Recent content by Seldon2639

With the disclaimer that I haven't played the game, one criticism caught my eye and really bugs me: "What's all this side bollocks for if I can do in the final boss perfectly comfortably without it?" It's not that it's unfair to note that if the core gameplay loop isn't fun, doing more of...

The explanation of the accents is the same as a lot of movies which feature English accents for characters speaking natively in another language: an American audience understands the cultural meaning of English accents better than the cultural meanings of other languages. It's a bit like how an...

What I find interesting is that if his point is that the only real censorship is government-created (i.e. any social approbation, even inappropriate social approbation, is not censorship) would mean that while Anita Sarkeesian is not engaged in censorship or attempted censorship, neither are...

I would wager that a large part of the problem is that the "deeper meaning" stuff tends to exist primarily as an issue of "do you want there to be a deeper meaning?" Do you want Fallout New Vegas to be sexist (because women exist as prostitutes or victims of crime, or because of Caesar's...

The problem with frame of reference is that you're either there with it, or you're not. I remember being twenty-one when I had to watch Ghost World for a college class. It didn't appeal to me, it was pretentious, stilted, and very much in the "if you're 18 and think you're smarter than...

That kind of generational disconnect is one of the reasons I never got into movies like The Breakfast Club, which are considered by my parents' generation to be the height of social commentary and speaking to their experiences. My high school experience, simply enough, doesn't line up with the...

Yes, it's a lot more fun to be on the receiving end of entertainment properties than to be on the creative end. It's a lot easier to consume a product than to make one, and especially easy to critique products when you don't have to wrestle with issues like "time" or "resources." But that's...

Is this an argument for why it would make sense if they did include a female PC? Or is this an argument for why they are compelled to include a female PC? And is it about including an entire female PC storyline (i.e. the single-player campaign), or about including playable female characters in...

Looks like someone has been drinking the Anita Sarkeesian kool-aid again. "No female characters in new IP" except for Splatoon, which is all female characters. And the continuing kvetching about ACU not having a playable female character as though Ubisoft's argument were "we couldn't figure...

But that's part of the point of picking reviewers you agree with most of the time. I don't come to this show of Bob's because I want to hear him wax poetic about a movie, I want to hear his opinion because (from experience) I agree with him about 80% of the time. Sometimes movies he likes are...

"A film critic is not a consumer reporter." Which is fine, if the job you're doing at the time is being a critic rather than a reviewer. There's a reason this show is marketed as a movie review, and Bob's other show is marketed as more of a critical analysis/"say something interesting" show...

Okay, let's do the first thing first: Yes, many works of fiction actually share similarities with other movies. Entire set-pieces, and story frameworks, are shared between not just different movies, but movies, books, television, videogames, comic books, everything. Cleverness isn't in...

On the one hand, Bob raises some valid criticisms. Though, really, why is "Kitty Pride has this power" any more or less ridiculous than Rachel Summers using "vast psychic powers" to do it? Or Forge just whipping up a time-travel bracelet as in the cartoon series? Hell, half the stuff from The...

Because modern MMOs have attempted to compete with WoW by focusing far more strongly on the single-player plot aspect, hoping to gain an edge over WoW's almost explicitly autonomous storyline, and evoke the same kind of response people have to a game like Skyrim or KOTOR. And it fails...

Well argued. I'm sure that your more pressing issues of "being wrong about copyright law" and "making crap up" take up a lot of time. How about leaving the grown-up discussions to the grown-ups? That's somewhat of a misleading way to phrase it. Yes, it is copyright infringement even if...