Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Links For 2-3-2010

Entertainment

RedLetterMedia's PHANTOM MENACE review series was hilarious and despite being a comedy video, incredibly insightful. Now he's saving me from having to watch AVATAR! AVATAR Review (Part 1 of 2). (The second part is linked in the first part.)

Awesome Rip Torn update: he thought the bank was his house. That just makes this story even better.

Leaked LOST episode spurs surprising fan reaction. I'm among those who didn't download the leaked episode. I wanted to wait and watch it in HD. The only thing that sucked about that was all the commercials, which it felt like came up more often than usual.

LOST fans are 'asking wrong questions'. Uh oh. This sounds like the sort of talk that led to the endings of THE SOPRANOS and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. I'm getting nervous.

LOST stars Fox, Lilly 'to quit TV'. Can't say I'll particularly miss either. They've become the worst characters on the show.

Peter Davison dismisses Doctors reunion. They could do one with Doctor's 7-10 though. (McCoy still looks pretty close to how he looked in the TV movie these days.)

Video Games

HEAVY RAIN: why a great game may be destined to fail. I can hazard a guess as to why HEAVY RAIN could fail: Not enough shooting and probably too smart a title for the average consumer.

HEAVY RAIN is a 4.2Gb install, lets you make origami. One of these days I should look into freeing up space on the PS3 hard drive.

BIOSHOCK 2 gets knock-out launch trailer. Less than a week to go!

FINAL FANTASY XIII Xbox 360 ships on three discs, says GameFly. Not wanting to deal with disc switching means that I'm probably going with the PS3 version if I get it. FINAL FANTASY is a Playstation title to me anyway.

Capcom developing new games primarily in Japan. Is this really news? Aside from a few studios elsewhere, Capcom being a Japanese company has always primarily developed games in Japan.

CRYSIS 2 set three years after original, more details on Nanosuit 2. I hate when I read articles like this and it makes me want to replay the original game. Sure, I've got a few days until BIOSHOCK 2 arrives at my door, but I feel like I should be using that time to work on poker (playing or studying) rather than reinstalling and farting around with a video games I beat two years ago.

1 comments:

Eric said...

After getting two full seasons into LOST and now starting on the third, a couple of observations come to mind. First, the wife and I agree 100% that Jack is a dick and it sucks that he's supposed to kind of be the main guy here - does he get more likable as the show goes further? (As for Matt Fox wanting to pull a David Caruso, hope the door doesn't hit his ass on his way out) And for my money, Evangeline Lilly isn't really all that, which means there's not a lot in the way of eye candy for me here...yet. New characters popping up give hope, though. The story is still fun and hopefully soon I'll know what questions I'm supposed to be asking.

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