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Trust me, it takes more editing to make something appear unedited and free-flowing than having something appear super-slick and overproduced. Despite the fact that the bomb-crew appears to talk about lots of random stuff all the time, there's always a pace in their material, and that pace cannot be achieved without putting lots of hours into editing.

When you're producing audio/video, even if you have the best people, the best equipment and the best luck for things not going tits up, 1 hour of work will never, ever EVER equal to 1 hour of content. Never. Nope. Not a chance. That's not how things work. There's an insane amount of work which happens before, during and after the record button is pressed. There's alot of bad material you don't see which gets edited out, errors which are corrected, material which is scrubbed out to leave the good bits in and the bad bits out and that means going through hours of material over and over. Plus there's the time consuming process of converting things to different formats and making sure there are no errors when the file is converted into 5 different files. As for the live show, there's an insane amount of prep work required plus a couple of people in the background doing a fuckton of work to keep things rolling.

The only 3D movies I could enjoy were The Hobbit 1 & 2 in 48FPS. Not only it looked incredible in motion, but they were the only 3D movies which did not give me headaches.

A highly inebriated Dave Lang. I was always fascinated on what happens in the mystical place of existence that is the Lang zone, but after watching that GDC livestream I found out that knowledge can sometimes be a a terrible, terrible curse.

One.com is pretty cheap.

Mega/Sega CD version, probably the easiest one to find if you have no qualms about emulation, plus save states would greatly help you in the final annoying chapter of the game.

I am not exaggerating, this game crashes every couple of minutes. This is just unplayable.

I haven't played Shenmue 1 because I didn't own a Dreamcast but I loved Shenmue II on XBOX. With the exception of the ball busting final QTE of the final boss and the horrible voice acting, there wasn't any part which I didn't enjoy. The attention to detail was insane at that time, the characters were interesting and the combat system was tight. However as all ambitious games, there are some annoying bits which their degree of annoyance varies to person to person. Many people will find the slow pace, lack of fast travel and the bit where you have to make some money annoying (like many found out the stalking bits in the Assasin's Creed series, the drive to mission bits in GTA and the amount of non interactive moments in Metal Gear Solid games). So in short, I had a great time when I played it back in the day, but I also fully understand that some people had an utter shitty time playing it as well.

@sarriss: Surprisingly, the 360/PC ones are abit hard to find in the UK, at least at a reasonable price. However the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia has me fixated on the Retrolink ones because they look exactly like the original article. Anyhow, those are probably too good to be true, is the d-pad on the madcatz fightpad good?