yes, this is a perfect analogy. It is almost exactly like the music industry, where perhaps the division between artist and record label makes a bit more sense (I really can't picture Bob Dylan or Snoop Dogg being bothered with trying to figure out how to mass market and mass produce their albums for distribution).

Yes, I couldn't agree more about how badly Fitzroy was bungled (indeed, the game handles its class, race, and gender politics incredibly poorly, but that's a longer story).

+1 to the Sigh reaction.

So, what you're saying is you're a cop. . . Clearly, then, your opinions don't matter at all.

You can't compare this to Silence of the Lambs, Agent Starling didn't spend 90% of the films running time gunning down on average about 100 serial killers per hour of depiction.

What solid proof can you offer that Color TV Racing 112 was not a complete and utter failure?

Man, its good to see sci-fi is back, firmly in the political domain where it belongs, after its long slumber of pop garbage. (I blame the likes of Star Wars and Star Trek for this dismal hiatus, although if you wanted to argue that Thatcher/Regan are ultimatley responsible, I wouldn't query your point.)

I see chem trails . . .

What's most interesting to me about the fallout from this article (judging from the comments section, anyway) is that the people who consume games are far FAR more sophisticated in how they understand violence than video game critics, so that:

here, here! to both of the above.

see below (stupid comment editor won't let me delete this one. I put it in the wrong place).

Holy Shit—someone who actually understands satire. Thank. Fucking. God.

Holy Shit. As an audience, the game critics mentioned in this article (including the author), are absolutely fucking retarded (I mean that sincerely—as in developmentally stunted in terms of how they understand art). You've got the sophistication of an elementary school lunchroom in this regard.

The can of soda is in a different dimension to which the box of almonds is a portal. Be careful not to tear the top off the box...

The can of soda is in a different dimension to which the box of chocolate is a portal. Be careful not to tear the top off the box...

+1 to both you and Blow. Something about the gameplay just made me feel really uneasy, as if I was missing something or not doing something "correctly" (even though I get the idea that, like LA Noir, it was the developers' intention for there not to be a single 'correct' way to play the game). I felt the combat was…

Although its a great game, the 10 hours of single player campaign (13 if you put it on the hardest setting and scour every inch of Columbia) with no multiplayer at all make it hardly worth anywhere near $60. It is however, a wonderful bargain at $0.

actually, this isn't true at all. Borderlands 1 had 0 DLC pre-planned and managed to drop 4 installments which were all fully developed quite some time after the game's initial release...

Umm, I think you mean a "devil may care" attitude. . . Video games on the brain much?