Recent content by SlightlyEvil

Nice sublminal Hatfall plug there.

As funny as the name "Jeffrey Cuddletrousers" is, I'm still a fan of calling the player character "Not Important." After all, that's what he said his name is.

The key problem with this sort of argument is that there is an extremely thin line between "holding up a mirror to the nasty aspects of our society", and simply exemplifying those aspects. I don't see much of an indication of who the spree killer is, what drove him to this act, why he hates so...

Very interesting. I knew a lot of the broad strokes of the stories covered here, but not a lot of the details. I'll be honest, I'd despaired for the site as long-time contributors left en masse, but this did give me some hope that the site may recover.

I already cancelled my PubClub subscription when MovieBob left without anyone replacing him. I decided that the Escapist had until the current year's subscription ends in October to impress me enough to renew. Frankly, it's not looking good.

I'm just going to say that this seems like it will be better as a complete story than as a serial. Just seems to be shaping up that way. Not a bad thing, but trying to force a comic to be both consumable in page-sized chunks and also be a complete story often makes both suffer. I am enjoying...

I agree on both the conclusion here, and that the Mr. Freeze boss fight is best boss fight. For those who haven't played it, you know how 80% of boss fights in all games consist of "expose-weakness-punch-boss-repeat-three-to-five-times"? Well, Mr. Freeze is smarter than that. Any attack you...

Brutal Legend is great fun. Deeply flawed, but the world is my favorite sandbox to explore. So much to see, blasting around the world with some kickass metal playing.

I will disagree with you on Street Fighter. The thing with that is that it's two movies. When it focuses on the heroes, it's a bad action movie. When it focuses on the villains, it's a hilarious action-comedy. Between Zangief's simple-minded idiocy, Dee Jay's surrounded-by-idiots attitude...

Yeah, that bugged me too. For a moment, I was hoping that Peggy was actually bluffing. For those who don't know, a one-time pad is a code that is literally unbreakable if you don't have the key. The drawback is that the key has to be as long as the message, and can only be used once (hence...

I was thinking about this after re-watching "Darmok", from Next Generation. I think of that episode (short version: Enterprise encounters a species that speaks entirely in mythological and historical references) as the quintessential Star Trek story. Not the best, but the perfect example of...

I wonder what a real successor to this game would look like. Not an "HD remake", i.e. the same game with shinier graphics, but a modern update to the formula. Basically, what Enemy Unknown did for XCOM, I would like to see a Star Control 4 do for this series.

I checked Wookiepedia (because no matter how much of a loser I may be, there are always bigger nerds out there) to see if the crossguard lightsaber had any precedent. The closest, seen here: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Crossguard_lightsaber, looks more like a sai than the broadsword look of...

Heck, may as well cast Mulan's original actress in the role. The only problem is that we wouldn't understand why she doesn't just kick Shan Yu into orbit 30 minutes into the movie. (For those who don't get the joke, the actress was Ming-Na Wen, who is now playing Agent May in Agents of...

Well, looks like this makes Ubisoft into what I've been fearing for a while: watered-down Obsidian. Making somewhat buggy okay games, rather than hilariously-buggy great games.