Recent content by sszebra

I like health by station, backtracking enables you to restore your health before a hard level, but the inconvenience of having to go back to find a "station" acts as an incentive to not get shot.

I don't know enough about the issue to contribute meaningfully to the debate, which is exactly why I didn't make a five minute rant about something I don't understand. Perhaps Mr. Chipman should crack open a book, rather than getting his facts from Star Trek reruns and lucid dreams.

I can agree with that line of thinking. I brought up Howdy Doody because I considered GI Joe and Transformers trappings of early childhood, but it's really more comparable to Sesame Street. It seems to me,speaking in convenient generalities, men still fantasize about being cowboys...

I think the lack of female analogs to the GI Joe/ Transformers movies is mostly an indictment of the modern american male. Which is to say at a certain age girls became women, and to quote the good book, put away childish things. Contrastingly movie going 18-35 year old males still live in a...

Scott Pilgrim distilled down the rebirth/second chance, to it's simplest form, the extra life. Which is itself is a console replacement for the arcade gamer's next quarter. Which also, perhaps unintentionally, represented the life blood of the 7 Exes. Despite which side of the unusually...

Many video games really fail to demonstrate any kind of depth in their characters, male or female. Because of the pacing in games, it's rare to see a character outside of some kind of action-oriented mindset, and so often the characterization falls to the few emotions demonstrated while...

I disagree, kind of. My childhood memories of fiction were always better when they weren't dumbed down for me. I loved cartoons like Batman the animated series because they usually were darker and more interesting. Instead of the typical cartoons of the generation that were riddled with...

I'm noticing a trend where everything on the Escapist will at some point include Yahtzee into their series. I guess it's kind of obvious that a lot of people show up to watch ZP, and Escapist hopes that when someone sees Yahtzee's name on something else they'll click on that too. Well good to...

I feel like the idea of the movie is what is being hated more than the movie itself. The "world without you" plotline left an inevitable window for the entire movie not even mattering, except for Shrek learning a very special lesson. But still it was decent, infinitely better than its...

Maybe it speaks to a lack of proper socialization on my part, but I never felt uncomfortable while watching the hit-girl fight scenes. I was bothered more by seeing the recurring and brutal beatings the titular character endured in the film.

So Warner Bros, the producers of the greatest comic book movies, and instant classics in the Christopher Nolan Batman movies. And the closest thing to oscar bate that the Comic book genre of will ever come. Should be taking notes from a piece of teenage pulp that is really more satire than true...

The "I will have my revenge" motivation was certainly worn thin by the time GOW3 got past the intro. It was strange that Athena came back Obi-wan style for the purpose of telling Kratos to do something he was already trying to do, give him another set of identical fire chain blades, and send him...

I'd like to see a protagonist betrayal of their leader, after discovering some underlying secret about their organization that causes him/her to lose faith. Wherein the protagonist can instigate the conflict, saving us from the typical "You did what I wanted, but I was evil all along, and now...

Why not just let the ship leave the boss behind? If there are multiple big ships, in an open world scenario, make the reward for killing them good enough that the player can't help but come back, once he feels he has the wherewithal to fight it. If it's more linear, then refuse to progress...

Repo Men has one of the most frustrating and stupid last minute plot twists I've ever seen.