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minor correction, the AAA company doesn't see a cent of that money, at least not until launch. that money goes into a high-interest savings account for GameStop, where it makes them interest for free so you can "reserve" a game they're going to have a shitload of extra copies for. that's why the...

Cool Story Bro Time: i've never quite understood the purpose of collector's editions, at least in terms of what's included in them by publishers/devs. i worked at a GameStop in South Carolina for two years(worked the Black Friday of the Wii/PS3 launch and the one after), and in that entire...

thread is extremely long, so sorry if i'm repeating what anyone else has said, but here's my two cents: i use adblock constantly, and evidently i've been using it on this site long enough that i haven't noticed the particularly obnoxious autoplay ads. thing is , i started using it on this...

yeah no. firstly, the whitewashing in Last Airbender was really just the cherry on that particular shit sunday. second, the Avatar universe pretty clearly establishes the various tribes as distinct stand ins for various asian cultures and it's a pretty big part of the show's aesthetic. Johnny...

first reaction to Heimdall being black: "FUCK YEAH STRINGER BELL IN A MARVEL MOVIE!" first reaction to Johnny Storm being black: "FUCK YEAH WALLACE IN A MARVEL MOVIE! does this mean we can have Rosario Dawson as Sue? no? well that's shitty, but still glad to see Wire cast members getting work."...

yeah, gonna chime in on the "let's forget Sentry ever happened" bandwagon. dude was just a bad character all around. completely in agreement on P:WZ though. you could not ask for a better blood-soaked 80's action throwback.

no Jade, no Boss, no Merryl, no Eva, no Olga, no Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite, no Terra, no Celes, no Lara, no Jack, and yet Lightning makes the list. huh...

never played the expansion, but almost every game i played the fucking Hive tended to get a continent to themselves, resulting in them being way to entrenched to do anything other than play nice diplomatically with them once i found them(usually towards the endgame), even with the tech bonuses...

same here. picked mine up for five bucks at a TJ Max software bin(incidentally same way i got X-Com on floppy back in the day). best part of getting a Windows 7 laptop was being able to play it again(that game did NOT like XP at all...). this is probably my favorite game of all time. as for...

i'd definitely add SpecOps: The Line to that list, as it genuinely accomplishes what Beyond seems to be failing so spectacularly to.

kinda surprised Greengrass's innovation of shaky-cam-action didn't make the list, given it's over-use in Hunger Games last week... (edit) and even more surprised given that hand-held over-use comes up in the Wrath review as well...

well that's kindof the essential good that the whole TBME movement's done. if nothing else the desperate spinning and "wait and see what's in store" bullshit coming from BioWare simply adds creedence to the indoctrination DLC scenario, except now they're scared. they know if they prove this...

are you in any way familliar with the indoctrination theory? i won't bore you with the details, but it's got quite a bit of evidence behind it and pretty much posits that BioWare and EA's plan was to SELL US THE F^&*ING ENDING AS DLC. and if this is true, what kind of precedent does that...

it's Battle Royale targeted at an age group unlikely to have ever encountered Battle Royale. it's written in a first-person present tense style that works like gangbusters when the protagonist is in mortal danger(which is often), and these points in the narrative seem to excuse(at least in the...

thing is, the things he's criticizing were major problems in the book too. opening up the world beyond Kats perspective was something the story definitely needed, and without those additions there is absolutely no excuse for this movie being 2 1/2 HOURS while still managing to be impenetrable to...