Who is crack head making up these top five lists?! Mass Effect II... Number ONE?

A-freakin'-men

'If you hit a hard landing, the airship is just going to kind of bounce.'

It's like watching creativity slowly die in the series.

Tron MMO. Called it.

Needs more blue space elf-cats... Seeing as how Cameron is so fond of plot recycling these days.

Role: You assume the role of a character of characters.

Apparently gaming didn't exist prior to 1995. TIE Fighter... Gunship... Red Baron... Aces Over Europe/Pacific... X-Com... Doom... Quake...

Mass Effect will be forgotten 2 years from now. Comparing it to a 20 year old franchise that continues to maintain a strong fandom is delusional with parts of shameless marketeering sprinkled therein.

"You won't need to worry about mixed talent builds or swapping talents depending on the situation."

"So in a nutshell: You cost us millions of dollars, gtfo," summarizes Littlejohn. "Though I find this a little hard to believe, but that's just me."

Okay... I'll give them points for realizing at least two key points:

@danio3834:

"From my perspective, and that of the person I saw it with, the audience's response was disturbing...For those audience members at my screening, Kick Ass getting stabbed and hit by a car was funny because they are viewing the film as if it was a videogame. "

As long as they aren't selling an advantage over other players, I give Blizzard Activision cart blanche authority to increase the price of my shares by suckering people with virtual pets.

I was going to comment on how cheapskate gamers complaining about a free game fails, but thenI had a bout of enlightenment:

Honestly, he's bitching about a *FPS*. If that doesn't destroy any credibility he has, I don't know what will. OF COURSE it's full of archtypical characters. They SELL. In fact, i'm willing to bet that Halo's mediocre story has sold more copies than his works ever will through his *lifetime*.