J4MES OX4D

A great series where comments taken from YouTube from an argument are reenacted in film-scene style

Ah, video game music.
No matter if we're careening down a speedway in the Mushroom Kingdom, flanking some soldiers in space or saving the galaxy from a sentient race of squids, VGMs (or BGMs) are always by our side, breaking up the monotomy of roaring engines or explosions.
Unless of course, you prefer muting the music volume. x)
 
For the rest of y'all, what are some of your favorite VGM/BGMs?
 
Here's some of mine:
 
Koopa Beach from Super Mario Kart SNES:

That funky baseline and cheery tropicalness of the main track always gets me. x)
 
Redial from Bomberman Hero (N64):

I don't know, it's spacy "Muzac" beat always makes me hum along. 
Ah, my childhood. :')
 
Yoshi Rap from Yoshi's Story (N64)

In a game where every BGM in it is the wildly different and unique variant of a single sample of music, it's hard to pick just one favorite BGM of a game so prevalent in my childhood...
But I choose this one.

I don't like modern films very much nowadays. Too much reliance on special effects and A-list actors with no skill or personalities. Remakes make me cringe at the thought of destroying the classic. 
 
I also hate franchise reboots such as Indiana Jones whereby you had a near-perfect trilogy and then a fucking dreadful and shameful fourth installment with an ageing actor and the most mind-numbing tedious story ever. Certainly made a fair few $$$$$ and there's talk about a fifth film but for every new one; they are killing the films and the name as a whole. 
 
Fucking Hollywood!

Sledgehammer Games officially taking the reins for this year's CoD:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/call-duty-2014-confirmed-new-lead-developer-new-development-cycle/
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On a different note, a WW2 CoD would be awesome.
Then sights, the sounds, the guns...Ooh!
I'd still rather go play WaW than Ghosts really, but with the mass hax0ring going on over there atm...
It's out of the question.
 
 
Welcome to Machinima.

I'd love to see World at War 2 or something. A COD game from a real era and not some dumbed-down fantasty title aimed at the younger gamer. Call of Duty used to be a serious shooter back in the day and I hope that Treyarch can take it back to its roots.  WAW had the best maps in the series, best design, no quickscope nonsense or petty politics like we get today. It was a solid MP game; not overly-spectacular with ludicrous killstreaks but the core gameplay was memorable and enjoyable.

Vidic confirmed to be leaving United at the end of the season. He has gone completely off the boil this season and does look like a man that doesn't care. He's had a fine career there though winning 15 trophies and only cost Man Utd £7m which was an absolute bargain. They just need to off Rio now..

The game was fucked as soon as they announced 6v6+bots! Xbox One gamers are lapping it up but on PC this game would be straight in the bargain bin. 
 
The only way it will do well is if it gets modded to fuck

More polished = "completely fucked".
 
Polish happens in updates. Completely fucked happens in initial release.

Now there's something I didn't expect to read!
I do play ghosts, but have to find varying ways to enjoy playing, blops 2 was a solid game if I stayed off core.
The rumours continue that treyarchs next Cod will be ww2 set, not sure if that would be a good thing.

Love this guys one-liners
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00dFzPbzOws

Firstly I agree only because remakes/prequels/reboots/whatever are hardly a substitute for the originals. In my mind they hold no actual value other than selling merch. I've griped about it and the lack of new material vs cramming old ideas with a new angle down our throats in the past. Not a fan; there are exceptions but very few.
 
Fans have been waiting for a new The Thing movie for ages. There are many scripts and conceptional work from companies that have been ignored. A prequel of a remake was never called for. No one cares what happened at the Norwegian camp. It is touched on perfectly in JC's adaptation. I'm more interested if MacReady or Child's are a thing, if they froze, how it would have spread from there, on and on. On top of that the CGI vs the "originals" practical effects is terrible. It definitely did go backwards in every way.

Here is the text info http://mp1st.com/2014/02/06/next-call-duty-developers-sledgehammer-games/#.UvS9S_l_vKc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxW4CgzUUL8

SHOULD NOT BE REMADE!
 
This was thought of thanks to the 22 Jump Street thread here.
 
My first opinions are that I thought the original 21 Jump Street series was brilliant, my friend's brother had some on VHS xD I also really really enjoyed the film adaption just recently. I stand firm to my beliefs though that remakes shouldn't happen. Yes we get the dinger every now and then but we also get shit loads of shit films that are just shit. I hate that shit.
 
I wasn't alive when the originals to most of these films first premiered but I still saw them first as a child. Classics should not be remade. I hear they're doing a new (Monty Python's) Life of Brian. Why? It's such a good film. It makes me laugh so hard to this day and they're going to butcher it?
 
Robocop? Yeah it looks good on the action front but they're killing the story.
 
I rambled on a bit but what are your theories? Should classics get remade?
 
PS. Superhero films are a different thread. They are new starts to different comics (I think) I agree to these but not if they're too recent. Spiderman and Batman (to an extent) spring to mind.

Saw this on Facebook

http://sledgehammergames.com/blog/view/301

I'm starting this post just as a stake in the ground. Calling it Drifters Den, what it will be is a place for me to piss , moan, whine and complain about all you damn kids that step on my lawn.
 
Seriously though, wont be that, but will be a place just to blow off steam and talk about shit is all. And maybe even share some life wisdom with you damn kids. Just startin this now, we'll get more into why I hate all you damn young punks tomorrow
 
And stay the hell off my lawn, damn punks.

I'm seeing quite a few rumours on the circuit that suggest Sledgehammer games will be making the next Call of Duty game meaning the franchise will adopt a three year development rotation.  If true, this will essentially give the developers a 3 year development window. 
 
I think 36 months should be the standard development timeframe for games within Call of Duty and it is a pity they didn't opt for this sooner even with just IW and Treyarch on their books. Then again; there is no way Activision would miss out on hundreds of millions in bunce just for the sake of product quality
 
So it looks like we'll be lumbered with X amount of years of annual COD games and all the crap that comes with it. The rumuor mill also suggests that Modern Warfare 4 may be the game to introduce Sledgehammer to the crows nest. 
 
Assuming this isn't bollocks; I am glad Treyarch have an extra year to prepare what could be Black Ops 3. I think they did incredibly well with BO2 with the features, modes, gameplay elements and superb presentation in contrast to the original Black Ops which also impressed but was ultimately dated.  

Borderlands 2 free weekend coming up and £9.99 for the full game

Meh. Can't be arsed with all that shit either. Just like Facebook and all of that. If I want to throw a sheep at someone I'll drive to Wales, grab one there and whallop Euan with it.

Totally agree. Personally I think people these days have lost sight of what life really is about. They feel they need to constantly be "plugged in" to something and that it somehow makes their life better. When in fact they are missing out on life because they are constantly plugged in. You can't enjoy life when you are a slave to your electronic devices. Kind'a like Ferris Bueller's famous line.....
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” 
Personally I have moved in the opposite direction myself over the years. I had a cell phone back around 2000-2003 (back when the only thing you could do was call someone and play "snake" on it for a game) but I ditched it about 10 years ago and you couldn't pay me to have a cell phone these days. I no longer use social media except for once in a very VERY great while, I only use the computer about 25% of the time I use too, pretty much have cut out a lot of the stuff like that and I'm a happier person for it.

Borderlands 2 free weekend coming up and £9.99 for the full game

We are living in a fast-moving and growing technology era with wearable tech being the new gimmick on the horizon. I don't know whether the products in the pipeline are fundamentally essential in day to day life or if they are just status items for people, and companies to demonstrate future possibilities in 'fad' form. Either way; I don't like most of the products that are inching ever closer to mainstream and am finding this sector becoming intrusive along with technology today in general. 
 
Google Glass for me was the first product that caught my eye (no pun intended) and I immediately hated the concept. It looks fucking ridiculous, someone can easily swipe it off your head in a heartbeat and the fact that it can record anything and everything at any time leaves me inclined to the possibility of punching someone in the face that I see operating one. If someone walks down the street with their phone ahoy and filming people; it would make me uncomfortable but someone using GG could easily use the device under the radar for malicious purposes undetected. If you want to record something; use a phone or a recognized mainstream device which is built for the correct purpose. I can't see someone looking a complete twat with these glasses on walking down the street and thinking they need to record something at the spur of the moment. Yeah you might see a nice arse but this could be considered as outraging public decency in the courts. Google Glass could be used to enhance chip and pin fraud by using techniques that have been around since phones were built with cameras but with the glasses, you could be more discreet in your attempts to commit fraud. Football clubs are also greatly concerned at the legal ramifications if someone was to enter a football ground with these devices on and breach TV rights by recording matches. Clubs can be responsible for 60,000 fans and if one dick smuggles in Google Glass with ease which is easily done; they can be severely punished more than the person with the device. 
 
Smart Watches are another buzz word on the technology street. I have a watch, it tells the time; why the fuck would I want a watch that is smarter if the point of a watch is to tell the fucking time eh? Do I really give a shite about my pulse or how many calories I've burned walking around trying to find a bin to put my Red Bull can in? Why the hell would I need to access my emails through a watch if I have a better, more appropriate, compatible device? Seems like they trying to enhance miniaturization or design a needless functionality.  Do I really need to access Facebook/Twitter in such an emergency that I don't have time to pull out my phone out of my pocket? Smartphones have excelled and people can run their tech-dependent lives from one hand but I don't think a watched-based device is going to be rendering them obsolete anytime soon. 
 
The worrying thing is that all the above technologies are unnecessarily networked and no doubt put your privacy at a greater risk. There are watches and wrist devices out there that are standalone and record things like heart-rate but adding the internet compatibility to connect to devices and record your personal information is not required in my opinion. We've already seen fridges that can send spam emails and attack sophisticated PC's this year and last year we saw cars being electronically hijacked. If you leave your house with 4-5 devices; you're treading a fine line for trouble. Fingerprints, voice-recognition, movements, internet; everything is tracked. Hackers will have a field day in years to come too. 
 
I just find future technology concepts very uncomforting and needless. Too many obsessive idiots jump on the bandwagons of these companies to fuel the demand and more claws dig in to the public's rights. I'd rather be secure and protected from crime and surveillance at the expense of 'looking cool' in the public domain.  

I'm assuming this is spam, I'll get it rid of it when I get home folks.