I can only report on what I observe and experience. Perhaps my filtering is a tad clouded, and I am fully aware I generalized quite a bit, but I don't think I was too unfair in my assessment.

As much as the Tropes Vs. Men deal might have been.... under less than decent intentions I do think that the writing in video games do, at times, portray men is ways which are some what ridiculous. I guess it's also such a shame that the project was being lead by that particular the cast of characters as I doubt it…

Fighting a magma hell beast is tense. Fighting the Egyptian god Set is tense. Fighting off an army of thugs, mercenaries or terrorists is..... shit that's like every game n the market, should we just be use to that by now? Those are the mooks you play with on your way to the giant, animated statue of the Hindu god…

But none of what you describes is necessary except to further a gritty and realistic experience.... and not everything needs to be gritty and realistic.

Yes, also the blood.

I didn't mean it wasn't art, it's a fantastic painting. I'm just sore that the new Tomb Raider cranked the gritty realism thing to 11. Old school Lara Croft might not have been a realistic character (either her personality or her physical make up) but when did realism become a requirement for something to be enjoyable…

I'm surprised they didn't use actual mud and tears. Wouldn't that make for a more gritty and realistic painting?

True but it seems more and more that there is an out cry from the public that many of the few interesting and useful scientific endeavors which we do still cling to are a waste of time.

Tyco RCs with guns. A box on 4 wheels with a machine gun controlled by a laptop with an Xbox360 controller.

I am also an American and also a huge sci-fi fan and proponent of technology. But you and I are in the minority and our ilk is shrinking. We have a few refuges in popular culture but that's about it. Beyond that public opinion is distrustful of intellectualism, resentful of frivolous technological research (ie just…

Look at it this way, though. What Miss Universe contestant would ever admit to enjoying nerd culture? You won't gain supporters among the judges for being unique or original (as much as they would like you to think) so there is no advantage with in the contest to admitting you're a woman who enjoys nerd culture. This…

Mech Warrior Online is pretty sweet. The matchmaking is a little..... off and it seems to be one of those games locked in a state of "perma-beta" but it is F2P and not very pay to win so it's quite enjoyable.

What Japan doesn't get is America hates mecha and we hate sci-fi. We have no drive to make such frivolous advancements in technology not only because we lack even the most lukewarm passion towards such endearing but because humans and hand grenades work well enough.

Art style, world building and writing trump graphics every time (in no particular order). I actually feel like in recent years games have become less sympathetic and able to relate to a larger number of types of characters and situations and I think it's partly do to our lack of exposure to a more selection of…

It's actually more likely they'd buy it just so no one else can have it. Not only would it be one less competing brand name on the market but it would be one less game that could prove gamers aren't a bunch of morons who crave "I Win" buttons in bland and sterile environments. I mean do you know what would happen if,…

If someone buys Homeworld they had had better do something with it. It's a fantastic game series and it's well over do for a new chapter or reboot..... just please not EA and please for the love of Christ don't dumb it down into some bland, accessible and marketable piece of shit.

Because everything needs to be dark, gritty, depressing and full of doom, gloom and ultra, vulnerable characters, right? I mean doesn't all that make a game more realistic anyway and isn't realism always better period?

The problem with so many reviews is that they fail to look at a game with in the context of it's targeted demographic. There will be a JRPG and it'll have a clear target audience but the reviewer will just keep trying to review it like it's some big budget, Bioware RPG. Why doesn't it have branching dialog? Why is…

But don't worry! Your life armor ball will be completely unscratched!

I kinda want to hop in side and have some one roll it down a hill..... but the lack of padding makes it look less fun than it would be dangerous.