ME 2 has one of the most interesting structures in linear games — the main story is pretty mid, but all of the actual action of the game are the recruitment and loyalty missions. It’s like a very literal gamification of Ocean’s 11, and I’ve never seen that done elsewhere. That’s really why it’s one of the best games…

James Caan in Thief is probably my single favorite performance ever. No one has ever captured that sort of calloused vulnerability better. In my experience, it’s one of the most realistic portrayals of the people involved in crime put to film. While the strong sense of professionalism is exceptional, as someone who…

Eh, they invested $40K in Nintendo, so it’s not like the money’s down the toilet. It’s not like the dude who spent 15K in Diablo to protest Diablo’s microtransactions.

This seems like typical Marvel lying, right? Like, we know Marvel is trying to make a Fantastic Four movie, and Krasinski seems like the level of fame they would hire to be Reed Richards (unless he’s trying to be Clint Eastwood and only direct). And I don’t know why they would hire someone that prominent to make a…

for what it’s worth, Aspyr officially supports the Restored Content mod and has patched it in officially in all of their ports. they’ve said they’ll do the same in the Switch port, but obviously that remains to be seen. 

I’ve been very happy with my Xbox/Switch combo — I pay for Game Pass, but really only actually *buy* games on the Switch, with a couple of exceptions (Elden Ring was the only Xbox game I’ve purchased this year). I feel like I’m getting the best of both worlds: I can really build out my collection on one console, but…

Not wild to expect a massive corporation like Sony to want to remain as neutral as possible. Extremely wild that he just dropped a “respect differences of opinion” at the beginning of an email about his cats’ birthdays.

I beat him pre-nerf, but I also beat him with pre-nerf Hoarfrost Stomp, so it really evens out and I deserve no Souls-cred. No regrets, he hit like a bus in 1.02.

I mean, that’s how it goes, right? When was the last time you watched an old adventure serial? If no one’s watching the serials anymore, they’re certainly not inspiring any new filmmakers.

I think if you asked most people to choose between their job and their significant other, they would choose their significant other. And when Paul was saying that, I interpreted it the unspoken second part of the statement to be “and that’s why we should never make John choose between us and Yoko”. It was weird that…

This is an interesting thing to review — it’s definitely in the realm of a B as something to watch: it’s definitely a lot, it drags to a crawl at points, and it’s best watched in the background while doing something else. But more than most documentaries, this thing isn’t meant to be a piece of entertainment, it’s…

On the other hand, I think in the interest of historic preservation, putting out virtually every bit of interesting footage was probably the right choice, especially when you have the tech and the budget to restore it. That doesn’t make it a tolerable watch for the non-hardcore set, but I don’t think turning it into…

I think Prometheus actually rules. People get hung up on a couple of times characters do stupid things (they don’t know they’re in an Alien movie!!), but there’s a whole lot more going on there, and the movie is just so nasty and mean and bleak. It’s great!

I mean, the answer is that you think you want a live-action adaptation of an anime, but you extremely do not.

I mean, looking at the list you posted, that seems like a pretty rough lineup in recent months. Lots of remakes and ports, “same game different year” stuff like the sports games, Far Cry, and Call of Duty (probably the most forgettable Call of Duty since Infinite Warfare, too), niche stuff like Age of Empires 4…

All the stars are here: Twitter’s enlisted all of your favorite Twitter personalities*, including Prance, Bobson Dugnutt, Sleve McDichael, Broman, and, you guessed it, Dwigt Rortugal!

I would describe the book as a combination of The Road (whatever caused civilization to collapse is far in the past, the actual era of things collapsing is skipped over) and Lost (lots of characters with lots of flashbacks), plus a weird goofy sense of humor (it’s specifically about a Shakespeare troupe making a…

tbf in the book, the pandemic moves so fast and is so deadly that there’s no real room for the classic COVID-denialism. only real open question is whether it’s divine retribution and how much is worth saving from the before-times.

okay, to be fair, I really had to look up who died in that movie.

Yeah, I’m not going to rank the whole bunch because I’ve forgotten a lot about most of the middling ones — but for me, the ones that are consistently underrated in lists like these are Guardians of the Galaxy 2, which is the best, and Iron Man 3. For Iron Man 3, I get that the dividing line here is whether or not you…