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Andrew Carroll

Andrew is a graduate of English and Film Studies in UCD where he wrote for the Film & TV section of the University Observer. He is a native of Dublin, Ireland and currently resides there. Andrew has had a lifelong interest in film and despite being consistently outspoken on the matter insists that The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is the best film ever made. He also maintains a blog at carrollcritiques.wordpress.com

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In a Decade Full of RPGs The Witcher 3 Blew Them All Away

Andrew Carroll Dec 5, 2019 0

Character creation is great, the more detailed the better but it all means next to nothing if there's no personality to back it up. Of course personality doesn't have to be the spoken word. Some of the RPG genres best player characters…

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Earlier in the Decade Gone Home Walked A Path Many Feared to Tread

Andrew Carroll Dec 3, 2019 0

Walking simulators get a bad rap. People have accused them of being boring or, most heinously, of not being games at all. The first charge only stands if you like your story delivered by bullet or bomb. The second is just plain false. While…

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From Titanfall to Star Wars It Was Respawn’s Decade, We Just Lived In It

Andrew Carroll Nov 30, 2019 0

Getting a game made is a small miracle. The amount of work, tech and money required to create a game these days is enormous. For as many games that have been made there are just as many that never made it past the idea stage. It's rare then…

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Fires Burn, Fires Fade: Dark Souls and a Decade of Difficulty

Andrew Carroll Nov 27, 2019 1

The easiest thing to do this decade when writing about video games was to compare something to Dark Souls. From Crash Bandicoot to Cuphead to Assassin's Creed to Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order Hidetaka Miyazaki's now legendary creation became…

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Depression Quest: Bad Brains, Good Friends and Night in the Woods

Andrew Carroll Nov 21, 2019 0

My brain and I have often been at war with each other. At times in the past it was a blitzkrieg of bad decisions. At others it was like constantly shifting alliances mediated by therapists, friends and family. At the moment things are good,…

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Foundations of Greatness | 15 Years Later Halo 2 Still Reigns Supreme

Andrew Carroll Nov 13, 2019 1

Halo 2 was, pun fully intended, a game changer. Its improvements on the mechanics and gameplay if not the story of Halo: Combat Evolved as well as the effects of its multiplayer matchmaking would be felt for years to come. Halo 2 was a…

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ 6 Segments Ranked

Andrew Carroll Nov 9, 2019 0

To say the Western is a dying genre would be wrong but it's nowhere near as healthy as it once was. Still, as long as the Coen Brothers are making movies it will never really die. Out this day last year, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs set…

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“No Russian.” | A Decade on Does Modern Warfare 2 Still Shock and Awe?

Andrew Carroll Nov 9, 2019 0

It's hard to shock these days. Whether in real or fictional media shocking people so desensitised to war, violence and sex is difficult to do. I suppose it's worth questioning whether things were any different ten years ago? In 2007 Call of…

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Good Fights Aside, There is Little to Hail in The King

Andrew Carroll Nov 5, 2019 0

It feels wrong to compare a historical medieval epic to The Lord of the Rings trilogy. One is mired in the murky details of the past. The other is beholden to the basic swords and sorcery concept its adaptations would eventually refine it…

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Literature on Film | On Page and Screen The Terror Creates A Hopeless Void

Andrew Carroll Nov 3, 2019 0

At a certain point in The Terror - Dan Simmons' doorstop novel and David Kajganich and Soo Hugh's AMC adaptation - every character reaches their breaking point. Some of them break like frigid iron, shattering into hundreds of disparate…

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