Played through the game without any technical hiccups and a good system for making money (update cafe, leave game on, do other things.) With the encouraged microtransactions avoided, I made my way through the main story seamlessly and ended with a feeling of extreme apathy.

Speaking of blowing up what the player thought he or she knew about Thedas, there's a neat little character bit about Leliana that I felt had huge implications. Notice how she's acting more like "Origins" Leliana during the Orlesian ball and talking about slipping into different personas?

"Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're our only hope."

Looks good until you have to sit through a five-minute tutorial about how to set beacons on a map and how to use a zoom in-and-out feature.

Cheats disable achievements. Boooooooooooo.

There is something that kind of bothers me about the recent trend of gaming journalists asking "tough questions." In my opinion, questioning developers about a perception of social issues is not a tough question at all. They send it to a large corporate PR firm who already has a form letter ready to go. It gets sent,…

Rana needs to figure out that when she's dressed as the character she modeled for, she has to STOP SMILING. It ruins the portrayal.

Probably the weakest honest game trailer so far. Bioware does a better job at spoofing itself.

Because lord knows this is what I wanted to see when I took a break from reading news sites that tackle serious issues like this.

In the ever-shrinking pro-Rock Band corners of the internet, Neversoft's reputation has been sullied as a group of pretenders.

It's over! Give that man the $10,000!!

ALL HAIL THE CLOUD!

Haha!

I never mentioned graphics once. I'm talking about conceptually. My fault for being too ambiguous, but a few people grabbed on to what I was talking about (by comparing it to Oblivion themselves) regardless.

Heading into the Wii's lifecycle I felt the same way, but by the time it was over I felt conned as a consumer and that is a difficult perception to counter. The announcement Wii U editions of year-old games I had already been playing including Malibu Wind Waker (with NEW HAT!) has not done Ninty any favours. I fail to…

Here's the thing: Skyrim also had several great stories and thrilling combat. Arhkam and AC2 and beyond also had great stories and fun open worlds and I loved the combat in Mass Effect 2 and 3.

You mean the series that now tells a story and delivers a sense of exploration in ways that Zelda just doesn't compare anymore despite the dominant hold it once had in those categories? Sure.

I wouldn't say "hate," but I'm not fond of them. The stories in those games do nothing for me and the "big moments" they go for usually feel empty, save the nuke in COD4. That was something else.

No regrets if I don't play it. I loved this franchise for years and bought a Wii on launch day so I wouldn't have to wait an extra month to play TP. While I loved it and still do, by the time Skyward Sword came out Zelda had been surpassed by other franchises - in my opinion. You don't have to share it - in every way…

I apologize if you took my negative comments about Nintendo personally.