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#1  Edited By hpv
@masternater27 said:
" @JamesKond said:
" I just saw my first 3D film and I'll tell you: Not impressed. "
What movie?  It really depends on the movie if you want to be impressed.  By all accounts Avatar and How to Train Your Dragon are the only ones to have done it well so far. "
It really depends on your standards for being impressed.  Avatar and How to Train Your Dragon are most definitely not the "only ones to have done it well."  The first film I've seen that really did it correctly was Pixar's Up.  Totally restrained, very subtly applied and that's why it worked.  The same is true for Avatar, though I get the feeling that a lot of people miss the reason it worked so well there because it's the most out of control animated spectacle ever produced.
 
I'm curious what people who aren't impressed by subtle, convincing depth in movies are looking for from such films.  When done well it looks better than the same film in 2D so what's not to like about it?  At least when it comes to movies with their inexpensive, light-weight polarized lenses.  I'm definitely not in the camp advocating active shutter.  That shit is way too expensive and gives an unacceptably large portion of the population headaches. 
 
And as a random side note on the future of 3D films, we might also finally get actresses who don't have to starve themselves to look thin on camera and the ones who already have might need to eat a cheeseburger and drink a few beers so as not to creep out the audience.
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@JamesKond said:
" I just saw my first 3D film and I'll tell you: Not impressed. "
What'd you see?
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@RVonE said:
" I don't see what's so appealing about this game at all. Also, I feel they've been pushing this game way too hard with all the trailers. But hooray for all caps thread title, I guess. "
Exactly.  A ton of people seem to be hyped up for it and I can't even begin to understand why.  Everything about it looks terrible.  Maybe if you're a kid you'd be into it, my 13 year old nephew is really excited for this crap, but why would an adult have any interest beyond the entertainment value of watching a train wreck?
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@fox01313 said:
"Only $49.99 until Sony tacks on whatever % of sales tax that's on just about everything else you buy on PSN. Probably explains why I've not paid too much for things on the PSN since I get taxed buying the card & again for something else off their free service. I wonder how much of PSN would cost users/Sony if they took off the sales tax."
Have you really been charged sales tax on the purchase of a gift card?  I find that highly doubtful, but if true you really should stop buying from that retailer.  Of course you could always move to Oregon or something and eliminate the problem entirely.
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They need to offer day-and-date discounts on new releases as well as making the "free" games more current stuff or at least stuff that people will be interested in who have already spent a lot of money on PSN.  WipeOut HD is definitely the right sort of game to put up there, a more-or-less full retail title and I'm sure a lot of people didn't pick up because the price was a bit higher than their interest in that game.  I've got no interest in WipeOut (since I discovered back on PSX that I suck balls at it) but I'd probably give it a go if they "gave" it to me.  But it's still not enough to make me subscribe just yet.

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#6  Edited By hpv
@OneKillWonder said:
" @hpv said:
" TV show-related?  What does that even mean? "
THQ is in talks with SyFy to create a made-for-TV Red Faction movie that may later transition to a full-fledged TV show. "
Oh, I heard something about someone doing a Red Faction movie but I must have missed the thing about SyFy and made-for-TV.  Thanks for clearing that up. 
 
And a bit off topic, but how stupid was the SyFy rebranding?  Who thought that was a good idea and how disastrous is it that it's probably working? 
 
@Napalm said:
" Please hurry up with my god damned Saints Row 3, please. "
OMFG!   YES!  Unless they totally screw it up that's going to be the game to beat in 2011.
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TV show-related?  What does that even mean?

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I hope that active shutter glasses fail, but last year at PAX I played a couple games using Zalman's polarized 3D monitors and they were probably the most stunning thing I've ever seen in a video game.  Super lightweight glasses, no ghosting whatsoever, and the 3D effect was both subtle and convincing.  That's technology I would definitely pay for.  Hopefully we see a standard for 3D output so you can use whatever display technology you prefer, which doesn't seem to be the case at the moment.

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Final Fantasy XI was a way to coax Square-Enix to get on board with Xbox 360.  Now that they're in a position of more influence in the video game industry they don't need to make those kinds of concessions.  Standard operating procedure for Microsoft and it should surprise no one.

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@Slab64 said:
" @Protome said:
" I think I own all the games on sale o.o "
Wow, that's....you have a sickness. There's like 200 games on sale. "
Not even close, there are over 700 according to the counts on the front page.  There are nearly 200 games on sale just under Action.