No Leroy Jenkins = Nipples on Batman.

NERD AWAY!!!

Final fantsy- abandoned pretty much everything that made the games good for some neo-hippy drivel.

Resident Evil (I still get cross thinking about this) rewrote the concept taking everything out except for virus zombies and mutants (and umbrella)- they even made up new heroes for the first film- and lumbered it with some piss poor amnesia plot.

Silent Hill was probably the best (at least it got the atmosphere OK) but still lumbered the audience with hours of exposition,

Mortal Kombat was alright-ish but struggled through lack of storyline,

As for Alone in the dark, the less said about any Uwe Boll abombination or piss like Super Mario/ Streetfighter the better.

Have I missed any?

Well, at least they haven't done any shows about any particular religions...

Different strokes and all that, you know.

Online RPGs seems like a dangerous waste of time. Now let me get back to the 1-18-08 and slusho sites to search for voltron clues.

When I ask him why he continues to play, i get responces like his guild has a raid, and he has to be there because he is part of the guild, or it's AV bonus weekend, or I'm trying to get higher tier armor.

I thank god every day I don't play WoW

oh and the southpark WoW is hands down the best episode of southpark ever. comic genius

A guild raid isn't an answer by the way.

well I suppose I'll go back to playing the latest expansion pack for civ4...

While I played WoW (having retired it some time ago for other interests), I was constantly intrigued by what might be around the next corner. Roaming through an as yet unexplored world (at least from the perspective of a neophyte gamer) was what kept me going for hours on end.

Now, I understand that it’s not as though there isn’t a world out there in Real Reality ™ worth exploring. But let’s be serious, how many of us are ever going to go and backpack throught the foothills of Himalayan mountains or find some hidden mountain highway in the Andes commissioned two millennia ago by an Incan god-king?

The world has gotten so much smaller (“No, Jack. The world hasn’t gotten smaller, there’s just less in it.”), that there’s a feeling of no longer being able to discover something new and vital. Well, anyway, that’s why I lingered in the Warcraft world for as long as I did.

The problem for me was that after a while the repetitive nature of the quests (find blank, kill X number of creatures guarding blank, return blank to quest-giver, change environment and creatures, repeat…) left me wanting. I’m not exactly sure what it was that I felt missing—a deeper sense of an unfolding story?—but after a while the variation on a theme grew tiresome.

As yet, video games don’t offer the kind of full emersion of experience that a movie does because video games substitute flash and gimmickry for story and meaning. I suppose the best counter-argument to that is “What the fuck are you talking about nimrod? Video games are for blastin’ stuff.” Well said, asshole make-believe talk-backer, well said. And right, no less. Asshole.

But World of Warcraft is on the way to bridging the divide, that’s for sure. The mythology is there, now they just have to figure out how to weave narrative strands into the gaming experience and they’ll have my money again.

(And I think it very interesting that in a time when Hollywood is more and more obsessed with flash and gimmickry, the gaming world is more and more enamored of storytelling. There’s a lazy, liberal-arts-college thesis paper lurking somewhere in that paradox.)

Oh, and the movie could be okay, I guess. It’ll probably suck, though.

Very well said!!!!!!!

Thanks for the coffee-spattered keyboard, LP.

I'm confused about this, was it trying to knock resident evil 2 and Nemisis together? Fucking shocking load of bollocks- with Nemesis the thinking, caring monster. And why bring Gill in at all? If you've decided that you are not going to make her the main character in the first film (an incomprehensible decision) then why include her at all. A complete soapy tit-wank of a film.

Everyone involved needs to be entered in the next Big Brother and be force fed dog shit for room temperature IQ'd morons to lap up. That would be just.

Resident Evil represents all that is wrong with Hollywood's attempts to adapt/ cash in on something. They see a property that has a massive core fanbase. They recognise that there is money to be made from said property. They have no understanding at all of why said property is popular, in fact they have a sort of mild contempt for said property. They buy it, and then adapt it in such a way that they think is "improving it" but really they are breaking it down and rendering it unrecognisable. End result: a complete fuck-up with all the redeeming features of a public lice infection in a brothel.

What a little bitch.

Please fix that for Diablo 3, Blizzard.

Erm, oh yeah, I know a few people who are really into this and it seems they haven't pulled off any mass murders (that I know of) or rapes/pillages so the game can't be all bad. Still, if this movie is at all like that utterly lame-o Dungeons And Dragons, then it'll go straight to video. It definetly has a built in audience going in.

Predator 3 could be great.

AvP on the other hand.....

fucking unforgivable. On every level. To put a bullet so neatly into the skull of two top class concepts is frankly staggering.

As for Terminator 3, I was expecting something far, far worse than it turned out to be. In fact, it was a hell of a lot better than it had any right to be - except for Lokken's occasional smirk, which I hated and felt was completely out of place on the face of an emotionless automaton.

In fact, I can think of at least one other thing which would have looked more appropriate on Lokken's face, but I digress.

Imagine, if you will, an AICN where there was more to accomplish than racking up a daily insult tally or 'first post' quota? Just imagine that.

People that enjoy WoW are different from you. Incidentally, they are also different from me. Let them enjoy their version of fun, as I have. Where's the harm in that?

With Resurrection: I think it was intended to be a torch passing film- sigourney hangs up her Alien killing guns and passes it on to Winona Ryder, who was fucking awful in that film. They just made pig's ear of it.

T3 was Ok, not great but OK.