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    Poll: Expository Conundrum Reviews: Spring Breakers

    Directed and Written by: Harmony Korine Quick Review ? 5/10 Spring Breakers is a difficult film. Visually stylish, it layers scenes of debauchery and ultimately becomes a half-hearted crime film that pulls equal parts religious propaganda against partying and Dante?s Inferno. At the same...
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    ExCon Movie Review: John Dies at the End

    Directed by: Don Cascarelli Written by: David Wong (book) & Don Cascarelli (Screenplay) Quick Review ? 7/10 ? Cascarelli has an undoubtable visual style and manages to adapt about one-half of the book in stunning faith. Large missing parts are sure to confuse anyone who has read the...
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    A Response to John Calhoun

    So Dead Space 3 producer John Calhoun, the man who made the call to include micro-transactions and week one DLC packs in the newest iteration, says, ?EA leaves us alone. Almost every decision when it comes to the game is ours and ours alone, (?)We?re trying to find ways to make sure that Dead...
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    Dead Space 3 SHOULD be the nail in EA's Coffin

    You know... call me crazy, but I don't see why somethings particular success at fitting in with its genre matters much. The point is that its literally becoming every other popular game ever for the sole reason of selling more copies. I sincerely believe that this series is losing its identity...
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    Dead Space 3 SHOULD be the nail in EA's Coffin

    While that seems like a backhanded compliment at best, I am most certainly, a fiction writer.
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    An Analyzation of Skyrim and Oblivion and their failings in Character Progression

    I think there is something to be said about the world of Oblivion. I had the exact experience you did, and I didn't really keep playing for a while after I realized it. When I realized they were all going to be the same I stopped my initial plans (make armor sets based around the powerful...
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    $2.50 Reviews: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

    I always found Fast Times to be enlightening among most movies. Seeing it as a movie that is solely for the purpose of entertainment sells it short I think. It explores actions, consequences, and more showing that high school is both not the most important time of your life, and also not a time...
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    Movie Review: Django Unchained - 9/10

    Written and Directed by: Quentin Tarintino Django Unchained, in case you?ve been living with a box over your head for the past few months, is a movie about Django, a slave in Texas during 1858, who, once freed by the enigmatic bounty hunter, Dr. Schultz, goes on a revenge quest against the...
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    An Analyzation of Skyrim and Oblivion and their failings in Character Progression

    I find that hard to believe. Not saying I didn't like the Baldur's Gates and Planescape:Torments myself... BUT As for anyone doing anything anywhere near mildly interesting in an RPG perspective here, we have next to no one. Bioware gave up on Mass Effect as an RPG a long time ago...
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    An Analyzation of Skyrim and Oblivion and their failings in Character Progression

    I do not believe that it should be the case that someone simply discards an element due to it not working in some way. Now I'm sure that the Bethesda team put WAAAY more thought into it than we can give them credit for. But its the type of downgrading seen in this game that eventually gets us to...
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    An Analyzation of Skyrim and Oblivion and their failings in Character Progression

    Allow me to input a bit there. I find a disturbing trend towards simplification in RPGs over this game generation. While I agree simplification is a good step when you are wanting to craft a more consumer friendly rpg, its not the right thing to do for every game. We've seen previously fun games...
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    An Analyzation of Skyrim and Oblivion and their failings in Character Progression

    I guess to me, I was playing through the Thieves guild and was essentially forced into a situation where I had to fight. I could've gone through literally every other quest in the line, never once touching a combat skill, never once buying a decent weapon, and the game does this check thing...
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    An Analyzation of Skyrim and Oblivion and their failings in Character Progression

    Y'know, I don't think that's it. Restricting gameplay is not the right element. I think what it should be perhaps is that every lock maintains its difficulty unless you take the perk. Like say you see a Master Lock and you have 95 Lockpick. It should be just as hard as if your lockpick skill was...
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    An Analyzation of Skyrim and Oblivion and their failings in Character Progression

    I understand why the way they used to use Statistics was axed, but I don't see why, considering the way they used Skills in Skyrim, they didn't do something similar to Statistics. At the end of the day, Statistics don't need to be there, but I feel like by removing this system, they are...
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    An Analyzation of Skyrim and Oblivion and their failings in Character Progression

    One thing that has always been excellent in The Elder Scrolls series is its basic character progression system. In order to become the most excellent swordsman in the land you will have to actually use swords. In order to become the demi god sorcerer nuker you will have to start with your trusty...