This comment on this blog pretty much spells the slow death for printed video game magazines. If this free content business model gets more and more successful, you'll see EGM and Gamepro disappear. In that regard you are a cancer.

The "core industry" rotted from the inside out. It built itself up to be a mass media corporate behemoth with ambitions of competing on the level of Hollywood or television, and then realized too late that the core gamer audience wasn't big enough, rich enough, or growing fast enough, to support its $60/game or…

You sound like a really informed consumer who makes smart decisions about what to do with your money.

Expectations sound like a bummer. Might wanna look into getting rid of them.

C Walk is the song, Kurupt is the artist.

Dig it.

How much does a movie at the movie theater cost where you live? Do you buy other media, like books and DVDs/BluRays?

Questions are not gripes. No need to be defensive.

I'm not sure "played a few visual novels in my time" analogizes to "eats apples daily". If this game is pretty much exactly like old visual novels, then I'd be curious to hear that review. If we're all just assuming it is another boring VisualNovelApple, and we aren't willing to shell out a sawbuck to confirm, then…

It's a genre of movies that's sort of post-punk American neo-realist. See: Mutual Appreciation, The Puffy Chair, Tiny Furniture. Naturalist, low-stakes, intentional amateurishness. I'm saying this is the videogame version.

Why do you demand that something be "some sort of amazing thing" in order to pay $20 for it?

Can I be the first person to call this game "mumblecore"? This is an example of mumblecore video games. I'm calling it.

Why's everything got to be "some sort of amazing thing"? Can't something be small and quiet and personal?

Oh no. Did you think you were being funny? That's some very positive wishful thinking.

The cognitive disconnect between "We wanted to make a world that everyone wanted to be in" over a shot of aliens with guns jumping on rusted out cars filled with rotting corpses is a hilarious testament to the myopia of video game designers. Suuuure. That's exactly the type of world most people want to explore. I'm…

The thing is, you don't have to deal with him being annoying and you haven't paid any price, small or otherwise. You just read about him and see him in movies and listen to him on podcast. How you feel about that is all on you. Unless you work with him or interact with him in person, all your opinions of him are…

It's just you.

Even though they backtracked appropriately on basically everything that sucked, they're still a $100 more expensive because of Kinect, and that alone will be their downfall. Until they produce a SKU that's price competitive XBoxOne is going to be their 3DO.

How do you think customers speak? With their wallets.

They all sound the same to you, huh?