"You think all for-profit magazines, newspapers, television shows and websites reviewing products are inherently biased enough to never give a negative review when there happens to be advertising for said product prior to it's release"

Let me get this straight. You think a website being PAID to host, for an extended period of time, ads made with the sole purpose of further increasing potential first-day sales for an already massively over-hyped, heavily-marketed game, had ANY intention of writing a review containing anything that would deter someone…

So the ads don't count as a telltale sign because he wasn't referring to them?

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>implying adventure games don't have gameplay

> A "YES" and "NO" don't correspond to "GOOD" and "BAD" games. They correspond to whether the individual writer thinks the game is worth checking out.

Literary masterpiece video games, you say? I'll just leave this here then.

Seconded, as long as it's not by Tim "Wall'o'Text" Rogers

I'm calling BS on this. EA is only publishing the game, nothing at all to do with the actual development.

You.

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I believe this is all that really needs to be said.

IMO, an article's quality is directly connected to the author's ability (or lack thereof) to CLEARLY AND EFFECTIVELY convey the most information, using the least amount of words, to the largest audience possible. I don't give a shit how intricate his writing is, nor do I care about the "unusual literary quality to the…

Bookmarked for future reference.

>article by Tim Rogers

Sweet, looks like Bioware fixed the graphics issue for TOR

Why's it unreasonable to expect a $300m game to release without a stupid amount of problems? Isn't that what beta is for? And surely a good part of that budget should have went into making sure the game was polished out the wazoo?

Cool ad hominem, bro. Attacking the person only shows you don't have a legitimate arguement as to why his viewpoint is wrong.

I think Funcom's learned from their mistakes.

Reality is such a harsh mistress. We Cyanbros gotta stick together.