>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

I really like this game, but the story and cut scenes are terrible. It's the same kind of story telling Rockstar was doing in the 90's, which wasn't really even that good back then, but it feels really dated to me in the present. A couple hours into the game I just started skipping the lengthy cut scenes altogether with no regrets (except for not getting to seeing Icarus meet his doom off the edge of a cliff). I like digs at Bush and Blackwater as much as the next guy, but not so much in my western. If you are going to make a digital homage to the western, then crib from The Good, The Bad The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, High Plains Drifter, The Magnificent 7, The Unforgiven, etc. Still a great game, but it would have been better with characters and a story that I cared about.


You will love Mafia 2.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

I really like this game, but the story and cut scenes are terrible. It's the same kind of story telling Rockstar was doing in the 90's, which wasn't really even that good back then, but it feels really dated to me in the present. A couple hours into the game I just started skipping the lengthy cut scenes altogether with no regrets (except for not getting to seeing Icarus meet his doom off the edge of a cliff). I like digs at Bush and Blackwater as much as the next guy, but not so much in my western. If you are going to make a digital homage to the western, then crib from The Good, The Bad The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, High Plains Drifter, The Magnificent 7, The Unforgiven, etc. Still a great game, but it would have been better with characters and a story that I cared about.


Wow. Did you even play the game?? The story is phenomenal (practically the entire internet agrees, even Yahtzee), the cutscenes are solid, and the list of films you cited is pretty much the exact list that they DID crib from.

I really like this game, but the story and cut scenes are terrible. It's the same kind of story telling Rockstar was doing in the 90's, which wasn't really even that good back then, but it feels really dated to me in the present. A couple hours into the game I just started skipping the lengthy cut scenes altogether with no regrets (except for not getting to seeing Icarus meet his doom off the edge of a cliff). I like digs at Bush and Blackwater as much as the next guy, but not so much in my western. If you are going to make a digital homage to the western, then crib from The Good, The Bad The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, High Plains Drifter, The Magnificent 7, The Unforgiven, etc. Still a great game, but it would have been better with characters and a story that I cared about.

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*dead copyright claim by Icarus Films...

*dead copyright claim by Icarus Films...

I don't know why, but just as he said "the economy has been falling" I thought of Icarus. Like an economy that tried to fly too high with feather wings held together by banks that melted when he got too close to the sun...

mg, I am assuming he discussed it with lunkwill, the owner of the spacy channel. Here's his description of his channel, don't know if that's gonna change...

The Clouds and Beyond
by lunkwill

Astronomy and aviation. Space and space exploration. There and getting there. The universe and the attempts of Icarus. Just about anything that can fly is welcome here.

The odd psychedelic clip regarding space will find its way here, as well as things related to aviation that are firmly rooted on the ground (eg: ATC).

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some crazy lady stole icarus's feathers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NF-104#Operational_history

congrats on 100, doc!

*promote

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I thought the movie was decent, but it would be much better if they had left out the psychological elements. They give the film similar feel as Solaris, which was a horrendous movie. The scenes with the crazy captain Pinbacker of the Icarus 1 were extremely confusing and ambiguous, it really ruins the sci-fi theme of the movie. Also the spacesuits used today by NASA are more practical than that bulky crap they use in the movie.

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