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The new lightsaber looks silly, but I hope the big clunky looking light-claymore means a return to the slower-paced sword battles of the original film and not the silliness of the later films. Lightsaber fights were coolest when treated like duels from old samurai films or some shit.

On the one hand, fight choreography has come a long way since the late 70s. On the other hand, I think having everybody do fucking Jet Li flips and spins in the prequels was stupid. I'd rather go back to the original trilogies, where I believe the actors were literally told to pretend the prop they were holding had the weight of a samurai sword, and that each swing had to have some weight behind it. You look at Luke at the end of Empire, and he looks sweaty and exhausted, and it makes the fight seem like it's a big deal. In most of the lightsaber fights in the prequels, they're spinning the lightsabers around like they're fucking drumsticks, and it just looks lame.

Yeah giving the swords weight made for some really tense duels. I think even though they have the ability to choreograph more complex mores, I think the filmmakers need to realize that less is more for some things. By Episode 3 the final hyped up battle between Anakin and Obi-Wan ended up falling flat for me because it was just a crazy lightsaber-and-lava-light-show. Like I can remember specific memorable moments from the fight at the end of Empire Strikes Back, but nothing about the Episode 3 fight felt memorable, it was just flashy as all hell.

Judging by the Star Trek movies JJ Abrams isn't great at subtle action, but we'll see!

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#3  Edited By MikkaQ

The new lightsaber looks silly, but I hope the big clunky looking light-claymore means a return to the slower-paced sword battles of the original film and not the silliness of the later films. Lightsaber fights were coolest when treated like duels from old samurai films or some shit.

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I don't know... seems like racing games are always overlooked because they are racing games. I enjoyed the shit out of Forza Horizon 2, and I would say without hyperbole that it is probably my favorite racing game of all time. It probably places 2nd or 3rd in my overall list for 2014. Sounds weird to say it is overlooked, seeing as it had excellent reviews... but nobody seems to give these kinds of games much of a chance in end of year ratings.

It's been an awesome year for racing games between Forza Horizon, Grid Autosport and Assetto Corsa coming out within a couple months of each other.

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I feel like it's been mediocre, lots of games with promise but not much that actually lives up to them.

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It really baffles me when single player offline games don't let you use cusswords in text input options. Come to think of it, that always seems to happen to me with JRPGs. Also what is a Pokemon game really without a rival named Assface?

I remember when Starsiege Tribes filtered cussing, it was so sensitive that the word grapes got censored in-chat. Then again the game uses Shazbot, so that's awesome.

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One time I was flying in the buzzer and saw an eagle pick up a goat and start flying away with it. I thought "fuck that" and shot toward the eagle with a shotgun. The eagle dropped the goat who landed near his buddies and was fine. The eagle didn't make it. No dinner for him tonight.

If I see a honey badger, I don't fuck around. I pull out the molotovs and grenade launcher and go scorched earth on their asses.

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No, I'm fairly sure I'll never play Destiny again. I did everything but the raid. I felt like that was just constantly stretching itself and padding itself out to make the pathetic amount of content seem way longer than it is. It's like they made a 6 hour COD-style campaign and then decided it needed to take 20 hours to finish. That shit turned out to be pretty boring. I do not want to pay anything to experience more of that slog.

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I just don't see the point. I've literally never dealt with a game being sold out before, I can always just pick it up on launch day without a pre-order. I guess I can see it if you live in a small town with one game store or something, but where I live there's like 10+ places I can buy games within 20 mins biking distance.

I usually check if the launch day reviews or good, then I can decide whether I want it or not. If I preordered a game that reviews poorly, I'd have to go through the process of calling to cancel or going there and getting my 5 bucks back.

One exception is digital games, when I know I'm going to like the game (like Elder Scrolls games are a total given for me), pre-ordering is awesome because I have the game downloaded and ready to unlock by launch-minute.

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Brain-computer interfaces. Forget buttons and finger swiping, I just want to be able to think "Play song X" at my phone and it just starts playing. Throw an RFID in there too so I don't need house keys or credit cards anymore.