[Kathy]

I don't really know what he meant by calling me a fascist.

[Micky C]

Lunick, on 21 June 2012 - 03:09 PM, said:

Pre-Purchase Spec Ops: the Line and get..... DUKE NUKEM FOREVER....

Seems like a turn off to pre-purchase...

At this point it seems that DNF will be announced as freeware before Duke 3D ever will.

[CruX]

Micky C, on 22 June 2012 - 12:44 AM, said:

At this point it seems that DNF will be announced as freeware before Duke 3D ever will.

Not claiming to have checked the figures or anything, but I really wouldn't be surprised if DN3D was making more in sales than DNF right now.

[Kathy]

Jeff, on 21 June 2012 - 04:30 PM, said:

I seem to have several Mass Effect fans in my building. One guy I know quite well is on the 14th floor. Another guy I saw a couple days ago with an N7 hoodie, and today these guys commented on my N7 shirt.

No one has commented on my N7 shirt except one guy at the work who only tried playing the first one. Friends don't count.

[Jeff]

Almost forgot. New season of Futurama aired on June 20th. They're making another 26 episodes.

[Jimmy]

Burnett, on 22 June 2012 - 12:27 AM, said:

I don't really know what he meant by calling me a fascist.

He was being fatuous.

[Jeff]

Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut will be released on June 26th.

Spoiler

There will be new cinematics for the game. However, these cinematics aren't just going to be added for the last 10 minutes. They said they go back as far as the Assault on Cronos Station (Cerberus Headquarters). First stage of the final mission before the Battle for Earth.

[Micky C]

I swear Australian television has started using Command and Conquer music as background music. I heard them use part of Hell March 3 when advertising Superman 4, and a loop of part of a Tiberian Sun track on a news story on an ominous business. These were on two different channels IIRC.

[Lunick]

I thought I heard Sonic music the other day on tv :|

[Micky C]

Old or new sonic music?

And I just upgraded my desktop from 3gb to 8gb, loving life

[Lunick]

I cant remember what ad it was but it sounded like a modern Green Hill zone.

[Mikko]

Jeff, on 22 June 2012 - 06:35 PM, said:

Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut will be released on June 26th.

Spoiler

There will be new cinematics for the game. However, these cinematics aren't just going to be added for the last 10 minutes. They said they go back as far as the Assault on Cronos Station (Cerberus Headquarters). First stage of the final mission before the Battle for Earth.

Horrible decision. They should leave the ending alone. This is worse than Lucas/Spielberg raping his films.

[Kathy]

Jeff, on 22 June 2012 - 06:35 PM, said:

Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut will be released on June 26th.

And here we go again... At least I hope all this "indoctrination theory" bullshit would end. Not that I'm even planning to replay last two missions. If only I start from scratch since first Mass Effect. I might someday.

Mikko_Sandt, on 23 June 2012 - 05:03 AM, said:

Horrible decision. They should leave the ending alone.

Maybe they never cared/believed for the ending to begin with? That's why they didn't stick to their guns with it.

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This is worse than Lucas/Spielberg raping his films.

Changing a 3 months old game is worse than changing 30 years old movie? Plus in the former's case you can opt-out of dlc and have the original "cut" with the same visual quality. Yeah, it is certainly worse than having in decent quality only the shitty version of Star Wars trilogy with idiotic changes that didn't expand anything.

And don't compare Spielberg to Lucas in that respect. Spielberg's Close Encounters have all the cuts on blu-ray for example. And the ET's blu-ray release will also have original cut. Lucas is in his own league on butchering movies, while Spielberg realised being wrong about this stuff.

[Mikko]

Burnett, on 23 June 2012 - 05:13 AM, said:

Maybe they never cared/believed for the ending to begin with? That's why they didn't stick to their guns with it.

Or maybe they just underestimated the stupidity of ME fans? In case you haven't noticed, fanboys are usually headcases and not very representative.

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Changing a 3 months old game is worse than changing 30 years old movie?

What Lucas and Spielberg do is mainly audiovisual; they don't change the actual story content. Imagine the shitstorm if Lucas suddenly decided to expand Star War's ending with additional content.

[Jeff]

Just a reminder, the Extended Cut is optional. Just like with Star Wars. You can still watch the original trilogy the way it was meant to be on VHS, while the modified version is on DVD/Blu-ray.

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Changing a 3 months old game is worse than changing 30 years old movie?

They're not changing anything, just adding to what's already there. So we'll still see Shepard and the Illusive Man at the end, as well as the scene with Anderson. The ending is not being completely rewritten. You'll still have the original ending, just with some extra scenes.

It's not like Star Wars where they've deleted original scenes which were on the VHS version and completely replaced them with something else. Nothing will be replaced, they're just adding new content to explain what's already there.

[Kathy]

Mikko_Sandt, on 23 June 2012 - 05:50 AM, said:

What Lucas and Spielberg do is mainly audiovisual;

Like I said, Spielberg ain't doing shit.

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they don't change the actual story content. Imagine the shitstorm if Lucas suddenly decided to expand Star War's ending with additional content.

Because Lucas technically can't reshoot to add additional scenes. There are lots of movies changing lots of stuff after several months of release because they have additional scenes available. The problem with Lucas is not changing itself, but unwillingness to have several cuts available. ME3 won't have the problem of being old like shit to do changes, and unvailable "original cut".

Jeff, on 23 June 2012 - 08:04 AM, said:

Just a reminder, the Extended Cut is optional. Just like with Star Wars. You can still watch the original trilogy the way it was meant to be on VHS, while the modified version is on DVD/Blu-ray.

I'm sorry, but I can't watch Star Wars in a proper quality. I'm either be watching shitty quality original cuts or good/fantastic quality shitty enhanced editions. Watching on VHS/Laserdisk/DVD-letterbox is not "the way it was meant".

And I advise you to add spoiler tags since it's a general thread, not ME story discussion.

[Jimmy]

Laserdisc is decent enough quality, but there really shouldnt be that much hassle.

[Kathy]

Laserdisk is 4:3. Which means widescreen movie is letterboxed there. Quality is shitty. Especially compared to anamorphic dvd quality. I'm not talking about blu-ray.

[TerminX]

Micky C, on 22 June 2012 - 11:17 PM, said:

I swear Australian television has started using Command and Conquer music as background music. I heard them use part of Hell March 3 when advertising Superman 4, and a loop of part of a Tiberian Sun track on a news story on an ominous business. These were on two different channels IIRC.

I can't remember where it was, but some news station somewhere used the music from one of the old DNF trailers for something years ago...

[The Commander]

I believe a radio commercial here uses some music from SimCity Societies.
Then I also think I have herd the first 8 seconds of Mark Knight's "Distortion" on a TV commercial.

[High Treason]

Wouldn't be the first time "the industries" had borrowed from a game without giving credit;


There are more in that game as far as I remember. In the case of SimCity though, I think Fox has some relation to the rights over the music in The Sims 3 and therefore, maybe more of The Sims related games which might explain it being used on the radio, at least if Fox were somehow involved with the station/show that used it... I could be wrong on this so don't take my word for it.

[Yatta]

TerminX said:

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I can't remember where it was, but some news station somewhere used the music from one of the old DNF trailers for something years ago...

I remember that! I think it was an Indian station.

[Micky C]

Are these stations just unlawfully using music from places that they think nobody will recognise because it's not mainstream music?

[Yatta]

That, and lack of concern for copyright enforcement.

[Loke]

[Radar]

In Gatlinburg, Tennessee, there is a Ripley's dinosaur exhibit (or something along those lines if I remember correctly) that has a massive dinosaur head hooked up outside of the place that plays back the battlelord roar from Duke3D. I stood in front of it in awe for quite awhile when I heard it.

[CruX]

Ah, you hear that everywhere. It's a stock sound effect, like those opening doors in Daggerfall.

[High Treason]

I was about to point out that that sound was in Duel (a 1971 film - the first one to be fully directed by Steven Spielberg) but the only one I can find has this out of place echoing truck horn there... I have the original version on VHS so I can attempt to find that and capture it if anybody wants to see what I was talking about. I think I've brought this up before, but I always liked the idea that the battlelord was driving the truck throughout the movie, we certainly never see more than the driver's hand.

Whoever did the audio editing on that movie needs to be fired, totally butchered it, you can hear the white noise in the background (thanks to 1970's equipment) just go away and come back wherever they have modified the sounds in the move... Why can't they just leave movies alone? That's ruined my day that has.

[Loke]

High Treason, on 24 June 2012 - 01:25 PM, said:

I was about to point out that that sound was in Duel (a 1971 film - the first one to be fully directed by Steven Spielberg) but the only one I can find has this out of place echoing truck horn there... I have the original version on VHS so I can attempt to find that and capture it if anybody wants to see what I was talking about.

I know what scene you're referring to. I tried searching for it but ended up the same as you. At the end when the truck crashes down the cliff edge you hear this very loud distinctive roar (Battlelord in this case) which I've always thought was quite scary, like the truck emits this last desperate war cry while it stumbles down to its doom.

You should upload the original footage to YouTube in case you find the VHS.

[Ronin]

High Treason, on 24 June 2012 - 01:25 PM, said:

I was about to point out that that sound was in Duel (a 1971 film - the first one to be fully directed by Steven Spielberg) but the only one I can find has this out of place echoing truck horn there... I have the original version on VHS so I can attempt to find that and capture it if anybody wants to see what I was talking about. I think I've brought this up before, but I always liked the idea that the battlelord was driving the truck throughout the movie, we certainly never see more than the driver's hand.

Whoever did the audio editing on that movie needs to be fired, totally butchered it, you can hear the white noise in the background (thanks to 1970's equipment) just go away and come back wherever they have modified the sounds in the move... Why can't they just leave movies alone? That's ruined my day that has.

I once watched Duel with Johnny Cash playing in the backround for the whole film and the film on mute at a session, it was great, it just worked and made the film really funny. Nearly as good as The Wizard of Oz with The Dark Side of the Moon.