Recent content by Chiggins

Cheers to Movie Bob! I think some very excellent points were made here. However, I do believe that more has come of the reaction to the prequels than just bitterness and rage. From searching through all the previous replies I couldn't find anyone that had mentioned this - and if you have any...

Hello Bob! I do so enjoy your productions and rantings, so I thought I might stop by to offer a few more replies on behalf of the "Science Guys." (Full disclosure, I am merely a humble high school science teacher, with my advanced degrees all being in education. My response is by no means...

I don't think the angst over the horrible prequel movies really has that much to do with anger directed at George Lucas as a person. It's more a feeling of betrayal - that we had all concluded that Mr. Lucas is a really great film-maker, only to be handed significant evidence to the contrary...

Has anyone tried "Starlancer"? It's a bit old (eight years? It's been awhile) - anyways, it was a hell of a fun space-combat game. It had the gritty, up-close dogfights that made the wing-commanders great. Also - which was the game that had Clive Owen doing the live action cut-scenes? I...

Out-standing. Thanks a bunch for the advice everybody. I'll probably grab from the recommended titles at random and just see how it goes. This might be considered off-topic by comic-book purists - but what would anyone recommend in the way of manga? I've always thought the artistic style...

Alright, let me preface this all by saying that I am not well versed in the ways of comic books. I was forced into reading the "Kingdom Come" graphic novel for a college class and found it to be stunningly amazing. I have also read the entire "Battle Angel Alita" series, which was good fun but...

Vista isn't a horrible operating system. If you have enough computing muscle - it can do everything XP does, and do it very well. But not *quite* as well. Unfortunately, if all you're concerned about is gaming XP is still faster - according to any benchmark site anywhere for every game...

BioShock has plenty of flaws. The linear nature of the game is a minus for some. The infinite-respawn mechanic can destroy tension or even challenge from the game. The AI isn't terribly bright, and it's often possible to cheese a big-daddy from a place of security. The "kill/harvest" plot...

Wow. Tough crowd here. I will toss out Hellgate - I bought the hype, but it just wasn't anything very amazing it turned out. I've seen some people offer up Mass Effect though - and man, I will go 26 rounds to defend *that* game. *Such* an incredible game. Only game in years and years...

Well, I have seen Saving Private Ryan - and I agree that CoD4 does a better job than any *game* of conveying the raw violence of modern warfare. Sure - it's a bit cartoony, but they're not trying to shell-shock people. I like that your character doesn't have a face - that's the point of a...

I'm sorry, but neither MGS or MGS2 qualifies as having a "good" story. I can't speak to 3, because I was fed up with it by that time. A good story is not simply defined by complexity - which is all those MGS games have going for them. The pacing of both games carried no sense of tension...