Mass Effect 2 was the one where the writing lead position was in flux. ME3 was 100% overseen by Mac Walters, who simply happens to be a worse writer than Drew K (evident in the comic books and some of the novelizations). Bioware still had quality people on staff, which is why a lot of the moment to moment stuff in…

Yeah, but that wasn’t Hennig’s fault. They were just dropping completed sequences on her and saying “make this make sense.” Writer of a game like that needs to be involved at a design level (see: Deus Ex Human Revolution). Her work when she’s also the project director (Soul Reaver) is pretty high quality stuff.

There is zero reason for any government building(except for museums) to have the Confederate Flag up.

This is not correct. While those are, indeed, the flags of the confederacy, those are not the standards the confederacy took into battle. The game in question is about armies fighting each other, thus, the “southern cross” is correct in that usage.

The game isn’t selling because it has a confederate flag in it. It’s selling because a civil war game being banned for having a confederate flag in it is so ludicrous that it got hundreds of thousands of peoples’ attention.

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That’s where I’m at, even though I don’t preorder things. It’s less of a “this thing I bought is BROKE” thing than a “why pay full price for this shit I won’t get around to until it’s on sale a year from now? probably broke as shit at launch, anyway.”

As someone who never pre-orders anything for any reason, I could not disagree more with this article’s thesis that pre-orders are why games ship broken. The cause for that are complexity and a SDLC that needs re-working. Outlaw pre-orders tomorrow and you still have the same problem to the same degree.

I don’t think Oculus (and its knockoffs) are a “fad,” but like with Kinect (which is wonderful for corporate presentations), I don’t think their home is ultimately going to be gaming. Playing Skyrim on VR glasses is a novelty. Watching a basketball game courtside with VR glasses is something that’ll make you not want…

Apple was selling something new with the iPhone. Microsoft was trying to break into an existing, established market with entrenched domestic alternatives that had better third party support.

I find myself wondering what would happen if Xbox put a team on sorting out controller support for what would, prior to GOG, have been known as PC abandonware. As a (primarily) PC gamer, this might not matter to me, but suddenly the xboxlive marketplace would dwarf the offerings Sony and Nintendo have on the plate.

Not that I’d start a petition about it or anything, but Other M is a thing that I very much wish had never been made.

If you’re talking about the guy in Blood Money, I’ve played these games to death and I never realized you could use a chandelier to kill that guy. I’ve strangled that dude, sniped him, beaten him to death, taken him hostage and let his guards shoot him, poisoned his wine, bombed his suitcase, bombed his limousine and…

Guy sounds like a Hitman fan.

There’s pluses and minuses to all of them. Clearing out that same bunker/derelict ship by standing at the doorway until all the enemies run into your killzone for the tenth time in a single playthrough gets pretty tedious and doesn’t exactly add to suspension of disbelief. The “mechanics” and “rpg feel” (which would…

This isn’t always the case with emulation. Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic actually runs somewhat worse on an Xbox 360 than an Xbox (no surname). Crashes like a mofo.

I’m not sure if it’s feasible given that this is an Unreal game, but the Mass Effect series seems like something that could really sing if they released a modding toolkit.

“Last episode” probably refers to the “last episode” in the “crown plotline.” Pretty sure I saw one of those things in the trailer.

“If you are a total terror to work with, no one will want to keep you around. And the worst kind of mean is selective mean—the people who are nice to their boss and superiors, but completely rude to their peers or subordinates. If you are a habitual bitch to the front desk girl, the security guard, or even the…

“Dangerous ground”