I think you’re being overly simplistic. Games are supposed to be fun - playing against a fireball spammer isn’t fun. Losing to one isn’t fun. And I can’t even really imagine that winning that way is fun. How entertaining can it really be to just mash the same three buttons over and over until you win? I’d get bored…

If that was exactly their point, then not only did they not really want to make a Superman movie, they likely don’t ever intend to make one. They had to do Superman for the Justice League so they could cash in on the Marvel mega franchise bank, but they didn’t like Superman much, or really understand him much - but…

This is something I struggle with. I’ve never particularly enjoyed difficult games for the sake of the challenge, but some games I enjoy for other reasons can still be pretty difficult (for me). Fighting games, for instance, are a constant trial. I also tend to set arbitrary (or achievement-based) goals for myself…

Actually, a majority of Americans identify as middle class. THAT is the rub - the poor don’t realize how badly they’ve been kicked down and subjugated, and the rich don’t realize how insanely good they have it. Everybody believes themselves to be “average Americans,” and so the whole twisted downward spiral continues…

It probably will. And it’s unfortunate that the second movie starring Superman is all about how the world hates and fears Superman. That was never his gig, and was never supposed to be. He represents something important, and that’s been thrown under the bus in favor of cheap, shallow “edginess” and dark color filters…

You and I have very different ideas about what constitutes “interesting.”

I don’t like them because A) They’re bad answers and B) The creative decisions that made the answers necessary are all part of the same problem. They display a stunning lack of understanding of what makes and has made DC comics characters so compelling for nearly a century - a seeming shame at what these characters…

Whatever. If it’s the kind of thing you enjoy, enjoy it. More power to you. But there are a lot of us with an idea of what we feel Superman represents, how that makes him different from almost all other superhero characters, and why that’s valuable. Those like us wish we’d have gotten a film franchise that embraced…

Nobody knows what Zod was doing. The only way we know anything at all is because Superman says so. But we have a lot of reason to believe that Superman might be lying. And regardless, Zod was only here (and our planet only in danger) because of Superman in the first place. So to the extent that he saved the planet, he…

It’s an implicit threat. If another country shot down one of our planes, we would see that as an act of aggression. If a single creature shoots down one of our drones and gloats about it while suggesting that he’ll keep using aggression to prevent any attempt to figure out what his deal is, that’s an implied threat.…

It’s a problem when your main character is the villain of his own sequel.

End of the movie. The government is trying to find out who he is and what he wants, rightfully suspicious of this alien about whom they know nothing and who is in part responsible for a massive catastrophe. His response is to destroy their equipment and tell them never to try looking for him again - he does what he…

Because they’re attempting very similar things in different ways, and it’s worth examining the effects of those different approaches. This is what analysis is for - to compare things and consider what you find. If you aren’t interested in analysis or comparative discussion, that’s fine - but for the rest of us, the…

One can also argue, which I do as a MoS detractor, that there is no way the world will ever get behind a Superman whose arrival was part of an alien invasion that resulted in thousands of deaths and trillions in global economic damage. Opening with a movie where Superman has to learn how to be Superman is an excellent…

Nope. The reason Batman has the best villains is because each is custom-tailored to test him in particular ways. Every one of his enemies challenges some central concept of what makes Batman Batman in a way that nobody and nothing else could.

Funny, I always associate this movie with Them Bones by Alice in Chains because it’s playing in Ken’s car during a driving scene/flashback. I think this was the movie that introduced me to Alice in Chains, actually.

I wish I owned a super-cut of just the Raul Julia scenes. I would watch it weekly. On Tuesday.

I’mma saaay... nobody? Nobody. How about that. If we have nobody draw it, nobody will have to read it. We all win.

But... it doesn’t do that. It makes fatalities easier, which only happen after you’ve already won a match. Buying easy fatalities in no way makes fighting easier and gives nobody an advantage over anybody else, it just makes it more likely you’ll see something cool if/when you lose.

Does Mass Effect DLC EVER go on sale? I've got a PC rig capable of really rocking this game, and I'd love to dig into the Mod community, but even a great sale on the trilogy like this leaves me looking at almost $100 in DLC purchases I already made on XB360. Hard enough to think of losing all the bonuses from my…

Does Mass Effect DLC EVER go on sale? I've got a PC rig capable of really rocking this game, and I'd love to dig…