The largest complaint about Crysis 2 is NOT the fact that it doesn't have super-ultra high-end requirements. That's a complaint in some circles, yeah, but not the REAL complaint. The real complaint is that the levels are small and cramped compared to previous Crysis games. If the game simply had wider, more expansive…

didn't know activision gave away content 100% free, supporting a product for years, while only charging for silly cosmetic items or items that can also be found/traded/crafted for free.

It's from rockpapershotgun.com's satirical piece on Crysis 2's "bad" graphics.

Because it can. It's not hard to envision scenarios where adding an extra feature that, although totally optional, forces changes into the core feature.

You know, I've never done a PC to PS3 direct comparison. For me personally, I don't even care about what options or rendering features are present in PC or present in PS3. I've always just assume that the different systems render shadows and lighting and things like that the same on both (although I know that's not…

Every study I've seen similar to this reported that the figures also include casual games, including facebook/social games, online flash games, and the like. If you include those I'm not as hesitant to accept the 50% thing. However, we're really talking about different things here, as almost nobody I talk to (gamer or…

I own all the consoles and a PC so please don't take me as some PC elitist or whatever, but your description of the PC BF2:BC is not at all as you describe. People generally are pretty good about going for the objectives and working as a team. I've played my buddies' copies of the game on each console and the…

Every time I see the title of this game, I read it as "Need for Speed: The Runs" and I think it's a game about diarrhea. I'm not kidding.

Is it really that hard to understand? How many people do you know move their mouse "forward" vs. how many people move their mouse "up"? I would struggle hard to think of anyone who thinks of their mouse moving "forward" despite the fact that everyone mouses on a horizontal plane much like a controller. I know a…

If it was, it'd be a pretty terrible publicity stunt. IF it was one, all it did was let people vent out the hatred of EA that they've been harboring for a while. EA's been relatively decent last few years (compared to Activision, the Even Evil-er Empire) and this really helped people renew their guard against EA. Even…

Most game review scores ARE basically based on 5 to 9.5 because it parallels the American school system's scale of grading, where <60% is fail (F), 75% is average (C), and >90% is very good or great (A). It makes a LOT of intuitive sense to those raised on such a system.

No, that's not "all he said". If all he said was that reviews were met with too much venom, then fine no problem — he's probably right. But no, he said that he would be (theoretically) basing who gets games and who doesn't based on their reviews. It's nothing illegal or anything like that, but still that's a very very…

You probably should have waited a little bit before trading it in. You would easily make more than $20 back at other trade-in shops (for example, wait to see what Amazon will value the trade-in at, or Best Buy... I'm sure it'll be more than $20). And of course there's always selling it on ebay, etc.

Although I very much agree with you, to be honest I've hardly ever read any reviews that were not ultimately respectful in their tone. It will obviously vary by what sources you read, but I tend to read a random sampling of reviews for every game I'm interested in and I can't really remember ANY reviews that I thought…

I'd have to imagine that Tetris would probably take that title.

NBA 2K11 has a mode for "21", which I assume is roughly equivalent to your Hustle (it's a 1-on-1-on-1 all the same).

Products and services cost money. These products and services hopefully provide you some kind of positive feeling or effect. If the positive effect of this product or service does not justify the price you paid, it is "not worth it".

Honestly, I get the point and it's a well-written article... However, I just don't feel that it really rings true to me. This whole article just screams to me "You like the games you like". Arguing about this abstract notion of rhythm sounds nice to me, but I think at the end of the day, you created your own rhythm…

Then you should be happy knowing that you get to experience this game fully in the way it was intended, with the best visuals of any platform. (As well as, with a new graphics card, many other PC games you might end up purchasing in the future.)

I remember back when the PS1 was first released, I remember my friend and I having a conversation about how we hated the name "Playstation". It sounded so childish and cheesy. Like something a 6 year old would pick up at Toys R Us, with colorful plastic parts. Now over 15 years later, the name has stuck with us and…