Recent content by WickedLordJasper

I agree with what you've said: the game had a huge amount of promise, but it was too ambitious for the level of technology at the time. The promise of being able to possess different bodies would have been hugely enticing if everyone had their own lives, Skyrim-style. Imagine popping into a...

It's odd that Disney's Pocahontas didn't make this list, what with it also being the exact same movie. The main thing that separates it from other entries in the genre is that the white non-protagonists are simply stupid and gullible instead of evil (except for Ratcliffe, who is just evil)...

Do people still call things "rad", or is Rainbow Land trapped in a time warp where it's perpetually the 1980s? Actually, that would be a pretty good show. The horse yells, "Excellent!!!" and plays air guitar, and then they all go to a Poison concert.

This seems like an odd decision. I thought the whole idea of resurrecting Wonder Woman was to make a movie about a strong, feminist womyn who don't need no man. But this makes it hard to ignore the fact that the mythological Hera was a jealous wife who wasn't very feminist-friendly at all. I...

I do, however, feel relatively confident in saying that The Flowers of Robert Mapplethorpe is not a video game.

If this film's intended audience is a certain subculture of Christianity, then the audience wouldn't need to have it explained why pornography is bad for marriage, any more than they'd need it explained why receiving Communion every week is good. You may not agree with those reasons, but that's...

Well, to play Devil's Advocate, why is it a bad thing that the movie makes assumption about its audience that don't fit everyone? Perhaps you're just not the intended audience. If this movie is intended to be watched by Christians (or at least a particular kind of Christian), in order to help...

I've never seen Fireproof before, but from the MDF clip, I got that the movie was overly Christian and written for a strongly religious audience. So that's what makes the movie bad?

Well, there seem to be a few Escapist fans over there: http://i.4cdn.org/pol/1411509182528.jpg

You know, I'd always meant to play that game. Do you think it still holds up?

Bioshock 2 is an interesting example. The protagonist is trying to re-unite with his little sister primarily because without her, he'll die. But of course, in a story-based game, you need a decent explanation for why the main character is going through all this trouble. You can't just use the...

Exactly: the mixed couple is at the very beginning of the game. But even before that, it's obvious the fair is supposed to be sinister and jingoistic. They have carnival games based on shooting enemies of the state, for instance. Their silent films establish them as secessionists. Father...

What with all the talk about the "rescuing the princess" trope, I was wondering: how many modern games are actually structured around rescuing a captured princess (or damsel in distress)? Back in the 8-bit era there were tons of games like that: Milon's Secret Castle, Adventure Island, Abadox...

Thank you! I always forget about the existence of image search, for some reason.

Who is that pink aardvark-type cartoon character who is regularly used as the "greed" image on Jimquisition? The one who smokes a cigar and stands in front of a pile of gold bars in the background? I usually recognize the other cartoon references but I have no idea where this one comes from...