Sadly (having used this technique for years), most people are quite happy being ignorant of the details. A lot of people are quite willing to say things like "I'm just the ideas person, someone else will make it work" or "I don't know the details, that's up to someone else."

Why are you guessing that? Why not look up a comparison instead?

Suggestions? Thoughts? Post'em in the comments, and we'll start this crazy adventure within the next couple of weeks. (Maybe after E3.)

It's so hard to take Stephen Fry seriously as prime minister. I expect him to burst out giggling every time he pops up on screen.

I've seen employee agreements from several companies that basically state anything you come up with in your spare time during your employment also belongs to the company ... so if you have a great idea, quit, and start your own company, that idea belongs to your previous employer because you didn't quit before having…

I'll admit FEAR 2 took me over 6 months to complete in very small doses.

Illiteracy is going to really get in your way some day. I never said that — please stop replying to things people didn't say.

... you just stated one of the most powerful defenses of consoles — why should anyone have to understand PCs to enjoy playing a video game? As an enthusiast myself who really does know the difference between tearing and stutter, what render distance and field of view mean, I still prefer dropping a disc in my console…

Skyrim crashes a lot on the PS3 for me ... to be fair, all Bethesda games have crashed for me a lot on Windows too so I can't say that's the PS3's fault at all.

I'm genuinely curious (as opposed to trolling) ... what interesting design is not possible because of consoles? Some of the best games of the last five years came out as console exclusives (including several by Naughty Dog).

Surrounding yourself with people who agree with you is not the way to test the validity of your assumptions.

I've yet to meet anyone who can establish that a PC is a better value proposition than a console for gaming. Just to cheat, a PS3 is now $200 and can play a *lot* of really nice games, has on-line features, streaming 1080p video support, easy to use HDMI and optical connectors and is both quiet and lightweight.

FEAR is one of the best shooter / horror games I've ever played, especially 2. The first game was very good (especially if you delved into the back-story in the hidden documents) but the second game turned it up a notch. Especially that finale ... ouch.

Video games were irrelevant to my statement; only the memes involved. Also, I have no intrinsic knowledge of why teenage girls laugh at things, I myself was a teenage boy and hung out with a lot of them online and in meatspace so I stick to speaking to what I have experience with.

To be honest, my PS4 is primarily for playing Warframe right now. I'm enjoying that way too much, but you can get it on PC instead if you like.

Am I the only one thinking Revik is actually a function of your own mind or a projection of some kind? I'm thinking of the excellent Doctor Who episode where he was his own enemy and didn't realize it until the end.

"Current and last-gen, except for the Wii U" — the Wii U is the exclusion from "current and last-gen systems".

Personally I didn't find most of those funny when they first came out. I suspect I was already too old for them at the time. Teenage boys are capable of laughing at a lot of things that really aren't very funny though.

People who complain about the high frame rate version of the Hobbit to my knowledge only complained that it didn't look like a movie. Their brain registers that 24fps look as movie-like ... the same way we drop to 15fps with some flicker when doing special effects to look like old home camcorder stuff.

In a game like this, I think 30fps is sufficient. I expect the game to not be quite as frenetically paced as Ratchet and Clank which personally suffered after a Crack in Time.