Recent content by Keith Fraser

My (probably wrong) theory on how this alleged ME4 will avoid dealing with the multiple ME3 endings is this: the humans (and other races, if they're present) in Andromeda set out before the end of ME3. Either they found some sort of technology from these Remnant people (like a wormhole or...

I was going to ask if the voiceover in the first part of the intro was a parody of fantasy game/movie voiceovers (the narrator actually sounds like the guy in this dramatic reading of a bad Lord of the Rings fanfic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMbjK1m6alg ), but based on the tone of the...

Re: Chris Hemsworth as the world's buffest hacker: ironically, some time ago I was in a discussion about "bad boy" romance novel tropes (with particular reference to Fifty Shades of Grey) and someone noted that very few romantic heroes, no matter how "edgy", cyber-stalk the heroine and do stuff...

Solving puzzles with time travel? Hidden stars? Mysterious document fragments? This sounds as much like Braid as it does like Portal. In any case, this sounds like it might be my cup of tea, so perhaps I'll stick it on my Steam wishlist.

I'm holding out for a Silmarillion movie series, since that book's format lends itself to adaptations that allow the film-maker to expand on each individual story. You could make three movies just from three chapter-length parts of it: -The Tale of Beren and Luthien (which has an easily...

Oh Maker, they still have the excess amounts of grinding combat against small groups of baddies no matter how big and epic the game gets? All the Dragon Age games are (in my opinion) massively dragged down by all the boring grinding, to the point where I usually play them on the lowest...

Looks like Daenerys Targaryen is upping her game for the sixth A Song of Ice and Fire book! (Come on, a white-haired girl unleashes a dragon on an army and makes dire pronouncements, and I'm the first person to make an ASOIAF reference?)

Something Bob doesn't mention here is the moderate amounts of hate Maleficent has had from people who loved the original Sleeping Beauty - either they don't like Maleficent being made less villainous, or they don't like the good characters from the original being changed. I can kind of see the...

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought the guy in Scalebound looked like Dante from DmC. Also, apparently the game companies haven't got the message that pre-rendered trailers just look like obfuscation.

District 9 wasn't going to be a Halo movie; Peter Jackson gave the director a load of money to make his own project to say "Sorry" for the Halo movie not happening.

I thought this sounded good when I read about the premise and saw the trailers, and it sounds like I was right. One thing that amused me about the premise was that the aliens take over Europe before anywhere else, and from the clips here it looks like the US stages a counter-invasion from the...

9 might be OK if she's watched other scary stuff, but it is pretty dark in places - actually pushing the PG rating in my opinion (probably getting away with it by shooting most of the violence in such a way as not to show much blood, broken bones etc.). Angelina Jolie in her Maleficent getup was...

Very interesting assessment. In modern times, this sometimes manifests as the Draco In Leather Pants trope (which is frequently applied to characters who really are demonstrably evil, as opposed to faceless antagonists we're just told are evil). Incidentally, it is Satan who delivers that...

Just got back from seeing this and boy, Bob wasn't wrong about the veiled rape imagery or about how the movie is a crazy but likeable mess. Overall I really enjoyed it - though thematically it treads similar ground to Frozen, it works well as more than just a deliberately iconoclastic...

They forgot to mention the most WTF part of the entire movie, the last scene where the rest of the party gather at Snails' grave, turn into sparkles and fly away for no reason.