The toys were what they lost the money on. The game was pretty well received really...

I personally thought 2.0 and 3.0 were both great. 2.0 is easily the best Marvel Superhero game available on this console generation, and 3.0 is one of the best SW games in ages...

The game was never the issue... Especially the last one, which was received pretty well. The problem (for them) has always been the figures, and the licensing deals they had to make on them. That would still be there without the game.

For example, to get the Guardians of the Galaxy deal, they had to agree to make Yondu…

The current service (on Shield devices) requires a monthly subscription that gives a handful of games, and then you also have to buy or rent any other titles you want to play (which is frankly, most of the things of interest). In a lot of cases buying the game “on the Shield” also gives you a Steam code so that you…

Yeah, this is a major annoyance to me as well. I passionately love my Shield Tablet and I rarely leave home without it, but it annoys me to no end that it seems to be getting phased out by the STV and GFNow, when I have no interest in that device or that service. I specifically bought into this ecosystem for…

Ghosts, Monsters, or Ghost-Monsters?

This is cool, but seeing as how the only thing I use email for at this point is professional communications or following up on retail purchases or whatever, it’s not really a system I would trust to voice-to-text. I’d definitely want to see the email in print before sending it out... which obviously would largely…

I have had virtually zero issues with it understanding me, but I do get occasions where it doesn’t seem to trigger the tasks I asked it to... Like, I have it attached to a bunch of smart-home stuff, and one out of every like, 20 times I tell it to turn the lights on/off, it says ok, but then nothing happens.

Not sure…

Yup, the Dot is fantastic, and apart from lacking in some bass, it sounds totally fine. It also manages to pick up sound from across my damn house as well.

The only time it has any trouble hearing me is if I’m in a different room and there is music blasting. In those cases, just shouting Alexa at it, then waiting a…

Hah, I am too; majored in 3D animation in college. I had instructors talk non-stop about the Valley and I think “It” fell precisely in there. The eyes, the skin... pretty much everything they warn you about just exploded out of the screen to me when that other character came on.

What’s especially egregious about it is…

Yeah, that’s a really good point... Now that I think about it, it actually mirrors Godzilla pretty well. Both are really strong movies that took a very well known IP, made them much less fun and way less recognizable, while still managing to keep (most) fans pretty content.

He’s certainly got a talent for reworking…

Totally. While that looked kinda weird and over-shiny on Prof X, it was not remotely as bad as what was done here... 

Even the creepy plastic version of Flynn in Tron 2 was less disturbing than the other one was in this. I was really hoping that “it” would either not turn around and all or just be a shot of the outfit…

Mon Mothma was not in A New Hope, and neither was that line...

That is exactly how I’ve been describing it when asked... It felt like a very well funded fan-film. Not that it’s an insult, just a pervasive feeling. I enjoyed it very much, but it wasn’t fun, it didn’t get my blood pumping till the end, and the whole thing just felt like a dour war film shot on a sound-stage.

Not to…

Yeah, I’m with the others here. I thought Tarkin played great. Didn’t creep me out, and I loved seeing him again. That other one though... good lord no.

I liked it, and the tone/stakes were great, but I agree it wasn’t everything the reviews are making it out to be... Felt very canned, and very small... almost like a fan-film.

I loved Tarkin though; didn’t give me much of any Uncanny Valley, and I got super-excited seeing him again.

I dunno, The Emperor’s Royal Guard’s helmets are arguably as cool.

Not to mention Troopers in general... Biker Scouts, Tie Pilots, First Order Troopers. There’s a whole lotta sweet, sweet helmets.

Hah, yeah... I’m a software developer. Precisely why the single last thing I want to do when I get home is look at another computer.

First though, Wii sales had exactly zero to do with hardware concerns; people bought them because they offered a new experience not available anywhere else, and they tapped into the…

Exactly. That’s an extremely limited view, and one has nothing to do with the other. I buy digital games because there’s no loss in quality, but that is not even remotely the case with movies.

I have a 155" 1080p screen/projector and 7.1 surround sound. There is a HUGE difference to both video & audio quality on BD…

Said it above, will say it again. This is an extremely personal take on it that does not hold up (albeit, anecdotally) to the people I know in the slightest.

We simply don’t want to play games on PC; many of us in our 30s and 40s did that stuff years ago through the PC hardware boom and have zero interest in going…

Werd. I’m totally one of these people, and I know quite a few others like me.

I did PC gaming years ago. I’m done. I just want plug & play games with no configuration, no hassle, and I never want to install another computer component ever again... I also want the best graphics I can possibly get, and the cost is…