I'm not certain what the point of that would be. After all, you don't get the rewards until after the product comes out, right? And payment has to come before that.

"the game wouldn't be being released at ALL if nintendo wasn't funding it, so it's a moot point "

That's purely speculative. No next-gen consoles besides the Wii U have been announced (although we all know they're in the works) and there's no reason AFAIK to doubt that Bayonetta 2 couldn't also run on X360 or PS3.

A quick disclaimer: I've never played Bayonetta nor do I have a firm opinion of the Wii U.

I'll grant you the point about excessive cutscenes in MGS4: acts 3 and 5 are about half cutscene and both act 6 and the epilogue are nothing but. However, MGS3 actually had quite a lot of gameplay and while several of the cutscenes were quite long, the ratio was pretty distinctively slanted towards gameplay.

I know the article's description blurb was a joke, but no, he actually gets quite a bit wrong.

Everyone's talking about how sex gets a harsher rap than violence in ESRB ratings (as well as the MPAA for that matter). And that's a totally valid point. But they're ignoring another one that's just as large IMO: namely, that DoA at this point seems to be marketed solely on its cheesecake factor.

I'm aware of that. I'm just not sure it's a 100% valid way to describe it.

Well, he [Sayles] called it "the scariest movie I ever saw." Take from that what you will. We could also add Peter Watts to the list while we're at it.

True enough and that's unfortunate. But you take what you can get.

But they still use knives.

Well, in theory the Affordable Health Care Act prevents insurance companies from denying you coverage for preexisting conditions. Presumably that would cover (potential) future conditions.

Everyone likes to claim everything influenced The Matrix. There's no end to the list of works I've seen raised up as "the great art that the Wachowskis stole their ideas from."

Fair enough, but Temple of Doom was particularly blatant with its Chinese sidekick, bloodthirsty fanatical Indians, and eternally useless damsel-in-distress "heroine."

"It was a cult favorite then, it's a cult favorite now."

How would you define a classic if not by its impact on future works? I'm not saying that The Thing is a classic (although I do believe that), but showing that people were mining it for material thirty years ago is solid evidence in that direction, even if it isn't enough by itself.

"Finally, that they made a prequel to The Thing remake defines it as a classic? That's some interesting logic there."

John Carpenter's career just kind of runs like that, doesn't it?

Right, but the point is if they found a sword (or just any knife really) they could still do plenty damage. There's plenty of examples of knife fights in Britain, for example.

"Finally, of course, for a majority of people, the only science fiction they think of it Star Wars/Trek, or (advanced!) maybe the Matrix. Undoubtedly some portion read Fahrenheit 451 in school, but probably have never been exposed to Niven or Asimov, let alone more modern authors (Goonan would be a good example)."