And as this article points out, they've done a pretty good job showing they understand how to make changes that are interesting and more than just maps and skins. I don't play that often anymore, but if I want to play a shooter, it's still BF3 for me.

The whole idea that you need to be trained to drive a fancy car is bonkers. The only difference is the ride height. Don't hit potholes or steep surfaces. Training done.

That could be very dependent on hardware advances. There's only so much they could do to improve the gameplay, but if the hardware in 12 months (especially new consoles) allows for 128 player matches, everyone that owns BF3 will be buying BF4.

Bi-yearly releases by themselves aren't necessarily a terrible thing if they have the man power and creativity to keep it fresh and fun the whole time. The failing of CoD has been the lack of ingenuity and change.

I have the vehemently disagree. Could you expand on how the franchise could go back to its roots? I'm not being snarky, I feel that they have done a wonderful job building on what made the franchise great, and different from COD.

Probably a good guess. I think that will become more and more popular until people start catching on and simply having a Made in America stamp won't be enough anymore. And then they will come up with a new strategy. I'll be happy with a 'Made By Humans, Or At Least By A Robot That Was Made by Humans' but that might…

Although well written, I think the content of your post is lacking. No one in the American government, no matter how powerful, will ever force Americans to work in an environment they find unsatisfactory. It is simply naive and paranoid to believe that a company known for manufacturing in developing nations could…

Don't lump yourself into the group of realists. You claim the upper class is selling out the American workforce to slave labor based on a rumor of a manufacturing company opening plants in the country. That is not a realist reaction.

At least I saved 50 cents on my soap from WalMart.

But at the same time, how many dance or theater majors go on to be professional dancers or actors? If an athlete knows they aren't going pro they are free to study other fields, no one is forcing them to major in sports. You have to admit it's a better use of their time than majoring in family studies.

Europeans?

And it appears he is headed straight for the ground. With his afterburners.

At a bar during the early games I saw the bottom line on CBS running "NFL Headlines." The first "headline" was: Fireman Ed deletes his twitter account. This is news?!?

Did you play on purist? It's hardly a brainless shooter (although I'm only a few hours into it). The changes they made to disguises are a bit too touchy but other than that it feels like a Hitman game.

To elaborate on your translation, it's not just pirating. It's the PC players buying both versions. Buy console version because GTA. Then when superior PC version comes out 6 months later, buy that too.

You are a moron.

So what's with the 1 fps gifs? Not enough bandwidth for actual videos?

Calling it GPS is dumb, because you wouldn't use satellites. You would just use the same concept of using three receivers to triangulate the balls position. I would imagine it could get pretty accurate with such a finite space. As already noted, however, just knowing where the ball is doesn't solve the issue, you…

Had the same thought. You'd probably see as much of the stuff caused by driving too fast for conditions, but damn they have a lot of people going the wrong direction and just generally not regarding their life as something that's important.

That's only true in some lines of work. In a job that has longer projects most tasks are done on a week to week basis, so you just have to make sure all of your work is done on time. I'm an engineer and as long as I keep up with my work I can use a sick day as a kind of "mental health" day every month or two.