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Wow it's pretty exciting stuff! Sounds like it'll take a while to build up, but I love that Rebellion have taken the multimedia handling of their own IP into their own hands like this. That independent spirit!

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Still waiting for this to turn up, but looking forward to firing up my old Megadrive again to give the new home brew game Xeno-crisis a blast!

It looks and sounds bloody awesome!!!

https://youtu.be/pjrhPtxogw8

You lucky git I'm a bit skint or I'd be getting the GOG version right now!

Of course we're all free to criticise art, have storytelling we like and storytelling we don't, but trying to sort all things into a category of high art and low art is something else entirely. It does just feel pompous and exclusionary, and ultimately has no positive aspect to me.

I can understand someone's frustration at the homogeneity of the cinema that is successful at the moment, absolutely, but to say it's low art in Kareem's case or 'not cinema' in Scorsese's is just a bit stuck-up to me. Scorsese is a legend and I still love him, of course. Kareem was in Airplane so he's awesome too.

haha I retract my statement.

I hate the concept of a high art/low art distinction, it's very snooty and just doesn't exist for me.

It's not perfect but I really enjoyed it.

[spoiler]I am the one of the people who didn't feel like Gotham had been portrayed quite enough as ready to pop before it did go crazy though. Government underfunding and muggings just didn't sew ideas of a powder keg in my head. That's any forgotten industrial town in blighty

I feel like the movie stopped short of showing him become the evil, insane criminal mastermind I think of him as. Perhaps they could've done more to foreshadow that too, as it's still a little hard for me to imagine him being that guy, cunning and alpha, running a gang. I'd love a sequel that explores the new Arthur!
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I swear Phoenix actively trained his muscles to impinge the shoulders that badly, it's that crazy.

[spoiler]Also, Gary Glitter?! That was a surprise! It suits Joker I guess..[/spoiler]

I see the pros of streaming as incredible convenience, you can play in more places, and have less clutter like you said. I think we'll probably all be streaming one day, really!

The services are all a bit different and we don't know all the details yet on some of them, but the main cons are that input lag and dips in the quality of the stream are possible, depending on your internet speed, location and the service itself. I could also see situations where the game someone would like to play isn't on their preferred platform, lots of money exchanging hands for service-exclusivity on games that would usually be multi-platform.

Google seems like they're aiming for the most devices out of the gate, Chromecast, PC, some Smart TVs, mobile. Xcloud will stream to Console, PC and Mobile they say, and if you have an Xbox you'll be able to turn it into your very own Xcloud server. PlayStation Now is just PS4 and PC for now I think, but you have to imagine everyone will want to be on every device sooner rather than later.

Personally, I'm drawn towards Xcloud the most, because I have an Xbox and also there were some leaked patents for an Xbox controller that attaches to tablets and phones. Big fan of the controller, and I have a 10" tablet I'd love to play Xbox on in bed! I assume latency will be very low around the house if I'm using my own Xbox as the server too.

Nice one Keef! Code Veronica is an absolute gem, and a good little challenge in places. Still planning on playing Doom 3?

I loved Republic Commando back in the day! I fired it up for a little while on X1X myself when it was free, and it does hold up really well doesn't it. When you talk about bullet sponges do you mean those 8-feet tall humanoid robots with the laser arm? I remember hosing those mothers down for ages, and I think later in the game there were a lot of them!

Recently binged both series of this, I really enjoyed it!! I like the characters and hopeful setting, some of the episodes have made me think and I've got a few good laughs out of it. You can tell they're really finding their identity in series 2, becoming less of a comedy and more of a straight Sci-Fi show, to the point they're ignoring opportunities for jokes.

Like when [spoiler]they rescue Bortus from the Orville on the bottom of the ocean, they ask him how he's survived down there and he says emergency rations - well as a Moclan I thought he should've been eating the ship! Perhaps he says nothing and looks guiltily at teeth shaped chunks missing from the control panels and bridge chairs CLASSIC BORTUS [/spoiler].

I noticed a couple of things that I'm sure were nods to Red Dwarf, would be great fun to see those guys in it or have a cross-over or something!

Hrm I won't write it off but most reboots aren't great, and even if they nail it we already have an excellent Alien..  I'm dying for actual sequels in so many series!

In the book they're called 'androids' but they are biological in nature like the replicants of the film. I vaguely remember a scene in the book with an android character having something in his arm suggesting they may have cybernetic components, but they are predominantly flesh and blood. The voigtt kampff (probably misspelled) test is the main method used to detect them, just as in the film.

Interestingly, a bone marrow test is also mentioned as providing definitive proof suggesting some differences at the cellular level, although why an ordinary DNA test wouldn't work, I don't know. I'm just guessing not so much about DNA was known during the period the author wrote the novel. To do that test would require capturing the suspect and taking them to a lab, however, so they go with the portable VK kit.

Cyborgs eh! Interesting about the bone marrow thing too, I agree it definitely suggests that DNA knowledge wasn't widespread doesn't it. This thread has shot the book up to the top of the to-buy list!

I'd forgotten about that, should give it a go! I'm looking forward to the Gears Tactics game too, if it's Gears Xcom that sounds great.

Are the replicants artificial in the book? Embarrassingly as a Sci-fi fan I've never read it. I read Starship Troopers for the first time recently, I really enjoyed it. I guess the film people thought it'd silly if the troopers were bouncing around in power armour though!

Yeah I got the impression that they [spoiler]aren't really androids in the robotics sense, they're living beings grown in labs from modified human DNA, and that makes the way they're used and treated even more horrifying. They're human slaves bred to be used like machines. I feel like a lot of other cyberpunk media inspired by Blade Runner takes the concept and makes them full-on stealth robots (like the videogame Snatcher). [/spoiler]

I loved the new one, it could've been trimmed in a couple of places but it was a great film overall.