Open world racing games might be the dumbest thing the gaming industry has ever produced. So totally pointless.

There are a few side missions in Mirror's Edge Catalyst that unlock fast travel waypoints, I did only those so I could otherwise ignore the open world.

I quit playing video games for probably two years just because so many major titles were unnecessarily open world and they were all so bad. I loved Far Cry, dealt with Far Cry 2, but Far Cry 3 was a bridge too far. One of the worst games I've ever played. It feels like the tide is turning a bit, what with the…

Great article. This is one of the worst trends in gaming. Gamers started demanding more and more open-world games several years ago, to the point that any non-open-world game was dismissed as "linear" (as if that is an insult and not sometimes a fundamentally sound design choice) and all but guaranteed to be a…

I hate to break it to you, but that wasn't Barcade. That was Pizza Hut.

The arcade game is only the best because of the frequency with which we all ate at Pizza Hut in the 90s. I'm not sure it's technically good.

"When you give this show your full attention, you realize how little it truly amounts to." YES, exactly! This show digresses into a lot of unnecessarily long and detailed subplots. If you pay attention to how these subplots are ultimately resolved, and how they advanced the story (if at all), you'll realize that they…

The bar for medieval fantasy is pitifully low, most of it is just garbage. Game of Thrones at least has an intriguing world, characters with real depth, and great actors and actresses. I wish they had taken that basis and developed their own story, rather than adapting the book series. That, or been less faithful to…

I managed to soften the blow of the earlier seasons by intentionally spoiling things for myself. A lot of the really bad scenes are easier to handle after you've known about it for a while.

I quit watching halfway through the fifth season, but I told my friends to let me know if it got worthwhile again, and they said it did, and they were right. Some of it is still a chore, and it's the only show on TV where I fast forward through entire scenes, but the high points are higher than just about anything…

I resolve to be more honest about Game of Thrones. It is an almost universally beloved show with an extremely passionate fan base and it is frequently very, very bad. I still watch it, because the payoff is typically worth it, and because it has a richer world than anything else on television. But you are watching it…

The decision not to use his script was Lexi Alexander's alone. She discusses it in an episode of How Did This Get Made. She wanted to be true to the comics and felt his script was too great a deviation.

I was genuinely surprised the first time someone told me Alien was meant to be a horror film. It's not scary in the slightest, and I'm pretty easily scared.

I was really hoping the writers would just drop Gordon's brain issues, in the same way Friday Night Lights just ignored the fact that Landry killed a guy. It's such an insanely unnecessary and pointless storyline.

It takes a special level of delusion to think Zach Braff has $2m cash sitting around.

Yahoo didn't fuck it up. Season 6 was hilarious and produced on a larger budget than season 5.

To suggest that reviewing a film honestly is the same as being a horrific misogynist internet troll IS, exactly, conspiracy nonsense of the highest order. No one expects a backlash from an honest review. No one. Get that through your head.

No, I think if the movie is bad the reviews will say "the movie is bad," The End. And here's thing that people like you will never understand: if you are a movie reviewer, and you go see Ghostbusters, and you don't like it, and you write a negative review, you won't be labeled a misogynist shitbag. What WILL get you…

Probably because you, like the rest of Reddit, refuses to accept that the film might actually be good, so you resort to childish accusations of bias and corruption. That's what journalism is 2016, and it has nothing at all journalism itself, because the inherent credibility of journalism is fine. The problem is people…

I've never played more than one or two story missions in the GTA series. I haven't played much of GTA V, but for GTA 3, San Andreas, and IV, I used nothing but cheat codes. For San Andreas I downloaded a completed game save, printed off three pages of cheat codes, and put in 100+ hours just playing it as a sandbox. I…