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Can't wait to watch this. I love Plinkett's stuff. Almost a bittersweet moment for his Star Wars review saga to come to a close.
 
Hopefully he does The Matrix trilogy next.

I gave up on Dead Space. It wasn't too hard, I just don't like the artificially withholding ammo mechanic.
 
I'm probably about to give up on The Witcher. The gameplay isn't hard, it's just too fucking arbitrary. I guess because I talked to characters in a certain order I'm basically fucked for a whole chapter. It wasn't the choices or dialogue options that fucked me, just the fact that I walked up to them first. Lame.

It was a great idea, and the shipping times were closer to Netflix then Gamefly. Ultimately it's pointless without new releases. Especially now considering how quickly games drop price after their release window.
 
I just recently canceled my plan. If they get the new releases sorted out I would resume in a heartbeat.

" It's Jeff. I've noticed that the dude only likes Def Jam Rapstar and DJ Hero 2. "

David O' Russell's The Fighter was one of the best films this year, and Wahlberg was excellent in it. I think I'll trust his creative process over the collective fanboy ravings, the same fanboys that probably wouldn't bother seeing it even if Fillion was cast.
 
And I'm glad Russell is taking a different approach to the series. Who would want to watch someone act out things you could be playing through? No one. A movie is a different medium, Russell is a master of that medium, let's leave him to it.
 
We've already seen the trash video game movies that try to placate the fanboys. No one likes those movies. No one sees those movies. Finally we're seeing some real talent and people can't stop bitching...

I loved Heavy Rain. But I wasn't in love with the story itself, just the way in which the story was told.

" @septim: I suppose you are right there.  Has he not tried to play it?  I am pretty sure that I remember him saying, several times, that he just didn't like what he played.  Specifically, I remember them talking about how the controls of riding a horse and him not liking the way it worked. "

" @septim: Well....isn't this a moot point since we haven't gotten to the specific game of the year category yet?   "

The one thing I'll say is that this year doesn't seem that prepared. Both the nominees, and even the categories themselves seem ill defined. It's fun to hear them hash that shit out though, so I can't complain.
 
I think it should be a requirement to have at least tried all of the GOTY nominees though. A good debate is an informed debate.

" I fired up Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit yesterday and was forced to download the Super Sports Pack.  After heading to the career mode to see what was added I noticed a flood of "new" tags all over the map.  Since I'd already completed most of the events this must mean that they added quite a bit of content.  Well, no, as it turns out.  All of those tags weren't referring to new events, they actually meant that there are new cars available to use for those events.  And by available they mean in the store, for $2.99 a piece.  And when they say it's for that event, they mean that it is in the same class as cars in that event, not necessarily that you can actually use it in that event.  So now I have no easy way of telling which tracks have events I haven't finished yet, and which ones just support cars I don't own.  Apparently unhappy with Activision taking all the "evil empire" mindshare, EA has decided to ram their paid content down my throat so hard that the career mode has become almost unusable.     Congratulations EA, you've managed to take a game that I love and turn it into something that has me wary of buying any of your products in the future.  I'm not talking about some kind of boycott or protest to prove a point.  I just mean that the idea that EA is able and willing to take a dump all over a product after I buy it is kind of a turn off.  I hope it as worth it. "