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    Is Spiderman: Homecoming even remotely good?

    Oh jeese, it's Samtemdo banging on about Marvel films again... Haven't checked this place in a while, and I suppose nothing ever changes. And what's with the thread title - do you work for Buzzfeed? Given the box-office, the critical reception, and the general audience reception, methinks the...
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    Zero Punctuation: Kingdom Come Deliverance

    I'm interested in HEMA yet not overly interested in this game, which is kindof annoying. The main character seems ferociously dreary, the main narrative scenes I've seen so far have been bewildering generic/tropey (voice acting and writing veers from the pretty darn good to the atrocious)...
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    How do you feel about breaking the forth wall in fiction (movies, TV, games, books or plays)?

    Like almost anything and everything (all together now, as has already been said); it depends how it's done. So I feel the same way about that device as I do any other. A gaming blurring of the fourth wall that comes to mind is Spec Ops TL, with its use of load screens in particular. One of...
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    How could Disney redeem itself from The Last Jedi?

    That's an increasingly wonderful question to the alt-right/anti-SJW's/whoever-they-are. The official line is that they are 'not racist', because it's not plain ol' diversity that's an issue, it's 'forced' diversity. Yet they cannot bring that line into clarity, and increasingly it really is just...
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    How could Disney redeem itself from The Last Jedi?

    ...you don't see any issues with how it handled the mythic moments from TFA, or any of its teased plot threads? Or Holdo's 'plan'? Or the way the film gutlessly reverses its potentially brilliant - and genuinely subversive - path (Jedi and Sith/Dark Side = baaaaad, end both) within the same...
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    How could Disney redeem itself from The Last Jedi?

    I'm not entirely sure what you're conceding to. Your approach being irrelevantly reductive ('Thus spake The Creator')? If so, kudos for owning it, I suppose. /edit I really liked Rogue One with a few caveats bolted onto it (given how much of TFA TLJ sabotages, I'm beginning to think Rogue...
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    How could Disney redeem itself from The Last Jedi?

    Oh, one of The Great Zontar's threads? Okay then, I'll roll with it. Disney are still helping to make the MCU, so they don't need to do a damn thing (MCU > Star Wars these days). I think I kinda hated TLJ, but even if Kathleen Kennedy realised maybe starting a new trilogy in one of the...
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    THings I want from the Next Elder Scrolls game

    Yeah, I had issues with the entire MQ, but that did also bug me at the end. Its writing and staging isn't smart enough to cast it as some kind of deconstruction or subversion of tropes, either, it just feels deeply unsatisfying and rather out of the blue. I loved and admired how it allows the...
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    THings I want from the Next Elder Scrolls game

    I know I sometimes have a kind of seething animosity towards Oblivion, but... Oblivion's MQ had "depth"? Where? I found only a 'demons are invading! kill demons!' story. I'd say both Oblivion's and Skyrim's [and Fallout 3's] MQ's were all awful, and all absolutely braindead. Morrowind...
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    Anyone get the hate for Skyrim?

    I hear that a lot, and I do wonder what the gaming landscape would look like if that wasn't so common; if such a braindead, frankly artless game hadn't been the one to get the limelight. Everything Bethesda have done with TES and Fallout since has been in its image. What about Skyrim's setting...
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    Ready Player One, AKA Nerd Fandom: The Movie

    I'd say that's incredibly unfair, and wildly inaccurate. At least of the book, which one would hope will be a primary influence on the film... i.e. be something more than just references. The book's not exactly a classic by any means, and I found the referential nature of it quite irritating...
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    Anyone get the hate for Skyrim?

    Subjectivity is as subjectivity does: I felt Oblivion's 'story' was inane, cartoony garbage [after Morrowind], and loathed its uber-mass market, fearfully conservative chocolate-box take on medieval European world design. It seemed like a pro-console culture change of design philosophy - and...
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    I am not watching Justice League until I see Snyder's Cut of the Movie.

    When looking at the budgets, IP's, potential, expectations, and the competition? Nnn---nope. I've never ran in front of a train, but I know it'd hurt... Homecoming demonstrably proved a fairly quick turn around on a recast-reboot can work. It doesn't really matter what my own opinion of it might...
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    Games you've bought that you can't bring yourself to play

    Witcher 3's one. Partly because I do want to replay TW2 first, but also because 3 seems like such an exhausting undertaking given I got the GotY edition. It's been sitting on my shelf for about a year now. I know Geralt has his fans, but I've never been one of them, and so spending another 100...
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    I am not watching Justice League until I see Snyder's Cut of the Movie.

    So MoS, BvS, Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman and Justice League represent a coherently realised, well thought out cinematic universe? And not some kind of braindead, reactionary, defined-by-boardrooms creative failure? I've not seen Suicide Squad, but I've had it spoilered to bits and I'm fairly...