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Movie Bob hated it? Guess it must be good and I should go see it - although I already have and it's nowhere near as bad as he's making it out to be. Personally I thought it was average, nothing special but perfectly watchable and enjoyable in parts. A lot of the issues brought up were so minor...

The reason I hate EA is because they ruined Bullfrog and, as if that wasn't enough, sat on the IP to Dungeon Keeper. Lionhead Studios (which had a lot of ex Bullfrog Developers and Peter Molyneux) tried to make a DK3 but EA refused to let them and said "well we're not making one so nobody else...

I don't see what the big issue is with sequals. Sure with films it can get pretty silly (Police Academy 7!) but if done right games can reinvent the original. I think the Dawn of War games are a pretty good example of this, the first just had one campagin and four races but was still a good...

Although they're rare there are games that do manage to blend RTS with another genre. The Horde springs to mind which was a PC game from the mid 90s in which the game was divided between fortifying a village and 3rd person hack and slash. I think Dungeon Keeper could almost be included as well...

I started and stopped playing DCUO both in its release week. The biggest problem with it is that it's so monotonous, which might seem besides the point since it's an mmo but DCUO takes monotonous to new heights. It starts out with a private tutorial before dumping you in the city where you then...

The trouble with a lot of 2D platformers is that they tend to have very poor stories, Braid has one of the worst I've played in recent memory and displays it straight from the "How Not to Present a Story" manual whilst other games like Trine, which had a better story, still felt rather shallow...

I played an RTS called Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War a number of years ago where the idea was that you could lead your troops in typical RTS style, base building, troop management and upgrades etc. You could then jump into the role of your leader unit Dungeon Keeper Posses Creature style and...

I never really noticed Wesley much when watching TNG, there didn't seem to be that many episodes revolving around him and I always viewed him as a support character more than anything else. Dr. Polasky constantly calling Data a tin can really annoyed me though.

When I was 19 through to my mid 20s I was seriously depressed due to one reaosn and another, eventually it came to a head one night when I was in the park by myself and I thought "maybe I should just end it." The only thing that stopped me was because I decided to phone the Samaratins as I...

That's no execuse for participating in a scam. I expect everyone gets scammed some time in their life and the trick is to hold your head up and say "okay, at least I'll know not to do it again." If you can't admit that you're wrong then you just bang your head endlessly against the same wall...

Even as a vegetarian, who often gets branded as someone with a fabricated moral high ground, I can't stand these holier than thou non-smokers who bash smoking yet have never given it a go. Yes smoking will shorten your life span, but so will alcohol yet you don't see anybody harranging people...

I don't do Karate myself but for a lot of people who do it's more of a hobby rather than a way to kick a muggers head off. I know that martial arts range in order of practicality and I'm sure if people actually wanted to really know how to defend themselves they would study Krav Maga or...

There's barely a ranking system at all, just some belts and a minimum amount of time between them. I only went to two gradings when I was there but in both instances I never saw anyone fail out of several hundred people. This was partly because it was so easy but mainly because there were...

I've actually sparred with her myself (I've been doing Ki Aikido for about 4 years now) and she didn't do well at all - she went down to basic 1st and 2nd form moves. The reason for this was that "we don't do full contact sparring in GKR." Which, to me, seemed to defeat the whole point of a...

As with a lot of things this one began with a girl, namely one who was quick to mention that she was a black belt in Karate. Okay that's cool I thought and asked what branch it was, the response was GKR... Now for those of you not familiar with GKR Karate it's basically a scam (well not quite...