9hr 35min on the single-player game? Damn, that's actually pretty epic on a GoW level, considering all the previous ones for me were about 6 hour affairs.

After reading that article, I didn't find so many instances of "rich old men ruining Kickstarter" as I did reading the musings of a guy who obviously isn't a fan of it.

I think you greatly misunderstand the difference between "offering multiplayer" and "shackling your game to the internet".

"We did not focus on the "single city in isolation" that we have delivered in past SimCities. We recognize that there are fans – people who love the original SimCity – who want that. But we're also hearing from thousands of people who are playing across regions, trading, communicating and loving the Always-Connected…

As a guy who's done his own laundry since he was 12, I approve of this.

No offense taken, this is actually the first time I've written something on here where the majority of the replies have been civil and well thought out.

I think it's sad this had to be broken down and explained for people, but unfortunately, it's necessary.

It's all preference, really.

I'd like to see some instances of this happening in the US.

I've noticed a lot of people who came into the series on 3, and I can only imagine the difference I might have felt as well had I been introduced to it on the third installment.

That sounds more like a personal feeling than a general consensus, which is fine. I never said the game didn't have redeeming qualities.

Care to elaborate? Or are we just brain-farting here?

That's how you can tell you've got a decent actor, if they can take written shit and sound it off into something semi-believable.

That too, being short. Even with doing most of the side missions, I somehow blasted through that game in just under 8 hours.

Well, looks like we'll never see the near-perfect balance of SR2 ever again.

Slightly off-topic, but nothing annoys the shit out of me more than when I'm at a table having a discussion with ONLY the people at my table, and some asshole from a neighboring table feels like they were somehow invited to inject their two cents into my conversation.

As a lifelong gamer who now has 2 jobs, a wife and a 2-year-old, my gaming habit has gone from all-encompassing to a compromising hobby.

It's kinda like that old joke that used to go around my school when a bunch of kids used to wear Phish shirts.

Jeez, whatever happened to just rubbing out the easy one a few hours before the real deal?