Recent content by josephmatthew10

I can't be the only one here who loved Let Me In as much as Lat Den Ratte Komme In, can I?

Count me in! Make my font anything but Comic Sans (maybe Times Newq Roman, even Courier New).

I'll certainly miss James' contributions if/when the column comes back. What annoyed you about him?

Methinks Mr. SnakeOil hasn't played enough video games. Did you know (and this may surprise you) that something can be both art AND entertainment? I could hardly believe it myself when I found out. Take, say, Tolkien, or even the best of Stephen King. Or some of BioWare's games, or even the...

Wow, the sheep crying "BATTLE ROYALE RIPOFF" arrived rather quickly this time.

Ebert may have been out of line talking about a medium he doesn't understand (which he admits), but I'd expect better from MovieBob, despite his sometimes baseless opinions and stances. And, for the record, Ebert is 100x the film critic Bob will ever be.

I'd say it was more loosely based off of Hamlet, and perhaps inspired somewhat by Kimba in a few instances. Many of the things associated by some people with being "ripped off", besides character designs (which don't exactly convince me, either) are just common to storytelling in general...

I can't tell if you're saying you'll avoid the ridiculous accusation often aimed at The Lion King, or using that as your final statement. In either case, it is a ludicrous claim.

Michel Ancel's adaptation of Peter Jackson's King Kong was excellent. I hold that up as easily the best movie tie-in game ever made. Of course, it helps to have a great designer like Ancel at the helm.

So, you despised Dragon Age: Origins and your favorite games' list includes Duke Nukem Forever? Well I'm not sure any GotY Awards list is for you, really. Anyways, Portal 2 should have been in the nominees section. Instead being in the same category as Dead Island. Funny how THAT game was...

The quote is is priceless last line of the movie Fanboys (an otherwise "meh" film, besides that line and the depiction of the tragic-in-hindsight build-up to the premiere of Episode I).

I'd say the bar is at a fair level these days, what with games like BioShock, Portal (1 & 2), Red Dead Redemption, and the Assassin's Creed series. And I'd say that even by those standards most of Bioware's stories hold up, thanks to their well-written, colorful characters and excellent...

True, it probably would've been wiser to only mention him as perhaps a "favorite genre author" instead of as a major inspiration. Maybe they'll leap back into formula, maybe they won't. But it's like the work of Stephen King (one of my favorites, also a specialist in characters and their...

Fools. Surely I'd enter this virgin world as the sort of elder god that will shape it's cultural and perhaps physical landscape for eons to come, the type of monolithic, eldritch presence whose fearsome wrath will strike fear into the hearts of emperors, whose manifold blessings will be sought...