Exactly... I knocked out Arkham Origins in like... 5-6 hours, and probably should have done it in even less time since a lot of the side missions were just “find and blow up these 6 things” which didn’t end up with any pay off.

I buy most of my games on Steam these days, so it doesn’t really bother me to have about 30 games waiting to be played. I’ll play one till its done, or till I decide that I don’t like it, and move on to the next.

Oh yeah, and the game people decided to build a real version of the game. Like someone building the island from Myst, and putting robotic minotaurs in there for some reason.

Yeah, the march of technology was one of the things that interested me about the show, especially since it did advance. One of the things that bugged be about the newer show Aldnoah Zero is that the antagonists in that show had amazing technology, but only put one style of weapon into each mech, and barely ever worked…

Its interesting how in anime you can get the characters that have a never ending grab bag of strong powers, and over the course of the show learn even stronger ones. And then there are those shows where they seem to deliberately give their characters just one limited power, and then find clever ways to use it.

Catholic priests kill people with exorcism too.

And some games give you a variety of choices... some of them spooky to the point of seeming like a psychological test themselves. I watched a video of harvesting a Little Sister in Bioshock because I couldn’t bring myself to actually do it in game.

Pyschology research seems like you should take it with a big boulder of rock salt. Much of its done on white, educated students that know they are being tested, and so may be induced to act in a certain way consciously or unconsciously. The results may not be replicated by others that do the same testing, or no one…

I think it varies from game to game too. In something like the Telltale Walking Dead games, where you have a few choices to kill or save various characters, its really hard for me to just stone cold kill someone, because the game makes you feel the impact of that act. Much more so than murdering tons of Orcs in…

I was totally one of those people. Installing Steam and getting an account set up to play my game? Ugh. I honestly still don’t like having to deal with that sort of situation for other games (Like Origin or Windows Live). Another password to remember and potentially forget.

I’d say that MMOs have had quite the Rise and Fall over the past decade. World of Warcraft just exploded, to the point where Mr T was advertising it on TV, and its still big, but it seems like precious few other MMORPGs are able to match that popularity, or even stay in business for more than a few years.

Wasn’t their origin story just “We went into space at a bad time and got turned into superheroes” Its not that we don’t care about space so much as people are up there living in a space station right now, and so far most of the danger they experience is from junk people leave up there. Hell, why not just make the FF…

World of Warcraft:Dead

Oh yeah, I’m a big booster of anime... but it does sometimes go into some pretty strange territory at times. Kill La Kill actually made a surprising amount of sense and had good character archs compared to some of the more mediocre stuff that I’ve watched... like lets say, Blue Exorcist, where the Devil just turns out…

Yeah, you may have a point there. The best Japanese movie I’ve seen in years was 13 Assassins, and that was mostly just guys running around with swords, who presumably aren’t as expensive as a Titan.

Yeah, I’ve seen a lot of good Korean films on Netflix (by which I mean, like 10ish?), and I definitely haven’t felt the same sort of culture shock from watching them than I have from some of the anime I’ve watched. But except for The Host, most of those movies have been revenge/crime stories. Sci-fi and fantasy seem…

The making of Snowpiercer seems as improbable as the crazy awesome setting itself.

Yeah... of course they are going to make the characters Japanese when making a movie in Japan. Maybe they could have found some blonde expat and flip the casting for Mikase? But either way, washing everything with a dull grey filter isn’t very visually interesting... the anime was pretty brightly colored even in the…

Not a bit spoiler, but Levi is an important character because he one of the few bad asses they introduce whose job isn’t to be immediately killed to show off the seriousness of the situation.