To call NCFOM film the most awesome movie of the year, is like calling World in Conflict the best strategy game of the year. None of them are horrible but they do NOT deserve the praise or ratings they’re getting. In will not review any of them, I will only clarify for you WHY they both get these high ratings, and there is only one word which could describe them both: Critics. Self indulgent crap-bastard critics. I had a very short and drunk discussion about this last night, and I made some half-assed parallel between WiC and NCFOM. I’m sober now…almost. I realize I should never compare games to movies.

I’m one of those dumbasses who believe that the magic formula for getting your game/movie hyped to max by critics is to provide them with at least one element of the game/movie which he or she simply can not and does not understand, and letting all of the remaining parts be totally awesome. Like for an instance in NCFOM the viewer invest time in getting to know the characters, then they get eliminated from the plot in ways that convey no meaning and are not moving, and the movie just keeps on killing your precious time in this life. This is similar in WiC…the gamer invests time getting to understand the different strategies, but then a mission or five later realizes there are no different strategies and is not fun. But the critic any of the above as ”Asian influences” or ”unexpected” and therefore awesome.

I really hate them both. And since I’m clearly a douche, at least according to one critic (of different sort) and probably a few thousand more in stadsparken/Lund/Sweden/World I’m probably right and YOU’re probably wrong.