Seriously. Calling this a "slow year for games" is...bizarre. I can't think of too many other years recently where there were so many strong contenders for "game of the year".

Also announced at VGX, Telltale is doing an adventure game series based on the Borderlands franchise. There's a trailer up elsewhere on Kotaku.

Holy crap.

A 30 minute stop motion film done solo? In what was, essentially, his spare time?

For those non-animators out there: that is insane, and not only from a time perspective; the materials to do intricate characters like that (along with the ball-and-socket armatures) are not cheap.

On top of that, unlike in 2d or…

Hah. That's totally true, but you probably have to live in Georgia to really get that one.

Now having a drone show up at your wedding might actually be a good thing. Thanks, Amazon!

I did feel like the addition of the cover system made the game a little less movement-focused than previous games in the series. It felt like certain areas rewarded you for just hunkering down behind cover and headshot-sniping everyone instead of diving around in slow motion like a maniac.

Remember Me was such a mixed bag.

It had great ideas, but it felt like the development team didn't really have the time or resources to fully realize them. Neo-Paris is a fantastic setting, but then you're entirely on rails for the entire game. They introduce these fascinating memory-manipulation mechanics, but then…

Is every criticism of a game necessarily a "complaint"? I mean, it's one thing to complain about people who act like everything is the worst thing ever, but it's totally valid to criticize parts of a game that you otherwise enjoyed. (And it's the same with movies, books, TV, theatre, etc.)

I'm not sure I would have used the word "sexist". I'd probably have gone with "tone deaf".

I apologize if I seemed a little, uh, argumentative. The previous thread (in the Sony replacing consoles article) kind of...put me on edge.

I only mention "entitled" here because that's what I was being called over there for daring to suggest that it might be a good PR move for Sony to give inconvenienced customers,…

"You're way too intelligent for this one."

If that were true, I wouldn't spend nearly so much time arguing with people on the internet. But I appreciate it!

Seriously! And I wasn't even originally "hoping for a digital game"; I was saying, "Hey, it might be a good idea for Sony to give them, say, a free month of PS+ or something". That costs the company even less.

But apparently some people think that consoles are some kind of new feudal system, where you're obliged to…

Because I take issue with people calling me all sorts of shit for stuff I didn't say (and, incidentally, making up a bunch of stuff which has since been proven wrong)?

And what "governing policy" are we talking about?

Seriously. The U.S. doesn't even have hate speech laws (like much of Europe). What horrible creeping "fascism" are you actually talking about?

I think "entitled" is the new rallying cry of the frothing-at-the-mouth console warrior.

(And again, if you get "entitled" out of what I originally wrote, you need to work on reading comprehension.)

Mmm hmm. Do go on.

(I like that you start with "To be fair..." and then write...that.)

By the way, I didn't actually write that I "expected" anything, so I don't know where you're getting the "entitled attitude" thing from. I said it would be a good move from a PR/customer relations perspective. But apparently that…

...and? I mean, that's nice, but it has nothing to do with compensating the customer for the inconvenience of faulty hardware.

Oh, absolutely. Hell, I brought up that very fact in the previous discussion, but it was dismissed so people could call me "entitled" some more.

I wish I could point this article out to all of the people who gave me crap for suggesting that Sony might want to give their customers some small compensation if they experienced the blue light of death problem.

I got told repeatedly that "No company ever does that" and all sorts of other things, when I wasn't being…

Well, in my experience, the term "PC" tends to be used by people with pretty...dubious attitudes, and so it automatically colors my impression of the user. I'm not alone in this reaction.