I thought the official standpoint was that they had nothing to say on the matter. Poison's whatever you want.

But it had patches. If anything, a patch is going to take longer for Sony to let pass than it'd take for them to go, "Yep, you can give extra stuff to people. It's your fucking game and it literally has no effect on anything else."

Which I doubt is true. Essentially, this is granting stuff to people who do things. Things are tracked in EVERY online through leaderboards. Not allowing data tracking is something I swear has NEVER happened before.

I don't think Sony should have blame pointed at them. I'm not trying to be defensive, I just think that given the fact that Mass Effect 2 was already released on PS3, shouldn't Bioware be sort of aware of any approval necessary and submit the things they want so they can be in effect when they want them too? Same with…

Need to see the character roster. I'm attempting to will Tombi into this game...

Not so much. I want the feel and nature of cinema, but the playstyle of a great game. When I say I want cinematic, I want to watch a game play out brilliantly, not a cutscene.

And this is the point I as trying to get at. I want to make a scene unfold in a game as I would expect a scene to unfold "as at the cinema." The keyword being "make." Not watch. I want to play the next Batman game and feel as though there's been brilliant choreography put into every fight, even though every fight will…

Which is why I want "cinematic" to mean something different. QTEs, the "bane" of gaming, are apparently cinematic and most definitely give control to the audience. I want it to progress further. I want to pick an action game (just for arguments sake) and be able to get into a big fight scene and have total control…

Because trying to get a better definition of something never helps. If that was the case, video games would NEVER be considered art, shooters wouldn't have gotten out of third-person, and cartoons would never have been used as a term for animation. I want to take a term and make it a more positive one, rather than one…

You mind throwing some counterpoints? It's kind of hard to present an argument without... presenting an argument.

I get on Netflix when I want to watch a movie.

That's what I like about games, and what I think "cinematic" should evoke. It should evoke the style of a movie in the grandiose nature of the events taking place, and all events actually be because of your in-game actions, not your timed button-presses.

I know this happens. With a lot of games, it tends to end up boiling down to what works best. I don't like this. I do what looks cool. I mess about. I'll use the weakest stuff I can if it means making the scene look more awesome.

Immersion, to me, is seeing myself be involved in the game world. To make actions have consequences, and to make a world seem lifelike.

Don't do/not do things based on a statistic. That's just going to make things suck.

I wouldn't go as far as to say the writing needs to be improved for games to be considered art, but I agree with this almost wholeheartedly. I hate how people seem to think that these guys are good writers. Maybe when they write out the stories, maybe it looks well, but when it comes to what the dialogue, they're…

Since when did Lars play Yu-Gi-Oh?

There's no TvTropes dress. So my favourites site's not there. Neither is there a TGWTG dress. Though that might be a little weird...

Even though it's, you know, not bad in every way. How about you give a few examples. I know this stuff's based on opinion, but at least attempt a decent argument.

Erm... I'm 18. Love the show.