Recent content by BlindChance

He beat me to it. The essence of Bay is camera movement everywhere. I'd have suggested zooming in on the images so that there can be constant gratuitous pans.

There can actually be a logic to it: The area has proven that there is a demand for that sort of store and you know you have a potential client base. The question is whether it can support two stores, and often that's actually a more likely position than finding out if an area can support ONE of...

Ah well. I'll just go ahead and deal without it. To be honest, I'm less than enthused by what I've seen so far anyway. Granted, that's true of everything on both PS4 and XB1 so far, but ... (I'm standing by my basic premise of "I'm trying to decide between buying a PS4 and not buying a...

I'd argue for giving Werewolf: The Forsaken another chance. (And not just because I wrote a tiny bit of it.) It wasn't Apocalypse, and that's what I liked about it. It felt new and different, and I think it's a much more primal, savage game than Apocalypse while still leaving room for stories to...

The Escapist: Alright, Grey, din dins... OW! OW! My hand! That hurt like a bastard.

I'm kinda glad to see Greg still defending Dragon Age II. Because: 1. Courage of his convictions. I admire that. 2. I think it's actually held up well over time, although its flaws are still in sharp relief. The excellence of Mark of the Assassin and (to a lesser extent) Legacy showed that...

To be fair, that's a problem in almost every creative field on the planet. You have film executives who know nothing of film history (I can't remember who wrote it, but I remember one Hollywood writer doing a lovely blow-up after she pitched a film as a "modern day Bell, Book and Candle" and got...

@MJ Harper: Just yes to all of that. I'd also argue a Stiletto Mafiosa shifted into a mafia princess archetype could work well enough.

IF they made Penfold female and kept Penfold the snivelling, whiny, useless heap that he was in the original, I'd call that a total win. That'd be a very funny character in a way that female characters are not usually allowed to be. But I suspect they won't. No, I'm with Zykon: The odds are...

Not sure if someone in the previous 142 pages said this because time but... What about the ever present discussion, by you inclusive Bob, about Bay's lack of shot framing, disguised by frantic editing? I'd always understood that to be the major critical knock on his aesthetic.

How is it that we're six posts in and Shaundi hasn't been brought up once? Oh, I know that other Shaundi got brought up, but where's Shaundi in all this? OK, OK, I'll stop being stupid. But for serious, Shaundi, Saints Row 2. Why? Because she's astonishingly positively portrayed in her...

Ugh. What I dislike is the emphasis here. The strongest part of the concepts we've seen so far is the continuation of the mage/templar war, with neither side being in the right or wrong completely. The whole demons thing by contrast has seemed tired and done. This box art speaks entirely to...

Debating Chris on Game of Thrones, a User's Guide or; A Song of Spite and Ire. OK, Kyle. Listen up. Chris has made a reasonable entrance in this debate but he's left himself wide open for a lot of attacks. To win this, you're going to need to concede ground where he's strong and fight where...

Yeah, I was gonna say that, but you beat me to it. Bob, from the moment Edwards was announced to direct Godzilla, you've been fretting about it. You've convinced yourself it has to be horrible, and maybe it will be! But the trailer is amazing. I admit, it's pumped me in a way Guardians of...

Page 16 is the one on the report you want to read to debunk the wider claims. Men persistently play longer hour sessions more times per week. The group who play the longest sessions are men aged 16-25, who play in 2.5 hour sessions on average. The group who play the most frequently are boys...