Welp, Bungie has went from being a beloved company to one of the biggest scumbag companies in gaming. These tactics that 'strongly encourage' people to consistently dish out money to keep doing what they've always been able to do is about as bad as it gets.

That's assuming that 'big name companies' are ran by people who are entirely stupid. Which isn't the case. Companies make decisions that are dumb to most people and might be bad decisions but they have a lot of logic going into them. SE can release this game and many of the people who see it on the PS4 dashboard…

FF7 had pretty bad polygon characters with few textures and had extremely low quality (by today's standards) FMV sequences. Both of which look amazingly dated by today's standards where the art from Day of the Tentacle still holds up quite nicely. It's stylized in a way that makes it timeless where FF7 just looks…

Yeah, there is that and I agree. But the ones I'm talking about are like when you kill one of the first bosses and you're running down the side of it slicing it in half MASHING GLEEFULLY on X that makes the scene just that much more enjoyable. The music is hype, your guy is doing something awesome and you know…

They are recommending the official 360 controller made by MS as opposed to 3rd party controllers. Not that they are recommending the 360 controller over mouse and keyboard.

That's true. But I simply think there are good times for QTE's. MGR did it right and both Bayonetta's did it right where it actually added to the awesome things you were already doing onscreen and were surprises. But yeah, the surprise ones, the ones that make you instantly fail (because include a cut scene that…

QTE's, typically, are designed as a way for the audience to interact during cut scenes that normally wouldn't have any interaction. However, some companies do that correctly and splice in QTE's and even some gameplay to their cut scenes (MGR:R) and some games are built entirely around being a giant cut scene with…

The game was pulled from Steam that day. I was waiting on a sale for it as I wasn't super excited to get the title day 1 and before it ever went on sale for any significant discount (at least one that I saw) it was pulled. I am still salty about that.

I think the game that made the best use out of QTE's was Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Most of them fit with the cut scenes they were added to, had other gameplay elements spliced in (Zaibatsu or whatever that was called haha) and sometimes it was just mashing fun. Like when you're splitting a giant boss in half…

This isn't an announcement though. And there has been no confusion leading up to it. Everyone now has to wait for the actual announcement and then see what Sony/Capcom has to say. So despite the internet and some websites jumping onboard the hate train pretty quickly we've all seen what can happen with these types…

This is the 2098304983094830948309480394830948304983094830948304983049834 time this joke has been made. Well done! :)

The article points out that the exclusivity thing could be a timed exclusive which was the case with Tomb Raider. Basically, nobody is jumping to grab their bullhorns yet because this was not an official announcement unlike when the new Tomb Raider was announced. This was an accidental leak.

My line of logic is pretty clear. There are tons of examples of games that are censored in one area of the world or another because of responses to forces like what was described in the article. That is censorship of your product. Similar to German laws on violence and US views on sexually explicit material. That…

That's why I said it was a slippery slope. And this type of market force is what gets entertainment censored. They walk hand in hand. Those type of forces, despite at times not representing the whole or even a fraction of the whole, can end up causing censorship of a product that wouldn't normally be censored.

They wear in-ear headphones. They then use industrial grade noise canceling headphones that you see people wear when working near loud machinery (like people outside near large airplanes). The other set of headphones they put around their neck is typically for sponsorship reasons.

Would you rather pay 30 cents to drive down the road that connects your neighborhood to the freeway that then charges you another $1 to go down it and have it be all terrible and broken because stocks were down last quarter and there were cutbacks or would you rather pay taxes that goes to education, protection,…

It's not trendy. It's feedback. They have oversaturated and it's hard to get excited over a game every year that uses the same engine and has minor changes with a "new" story which has never really been that great. I'm glad you can get excited over playing essentially the same game every year. Some people can. …

They did Watch Dogs and The Crew. Sadly both were iterative crap (IMO) taken from other games and they spliced in the typical Ubisoft style interface/fetch quest system.

The only issue with that line of logic is where does it stop? Target pulls the game. Then other stores start pulling it. Then, due to lose revenue, Rock Star patches anything that might be considered inappropriate or offensive out of the game. It's a slippery slope where entertainment can end up getting censored.

You blamed Valve for the problem in your original post. That's what you did. They did not cause the problem, they gave you a way to fix it if you desired it. But you blamed them anyway. Saying you didn't doesn't change what you wrote. And you're still blaming Valve with your backpedaling right now by saying that…