I know! No one seems to use it that way though!

Geoff has a soul and I think he genuinely does care. Sure, he has a habit of playing things a bit more politically correct that most would like but sometimes you need that quality, especially as far as a show host goes. He doesn't want to alienate his guests (though he didn't seem to hold back against Nintendo, for…

As bad as it was I hope Hollywood was paying attention because a Geoff Keighley/Joel McHale buddy cop movie would be awesome.

This is why I hate "all but..." phrases. In most instances its used to say that it's doing the thing that it's not doing. "All but insulted the audience" should read as "They insulted the audience." I believe that's the meaning they are trying to convey.

I would so buy a next-gen meeting simulator!

True. But the game still looks impressive and makes you wonder what these giant studios with multi-million dollar budgets are doing with their time.

FOUR PEOPLE! How is this even possible?

I don't really see it that way. They used it as a neat excuse for a fun vacation. Part of the game is the challenge it introduced and trying to figure out how to meet that. Some people live for that sort of challenge and really, how can you bad mouth the experience that it created for them?

Then go start your own fucking website and post whatever the hell you want on it. This is the public sphere, Kotaku can do as it pleases. Don't like it? Prove it, and move on. Don't return. Let the world keep turning. It'll be a better place without inane comments such as yours clogging it up.

At least it wasn't overlayed with obnoxious music and/or commentary.

Not very long, I imagine, as such work can only be created by the gods themselves!

Was that in Parmenides? I don't quite remember coming across it in there, but then it's been awhile since I've read Plato.

You should give this a listen as it covers, pretty well, why it's not the same thing as it was in previous game as well as why the idea of "don't like it, don' buy it," doesn't have any real teeth.

This argument doesn't hold water because every indication is that the game was designed in such a way that severe grinding is needed to unlock this content - grinding that can be bypassed by paying for it. You may not see the difference, but because they want people to purchase things they change the pace of earning…

Now is not the time for segregation, brother! All gamers must stand united regardless of their status! The day is coming when the PC Master Race and the Console Peasants must link their arms together to face the growing tide of micro-transactions!

Stalin-wood... Why does that sound like it'd be a good name for a porno?

The way you described this made me think of your hand as a sentient being unto itself. Like you just stood there, dumbfounded, as it kept darting for the fries and shoving them in your mouth.

Poorly implemented might as well be what Square is known for these days. I don't deny that they have some pretty solid ideas, but holy hell have they become terrible at executing them to any meaningful degree (at least when it comes to the Final Fantasy series).

I actually liked XIII-2, however I still put it in the completely unnecessary category because of how uninteresting and uninspired FFXIII actually was. X-2, sadly, had the opposite problem, I hated it because I felt it didn't live up to FFX.