The space battle above Endor in Rogue Squadron 2 might be the best Star Wars level ever. Like the movie, there's a shit-ton of TIE fighters that need to be taken out before you take on Star Destroyers - it's everything I want a Star Wars level to be. It's why I'm disappointed that the new Battlefront game is…

As a kid, my only source of video game news was Nintendo Power. They gave Shadows a strong endorsement, so I bought it. I loved it. I'm sure it's unplayable now - especially since we've had 20 years of moving 3D characters in games, but it was the first time the Battle of Hoth didn't look like shit, and the space…

I vastly prefer the original trilogy, but there are pacing issues aplenty that people let slide because we're used to them. The Luke-Leia heart-to-heart in Ewok village is every bit as awkward as the Anakin "I don't like sand because it gets in my butt crack" speech. The idea that the Empire would have multiple…

We're going through the movies in order of theatrical release with my son who is 7 (the target market). I think why a lot of people hate the prequels is because they were 7 when they saw Star Wars and 30 when they saw The Phantom Menace, and the movies really are kids movies. We just finished TPM this weekend, and he…

If you've seen a picture of Culkin lately, he looks like Rickety Cricket from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

The ending I wanted for Breaking Bad was for Walter to be lying in a pool of his own blood as the camera pulls away, cuts to black, and rolls the credits. After the credits, I wanted footage of Saul, with a new pair of young entrepreneurial criminals, finally getting somebody to take him up on his Laser Tag money…

On the other hand, how can you root against Evil MacGyver?

He also saved Latin.

In the original, I basically played so I could acquire all of the old NES games hidden within the game. Eventually, Nintendo figured out that they could sell me those games (again, and again, and again) separately from Animal Crossing. I skipped the DS version, but picked up New Leaf and decorating my stuff all…

Is the card data then saved to the cartridge? I ask because I have no desire to play this game because I'm too insecure in my manhood to play a game about interior decorating, and there's none of the manly stuff of previous AC games like fishing and digging for dinosaur bones. I have a New 3DS which would scan the…

I think a lot of people take pride in their levels being hard by mistaking poor level design for good challenge. Then you have some by the guys who used to mod Mario games to make the hardest levels ever. Those are bullshit torture-porn levels too, but if you want to perfect your skill of "launching a shell at the…

I'm completely okay with hard. The secret levels in New SMB U or the green star levels in Galaxy 2 are hard. It just needs to be fair. Why did I die? How could that have been prevented? If the answer is, there is no way you could have known that was coming other than to die first, it's not fair.

I agree with the tips above. If you're designing courses for your friends, and you get to watch them play, then it could be fun to troll the hell out of them. I don't see how it's fun if a stranger is playing your impossible level because he or she can just skip out of the misery. Make levels that you would want to…

I'm not much of the creative type, and the other night I found myself rubbing my eyes from staring at my GamePad, noticing the battery needed to charge, and the clock read 12:30 am, so it definitely pulled me in. Part of this might be that so many people prematurely ejaculated a plethora of troll levels that hide…

That first time you tiptoe past the piano and it tries to attack you is every bit as scary as walking past a window in Resident Evil for the first time a dog jumps through it.

The turning point for me was the post-Super Bowl episode where there's a fire and Angela is pulling cats out of a drawer, and she tosses it up to Oscar (whose weight is held by the ceiling), but Oscar misses the cat and it comes crashing through the ceiling which cannot support the cat's weight. That episode was where…

Seasons 2-3 were so good, I'd put them in the same league as Season 3 through Armin Tamzarian-era Simpsons, post Season 2 Seinfeld, Arrested Development, etc. I'm not saying it's better than those, but if you watched a handful of Season 4 Simpsons episodes and The Dundees came on, you're still in for some good TV…

I pretty much quote the whole movie. Anytime somebody tells me a date or a deadline I should care about, but don't, I take a cue from The Dude being told that tomorrow is the 10th, "Far out."

From Futurama, when Fry was introduced to Zapp Brannigan, and he asks, "THE Zapp Brannigan! Who is Zapp Brannigan." I'll use that all the time when somebody talks about somebody I'm expected to know, but don't.

From The Simpsons, whenever somebody asks "why would they do that?" the reply is always, "Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything."