Agreed. This is one of the best sandbox games I've played in a while, and it's being blasted in a cherry-picking way that has become more and more prevalent in the industry. I still don't understand why GTA V is held up on a pedestal. I stopped playing the campaign because the stories just were idiotic; oh here's…

*shrug* I'm loving the game. Is it perfect? No. But it does a LOT of things and it does them with mixed success. I swear there's no satisfying people. It has a lot of game mechanics crammed in there, a ton of optional missions and things to unlock and earn and find and chase. It's really a sign of how jaded the…

Neutralizing targets (kneecapping, etc) is seen as a middle-road takedown. You don't get negative points for killing, but you also don't get positive points for a clean takedown. I've found it's the best way of dealing with cops; pop Focus and kneecap 'em! No evil points for slaughtering cops.

Because if they made non-lethal guns, it would trivialize all the events where you have to knock someone out instead of killing them, as well as making the "non lethal" playstyle extremely easy.

Yeah... TWD was great for emotional impact, but the actual gameplay was pretty bloody awful. Walk slowly around these 5 screens and click active zones until there's nothing left to click. Then cutscene, then new 3 screens to walk around and click.

Maybe they'll implement some of these in the sequel? I like the idea of spreading the wealth. I'd also like to see more intricacy in the process of hacking a blue civ phone to get a mission waypoint. Maybe the hack leads to 3-4 documents that you have to peruse and pick out some key words or some kind of minigame…

I can't speak for X1/360 cross-platform, but I'm currently working with a WinPhone/PC game that I plan to also bring to 360 and X1, and the basic setup is to make common code libraries for all the game mechanics and portions of the rendering. Then per-platform you add a new project to the solution to implement…

Why not? DirectX and Visual Studio makes for easy cross-platform development. Sure, I could just release my game for Xbox One, but I can also release it for 360, PC and Windows Phone. All I have to do is alter the UI, controls, data access methods and graphics settings. Visual Studio helps with scaling the assets for…

They both operate on DirectX so... I don't see why the X1 version has to be "crippled" by the 360 version.

I was waiting forever for it to price drop or go on sale in Canada. Best I ever saw was $45. I stopped looking once I had preordered my Xbox One and Forza 5 a month before launch, mind you.

Honestly, I haven't spent (or had the urge to spend) an extra dime on the game. Most of the games can be bought with in-game money OR real money. Yes there are cars that weren't part of the full game, but there were still a ton of car choices without spending a nickel.

I'd imagine they did, and it didn't work. Hence the half-dozen workers and things to take the seat apart around her rather than just pour grease on her legs and pull.

This includes digital games as well. I've no doubt between discs and Arcade games they'll match a vague "hundreds" of games in the "next several years."

Replace "trusting microsoft" with "not doing research first" and you're right.

Yeah, Microsoft didn't deliver on another company's promise to release a game "in 2014" because 2014 is SO over already. Not to mention the games that were given no date.

Agreed. Our PS3 got the majority of our multiplayer games last generation apart from exclusives because I have to teenage kids and a lack of desire to pay 3 subscription fees when they only play online maybe twice a month.

To be fair, holding up a list of things coming "in 2014" or things just "coming soon" under a "not yet" light is pretty dumb at the start of June. I get that it's next year's E3 now, but it's overly negative and ends up sounding like everything has been delayed.

I have the reverse issues with facial recognition. It's too good. My son walks into the room to see what I'm doing and it goes Hi, Michael!

How about the proposed Family Sharing plan that had to be axed when the online requirement became optional? I could be playing Titanfall and let my brother across the country "borrow" a copy of the game from me and we could play together. The only limitation is that only one game can be "borrow"ed out of my library at…

I do the same. I know it has zero impact, but I just can't steal money from cancer survivors or people who have suffered recent trauma or other people in destitute ways. Even though I skip civilian hacks about 50% of the time (on the way to missions or whatnot) my daughter still laughed and took notice of what I was…