Recent content by Penguin_Factory

I don't see why anyone would think this given that her her criticisms are a) extremely mild and b) generally accompanied by constructive advice for the industry. This seems like a slightly weird exercise given that she frequently talks about games that appeal to her in her videos. Why not...

This is a really good point, but I think it's important to recognize that it's something many feminists have been saying for a long time- ie the "drop the gender binary" crowd aren't necessarily going around demonizing traditional notions of femininity either, in fact I've read many a feminist...

"Though, many players will probably just find something else to complain about." I think it's a bit disingenuous to characterize this as baseless gamer whining. I bought Battlefield 4 at launch and for quite a while after the game was only sporadically playable. Not because of connectivity...

I still remember being extremely wierded out about how the opening cut-scene goes out of its way to pain the Helghans as slaves of an oppressive Nazi/Stalinist hybrid regime, but then a) you never actually see any Helghast who aren't loyal soldiers trying to kill you and b) you end up destroying...

Dear God, thank you for pointing out how dumb the LifeInvader thing was in GTA V.

The Name Of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss is the most boring novel I've ever read. The book is padded to an even more ludicrous degree than most epic fantasy, and almost nothing happens. Massive stretches of this novel- literally hundreds of pages- could be excised without affecting the story.

I have to say, I really don't get the reaction to Iron Man 3. I thought it was bloated, meandering, fairly idiotic and way too full of incoherent set pieces. The thing that baffles me is that I've been lukewarm on all of the Marvel films apart from the first Iron Man and the Avengers and I'm...

If anyone wants to see Ethan Hawke in a good movie they should watch Martha Marcy May Marlene because he's great in it, and also because it's awesome.

Those glowy white outfits the Kryptonians wear are pretty rad.

I've never seen The Village, but it sticks out in my mind due to the fact that one of the photos on the movie's website spoiled the twist. I've always wondered how a mistake that glaringly obvious got made.

If I have to hear one more word about the Mass Effect 3 ending I'm going to murder someone. If it was just confined to forum threads and comments sections related to that topic I'd be fine, but no. You can't bring up Mass Effect at all, for any reason, without the discussion being dominated by...

For fuck's sake, is there ever going to be a day when someone can bring up Mass Effect without people arguing about the ending? It's fucking over, move on. Jesus Christ. Anyway, the actual news. I appreciate the fact that Bioware put out so much DLC for the Mass Effect games, but I've never...

I think it was Bob who previously suggested that Bruce Wayne play the role of Nick Fury in the upcoming DC movies, paving the way for the Justice League's formation. I'm sure they're never going to do that, but it would be cool. Wherever they end up taking Batman I just hope they don't play...

I heard an interesting comment once about stuff like Mystery Science Theater 3000. It was on a podcast where one of the guests stated that they liked the show but worried that it was contributing to a culture that treated riffing as the default way to consume movies. This was supported by the...

This video is giving me painful flashbacks to how incredibly stupid the 90s were. Then again we'll probably be looking back at a lot of current games the same way....