Still even as a yearly thing its cheaper than what it would cost to buy all the cards included in each game.

Sports games are released on a yearly cycle, it isn't impossible to get games done in that time frame. DLC is much shorter than a full game (in most cases) so again why is it so impossible to have a piece of DLC that is 10% as long as the main game (say 2-3 hours) done in a couple months before release while the game…

You really think they screened them? Why go through that time consuming process when everyone will call us champions if we just say we banned sex offenders from playing video games with your kids.

Obviously there was hyperbole in my statement but you also made it very clear from the start that Day 1 DLC is evil. That just isn't always the case.

The issue with a system like that is giving the players enough reason to go from free to paying. Its still another part of the balance and it is extremely hard to achieve. Sure you can give a very minimal advantage between free and paying but then instead of trying to keep the advantage small enough to hook free…

So there is no possibility that Gearbox finished the story they intended to tell with Borderlands 2, started work immediately on the DLC and then realized that they finished the first DLC project (who knows how simple it is, you can get a lot done in 5-6 weeks when all the assets, engine, etc. are already done and you…

I think he is trying to argue that the "freemium" model is a scam, and part of me agrees with him. Generally those types of games have serious balance issues because it is very difficult to give the paying players the tangible rewards (not just new skins) they want/deserve while also ensuring that the free players…

I think he might be talking more about the "freemium" model than free multiplayer being included in the box price.

These kind of situations aren't too uncommon. A girl in Georgia has a permanent sex offender tag because she sent a naked picture to her boyfriend (both were under 17 at the time IIRC) and in Georgia that is covered in distributing pornographic images of minors. The photo was found by someone (the boy's parents I…

To your second point: You can actually get a lot done in a month after the game is finished. The heavy lifting of creating/modifying the engine, the art assets the environments and all that other stuff that goes into creating a game is done. At that point you are mostly fitting the pieces together in a new way, doing…

I made that comment actually. I was under the impression that Rocksteady was only doing Challenge Room DLC (like they did for AA) except for the Catwoman DLC that was there as a reason to buy new.

The approval process to get something on XBLA or PSN is much shorter than to get a retail disc approved. As he said you have to send that stuff for certification sometimes a month or two in advance. At the same time you can get a game/content approved for XBLA much faster (look at all the Indie games that get on there…

Yes but these are less "I disagree with you and here is my well reasoned response explaining why" and more "U R DUMB AND WRONG DIS GAME IZ DA GREATEST YOU SHOULDNT WRITE ANYMORE"

Every time I pass Skylanders in the store part of me wants to get it, but the other part of me doesn't really know enough about it to make an investment (especially if its got shades of MTG/other TCG in it). Somebody want to explain to me what the big deal is and if it is worth it.

I agree with you for the most part on the writing. Eventually I just ended up skipping most of the dialog or skimming the subtitles quickly to get the gist of it. The world also could have been made smaller, again as you said lots of space with little to fill it. That said I found the combat enjoyable and loved the…

I powered through it because I wanted to have a clean slate for when ME3 hit. It was a chore at times (and it also makes me feel a bit for professional game reviewers who have to do that with most games they play) but it was overall pretty enjoyable. Not sure if I want more of it yet, but I will probably pick up the…

Harmonix has done DLC better than anyone else in my opinion. They release at least 3 songs every week, everything is reasonably priced ($2 for a single song, $5.50 for a 3 pack) and it was all forwards compatible.

I actually do play Angry Birds over real games all the time. Sometimes I don't feel like sitting down in front of my TV and trying to get into a "real" (as opposed to imagined I guess) game and would rather curl up with my Kindle Fire and play Angry Birds for an hour. You call it a time killer I call it a fun physics…

It is a real game. Just because it isn't an epic 20 hour quest (and some IOS and Android games do in fact offer that, for instance Final Fantasy III and Baldur's Gate plus some other available RPG and action games) doesn't make it less of a game and it certainly doesn't mean that Angry Birds Space isn't legit for…

At one point Nichols considered leaving the show (after the 2nd season I believe) and when word reached Martin Luther King Jr. (who was a fan of Star Trek) he called he and begged her to reconsider. He asked if she realized Uhura was 3rd or 4th in command of the Enterprise and that Star Trek didn't just have a woman…