To be fair I've not watched this season.. I started to watch the first episode but it was just so poor it reminded me just how bad the writing gets. Start off the on the wrong foot and you've lost me.

You know I can't think of a series, of any length, in recent times that actually ended in a satisfying and FINAL kind of way.. the writers always seem stymied by the network who insist it must be open-ended so we can bring everyone back... 24, Lost and House spring to mind.

What you're failing to take into account is that it's all overseen by a single corrupt and heartless corporation that, when not stealing it's characters from the actual owners and using it's power to beat them down, doesn't give a damn about the plot when the actual money is in the overpriced cash-in's with junk-food…

That arcade took far too much of my money.. and the C64 and ST versions took additional hours of my life too.

R-Type's back baby!

The worst case of 'cauliflower ear' I've ever seen.

But I... butt butt eye.. but I.. butt butt eye.

I had a royal pig of a time with it and the sequel on my Win7 64...

Only the Sith deal in absolutes...

He was an awfully big marine.. whoa whoa.

Most of his work prior to Gerald's Game was pretty decent.. but since then he has become apparently stuck his own genre.. It feels so much like he bled his quaint rural characters dry and now so many of them are rehashes. He needs a damn good editor to cut the crap and focus his work again.

My first reaction was that I was disappointed so much by the cheap-out on effects (I loved the description of the plane crash in the book and would have made a grand visual statement) where 80% of a plane and fuel basically vanished.

I knew they'd crowbar in this reference somewhere.

Slow week? Just add yet another Last of Us article that will pad things out.. maybe some unfinished graphics or a discussion of an ending no one wants spoiled.

I loath the 555 convention it always breaks my immersion in a TV show or movie. I understand why it exists but why not do what we do in the UK.. JUST DON'T SHOW THE NUMBER.

Cisco router Prism-ready socket.

Cisco router Prism-ready socket.

Ralph Bakshi called from the 1970's.. he wants his artwork back. ;)

I was about to point out the lack of a nose too....but... oh...

My recollections of the game are somewhat more patchy than I thought as well.. been reading up and there was a lot I'd forgotten. The Statue of Liberty sequence at the start and Battery Park have stuck with me really well (helped that I paid my first visit across the pond to those locations a few weeks later).

The original Deus Ex was a superb game. The characters were somewhat flat but intriguing, the story was functional but intriguing very much used to support the game mechanics rather than driving the game, the game play was genuinely varied and could be played in differing styles to effect a very different experience.