While I'm inclined to agree, I'm not sure it's something to really compete over, given that Yasunori Mitsuda worked on both, and hit both out of the park.

Yeah... I get the feeling that if there *was* a Diretide event this year, they'd still find something to bitch about. (Didn't they bitch about it imbalancing the game last year?)

Subway *used* to have a decent regular $5 footlong selection, but I have watched and sighed as that has totally gone out the window. Now they're pushing $4 6" + a huge drink instead, and even where they used to have months where nearly any footlong was $5, their definition of "any" has been growing embarrassingly…

Yeah... this kind of thing reinforces why 95% of the time I wait for reviews and/or a sale nowadays. Even just looking at snippets of gameplay, this looks like a woefully inferior Shadow Complex clone to me, and I'd probably have never bought this even without knowing about the criminally shortened gameplay span.

Okay, that's fair. And yeah, you raise a good point about what happens in the case where a kickstarter goes above and beyond its initial goal. This particular case was quite the opposite though, and you're right - communication up-front with potential consumers would have done a lot more good and a lot less harm…

You know what's also amazing? It's also amazing how some self-entitled indie developers think it's perfectly okay to throw some half-assed unfinished shit on Steam, masquerade it as a full game, charge people $15 for it, and, oh hey look, it's not a full game because they failed to fund their kickstarter because oh…

Hey waiter, there seems to be some Fox News in my Kotaku...

Nintendo eventually tried making a more realistic Zelda, 2006's Twilight Princess. That game was cheered by the Nintendo faithful when it was first revealed, and yet now it seems to receive more criticism than Wind Waker. It's Wind Waker that's more commonly considered a classic.

Not to mention "paid options come out on top" is sheer BS, with MSE having the second fastest time in the chart, ahead of McAfee. I'm having a hard time believing Norton is as fast as this claims.

Yeah, I had this same thought. Unfortunately a lot of ads are obtrusive, employing techniques that block rendering of the rest of the actual page. I don't think you'd want to wait for those to time out.

Your mileage may vary with this. I actually do have a doctor that I tend to book 1:00 appointments with and the last 2 times I have ended up waiting until 1:30 or 1:45 because he is stuck in meetings.

So basically science tells us to exercise more, sleep more, meditate more, take trips more, spend time with friends/family more...

I have to agree with this, at least if the Razer Onza (their X360 controller) was any indication. Felt like a $5 piece of crap. I returned mine and went and bought a regular wired X360 controller instead.

So what're the chances of identifying and arresting the Canadian woman who is really responsible for Carter's predicament? She's pretty much ruined this kid's life. In a way what she has done is almost worse than murder. She's the real criminal here.

More than tipping itself, I feel the fact that restaurants use tips as an excuse to pay waiters piss-poor wages should be outlawed, and then the need for tips (or at least, the current customary percentage for them which is kind of exorbitant) would be obviated. It's kind of a demanding job, and the fact that these…

This seems disingenuous at best. You're comparing sales of games with demos to sales of...different games, without demos. How can you safely assume there's really any kind of 1:1 parity there?

Totally hear you, I'm in the same boat. I'm a stingy bastard, and I have a basic GoPhone that I barely use. I use Google Voice from Gmail whenever possible for making/receiving calls otherwise.

To be quite honest, this game had my interest...until I started wondering if it'd require being always online...and then I saw this follow-up article....and...yep, nope.

I really want to like this, but there are two things giving me pause:

While I'd consider your comment a little dramatic, there are definitely 2 important points to take away from it: