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@SpankeyLuvinIt Of course they don't make a game but they help. It seems to me that much of the concentration on graphics was put in to the aliens design so that you can chop off and mush up every limb. There's no comparison between the superior artistic direction of Rage or Uncharted for example...

with a very distinctiive puzzle section homage to the painter M Escher (upside down staircases). So do play the first game.

@Zentrix97 True but the Xbox360 Orange Box version seems to be a lot better looking. It still looks pretty good now. I didn't like Episode 1 but Episode 2 is good.

Perfect Dark Zero should essentially be regarded as Rare making an arcade game. So it's all about shiny colourful graphics and silly dialogue. It was much easier for me to get in to than than the N64 Perfect Dark. Of course there have been more complex games created, both before and since, but i...

public, lacking the timeless approach of Morrison, will generally do The Doosr a disservice by not appreciating the subtleties of this mix of deliberate old fashionedness (e.g. the carnival-like organ sound) and modernity.

This is an artist. This is a boy. This is a man. He epitomises a timeless mind - if people saw ego in him then they were only really seeing what they wanted to see instead of seeing his thoughtfulness and talent. He surfed along the 60s and was dashed on the rocks of the early 70s, perhaps before...

@er6789er But the world wasn't. That's why. A beautiful playful innovator in The Great American Band stereotyped at the time as a sex symbol troublemaker.

direction though but the first game 's lighting was spot on with such a clean semi-cartoony look. It appears that they decided to make the sequel grittier looking- fair enough but the first game, whilst having less variety of locations, is still interesting - and, it seems, more challenging - in ...

@1424nathan If you ask that about the plot, what about Bioshock? Why should I go in to the lighthouse when I can happily swim forever in the sea outside without any danger? And since I don't know which character that I am, why would I assume that would be a problem to my character as a way to spe...

Gorillaz was just a popularisation of musical ideas that had already been explored, with more vigour and less lazy Southern English sleepiness, by the bands featured in the Dreamcast game Jet Set Radio.

effects and the lengthy riffs on a theme in songs, such as The Fog or Between a man and a woman. Listening to the album, I feel like I am in a marsh looking at these things happening around me- the video of The Sensual World, the fields of 'Never be mine', an autumnal Halloween night watching wit...

@TheNatManRS If you want a deep story read a book. 'Games', whether it's a board game, a sport or a videogame are not necessarily meant to be about story other than 'this is where you are, this is what you need to do'. To me, it's much better that Rage wears it no-nonsense story on its sleeve rat...

So this is the game of the generation that has sold nowhere near what it could have done. It looks like Uncharted for the Xbox 360- shame for the Xbox360 that it's still on the PS3 though. But it just goes to show, Uncharted probably looked as good as it does on the PS3 not because it's the PS3...

Although Song for my sugar spun sister is probably my favourite on the album, Bye Bye Badman is essentially like its counterweight, the pivot being Elizabeth my dear (don't agree with the sentiments of that) in the middle. The ending from 3.27 onwards on Bye Bye Badman is lovely, with that riff l...

I think that Song for my sugar spun sister is a fairly perfect pop song in quite a subtle way. A pensive opening and then, delayed until the bridge is repeated, the joyous guitar riff at 1.08-1.10, the title of the song forming a kind of chorus that still seems to be part of a bridge and that lov...

The Danny Elfman track that I would say that parts of this is most reminscent of is Descent in to mystery from the soundtrack of the 1989 Batman film- coupled with Mad Monster Mansion.

@Mrpublicimagelimited Yes- there appears to be some references to Francis Bacon's Pope paintings in there. It's more sinister than Prodigy's Breathe video when you look at it!

Blue Jay Way is NOT a scary song. That's the aim of the heavy metallers, the goths etc. George Harrison was part mystic , part no-nonsense rocker, part humourful. It's a really beautiful song and if you don't think that then you've probably never gained the painful strength that there is from goi...

1.49-2.35 is amongst the very best, emotionally and lyrically that I've heard in any popular music. What makes it avoid cliche is that, yes, it might sound like someone complaining, albeit beautifully, about their lot but then the part that seals the deal is that he turns philosophical in a empat...

And life is a game you've tried and life is a game You're tired.

Velvet Morning, Neon Wilderness and Come On are a trinity of gorgeous, relatively lesser known, songs on Urban Hymns compared to the big hits. They're superior to the big hits in terms of soul and lyrics.

I mean that- it's not just a collection of my own prose and Verve lyrics. There is a real wilderness in the world and in humans. You will attract more people by being like a soft landing - an undemonstrative, ever-reliable person or a figure of fun but it is unwise to think that this means that t...

@mirrenmaniac That may have been George's purpose just as he arrests the listener on Taxman in a rock way. This is like George's equivalent of 'She Said She Said'. I think Love You to is arguably a better song than Within You Without You but they're both good.

I actually think that this title track is one of the best songs that they ever did. The ending at 2.25-2.52 is quite 'Smile'-like (Brian Wilson's unfinished album of the time in the 60s).

@benzaseeadoneitall Actually both were on Abbey Road. I didn't previously claime which album they were on anyway. I was choosing those 3 songs as my favourite Beatles songs by Paul- Magical Mystery Tour, Oh! Darling and You never give me your money. I happen to think that some of their greatest ...

@wobblefluff They wrote some great songs together like I saw her standing there, She loves you, I want to hold your hand, Eight days a week, We can work it out, Day Tripper, A day in the life , Baby you're a rich man. Paul made some fantastic music hall music like Martha my dear and carnival type...