Xander ,'Selfless'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
New request for play-testing another Halloween game.
It's only sort of about movies, but close enough.
The schtick is that you are a Fearless Vampire Hunter or Monster Slayer or whatever, and you have to defeat each of these monsters: [link]
To do so, you have to pick the best "weapon" from here: [link]
There are more "weapons" than monsters, so you won't use all of them. Each monster has one best answer/downfall/enemy.
Feedback, as always, welcomed.
The pictures are kind of small. I'm not sure what's going on in some of the monster and some of the "weapons" pictures. Is there any way you could set it up where clicking on the smaller pictures brings up a bigger one, or do you have a space/bandwidth limitation? Or is the final game not going to be web-based?
I had the same problem. I wanted to click to make the images bigger and couldn't, so I kind of gave up.
I'll dink with it. The final game won't be web-based, but I made the webpages 800x600. I will upsize them.
OK, they are sort of crappy grainy photos now, but hopefully better.
Raq -- I have a different thing to whine about: the picture of the hanger(s) makes my eyes go bendy because... well, I think it's two hangers, but they overlap enough to look like one blurry hanger. Anyway, my guesses:
A 26; B 21; C 6; D ?; E 16; F 11; G 27; H 19; I 15; J 3; K ?; L 20; M 13; N 14; O ?; P 5; Q 4; R 7
100%, Strega, except for the ones you didn't put an answer for. * D 23 K 22 O 1
I will change the hanger image, if I leave that one in.
Feedback? Too easy? Pictures need changes?
My answers to the Monster Slaying quiz are:
J-3, L-20, Q-4, F-11, A-26, N-14, B-21, I-15, R-7, G-27, E-16 (that one made me laugh), D-23, K-22... or possibly 2 if you're using the book ending,
And that's all I can get. If weapon 25 is a big rock, it's my best guess for what to use on Micheal Myers. Maybe the sun again, if I can use weapons twice. If 6 is the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, I might try that on Great Cthulhu, but if that didn't work, I think I might be screwed. Not sure what to use on the harpy or the horned cyclops, and I'm not really sure what monster C is.
Oh, I think it's a good mix, with some that are easy and some where you really have to know the movies (like H/19) . I did have the same issue Sean did with K, where I wasn't sure if it was the book or the movie. I might change the picture for 22 to a torch, because I kept trying to figure out if it was just a fire or if there was something in the fire. And 13 might be the trickiest weapon -- I suddenly realized what movie it was probably from, but I had to Google to make sure since I hadn't seen it. And C might be the hardest monster to identify, but everyone knows the movie (so that's a clue, Sean!) so it balances out.
We just saw The Departed.
Just...it's good. It's a fucking good movie. It's 2 hours and 20 minutes and the time flies by. DiCaprio, who usually bugs me, was incredible. Terrific, profane, nuanced script. Just really really good.
Is it better than Infernal Affairs? I feel I ought to see that first. It's like reading the book before watching the adaptation, somehow.