They’re a bunch of pretentious arseholes, aren’t they?
Only the NY Times and Guardian are really worth reading. Every other critic tends to attack any film that isn’t to their tastes or adheres to cliche with a dictionary in one hand and their bloated head in the other.
Close Encounters was an alright movie, but it was stunningly well filmed and written, for example. But every critic on the planet touts it as a “sci-fi great”, “free of cliche”. Cliches are like the spanners in a movie’s toolkit. Without them, the audience can’t ground themselves in the plot and understand the basics of what they’re meant to feel and see. District 9 inverts cliche, and we’re made aware of that. Why does inversion instantly equal superiority though? D9 is a fantastic, genius and very well made film. Close Encounters is all but the latter, but also inverts cliche. That doesn’t mean it deserves an instant 98%.
One thing that also really grinds my gears is the constant, constant reference to gamers. It’s slung around by critics like a dead cat, and stinks up the place. Whether it’s “for gamers” or “a horrendous FPS-style” piece of shit doesn’t matter - it’s irrelevant. There’s no such thing as a ‘gamer’ and people who pigeonhole themselves as such are either having to talk to less open-minded people or are closed-minded themselves. People play games. This does not pigeonhole them into some sort of drooling, mouth-breathing stereotype.
Frankly, the movie critic thing is overdone, overwrought and full of bullshit. I don’t need 81 critics telling me their opinion. I need a few Yahtzee Croshaws to point out the fundamental flaws, not paste the damn thing with their opinion and laugh-out-loud thesaurus descriptions of basic words.
If it’s shit in your opinion, say so. But back it up in plain English.
It’s been a while.
A busy while.
And it’s time to present an interesting piece of writing; my opinion on the Unreal series.
Unreal Tournament is pretty well the staple of “sport FPS” - brutal, fast paced and utterly adrenaline filled. And while UT99 was the first and best, UT2k4 and UT3 made a damn good crack at it. It seems strange that individuals constantly knock UT3 as a poor quality game, but it was designed to be something different. It was designed to have a story, and try to take UT in a new direction.
While some see it as a monumental failure, I personally see it as a welcome change that will be binned. It didn’t work; UT2k4 may have had the lesser engine, but it had the better gameplay. What it lacked was style. UT99 and UT3 have the gut-wrenching brutality and potency; big noise, big guns, and a sense of control.
UT2k4 feels more like a cartoon game at times, and doesn’t hit that grim brutality that the other two games have. It’s got all the right elements, but it feels toylike and overly nimble. Turn on UT3’s ‘Kills Slow Time’ mutator and you’ll experience a deathmatch experience that may not have COD’s speed and tight nature, but equally a totally devastating one.
Fact of the matter is, UT2k4 had assault. That was awesome. UT3 doesn’t. U99 does.
Pretty much an end of story right there.
Talk about biased reporting. Server allocation is expensive and limited; I’d rather have a tax-funded site crash out than use my money for increased load limits.
And I am certain that the data is not complete.
And furthermore, the constant criticism of the police is made by those who are neither aware of the job’s demands nor of the massively overwrought command structure. Or of the individual’s importance.
Considering our biggest social problem is underage pregnancy, I think you should re-evaluate any negative opinion of the police, you gigantic chavs.
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I am fed up of seeing posts of “support” and “pray for australia” on Tumblr, when I saw FUCKING ZERO for the floods in pakistan.
That would be because Australians don’t set IEDs.
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Enjoy.
Mass Effect 2: Stunning writing. Gameplay is mediocre, but as a story it’s absolutely absorbing. Best narrative this year.
STALKER Call Of Pripyat: Probably the best RPG I’ve played in my life. Brutal, tough and everything a Ukrainian game based in Chernobyl should be. Near perfect.
Bioshock 2: Mediocre. Bioshock was a fantastic story, and very innovative. While in terms of gameplay B2 is extremely enjoyable, the lack of motivation from the story is very noticeable. A very fun experience, but not groundbreaking.
Heavy Rain: In terms of innovation, unrivalled. In terms of gameplay, it’s crap. A failed experiment, but enjoyable for its originality and excellent storytelling.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Decent game. Complete lack of a story but quality gameplay redeemed it somewhat.
Supreme Commander 2: Not a patch on Supreme Commander.
Assassin’s Creed 2: Zero re-playability, and alright story. Insanely awesome gameplay - very, very fun. A decent game to just enjoy. Ezio is rather likeable as well.
Just Cause 2: Enjoyable. That’s it. It’s a fun game, not much else.
Halo Reach: Gets boring very fast. It’s ok, but not much else.
Medal of Honor: Shite.
Super Meat Boy: Challenging as hell, with the most epic music ever. Everything casual gaming is meant to be and more.
Fallout New Vegas: A decent effort, and very enjoyable. But compared to STALKER…eurhh.
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Fucking awesome. I don’t care what critics say, the story was something very different for COD, and the multiplayer was all about the gunplay. While PSN issues put a stop to my enjoyment, it’s still one of the best recent CODs bar 4.
Gran Turismo 5: GT4 was better.
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Only 1.79 billion of our 6.89 billion population even have the internet!
That means 5.1 billion people are unaware of the impending death because they haven’t read some article on the internet and believed it because it’s scary!
WOW!
Earth’s mass is 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms. That’s about 5 million, billion, billion kilograms. That’s a big, big, big number. Far bigger than it seems.
Earth is 24,901.99 miles in diameter. Considering 1000 miles from the UK to America is vast, that’s a pretty big number too.
Earth is travelling through space at 108000 kilometers (67000 miles) per hour. That’s appreciable by humans as being INSANELY quick.
And it rotates (from the equator) at 1,038 miles per hour. That’s also insanely quick - just a little slower than a Eurofighter Typhoon in a vertical drop, engines firing at full afterburner.
Now you tell me how anything can stop 5 septillion tons of rock, that big, that wide and that fast.
And if the British public keep Matt Cardle or whatever his name is off the charts, it’s yet another victory for humankind.
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