Nightly Open Thread
Ubisoft announces Rocksmith…which is like Rock Band with real guitars, I guess
I don’t get it. Also, given the recent collapse (what else can you call it?) of the music gaming genre, I just don’t see how Ubisoft thinks there’s going to be a market for a game that will be largely inaccessible to all but a niche market of gamers who are also moderately accomplished guitarists.
Maybe I’m missing something here?
Paramount Pictures to release tunnel-horror flick via BitTorrent
So what I’m inferring from this is that The Tunnel — a “long-awaited horror movie” that is “set in abandoned real-life tunnels under Sydney, Australia” — pretty much sucks beans, and Paramount basically figures there’s no money to be made in releasing it.
Maybe I’m missing something here, too?
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Australian thriller. Two words that should not appear in the same sentence unless the other words in the sentence include “bad”, “terrible” and “the creators should have been shot at birth.”
For the record, I am Australian and have seen at least one Australian Thriller that I can remember. Worst film I’ve ever seen.
Although I am lucky enough to be one of the few Sydney-siders who’s actually been in the aforementioned abandoned tunnels and I have to say the tunnels themselves are pretty cool. Or they were when I was twelve anyway. A twelve year old boy in dark, abandoned tunnels, half underwater is a very happy boy indeed.
Maybe it’s just thrillers that Aussies can’t do, because y’all are pretty good at sci-fi. I mean, Farscape pretty much rocked…
The only one I’ve seen is Long Weekend:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1098356/
Not for everyone, but I liked it. I like horror movies that slowly build up the creepiness factor and this one works. The only other movie I can think of that really built up the sense of dread was The Broken. That one had me scared to look at myself in the mirror for a couple of weeks.
I’d consider getting Rocksmith (if I had a guitar). Guitar Hero (when you stand back and take a look at it) is a waste of time, apart from the entertainment value. This one would actually teach you to play guitar. Games are an excellent source of education… when done right. It’s amazing how many times I think “I learnt that from a computer game”. Huge amounts of my vocabulary (though some was pronounced wrong in the pre-voice era). Problem-solving skills. The binary and hexadecimal systems. If I’m gonna play a computer game, it’d be nice to know there is some lasting benefit to it.
I agree, there is a lot you can learn from games. One of my favorite developers is Paradox Interactive; they make a ton of historic strategy games, and if you don’t know a lot about history, it’s definitely an entertaining way to learn. I am looking forward to Crusader Kings 2, but I don’t think it will be released until next year.
Ultima was my favorite english teacher as a kid. I’d still suck in english if it weren’t for videogames.
Does that mean you occasionally slip back into Ye Olde Englishe?