I think there is some serious nostalgia overlooking some big plot deficiencies. Remember how in 3, after fighting through the worst level in the entire series to rescue Cortana from capture and presumably being mind-raped (remember her comments of being ‘broken’ by the experience), and chief is basically, “you’re…

Hey you should remember that Dr. Halsey IS a war criminal. She headed the program that kidnapped 150 children, personally choosing which children would be selected, replaced them with clones with lethal genetic diseases so that when they died their parents would not suspect the kidnapping, then augmented them with…

Xanatos is evil Man of Steel? No wonder he always win!

Nah, it was just a different interpretation than the most traditional. I like keeping open-minded to new interpretations. Even if they aren’t totally successful, they may have something interesting to say about the character. The fact that MOS wasn’t universally loved doesn’t strip away its ambition.

Not all Marvel films, just Age of Ultron. Many say that the ending is the anti-MOS, and I agree. They are extreme opposites. MOS makes no attempt to reassure the viewer that nobody dies, while AOU aggressively reassures us that nobody dies. Honestly, I prefer MOS’s style. It feels like it trusts the viewer more. Even…

We disagree about the whole ‘giving a shit.’ In MOS, the first thing we see Clark do is rescue oil rig workers from a fire. Lois tracks him down by following his trail of mysterious good deeds. He fights the Kryptonians to a standstill, explicitly saving the soldiers and earning the trust of the military. He turns…

My point about SM2 was that it displays the underlying heroism in Clark even when depowered and getting his ass beat. It’s actually a very common trope throughout comic books and movies, usually used to illustrate the hero’s innate heroism is not due to their superpower.

I don’t think these types of stories are mutually exclusive.

Sassy Whedonisms should not be coming out of Ultron’s mouth ever.

Agreed. The worst thing he did the entire movie was accidently rip off that guys arm, for which he was profusely apologetic. Oh and he killed that guy with the terrible Eastern European accent, but he may have been doing us a favor there.

Iron Man 2: A fleet of drones is taken over by a mavolent criminal who then uses them to terrorize New York. The creator of the drones is sent to prison.

please let us know when the traffic bugs are fixed. That's what's keeping me from this game. After banging my head for so many hours against SimCity's busted traffic patterns, I can't invest in another game with the same frustrating issue.

Traffic was SimCity's bane as well. The traffic algorithms were busted For example, my schools would be in the center of big residential areas, but each day the buses wandered around the city, picking up kids from random parts of the city but ignoring the local kids. Also there was a glitch where school buses were…

The best part of 5 was its soundtrack. I still have a few tracks rotate through my current playlists. Also as I recall your choices for romantic interest spanned characters from the prior games, and it was just nice seeing so many old characters pop up again. But yeah, the actual gameplay and puzzles were weak.

thanks for sharing your point of view

Having read through what feels like millions of pro-gg commenters, I can honestly say that there are an infinite number of ways they deny all the hate coming out of gg, and the arguments go on endlessly. But I like how you focus on their legacy. One more thing I would add is that gg has dramatically accelerated the…

I think the term 'gamer' was getting to the point when it wasn't synonymous with anything, no more than 'bookreader' or 'moviewatcher' signifies anything. And I am for that. But we've backslid a long ways due to gg. I understand why you wouldn't care, which is fine, and I think that actually tracks pretty closely to…

OK well from what I've seen lots of gg'ers are very concerned about their depiction in the media, and also from what I've seen lots of gamers like myself are concerned about how gg is depicted in the media because it reflects badly on us. But if you don't believe that to be the case, that's fine by me.

I was replying about your statement "Also "people" are not genuinely disgusted that the term gamer has gotten "mixed up" (it hasn't) with a bunch of ravenous threatening misogynists (how many is that, exactly). Some people have. The same people who are looking for an excuse to be upset, to faint on their couches and…

You know, I've noticed that anti-gg'ers often get sucked into the endless debate on whether gg is really about ethics in video game journalism vs anti-feminism (although come on, everyone knows that the anti-feminists are using the ethics issue as a witch hunt to silence pro-feminist voices). But I think it may be…