That’s more like Vietnam. The guys who went to WW2 were technically adults (22 and older); the average age of the soldier in Nam was 19, which is insane when you stop to think about about it.

Other than that, great piece.

In the wake of Oneal’s departure, Activision Blizzard, which earned $8.1 billion in revenue last year, will donate $1 million to the nonprofit organization Women in Games International.

Trying to avoid messes like the launch of Diablo 2 Resurrected, and hoping we forget that they’re garbage in two years.

Look at that. Rapists have support groups. Marilyn Manson is seconds away from saying R. Kelly deserves a second chance.

I agree. The only real way to hurt these lizards is to vote with our wallets, and that requires way more discipline than little Timmy has. Maybe change WILL come, god knows I hope so. But it’ll be slooooow.

“Buying on release is paying the most money for the worst version of a game.”

I feel ya. Maybe that’s why I find it attractive, but I also want nothing to do with stuff that reminds me my immediate environment.

Yeap. Some folks are mentioning that curtailing gambling has something to do with it, and it surely does. But again, this has to be seen in context. It’s also a government that has no qualms in telling its people how they should live (and then enforcing its will). 

Maybe you guys are too close to the real issues that the game is based on. As a non-American living outside of the U.S., the game sounds pretty interesting. Also, good, well-written review.

“There’s no ‘one size fits all’ take when you’re dealing with millions of diverse gamers”

“And write exactly like a typical white American.”

Well. You know that “Amerika” song, by Rammstein? We take a LOT after America, even our national sport is baseball. Me, particularly, am severely transculturized, I guess, where I speak Spanglish usually (as my wife does), and one of my part time gigs is as an English teacher. You should have seen how people here felt…

No, no, agreed. I was just saying, it’s a different perspective, but like someone else said here, the thing about Aliens is that those marines weren’t kicking ass: they were getting beaten to a pulp. And that’s how it should be.

Don’t dismiss me like that. I’m not a troll. And people here are horribly assuming stuff about me because the conversation became about ideology and “defending my camp.” But I’m not a troll. I’m genuinely concerned, and I concede that some people in the thread make good points.

“But Ridley Scott—and Creative Assembly with Isolation—made Alien special because of what you couldn’t see. Fireteam simply doesn’t instill that same sort of fear, and turning iconic xenomorphs into bullet sponges doesn’t cut it either.”
That’s a problem of expectations; Alien is Ridley Scott. This is James Cameron, a…

Formedras, okay, understood, but this is the thing: you’re focusing your answer on what you think is the definition of “socialism,” and that is something people have been arguing about for nearly a century now. I admit I got a little defensive, because it’s very hard not to when the issue touches you from so close,…

I’m talking about Cali-leftists. And if you need an example, after the dude bought a house WAY above minimum wage in freaking L.A. of all places, after preaching all the stuff he has preached, then, hell. Maybe no example is going to be good enough.

Sean Penn. For a notorious example.

So you’re turning this into semantics? Semantics don’t mean much when, at the end of the day, you’re making $200 a month and some twat in another country is saying that the government of your country is actually not so bad because it’s the ideological enemy of the people you dislike.

Of course he’s a Cali leftist who’s hypocritical about his actions. But coming to live here in Venezuela, under the umbrella of nice socialist Nicolás Maduro? No, that’s too much.
(Cue in: White American person coming to Venezuelanxplain me my own country. Yes, we get those A LOT)