I love that aspect of FIFA as well. Particularly, because they didn’t just add women’s teams. They captured the play style and flow of the women’s game, which is more slow, plodding and methodical than the men’s game. Only case of this I can ever remember in a sports game. When NBA 2K started adding Euroleague teams…

You chose correctly. I’m proud of you. Actually, I think I love you.

The Escapists is an excellent ID@Xbox game. Bought it full price the week it came out. Very clever 2D game. Good mix of RPG and strategy elements. Escaping from the prisons is very difficult.

That concept is insanity, beyond being unrealistic. For starters, they didn’t even really know what GTA Online was going to actually be in function initially. It took months to even get it working properly after the buggy launch in October 2013. And, it’s been overhauled in several ways over years, as they’ve learned…

It’s going to be a long time before mass adoption even begins for 4K TV’s. Beyond most older people still having no clue it exists or what it is, there’s the challenge of extremely good 1080P HDTV's that are dirt cheap as the alternative that the average person for the foreseeable future (next 5-8 years, at least)…

When I originally read the headline and first few sentences, was thinking of games like Limbo, Braid, Shadow Complex, Geometry Wars, etc. Your actual premise is a lot more interesting than the assumed initial premise I mistook it for (even though that’s an interesting conversation too). It’s a really good point…

Yes, the first apartment at the beginning of the game that you’re sharing with Roman is burned down by the Russians, relatively early into the game. The apartment they move into after is Roman’s girlfriend’s apartment in South Bohan. That safe house and every one you acquire after (one uptown, if you kill Playboy X,…

Another common criticism I've had of the industry and this generation. Last gen, we were treated to a bevy of great games with extremely memorable enemy types. That were both challenging and had personality. Covenant (and Forerunners, if you liked them) in Halo, Locust swarm in the Gears games,…

This is a great concept. Though I’ve never put it this eloquently, talk about this all the time. So much of modern gaming has been influenced by COD 4 Modern Warfare (RPG Progression), free to play and subscription based PC games (MMO concepts, Expansions, always online, etc) and freemium mobile games like…

Not undercutting all the good points you made. Separate from that, you don’t lose all your properties in GTA IV when you buy new ones. I’ve beaten that game five or so times and have over 750 hours in it. I know for for a fact (at least in the console versions) you don’t lose properties because I always went back to…

Oh, God. Yes. Yes. 50 waves. I'm in. Day one. Loved the hell out of Gears 3 Horde mode.

As an avid BF4 player who put about three hours into the BF1 beta, they're vastly different experiences. A lot more variety than I expected. Bolt rifles are in the scout class. It felt like 8-12% of both teams in Conquest 32 v 32 went Scout, and camped out on rooftops.

It never went away. The lone year you’re referring to (Madden 13/M25), they combined (formerly) Superstar mode and franchise mode into Connected Career Mode. Pick an existing coach or create a coach to get the franchise experience. Pick an owner to essentially continue doing all the coach stuff, play games,…

Hilarious you have such a confident defined opinion about something you acknowledge you haven’t played in years. To say they haven’t updated their game engine in almost five years, you’d also be including a stint on a previous console generation/hardware set where it had an entirely different engine. Not to mention,…

I wouldn’t say it peaked a decade ago. It’s just different. Granted, a generation and a half of attempted tweaks at capturing different aspects of the television product largely haven’t produced results that have stuck. I’ll grant you that. The added power of newer consoles has made the game/series a lot more…

The second they announced it would have proprietary storage, I was zero dark thirty out. Had just got a refund check from college and was eagerly anticipating VITA. Had great years with the PSP and was looking forward to a true successor. Their terrible decision on storage killed that instantly.

Hell yes. The disk drive on my original PS2 died in about 04 or 05. Got a PS2 slim soon after. That thing was amazing. Currently, still have my 360 slim. Performance wise, night and day difference over the original Xbox 360. WiFi adapter built in, super quiet, etc. Original 360 was so loud, even just during firmware…

Bingo. Every time I 360 game I own gets added to BC, do two cartwheels (in my head. I’m a pretty big tank kind of guy). One because I love having my games available on a newer console. But the other, because I get to either replay or continue playing great 360 games with a markedly better/more versatile controller.…

Great points across the board. To unpackage neatly, I’ll focus on a few. For starters, I think expectation (particularly as a new IP) was a hurdle No Man’s Sky was never going to be able to fully jump cleanly. With the marketing, trailers, press releases and interviews, Hellogames/Sean Murray set the bar as high as…

Open world games are my favorite genre. Tough to pick a lone favorite. Usually judge different aspects of different open world games and pick favorites from those aspects.