Recent content by hawk533

To all those nitpicking the title of the article, read the url on the article. The original title is "Ori-and-the-Blind-Forest-Is-More-Style-Over-Substance". It gets edited by someone else after Yahtzee finishes it.

Looking forward to see how the use of nano-weapons on Japan in WWIII influences Post-WWIII-Anime :) I think I can agree with you that Avatar is not quite anime, since it borrows more from Chinese culture than Japanese. Incidentally, is there a Chinese animation culture? Just curious. I do...

And for those trying to use the Champagne only being from the Champagne region of France, realize this. The reason region of origin is used to define certain styles of wine is that there are certain immutable things about regions of the world. Things like soil composition, rainfall patterns...

So are you telling me that Eminem isn't a rap artist, because he's not black and didn't deeply understand black culture? And is Darius Rucker (former lead singer of Hootie and the Blowfish) not a country singer (despite winning a New Artist Award from the Country Music Association) because he...

Wait, did Bob say that the first movie was made weaker by removing the "vital interior monologue"? That monologue was the worst part of the books. Suzanne Collins is not a good writer and her over-reliance on interior monologue made the books difficult to read for me. I thought the first movie...

I was thinking this exact same thing when I started re-watching Seinfeld earlier this year. I watched almost every episode growing up, but didn't appreciate just how geeky it was until looking back on it years later. Unless you count the episode with the girl that had the toy collection. I'm...

Well, this review basically served to remind me that I really need to go back and play Bastion since I bought it a year ago and just never started it. I'm glad to hear that I can give the spiritual successor a pass at least.

Having read all of these except for War of the Worlds, I have to agree. I've read half of the books on the list and I would have gladly replaced Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451 or Slaughterhouse 5 with Ender's Game as it's easily my favorite Sci-fi novel, just ahead of Hitchhiker's Guide to the...

Don't forget the foreign box office. It's made $350M worldwide after 2 weeks, so I think they at least broke even. OT: Thanks Bob. I wasn't that interested in seeing this movie before, but now I think my wife might at least find it meaningful and may give it a shot.

Is anything more awesome than videos filmed in space? If we could build an actual stadium in space, people would pay millions to watch zero-G (technically micro-G) sporting events.

According to wikipedia, they've already successfully decelerated the booster for a simulated landing over the ocean. I believe the test occurred during their latest resupply mission for the ISS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_reusable_launch_system_development_program#Test_flight_history

Games were getting large amounts of hype in the PS1/N64 era and they sometimes actually delivered on it: FF7, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Super Mario 64, Metal Gear Solid, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. All games from AAA studios, made with AAA budgets and AAA marketing, but the games were...

Having only read the first 2 and a half books and not seen the show, I agree completely with almost everything Chris said. Even the books have stupid unnecessary sex because "reasons". The "Winter is Coming" thing was fine in the first book, but there's so much political intrigue going on that...

Was anyone else afraid that Jim's was going to end in a refrain of his Miltank poem? I enjoyed both of those once again this week. Thanks for being continually entertaining.

Curious what Jim would think if Payday 2 offers a DLC pass when the first piece of DLC finally drops for it. I know he celebrated the ability of that studio to make a profit on "only" 1 million copies sold. I've already put 100 hours into the game, so if they offer a pass, I think I'll buy...