It's not really the same. At the beach it's what you wear to bath and bask in the sun, and because of that it's to be expected. People will still complain if they're wearing something to revealing though.

Narrative isn't simply narrowed down to just the story. Narrative is also everything surrounding the story, and how it's portrayed and displayed. It's the way the pacing of the story makes you feel, it's how every thing is presented.

Reading through it, it just seems like they're all rooting for a story heavy, and driven game. Possibly that's what I want to read, but it just comes across that way. Even when Avellone cites his story of a New Vegas moment, it's still woven into a story narrative.

Yeah!

Really wish you could get it for another platform... I really wanna try it, but I don't wanna play games on my iPod.. it's my music box, nothing else.

I'm gearing up for a real playthrough of Ninja Gaiden II!

Congratulations man!

I don't see what's wrong about looking at Skyrim for inspiration... I mean there's a lot more to a game then just it's core game play.. and looking at different games, not just the ones in their own sub-genre, is how games grow.

That really should their national anthem... it's catchy :D

Yeah! since there's so many of the Essentials you're just itching to stab!

Very interesting article!

This is just a stones throw away from pimpin'...

Well.. change the art direction a bit, alter the main story a bit.. and boom, you've got Dead Rising: Operation Shoot a Zombie in The Face.

The risk of making a new IP is so much greater, then making a bad sequel... since the sequel will still sell really well. Doesn't matter if it's bad, a great example is FF13.

I can see your angle, with sending invites to old subs... but at the same time.. those old subs must've stopped for a reason.

From reading through this.. to me it just seems like it's either a Mom, trying to write as her kid, to make a bigger impact.. or it's a girl, who's fed up with her "immature" classmates/little brother, that's playing all the time.

Is that a pillow wrapped around his face?

Everyone throws around that word. In the end, it's just something that's upscaled to a higher resolution, then people scream, zomg it's HD. Not a single game yet is even close to HD.

Personally.. the grind doesn't even set in until you're max level.. that's when the mind less grinding of the same dungeon over and over.. hoping you won't get ninja'd out of that loot you need, in order to get the gearscore you need in order to get that other gear you need to get into raiding..

sigh.. do we really need to keep feeding that man's ego?