I was about to mention XCOM EU's screen. Not only is it an epic screen, but it gives you that perfect atmosphere for "Oh shit there's aliens on the loose" from that perspective.

Honestly, it sounds like something someone says when they are trying to impress their friends, so I wouldn't immediately call it trolling.

I'm not offended by anything in this scenario, I'm just tired of people never looking at it from all perspectives, and just going hivemind on everything, because it's never that simple.

Randy also said that they wanted more time to make it better, but were afraid of getting sued by Sega for how long they had had the game already. Also saying "They CHOSE what to release" is a childish statement to make because what else did they have to release and what else could they do? It's not like they had any…

First off, does anyone have ACTUAL proof that they used Sega's money to fund Borderlands? I'm going to say no, because if that WERE true, Kotaku and other sites would have had an "inside guy" on it.

So let me get this straight, game companies job is to make game for another company, company fails to do so, company fails, everyone blames the company that outsourced the game and NOT the company who dropped the ball and re-wrote the game from scratch despite the original assets given to them by the company who hired…

I agree with everything, except that like what was mentioned above, there is a realness that even cheap puppets or claymation have that NO CG, Done well or cheap will ever have, because that thing is being filmed and can be touched in the real world, that makes it more believable. Avatar is the closest thing I've seen…

I LOVED Dino Crisis 2. The first one was good, but the open jungle atmosphere of the second, coupled with the fact it was primarily in daylight (I was pretty much terrified of the first for the fact it was always pitch black, lol). I had only wished that Dino Crisis 3 had gotten more publicity and wasn't land locked…

If the guy has a legitimate claim to what he's calling infringement, he's got a legit claim, end of story. Does it make him look good? No, but nobody wants to be the whistle blower, because it's a lose-lose, but then nothing gets done, and I know sure as hell if someone was profiting off of something I made or did it…

You hit the nail on the head, and it's largely why XBOX "won" this generation, because they came out first. Even at the cost of Q&A (See RROD), getting the console out almost a year ahead of Sony is what solidified them as THE console. By the time Sony released, everyone or their friends already has a year on the box,…

You hit the nail RIGHT on the head when talking about the lack of what seems like passion on the part of the modern gamer in this respect. Coming from that time when the internet was pretty much angelfire websites and netscape, I really do feel sad in that aspect that people immediately flock to Reddit or whatever to…

GameDev Story is on PC as well, for free, it's just not in English....yet.

Well my point with it being subjective, is that people see different things....well differently, believe it or not, their are people who actually don't like 8-bit and 16-bit looking sprites, they prefer the "clean HD" sprites in the vain of SSFIIHD Remix and the New Ducktales. You may not like the Pre-rendered…

It's not about being a dick, it's about business, plain and simple, and Gearbox are good are good at doing business.

I think it's a very subjective matter. "Don't use that because it won't look as good as this" BUT The whole point of the pre-rendered background, in it's essence here, is the throwback to older Final Fantasies.

I didn't blindly dismiss Nostalgic bias, and still you've yet to give me a reason as to why someone is not allowed to believe Morrowind was better (for whatever reason) other than "Well I went back and didn't like it, therefor your reality of Morrowind is flawed" When the real reality of it is subjective to the person.

"Rolling dice to swing a sword or throw a shuriken is no fun in a video game. Morrowind was a great game, but even as I played it the first time, I realised why it wasn't as fun as it could be."

Generally when you see the Nostalgia card, it's because the person on the other side is just like "Damn, I really can't argue that someone legitimately likes an older game I don't, let alone thinks it's better than later installments, better use the beaten to death, in denial put down of "You're blinded by Nostalgia"…

Except that this wasn't merely him going back and forth with friends, this was "Adam Orth - Creative Director Microsoft Studies" Telling people who live in Rural Areas "Why do you live there?" The minute he made asinine comments like that with absolutely no reason to and with Microsoft's name attached, not too long…

Um what? Maybe he should have said expansion then, because right now the core XCOM mechanics are solid, but a few things could use some tweaking. As much as I would LIKE a new XCOM game, I would much rather have an expansion ALA "Gods & Kings" which added quite a bit, fixed mechanics, added in mechanics, and…