how is it that Star Trek Into Darkness was written in such a way that even knowing who Cumberbatch was playing would ruin the viewing experience?

I think it’s a much more widespread problem, he just happens to be the king of it.

Lucasfilm’s punishing process meant that the auditions favored those who could make a mountain out of a molehill of a script at high speed

So basically, exactly what Rob said in this very article?

Certainly helps that they relaunched Nancy two years ago with a new cartoonist taking the strip back to its Bushmiller origins rather than the saccharine Boomer take i remember from my childhood. New Nancy is amazing

Agreed. The companions in Pillars of Eternity aren’t bad or anything, but their rep as “tour guides with supped up personalities and backstories” isn’t far off either. As you note, their major personal journeys resolve in very much a “Choose Your Companion’s Own Adventure” kind of way. You’re not interacting in a…

Last time I posted here, I made the half-serious comment that Fallout 4 might just be a better game than Fallout 3. And it is so, so very close to being true for me.

Iowans really can’t hold their liquor.

I’ll miss their chocolate chip cookies.

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So i got a Fallout 4 CD Key on Steam for like $5.99 and it’s the best value you can get in modern gaming especially now that Fallout 4's in a state where modding has eclipsed Skyrim in terms of potential, quality and quantity.

That’s nice and all, but I don’t really see that there’s much room in the Dishonored fiction for a group of PCs to be running around doing stuff.

Just dropped in with a periodic reminder of a burglar that people rediscover and write about every 5 years or so. Dude’s name was Roofman and he would saw a hole in a McDonald’s franchise (frequently the roof) and drop in to rob it. Because McDonald’s layouts are so standardized and shift changes were scheduled at the…

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“Fallout 3's gameplay told me a story about these sleepy, quaint communities of survivors, and how these people went about their daily lives unaware of the incoming migratory patterns of superpredators; unaware that within a few turns of the seasons they would surely all be extinct.”

Yet another small gaming week for me, real life can get fun (several birthdays this past week plus NaNoWriMo kind of sucking my non work time up)...

I’m a little surprised to hear that assessment: my memories of my level 30 ranger/sniper character are of how obnoxiously overpowered the Broken Steel monsters were: how I could dump clip after clip after clip of ammo into them and barely scratch them at all. At the beginning of the game, I could just casually stroll…

Fallout 3

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