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    The Big Picture: The Devil & Mr. Parker

    So the issue is that if spider-man is married he can't go out with other women? I'm guessing open relationships, threesomes, and polyamory don't exist in the marvel universe? Okay, sure, its not PC by any measure....but your supposed hero is already making deals with the goddamned (literally)...
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    The Big Picture: Once Upon a Time in The Future

    I can't speak for everyone, but I pretty much ignore this issue entirely because if I bothered to think about I'd be in danger of a heart attack. The big thing is....I feel helpless to do anything about it. In the middle of a recession, nobody but nobody is gonna want to be the guy that stands...
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    Escape to the Movies: Paranormal Activity 2

    Wow. This movie was 98% prequel and 2% sequel. The prequel has got nothing on the original, but it was okay. Not great by any means, but okay. The sequel portion? Holy balls I have never seen a movie just utterly FAIL in such a short amount of time....the only thing that comes close is Darth...
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    Unskippable: Epic Mickey

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    Escapist News Network: Sony's Crazy Marketing

    .......yeah, I thought that joke with the baboons was funny...back when this show was called southpark and the baboons were jelly fish charged with creating family guy jokes.
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    Critical Miss: #32

    Here's my issue. If a game is indeed USED, doesn't that imply that someone has USED it? As in, gone to a store, given the money necessary to purchase the game, then later given that game to someone else? So the game we are talking about has already been purchased, the publisher has already made...
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    Unskippable Let's Play - Legaia 2

    Seriously....an update on that would be excellent.
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    Unskippable: Dead to Rights: Retribution

    I'm vaguely disappointed that we have a vicious killing thing named Shadow and yet not one Team Sonic riff.
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    On Time Travel

    Legacy of Kain was one of the most elegantly told stories, masterfully voiced and cleverly written despite the inclusion of time travel (which has caused more than one narrative to get bogged down in the temporal illogic). Soul Reaver and Defiance are excellent examples of the sort of game you...
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    Interactive Storytelling

    I get what your saying about the DVD extras comment. My experience with the game was still fantastic (best I've had in a year....which is to say, in the past 365 days, not in 2010), but I can definitely see where your coming from there. As to your game, perhaps the reason to play hide and...
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    Escape to the Movies: Repo Men

    Well sure, its probably an action packed, gorey sci fi thriller, which I always love. But will it feature Buffy's Giles in a duet with himself and a recently executed prisoner whose vocal cords he's playing like a puppet? Hmmm? Because I refuse to accept a premise like this without that...
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    Zero Punctuation: Heavy Rain

    "What characters were in this game exactly? Between the four protagonists, you could maybe muster up two dimensions between them." The goal of a game like this one, in which a good deal of the story hangs on the perceived peril of some of the characters, is to try to get the player to...
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    Zero Punctuation: Heavy Rain

    "A critic offers criticism of something, in this instance, a game. If you are criticizing him for not giving Quantic Dream a lavish bouquet filled with praise, then you are not a legitimate critic in any sense of the word." Actually, I feel Zero Punctuation doesn't fit your definition of a...
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    Zero Punctuation: Heavy Rain

    I often find myself in a rather awkward position when Zero Punctuation decides to review a game I personally enjoyed. Here I see Croshaw hitting pretty much all of the negative points and several of the positive ones I would bring up if I were writing the review, but presenting them in more or...
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    Review: Heavy Rain

    If you've seen the trailers for the game, that scene was already spoiled for you. But more to the point, I think your severely overestimating the level to which this will spoil the game. Like, huge, mega, ultra gigga amounts of overestimating going on as to what impact that spoiler has on...