Don't want to touch nicotine again. Quitting once was bad enough and I have no desire to pick up that addiction again.

Honestly, this is kinda an example where competition isn't super good for consumers. Having a situation where game performance can be dependent on which manufacturer you use, and there's no way of knowing which games will favor which cards ahead of time, is pretty shitty.

I'm skeptical. Although I love Platinum's games and think they're generally a pretty awesome dev, Activisions history with licensed titles is...less than encouraging.

Well, they already established that they could be in AC: Liberation, so it would stand to reason they would be allowed in other times.

Well wishes to Iwata-San. Dude is a pretty cool cat. Maybe as he recovers, the Wii U will recover as well? : 3

Yeah, I've been in a ton of mosh pits at various metal concerts, and despite the obvious chaos, they're surprisingly polite. I mean, yeah, you're likely to eat an accidental elbow to the gut or knock to the head, but each time I've been on the receiving end of an unintended blow, the dude would always instantly stop,…

But the thing is that DRM has never been proven to work. Ever. I can't think of a single form of DRM outside of always online DRM bullshit like in D3 that wasn't cracked within the first week of a game. It does literally nothing to stop pirates from pirating the game.

It's still a deal.

How to buy a lot of video games with very little money: Game on PC.

Outside of shitty DRM that no consumers like, games are actually pretty easy to get to run.

I too prefer to play female characters whenever possible. However, game creators don't always want to create a story where the protagonist is a female, or a male, or even a human. And that's totally fine. I want them to tell their story their way, and if that means yet again playing a boring generic white dude, that's…

I'm hyped. Seriously, this will be one of the games I get when I get a Wii U (hopefully later this year).

Idiots. But we already knew that : P

If they didn't at least let them go out with a preemptive announcement about this, then they should be in a high enough position to have their opinions hold any significant weight.

I mean, outside of the minor graphical flashing etc. (which is a bug and not a reflection of overall fidelity), there is an objective improvement in the graphical fidelity of the game.

Absolutely. However best practices on their part (and the best thing to do from the consumer PoV) would have been to come out before launch and say that they'd disabled the settings because of graphical bugs, but were working to iron them out and re-enable them post-launch. Even if they'd just announced they were…

I doubt they got paid, but I wouldn't be surprised if part of the reason they decided not to try and fix the graphical settings was to keep a certain level of parity between the platforms so as to not potentially anger Sony or Microsoft. That's absolutely a thing that happens in reality though, not a conspiracy theory.

You don't need legal to approve this type of statement. This is the type of thing their PR/communications team comes up with, runs by the developers, and then finalizes and sends out.

Unfortunately, you're right. Big companies generally shrug off controversy pretty easily. Having a ton of money to spend on marketing/PR, and dedicated fans of their other series does wonders.

A bit. The big downside is that there are graphical glitches that come along with it (texture flashing etc.), but it was just extremely surprising to folks that enabling these settings didn't cause them to take huge performance hits, because they absolutely should have.