How is it a cop-out? It's honest. I need reviews like this because I very rarely play MP; if the SP's no good, I like to know (but of course, if the SP is great I don't need to wait). They could give you impressions of the MP now, but reviewers can't really assess how it'll be for the customer yet. This is the…

Although it was nothing like as big as that, I had a placement in a local government department when I was in high school, and they called me on the day of my final exam to give me a full time job. I worked in local government until I was 24, so it was definitely something I was ready to do and it benefited me greatly…

That's what I meant in my other answer to you, that it's not just about personal representation. I don't feel like I 'inhabit' the characters either, more that I observe them, but some people do. There are other things: I respond far more to the rare cases when my nationality is the same as the protag, for some…

I think it's the word "plenty" that got people's backs up, because saying you've got enough is tantamount to saying that we don't need (and perhaps shouldn't have) any more. We wouldn't accept this in the film industry, but western games revolve so tightly around a world of white male characters.

AC3 did not have Aveline. She went into a handheld game despite the fact that there is enormous demand for a female protagonist on Ubisoft's own AC forum every time the topic comes up.

Oh, almost forgot Wei Shen in Sleeping Dogs.

It's been a heavy time of sequels because we're nearing the end of the gen. Why is this important? Nonetheless, we had Corvo (Dishonored), Connor (AC3), and if Bioshock Infinite had not been delayed then the last season would have seen Booker De Witt.

We would see you asking for Larry Croft if the vast majority of games involved female protagonists, and I would be right there asking with you. It would be unfair.

It's really hard to think of many female protagonists (and as Ivriniel says, that means your player character, the central character of the story). We can agree there are some, but plenty is ridiculous. Ask anyone to make a long list, and soon enough they're going to start mentioning Urban Chaos and other games that…

Hold on... are you an NYC designer on Pinterest with a board called Dog & Dude? If so, you've repinned from me before. No doubt I'm being totally stupid and there are a million and three women with a hot guys/cute dogs board.

Don't be fucking silly. Games sometimes have women as the hero, mostly it's a man. Enemies are 99% male. Why is a game where, as a man, you have to do all those things not anti-man? Exactly, you're trying a bullshit argument because the protag is a woman for once.

This neatly proves how completely deluded you are about Hernandez's articles. I'm surprised you can tie your own shoelaces, under the circumstances.

There are other anti-violence campaigns which you are welcome to attend and promote. This one has a specific purpose.

It became more like that later, but the early versions were distinctly racist: "Ha, he looks like a negro now!"

I think you did confuse them. There was no reason to mention DX otherwise. It seems like in each of these subthreads, you keep moving the goalposts in an attempt to frame the argument as one you can 'win'.

That's exactly the way to view it, yes. For some mad reason, fans of things want to see the other streams crushed, as if they were sports teams. The fact is it would be a disaster for all of us if we lost Nintendo or Sony, so I hope Sony in particular can get past its current troubles.

You've already been told that DirectX is a solid part of consoles. The reason you don't hear about PhysX is because the consoles of today could not afford to waste resources on PhysX, which is a shame because the potential of it is enormous. Could companies program their own physics? Sure they can, and they do, but it…

Excuse my ignorance, but what's the feature Always-On is serving here? Is there no way you could build your city up and connect it to the online world if/when it suits you?

I know this as a result of reading in the past about the variations of "tard" (French "slow", from the Latin) making its way into the English language, and I did hope to find you some proof to back up what I'm saying and the internet isn't on my side today!

That label as a medical term predates IQ tests. It goes back at least 600 years.