Yeah, I just generally don't like the tactic but you are correct that EA is especially heinous in its use of it.

"Crecente created a backyard version of Namco's seminal arcade hit back in 2009, except the kids wore bags on their heads."

"When my mom takes me and my girlfriend to Micky-Ds and she buys me a 20 piece McNugget, sometimes my girlfriend will be all like 'I'll trade you a couple fries for a mcnugget.' So I'll be like 'back up off me vagina dentata. I don't play your games.' Then sometimes my mom will laugh so I pour my soda on her lap. …

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In advertising the game by showing how "mature" audiences hate it, EA was saying that its target audience is immature. The Extra Credit video points out how this emphasis on an immature audience clashes with the product's adult content and poses potential problems. Still, the core of this issue is the immaturity…

Yeah, I wasn't pleased with the more action-oriented, less realistic approach to things but I sort of expected that with a movie. What bugs me are the bass-ackwards changes to the characters.

That's a silly and totally invalid excuse. Isn't the average male gamer in his mid-twenties?

It looks like a cool game but I am really tired of these ad campaigns promoting stupidity and childishness.

Appleseed Ex Machina... Pssshhh. That's not real Appleseed. THIS is real Appleseed. Doesn't make any difference though; sweet job on the guns.

That's an embarrassingly pathetic scene to imagine:

Well this reinvigorated my GW2 excitement. I appreciate the devs maintaining a sort of exploratory emphasis in all the different systems of the game. I am really looking forward to this game (in a billion years when it comes out).

Of course different games implement systems in different ways. Crafting in GW2 probably isn't the same as it is in this or that random JRPG. Within the MMO economy, crafting is not totally without purpose; there is going to have to be some way for people to make money in-game and I appreciate it when looting isn't…

OH DEAR GOD! THE ZOMBIE ON THE PINK BACKGROUND IS HORRIFYING!

I don't want to say this, but Paul doesn't look that good to me. I wonder when World's End is going to come out.

Sweet gazzangas! That thief probably needs a breast reduction. A bad back could hardly help with cat-burglary.

You mean the first poet to arrange his own neck muscles into iambic pentameter?

AAAWWSOOOOOOOOME.

I actually don't even mean graphics-wise. I mean I like the setting and style of this more than I like Epic's other games.

That's why I didn't say anything about the original stories. "Its essence" (i.e. that of the movie itself) not "the essence of Conan."

So, nice graphics and all. But how come this seems cooler than anything else Epic has made lately? I'd play density-increasing superhero in cyberpunk Washington, DC any day.