The Agent ban is surprising... given that it’s really a card that requires synergy to work right. That being said, I’ve been playing with a Winota and the ability to turn 3 an Agent was pretty damn broken. But it also had to fall into place in a very particular way to happen. There honestly wasn’t a great answer for…

Treyarch is the studio behind the Call of Duty: Black Ops series.

Respawn is the studio behind Apex Legends and Titanfall. 

Counterpoint... Mass Effect 2 has Mordin, and his dialog choices, should you keep having conversations with him, are an absolute joy.

Mill decks are always interesting and somewhat fun to play, but never a long-term viable strategy. It’s a long game strategy in a game that relies on short-game actions. Where a strong deck always has some weakness and a lot of paths to a victory, nearly every deck has a path to beating mill, it’s just a matter of…

All of these reports seem to fail at the exact same things: seemingly indicating that Nintendo is going to suddenly start chasing markets they’ve never cared about (the hardcore gamer market) or features they have never prioritized (cutting-edge graphics)... or that they’re going to try and cut costs in order to grab…

Same, and that’s what really has me down about this. From the perspective of the previous entries in the series, it wasn’t as good. But 7/10 is an above average game, and it was worth a whole bunch of time in my book.

I wonder about the strategy of taking the single worst part of your game and rolling it into its own stand-alone module...

Given the target market of this game, and the multiplayer nature of it, focusing exclusively on consoles makes perfect sense. It sucks to be the market left out, but I cannot fault them at all for that business decision.

That simply does not matter. It doesn’t matter if every game is a boxed bucket of trash that couldn’t pass muster on a Vic-20 that the sellers decided to charge $8000 for.

I’ve always worked under the assumption that, when said in a comment (and allow me to specify, not talking about anyone commenting in this thread), means “I’m an ass with nothing to add to this article, but I want to complain about it without actually reading, listening, watching or even trying to comprehend. So what…

I bloody love Crystalis, and is still one of my favorite games from a kid, and it's the kind of game that not only needs a sequel, it could use a modern remake.

They can make for some very nice desktop backgrounds if you get them to turn out right. And if you set up on a tripod with a remote, no reason at all you can't take pictures and watch the show.

Agreed on this one. Second Son was a genuinely fun game that could engage far better than Watch Dogs managed to (I played that for a few days and haven't wandered back yet).