Recent content by Rythe

As oft mentioned, the movie was about as subtle as your choice of large, blunt object. It was also very meh, with completely forgettable characters. I don't understand the hype around Kruger either. He was very average as not over-the-top villains go. The 'I get my rocks off my killing...

This whole argument to me is meh. You didn't see this coming how? This ruins the game how? Diablo 3 feels very much like vanilla Diablo 2 to me, which is to say that yes, Diablo 3 took a few steps back while taking a few different steps forward. The problem isn't the auction house, the...

One of the speed concept paintings from Hidden Path Entertainment's art team: It's pretty easy to tell they're really looking forward to this too!

I'd say classic rather than run of the mill. Sure, it doesn't do some of the cross genre stuff others have done, but what it does it does very well. After a point, you can say most games are 'shallow and grindy', even well acclaimed ones. The question is whether or not the options presented...

If you're a fan of the original, go preorder the sequel here. If you've never played it, now is a great time to check out what you've been missing. Defense Grid is arguably the best Tower Defense game yet made, and throwing $15 into the kickstarter will get you the original, plus all the...

As someone who's decided not to touch Twilight with a ten foot pole, I also don't see the comparison between that franchise and The Hunger Games, especially the movie. Oh, I understand why people would try to connect the two, but it tempts me to think rather unflattering things about those...

That was great fun! Clever and impressive vocals and pretty much everything everyone else has said. Just the right tone to be silly but enjoyable, and that, my friend, is a very hard target to hit with me.

The very short version I eventually decided on was that the endings presented at face value were stupid, but the Indoctrination Theory take on it was less stupid. The endings presented at face value are broken. Straight up. Plot holes abound like characters aren't where they're suppose to be...

Well, Tali is screwed on planet random. The quarians in general have their liveships to keep producing food as they always have (assuming a sufficient number survived the battle). Turian fleet is more than likely screwed. Ignoring that the ending sprung a BS philosophical psuedo-quandry...

Eheh, whoops. The things our fingers do when we aren't looking? Fixed. That said, a lot of things come out of nowhere and happen in one generation. Doesn't make them special. And I look at Harry Potter's acclaim the same way I do FF7's acclaim. It's not the best game out there by any stretch...

I'd go with none of the above? Star Wars Prequels are cribbing on the originals in terms of any lasting impact. They have nothing of their own besides being a gateway drug for the originals and the expanded universe. Lord of the Rings doesn't belong to Gen Y, and as amazing as the movies...

I had to go with Bastion because it had more of a soul than Deus Ex, those being two of the few games I played to completion this year. I actually forgot about Portal 2 coming in 2011, but the third quarter of the game just felt like a tedious grind of pixel hunting the strangely fortuitous...

Maybe the reason for the popularity is that we're so drowned in gritty shooterman (possibly in space) of serious business that people are willing to latch on to anything bordering on bright, cheerful, clever, and fun that also happens to be good? I mean, how much Batman and Halo can you take...

Pretty much what Bahumat42 said, but his list of people that need to be paid could be expanded on quite a bit, like sound fx and music scoring to begin with, nevermind the huge administrative complex behind the show. Also, asking for a cut of the profits is the greedy move as that'll probably...

You know, this, among many other threads, makes me wish people would read past the propaganda machine. It's the little things like actually knowing how much of the US budget goes to stuff like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid as opposed to its military. Nevermind the bloated...