The APRIL PICK-UP THREAD - because you don't have enough things.

Brainiac 8

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

I've only seen a smattering of their stuff:

Raising Arizona
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Big Lebowski
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
No Country for Old Men
Burn After Reading
A Serious Man

Even with just those, I am prepared to say they're my favorite directors around

One of the absolute greatest movies ever made, hands down. :^:

Sweeney Tom

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

I've only seen a smattering of their stuff:

Raising Arizona
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Big Lebowski
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
No Country for Old Men
Burn After Reading
A Serious Man

Even with just those, I am prepared to say they're my favorite directors around

this reminds me

i saw the trailer for A Serious Man and it looked good, but the movie never played around here and nobody sells the DVD

was it good? i might order it online

maximumzero

Ugh...so many pickups I need to take a picture of...

cooljammer00

Antihippy wrote: »

I thought it sounded like the premise could be really GREAT.

Snowboarding while being chased by a avalanche.

Rail grinding on a helicopter.

I've never played a SSX.

Didn't 1080 already do that for us?

anoffday

My awesome fiance got me a PS3 with Little Big Planet Game of the Year Edition! Pictures to follow.

cj iwakura

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

I've only seen a smattering of their stuff:

Raising Arizona
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Big Lebowski
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
No Country for Old Men
Burn After Reading
A Serious Man

Even with just those, I am prepared to say they're my favorite directors around

Not to mention Fargo.

UnbreakableVow

Sweeney Tom wrote: »

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

I've only seen a smattering of their stuff:

Raising Arizona
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Big Lebowski
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
No Country for Old Men
Burn After Reading
A Serious Man

Even with just those, I am prepared to say they're my favorite directors around

this reminds me

i saw the trailer for A Serious Man and it looked good, but the movie never played around here and nobody sells the DVD

was it good? i might order it online

It is very good

And the rest came in today, so...group shot! Every Coen Brothers feature film released so far:



Also, I hadn't kept up with my new game acquisitions for a couple weeks, so here they are:



Actually I may have posted The Sly Collection before, but I finally played it this week and now I'm pissed at myself for not picking it up back in 2002. Amazing game.

NSMB Wii actually came with my Wii, but the case is new (bought it off of eBay because I didn't like the cardboard sleeve it came in).

Gonna go through Darksiders on 360, since I already did on PS3 back at release. I never played either of the two GTAIV expansions, so $40 for the whole deal (especially when I've been wanting to run through IV again) was a no-brainer.

Mario All-Stars is...Mario All-Stars. Not much to say there! Good fun then, good fun now.

Haven't played Punch-Out!! yet

proyebat

Barto Fink cover looks like GabeN.

Zerokku

proyebat wrote: »

Barto Fink cover looks like GabeN.

Oh god can't unsee

Cannon Goose

Tasty tasty Christmas!

Chance

Alright, people - Christmas gets!

[edit: 1 hour later]

Seriously? No one?

Boo-urns. [/edit]

AuburnTiger

I've picked up a ton of X-mas games over the past week, I'll set them all up tomorrow for a nice picture.

maximumzero

Chance wrote: »

Alright, people - Christmas gets!

[edit: 1 hour later]

Seriously? No one?

Boo-urns. [/edit]

Honestly not in the mood to gather everything up for a photograph...

cooljammer00

People are probably still in their food comas.

I got some money, though. Some of it might be put towards a haul of some sort.

Also, this big bag of assorted chocolates.

Zerokku

Chance wrote: »

Alright, people - Christmas gets!

[edit: 1 hour later]

Seriously? No one?

Boo-urns. [/edit]

I think most people posted in the loot thread when the christmas forum was up. Not much of a reason to repost it here.

Kuratosu

What's that Mickey? Bad reviews, you say? Nah...

It's just an idea planted in your mind. Just a dream is all.

and the rest:

UnbreakableVow

Chance wrote: »

Alright, people - Christmas gets!

[edit: 1 hour later]

Seriously? No one?

Boo-urns. [/edit]

This is the weirdest meme ever

Boo-urns in the context it came from meant he wasn't saying "boo"

He was actually cheering on Burns

Chance

"The camera! The camera! It's killing me!"
"It's okay, Mickey - you're still inside the dream!"

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

Chance wrote: »

Alright, people - Christmas gets!

[edit: 1 hour later]

Seriously? No one?

Boo-urns. [/edit]

This is the weirdest meme ever

Boo-urns in the context it came from meant he wasn't saying "boo"

He was actually cheering on Burns

I know - and I think about it every time I use it - but I still use it as a way to say boo.

Kuratosu

*Cue bombastic Hans Zimmer score*

cooljammer00

Wait, what's Fantasia Fantasia 2000?

What is Inception Origine?

Canadian?

maximumzero

Chance wrote: »

"The camera! The camera! It's killing me!"
"It's okay, Mickey - you're still inside the dream!"

Epic Mickey has got to be the most debated game of 2010.

I loved it and had absolutely no problems but most people seem to rate it below most shovelware.

cj iwakura

I think the big problem is that early concepts were making it look like a dark, bleak, cyberpunk thriller, then it comes out and it's just another Disney game.

It reeks of corporate interference.



Also, Kuratosu: you can fight me on SSF4 sometime if you like.

maximumzero

cj iwakura wrote: »

I think the big problem is that early concepts were making it look like a dark, bleak, cyberpunk thriller, then it comes out and it's just another Disney game.

It reeks of corporate interference.

Except for the fact that the concept art you're referring to was never meant to be shown to the public when it was and was never indicative of what the final product would be

UnbreakableVow

WHO GIVES A FUCK

You use that same argument every time

Point is it existed, it was seen by the public and it colored perception

It was then always going to be a disappointment if it didn't live up to that

(Except by me, who thought the concept art was retarded and rather like the look of the actual product)

cj iwakura

Pretty sure that's the game Spector wanted to make, and Disney was like 'ha ha ha, no.'

maximumzero

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

WHO GIVES A FUCK

You use that same argument every time

Point is it existed, it was seen by the public and it colored perception

It was then always going to be a disappointment if it didn't live up to that

(Except by me, who thought the concept art was retarded and rather like the look of the actual product)

Oh my god that looks awesome!



What the hell is this brightly colored bullshit?

UnbreakableVow

You realize that you're fucking retarded, right?

You realize that the concept art for Epic Mickey, the one everyone liked, was brought up alongside the news "Hey Warren Spector is making a Mickey Mouse game and it's going to be a pretty odd change of pace for the character"

You realize that the concept art in question is not, in fact, a gallery art portrait, like that Mario art is?

Are you that fucking dense?

Bullio

The netbook's an ASUS 1015T, green/white book is Me Talk Pretty One Day, red one is Trouble Shooter, and the bottom game is Other M.

Also DA:O - Awakening, F.E.A.R., and Red Faction: Guerilla on Steam, Microsoft wireless receiver for 360 pad PC goodness, and a 1TB Seagate hard drive that I have yet to install.

cj iwakura

Yeesh, tone it back some.

Kuratosu

cj: I've played about 5-ish hours of Epic Mickey so far, and I'd argue that it's still pretty bleak and melancholy. The stuff with Oswald is actually quite touching.

I also don't know how Disney let Junction Point get away with Mickey Junk mountain. That's some not so subtle commentary on Disney merchandise and consumerism.

As for the game itself, I'm really enjoying it so far. Not gonna lie, the camera's a pain in the ass, but if you're able to look past it, there's something special about this game.

Also, I'm down for some SSIV some time. I'll get my ass kicked for sure, but should be fun! My PSN is in my sig.

cooljammer00 wrote: »

Wait, what's Fantasia Fantasia 2000?

What is Inception Origine?

Canadian?

It's just Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 on Blu ray. This is the first time I've seen 2000, and I gotta say Rhapsody in Blue is completely awesome. But the original Fantasia is still superior in many ways.

Origine is just the French title forced down our throats. Biligual packaging laws don't clutter things at all.

cj iwakura

I prefer Fantasia original as well, but 2000 is still really good.


Also, when's a good time? I can hop on in a few.

UnbreakableVow

I found Fantasia super-boring as a kid. I wonder if I'd dig it now.

Kuratosu

I'm heading out for a bit now, so maybe later this evening?

cj iwakura

Yep, just let me know.

maximumzero

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

You realize that you're fucking retarded, right?

You realize that the concept art for Epic Mickey, the one everyone liked, was brought up alongside the news "Hey Warren Spector is making a Mickey Mouse game and it's going to be a pretty odd change of pace for the character"

You realize that the concept art in question is not, in fact, a gallery art portrait, like that Mario art is?

Are you that fucking dense?

I may be mistaken on this, but I believe the concept art everyone is referring to was put onto the online portfolio of an artist, and everyone just assumed that it was related to the new rumored Disney game coming from Warren Spector. At no point did Disney come out and say "Yeah, this is art for the game we're working on.", so you shouldn't relate that concept art to Epic Mickey any more than that art there to Mario Galaxy.

Edit:

But Pulham isn't the only artist associated with the project at the source of an online leak. Posters on NeoGAF have dug up some gorgeously bleak concept art for the title as well, which were posted on the websites of former Junction Point artists Fred Gambino and Gary Glover. Naturally, the artwork seems to have disappeared from Gambino's website, and Glover's link to his environmental concept art portfolio (which seems to be where the related art was posted) now mysteriously redirects to SignOnSanDiego.com. But you can still see the concept art in the NeoGAF post, and we've posted a few of the pieces here as well.

Yep. Just part of an artist's portfolio.

UnbreakableVow

It hit like day-and-date with the news of Spector, then

If that's the case, it's the world's biggest coincidence working against a third-party Wii game that may have actually mattered

And if that's the case, oh well, life is not fair, and Epic Mickey is certainly not immune.

Rent

maximumzero wrote: »

Chance wrote: »

"The camera! The camera! It's killing me!"
"It's okay, Mickey - you're still inside the dream!"

Epic Mickey has got to be the most debated game of 2010.

I loved it and had absolutely no problems but most people seem to rate it below most shovelware.

the camera is seriously one of the worst pieces of shit i've seen

1997 psone levels of shitty, which is fucking inexcusable in this day and age

cooljammer00

And didn't the PS1 come with optional analog sticks?

edit: So in theory it has none.

Rent

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

I found Fantasia super-boring as a kid. I wonder if I'd dig it now.

it's not a very good piece

Fantasia 2000 is superior in every way

i mean sure, the good stuff in Fantasia is better than in Fantasia 2000- bald mountain, sorceror's apprentice, etc- but its much more inconsistent and the bad parts are fucking dreadful

C2B

I like how people go into games with unrealistic and completly wrong expectations and blame the game instead of giving it a fair chance and accept it on its own merits.

It makes me look back on my life and see all these things I truly loved but apparently aren't allowed to.