Recent content by culpeo

Star Wars has and will continue to be a money-making beast regardless of how these new movies turn out. My concern is that this will limit the incentive for Disney to take the risks I think would most benefit the franchise (for example, movies that take place during a completely different...

Mostly off and just rare enough to keep things interesting. I prefer to avoid both monotony and chaos.

I remember an episode of Tom and Jerry in which Tom poisons the hell out of his milk so as to kill Jerry, but for some reason the poisoned milk gives Jerry super-strength. If kids were as impressionable as we've been led to believe, I think this episode would have been banned after the first...

There are many moments in Clannad: After Story that skillfully exploited my emotions. One stark example was: Sometimes anime seems to hold no surprises anymore, so I enjoyed being so utterly shocked by this one. Seemed like Tomoyo had already experienced more than his fair share of...

Neither my friend nor I had ever owned Nintendos before, but he got caught up in the Wii craze and we used to play Brawl all the time when it first came out. Neither of us had experience with this franchise, and so the very first time we played it, we both went random, ultimately agreeing...

Drinking. You'd think with over 25 years of practice I'd have mastered the practice of not inhaling while swallowing, but evidently my epiglottis doesn't always know the difference (or perhaps it's deliberately trying to kill me). It's especially horrible when it happens in public, as people...

I'm optimistic about this game, regardless of its setting. I thought Bethesda did a more than admirable job resurrecting the Fallout franchise and melding it with their engine. I also believe Obsidian made several notable improvements to the Bethesda model with New Vegas. Now it's just a matter...

A non-Jensen-focused storyline. A more balanced tech tree (where each augmentation has definite strengths but also clear drawbacks). Also, fewer "must haves". Balanced boss fights. I think Arkham Asylum/City provides a fantastic example of how to mix stealth and combat properly. An...

Your observations are justified, as little things like the examples you provide do compound to affect immersion negatively to an extent, but I still do like the Elder Scrolls games (and Fallout 2/3/NV) because the experience those games provide is rather unique. You're dropped into a vast world...

I wonder why Arniel was performing experiments on the disappearance of the dwemer in the first place, assuming the explanation you provided would have been known to him. Even if he were merely trying to confirm it by replicating the disappearance on a much smaller scale, you'd think he would...

The Witcher or Witcher 2 could easily occupy your time until the holiday release schedule starts rolling out the next big titles. Both games are fairly engrossing and feature non-black-and-white morality choices with far-reaching consequences on potential outcomes. There's also a fair bit of...

Many of the good games Lucasarts has "made" were actually developed elsewhere, with Lucasarts serving more as the publisher. And everybody knows that the publisher's primary directives are to hype, market, and rush games to shelves to meet deadlines irrespective of their actual degree of...

It's left intentionally mysterious, presumably to be answered in future installments of the game. As others have mentioned, Lord Kagrenac was experimenting with ways in which the dwemer might become immortal, and in doing so doubtless invoked the wrath of one or more of the gods. He created the...

Booney's spotter perk is awesome (and so is his side quest), but his perpetual melancholy can be a real buzzkill, and I find tolerating post-apocalyptic hellscapes to be easier in the company of good-natured scoundrels or whimsical vagabonds. Veronica, Cass, and Arcade all fit this role nicely...

I tend to assign film to tiers rather than place them in any strict order based on enjoyment. Star Wars, The Matrix, Ratatouille, Pulp Fiction, and The Incredibles are among the first five to come to mind.