Recent content by Jaegerbombastic

Here's your problem: you are thinking about this from the perspective of a normal human being. To a normal human being, opening at number one and making more than $113 million worldwide in the span of 3-4 days is a big success. Movie execs are not normal human beings. To movie execs, a movie...

Stormcloaks for 2 reasons: 1) The Empire tried to cut off my head. If it wasn't for an ancient dragon swooping by and destroying the town my PC would've forever lost his chance to get ahead in life. 2) All of the Empire's talk of needing to unify the Empire and THEN they would fight the...

So you haven't even played the game? Not even seen a complete playthrough? Let me try to put this in a way that doesn't come off as a personal insult: remember back when Mass Effect 1 came out and that one Conservative pundit who never played the game heard about the sex scene and proceeded...

So what is "wrong" with the specific scene between Paz, Chico, and Skullface? Also, would you consider something like the rape scene in Girl With a Dragon Tattoo to be a better or worse depiction? It too is also there to establish that the rapist is a bad person.

A common complaint I've heard against the rape scene is that MGS is too "silly" to cover it. It is, after, all, the same series that has Fat Man and a Monkey Island crossover. There's no way Kojima could treat something like rape in war in a serious manner! Of course this is forgetting that...

Not just Heath Ledger as Joker. Way back in the 80s people were skeptical about Michael Keaton playing Batman because up until that point he was only known for being in goofy comedies. And I remember people not liking Chris Evans being casted as Captain America because of how bad the Fantastic 4...

This isn't the 1950s anymore, this is the 2010s. When China intervened in the Korean War, there was nothing economically tethering them to the West. Now there is. The fact of the matter is that in regards to geopolitics, money talks and bullshit walks. You're right that China isn't going to...

China is not going to intervene militarily. Especially on behalf of Best Korea. They're not going to risk crippling their economy and possibly setting off World War III just to save a failed state that they already have to prop up. At the same time, they're most likely not going to do nothing...

I dunno: they could always do a spin-off with Ciri. Maybe even do a prequel/interquel with either Triss, Dandelion, Roche, etc. The Witcher is a pretty damn big universe. They got plenty of room to explore it. Also, I think the recent focus on the French Revolution, whether making a game...

Every time a new game comes out I have to beef my computer up the the bleeding edge. How dare CDPR always push the envelope. Joking aside, the problem I have with the Witcher series is that the combat and mechanics are too dense. I have no problem with an RPG being complex and require you to...

Whenever a company/nation/etc. is in bad shape, you're inevitably going to get a bunch of panicky demagogues declaring that the end is nigh. Often for no other reason except if the company/nation/etc. goes under, they can be the ones that say "See! I told ya so! Now that its clear I'm right...

Its not a matter of whether SARC is doing their job or not. An incident where SARC is involved ends up being notified and making its way up the chain of command. The fear is that, like most incidences that make their way up COC, its gradually stripped down to just the bare facts without any...

I posted most this is in the mass GG thread last week but I feel it fits with this discussion: For all their big talk about wanting games to be taken seriously as art, most game journalists don't know and possibly don't care to know how to critique art properly. The point for art critique...

Sing it with me, everyone! You've been trolled! You've been trolled! You have probably been told! Don't reply to this guy he is just getting a rise out of you! Yes its true! You respond and that's his cue to start trouble on the double while he strokes his manly stubble You've been...

Star Control 2. They have DOZENS of races. Each with a unique appearance and personality. A lot of them go well beyond the "humans with makeup and funny stuff on their head" convention.