Dvader said:

I actually havent read much of anything about King so I have no clue personally. I do know is writtings have been the inspiration for a ton of amazing movies. I cannot think of another author that even comes close to having so many different stories of his put on screen, and great ones. The Shining, Shawshank, Green Mile, The Mist, Carrie, The Stand, The Dead Zone, and much more. Plus I have heard nothing but great things about The Dark Tower series. I have never heard other wise so its new to me, I believe you I just never heard anything bad about him.

OMG did you just say LOTR movies are not classics. They will be forever mentioned in the same sentence as the original Star Wars trilogy as greatest trilogies of all time. It will forever be one of the greatest movie collections of all time.

Fair enough. And like I said I agree. I like a lot of films based on his stuff.

There are a lot of films that were considered classics at the time and were expected to be talked about in the years to come that are now completely forgotten about or actually derided. But yeah, I should have said masterpieces given that classic has more connotations about the general opinion of them. They are classics, but they're not masterpieces. All fixed.

aspro said:

So hey. Mass Effect 2. Mrs Aspro just finished it. She did everything she could nithe game of course.

The deal is, she saved her entire party except for Jack (for whom she had built up great affinity in-game).

Is is possible to save the entire team? Or do they kill off at least one for the cutscene to work and for dramatic impact?

(I, of course, killed everyone in my team).

Sure, it's possible. I saved them all on my renegade playthrough. Still waiting on finishing that one on ME3. In my paragon one I lost Mordin, that's the one I finished up with on ME3.

travo said:

Who ARE these people that matter so much ?

Iga_Bobovic who has been proven to be always right.

aspro said:

Okay. I wonder what she screwed up. She is considering replaying the last few hours to see what she can do differently.

Also, she said you tried to chat me while she was on my Steam account. Sorry I missed you Steelio.

Does this mean you both suffer from Aspro moments?!

I fall in the camp which really enjoyed Alan Wake (I think I may have written a review of it if I'm not mistaken).  Including the story.  It's pulp, but it's fun.  Much like Stephen King's writing ... that's why I find that debate slightly amusing.  I wish Remedy would make more games.  I wish they'd made Max Payne 3, so that it had a noir vibe to it, like the first two, not the sun-drenched look it's been given instead.

Haven't played much of anything this weekend.  Mostly been watching olympic sport.  Tried to get into Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia.  Started it from the beginning, but I don't think I got very far with it first go around.  It's really hard.  Hardest of all the GBA/DS vanias I have played (ie all of the previous 5).  But it's really good, and given my pretty slim choice of things to play at present, I may stick with it.

robio said:

edgecrusher said:

I have no idea who that chick is or that she was in this show which I've also never heard of? May have to watch it now....I have a thing for hot redheads.

Well she is just about reason enough to watch (provided you catch one of those episodes where she gets more than about 3 minutes of face time). The show isn't something I'd just recommend to anyone though. But if you're the type of guy that misses an the bygone era of when every man wore a suit, women drank while they were pregnant, everyone smoked, and the highest compliment a man could pay a woman was a good slap on the ass then you just might appreciate it.

Sounds good...I love giving a good slap on the ass. Its gotta give that poppin' sound, or I'm not satisfied.

Iga_Bobovic said:

Seriously guys, Stephen King is shit. Even I know that and I don't even read books. Not knowing that Stephen King is shit really shows your ignorance. Like people thinking that Lance Amstrong is the best cyclist of all time.

I have read some critisim of his, it seems like more snobby hardcore literature critics hate his work, whatever. What I do know is that a ton of people love his work, yes I know popularity doesn't equal quality. I do know that many of his stories (I dont know about his writing cause I havent read King) are great, stuff that have to be considered classics, if not for the book then for the adaptations. And he has won a bunch of critical awards as well. Yeah there a bunch of guys that think King's writing sucks and I bet all of them wish they could be him.

aspro said:

Okay. I wonder what she screwed up. She is considering replaying the last few hours to see what she can do differently.

Also, she said you tried to chat me while she was on my Steam account. Sorry I missed you Steelio.

You have to put each character in the right roles and of course keep them alive if they are doing one of the key roles. I also think there is some randomness to it so replaying it may fix it.

I have read a good number of King books, and fortunately I am both blissfully ignorant about the opinion of critics about him as well as unable to perform a critical deconstruction of his works on my own, so I have enjoyed them, both in my own language as well as the original. One thing I do know, though, is that no matter what we like, there's always bound to be someone, somewhere that thinks or considers that very thing we like is shit. No use worrying about it. I just let others worry about the pursuing of higher standards of entertainment, I take what life sends my way and either enjoy it or not.