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Wrapped the season up last night and it was fantastic overall, really well done, faithful to the source, great performances, it was funny and dark, very Fallout. Definitely looking forward to season 2...

Great season overall, a pleasant surprise to be sure, hopefully we'll be getting more game adaptations with the same care moving forward, this and Last of Us proves there's money to be made and the shows don't have to be terrible if you respect the source material, and who woulda thunk it, brought some of the people on that worked on the games themselves. 

If you've never played any of the games I highly, highly, highly recommend checking them out, they're all on sale pretty much everywhere right now. I grabbed New Vegas and Fallout 3 for $1.50 on the Microsoft store, I've played both games a half dozen times at least but they still hold up and both deliver 100+ hours of excellent content, at least, per game. 

Every time I see this thread get bumped I hope beyond hope that it's a TV Kaki 1A announcement, oh well, one day...

Easily best show of 2024, after I finish up the series I'll probably check out the book too. 

Caught four episodes and hot damn, it's frakking fantastic! Easily a 9/10 for me, Walton Goggins steals every scene he's in, as you'd expect, but everything else is just so good.

Solid performances, excellent visuals, it's brutal and violent, but then also very funny and handles the dark humor well, the tone is exactly spot on for the Fallout game series. I'm beyond impressed, I didn't expect the show to turn out this good, the trailers looked good, but that's not a difficult task to accomplish, lots of trailers look good for crappy shows and movies.

Within the Fallout game continuity and universe I've found a few little things that don't perfectly line up, but I also believe since Bethesda is heading this they're going to downplay Fallout New Vegas and it's events and continuity as that was Obsidian. New Vegas was pretty much inarguably the best of the new Fallout games, superior to 3 and 4 in every way, but Bethesda has always treated it as a red-headed stepchild, oh well. 

Highly recommended, I'm going to an IFL game tonight but I'm eager to get home and watch more, it's just really good, I'm hooked to the TV every episode. 

I liked the first one, even though I find the idea of a Joker origin to be an oxymoron, it was a well shot film with great performances and it was entertaining. I'll definitely check this out in theaters when it drops, I just hope Harley isn't a part of Joker's mind and she's not real the whole time, that'd be a bummer/copout. 

Hi-Metal R Monster for sale, only removed from box once for inspection for about fifteen minutes, this was my extra unit. Basically brand new, beautiful condition, box is excellent. Price is $360 plus shipping, I'm only willing to ship within the continental US, I can get shipping quotes with insurance once I receive an address. Payment via Paypal, as gift if you'd like and if we've done business before, otherwise goods and services works with the extra tax added on to even out. I've been on the forum for years and should have tons of positive feedback buying and selling, let me know if you have any questions, thank you.

P.S. I'm in Henderson, Nevada, if you can pickup I'd be willing to do that as well, let me know, thank you.

If ThreeZero are re-issuing the 1-3 Labors and Griffin I may sell off my Side Labor collection and buy in on the core three. I'll might skip Griffin, and I don't care about the transport units, I just really like the core 3 and in a larger, more detailed scale, they look pretty good. Reminds me of back in the day when I had three of the Yamato Labors, good times. 

I'm glad it's successful, I want more movies, and Monarch season 2, season 1 was a huge surprise. 

Pre-ordered Shimo, I doubt Bandai will make a Shimo or Scar King, the way they already half-assed their Kong and Godzilla is quite telling, I think they're going minimum effort on New Empire. 

Yeah Godzilla fans are eating good these days, I love these American Godzilla movies, they feel like Showa films but with insane budgets, I like both American and Japanese Godzilla. I like to think and feel, Minus One delivered, I also like kaiju action and giant monkey punching other giant monkey, Legendary Godzilla delivers. I'll be taking my cousin's various kids to see this next weekend, me and five damn children, whatever they're good kids, then Raising Canes afterward!

Definitely in for the Turtles collab, easy pass on whatever that new overpriced Takara MP is.

I'm hyped to see it, and honestly, I like having Kong in these, it feels more like a kaiju superhero movie then a more somber, serious movie like Minus One. If you're going to be bombastic, stupid and over the top, go for it, include the monkey! I highly doubt Bandai will make a Shimo and/or Scar King, but it appears Hiya will, their Shimo looks really good!

I love The Boys, it's a great show, and I'd love to collect these and a full lineup of The Seven, but these prices are insane. Coupled with the lack of accessories on most of these and it's a pass, I get Mafex is gonna Mafex, but these prices are insane. 

I'm still trying to churn through FFVII Rebirth, not gonna lie, it's a slog lol.

Think of a modern Ubisoft game, but with a pretty, expensive FFVII skin on it, it's that. For every moment that I find charming and fun, for every great scene and character interaction, there's about a half dozen half-baked, half-assed mini-games that you've gotta do. It's too much of a good thing, but honestly, it's not even always a good thing, these mini-games are tedious, obtrusive, and overall, just uninteresting. The game is padded to the gills, there's so many mini-games and little nonsense games that just eat up time, the open world is already filled with massive check lists of things to do, but on top of that there's just crappy little mini-games everywhere, it's really rough, and totally ruins the pacing. Worst of all many of them are necessary for side story and objective progression, and in several cases, main story progression, it's a huge bummer.

I gotta say, as someone that grew up with FFVII when it first dropped in the US, and loves the original game and now all this extended stuff, this is a 7/10 at best for me, and that's being quite generous, I really just want to wrap the game up, I'm at 76 hours and I'm barely in Cosmo Canyon, I'm ready to be done and move on. The charm lasted about 20 solid hours, then I was in it for the story, which kind of sucks lol, and then I was in it for the characters, now I just wanna be done, it's overstayed it's welcome, I wanna move onto Cyberpunk DLC. 

Looks awesome, the hype is real! All episodes day one is great too, wish we could get Invincible like that instead of the BS release schedule we've been getting. 

Finally going to see this Saturday night with some friends, I'm excited, we're going after we hit Roadkill Grill here in Vegas, best BBQ in town!

I got to check out my buddies Hiya Ghidorah yesterday and I'm even less impressed and even more glad I didn't preorder. It's not a terrible figure, but it's not the holy grail, MonsterArts crushing figure I think many had hoped it would be.

It's not movie accurate, the sculpt or colors, the neck articulation is somewhat fixed and just really limited overall, not anywhere near as poseable as the MonsterArts, and the wings are kind of a mess, yeah they're articulated and I'd say better overall then the MonsterArts giant, heavy static wings, but they're so segmented they look awful most of the time and they're flimsy and clumsy to manipulate. He also has some QC issues, paint, one of the heads haw a lower jaw that's fixed and stuck in a crappy position, it's just not what he was hoping for. Overall, it's still far cheaper then the MonsterArts, and between the two I'd probably recommend new buyers to grab the Hiya, but I'm still glad I personally own the MonsterArts first release, neither of the super gold versions look good because that color scheme just isn't accurate to anything, it's more an homage color to older Ghidorahs.

The MonsterArts is a better sculpt overall IMO, and as plain as the original release is, the colors are better then the odd brown used throughout the Hiya. Now there's a gold release coming that's cheaper and I just don't know what to think, how is it cheaper but it comes with more then the first release? Whatever, I'm in for Hiya's Evolved purple Godzilla, and I'm sure they'll do Shimo and Skar King too, which I'll grab both, I have a feeling Bandai has zero intention of doing new sculpts for this movie, they already showed their absolutely ass looking Godzilla for this movie and it's the same sculpt from years ago, same with Kong but I really like that figure, hopefully they fixed some of the QC on this new release. 

1 hour ago, jvmacross said:

Any indication whether Spiderman will make an appearance?

The last one seemed to imply that the 2 would meet...

 

Knowing how these Spider-Man adjacent movies have worked, even with this supposedly being the "last" Venom movie, Spider-Man will probably appear before the credits roll for a minute or two max, and it will contribute and lead to nothing. 

Yeah this kind of just comes off as a supernatural John Wick riff, less Crow, he just seems like a guy with Wolverine powers and a revenge story, bummer. 

14 hours ago, Big s said:

I’m gonna look more at Amazon for examples and some of their stuff is pretty great. Sure Rings of Power was as you said a dumpster fire, but Reacher is pretty fun for being kind of a basic television series with a bit of streaming flavor added, The Boys is still one of the best things in the superhero category along with Invincible.

I personally think Fallout looks far more promising than Rings of Power and hopefully Amazon has learned from that mistake. Sure there’s a chance for failure, but it looks like a different kind of show. As far as video game adaptations, it looks far better than Halo from p+. And I killed the last of us on Max. I couldn’t think of one on Amazon.

I mean, I think overall Amazon has some absolute bangers for shows.

The Boys and Invincible are a breath of fresh air for superhero stuff, The Expanse is one of the greatest scifi series ever made period, Man in the High Castle is brilliant, Reacher and Terminal List were both fantastic throwbacks to classic action cinema, Good Omens and Gen V were both solid series. I'd say Amazon is far more hit then miss, Rings of Power was an epic stinker to be sure, but to use that to try to say Fallout will be a dumpster fire? I'm just not following. 

Damn I thought it was a real trailer, bummer. 

10 minutes ago, Stampeed Valkyrie said:

Let me be clear.. I really want it not to be a Dumpster fire, but unless you've been living under a rock,  or in your parents basement with no internet one does not need to look very far.  

I'll start with West World then...  First 2 seasons teetered beetween ok and good but never great.. the 3rd and... how'd that turn out again?

The Lord of the Rings reboot.. yeah nuff said

He-Man reboot?  anyone?

 

What I find amusing is how Amazon is touting this Fallout series with the headline about its the same writers from West World.. 

 

 

I mean, it's all subjective, I thought West World season 1 was fantastic, great stand alone season that later seasons never managed to reach in quality again. Rings of Power? He-Man? Those aren't related to this show in any way, I'm not understanding your logic. I could just as easily say Shogun is incredible, it's not related either but it's a show that's out and is a 10/10, that proves something I guess? House of the Dragon was great, Last of Us was really good, The Curse was fantastic, I just don't get the bringing up two other unrelated shows to make a point, there isn't really one, some shows are good and some shows are bad, that's kind of how it works. 

Cheaper then the first release, and it comes with more? Yikes, people hate on Bandai for doing this, Hiya takes it a step further. Still a pass for me, none of these companies have made a movie accurate KotM Ghidorah yet, they're all inaccurate in different ways, oh well, I'm fine with my original release MonsterArts figure. 

16 hours ago, Stampeed Valkyrie said:

Guaranteed Dumpster fire,

Guaranteed? Yikes. To each their own, but dumpster fire? In what way?

No 4K release? Why only Bluray? Lots of people have moved onto 4K and Dolby Vision, and this film deserves the best.