I’ve seen a couple tweets, read in various comments and message boards about how characters in Heavy Rain are mispronouncing “origami” in a variety of ways. I’ve also noticed this while playing, particularly with the newscaster. It’s one thing when some stress “ori-GAH-me” while others are peppy with “ori-GEH-me”, and it’s another when the entire [...]
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February 18, 2010
Not Quite SNES vs Genesis
From Joystiq, Sony on platform exclusivity: “In a new interview with Industry Gamers, SCEA’s senior vice president of publisher relations, Rob Dyer, shared a candid view on platform-exclusive titles — particularly when they’re on that other platform. “Look, we’re not going to get the exclusive games,” he said. “The Mass Effects, Gears of Wars and [...]
February 16, 2010
Parking Lot Journey
I recently read on a message board about someone not liking a returning character in Mass Effect 2 because said char wasn’t the same as he/she was in the first. I think that makes sequels more interesting. Experiences change people. If I’m going to invest in a series that deals with returning characters, I want [...]
February 3, 2010
Mass Effect 2: Cutting the Fat without Hitting the Bone
I loved the first Mass Effect despite hating certain design decisions: driving the floaty Mako to collect rocks that had insignificant money and xp values; playing Simon Says for rocks and lockers; unlimited ammo; the utter lack of variety in non-storytime quests, and the overabundance of items and navigation of items. With the exception of [...]
January 29, 2010
I Vaguely Remember Reading That
I just created a Goodreads account, slowly started to add books to my profile. And while rating books, I realized that I remember very little with the majority of them – the exception being books I’ve reread, which even then, I’m nowhere near as photographic as I am with movies. A self-inflicting dilemma: read a [...]
January 14, 2010
Dark Horizons’ 2010 Movie Guide
Dark Horizons – one of the better movie news sites – has over the past month been posting a Notable Films of 2010 feature, and recently Garth Franklin posted the last part (11 in total). This is perhaps the only 2010 movie release guide you’ll need. It’s well-written, is fact-heavy since the site isn’t concerned [...]
December 29, 2009
The Attraction of Avatar Part II: The Moments
Let me first get my complaints out of the way because there are so few. THIS POST IS ALL SPOILERS: -The hammerhead creature: when Jake encounters this rhino, there is an angled profile shot of it stomping and growling. It looks out of place because it looks like something you’d see in a museum-produced documentary. [...]
December 27, 2009
The Attraction of Avatar Part I: The Director and Technology
Twelve years I’ve been waiting for the next James Cameron movie. Two years I’ve been waiting for his vision of a scifi epic adventure in a time where, hell, I can’t name you the a recent example of its kind. Did Avatar live up to the hype? Is the technology behind the movie a game [...]
December 11, 2009
An Empty Shelf For My Movie Collection
Over at the Guardian, Cory Doctorow wrote an article about how the movie and TV industry believe streaming is the new and safe way to give us content; safe because there is the transaction between provider and custom, and zero sharing. It’s this last part that has the technologically naive excited. They assume that because [...]
December 1, 2009
Eyes on Avatar: Part 2
Ever since the theatrical trailer I’ve said I’m on an Avatar blackout. I’ve snuck in a few videos here and there; I’m incredibly picky, limiting myself to the occasional TV spot and not touching any character/creature/vehicle profiles or even listening to the James Horner score cuz I read somewhere that the music titles are spoiler-tastic. [...]
