Sentences with phrase «favored over story»

Usually, due to the skill and dedication of the developers, that approach didn't detract from the quality of their games — just look at Red Dead Redemption and the previous GTA titles — however after GTA Online became favored over story mode, largely due to the huge amount revenue being brought in by microtransactions, fans are concerned.

Not exact matches

He exudes the fact that he's doing me the favor — and man, he really is — but I forge on, explain my story, and what I want to get out of all this: to finally know what makes Wisconsin college football's great exception, the success story beyond a standard deviation, the one team that has won almost as much as anyone over the last 25 years with talent far below its peers.

But, after the South Side team became a national news story with its exciting Little League victory over favored Las Vegas, the evidence against JRW was not hard to amass.

While TRANSCENDENCE tried to incorporate a love story in order to give it some humanity, Besson skips over any romance in favor of keeping the film tight and lean (it runs a mere ninety minutes with credits), but strangely winds up being a far more compelling film.

I've also always enjoyed the story of how Andrews, the originator of the role of Eliza Doolittle in the original stage production of My Fair Lady, was passed over for the My Fair Lady movie (in favor of then better - known star Audrey Hepburn), only to win the Oscar for Mary Poppins (Hepburn wasn't even nominated for My Fair Lady).

Typically, the films have favored visual flair over an intriguing story, but Self / less gives us the rare case of an outwardly interesting premise becoming underwhelming, while the anticipated avant - garde style is all but nonexistent.

Of all of the films directed by women this year (And there have been many), most have favored it over the MORE «important» stories — like Bigelow's trauma at the Algiers Motel, or Dee Rees» Mudbound or Dayton and Faris» Battle of the Sexes.

If you want the story of Zamperini, do yourself a favor and read the book as Jolie skimps mightily on the goods — often skipping entirely over critical scenes — and can only proffer this truly inspiring saga glazed over with a cloying religious - tinged icing and sans a lick of nuance or tension.

Nevertheless, Avalon Code isn't a page - turner, and most gamers will favor gameplay over story.

Eschewing narration and on - screen text in favor of interviews that serve to keep the story propelled ever - forward — and often taking up residence right beside, or over the shoulder of, its Autodefensas subjects — Cartel Land is the rare non-fiction work that routinely keeps one's nerves on edge.

Although the film often favors the gimmick over the story, it serves as a great reminder that while not every off - the - wall idea is guaranteed to be a success like «The Artist,» it's the willingness to take those risks that making movies is all about.

Eschewing narration and on - screen text in favor of interviews that serve to keep the story propelled ever - forward — and often taking up residence right beside, or over the shoulder of, its Autodefensas subjects — Cartel Land is the rare nonfiction work that routinely keeps one's nerves on edge.

From Iron Man to Ant - Man, it's become quite clear over the years that the Marvel Cinematic Universe favors introducing audiences to new superheroes through origin stories.

The film eventually abandons the experiential horror of the early scenes in favor of agonizing over funeral plans, references to the King Arthur stories (the Broadway hit «Camelot» gets not one, but two airings), and one too many speeches about legacy, as Jackie works out her fears and anxieties in conversation with a priest (John Hurt, exceptional), an anguished Bobby Kennedy (Peter Sarsgaard), and a loyal confidante (Greta Gerwig).

It doesn't mean anything specific to this story, although it does give certain characters political and paranoid reasons to halt the process of justice in favor of fear over the next possible terrorist attack.

1) Hand over responsibility — The Huffington Post recently ran a story about a secondary school in Colchester, where the headteacher decided to ditch traditional homework in favor of a more relaxed approach.

There are stories about declining advances, contracts slanted increasingly in the publisher's favor, and authors stuck in contracts, and unable to do anything about it (think about many of the similar stories you've heard about rock bands stuck in contracts over the years).

WG: Human beings tend to favor good stories over evidence, but this can lead to problems.

SICSA have one very important message to share in relation to Rush's story: «We have received heartfelt messages from all over the world and hope we can return the favor by helping other homeless pets like Rush, who are waiting for homes, in every part of the world.

Oh well, it's kind of necessary gameplay wise and Nintendo has always been prompt to favor gameplay over story.

This may just be a guess, but around the point Pokemon became this huge hit in the late 90's and pretty much owned the turn based strategy genre, spawning dozens of hashed out clones, that could be contributed to why turn - based RPG's started to lose their muster a bit in the last generation and why Square Enix has been so fixated on trying to develop new and interesting combat systems with their latest installments, rather than focusing on what they used to do so well, which was create unique, yet cohesive, quest based stories with endearing characters and gameplay that favors using your mind over your thumbs.

While retaining core series mechanics like demon negotiation and party - building, Innocent Sin was ultimately defined by its far greater emphasis on character and story over surviving long dungeons, eschewing the tradition of first - person dungeon crawling in favor of a third - person view of the ever - escalating insanity.

The big downer here is that a lot of the story is glanced over and lost in favor of jumping into the action, as well as overly repetitive fights that have players fighting the same character multiple times consecutively.

While you do have a beautiful controller skin and a ever - present book glued to your hand so you can read some of the game's useless story banter, I can't help but feel that the game would benefit more from gamepad support — not a damning verdict by any means — and a complete removal of the book in favor of voice overs for campaign mode.

For all we know, they are favoring Southeast Asia over the Western fan base... whether the fan base is larger there or not is a different story.

The mainstream news cycle lends itself much more readily to «shock» stories that gloss over these deeper issues in favor of easily digestible sound bites.

In Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water, freshwater expert Peter Gleick examines the causes and consequences of favoring bottled water over tap and uncovers the marketing behind the trend.