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arcada188 about to beat a badger Since: Jan, 2015
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#26: Dec 30th 2015 at 12:13:44 AM

Interesting. Although this seemed to be risky, it was well-written. I especially liked the details of the future world, the hallucinations, and the visual effects.

A more well-animated, more well-written Chargeman Ken reboot. Also includes Cerebus Syndrome.

You really are from the future! Tell me, am I living in a cottage in Nova Scotia, happily married with one egg and another on the way?
arcada188 about to beat a badger Since: Jan, 2015
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#27: Dec 30th 2015 at 8:23:59 AM

Bump.

You really are from the future! Tell me, am I living in a cottage in Nova Scotia, happily married with one egg and another on the way?
gregnes2000 Since: Apr, 2015
#28: Dec 30th 2015 at 8:50:54 AM

Chargeman Ken. What can I say about it? It's bad? It's somewhat lacking when you compare it to other animes? It's probably not as good as Full Metal Alchemist? All of these. But for some reason, someone tried to fix it. Like how Christopher Nolan tried to revive Sonic. Like Nolan, this didn't work. The animation, while better, is still not good. The writing got a bit better too, but it isn't too good still. And the cerebus syndrome, OH GOD! It gets fucking dark! Out of nowhere too! Not recommended.

A Portal movie also by J. J. Abrams. It takes place in the same universe as the Half-Life movie, but doesn't borrow too much from it.

arcada188 about to beat a badger Since: Jan, 2015
about to beat a badger
#29: Dec 30th 2015 at 9:06:54 AM

Just as great. I especially liked G La DOS.

A significantly Darker and Edgier EVO Search For Eden prequel game that tells the tale of Bolbox and his companions. Music is provided by Toby Fox.

You really are from the future! Tell me, am I living in a cottage in Nova Scotia, happily married with one egg and another on the way?
Snicklin Since: Dec, 2010
#30: Dec 30th 2015 at 6:00:19 PM

It's an increasingly cumbersome delve into some kind of twisted neo-lore in an action-RPG format. That's just what this game is; worn turn-based elements hanging slack onto an already overburdened lovecraftian tale. As much as I wanted desperately for this game to be otherwise, it's just a show of gothic bells and whistles that you'll be straddling to remember why you wanted so desperately to observe in the first place once you've walked away.

Naughty Dog (Uncharted, The Last Of Us) develops what is marketed as a white-knuckle, psychedelic revival of Fable as an action-adventure game. It contains elements of stealth and survival, and features music composed by Justin Vernon of Bon Iver.

edited 30th Dec '15 6:04:13 PM by Snicklin

MoreFace Is something the matter? from Somewhere Millions of Miles Away Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
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#31: Dec 30th 2015 at 8:07:14 PM

What were these folks on!?

If Psychonauts was an animated movie. Directed by TIM BURTON.

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gregnes2000 Since: Apr, 2015
#32: Dec 30th 2015 at 8:56:50 PM

Tim Burton. If I'm correct, he last made a Ruby Quest movie. So what does he take on next? Psychonauts, obviously! To be fair, Psychonauts always did feel Burton-esque. Good ol' Tim decided to make it MORE Burton-esque. He does his trademark claymation, in style of Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride. It fits very well, and they got Richard Steven Horvitz to reclaim his role as the protagonist. He still isn't as hammy as he is as, say, Zim or Fawful, but that's okay. The characters are interesting and it's still as imaginative as the original. Wholeheartedly recommended.

A live-action series based on The Stanley Parable. The Narrator is still voiced by Kevan Brighting, and Stanley is still a silent protagonist.

arcada188 about to beat a badger Since: Jan, 2015
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#33: Dec 30th 2015 at 11:58:12 PM

So, we have a game about an office man who explores the office and is helped (or manipulated) by a narrator. I liked it when I saw the first episode: it quickly delves into a tale of suspense and fear as Stanley walks around the office. I liked it.

A Dont Starve-like game that involves exploring and trying to escape from an old house that delves into Alien Geometries. It is based on Teremok, a russian fairy tale.

You really are from the future! Tell me, am I living in a cottage in Nova Scotia, happily married with one egg and another on the way?
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#34: Dec 31st 2015 at 10:09:02 AM

ACK! Too weird!

A Wii U game about THIS.

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Snicklin Since: Dec, 2010
#35: Dec 31st 2015 at 8:54:03 PM

Amulet for the Wii U plays like a spiritual successor to Undertale, but improved in many ways. You get a colorful cast of characters, each with their own unique set of skills. The game re-examines the role of problem solving in video games and does not force the story into the gameplay, which makes it even more fun to follow. Although it's a great game, it's going to have trouble finding its audience; like the original graphic novel series, this game doesn't seem to be very decisive on whether it's for kids or adults.

A live-action Johnny The Homicidal Maniac series directed by Eric Wareheim (see Tim And Eric), starring Will Forte

edited 14th Feb '16 5:35:35 PM by Snicklin

gregnes2000 Since: Apr, 2015
#36: Jan 1st 2016 at 8:18:21 PM

Gotta say. I didn't see this one coming. You take Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, made by the same dude who made Invader Zim, and you get Eric of Tim & Eric to make a series about it. It's weird. Not the Invader Zim kind of weird where it's a bunch of non-sequiturs, but weird. As in, it feels like a nightmare. It's very surreal. Similar to Tim & Eric in that respect, I suppose. Things just... happen. I can't watch this. I'm serious, IT FUCKING SCARES ME. From what I did see though, it's good. So, basically, watch at your own risk.

A sequel to the Mario & Luigi movie all the way from Post 6. This time, it focuses on Partners In Time. The shroobs are all voiced by computer programs, and it is just as Grimdark as the original game.

edited 1st Jan '16 8:19:17 PM by gregnes2000

arcada188 about to beat a badger Since: Jan, 2015
about to beat a badger
#37: Jan 1st 2016 at 11:27:14 PM

Well, it was... interesting. The Shroobs' designs were pretty cool, though.

Douglas Dixon, writer of such titles such as Man After Man An Anthropology of the Future, writes a book about uplifted animal species and their evolution, based on Inherit the Earth with some features from All Tomorrows

edited 2nd Jan '16 4:16:40 AM by arcada188

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#38: Jan 3rd 2016 at 9:37:30 AM

Um... What happened?

A Game of Thrones Recursive Adaptation.

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arcada188 about to beat a badger Since: Jan, 2015
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#39: Jan 3rd 2016 at 9:53:40 AM

Since Game of Thrones is an extremely large, Doorstopper-spanning piece of art with some great worldbuilding, the Recursive Adaptation fails to fit all of the beauty and is terrible.

An EVO Search For Eden prequel game that tells the tale of Bolbox and his companions before he... well, you know.

edited 3rd Jan '16 9:53:56 AM by arcada188

You really are from the future! Tell me, am I living in a cottage in Nova Scotia, happily married with one egg and another on the way?
Snicklin Since: Dec, 2010
#40: Jan 4th 2016 at 2:52:51 PM

The series seems to be cursed by clunky character movement, but this EVO: Search For Eden prequel introduces a new nuisance: a storyline that confounds the gameplay rather than complementing it. You play as a creature similar to the one in Search For Eden, granted fancy new visuals and more varied gameplay. One thing to be thankful for is that this prequel spends less time than Search For Eden with its combat system. Before you jump to the conclusion that this game is a deserving successor to EVO because there is less tedious combat, know that there is a bad side to this. You will be spending hours in contrived side-missions in order to progress. In fact, at one point I found myself wanting to take a breath of relief as the game shifted from tedious leveling up to finally returning to the main quest, only to have the game's flow interrupted by a completely nonessential cutscene. If you can bare this game's initial flaws until the better half of the game when our protagonist finally joins Bolbox and his goons, you might find some reward for going through this game's trouble. It feels like graduation when you're given the new abilities that Bolbox offers. Whether it's worth suffering the first part of the game is disputable.

Larry Charles, director of Borat, writes, directs and produces the official sequel to The Care Bears Movie, with Sacha Baron Cohen as the villain. Fun for the whole family.

edited 4th Jan '16 3:39:06 PM by Snicklin

arcada188 about to beat a badger Since: Jan, 2015
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#41: Jan 6th 2016 at 12:07:37 AM

Although Sacha Baron Cohen is a good actor, I saw his voice quite unfitting with the main antagonist. That, and damn, CGI Care Bears are creepy.

A yaoi dojinshi manga involving Zig x Bernie. Am I kicked out of the forum yet?

edited 6th Jan '16 12:08:03 AM by arcada188

You really are from the future! Tell me, am I living in a cottage in Nova Scotia, happily married with one egg and another on the way?
Snicklin Since: Dec, 2010
#42: Jan 6th 2016 at 9:23:20 AM

To watch this is to know, nay, to experience the meaning of soul-sucking. Seriously; while my friend was trying to make me watch this on his laptop, I got the sensation of being dragged down into the pits of a lake of burning sulfur. What happened to those days of simple innocence, when Dragon Ball Z was still airing new episodes and those types of cartoons were somewhat easy to watch?

A Shrek v. Po film in the vain of Dawn of Justice, directed by Zachary Snyder and animated by the Dreamworks Animation Team.

hamza678 Red Like Santa from Christmas Beacon. Since: Apr, 2013
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#43: Jan 6th 2016 at 3:10:52 PM

It was a badass movie. with excellent fighting and animation. A bit dark for such a film though. Needed a bit more humor. I did like how the animation was. I also enjoyed how they had cameos from all the dreamworks characters.

A Disney Animated Canon version of Berserk

Now known as Cyber Controller
arcada188 about to beat a badger Since: Jan, 2015
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#44: Jan 6th 2016 at 3:14:05 PM

Although obviously very toned down, I still liked it for its amazing storyline and deepness.

A Kamandi reboot.

You really are from the future! Tell me, am I living in a cottage in Nova Scotia, happily married with one egg and another on the way?
hamza678 Red Like Santa from Christmas Beacon. Since: Apr, 2013
Red Like Santa
#45: Jan 6th 2016 at 3:22:10 PM

This is the oddest idea for a reboot I've seen. Does anyone still remember that comic?

All I can say, is that it was decent. I felt that it was a bit too 90s for me, though.

A Warhammer 40,000 anime adaptation, created by Madhouse

edited 6th Jan '16 3:22:25 PM by hamza678

Now known as Cyber Controller
Snicklin Since: Dec, 2010
#46: Jan 6th 2016 at 5:26:59 PM

Amidst the stampede of violent, gloomy cartoon shows, this adaptation of Warhammer 4K will get trampled. At least Warhammer fans looking for an adaptation of their favorite tabletop game will have something to gloat over, but everyone else can find a better place to invest their time and money elsewhere. Instead of watching several seasons worth of war machines battling, war machines being built, and people talking about war machines, you will find more value in condensing that time into two-odd hours by watching Michael Bay's film adaptation of Battleship.

Zach Galifianakis of The Hangover makes his directorial debut in the film adaptation of... Homestar Runner. Features the same animation techniques used in The Peanuts Movie.

hamza678 Red Like Santa from Christmas Beacon. Since: Apr, 2013
Red Like Santa
#47: Jan 6th 2016 at 6:06:23 PM

An interesting adaptation. I don't think Galifianakis' humor was well suited for such a surreal movie. I did enjoy the voice acting, but why did they all sound the same?

A Michael Bay directed version of Fantastic Four (2015)

Now known as Cyber Controller
gregnes2000 Since: Apr, 2015
#48: Jan 7th 2016 at 8:35:47 AM

I'm gonna let you all in on a secret. I hate Michael Bay. In my personal opinion, he is the Ted Bundy of cinema. He ruins films by constantly covering it in explosions, boobs, and other dudebro-pandering bullshit. Now that I got that out of the way, Fantastic Four. I remember when it was announced, everyone lost their shit that Human Torch was gonna be black. Well, our good friend Michael really wanted to make sure we knew he was black. The guy's dialogue is littered with phrases like "Holla!" or "Dawg!" Okay, bad start, but can the film redeem itself? No, of course it fucking can't! Guess who they cast the Invisible Woman as. MEGAN FOX! And you can bet your bottom fucking dollar she is wearing the skimpiest thing I've ever seen in a non X-rated film. Not only that, but even more of the usual suspects are back. The main villain is revealed to be gay, so they have to put a stop to that! There are explosions everywhere, as well. Don't watch this. It's dreadful. It's another terrible movie to add to Michael Bay's atrocious track record.

A Nan Quest animated film by Tim Burton. Much like the original, it's a spiritual successor to the Ruby Quest film.

arcada188 about to beat a badger Since: Jan, 2015
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#49: Jan 7th 2016 at 9:13:22 AM

Just as good as Ruby Quest. I especially liked Henry and the art style. The Uninvited Things were especially awesome.

A post-apocalyptic The Penguins of Madagascar RPG.

edited 7th Jan '16 9:14:31 AM by arcada188

You really are from the future! Tell me, am I living in a cottage in Nova Scotia, happily married with one egg and another on the way?
gregnes2000 Since: Apr, 2015
#50: Jan 8th 2016 at 7:52:42 AM

Okay, today we're doing something weird. Someone made a game that can best be described as Fallout meets Penguins of Madagascar. Now, I watched a few episodes for research, and at no point did I think "You know, this is pretty good, but it would be better if it took place during the apocalypse." Apparently someone did though, because here it is. While the premise is stupid, I was pleasantly surprised. The story was your typical apocalypse story, but the tone reminded me a lot of Earthbound. A lot of absurd humor. Unfortunately, the battles are a weird mix of turn-based and real-time combat. I hate that, and a lot of other critics do, too. If you're gonna be an RPG, make your combat Kingdom Hearts or Pokemon! Stop trying to combine bullshit that doesn't work! So, in conclusion, I guess I give it a cautious recommendation. The cons definitely outweigh the pros, but the humor is just so abstract, you have to see it.

The third Mario & Luigi movie. This time, it's Bowser's Inside Story. Richard Steven Horvitz reclaims his role as Fawful and Bowser is now voiced by Scott Burns, Bowser's ingame voice actor.

edited 8th Jan '16 7:53:04 AM by gregnes2000


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