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That's not to mention that the two games were developed by entirely different studios: the first by Obsidian; the second internally by Ubisoft. No wonder they turned out different, but then Obsidian are masters at writing for games.

I love the whole visual look and design of Gunslinger, I mean just look at the comic-book panel design of the story presentation. It's like someone took Max Payne and painted it all over using a large dose of Tarantiono's Django Unchained. But I have to say that the gameplay is nothing all that...

Well, politicians have always been fucking pigs.

I highly doubt that PDX will make grand strategy out of Vampire, it's much more likely that they will contract the game out to Obsidian, seeing as how they have gotten increasingly coosy over these years. They would then create a classic RPGs set in the Vampire universe. It would obviously take...

I have no idea, but with this and then the stuff like Sin City on the one hand and mo-cap computer made films like Spielberg's Tintin on the other, where do you draw the line? That could be an interesting thread here.

For mature, dark western animation, you have to watch A Scanner Darkly. A tragedy with lots of dark humor about the inevitable downward spiral that is drugs. And playing a junkie allowed Robert Downey Jr. to go absolute bonkers. Just watch:

As a Swede, i'd say you have fundamentally misunderstood Scandinavia. We don't actually hate each other, its just that we tease each other for a good time. All the petty national squabbles ended during the 1800's. That was when nationalism appeared and we stopped looking at our differences...

This goes to all escort mission in any video game. I don't think I've come across one which was any more fun than if I'd just been allowed to go all-out, guns blazing instead. The most self-aware escort mission I've come across is Max Payne 2, where you have to escort this big, useless whino...

I have to bring up a big nitpick now. It was only the brave battle-dead vikings who came to valhalla, the rest came to the today strangely obscure realm of Hel. So it should really be called Developer Hel.

I was listening to this, and it made me feel very conflicting inside: The song is based on a traditional Faroeish ballad, itself based on an older Danish/Norwegian one from 1781, about a battle in 1612 where Norwegian farmers defeated a group of invading Scottish mercenaries under Swedish...

WW, did they wear mammoth furs at the same time?

Okay, now I have to refute a few claims. There has never existed an age when all war was glorious; humans have always been humans after all. Take the vikings for example, here is an excerpt from the book of proverbs of the vikings - Odin's havamal: "More blest are the living than the...

When it comes to music, Remedy is always phenomenal. They had Poets of the Fall write two entirely new songs for the game, and later one more for the expansion. These songs were even released on Spotify under the group Old Gods of Asgard, and that band only exists within Alan Wake. When...

Yes Cowboy Bebop is fantastic, I wonder if its influences might have had something to do with it though (wink)? As for HxH the Elder, that's actually the first scene I've seen of it. It is still massively front-heavy with exposition though. The movie I showed a clip from, Once Upon a Time in...

AAAARGH!!! By the bloody blazes, why can't anime characters just shut up. There is one movie genre that understood a good fight scene needs absolutely nothing else except tension - the western. Barely anything transpires in a duel, except for two men staring at each others' faces. Look at...