The outer boroughs are a different story because that's where everyone goes after the work day ends. So yeah, Williamsburg is gonna be full of people who just got home. But business areas, construction areas, anything like the places you would expect Batman to be hanging around, are deserted at night. The only way…

Time Square isn't. But the Flat Iron district is empty after about 9-10 PM.

Eh, if you go to New York City on a rainy weeknight is going to look just as deserted as Gotham in these games. And Batman isn't supposed to be out in broad daylight interacting with citizens. I'd prefer that they keep it that way, regardless of whatever tech is available.

Plot holes especially are super low-hanging fruit. You can find plot-holes in any film if you are intentionally obtuse about your interpretation of it and in the end it doesn't really matter. Either you enjoyed the film or you didn't, there will always be things that don't make sense because writers aren't writing…

If things were future-proofed from the start of the project, getting a running version on another device shouldn't be that difficult. But getting from a running build to a shippable product that people will feel good about paying for... is a lot of work. The devil's in the details.

I just think it's interesting to see a woman in a role that would typically be left up to a manly man. You'd expect the Dovakhim to be a huge brutish dude. But what this legendary slayer of dragons is a woman? It's a bit unexpected. It's more interesting than the cliche we got by default. Same with Commander Shepherd;…

...Until you get to New Game +

It is very much a love letter to the original movie, but at some point it stops being a cute love letter and more of a creepy psychopathic one. It really could have been 2 hours shorter but there's a good movie at the core.

Yes, one cannot be a scientist if they are that particular straw-man. But in reality there are plenty of people who would say "I believe God did it, but I still want to know how it works." And those people become scientists.

Dark Souls has a social element to it as well, and that is pretty key to my enjoyment of it. I was up until 2:30 in the morning playing Dark Souls 2 with my brothers, as we all helped each other get past a particularly difficult boss, and helped other random strangers while we were waiting around for each other. It's…

Learn to use Flash and start putting a portfolio together! If you have a good portfolio or demo reel, you can probably find work even without a lot of industry experience; Game UI has recently become a much bigger and more complicated part of game development, largely due to more free-to-play titles which are heavily…

I like endless runners. There are a lot of crap ones, but there is a lot of crap everything in mobile gaming, because everyone is flocking to it looking for a quick buck. But the good ones are a nice little shot of oldschool platforming while you're waiting for the train or standing in line. I even spent money on some…

I actually sorta hate these videos. They're impressive from a technical perspective but it's really just a bunch of cypher-like characters fighting. It doesn't resemble Elder Scrolls and it's basically just generic fantasy with a lot of pointless impossible CG-fu fighting and armies of millions of monsters that don't…

Well, you still need to hire actors to do all the mocap, facial animation and in many cases, a real model for the character to be based on, if the intention is photorealism like in these videos (something like Bioshock Infinity didn't need real-life models). But in addition to that now you have to hire an army of…

I will never get tired of killing skeletons. Damn you, skeletons!

Did I spy some 3rd person view shots with the HUD still visible? Does this mean there will be 3rd person support? Half the fun of building my own character is decking them out in cool duds and admiring how badass they look, so I was kinda disappointed that Destiny seems to be 1st person only.

In Dark Souls you choose a "class" at the start that gives you a bit of an advantage in one area early on, but by the end of the game, you'll be playing it the way you want with some crazy bizarre made-up class (mine was lightweight elemental samurai/archer), and the game just rolls with it. It's way more fun to…

So, what would it take for you to consider a game "next gen"? Where do you see the ideal future of games going?

What would you consider a true next-gen game? I would think Infamous: Second Son would fit the bill.

Probably because Naughty Dog wanted to release on the system they developed for with the larger existing user-base. I'm sure Sony would have loved a kickass launch title like TLoU but it would have crippled Naught Dog since the sales would have been a fraction of what they'd get on PS3. And releasing a slightly…