Joystiq also has a good write up of the game - the writer there said it became very natural and worked really well.

Banks rip people off all the time, it doesn't mean you should go rob a bank. It means you choose a different bank ... so, choose different games to buy if you feel mistreated.

Or, you just mute them all. Simpler and wiser. Why subject yourself to it?

There are apologists for every negative action taken. She should have stuck to her guns - she was right, other people should have stood up and defended her. That's where the real problem is - a culture that doesnt recognize that something wrong is happening.

You're missing the point by about a bazillion miles - this IS an issue because more people, and more women, are showing up - it won't go away until the behavior changes or the community shrinks again into obsolescence. You don't get respect acting this way.

Yes.

Your response pretty much falls in line with his comment that the community can't take criticism ... You're only proving his point. The proper response is - some people didn't portray our community in a positive light, we need to do better at communicating and listening.

This is a joke post, right? Name one major console game set in the US during the Revolutionary War. You can't, because there isn't one. Furthermore, there aren't that many 3rd person action games set in the US, period.

Ignore him - margins on the iPad are fantastic for Apple -between 26-45% and growing.

Stay away from ever buying a car then.

What the game companies don't understand is that their feeding on their own bodies. What I mean by that is, if someone is paying $45 in map packs, that is $45 that does not go to new IPs, with no new IPs the industry stagnates and dies.

It's open to everyone, but the purpose of it is to empower women - so, you're required to write an essay about how you would do so. I expect the more powerful responses would be from women trying to break into a male-dominated field.

This reads like an entitlement diatribe. I want the game to be this way, and, if it is not the way I want, it sucks - so, they should change it to be what I want or else.

Wait, wait - how can you be with him on this is you've never played the first 3 and a major point of his diatribe was that the first 3 were not survival horror?

The praise probably comes from the great graphics, the dam story interwoven through the gameplay, and the great controls that actually felt different as you improved different attributes of your character. I can understand someone not liking the game, I don't understand people pretending that it wasn't good at what it…

I think that is a really astute assessment. Gawker has never regained the site hit average that they had before the atrocious redesign that was forced onto all of their sites. Now, their highest paid and longest serving employee (Brian Crencente) is gone .... It starts to make you wonder, doesn't it.

Why not just do a specific site for this coverage? The chance of me tuning into a blog for specific coverage at any given time is pretty much nil.

This is the epitome of stupid. Scheduling a blog? Seriously? Who tunes into a blog at specific times. All that will happen is that huge chunks of specific content will all get buried together.

Have to agree. Plus, I liked Dead Island a lot - most the negativity surrounding it boiled down to, "it wasn't what I expected, therefore it is bad."

Wow, how far off base can you be.