The stop motion scenes are VERY few and far between. I can only think offhand of the dropkick shot in King Kong Vs Godzilla and one or two shots of tentacles grabbing things during the octopus scene in the same movie.

At this point, I’d exclusively be paying for it as a 360 emulator, since there’s not one single game I want on the system that doesn’t have a playstation and/or PC version, and in many of the cases where there’s a PS version, they got it months (or years, in the case of Yakuza games and Nier Automata) behind Sony.…

This state of affairs is partly so disappointing to me since I could barely care less about Xbox’s back catalog, but Sony and Nintendo have tons of old games I really want to be able to play in the future. And the problem just got a lot worse this generation, with Sony and Nintendo both having tons of great exclusives…

I thought there was some in Terror of Mechagodzilla with the protagonist and Katsura, too! Maybe not, maybe it was just prosthetic nudity and him rubbing his face against hers after she gets mortally wounded. That’s a funny statistic and is definitely believable to me, who’s seen all the Showa movies multiple times…

My thoughts exactly! I’m wayyyy more hyped for this movie now than I was a few days ago.

I disagree strongly. I liked the idea of what playthrough 2 was doing on Nier, but it feels like a conceptual footnote to the main game, considering no gameplay changes, you just get more dialogue (which is unfortunately very easily missed since in the second playthrough your character is strong enough to kill bosses…

Weirdly, his big problem with it is that the human stuff is too serious, and he compares it unfavorably to KOTM, which Katie Rife here specifically says was too serious in comparison to this!!! Guess it’s just a matter of what particular brand of acting cheese feels sillier to the viewer. He repeatedly goes on about…

The “time-travel” one that neither of you had seen, Godzilla Vs King Ghidorah, is really amusing. It has all kinds of bizarre plot elements, like a bad attempt at a Terminator-style cyborg, terrible American actors (especially a soldier named Spielberg who sees a flying saucer in 1945), cuddly little squeeze-toys that…

Sounds a lot like the Terry Crews/Buster plotline in Arrested Development! Right wing politician adopts an adult to parade around because they have some marketable trait that compensates for the politican’s own shortcomings.

You’re right to recognize Eva Green’s performance in this as being fantastic, but the side-effect is that she makes Orlando Bloom look even worse. The scenes they have together are some of the most horribly one-sided I’ve ever seen. She might as well be acting against a wooden post. It almost brings more attention to…

I finished this game a couple weeks ago. Initially, I was quite impressed with it. But the more I played it, the more its Ubisoft-ness started to raise its ugly head. It’s just WAY too damn long if you go for any sort of completion (I got the platinum trophy), with way too much filler content. For example, in stark…

Good article. I downloaded the soundtrack a long time ago and still listen to it regularly, and think the main theme is my favorite of the whole series, with Sunleth Waterscape and the Archylte Steppe versions being my favorites. I loved the free-roam section of the game so much, since the overworld music is that…

Plus, I’d pay all over for a Twilight Princess HD where half the chests in the game aren’t filled with stamps that only work for a now-defunct social media service. It’s a great remaster from every other perspective, but it eventually is just demoralizing having what seems like every chest containing something that’s m…

Dude, I quit the game over the Hamtunscire cairn (I think it was that one? the one where the base isn’t even close to level and you have to wedge a rock at the bottom to start). I did every other one, and they were bad, but that thing was infuriating. I spend at least half an hour trying, even with copying multiple…

Yep. As a completionist, I hated Valhalla and in fact am boycotting it until I hear about some kind of patch nerfing those infernal cairns (the hamtunscire one is just about all that’s standing between me and 100% in all zones, but I have a bunch of the main quest left). The cairns are the worst thing in the game, but…

Having done just this about a week ago (thanks fightincowboy), I can say you do not need any materials, just get the codes. There’s a google sheet out there with a whole bunch of codes and explanations of what important objects are in them. There’s even a code for the last three bosses of the chalice dungeons,…

Thanks, this sounds really interesting and I’d never heard of it before. Nice to see it’s available on a service I’m actually subscribed to, also!

Hayden Christiansen was at least better than Natalie Portman in Revenge of the Sith. Not that that’s saying much.

I think the generally accepted pronunciation for Biography is “buy-AH-gra-fee” which would make it rhyme with Myopic if we used the portmanteau rule you laid out. Do you pronounce it BUY-oh-gra-fee?

I don’t even remember Ryuji’s creepiness, as it was so overshadowed by the large plot element of Yusuke trying to get Ann to pose naked. And didn’t all the other characters encourage her to go along with it? And then it’s just like, never mentioned again, except as a ha-ha joke? God, I hated Yusuke after that…