Recent content by Vegard Pompey

I voted yes, but there's a better answer: Keep the voice acting, but have it be in a fictional language. With the dialogue in a language no one understands, you don't need to voice every line and can use generic recorded lines for as much written text as you want.

Old news. At least it's a prequel and not a remake.

I'm so sick of people judging stuff as not being art just because they don't like it.

I am part of the minority blessed with an anagram that perfectly describes me. "I, love amateur".

The Wire is the second best series ever, after Breaking Bad. Obviously you should watch that. It takes a while to get started though, didn't really get into it until season 2.

I didn't read the whole thread but there is one large problem with the OP's post; Hir implies that art cannot be interactive, which is incorrect.

The NG Resonance holograms in Invisible War. Yes, the game is vastly to the inferior, everyone agrees. But everyone also forgot how awesome the NG Resonance holograms were.

In Warioland 2 and 3, the player is immortal. Enemies can't kill you, but they can inflict temporary status ailments or knock you off platforms, and other things. This actually works really well and is something more games should do.

What? He was the epitome of blandness in that movie. Inception had strengths, but its characters were not one of them. Philip Seymour Hoffman in Synecdoche, New York Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises Daniel-Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler Danny Trejo in...

I was going to write something more elaborate but realized that a mere sigh very succinctly summed up my exact thoughts on the subject. I suspect you understand why. Funny that you should mention The Malazan Book of the Fallen, as I was actually just reading that (about 300 pages into...

Deus Ex. I'm not sure exactly what it is that makes it such an amazing narrative, but when I played the game, I always longed for the next cutscene even if the gameplay too was amazing. If that game had at some point had a two-hour long expository cutscene I would've loved every second of it.

No, anime is not synonymous with Japanese culture. But I can imagine few legitimate reasons to dislike anime unless one has a problem with Japanese culture as a whole. Calling Reinhardt an "emo archetype" is just wrong on so many levels. He is a stoic, relentlessly confident in his own...

Calling yourself an "ex-anime fan" is not too far removed from calling yourself an "ex-book fan" or an "ex-music fan". Anime is a medium, and while not quite as diverse as the aforementioned mediums, it doesn't have any universal flaws that should prompt anyone to dismiss the medium entirely...

For not going there. Most current education systems are a joke and no one should have to be subjected to it.

Deus Ex is the pinnacle of game design. Everything else is trivial. But if I have to pick 5; 2. Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! 3. Portal 4. Minecraft 5. Super Mario 64