The Drifter said:
I replaced him yesterday. I bought a 120 gb slim from a friend of mine.
Well, good. I was going to offer up fifty bucks towards its replacement.
Montana Smith said:
This is the first time I've ever had trouble with a new disc, and now I'm in limbo until or if they contact.
I'm sure your local high street shops will be able to help you out. Plus, there's none of that hoping that your seller cares enough to reply to your problem.
Finn said:
A game like Sleeping Dogs, given how it deals with specific culture and the entertainment related to it (even though it is very much a western product), is likely full of them.
There's been a few things that seem familiar, but I can't quite place them. The leaping from your car onto your quarry's immediately stood out, though. It's hard to forget that moment.
I didn't have a Blockbuster growing up. No, my local video store was, well, Asian run. The latest and greatest movies from China, Hong Kong, Japan,
et al occupied the same shelf as the current Hollywood releases. While the rest of the world was watching
Terminator 2: Judgement Day, I had discovered John Woo's
Heavy Handed Gun God aka
Hard-Boiled.
So, yeah, if anybody here is interested in fleshing out their collection of Hong Kong action movies, here's a sampling of some of the better movies in my collection:
The works of John Woo's Hong Kong years belong in any movie enthusiast's library, but particularly
The Killer,
Hard Boiled, &
Bullet in the Head. Woo was the first director I encountered who understood that all action is dance.
I would be flogged for not mentioning A Better Tomorrow as well.
Ringo Lam's
City on Fire &
Prison on Fire are highly recommended as well. If I had to choose though, I would seek out
Full Contact with Chow Yun-Fat.
Infernal Affairs was famously remade by Scorsese as
The Departed. Yet, it and its sequel are
not to be missed. Especially if you're going to play
Sleeping Dogs, since they seem to have been the main source of inspiration. You wouldn't go wrong with following those two up with
Running Out of Time and its sequel.
Fulltime Killer is a pan-Asian crime thriller about rival hitmen and the cops caught between them. Follow that up with
Heroes Never Die, and you'll have a nice double feature. You could even toss in Wong Kar Wai's
Fallen Angels for good measure.
Beast Cops,
The Mission,
Mad Detective,
Election &
Triad Election,
Exiled,
Sha Po Lang,
Dog Bites Dog: These are all definitely worth seeing as well. All of those should flesh out the police/crime thriller genre nicely.
I thought about doing a list of martial arts films, but there's just so many to choose from.
Operation Scorpio is personal favorite, and I am really, really looking forward to finally seeing Wong Kar Wai's
The Grandmasters.
Finn said:
If we're to think about examples of how collectibles are implemented in a game, City is textbook.
Unlike, say,
The Amazing Spider-Man which I've took a diversion into. There's something like a
thousand collectables in the game, and they're of the hunt through every back alley, rooftop, and side street for them. There's no real gameplay incentive to find them, but they do unlock digital versions of the pivotal stories in Spider-Man's life which is kind of cool.
Finn said:
So, who says video games can't be educational?
Of course! I can trace back my interest in history and geography to that elusive
femme fatale in the
red trench coat. Well, her and the fourth grade teacher that introduced us.
Fantastic
theme song too.!
More later. This post is already long enough.