I've never found a tower defense game that struck the same cord with me that the various Wintermaul mods for Warcraft III did. I don't think this one will either.
@eribuster: It's certainly small potatoes compared to the Oscars, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences does also own and operate museums, film archives, and a reference library. They also fund and produce educational materials for students interested in film and award grants for various film-related causes (e.g. they gave funding to a film archive in Puerto Rico to help recover from the hurricane last year).
Granted, most of the Academy has nothing to do with all that, but that's what the staff actually employed by the Academy spend their time on (in addition to planning the Oscars ceremony each year).
I didn't know anything about the backstory for the Kessler/Lang feud, and I wasn't watching live. But it seemed incredibly obvious that it was an extended bit and everyone was just having a good time.
Johnny V saying it was like SNL was spot on. There were some hilarious lines, but it did go on a little too long.
I'd argue that the Citizen Kane of books is The Complete Works of Shakespeare (if you considered scripts of plays to be literature). Because I think there are three boxes that need to be checked off: 1) Basically everyone's heard of it; 2) Basically everyone agrees that it is very well-made (which doesn't necessarily mean that they like it), and 3) It either creates or makes popular a whole bunch of techniques that weren't around beforehand (e.g. a lot of the camera shots in Citizen Kane were revolutionary at the time).
And since there's just so many books and they've been around for so long, I think you pretty much need to go back as far as Shakespeare to find something that fits all three boxes. Don Quixote is good choice too though.
Even with this video I really can't tell if I'd like this game or not (didn't play the first one). I really dislike survival crafting games, but I really like top-down resource management games. Basically, I'm all for system-heavy time sinks, but I like having a constant, measurable sense of progress; and not having to deal with other players.
Has the general opinion of Bioshock Infinite gone down over the years? I feel like the initial impression was that it was a really interesting premise and setting with slightly stale gameplay that didn't totally stick the ending, but was absolutely worth playing; and that basically no one has talked about the game in at least three years.
@adamlcook: I think they have the same attitude that Jeff G. had towards Fallout 4. The crew had already decided the series was stale; thought Far Cry 4 was too similar to 3, and was completely disappointed in Primal. They were going to be disappointed in this Far Cry 5 even without the initial marketing push; that just added to the disappointment.
I had no idea that some of these old games were VCR-based. They look terrible, and are barely interactive, but it's kind of amazing that people were able to figure out how to make any kind of game using VCRs (and light guns).
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