ps238principal: A veritable pop-culture extr-r-r-avaganza!!

ps238principal (

ps238principal) wrote,
@ 2008-04-30 16:38:00

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anti-venom, doctor who, grand theft auto iv, hulk

A veritable pop-culture extr-r-r-avaganza!!

A new Hulk trailer is up, and boy does it look GREAT! I think we might have a Hulk movie that will bookend nicely with the current Iron Man feature. And listen for the last few notes of music at the end of the trailer. Is that the old TV theme I hear? I think this is one of the superhero movie genre's greatest pleasures: details for the fans. Done well, it can really validate a lot of childhood memories.

So let's scar one a little. Everyone's favorite Spider-villain is getting an... I guess he wouldn't be an "evil" twin, but... well, behold Anti-Venom. I'm not even going to speculate on that one, folks.

I took the plunge and bought "Grand Theft Auto IV" last night. It's an incredible-looking game. It's got just enough characterization to keep me interested without making me want to write angry letters to whoever wrote the script. Here's a tip for game makers, especially if they like mopey spikey-haired characters: If a character has a dark past, or has something that's depressing him/her, we only really need to hear about it once. Until something rectifies or modifies the cause of their distress, we in the audience will assume it's still "in play," and we don't need to be reminded of it every time the character speaks. Anyway, I also found out that I stink at driving, and that Niko, at least my version, might need a few spare cousins if I'm the one in charge of everyone's safety. I found myself to be King of the Donuts and Lord of the Fishtails while trying to escape the loan sharks, even going so far as to lose an entire wheel after striking a fire hydrant. I hope this game isn't reporting back to my auto insurance agent; I don't think there'd be a premium big enough to cover me...

A friend of mine also got the game. After playing for a while, he called and we had the following conversation:

Friend: I sat down to play for an hour or so, and I was expecting to have lots of violence and mayhem.
Me: And?
Friend: I'm on a date. In a bowling alley.
Me: Do you have to kill someone with a bowling ball?
Friend: No.
Me: CAN you kill someone with a bowling ball?
Friend: How will I get this girl to like me if I go on a murderous rampage?
Me: Some women like that, I'm told.
Friend: Not this one. She even told me she's a neat-freak.
Me: So bring a mop and some Pine-Sol on your rampages.

That's about where my friend gave up on me and went back to his game. I didn't get a chance to ask about driving tips, so I returned to being my own worst enemy (this time, I wound up wedging my cab under a Hummer). I fully expect my opposition to, at some point, just realize they can stand and watch me try to get away, resulting in a spectacularly entertaining finish involving fire and an explosion.

This is my first foray into the GTA series, by the way, apart from a short flirtation with the very original top-down GTA I. In the spirit of fairness, a "nega-review" of the game has been compiled from comments left by players, many of which are informed by previous game experience (which I lack). I'm sure I don't need to stress that this is an adult game (probably the video game equivalent of "The Wire" as far as content goes) and that Jack Thompson is probably once again going to use it to become the Don Quixote of attorneys later this year.

I know there are many young readers of this blog out there who are probably not going to be allowed to play this game, and that's probably not a bad thing. The concepts and depictions of various acts are quite severe in GTA4, and they aren't for everyone. What I hope is that it's a next step in game-world complexity. Even after all of the violence and other R-rated goings on are set aside, the city itself is a marvel to behold as it and its denizens go about their day, with or without the player's input. The radio stations alone are realistic parodies of, say, Fox News and NPR, and somewhere in this game are 3 minutes or so of comedy with a motion-capped Ricky Gervais. Hopefully, this heralds a new step forward in game immersion that can be applied to other genres of gaming. Imagine, say, a Civilization game installment where the city-level view was as rich. I can almost smell the future holodeck version of the PS3... because the last person didn't clean it out. Ew.

But other video game news has some promising stuff for us. First up, an interview video about the upcoming Ghostbusters game. Is the 'Busters logo really the second most recognized worldwide? Also, the lead designer for City of Heroes posted a bit of celebratory stuff about CoH's history and what's to come, including user-designed scenarios! I wonder if they'll let us lay out the maps to spell things...

Doctor Who was a treat for us old Whovians this week. No spoilers for those who won't see it for a few weeks, but I will say that they revive an old villain VERY nicely, getting the right balance, I think, between the old version and an updated one. The dialogue for this particluar race of nasties was also good; I expect that more than one sig file will have some lines from the broadcast. And it's a two-parter, as well.

And now, welcome back my friends to the links that never end*:

- Voting ends tomorrow on Indestructables' cake contest, but you can still drool over and be amazed by the entries.
- Sometimes depressing, often interesting, somewhat useful, the world-o-meters give you estimated statistics about our planet in real time.
- Some further reviewing of the upcoming 4th Edition D&D engine on the PC.
- I don't know what it is, but I want one. And I'll take one of these, too.
- A little timed shooting fun can be had with Cannon Blaster.
- I always knew there had been an aborted pilot for a Justice League live-action TV show, but I'd never realized what a David Ogden Steirs 'Martian Manhunter' would be like.
- So much talk about video games and no love for pinball? If you still have fond memories of Gorgar or Pinbot, you can probably find everything you played at the Internet Pinball Database.
- Time for some zombies. I would so love the "Les Miz" version of these Evil Dead: The Musical posters on my wall. I'm sure having the "Mama Mia" one would be grounds for divorce 'round my house, though...
- And Deep Lift rounds out the links with a jumping side-scroller that combines arcade play with those "throw the spear" type games. Give it a try.

* well, "never" being a relative term...</a>

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	kaymyth 2008-05-01 04:07 am UTC (link)
	I can give NO details, but to reassure the geekitudes.... Iron Man is made entirely of awesome. You will not be disappointed. That is all. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	ps238principal 2008-05-01 04:09 am UTC (link)
	Here's hoping for that Iron Man cameo in the Hulk movie... and the eventual "Avengers" movie... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kaymyth 2008-05-01 04:15 am UTC (link)
	Well, given this: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0020749/ it's not entirely out of the question... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2008-05-01 11:02 pm UTC (link)
	I think the 'Avengers' movie is quite likely; at least the scene with Nick Fury is still there (as usual after the end credits)... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2008-05-02 04:02 am UTC (link)
	I can assure you that things are shaping up for that avengers movie as far as iron man is concerned. Won't say what, but there is a very very good cameo in the movie. Yet the cameo is not a person or object. Discuss. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

ps238principal
2008-05-02 06:50 am UTC (link)

Hmmmm. That's REALLY intriguing. Does Stan Lee qualify? (I keed, I keed)

I wonder if we can someday have comic book movie trilogies where actors sign up for, in essence, one movie's worth of acting that gets spread out over several films (giving us decent acting that doesn't tie the actors down for 4 years).

Is the cameo a location? Perhaps the SHIELD Helicarrier? Or is that an object?

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	(Anonymous) 2008-05-02 02:33 pm UTC (link)
	close, but no cigar. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	dizzydava 2008-05-01 04:52 am UTC (link)
	I'd like to see Grand Theft Auto: Sin City. Try messing with those girls, and see what Miho has to say about it! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	ps238principal 2008-05-01 09:37 pm UTC (link)
	Ooooh! And a mod that would make the graphics look like a Frank Miller comic would be pretty cool to play... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	spotweld 2008-05-01 05:10 am UTC (link)
	On the subject of Doctor Who, did ya notice this? Also, I'm still oddly agog that you've named your fictional TV staion KTHX (Reply to this)(Thread)

	ps238principal 2008-05-01 09:38 pm UTC (link)
	Now I have to go on a quest to find it. Thanks heaps. :) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	spotweld 2008-05-02 12:15 am UTC (link)
	Lax Vegas Pinball Hall of Fame Or, if you want to buy one, there's always Google. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

ps238principal
2008-05-03 07:59 pm UTC (link)

I actually used to have an old bat-and-ball pinball game from Midway in my living room. After I announced that I "had" to get an X-Box for my Crispy Gamer gig, I was told that something would have to go. :)

Which was fine. I've also had the pleasure of owning a "Battlezone" game and "Crazy Climber" game, both of which lasted for a few years before developing some fatal flaw that was too expensive to fix. Whatver passed for a subwoofer on "Battlezone" was quite impressive for the era it came from.

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	Format fail grimmtooth 2008-05-01 05:13 am UTC (link)
	Hm, Quicktime. Pass. Thanks. (Reply to this)

	ffutures 2008-05-01 06:41 am UTC (link)
	I've seen the JLA movie - it's been shown on British TV a couple of times, it really is that bad all the way through. Biggish budget and it's still rubbish. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	ffutures 2008-05-01 08:23 pm UTC (link)
	Forgot to say that the story revolves around Ice, who is possibly the least interesting heroine the JLA ever had. I think they were told they couldn't use Batman, Superman, or Wonder Woman. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ps238principal 2008-05-01 09:39 pm UTC (link)
	Nothing against those of us who aren't Adonis-shaped, but it's amusing how they hid Steirs'/Manhunter's less-than-svelte physique. And it could have been worse. Imagine if they'd imported some of the lesser characters from Legion of Superheroes. Matter-Eater Lad, anyone? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	About that remote controlled jellyfish (Anonymous) 2008-05-01 06:58 am UTC (link)
	Hello, just letting you know that the remote controlled air-jellyfish is an helium filled remote controlled... well.. jellyfish. http://www.festo.com/rep/de_de/assets/Corporate_img/Festo_AirJelly_en.pdf To my knowledge it was presented at the Hannover Fair a few weeks ago. Cheers! Holger (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: About that remote controlled jellyfish ps238principal 2008-05-02 06:51 am UTC (link)
	That would also have wonderfully evil applications during Halloween. Thanks! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	styfen 2008-05-01 09:17 am UTC (link)
	I'm utterly thrilled to bits with this seasons Doctor Who, there hasn't been a duff episode yet (I will admit the first episode had poor villains, but the Doctor/Donna interaction made up for that) and we still have the Steven Moffat two parter to come. He's simply the best of the Who writers out there right now. :D (Reply to this)(Thread)

	ps238principal 2008-05-02 06:52 am UTC (link)
	I'm well pleased, too; Here's hoping for another quarter-century of the Doctor at least. :) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	valmiras 2008-05-01 12:26 pm UTC (link)
	Hate to nitpick, but Don Quixote was misguided but of noble intentions, while Jack Thompson is an alarmist, unhinged, grand-standing, manipulative jackanape. Just sayin... That jellyfish thing would make a great flumph for LARPing! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	ps238principal 2008-05-01 09:41 pm UTC (link)
	True; I'd almost forgotten my copy of the musical soundtrack. I can't imagine Jack singing "Dulcinea." I heard on the radio that he (or an unreasonable facsimile) of him appears in-game. In the same story, they also interviewed someone who'd been playing for over 28 hours and had only gotten through 28% of the game. This isn't a video game; it's a career path! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2008-05-02 04:06 am UTC (link)
	Odd lil tidbit on thompson, did you hear he sent a letter to the mother of Take Two's CEO about what his son has been doing in making "Murder Simulators"? Only went to the CEO in questions lawyers, but still. Is he that desperate that he has to resort to tattling? http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52358 (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ps238principal 2008-05-02 06:53 am UTC (link)
	I also heard about his video game challenge that he apparently decided not to honor; He laid out a truly vile-sounding game premise and promised a sum to charity if someone made it. If memory serves, the Penny-Arcade guys wound up sending a check in his "honor". (Reply to this)(Parent)

Never got Hulk
(Anonymous)
2008-05-01 01:15 pm UTC (link)

Hulk and X-men are two series I don't get. Every other freak in Marvel comics gets a pass, except mutants and the Hulk. Everybody else is pretty much accepted, from aliens to sudden mutation guys. The government magically becomes evil, whereas it usually is helpful SHIELD and Avengers. Seriously, the Marvel US government is dual personality. Half the time their decent, the other half they try to kill you. Weird

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Re: Never got Hulk

word_geek
2008-05-01 01:38 pm UTC (link)

Actually, the way I see it, the heroes who are open about their IDs are accepted, whereas those that aren't get bad press. The Fantastic Four never had secret identities, don't wear masks, and behave like celebrities, so they're treated that way. The Avengers...well, some of them have secret IDs; others not so much, but they're public about where they live and what they do, so they get the celebrity treatment. Spider-Man and Daredevil, on the other side, are secretive, so they get slammed in the media (the Bugle in particular). It's all a matter of how you behave. The Hulk, of course, is just a monster.

As for the mutants, they're secretive too, but the worst thing, for the Marvel-U public, is that anyone could be a mutant. There's only one Captain America (well, mostly). There's only one Iron Man (again, mostly). There's only one Fantastic Four, and you know exactly who they are. But with mutants, your neighbor could be a mutant; your boss could be a mutant; your kid's classmate could be a mutant. And if there's a mutant in your kid's school who has the power to level the building if he loses control...one that nobody knows about...I think the civilians are right to be scared. In comics, of course, we can all agree that the various Registration Acts are bad things, but in the real world, of course you'd want them.

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	Re: Never got Hulk ps238principal 2008-05-01 09:43 pm UTC (link)
	I never got the appeal of a secret identity after I got my first paper route: when did Spider-Man find time for school, work, AND sleep? :) While some of those early Image comics were a little rough, many of the heroes embraced the idea of being ultra-guy 24/7 instead of having a dual identity, which kind of made more sense, I think. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Never got Hulk gamebrain89 2008-05-01 09:56 pm UTC (link)
	Thats a good point about the mutants. I never really understood why they were so dispised, while Captain America, and those other heros were worshiped. Yeah, And while I wont go into details, Ironman is Freaking awesome. I love sneak peeks! hehe (Reply to this)(Parent)

Re: Never got Hulk
(Anonymous)
2008-05-01 10:46 pm UTC (link)

Peter Parker had it relatively easy; the vast majority of his job was making sure he set up a remote camera before the fight and keeping the baddy within its field of view as much as possible.

Forget that idiot scene in Spiderman 2 where Spidey gets his mask ripped off in a crowded mass transit car and everybody's just mutely supportive. At least three quarters of those commuters would've rushed to the first newspaper or magazine they thought of to sell Spiderman's identity (or as detailed a description of his face as they could give, if they didn't know his name). Probably half of them would also have tried to sue him for mental trauma or faked physical injuries. The police would slap up Wanted Dead or Alive posters and every crackpot criminal who had a buddy or coworker who'd been caught by the webslinger would be angling to take it out on Aunt May, Mary Jane Watson or any random college classmate they heard he may have been friends with.

Check the comics: even with his identity more or less secret, Green Goblin killed Peter's first girlfriend (anybody remember that it was really Gwen Stacey thrown off the bridge?) and Mary Jane Watson-Parker has been nearly killed by several villains who worked it out or just happened to get lucky in picking their victim. Venom's got all of Peter's memories. So does Carnage, though that human/symbiote pairing is so deranged it barely ever made any attempt to use that knowledge thus far. I'll bet anti-Venom works the same way, since he seems to be a total ripoff of Carnage.

Yes, I sure want to invite that kind of trouble to come knocking a few hundred times more often with various other complications to boot.

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Re: Never got Hulk

ps238principal
2008-05-02 06:58 am UTC (link)

True, but I also look in "real life" at how relatively rare familial grudges are, unless the whole family is in on whatever the dispute is (i.e. in a gang situation). But vendettas could happen, I suppose (like the recent "Identity Crisis" in DC Comics).

Of course, in theory, a lot of villains in the comic book universes would probably have had much harsher punishment (holding a city hostage? That's gotta be several hundred thousand counts of attempted murder), but that'd take us a bit down the "no fun if Lex Luthor got the chair" path. :)

For another take on this, I'd recommend the "Union Dues" series that can be heard at Escape Pod.

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Re: Never got Hulk
(Anonymous)
2008-05-03 03:31 am UTC (link)

Real Life rarely has disturbed psychos who'd cheerfully rip a random innocent bystander's intestines out so they have something to strangle an errant henchman with, too... comic villains are out for maximum effect and have generally had their morals surgically removed so they won't get in the way of whatever cunning schemes the baddy comes up with. (That's where they find a set whenever a completely selfish and amoral type like Sandman suddenly joins a superhero team.) If they can't handle Mr. Flight, Invincibility, Speed and Strength, what's stopping them from picking on his easily abducted adoptive mother and using that as leverage? Societal pressures, cultural taboos, the police, armed civilians, uh... nope, nothing that a villain who would bring New York to its knees if it weren't for those pesky super heroes would care about.

The treacherous 'good guys' are even more of a pain in the neck-the baddies you can at least punch, but it's bad form to rough up the police for putting a warrant out on you or the local biased newspaper editor for telling everybody you're a bad, selfish glory hound who was probably in cahoots with the bank robbers because you need some cash to pay for your sick aunt's hospital bills. Or, hey, how about Mr. Griffin's strongarming Mr. Extraordinary by threatening his family in that PS238 storyline? Not even a super hero can fight city hall, let alone a shadowy federal organization.

Unless every single person you're known to care about is just as tough to handle as you are, a secret identity is definitely the way to go.

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Re: Never got Hulk

ps238principal
2008-05-03 08:05 pm UTC (link)

I guess what I'm looking at is the era. One superhero = government, law enforcement and so forth out to get them for study and/or recruitment. If you have a world FULL of heroes, then you get a little leeway on the whole thing. I'd almost equate it with movie/music celebrity; When there are only a few acts of amazing popularity, like the Beatles or the Stones, or even (according to legend) the Osmonds, those with the gifts that make people go nuts can't even leave a hotel without being mobbed.

In this day and age, celebrity has become a bit more smoothed out, and A-list actors can go walking their dogs in L.A. without too much gawking or intrusion (at least, so my friend in Hollywood tells me); it's become kind of an unspoken agreement between celeb and public.

On the same note, having loads of heroes around allows for more vigilante-ism. Without Superman, Martian Manhunter, and everyone else who can fly, deflect bullets, and level a city block, people like Green Arrow and Batman probably would have been arrested long ago for, at the very least, carrying concealed (or not so concealed) weapons. But who cares about those guys when some dude with glowing eyes is lifting the Daily Planet? :)

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The problem with GTA

word_geek
2008-05-01 01:45 pm UTC (link)

Up front: I haven't played any GTA games before, and I don't intend to play this one. I don't have a problem with it; it just doesn't interest me. I prefer games where the protagonist is rewarded for positive moral choices. I get that the story of GTA 4 is amazing, and nuanced, and complex, and that's great. I think the industry does need games like that. But as Exhibit A in the "games are art" argument, I think it's problematic. You've got the supporters saying "This proves games are art!" on the one hand, and the detractors saying "This proves all games are depraved!" on the other. I think we are getting more mature games with elaborate stories -- Mass Effect and Bioshock are two other examples that I haven't had the chance to play yet. But holding up GTA 4 as an example of games' unlimited potential, given the entire history of the series, is just painting a big target on it and handing the shotgun to the Jack Thompsons of the world...and not all of them can be easily laughed off.

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Re: The problem with GTA

ps238principal
2008-05-01 09:47 pm UTC (link)

I'm not saying this is art for everyone, by any means. I just ask those who are put off by it to look at the potential.

In a way, it's like telling someone that the same computers that provided the gore and guts in Starship Troopers are capable of animating Toy Story.

And I do hope more is done with it than just games that reward bad decisions, although that's another area that games have yet to get right, I think: Nuance. In a lot of games that give you the option of being "good" or "evil," you're either an angel or Hitler part II, rather than somewhere in between (if that's what you go for). I'm hoping games like "Fallout 3" will have something more like a "real" outcome where you did some good things, some bad things, and at the end, you find out what effect that had on the world.

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	Re: The problem with GTA (Anonymous) 2008-05-01 10:50 pm UTC (link)
	Just check out Fallout and Fallout 2. Did you do everything you could think of to be a savior to this town and screw the other one over? Then that's what it'll say in the endgame sequence. Not that good deeds never had unforseen lousy outcomes. (Reply to this)(Parent)

Ghostbusters
(Anonymous)
2008-05-01 06:20 pm UTC (link)

Not only did GameTrailers stop by the TRI offices for their upcoming show but there was also filming of behind the scenes stuff to be going on the Blu Ray edition of the movies coming out in the Fall with the game. That all led to a small party where look who showed up!

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	Live Action - JLA (Anonymous) 2008-05-01 09:31 pm UTC (link)
	I actually have a copy of that Live Action JLA in my DVD archives somewhere. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: Live Action - JLA ps238principal 2008-05-01 09:48 pm UTC (link)
	Is it better or worse than the Roger Corman "Fantastic Four" movie, would you say? :) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Live Action - JLA (Anonymous) 2008-05-02 12:50 pm UTC (link)
	Worse, much worse. A Googleplex of worse. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	styfen 2008-05-02 12:46 am UTC (link)
	Finally got to see the trailer. Looks like they're hopefully not wasting half the movie with an 'origins' storyline. Hooray, we already know Hulk = Banner and all that guff, get on with the story. More imporantly, doesn't the new CGI Hulk look like one of the Super Mutants from the Fallout series? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	ps238principal 2008-05-02 06:59 am UTC (link)
	He does bear a resemblance. It also looks like the transformation scenes are a LOT more disturbing (i.e. the one where Banner is lying on a table when his shoulders start to balloon out). (Reply to this)(Parent)

	You don't know what it is (Anonymous) 2008-05-02 03:37 am UTC (link)
	But if you go to the website on Youtube (www.mobbit.info) you will find a page in all russian. Here is the translation linkage via google translate. I want one too now... http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmobbit.info%2Fitem%2F4357&langpair=ru%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8 (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: You don't know what it is ps238principal 2008-05-02 07:00 am UTC (link)
	And it looks like they make a small model! I might have to hunt one of these up for sending messages from room to room in our house. Thanks! (Reply to this)(Parent)

GTA4: MA and then some?
(Anonymous)
2008-05-02 07:04 pm UTC (link)

I want GTA4 but I got burned on GTA:SA so I'm not willing to fork out the dough blindly this time. I played GTA:SA for 20 minutes before the profanity was simply too much for me. I played GTA:VC fine and it was MA but not to the extent as GTA:SA. n* this, f* that n* up the a*... "them people talk that way, what did you expect??" I was told.

So the question is... Just how bad is GTA4?

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Re: GTA4: MA and then some?

ps238principal
2008-05-03 08:12 pm UTC (link)

There's quite a bit of the blue-language in GTA 4. I wouldn't mind a "bleep" censor setting, but only if the sound bank contained at least a hundred sound effects to cover profanity; that sort of thing always made me laugh (see Eric Idle's song, "I bet you they won't play this song on the radio" for an example).

I was listening to some reports on the game details for the GTA series, and some comparisons between 3 and 4 were made. I haven't played 3 (and apparently, I could have been playing since day 1 and not have seen everything in the game), but a reporter said in the 3rd game, it was possible to become obese if you ate too much. This was eliminated in GTA4, apparently. But other details are striking, like a subway mural the reviewer found, as well as your car radio making that 'dit-ditditdit-dit' noise right before your cell phone rings.

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	gamingkitty 2008-05-02 11:46 pm UTC (link)
	Nothing to do with the rest of the conversations here ... but I just saw some impressive storm damage footage on the news labelled "Kansas City". Did your part of town get hit? Is everyone OK? (Reply to this)(Thread)

ps238principal
2008-05-03 08:15 pm UTC (link)

All of those I'm close to are all right, thanks! Some friends of mine up north of the Missouri river were close to the area that got tornadoe'd (I believe the news said three houses just 'vanished,' leaving their foundations behind).

For us, we just got a yard covered in broken tree branches (small ones) and a little water in the basement. It was a close one; we heard our sirens go off.

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