That's an unfortunate problem with the way people choose to portray ''the future technology, today'' in games and films. I'm not going to excuse lazy aesthetic similarities, because it's tedious, but I will say it's not too surprising a low budget series isn't going down a radical aesthetic route. I'd like to see them…

You've hit the nail on the head. The characters are what I like about Mass Effect, not so much the over-arching storyline - which as you say is hardly original.

I agree the car scene is funny, and obviously so far over-the-top that it becomes ridiculously funny no matter how many times you've seen the film. If I hadn't watched so many films, I'd probably not have found it quite so funny, but it really feels that almost everything set after Vietnam has a war veteran. I've seen…

After taking a few moments to collect myself, I can safely say I'm very happy and excited that the sequel appears to be heading this way. I only played the first game this year, and somehow hadn't heard it ended on a cliffhanger; It was similar to the sensation when you go to have another sip of coffee (or else your…

I was also thinking she looks like she's been caught in a compromising position. Of course she's the figurehead on a ship, but still. It looks wrong.

If an RPG set in space that has decent RPG features is a rip-off of ME, then damn, that leaves them with few options to avoid such a branding.
Personally, I'd only consider it such if there were comparable races, politics and main plot (the imminent arrival of the Reapers/giant space entities from an ancient time).…

perhaps there are less people like that here in the UK, and we certainly don't have the veteran trope (given that the Falklands most well-known solider here lost half his face in a fire, and everything since has been too recent, we simply don't confront it the same way). You're right though, they are real enough in…

Definitely agree with you there. Likewise the person referring to it as a neo-noir film - though I've seen it be called many similar things and agree with them. Another thing I love is how Walter represents the movie vet to such a ridiculous degree that all he needs to say is one line linked to 'nam and I start…

I always felt with the name 'Banshee' it would have been more logical to base it on a TVR (Griffith, Chimaera, etc). Mind you, I'd just as logically base it on a car with an engine that screams, rather than roars. But them silly Scottish folk at DMA* thought otherwise, clearly. Maybe it has a bronchial infection?

*I…

I've never smoked weed (or normal cigarettes for that matter) and I love the film. I love it for silly lines, for how laid-back the Dude is. I love it for the dream sequences, the characters, and even the cinematography. I love the ridiculous bowling posters, the bowling cassette the Dude listens to, and the rug.…

Not going to happen, but it'd be cool if there was a Billy and Mandy joke in there somewhere (the VAs for both of them are in this).

Slight correction needed there: It was firing at the same time that improved accuracy (because you're dealing with recoil for both guns at the same time, rather than having to adjust the aim for each gun afterwards).

They did this myth on Mythbusters twice. The first time, they fired the pistols at the same time and it dropped their accuracy severely. The second time, they did as you had, and fired sequentially, and it actually improved their results from the control of a single pistol in the standard stance.
I can't imagine in a…

''In Mythbusters, there is an episode in which they compared many firing stances, including having a gun in each hand and found that, compared to the two-handed single gun stance as a benchmark, only the one handed shoulder level stance with a single gun was comparable in terms of accuracy and speed. The ability to…

Bearing in mind Avi Arad is the guy who tried to sue - and failed - what became Mutant X, then afterwards decided to aid producing it. That's why it's a Marvel Studio Production, with his name on it, even though it's just a blatent rip-off of almost every comic book supergroup - at least this is what I recall of the…

Either way get Keith David to reprise his role, and you're set.

I quite liked the Silent Hill film right up until the little girl performd the most egregious info dump I've ever witnessed outside of a bad anime. The best horror is that which is left unexplained, and the film had that potential to be remembered as a good horror film (let alone a game adaptation), but her speech…

The only way they could make Mass Effect films work is if they find some way to get Keith David into them. Possibly as Anderson, but if not as the character we associate him with, then one of Shep's team. They could then hire Roddy Piper as Saren.

''Exercising his growing combat mastery'' Somehow, as I glanced through, this became ''Hair growing combat mastery''. I now want this in a game. It's been casually explored in things like PPG (Seduca), Bayonetta, and possibly even Bobobo Bo-bobo (Skull Girls too, I believe), but we need a hair combat simulation.

I actually hated the combat system immensely. I found I had to stretch my right index finger to the D-pad far too often, because you couldn't really stand still, and saw my companions act like they were beginners in an MMO and not realising they need to stay out of the fire. I couldn't work out why they waited so long…