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Broken Empire (Asian/Wuxia/Martial Arts Roleplay)

Rin said
I actually haven't heard of Jade Empire. ^^; I just saw wuxia and martial arts, then read the OP and I was hooked. XD

Jade Empire is a BioWare RPG with a martial arts/Chinese backdrop.

I still believe that one day they will make a Jade Empire 2.

Broken Empire (Asian/Wuxia/Martial Arts Roleplay)

Can I base my character's style on Taekkyeon? Because I was thinking of basing the style on Taekkyeon. Mostly the kick based aspects of the style.

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To speak of how good Audition is: Eli Roth finds it hard to watch.

If Eli Roth can barely watch a movie with not a lot of gore in it, it's worth watching. Seriously, Audition is such a creepy horror movie.

Broken Empire (Asian/Wuxia/Martial Arts Roleplay)

All I saw was that it was inspired by Jade Empire so I am interested based on that.

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Rusalka said
Well the thing with Paranormal Activity is I actually experienced that stuff in my old house, so I know alot how that goes. Plus PA for me was good because it knew how to build the tension to the point of making you jump at just a little sound or disturbance. Oh and HELLS YEAH to Fatal Frame 2

If you want tension, the first Halloween is a good choice. The original, that is. Or watch The Descent. But not the sequel. Or pick a Hitchcock movie. Or do what I do and watch Audition again. Kirikirikirikiri.

Audition is an excellent movie for tension building in horror films. The whole movie is a build to the final scenes, but the way it builds them is genuinely unnerving. You never know what is truly going on, only that something is very suspicious. And then that last ten minutes happens and it's so good.

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What did you two like in Paranormal Activity? The movie was so boring. It's a movie where nothing happens and then sometimes a door closes. That's the whole movie. Well that and one of the biggest douchebags ever put to film being a total douchebag the whole time. On the tenth time something was about to happen and then nothing did, I literally shouted in the theater. In frustration. Most found footage movies are by design really stupid because they are based on the conceit that you know the ending going in (the one with the camera is dead) but they all have to drum up excuses for why the person is still holding the camera instead of doing the smart thing. It even happened in Chronicle, where "Oh by the way I'm making the camera fly with my superpowers, whatever, it's cool."

As far as Saw goes, Saw was fine before they tried to get smart with it. When it was just the first guy doing his whole 'I'm teaching people to appreciate their lives' thing, that was a neat little twist on the evil serial killer. Once they started adding in helpers and it just became a vessel for traps and 'twists' it lost all of its heart and charm, The more convoluted the movies/traps got, the less interesting the movies got as a result.

And with Final Destination, with the exception of 4 and 5, I genuinely liked those movies. For different reasons. The first one, like Saw, was just an interesting concept and featured creative, but still sort of plausible deaths to fit its narrative. The second was more of the same. The third I liked because of three reasons. Mary. Elizabeth. Winstead. The fourth one was just ughhhhhhh and the fifth one tried to be cute with its ending.

There's a trend there. The trend is that the first movies in long running franchises are the 'best'. Probably because they are the most pure. Once the series goes on, it falls victim to its own expectations.

As far as horror games go...I liked Outlast before it got dumb at the end. I like my horror games to be more atmospheric, like Silent Hill. That game is so effective as a horror game because it uses its environment to create tension, which is what you want. Something like Resident Evil doesn't get me in terms of horror because they give you ammunition to deal with things. Resident Evil 6 is an action game. An action game that tries to be a greatest hits of events from its own series. Like the whole Nemesis thing from RE3 being re-used in RE6.

FATAL FRAME 2, BEST HORROR GAME.

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If this is still seeking people that are interested, I am one of those people that is interested.

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Rusalka said
As the biggest horror fanatic ever....I have to agree. -_-*

While Eli Roth wasn't responsible for horror movies being devolved to crappy schlock (seriously, say what you will about the guy, it's clear he loves his old school horror flicks), word on the grapevine is that his latest, The Green Inferno, is actually good. I mean, it's inspired by Cannibal Holocaust so there's that.

Really, my thoughts on horror movies is this: The fact that a movie like Paranormal Activity can be praised and regarded as one of the scariest movies ever proves one of two things. That people are easily scared by nothing, hence the recent trend of horror movies being nothing but 'quiet quiet quiet quiet LOUD NOISE quiet quiet quiet LOUD NOISE' or that standards are so low, that a movie where nothing happens for 80 minutes and then the ultimate loud noise at the end counts as genuine horror.

Then again, I hate it when horror movies rely on gore, since that's not horror.

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SailorMoon said
I just have to enjoy the movie.

I am very critical about movies and stuff.

It's kind of why my friends don't like going to see summer blockbusters with me anymore, because after the movie they'll all be saying how awesome it was and I'll be the one person going "Oh my god that was terrible."

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The Dark Knight is a prime example of a movie wasting my time with its horrendous pacing problems and its bullshit villain magic in the second part, where everything that happens is magical bullshit that just so happens to be all a plan even though that is bullshit and impossible to account for. The sequel is worse, for different reasons.

Also Nolan didn't have anything to do with Terminator Salvation. I forgot that movie existed.