This video had really did contain an honest-to-god epiphany for me. The idea that a challenge might not just apply to coordination, timing, or problem solving, but also to ideas.

For me, it boils down to the fact that video games don't have to be "games" in the traditional sense. I know that sounds like an oxymoron, but let me explain.

Games like Gone Home, Dear Esther, The Stanley Parable, and Journey have shown us that simply being an engaging interactive experience is something worth…

Nope, it's a game. People smarter than you have concluded that. It got GOTY because of what it was able to invoke, not just because of homosexuality.

Looks awesome. As a high school educator inner city Washington, DC, I can attest that many of the students in my history classes recognized things we were learning from their time playing Assassin's Creed. As an avid gamer myself, I recognize the educational value of REAL video games. You know, the ones that require…

6th Gen is a throwback to 1st Gen. Thats why

Held items. EV/IV expansion. Environmental effects. Special/Physical split. Additional types. Natures. Double Battles. Forme change. Mega Evolution/Primal Reversion.

Costs would be one big thing. We get so much mileage off a box of chalk over a box of markers.

Are white boards in schools an American thing? I didn't know there were schools that didn't use chalkboards. I remember in university I had a few classes in small rooms with white boards (the big rooms all had huge chalkboards), and every teacher hated them because the pens dried out so quickly or or didn't work at…

But this is the internet age. You can never have enough Links.

The thing that's the most terrifying to me personally isn't that it looks scary, it's how close they are to it the real thing in really subtle ways — the little details. It's an uncanny valley kinda fright.

I don't think people are ditching games, maybe just traditional consoles, I know I haven't played any games on any console since I got a tablet.

You're mistaken; they're not buying it JUST for the plates, they're just a little bonus. Also the XL doesn't have plates. What you're reading above about how the plates influenced their decision means that people deciding between the standard New and the New XL decided to go with the standard because of the plates.

That doesn't make any fucking sense. What a childish way of thinking.
Hasn't your mom taught you two wrongs don't make a right yet?

Wrong things are wrong. The end. That's it.
Relating them to some other bullshit to loosely associate it as an okay and justifiable action is a weak and rotten excuse.

The satire and humor…

The hate was mostly not "They're doing TV STUFF!" it was "Why are they focusing on TV stuff and not games?"

I pay for a 100 megabit connection, but don't pay for cable because there are only 4 or 5 channels I'd ever care to watch. If they offer anything close to an ala carte cable package where you just choose certain channels to subscribe to, they'll make bank from people like me.

I'd say the Arkham games' combat involves more plotting then the Bayonetta games. In Batman games it's about establishing a rhythm and choosing the best way to dispatch foes (example: building your combo of unarmed goons to use a takedown on an armored baddie). Dodging is just another part you have to incorporate into…

Play with the volume up.

Not joking, many power attacks by enemies in Bayonetta 2 have little to no wind up or tell outside of a brief glow (which you oftentimes can't see when the enemy is behind you or barely onscreen) and a ringing sound. When you hear this sound, you pull a Piccolo and DODGE. Don't be a Gohan if…

See, this is where I feel the logic starts to break down.

No it won't. The Vita has had plenty of chances to "blow up" with games, and it hasn't. Nothing on the Vita will blow up as Sony pretends the system does not exist and no matter what games it gets it's not capturing market share. I love my Vita, it's a great little RPG machine but it's not a success and it never will…

There you go.