Isn't this her opinion totally separate from writing though? Why would that affect her writing?

The choice system, story and visuals are big parts of Mass Effect, and I think it would be fair to say a good experience would still be had. Why is she evil for disagreeing? It's not as if that in itself makes her worse at writing, and her opinion isn't going to change the way BioWare operates. Really, where is the…

I truly feel sorry for the people that are having issues. Thankfully I've never had a serious game-breaking bug in any game, but I can understand paying for a product and having it blow up in your face is just a kick to the nuts. And yet in a game this complex, Bethesda have said it all, you simply cannot test…

While I understand part of this logic - that the consumer should be able to speak with their money - it would seem like double standards to not reward the artistic merit of a title simply because of some DRM. Surely a bad decision from the developer/publisher, but not a deal-breaker enough to stop you from wanting to…

100% true. Although I would add that buying products at a later date having realised they are worth your money, or finding an alternative way of giving money to the content producer is morally A-OK. People complain about awful DRM usually and use it as an excuse to pirate. Why not pirate and buy the game? Then you can…

That would be fine if it was impossible to make it available. But it isn't. The pirates who don't even own the expensive software that the companies do have made it available long before any other content provider. In a capitalist economy, why doesn't it make sense to use that system? Of course, I would then encourage…

I understand your pain. It seems like a great many people ignore the obvious one-star reviews.

I dunno, there was a lot of misinformation in the Mac vs PC adverts. This ad seems fairly straight and amusing, and comes across as ballsy for actually naming names.

I also judged you, sorry. (Both are an unequivocal waste of life unless the reason you watch them is to laugh at the people on them or as a way of reminding yourself of how not to live your life).

Where do you live? I've heard of pricing issues in other countries. Here in the UK during sales it beats out retail stores by a mile. Sometimes games are expensive, but most of Steam's catalogue is cheaper than buying retail just normally. In sales they totally whoop retail. I bought BioShock for £2, Metro 2033 for…

I used to pirate and Steam made me give up. The fact that torrents were so convenient were most of their appeal. But Steam provides ample information for all their products, give a high quality service with a social element (profiles, messenger), achievements, an in-game web browser, syncing achievements, always…

The problem is that the game simply outstays its welcome. I felt it was really, really enjoyable and atmospheric, but I got bored by the end despite all that. Barely anything new is introduced in the latter half of the game, and the story becomes more nonsensical and uninteresting unfortunately. That said, I still…

I would risk saying that Microsoft may come out bottom next generation. There's a lot of brand loyalty and they already have Kinect, plus it's Microsoft. I don't think they're going to innovate much, and after the difficult PS3 launch Sony are likely to pick up the pace. Nintendo have already shown they are…

People need to start reading reviews on the App Store. We saw this with iMessage. People didn't realise the feature was baked into the messaging app and started buying an app called iMessenger. It ended up getting one star and a ton of cash because of this mistake, and people carried on buying it for ages after people…

#corrections palate, not palette.

The Assassin's Creed fanbase is majority female? Really? I don't want to come over as sexist, I'm certainly not, I'd just be incredibly surprised if that was true.

It's not a scale, it's a quick representation of the choice the reviewer would make. Why does everyone have to read into it too much?

I saw a NO. I assumed this meant if the reviewer knew what he does after playing the game and was then given the choice of buying it, he would not. You can decide on this what you want. I don't think people should take it as gospel, and it was never intended to be gospel, it just summarises the view of the reviewer. I…

That said, sometimes gameplay challenge mechanics can be used with regard to story. The experimental mod Radiator does this beautifully, I encourage you to play it if you haven't.

Oh no. Someone made fun of the voting stage on Reddit, and I saw one of the selections was Braid. Braid didn't even make the top 50!? I REALLY don't want to live on this planet any more :(.