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Got previews of both Unity and Rogue at Pax Prime, and if I had to choose Rogue actually looked more interesting. But these were only 10 min previews of each and both looked good.

Maybe the fact I still haven't upgraded to a PS4 had me biased, but Rogue looked sweet.

I have it.

Unfortunately, it is indeed "Hostel" the game with very dated gameplay and story telling.

Oh and it looks terrible too.

Huge letdown, was psyched for this but passed on it and will wait for big drop in price. Got Bayonetta 2 and Smash Bros on deck.

Never played the 1st, but have seen 4 reviews saying this the best action game EVER. And comes with the first Bayonetta included(as digital download, I believe).

All over this on 10/24...

What's the gameplay like, is it more hide n shit yourself? Or is some combat?

You can engage in combat any time, but you'll have limited ammo and much will be wasted as it takes a perfect headshot or setting the bodies on fire to kill them(so mostly the latter). I did a brain puzzle which was cool.

If you're into survival horror, the game is gonna deliver the goods. But will it be good vs. great? Only 4 more days to find out...

The only concole I own is a Wii U. I'm a casual gamer at best so it's all I need. I briefly considered getting a PS4, but I don't see myself every really digging into the higher end games.

That's the only console I own this generation as well. Will probably get a PS4 when price drops and God of War comes out. Wii U is turning out to be quite a nice console though.

Wii U has steadily amassed a killer library. And Smash Bros. will be well worth the cost alone.

TitanFall was the only game thus far that tempted me to upgrade, but I'm more a Playstation guy and the 360 version turned out to be fine. That said, there's a surprising number of big games coming starting early 2015(Arkham Knight being 1) which will be new gen only. Seems suicidal considering the still limited install base, but guess they gotta force the issue at some point.

If the PS4(or XboxOne) had been backwards compatible, I'd have bit the bullet and bought back near release...

is it really the best ps3 game ever done ?

Yes. Yes, it is.

If I had to narrow it down..

Perfect Dark (N64)

Goldeneye (N64)

Halo 3 (Xbox 360)

GTA IV (Xbox 360)

Super Smash Bros Melee (Gamecube)

Great call on Melee.

Hard to compare different genres of games, but TLOU my fave from the recent gen, followed by Red Dead and Arkham City.

Random, but did anyone play Deadly Creatures on Wii? Such a strange game, especially for that console, but really addictive.

NFS: Hot Pursuit(2010) a near perfect racing game, IMO.

Anyone playing this? I played a short demo(10 mins) back in early September and very atmospheric.

Reviews all over the place with IGN and Gamespot dinging it the hardest, but many other sites giving it 80's and 90's. Definitely a big stealth survival game and not a FPS, so seems to be 1 of those types of games some will get immersed into and love while others may find it tedious and too difficult.

Tempted to pick this up, but think I'll play Evil Within 1st...

Waited over 2 hrs in line at Pax to play the 1st 30 mins. Really cool and picking this up for sure on 10/14.

Was cool Bethesda had a booth for promotion where you could get your headshot profile taken and they insert your face into the box art.

Played it a lot at Pax Prime and arrives tomorrow. Had to order online as all in-store copies sold out.

Can't wait.

Great movie until very end(no spoiler). I didn't read the book which I'm sure provided deeper context for the decision, but with the screenplay I just didn't find it plausible.

Unfortunately, it did not.

The ending seemed like it was written by someone else rather than Flynn. It's like she meticulously wrote the whole book, got tired of it, and rushed the end so she could get it out as soon as possible. Which is a real shame, really. Flynn had an interesting feminist approach on Amy at first. On some interviews she even said stuff on the line of"when a man is angry, he has his reasons. But when a woman is angry 'she's just being mad'". But in the end, Amy was just batshit crazy indeed and that was it. Actually, on the book, by the end of it, you end up relating more to Nick. It was just Nick being the good guy and Amy being insane, when in fact he also a sick, pathological lier and misogynist asshole. You may find it interesting that the movie made the ending slightly better. It made it very clear that Nick was also not a mentally healthy person. As soon as Amy tells him she's pregnant he smashes her fucking head in the wall. And as his sister said, he wants to be with her. He's not as crazy as she is, but she's not the sole pyscho on the story.

The ending, in theory, is absolutely brilliant and the most warped and disturbing choice she could've made. She just never quite sold the idea that Nick was co-dependant enough to get suckered back in, and Affleck's performance negates it even more so in the film.

Yeah, agree with 1st part if executed properly. But more than Affleck's acting, I blame some of the characterization as the end decision is in strong contradiction to a few actions/statements earlier in the film.

Still, totally riveting throughout...

If Old Guns reunited, it would still be huge biz worldwide. But Axl really has sucked the mystique and life out of the GNR brand since 2000 and exposed himself for being a shell of his former self. Everyone has seen the shape he's in physically, the more than rough voice(being kind) most of the tours. It would truly be nostalgia at this point and hard not to think it would turn out very disappointing. Personally I'd only be overly interested if they put out a new record and made a go again as a real band. Axl can still work tricks in the studio to make things sound OK, but even on CD he sounded ragged as hell through much of the record.

Just think if he'd stayed out of the spotlight all these years, suddenly came back, lean and mean and ready to kill vocally. Nothing but a dream at this point, but would've been INSANE. He coulda been the king again, at least for a while assuming they put out a strong album.

Best to just leave it alone at this point...

Great movie until very end(no spoiler). I didn't read the book which I'm sure provided deeper context for the decision, but with the screenplay I just didn't find it plausible.

Still, overall, loved it.

They did it!!!! Top of the mountain, baby!!!! World On Fire is now a #1 top single on active rock.

So Slash has #1's with Axl, SW and Myles. Not too shabby.

Congrats to the band. Much bigger indicator than sales#'s that people are digging the music.

Looks good. I think Ben Affleck is the killer of his wife. He just seems guilty in this movie, but maybe it'll have a really good twist ending.

Gone Baby Gone was so good and the ending was a nice surprise.

I'll probably see Annabelle this weekend. Saw the Conjuring, so I have to see this movie about that creepy possessed doll.

Going to see this tonight. Have heard nothing but raves.

Saw Annabelle last night. Brings absolutely nothing new to the horror genre, but very fun flick, loved it. The intensity and that damn doll just never stops.

Unholy is my track of the day.. What is that one about anyway?

Child abuse in the Catholic Church.

That's what they want you to think.

Song is really about Axl's serial abuse of his guitar players. All dressed up and cleverly disguised by Myles for Slash.

Think about it--poor Bumble just the latest sap to be groomed with promises of a new album and writing credits only to get lied to and crushed. SHIT HAS GOT TO STOP!!!!!!!!!!

An Original GNR tour would outsell this idea 3-1 or more. Having anyone else only dilutes...

Bought an iPod Classic last year for listening to when working out. Still much smaller than my Nexus 5 and I don't need to worry as much about damaging it.

Use the phone for both work and personal, so can't afford to get it crushed...

When in car I tend to skip around with the tracks(safe, right? ), but at home much prefer to start the album with Shadow Life and listen straight through. If not in the mood for Dirty Girl, that's my only sometimes skip.

Back to Izzy, would be incredible to have him writing and playing on the records. And then let Frank tour if Izzy isn't up for it. But wonder if including Izzy would make it more awkward for Slash not having Duff and Matt, too. Would love to see it though.

If Izzy replaced Frank Sidoris and handled songwriting duties this band could be fucking amazing.

Boom, there you go. Would be awesome.

If Izzy had to work with a frontman again, Myles would be as easy as it gets...

i think at the end of the day it will always be kind of hard to take slash's current work in complete earnestness -- what i mean is, he's courted the goofy self-parody image so much over the past few years that it almost shows through in his music... i'll put it this way, i wouldn't normally be as excited for a new song by slash and expect it to live up to his best works in the same way i might be looking forward to a new soundgarden song or something. there's just kind of inherently a different approach, and i don't want to sound like axl, but sometimes i think slash is just kind of coasting by on his laurels a bit, giving people what he thinks they expect to hear, without pushing himself.

that said, i really like this new record a lot, and i think myles is bringing the best out of him. it contains some of his best riffs in years. i'm digging it.

Really don't think he's focused on giving the people what they want. He has to know that VR or any other Supergroup would carry much more buzz and at least initial sales. He just is who he is and he's making the same type of music that he's dug since when he started. He's never wavered. But with 3 albums in 4 years you might be getting some fatigue if you're looking for something else from him. He has experimented with different styles, particularly on the 2010 solo debut and Elvis didn't let him coast on WOF. But it's unmistakably Slash.

My other favorite guitarist is Frusciante who, in contrast, has wandered off the fuckin' reservation with his last 3 solo records and barely even playing guitar anymore. All into experimental electronic stuff which really ain't his bag. So while it's cool to see musicians branch out, there's something to be said for the approach and consistency of a Slash. At the end of the day, Slash is a lead guitarist and as Rovim said, that means riffs and solos. He's not a master songwriter. So it's the frontman and other writers in the band that are gonna set one project apart from another.

Hope you guys are right. Would take it any time, any placement in the set. They could do some really cool, eerie backdrop with it.

Sums is all up perfectly in what may honestly be the worst thing my ears have ever been subjected to.

Would dig hearing a live version of Shadow Life.

The Unholy would be amazing, but don't know if that's the type of song(i.e., subject matter) they'd ever fit into a live show. Works as an album closer, but can't see them closing a show with it...

So we've gotten to the point of--

Poor Myles, guy can't even write lyrics with his usual themes w/o some of the GNR fan base wanting to apply it to Axl.

Poor Axl, any song about the subject being out of control and/or causing his own downfall is assumed to be about Axl. Throw in the subject becoming irrelevant and people think it HAS to be about Axl.

Might be time to lay off the pipe...

So how about everyone who assumes Sorry is about Slash? Should they lay off the pipe? I mean, Axl clearly said it isn't about anyone in particular.

But there's a big difference. Axl is always writing about ex-bandmates, ex-girlfriends, etc. CD was his My December album. There is a track record there unlike with Myles.

Crucify The Dead from Ozzy clearly about Axl. And Sorry clearly about Slash with its "Shut up and sing" reference and other lines obviously about Slash.

Axl writing lyrics about Slash far more plausible and even understandable than Myles writing and singing about Axl. The dots don't connect, IMO.

If Myles did write those lyrics about Axl, would be a huge bitch move and don't see that from him. You do?

See, here's the thing. I'm not trying to stick up for Axl or anything. It's just clear as day that at the very least, CTD, Nothing to Say and Too Far Gone are about Axl.

"Still you're much further away, singing our songs of yesterday, while so much still stands in the way"

That line is as blatant as "a loaded gun jammed by a rose".

Too Far Gone describes Axl to a t. I'm not some delusional Axl fan who thinks Slash is being mean or lying. I'm all for Slash taking it to Axl (and vice versa, they're both cunts) but it's pretty annoying seeing him get his shots in while appearing to take the high road.

I know, we're just shooting the shit on this stuff for fun. Totally meaningless.

Had never really bothered listening to the lyrics of Nothing to Say until now, but I do agree with Anguyen that the specific line you quote sounds like typical M. Shadows tripe. Reading the rest of the song, doesn't seem to apply to GNR at all. Honestly, I have no idea what he's getting at.

Because he's always seemed like such a cool cat, I'll give Myles the benefit of the doubt until he does something else douchey that makes me wonder. Singing "there's nothing left to prove, you're too far gone" about Axl would be far more personal and harsh than anything in Crucify and Myles doesn't even have a place in this...