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I’m more interested in a game that meets the big picture and delivers a finished game with good animations and cohesive finished systems. Totally okay. Whether or not they ever deliver on the original promises of taverns or building or any of that sorta matters not to me anymore. ![]() The game has been growing and changing over the years. I have no idea how many of the things Mark discussed with me in the past are even true anymore. I’m not following the systems or feature lists anymore. Again, I’m following the ‘big picture’ ideas behind CU. Let’s get rid of beta as a marketing gimmick, shall we?Īs for promised features, I’ve lost track. I wish games would stop promoting beta testing as if it was a promise or should mean anything to players. So in that respect, I really don’t care if it took another year or two to even reach beta. CU is probably the last chance I will ever give a PvP MMO. I’d like a fun game like Camelot Unchained to get ‘it’ right. It was, at one point, possibly coming as early as “early 2016.” Personally, I don’t care. People love to scream, “It’s vaporware at this point!” I don’t see any truth in that.īeta (or as Mark likes to call it, Bater) is still delayed.  I don’t think that it was ever negative or too serious to the point where I have doubted the game would release. The CSE team is behind their schedule set out in the Kickstarter, but we all know by now that MMO timelines are mostly meaningless and when they hit their timelines the games aren’t finished anyway.Ī couple months ago Mark (CSE President) admits the tone of development was a little more ‘negative’ or ‘serious’ as they hit snags (I think I heard him say that in one of the recent video update streams). I browse the website every so often to see what’s new. They’ve created a very tight community and naturally most of that discussion happens within that community and not within the greater MMOsphere - which actually sucks for all commentary right now, so perhaps that’s okay.ĭespite being a backer of somewhere near $200 (I think?), I haven’t followed CU more than skimming the weekly emails. In this case, those followers are mostly devout backers. ![]() Like all niche titles, it has a cult following. CU is a very, very niche title right now. I think the comment is right that Camelot Unchained needs more discussion. Or any of the other crap they were selling. Cause 3 years on there is still no beta, right? And nobody even talks about storm towers. Thankfully I came to my senses, and cancelled that. For beta access and a really cool storm tower or something. We all love mark’s “openessâ€, but wasn’t the Kickstarter like 3 years ago?Īnd I, for a few hours, had more than $1k pledged. 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Joe and Myra were Vaudevillian comedians with a popular, ever-changing variety act, giving Keaton an eclectic and interesting upbringing. So, in a way, Buster won, too.Joseph Frank Keaton was born on Octoin Piqua, Kansas, to Joe Keaton and Myra Keaton. It did what it was trying to do, and its target was a worthy one. (The gag was musty even by 1922.) After all, the movie’s original audiences apparently rolled in the aisles, recognizing the Hart parody. In lieu of all this, I think we have to give The Frozen North a pass, even though meanness doesn’t suit Buster, and even though the movie ends with the cheapest, hoariest joke in all of movies. For the most part, Arbuckle was forgotten for decades, except as a trivia item about the scandal. Arbuckle, of course, was exonerated, though his career was ruined, and he worked in cinema only behind the scene, under assumed names, from there on out. Hart was bigger than Keaton-in popularity, and in influence within Hollywood. So, The Frozen North, Keaton mocks Hart’s onscreen mannerisms, costumes, and demeanor, playing the character as the polar opposite of Hart’s screen persona. Arbuckle had essentially given Keaton his film career, and was perhaps Buster’s closest friend, and there was no way that Keaton was going to take Hart’s viciousness lying down. He didn’t know Arbuckle, and he didn’t really know the case, but that didn’t stop him from calling for Arbuckle’s head. Hart was huge, a big star, iconic for his rigidly moral portrayals of western heroes, and his self-righteousness extended beyond the screen. Hart, who-at the time-was vociferously accusing Keaton’s friend Roscoe Arbuckle of murder and rape. Keaton was parodying the western films of William S. There’s a method to The Frozen North’s meanness. The effect is surreal, and inventive, caught beautifully (again!) by Elgin Lessley’s crisp photography. Parodies of the Lincoln Highway, traffic signals, street cops, and taxi all abound in this snow-blinded rural landscape. The movie begins with Buster emerging from the last subway stop on the line-in Alaskan territory. Actually, the sludge follows him, as he brings the grimminess of the city with him into the Yukon. The pure whiteness counterbalances this sick, dirty film. So, it’s ironic and appropriate that the film is so drenched in white-white suits, white snow, white fur of pack dogs. Whereas Buster usually wages havoc accidentally, or at least inadvertently while trying to escape something even worse, here he’s just malevolent. (He’s thwarted by his wife, who shoots him.) Some of the sequences are indeed funny but in the snide, blood-splattered way of a Quentin Tarantino film. When his “nice” pitch to woo the other woman fails, he attempts to kill her husband, and then rape her. 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