Great. Now explain this:

US only, I presume.

US only, I presume.

Sure, welcome aboard.

Looks like Indycar to me. They’re definitely not F1 cars in that top video.

I’m actually a little bit creeped out by his sideways walking. There’s an element of uncanny valley about it.

I just feel like you’re trying hard to find specific issues with a series that actually does a lot of stuff right, in that respect. As I said before, being more progressive than many other games.

But back on the subject of the lore, the women aren’t be badly treated because, you know, they’re women and deserve it, or whatever. The dudes are forced to take up arms and go to war, but you wouldn’t say that the men are specifically being treated like shit.

Having read all the books, I still stand by my opinion. They’re equally badass in those, too. This specific example is part of a theme of desperation in the face of near extinction, that runs through the entire lore.

I kinda don’t see how the women are treated like shit in Gears. They’re largely on a level-pegging, actually: given the same equipment, the same chance to fight for humanity as the guys, they get chainsawed in half like the guys, and they deal out plenty of banter. In fact, Gears 3 in particular is pretty progressive…

I’m quite happy for my single player games to require a bit of online, but not everyone is. You’ll incur the wrath of people claiming “it’s unfair to service personnel” [spoiler: they don't know any, or really care, but if it means attacking Microsoft, they're all in]

This is a multiplayer feature, so is no different than any other multiplayer game’s servers being pulled.

Two things. Firstly, being able to level the city would probably play havoc with mission objectives. Secondly, if you limited the SP to online-online you’re going to incur a decent amount of vitriol.

Sony? There’s nothing wrong with Sony at all. They’re pretty damned great.

Sounds like they didn’t contribute. That’s the problem - negligence.

Most of Buran was designed around stolen/legitimately copied/publically available Shuttle documentation. So much so that once the US got wind of it they started feeding bad/discarded design ideas into the documentation as the actual solution, some of which then made its way onto Buran (shitty heat tiles, for example).

You said I made fun of it. I simply made a statement with no connotations either way, and left it up to other people to assume what they wish.

Surely this is the publisher’s issue, no? Also, the 360 has nothing to do with this at all. So either through naivety or ignorance he is misplacing his anger, or he’s just attention-seeking.

Did I say otherwise?

I didn’t say whether that was good or bad, so why are you being so defensive?

That would have been far too cheap.