( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:01, archived)

( vladimir, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:02, archived)

is an anagram of

( vladimir, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:02, archived)

( vladimir, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:02, archived)

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( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:03, archived)

(gold members receive a birthday anagram from the queen when they reach 100)

( vladimir, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:04, archived)

and when they reach 010

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:06, archived)

and when they become a Rounded Hen

( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:07, archived)

What do you think about the latest venture by Trion World and SyFy?

( MONO!, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:05, archived)

Apologies Mono, I don't know anything about it

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:06, archived)

apologies Mono, I don't know anything about it What?
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:09, archived)

Look it up.
It's called "Defiance".
It's going to be both an MMORPG as well as a TV progam, each will affect t'other.
( MONO!, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:15, archived)

That sounds shudderingly wank.

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:18, archived)

I thought the idea was a good one, but when it's SyFy doing the series part I'd agree with you.
Trion have proved to be alright at making MMOs
( MONO!, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:20, archived)

Just a bit of a pointless gimmick in my opinion.
I think it's been fairly well established that computer games and tv series/films rarely mix well.
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:22, archived)

Some of my mates keep gushing about how good a Left 4 Dead movie would be
As much as I love the game, I am of the opinion that a movie of it would be utterly dreadful.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:24, archived)

Name me ONE film from a computer game that could be classed as good.
There may be one but I can't think.
Resident Evil
Doom
Hitman
Super Mario Brothers
Mortal Kombat
Tomb Raider
Wing Commander

to name but a few FAILS
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:28, archived)

I enjoy Resident Evil films.
And Doom is great for mindless background tv
( MONO!, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:29, archived)

Not great films though, certainly not better than the games.

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:32, archived)

Doom certainly isn't but resident evil were good, at least until the 3rd one I think

( MONO!, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:36, archived)

I wouldn't class them as great films. Not even that good at all.
They weren't as shite as some other films but a lot shitter than many many others.
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:38, archived)

We could go round in circles like this all day.

( MONO!, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:39, archived)

Challenge accepted.

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:40, archived)

Street Fighter.

( JessAction Give me all your expensive brandy and hubcaps., Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:31, archived)

That was another poor one.

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:39, archived)

This is it...and more often than not, the 'official' games movies are terrible too
The Harry Potter games (non-Lego of course) are crap.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:35, archived)

Totally, you can have exceptions but it is rare.

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:36, archived)

WHOA THAT IS A BIG FUCKING GUN.

( JessAction Give me all your expensive brandy and hubcaps., Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:25, archived)

I feel it's a fair comment.

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:28, archived)

Yes, but the two have never been done as one before.
Normally it's either a half arsed game of a big film just for the extra money.
Or a half arsed film of a game with a shit budget and no decent actors.
( MONO!, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:27, archived)

I just don't think they work well together. We'll see, I may be wrong.

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:29, archived)

Well It's going to be a FPS MMO
that's going to be cross consoles as well as most of the story being on tv.
It'll be fucking good if it's done right.
( MONO!, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:33, archived)

Not that I'm saying I think it will be.
It'll probably flop like most games do.
( MONO!, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:34, archived)

I reckon you'll get either a great game and a shite tv series or... you get the idea.
Either way I don't think it will make money.
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:35, archived)

I could bet 11p that both will be better than the other shit out there.
And with the added gimmick of being a series and a game I think it might be quite popular, even if it turns out shit like Doctor Who or Battlestar Galactica.
( MONO!, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:41, archived)

Fine then MONO! bet accepted.
to the death
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:43, archived)

Look at these
www.toplessrobot.com/2011/10/10_deservedly_forgotten_videogame_peripherals.php
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:27, archived)

The wii sex controler is frightening,
I had a C64, I remember that tape reader.
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:31, archived)

Yep, me too
I remember being really impressed with that tape player as it didn't need it's own power source. Unlike my Speccy.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:36, archived)

"Yes, the Commodore Datasette Player actually stored and read information from your typical audio cassette"
I'm entertained by the way he thinks that is surprising or unusual in any way.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 16:25, archived)