Yeah, but you couldn't carry a box in your pocket and keep it ready to deploy at any instant for short-notice distractions. Also, the box would float invisibly in front of you, destroying immersion.

The original Deus Ex did, but it was so clunky and obtuse that it wasn't really worth it.

Well, yeah, I play music on my 360 using my Hard Drive more than CD's. But it's still a nice thing to be able to do.

I know- I'm explaining to this guy that some people do actually use it, and that it's not a useless feature to have. I'll miss the feature when I have my PS4, but I'll still have my PS3 and 360 so it's not too bad.

Aren't we all.

My girlfriend is a direct descendant of Captain Morgan.

Different for everyone- whenever I'm cleaning a room in the house I use my console (PS3 in living room, 360 in bedroom) to play music while I clean. Often I pop in a nearby CD to play. I probably do it once every month or two- but when I've got tons of cleaning to do it'll be as much as once a week.

Honestly mate, the amount of games in which stealth would be fix if they just implemented this "improvised distraction" mechanic... It just fixes stealth and makes things so much more emergent. AC would be fixed with it, Deus Ex would be fixed with it, heck, even that shitty vampir game Dark (which I had to review)…

I'm about to start playing Shinobido, the PS2 Ninja game.

I'm still going to be infinitely frustrated with this series until they add a "Stamina" meter.

Want the tip of all tips?

Yeah, it's easy to get away from them, but it's still something fun to do.

I found one playthrough of Origins, doing less than half of the ambient world stuff, worth about three times a single playthrough of City. I've broken 30 hours of gametime and I've barely touched New Game Plus.

Yeah I understand, I was mainly making a point about how big sites like Kotaku often miss the most obvious of news resources, ones which the community and their fine-combing skills will catch.

Your post has way more information than the article itself!

The game doesn't "suck," but it's not the best ever. I found the story pulled me through it at a rate of knots, it was so compelling, but once the story was over that was kinda... It. I just sat there twiddling my thumbs and thought "okay, time to go play Batman: Arkham Origins."

Origins has probably 20% the same city as City (only a little bit of Old Gotham is the same, the rest has been reworked and expanded, Old Gotham alone is twice the size of Arkham City), with brilliant indoor sections too.

No, no, sorry, I didn't mean "make them all the same" or "see them all as the same." I meant you judge them all by the same standards. You obviously need to apply the same rules to everyone, otherwise the teaching won't be fair. Naturally some students won't have the same capabilities or history of others.

If you're playing on PC, that could be the source of most of your woes- they appear to have definitely optimized the thing for Xbox and PS3. From what I hear, it sounds like there are a hundred times more bugs and implementation issues on PC than console.

No worries man! I'm glad you're getting it. I'm honestly finding Origins, in a few ways, the Batman game I've been wanting all these years. It really reaches some of the potential heights of an open world superhero game.