I never read the LotR books when I was a kid because they seemed to take themselves SO SERIOUSLY, but the movies were decent enough (at least in the extended editions). So I figured I’d give the Hobbit a chance, and the first movie was amazingly bad. I read the Hobbit book afterwards as an adult and really enjoyed it,…

You waited 8 years to make that comment, could have at least made it pithy.

It is weird that nobody talks about how the godawful Hobbit movie trilogy killed a lot of interest in this. I just keep seeing reference to the LOTR trilogy as though nothing else hsppened in between.

Better Call Saul was much better than Breaking Bad IMO, for whatever it's worth.

GOT saved a lot by filming everything at night without light. No CGI needed if everything is invisible anyway.

Well in the 20 or so years since the original RE4 came out, lots of things have evolved: tastes of the general public have changed, accessibility options have improved a lot, audiences are more diverse.

That’s like a hat on a hat on a hat. 

My thoughts exactly. Why doesn’t every game just have that as the default, and you have to opt-in to receive abuse?

I had a kid shortly after Pikmin 3 and he’ll be old enough to drive soon. So quit your complaining.

It’s funny to see these comments right after an article on how Super Mario Galaxy 2 is better than 1 (and with virtually everyone in the comments agreeing). That game was of course also originally just supposed to be DLC.

Little-known fact: Captain Lou Albano actually sounded like Mickey Mouse in real life, and the Brooklyn voice you know him for was originally just a character he got sucked into (much like Gilbert Gottfried).

I know we all love Pedro Pascal, but isn’t this the kind of thing you do when your career has stalled for the past decade or so?

“Over the past 40 years, I don’t recall one military person ever complaining that we weren’t performing enough abortions,” Tuberville said Tuesday

Don’t tell anyone else, but I’m starting to question if capitalist corporate law is really helpful to society. Thinking maybe not.

Not only that, but almost everybody here read it that way at the time. Somehow a campaign by two people (one of whom I see is still doing it) to rewrite history by telling us we didn’t read what we read, or that the article never changed, has somehow been successful. Nice to see at least one person with a working…

Nintendo is known for “weird” though...

Tolkien wrote Lord of the Rings at a 7th grade reading level, which by my calculations is only one grade higher than Sanderson’s. None of those books were written for adults.

In fairness that’s always what Star Wars was: the desert planet, the space station planet, the ice planet, the swamp planet, the cloud planet, the forest planet... It wasn't until Episode I that we finally saw a planet with two distinct biomes (Naboo).

Searching around a bit, I think it’s because the games themselves are free. In the US “false advertising” penalties would only kick in once they influence an actual purchase. Of course there’s also the issue that the games may be from a different country where such laws don’t apply?