Recent content by brenflood

I think arguing the complexity of the film is a tad pointless. What makes the film great (albeit not some arthouse masterpiece) is that it holds up to multiple viewings very well as a result of the multiple interpretations available to the audience. There are quite a few more than listed on this...

This thread only serves to raise my hatred for humanity. While the OP's wording was unfortunate, all responses on the first page, save for one, were unnecessarily dick. Even if he was saying Valve hadn't yet made a real game (which he wasn't), the response was inappropriate. Ignoring him would...

For Me, It'd be Just Like Vinyl and Cinemechanica http://www.myspace.com/justlikevinylwa They're just starting out, but they've got the guitarist/singer from The Fall of Troy. I am a bit surprised by no one mentioning Fall of Troy. They're less mainstream than a lot of the stuff people...

So the vast majority of the counterpoints to this idea say that they don't want to have to buy new hardware the play new games on their old console. Has no one even thought of the Kinect and Playstation Move? Sure they are not graphical upgrades and they are just new controllers, but...

What you are considering does not sound like stalking. If you think he's gonna be there and he would be happy to see you, go for it, but try and at least find the money to get in there legally so you won't get thrown out by security.

I'm glad to hear skate 3 is better than skate 2. With it being another EA franchise that had a yearly release, I was concerned it would quickly go the way of the Tony Hawk games and release too many unpolished and annoying games. Do you feel 1 year was enough time to make this game as great...

My apologies. I thought you were referring to taking out the Blu Ray drive. That is the device that would be difficult to put in an enclosure.

Have you ever seen a ps3 drive? There's no logical way to put that in an external enclosure because of its off slot inderface. Additionally, there's no guarantee that it's even conntected to the ps3 using a cable that my PC has. I'm pretty confident it uses some proprietary sony port. Also, the...

Not that this really helps my case, but I've heard you can use a ps3 with linux to do blu-ray movie dumps. So, if you don't have a blu ray drive on any other device, it could be helpful for making backups. But yeah, Linux on ps3 is dreadfully slow because of how much sony prevented its users...

To me this is a pretty awesome trend. It is a form of anti-piracy that is pro-consumer. Does it stop piracy? Hell no. If someone wanted Alan Wake without paying for it, there's still the JTAG hack, and when the DLC comes out that will be released for JTAG boxes. Besides pirates who does this...

Even Ubisoft's DRM for Assassin's Creed 2 has been bypassed. While it may be possible to create some heinous DRM that prevent piracy, that often also prevents people from pirating the game, or with AC2 encourages legit owners to crack the game if their internet connection is intermittent...

It really depends on the band, but for the most part, the only thing even potentially redeeming about the vocals are their rhythm. Otherwise, you are right, they have no tone or melody. I think some bands just get together and none of them can really sing, so they decide on a growler. For...

I think the game is alright. It plays mostly like Resident Evil 4. The pc port for RE5 is a billion times better than the one for RE 4, though. You can easily make it look better than either console version. Honestly, if you are going to own a version of Resident Evil 5, I think the pc...

Shenmue 2 I'll second Castlevania: Lament of Innocence and add Castlevania: Curse of Darkness. Both of those were great games. There wasn't anything functionally wrong (like camera issues or game freezing) with it and I really enjoyed the levels and gameplay. Sure, the story kinda sucked, but...

I bought one of the Naruto games for Gamecube at an anime convention after seeing how fun it looked at the previous convention in 2005. At the time, it looked like there were no plans to release these games in America. Since all that was needed to play NTSC-J games on a gamecube is an action...