Let’s not forget the movie that gave us Jim Carrey as a sax-playing, leather wearing goth. That’s right, it’s the Number 23

I hoped we’d get more into the professional consequences of this movie, because this was a big budget AAA picture that ended up a career poison pill for most of its cast, who were generally on the rise in Hollywood at the time (the exception probably being Arnold, who was well into middle age).

That’s demonstrably untrue, tho - Obsidian had to go with Frank Sinatra’s “Blue Moon” as a theme for New Vegas because their preferred choice, “The World We Knew”, was released only a few months (iirc) after Bethesda’s mandated historical cut-off point. This despite the fact that the song is both mind-bogglingly more…

In the depth of his craft and the subtletly of his premises, Cage is like the Wachowskis if the Wachowskis made games and were thoroughly rotten dim bulbs

It’s getting a PC release at some point.

Mainly it just leans into a strain of ridiculous humor that’s orthogonal to Alien’s tone. Weyland-Yutani getting bought out by Walmart, etc

That’s the kind of selling point you reserve for getting film buffs salivating over an arthouse movie, not an incredibly expensive prestige game.

The first season was great, something really unusual and strange and pretty underrated. The following two seasons largely lost their humanistic perspective and became plot-driven in a bad sort of way. I watched the first episode of season 3 and it was an entirely different show from the first season (which was covered…

He made an impression at the effortlessly cool pirate captain who has like 5 minutes of screentime in Alien: Resurrection. You don’t see him much, presumably because he only takes roles in movies that are just fucking bonkers

Fairly sure at least some of them are public domain. That or the folks who own the rights to the Shadow are the most litigation-averse people on earth

The golden dagger hilt biting into a dude’s Purlicue is an image that was seared directly into my 9-year old brain.

Fairly sure at some point through the series it was at least intimated that it was HAL’s proximity to a monolith that sparked its sentience in the same way the monoliths were nebulously responsible for human sentience.

LEt’s just agree to not eat anything made out of tubes

Montana’s a great state

I honestly didn’t get a sense of self-awareness from the game such that when, say, Seed admonishes you for trying to fix everything with violence, I would understand that he was lying. I mean obviously he’s the villain, but I think the game is serious about its half-assed Haneke streak

Incidentally, I strongly disagree with the assertion that the ending means Joseph was somehow “right”, or that it would have been better to let him run rampant all over Montana.

Ludonarrative Dissonance is a fine thing for a game to mine (as referenced in the last review iteration, it came out of Far Cry 2 vs. Bioshock), and a lot have done so elegantly (Planescape: Torment, Prey, etc), but the Brechtian tack in FC5 really does not work

Ludonarrative Dissonance is a fine thing for a game to mine (as referenced in the last review iteration, it came out of Far Cry 2 vs. Bioshock), and a lot have done so elegantly (Planescape: Torment, Prey, etc), but the Brechtian tack in FC5 really does not work

Funnily enough I think the lead FC5 dude worked on BS:I

Hey we don’t talk about Southland Tales like that around here