We spent about an hour on it before quitting and going to bed. Any time a run started to look promising it was followed by half a dozen where someone died in the first 8 seconds.

Act III. Lambent Zerker. 4 players hardcore.

That's strange. I could've sworn I wrote that comment in the first person...

"For this project what we needed to do was use Star Fox to provide users with a game that shows the appeal of Nintendo 3DS as quickly as possible"

I need to get one of these on my car ASAP

My favourites were games like Starcraft and Diablo. There was so much lore and backstory that really fleshed out the universe. Obviously a little less important in a game like Gears... but still.

You only get so many active skills at a time, so you need to build around which you want to use in a given fight. From what I've watched of the beta it seems you can swap them whenever you want. Not sure if it will be as easy once runestones are added.

I'm sad about the total absence of an instruction manual for games these days. When I picked up Gears I wondered for a moment if I somehow got an empty display case. There's just no heft to them anymore.

I think they should shoot the movie with a male Shepard, and then reshoot the entire movie with a female Shepard. That way the fans can choose which one they want to go see.

I'm a little offended by this articles misuse of the word "Science"

.....Who are you talking to?

Your adjectives fit too. I'm more in the mood for decent combat than a 40 hour story this week.

I need a new game. I've been in the mood for some sort of Fable-esque action-rpg. Grabbed a cheap copy of The Witcher, but the combat is super clunky and I can't get into it.

Gravity is a fact. Objects with mass accelerate towards each other. This is a proven, testable phenomenon. Our understanding of it is currently outlined by gravitational theory. Because we have no better explanation, in practice we assume these theories are accurate (in science a theory is more than just a vague idea)

They likely weren't anything but chance. Under the right environmental conditions, basic building blocks react and form new products. That part is just chemistry. A lot of the research into the subject is directed towards trying to determine exactly what kind of conditions are necessary (temperature, pressure, etc)…

You're absolutely right that Nintendo would throw terrible, garbage voice acting into their games, and I'll be the first to point out that that's also increasingly unacceptable in this day and age. I think part of my problem is that they already half-ass it and include those gibberish recordings anytime a character…

We didn't like the art style when it was announced, but Windwaker's gameplay was solid.

There is written dialogue in the game. Link does not have written dialogue. It would not be preposterous to have voice dialogue reading what is written. I don't want Link to have a voice, but this lack of voice acting is getting increasingly unacceptable.

See that's actually another thing that bothered me about it. We've been asking for a decent time-line for years. Wind Waker actually accounted for the changes in Hyrule as part of the story. The setting fits the lore and makes sense in terms of "this happened much much later, here's what happened in between".

We didn't like the art selection for Wind Waker, but then they slapped it on a very solid game, with gameplay that felt like Zelda but updated with some new perks, in a new and original world derived from previous games in a way that we can recognize as an actual progression through history.