The Best and Worst of the year (2008)

Re:The Best and Worst of the year (2008) (Torr)

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:23:15 GMT

The Best and worst of this year is hard for me to say considering for me this has been a very long year, but I guess for movie best would be either taken or dark knight and worst would be any of the High School musical shit. As for games that is hard for me to say since arguably some of the best games that have come out this year i have yet to play, so i reserve judgment for now.

As for hancock being horrible I would disagree, I didn't like it but I found it to be quite intriguing the plot twist was weird and the ending sucked but the special effects were pretty fucking awesome.

Re:The Best and Worst of the year (2008) (_Majik_)

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:28:53 GMT

The arcade version of Soul Calibur III (which i'm guessing nonbody else here will ahve played!?) was pretty sweet, but the PS2 version wasn't anywhere near as good as Soul Calibur 2. Fighting game elitists will always say that the original Dreamcast Soul Calibur (not the PSone Soul Blade) was the best entry in the series so far, but i though 2 was fucking awesome.

Soul Calibur IV is just broken. I can't get into it at all. I keep trying to play it thinking it might just click... but it hasn't. I play a lot of Dark Resurrection on PS3, and i consider it to be the best fighting game available on consoles. Tekken 5 on PS2 was great, but Dark Resurrection is just godly. it's missing all of the awesome game modes and stuff from the PSP version... but i play that a lot too so it's not like i;ve missed out on anything. I play VF5 on PS3 fairly often, and i love it, ...but i find Tekken to be more 'fun'. DoA4 too. I couldn't give a damn about whether they're balanced because i don't compete in tournaments and i'm not a sad elitist fuck like Virtua ;)

Tekken 6 is fantastic. I've been playing it since March and i can't get enough. It just kinda sucks that it isn't out until next fall :(

Re:The Best and Worst of the year (2008) (nekkid_monkey)

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:57:39 GMT

Maybe if I was drug addled and sexually deprived I'd actually get excited about batman.

I actually bought the movie a few days ago, I'll watch it eventually.

Re:The Best and Worst of the year (2008) (Agent Ghost)

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:11:41 GMT

At least there WAS a plot twist. What's so goddamned interesting about watching batman's story again? I still haven't seen that movie.

I agree with Dan on this one the plot twist did ruin the movie somewhat, I was also enjoying it until then. You haven't seen The Dark Knight? Are you a masochist? There are three luxuries in life that everyone should experience at least once. Preferably much more than once.

1. Smoke some Chronic.
2. Get a nice piece of ass.
3. And you must watch The Dark Knight.

If you can manage them all in the same day, well that would be one fine fucking day.

Re:The Best and Worst of the year (2008) (immortaldanmx)

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:02:07 GMT

nekkid_monkey

At least there WAS a plot twist. What's so goddamned interesting about watching batman's story again? I still haven't seen that movie.

And that would make your opinion of "Best and Worst Movies of 08" invalid.

Re:The Best and Worst of the year (2008) (nekkid_monkey)

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:39:36 GMT

At least there WAS a plot twist. What's so goddamned interesting about watching batman's story again? I still haven't seen that movie.

Re:The Best and Worst of the year (2008) (immortaldanmx)

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:39:08 GMT

nekkid_monkey

I liked Hancock.

Kill yourself. It was decent enough, until the goddamned plot twist.

Re:The Best and Worst of the year (2008) (nekkid_monkey)

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:02:55 GMT

I liked Hancock.

Re:The Best and Worst of the year (2008) (immortaldanmx)

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:51:57 GMT

Keyword of your statement: WERE. As in arcades are dead outside of Japan. Even well known fighting game series' struggle to sell real numbers.

Re:The Best and Worst of the year (2008) (the_shadowwolf)

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:46:08 GMT

Agent Ghost

His whole thing is that (order->predictability->weakness). In fact throughout the entire movie the Joker was able manipulate everyone as they relied on established rules and boundaries, while he did not.

He even manipulated the people who thought they were in control.

Thats on the mark Agent Ghost!

_Majik_

How the hell could anybody like Soul Calibur IV??? The game is awful...

I have loved the series until now, but they've completely fucking broken it. It's too slow, they've tweaked and altered too many moves and it's the most unbalanced fighter i've ever played. Namco haven't lost their touch completely because Tekken 5 owned, Dark Resurrection owned and Tekken 6 fucking owns, but Soul Calibur IV is as bad as Tekken 4 was. It's pretty sure, but that doesn't help it in the slightest.

And Nitro's a dick Joe. Nobody will be sorry to see the back of that fuck.

Tekken 4 was awful, so true but there is a lack of good Vs games and to me the only one that stood out was SC IV.
I gave up on after Tekken Tag and Tekken 3 nothing else was better than those Tekken Games.
I kinda grew partial to that fuck, but _Majic_ is back and he is alright.

immortaldanmx

Were you implying that fighting games are a limited and broken genre that hasnt really expanded at all? Gasp! How did you know?

But it wasn't like that.
Thats why arcade titles like Marvel Vs Capcom, Tekken Tag, Soul Edge, Street fighter 2, Mortal Kombat 2, Samauri Showdown, were all successful.

Re:The Best and Worst of the year (2008) (choupolo)

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:34:08 GMT

It looked like this...

That's the right one right?

Re:The Best and Worst of the year (2008) (Chee Saw)

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:16:22 GMT

All clothes should have nipples built in.

Re:The Best and Worst of the year (2008) (immortaldanmx)

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:26:10 GMT

choupolo

Um, what did I watch the wrong one?

Did the bat-suit have nipples? If so, yes.

Re:The Best and Worst of the year (2008) (choupolo)

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:16:59 GMT

Um, what did I watch the wrong one?

Re:The Best and Worst of the year (2008) (mastachefbkw)

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:57:14 GMT

Hmm, will have to watch that bit again then. It seems a bit too easy to just say, yea he knew he was going to do this. Personally I would've thought Batman would want to save Harvey Dent - since he was bigging him up and feeling guilty about beating people up himself. But when it came to it he just went after the poon.

So....did you even watch the movie?

Re:The Best and Worst of the year (2008) (immortaldanmx)

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:48:18 GMT

Were you implying that fighting games are a limited and broken genre that hasnt really expanded at all? Gasp! How did you know?

Re:The Best and Worst of the year (2008) (choupolo)

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:34:25 GMT

Hmm, will have to watch that bit again then. It seems a bit too easy to just say, yea he knew he was going to do this. Personally I would've thought Batman would want to save Harvey Dent - since he was bigging him up and feeling guilty about beating people up himself. But when it came to it he just went after the poon.

I liked the Joker's character, but the plot 'twists' were kinda contrived imo. Not saying I didn't love the film though. Only film I went to see at the cinema all year tbh. Others I got on DVD.

Re:The Best and Worst of the year (2008) (Agent Ghost)

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:54:42 GMT

On the other had - The Dark Knight kinda did take itself a bit seriously - and bits like the supposed switch at the end was just silly. As though Batman ran off initially saying one thing, then off camera had run back to tell everyone he was changing his mind. How else would the chief have known, heh.

The Joker knew Batman would try to save his girl. It was the Joker who purposefully switched the addresses. Batman thought he was heading for what's her face. He also knew Batman would get there first, maybe it was closer. He manipulated Batman and Harvey Dent. His whole thing is that (order->predictability->weakness). In fact throughout the entire movie the Joker was able manipulate everyone as they relied on established rules and boundaries, while he did not.

He even manipulated the people who thought they were in control, like the Chinese accountant or the mob boss that put a price on his head.

Re:The Best and Worst of the year (2008) (choupolo)

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:22:23 GMT

I'm not a fan of the xmen or spiderman films or even hulk etc. But I loved Iron Man. Course none of it made any sense, with a so-called genius weapons designer that's too naive to know what they're used for. And the flux capacitor from Back to the Future.

But it never took itself too seriously, remained cartoony and I dunno, maybe it was just the tech-geek in me. The suit was just so shiny!

On the other hand - The Dark Knight kinda did take itself a bit seriously - and bits like [spoiler]the supposed switch at the end was just silly. As though Batman ran off initially saying he'd save the girl, then off camera had run back to tell everyone he was changing his mind to save the guy.[/spoiler] How else would the chief have known, heh.

Tbh I preferred Batman Begins.

Re:The Best and Worst of the year (2008) (_Majik_)

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:16:29 GMT

How the hell could anybody like Soul Calibur IV??? The game is awful...

I have loved the series until now, but they've completely fucking broken it. It's too slow, they've tweaked and altered too many moves and it's the most unbalanced fighter i've ever played. Namco haven't lost their touch completely because Tekken 5 owned, Dark Resurrection owned and Tekken 6 fucking owns, but Soul Calibur IV is as bad as Tekken 4 was. It's pretty sure, but that doesn't help it in the slightest.

As for Iron Man...

It wasn't a good film. I didn't like the Spiderman films, i didn't like the Transformers movie and i didn't like the X-Men films. I love comics, but not movies based on comic books.

And Nitro's a dick Joe. Nobody will be sorry to see the back of that fuck.