Recent content by Nazrel

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    Hail Hydra

    Again it's less the plot point, (which is more then likely a waste of time.) and more the "Captain America is riding high in mainstream consciousness so lets announce he's always been a Nazi to Time" thing. As marketing missteps go, this is stepping directly into a bottomless chasm. Sure...
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    Hail Hydra

    No. It's still 616, it's still the same history. It's not a reboot. The only thing secret wars did was get rid of the ultimate universe, drop in a bunch of extra dimensional exiles and fragments, fold in Miles Morales, and leave those obnoxious deus ex machina cosmic cube shards lying all...
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    Hail Hydra

    It's less the plot itself and more the Time article. http://time.com/4347224/captain-america-hydra-agent-marvel-tom-brevoort/ They are really trying to sell, the "Captain America is and always has been a Nazi" idea, regardless of it making no sense, and being a complete perversion of the...
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    Recent Captain America comic reveal is the dumbest thing I have read in a long time

    Overhead it's not about the plot. The plot deserves a depressed sigh, and incredulous eye roll, and a "They're wasting our time with another $%&#ing one of these again?" Almost nobody is dumb enough to believe them when they say this is going to have a lasting impact, which is a damnation...
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    Enough of Making Video Games into Movies Already

    .Hack manged to spread itself successfully across multiple forms of media; the fact it takes place in an MMO was likely to it's advantage.
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    Why Do Branching Storylines Never Deliver on Their Promises?

    I thought it was pretty good, it is however just part 1 of the game (part 2 is out on steam, but I'm waiting for the gog one), it took about 14 hours, though you might want to replay it to have things play out differently.
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    Why Do Branching Storylines Never Deliver on Their Promises?

    Oh, those. It seemed obvious they'd only gain you a moments respite.
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    Why Do Branching Storylines Never Deliver on Their Promises?

    You have some pretty big ones in relation to who lives, who dies, and who joins you, which in turn impacts future events, and I'm not sure the full scope of the impact of some of the actions is felt yet. I'm not sure what you're talking about with the rolling back accomplishments.
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    Why Do Branching Storylines Never Deliver on Their Promises?

    Ogre Tactics: Let us cling together, was one of the best games for the impact of actions and branching narratives, and it originally came out in the mid 90's on the SNES.(They did release a remake for the PSP.) The Banner Saga did a decent job to (at least as far as the first installment is...
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    Spider-Man, Diversity and "Who Cares?"

    It's hardly the only issue, but in relation to the name, context for appropriation also likely plays heavily into it. Here's how to do something like this competently, have the real Thor out of the way (as in dead or missing), someone picks up the hammer (gender or race, irrelevant), and...
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    Spider-Man, Diversity and "Who Cares?"

    No, the sticking point is they were never Thor. (Though, again, Masterson technically was because he was fused with his subconscious.) Dress up like Richard Nixon, trick people into believing you're Richard Nixon, does not make you Richard Nixon. They did not assume the mantle of "Thor"...
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    Spider-Man, Diversity and "Who Cares?"

    Let me rephrase it. They were imposters, they were pretending to be the original Thor, and knew they had no real claim on the name. Masterson had no illusion about being anything more then a temporary stand-in. Dargo, accidentally grabbed the hammer during a corporate raid on the cult...
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    Spider-Man, Diversity and "Who Cares?"

    You know I didn't feel comfortable commenting on this before, because I know next to nothing about Billy Batson, since I don't really read DC, but thinking about it, even based on my own superficial understanding that seems like a false parallel. Sure, Solomon would deserve more credit then...
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    Spider-Man, Diversity and "Who Cares?"

    Inaccurate. Eric Masterson, wasn't Thor and damn well knew it. He was pretending to be Thor to the world at large, which is why he wore the face obscuring helmet. The asgardians certainly didn't consider him Thor. (Though technically he was Thor, because it turned out the real Thor was fused...
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    Spider-Man, Diversity and "Who Cares?"

    No, it's not fine, not when it's the catalyst of the plot, or, again, a massive character development of the hero the story had been following, that's completely independent of the development of said hero. Let me rephrase this, it renders her accomplishments not her own. No, I assume...