They really screwed up the marketing of that one. I know that I and most of my friends assumed it was just another (terrible) console port, and there was little out there telling us otherwise. But, yeah, it was a great little game, and one of the last FPSes I really enjoyed (nothing against Half Life and its…

I think what a lot of people tend to forget is that Wolfenstein 3D is not the first game in its series, and that said series is qualitatively different than Doom, or even what Wolfenstein would eventually become. Taken in the context of the earlier, 2D games, Wolfenstein 3D's maze-oriented design makes a lot more…

I take your meaning, but I will fight anyone who doesn't recognize Link's Awakening as the pinnacle of the Legend of Zelda franchise. :-)

The best thing about Doom's cheats, oddly enough, is what happens when you try to use them in Heretic. And I say that as a dyed-in-the-wool cheater.

In terms of gameplay? I can see that, I guess. But I adore Doom 2's design from an aesthetic standpoint. The variety of environments, and the locations id's developers were able to evoke given the graphics of the time are breathtaking. And there are some really clever bits in there, even from a gameplay perspective…

The pistol is useful against Lost Souls. They move a little too quickly for the shotgun to be useful against large packs, and the chain gun is a waste of ammo. They have such ridiculous recoil after getting hit that the pistol's limited stopping power isn't a major problem.

Overseas sales of BBC programs are handled by BBC Worldwide, an entirely separate branch of the BBC that operates on a commercial basis (as does BBC America). But they generally don't have a hand in the production side of things, which is publicly funded and has a number of legal restrictions concerning what they're…

The Brigadier's final on-screen appearance being an afterthought is oddly appropriate, though. He only became a recurring character in the first place as an afterthought, because Jack Watling wasn't available to reprise his role as Professor Travers in 1969's The Invasion. And he was famously slotted in as a late…

I doubt RTD or Moffatt were so bothered by the "UNIT dating" controversy that they would have passed up an opportunity to bring back Nicholas Courtney. The more likely explanation is a combination of his advanced age and a desire to only use him if they had some story to use him in effectively. Particularly the…

No, it's premium/pay television, similar to HBO or Showtime.

"First project"? To date, Pillars of Eternity is the only Kickstarter project Obsidian has done....

I wouldn't call it my favorite season by any means, but I think season 6 definitely plays better in retrospect than it did at the time. As a weekly serial, it was a bit disappointing, but taken as a whole it works fairly well. I think the same goes for season 4 (which was similarly hated by fans at the time), and the…

Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness are doing the same thing to different movie genres. ED2 is a slapstick parody of the slasher film, and AoD is a slapstick parody of the sword 'n sandal fantasy genre. In both films (and in stark contrast to the original Evil Dead), the horror is almost beside the point. I'd go so far…

I have a hard time faulting him for that. Anyone involved in the production of serialized television drama does the same thing, he was just one of the first to actually admit it. You can't write TV (or movies, for that matter) like books. In books, you can have a consistent and reliable road map, and the only real…

Please! There was one "so-so film" in between the finale and the present day. The first movie (Fight the Future) was released while the show was still on the air, in between seasons five and six. The only official live-action X-Files material released since the show's conclusion in 2002 (so, excluding the comic book…

Preemptive tl;dr: Barry and Eobard aren't related, but the Allen and Thawne families are eventually united through Barry's grandson and Eobard's descendant from 500 years after his death, Bart Allen. Now, the full story is a hot mess and quite possibly the most needlessly convoluted story in comics....

The Killing Joke wasn't erased by the New 52 reboot. It still happened. The difference is that rather than coming to terms with her injury and rededicating herself to her role as Oracle, she spent a few months in a wheelchair, had surgery, and went back to being Batgirl.

Well of course Kojima is leaving Konami: they've run out of classic franchises for him to ruin... er, reimagine.

Hm. I enjoyed the premiere, absolutely. But somehow I was expecting to enjoy it more than I did. For some reason, a lot of it felt like it was, I dunno, trying a bit too hard. Liv's family was the biggest offender, IMO: they came off as caricatures, or broad comic stereotypes, rather than actual characters. And I was…

That's just the thing, though: I don't really understand the line of thinking that argues that the first movie isn't a stasis. It succeeds, or fails, on its own merits. Barring something a lot more catastrophic than simply a poorly conceived reboot, nobody is going to watch it in the future and think "boy, this movie…