Remember crossing the border from Fort Frances, Ontario to International Falls, Minnesota to go see this with my friends. Border guard looked at our group of 17-20 year old boys really incredulously when we told him we were going to see The Lego Movie.
Every time I watch this movie I’m like surely THIS time I won’t cry and every time I’m wrong
How can live service games truly be engrossing when they only offer violence? Grand Theft Auto has a robust grammar of harm, but there's hardly any way to create a player driven non-violent experience. Sam and Mark expertly find a way around this conundrum and craft one of the most compelling pieces of machinima I've ever seen. GTAV performs verisimilitude, but often only uses this fidelity as a vice-simulator. When divorced from this context of brutality Rockstar's open world becomes…
