Your examples are justified, when they’re informed and affect the customers. We’re not asking them to only report what the makers tell them. We’re asking them to show a little restraint.

If this were movie/TV journalism, I consider some of the leak articles akin to digging in the trash outside the editing house and posting cut clips on your entertainment show/site.

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You play alone or with one friend in a series of MP maps against bots with moving objectives. It’s mildly entertaining, but definitely a supplementary mode, not something I’d recommend shelling out money for without significant multiplayer use.

Yeah, Steam reviews are sad. Many well-thought reviews are barely voted on while “Did blah with a blah 11/10” reviews get 800 upvotes.

I’m normally the type that scoffs at games like Skylanders, and the Amiibo craze. I barely even buy any collectibles for my hobbies. But this game... man it hits all the right notes with me. Lots of fan service, and more content than the typical Lego game.

Fallout 4 doesn’t “need” it as much as Skyrim did, but I agree that those sorts of mods won’t play nice on consoles.

I love all the little additional pockets of stuff to do every time I buy a new addon for this game. You’re right, though, the Doctor definitely has some great ones.

I haven’t played it, but your theory sounds valid. “Ever thought about a world where everything is exactly the same, except you don’t exist” says the one NPC; perhaps Gaster is cut content (story-wise), and the strands of loose code and dialogue (intentionally) left behind are all that remain of him.

I did my best approximation of The Doctor (David Tennant) and Rose (Billie Piper), but for some reason my Xbox wasn’t letting me do the double-tap Y or X, either.

No, but we who unwittingly overleveled have to slowly spend them as a form of self-progression, and it ruins one of the few end-game cycles. XP is gone, so now it’s just sets and whatever rare things I never looked up.

The first character I got to max level (after buying it only recently) and I jump into a public Rift game.

People are being so harsh, but this looks like something the video-makers asked random cosplayers to do at a con. Half of them try to do an in-character reaction, half just chuckle at the Tweet.

Ugh, yeah I enjoyed the first couple seasons of Family Guy, but the over-the-top randomness of it just turned me off. The “Shaboopy” singing number is what made me stop watching it altogether, even though I hadn’t been keeping up much with the show after season 3 already.

I ignored the press, but am still waiting until it’s on sale or reduced. I’m in Canada, where new games are $80 + 13% sales tax. Being a dad, I have to be choosy on what I pick up during this blockbuster season.

I liked the ones that played along, though, acting like they were the character. But yeah, Lara and some of the others just kinda chuckled at them.

I kept wanting to grab one of these, but never did. Now there’s a trilogy pack that combines the games and benefits from fixes and balances, I’ll be scooping it up... when my gaming budget recovers.

Unfortunately, the more you try to make the pathing perfect on crowd simulations, the more alien the movement can end up being.

Tell that to Dead Rising 3. It’s not a question of hardware limitation but a design decision on depth of simulation vs resource usage. Developers building a simulation of ANYTHING (crowds, combat AI, traffic, even physics and lighting) find ways of approximating complex calculations, cutting corners and turning…

Almost every game you listed is an Ubisoft game that pushed experimental coding with crowd AI. Like you said, MOST GAMES just toss easy and boring crowds at us. Pedestrians that live and die at the extent of the camera viewing area, who have one of four scripted responses to a small set of stimuli and no real…