It isn’t really because that term is hardly ever taken to mean something physically harmful or deadly serious. If you want to be pedantic, people could just say ‘negatively impacts consumers’.

Well, he didn’t say it wasn’t AC-like. Just pointed out that it is one of the criticisms. All told, it may feel like AC to a degree, but it definitely doesn’t have as much .... bullshit in the world pretending like it is fleshing out the setting. yeah, that can make it feel quite empty at times but if the setting and…

Why not? I mean, the only reason you are at a restaurant it to eat food you ordered. It’s the one main thing restaurants are kind of known for, I hear. Don’t tell me that shit wouldn’t be annoying to you no matter how small.

Xenoblade Chronicles. 

It isn’t like the first game. First off, the story wasn’t particularly dark. It was a post-apocalyptic setting, so there is always that and Joel’s decision at the end was ... a lot, but the surface story of 2 people pushing their way across the country in the hopes of finding a cure and the actual story of getting to…

Don’t worry about getting to long. I won’t.

Mortal Dictata posted a comment in another article the other day that really kind of summarizes why people like Spec Ops as much as they do.

I honestly wouldn’t care. It just needs to play well and not have the micro-transactions be plastered all over every screen.

You are comparing a full game to an update. The update alone doesn’t deliver that HUGE amount of content you make it out to be. The full game is probably pushing 200GB at this point. Halo 5, RDR2, and Forza are all just under 100GB and the Master Chief Collection (even with remastering, still an older collection) which…

Literally some of my favorite games I have ever played. As simple as they can be, these games and Lumines on the PSP took up SOOO much of my time that it isn’t funny dood. 

Is it impressive? Do any of us know enough about their engine and workflow to know that they couldn’t do this before and simply didn’t know how or that they did anything special to make it work at this point?

It was tethered to the Sun by ‘energy??’ and destroying it while connected would blow up the Sun and destroy the solar system. It could also do that on its own anyway so you had to do something and that something was power it down; which you did. Now it was just being used as an elegantly shaped meteor to ram into the…

Well, it isn’t a straight shooter, more like a 3rd person shooter with Moba elements (killings minions and leveling up and things like that). Everything has Moba elements nowadays.

Oh, I know, but we are not talking about a crime and you were not talking about rioting. It was the act of congregating in groups during a pandemic for a two VERY different kinds of protests in which case motive very much matters as a measure of risk and you can’t really argue your way out of that.

I can say it isn’t the best simply because I don’t think such a thing exists. We know damn well there will be an army of people who would gush about the feel of a CoD game. Others may prefer something closer to Titanfall 2 or maybe the chunkiness of games like Doom or Wolfenstein. Maybe even the realism of ARMA or…

Amen. The thing is, the financial outlook for the franchise will dictate how fast the story will be presented. If they think they are losing a significant number of people, all of a sudden a big story even will hit. They don’t have a natural end point for this game. When they ‘feel’ like it is ending (ie, when people…

And?

You also don’t need a PhD to know that a number of people don’t bully because they believe the person being bullied deserves it. They do it because they think the person is an easy target (usually because other people have given their go ahead by doing it also) and because it make them feel better about themselves.…

You don’t have to deny the existence of the proof. Just recontextualize it (ie lying) to mean something else. I mean, if your wife finds a pair of panties in your coat pocket that don’t belong to her, you can’t just tell her she is seeing things. Now, if she catches you making a late call or maybe a bit of lipstick on…

Education, discussion, penalties of any kind in most countries and better/stronger moderation are things that can and are being done. It isn’t about making bullying of any kind vanish because shitheads will be shitheads but we can guess there are a few people who have said things to this woman and others like her who…