Lol no they're not.

"The guy who was swatted obviously wasn't holding a family hostage, there were no explosives, that's pretty much a wrap up for them."

Welcome to the future! Where features are locked out as the developer sees fit!

It is, but even if you don't get the annual installments, the "blockbuster" moment(s) is lost if you play them too close to one another. Hence the whole "generic modern day FPS" trope mocking.

Except the developer directly linked MW1, MW2 and MW3 into the same "reality". Even if you exclude Black Ops, the original CoD or Advanced Warfare, its still a series of shallow moments.

And yet if you actually tried to stop the terrorists, you got a game over screen. If you tried to hide behind them like they were human shields (despite the fact that you're goddamn bullet magnet in these games) they never went down.

"There is a stupid moment in Advanced Warfare — but there've been stupid moments in nearly every Call of Duty game. Let's show off the atrocity of war by making the player mow down innocent civilians, Modern Warfare 2. Hey Modern Warfare 3, let's call to mind the 2005 tube bombings by blowing up the Davis family's…

"However, it is possible that down the line Capcom will start selling item packs or rare resources for money."

Ah, but now you're thinking of a movie as a standalone business product. You have to remember that there are ALWAYS multiple movies being developed/released/pulling in a profit/losing money at any given time. Waiting to see if a single movie can warrant more investment down the road is time consuming and ultimately…

Except by that logic, Hollywood can claim EVERY movie is an unprofitable flop... for the first week. But hey, initial returns, amirite?

And your friend is wrong. Its "Hollywood accounting".

"That armor doesn't look like anything any character has on Halo 2."

Nobody in Halo 3 has armor like that either. So what?

Hollywood already does conceal their sales figures at the box office. When they report on the success/failure of movies, they talk about the sales figures, not the number of tickets sold because different movie theaters charge different prices (and then theres IMAX and 3D...)

The Halo universe has had multiple armor types. Its just a matter of them rarely/only being seen in more recent games (to say nothing of the novels/comics).

I thought Conan got the point across pretty well.

Comparing Gundam to the latest mecha anime = Unacceptable

The 2 sides honestly isn't that complex if you stop and think about it.

When Gundam continues to put out new series; yes. We DO have to compare the latest mecha anime to Gundam.

They wanted to before. They decided it was better to buy off the founder, so it never happened .