Recent content by John Wedge

"Arkham is a normal town," Ott said. "People who go looking for shoggoths in the alleys or byakhees on the roofs miss the point. And they won't find any. Arkham is a normal turn-of-the-20th-century town but with serious weirdness going on at the edges." Apparently one or two of the miniatures...

Without doubt one of the best sci to horrors out there. Solid performances and some really heavy feelings of dread. I actually quite like the really short Hell scene- it might be one of those things where less is more and you get that sense of 'Oh God did I just see what I think I saw?' If you...

You should totally judge a book by its cover- but you shouldn't judge the quality of the writing by the quality of its packaging- they're made by two very different people/groups and the former often don't consult much with the latter. I really enjoyed the slow slightly pompous tone combined...

Hawkeye's mask made me go mmmmmmmm. I'm enjoying the Hulk's barbarian berserker-esque feel.

And with one fell swoop the number of things worth watching on the Escapist fell to one. No LRR, No Jim, hell the only reason left to visit is to watch Zero Punctuation. Great way to end the series though, I'll be watching whatever it is you do next over on LRR. Shame you didn't have any mech...

I'm a fan of the limited-weapon model provided there's a reason for it. In Deus Ex the inventory system meant you could technically carry fiver or six weapons, but they all had mass and you needed somewhere for all the bullets. The Borderlands model of 1-4 as the game progressed was kinda cool...

As a long time lurker I think I've read pretty much all of your articles on here, and I think what I've liked is that as you have mellowed I have matured (late teens to mid twenties) and over time my views have mellowed too. It's funny reading back over some of your earlier more 'firebrand'...

Wow those are truly stunning, but sadly my wallet couldn't repel a cost of that magnitude...

What, after the abortion that was the Hobbit? I don't know, every time I watch Bob I can't help but find him more wrong- having already seen Into Darkness I was intrigued to see what he made of it. It would seem that in his view the film is bad because the writers had the audacity to...

As another Brit I really struggle to understand the must-tip mentality. If I'm in a restaurant and the waiter is particularly competent then I'll probably leave a 10% tip. Takeaway delivery drivers get to keep the change if they manage to make their way to my appartment without getting lost and...

What he said. Although I'm somewhat confused by all this; the upcoming case is for the prevention of the sale of violent/mature games to minors. In the UK you can't sell violent films to minors but nobody really cares. How does it affect my little brother's right to the freedom of speech if he's...

Yes I get that it's deliberately bad, that it's the kind of rubbish that the characters would release. I get that there is something more to it than just an abomination unto gaming, and you can wax lyrical about the fact that 'such a game could only have been conceived in Hell' all you want...

Meh, flags are just a symbol. Sure I'll stand up to defend the laws and rights of this country; specifically the right to be free, and I think that anyone who tries to go up against us should be utterly destroyed for even daring to have a go! But the flag itself? It's a piece of cloth. Having...

I'm at the glorious University of East Anglia, doing my Masters in philosophy and starting the PhD in October! I love every minute of it, even after 4 years. I've always played a big part in university societies like Creative Writing and things like that. The drinking's been good too, though I...

B is interesting however it carries with it the risk that someone will just say 'Nope you've totally misunderstood how my country is developing/ how world politics works' and as such you've got to be careful that your 'what if' actually holds together. Though provided you do your background...