Recent content by Doopliss64

Mirriam-Webster defines them mostly identically, with a possible subtle (and seemingly rather subjective) difference in connotation. I know that every source I referenced in my high school psychology class used the terms interchangeably, at least. Perhaps things have changed very recently?

Stockholm syndrome doesn't work like that: it's the development of a sort of empathic bond between a hostage and their captor. That's not what's happening here. Paz doesn't show any evidence of defending or sympathizing with the motives of Skullface, rather a sudden physical attraction to Chico...

I think people are vastly misinterpreting what's considered problematic here. It's not just a matter of "rape is offensive!" or being thin-skinned. Two points to consider: A) It doesn't really gel with the tone of the game/series. Obviously, the series is sort of notable for its detours into...

Play Arkham Asylum/City with Detective Mode on continuously and limit yourself to just your fists and you essentially have a Daredevil game. Didn't one of the alternate characters in City even use batons? Actually, building an entire Daredevil game as a kind of stripped-down Arkham might be...

I find that including the term "playing God" in dialogue is one of the most common identifiers of lame sci-fi writing. It's just so on the nose, it always makes me laugh. Very well-produced trailer, by any means. I just wish Call of Duty would stop holding on to this idea that it still has...

It's because the entire point of an x-ray move seems to be to draw attention to the injuries the fighter is sustaining in a very precise medical sense; literally, an x-ray highlighting each individual injury as it occurs. This is different from "normal gameplay" in this or any other fighting...

As a huge fan of the original games, and a big skeptic of this particular project I have to say... that I'm actually totally on board with this. BF2 made a big mistake when they took aerial combat out of "ground battles" and isolated it to space. Combining the two play styles was always a...

Interesting, but I honestly can't really comprehend watching the movie and then watching the show and thinking "hmmm... which of these is TRULY the best?" The Netflix show isn't just better, it's simply on another level of quality entirely. I'm all for defending poorly-received films, but...

This is pretty damn cool. I don't know if this is common practice, but if it isn't I guess it's awesome that a show about a blind superhero might be making an actual difference in the way TV shows deal with accessibility. Plus, if it's well done it might even be cool to listen to as a radio...

The biggest ones I can think of are Angry Birds, Plague Inc. and 2048 (Crush the Castle/I think something else before that, Pandemic and Threes respectively). Angry Birds was at least an across-the-board improvement, but Plague Inc. was pretty... uninspired. 2048 really stings because it's so...

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. It's just the absolute best, in a way that's very difficult to describe to someone unless they actually play it.

I'd take Edgar Wright over Orci any day. This makes me quite a bit more optimistic for the future of this film, actually.

Perhaps this falls more under the category of "divisive" than straight-out "bad", but I've always personally preferred Rare's later output to their earlier stuff. General consensus seems to be that they could do no wrong until they reached a rough patch that started with Donkey Kong 64 and...

I don't think it can be fixed in The Last of Us. Naughty Dog has made it a bit of a habit to assign to motion controls actions that are mission-critical but largely superfluous, which is going to make things difficult for you. I have no idea about the rest of the PS3's library, but I would...

I actually think the modern post-Sonic Adventure character designs are pretty awful, and I say this as a huge fan of the games themselves. I definitely see where they're coming from here, and I actually like some of the designs. The last Sonic design (fully clothed) in particular is pretty...