Add me to the pile. I do not enjoy being a horrible little sh*thead. I avoid people like that in real life for obvious reasons—why the frak would I want to emulate them in any way or any medium?

Um.. they didn't, and we didn't.

Does it let me skip straight to the alien-invasion-stopping, instead of expecting/requiring me to murder 2000 moderately realistic humans first? 'Cuz that's always been my problem with Crysis. I tried desperately to stealth my way past every solider I could in C2, but the level design & enemy placements/patrols very…

As a man, I urge you not to. I, for one, like it when the inner labia peek out a little bit.

Huh. See, to me, that's what raiding is... doing the same goddam bosses over and over and over and over and over... to get incremental gear upgrades, one at a time... so that maybe, after a few weeks of doing THE EXACT SAME THING OVER AND OVER, I can move on... to do the *next* exact same thing over and over.

Maybe because they were never subjected to the puritanical notion that everyone is inherently evil and a sinner, and must be ashamed of themselves at all times?

I'm guessing you've never played Sim City. Or... well, just about any other game that involves building a civilization in spite of various forms of adversity.

Let's not forget that "violent video games" are not automatically the same as "games that focus on murdering realistic depictions of human beings." Especially the ones that glory in the carnage and try to render it as bombastically (or realistically, with maimed people screaming and trying desperately to craw away)…

Who cares about whether it's barbaric AS LONG AS IT GETS RATINGS, AMIRITE?

I'll throw Starship Troopers into the mix, too—pretty much ALL pilots were female there.

"Tron Legacy followup, for which Eragon screenwriter Jesse Wigutow is currently working on the script"

"At this moment, Abrams is just deliberately trolling us, isn't he? "

C'mon, it's a freakin' WARSHIP. I bet it can withstand a fair bit of pressure, since it was undoubtedly designed to withstand a fair bit of intentional beating with warship-class weaponry and not spring a leak. Leaks are bad in vacuum, you know.

You speak as though there is a consensus on what dragons look like. (D&D is not the worldwide authority, I'm afraid... even though in my mind, too, they should be 4-limbed. But in terms of actual animal morphology... nothing that flies has 4 legs, even among insects as far as I can recall).

"Why would you remove that? Why?? "

In addition to everyone else's s replies, I have to wonder if part of it is just the problems of transmission.

Why can't they just be ravening beasts driven by an insatiable urge to destroy everything that even vaguely approaches their own size?

But this is actually a PERFECT thing to reboot, seeing as how the original one(s) were awful. I hate it when they reboot/remake things that good the first time, but things that were bad the first time are the best argument for trying again.

With regard to 9/11, there's a very simple logical test: if the goverment was willing to murder 3000 of its citizens for the sake of justifying a war... why, pray tell, wouldn't it also murder the few who are supposedly leaking the truth about its actions?

Right there with ya. Until I read the relevant text I assumed the other guy must have been Bloom's stunt double in plain clothes, though the long dark hair & beard didn't make any sense in that context.