Recent content by ricree

Makes perfect sense to me. Perhaps Pym would have made sense if Ant-Man already come out and been a success, but since it hasn't hasn't, it's a lot more satisfying to have the threat flow from the themes and characters that have already been established. And even then, Stark is clearly the...

Adventures and Ghost were both cancelled before the Activision merger. ("postponed", technically, in Ghost's case, but it amounts to the same thing)

Or as SMBC put it, "Go first and hope your opponent makes a mistake." [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFCOapq3uYY].

I'd planned to post this, but it looks like you beat me to it. All I can do is second your suggestion that everyone go watch it as soon as they possibly can. I can understand your point, and I might even agree with you if I hadn't liked the show jjofearth just posted so much.

Yeah, wow. I'm gratified that they included History of the World: Part 1, since it's definitely in my top 3, but I can't believe The Producers never even got a passing mention.

The best way to handle an Aliens adaptation, I think, would be to take a page from Yahtzee's What if We Leveled Backwards [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/columns/extra-punctuation/8661-What-if-We-Leveled-Backwards] article, and have the character's capabilities...

Unless it's fake, that costume is almost certainly designed around what works best for the effects department, rather than what actually looks good. Especially since that scene is being shot pretty much 100% green screen. In theory, they probably do have a better looking version that's used...

So far as I can tell, it is not a myth that Crush the Castle preceded Angry Birds. I'm not saying that it was the first of that sort (though I personally know of no others), but that it's a prior example of that sort of gameplay.

The gameplay certainly wasn't. See crush the castle [http://armorgames.com/play/3614/crush-the-castle], for example. I had thought they were at least responsible for the more appealing design, but apparently that was derivative too.

Then how do you accelerate in the first place, since you'd have the exact same issue getting up to speed? The probability of a fatal accident is way too high for this to be practical. By contrast, the risk per passenger-mile of driving is about 1.5*10^-8. And that's a relatively risky mode...

Eh, the important point, for me at least, was psychological anyway. I think they've been doing a pretty good job of it so far.

NWN a rather mediocre singleplayer game, mostly worth noting for its excellent toolset and strong multiplayer community. (though the second expansion was fairly decent) As for DRM, he isn't claiming that this is a factor here. Rather, he's pointing out that EA's willingness to toss aside even...

The one positive thing I can say is that they've put together a decent set of authors, most of whom have worked with the EU before. James Luceno's Darth Plagueis, in particular, was one of the better EU books in recent years. Not nearly as good as seeing Zahn or Stackpole in the lineup, but...

I'm not really surprised or disappointed that they're rebooting so soon. People like Star Wars books, they sell. It's hardly surprising that Disney wants to cash in on that. But those covers, those titles? Is it possible to get any more generic? It's one thing for them to set aside the EU...