for me TDKR won't be watched a second time, once was enough for me. It was enjoyable but the serious tone of the film was at odds with just how daft it was.

    That's it really. It's seriously pretentious and overwrought which only serves to make it look more ridiculous.

    Hard to know which was the bigger disappointment this year, DKR or Prometheus.

    Has anyone seen the trailer for the new Wachowski brothers (although one of them is a woman now) film? Cloud Atlas. It looks pretty interesting, even if it is filled with actors I wouldn't normally like.


  • #768
    Myrddin
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    DinoRex wrote: »
    Hard to know which was the bigger disappointment this year, DKR or Prometheus.

    Both hyped up so absurdly much that they were never going to live up to peoples expectations


  • #769
    DinoRex
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    keithgeo wrote: »

    Best thing about the film for me was BANE. i loved his character, loved the voice, the walk everything. I NEVER thought i was going to like Bane in this and ended up thinking he was the best thing in the film by far. I did actually enjoy the film, i seen it twice, but i was let down by it.. it was a bit messy in places.

    They should do a Bane spin off. His character wasn't very good in the original Knightfall comics (they were terrible comics overall). But when he became an anti hero things got very interesting. The Secret Six stuff is great.


  • #770
    DinoRex
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    EnterNow wrote: »
    Both hyped up so absurdly much that they were never going to live up to peoples expectations

    I was expecting well made films (given the caliber of the directors) and coherent plots. Which I don't think is all that much to look for in a film.

    In fairness to Prometheus it probably was well made... it's just had a terrible screenplay.


  • #771
    Myrddin
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    DinoRex wrote: »
    I was expecting well made films (given the caliber of the directors) and coherent plots. Which I don't think is all that much to look for in a film.

    In fairness to Prometheus it probably was well made... it's just had a terrible screenplay.

    Agreed for sure, but the hype levels were so that anything less than a masterpiece was going to disappoint many. I actually avoided the hype for both & found both enjoyable/passable action flicks, nothing more nothing less really.


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  • #772
    o1s1n
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    Master of the Universe


    DinoRex wrote: »
    They should do a Bane spin off. His character wasn't very good in the original Knightfall comics (they were terrible comics overall). But when he became an anti hero things got very interesting. The Secret Six stuff is great.

    I had the first section of Knightfall in one graphic novel when I was a kid. Up until the part where Batman gets crippled. Read it loads, but never found the second part anywhere so to this day I still don't know wtf happened after that!


  • #773
    DinoRex
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    I thought it was a bit stupid how the most powerful villains are all taken out over a single evening. Really took away from them.

    The Joker and Scarecrow team up (two criminal geniuses) and the best plan they have is to blow up Batman with a rocket launcher.

    The stuff with the Ventriloquist was great though, but didn't really go anywhere.

    Oh and you'd probably want to have read Azrael before the second part of Knightfall so you know who Jean Paul Valley is.


  • #774
    CiDeRmAn
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    Regarding a spoilered comment,
    Didn't Ironman fly the "nuke over the bay" when he flew the device into the vortex, assumed to be a one way mission before falling back, still maybe dead, and then... no.... life!


  • #775
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,754 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    On a brighter note, I have Batman AC again, so I can enjoy a universally loved Batman story!
    No controversy there!

    So, anyone looking to buy the NSMB2?
    Debating with myself if to splurge on it, having overspent on games in the PC World/Currys sale the other week.


  • #776
    Optimus Prime
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    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Regarding a spoilered comment,
    Didn't Ironman fly the "nuke over the bay" when he flew the device into the vortex, assumed to be a one way mission before falling back, still maybe dead, and then... no.... life!

    Exactly, done too many times!


  • #777
    CiDeRmAn
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    If it's good enough for Stark it's good enough for Wayne!
    Let the battle of the millionaire playboys commence!


  • #778
    safetyboy
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0VQ7-5b_Io


  • #779
    DinoRex
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    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    If it's good enough for Stark it's good enough for Wayne!
    Let the battle of the millionaire playboys commence!

    sci-fi-fantasy-batman-vs-iron-man-vs-spider-man.png


  • #780
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    safetyboy wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0VQ7-5b_Io

    Nothing specific to 3d, all the cgi fests recently tend to be formulaic rubbish


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  • #781
    CiDeRmAn
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    Captain America was pretty great, Avengers was lots of fun, looks like there's a possibility of a Thomas Jane Punisher movie... maybe...
    Thor was fun, the two Ironman films were good too.
    I'd like to suggest that expectations for masterpieces is a little unreasonable, the closest to superhero perfection must be the first two Superman movies.
    But would they, by today's standards sfx aside, be a wholly uncriticised series?

    Forget about decent super hero movies, lets see a good superman game!


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