What I don't understand is how EA can charge full-price for its two multiplayer-only games. It's like they looked at Valve's model, and thought, screw it, we want to be evil!

Look, I'm not saying Stan Winston and his boys didn't do anything at all. If anything, the dinosaurs were their designs, and to ensure continuity, the actual maquettes they created were sent over to the ILM boys.

No it's not 99% puppet, where the hell did you get that info from? I've seen videos of that rex stripped down to wireframe, with textures getting layered on. Yes, there was an animatronic rex, but it was only used on close-ups. In fact, you can tell which ones were the physically present rex: it's the one that didn't…

I think the rain/darkness complaint gets highlighted these days because of 3D, which tends to darken an already dark scene to near-incomprehensibility. And as others have pointed out, the greater volume of shit CGI. I mean in the span of 21 years, how many other films had CGI this good? The Lord of the Rings trilogy?

Er, no. While a full-size animatronic and stop-motion rex were built during production, what ended up on screen is mostly the CGI rex. You can read about it in this article.

Er, you didn't seem to get the point. Ganon said CGI looks more fake than practical effects. This here clip shows them side by side, and it's indiscernible. That's speaks of the realism of the CGI than of the practical effect.

Actually, people forget that the best CG doesn't look fake at all, and blends seamlessly with practical effects. To wit:

And yet in this day and age, we can still see marvelous bags of shit like Ride to Hell:Retribution and Guise of the Wolf. If anything, the culture of Early-Access and Greenlight games on Steam — along with the seeming lack of quality-control on approved games — is creating a new tidal wave of shit on PC.

In my experience, smaller sites tend to be more vicious with bad product. It's the big gaming sites that have the really notorious reputation of favoring stuff from big publishers. Or have you forgotten when that Gamespot writer got fired for writing a bad review of Kane & Lynch 2?

It always amazes me to see someone so brainwashed by the concept of exclusives. You do know that exclusivity is anti-consumer, right? That you're actually praising a business for making it harder for you, the consumer, to get their product?

That's standard TotalBiscuit fare. He does this series primarily for PC gamers, so he focuses on the options a lot.

It kinda puts the hate for "fake gamer girls" into perspective. There are just that many humorless fuckers in the gaming community who feel the need to act like someone else's autocorrect.

Instead of being an ass and telling you the joke went over your head, I'll just explain it: that's the joke. By both incorrectly labelling Link as Zelda, then stating Zelda — a known female — should be a girl, you are creating a topic rife for nerd-rage from the more obsessive compulsive of gamers.

Then this is the review you need to see:

Does it have a reverse difficulty curve, like XCOM:EU, where everything eventually gets super-easy? Or is it more like Don't Starve, where despite all your preparations and efforts to eke out a stable environment, the difficulty doesn't change, and you're still one mistake away from death?

No love for the Coon and Friends trilogy? The one where we find out that Kenny's immortality is courtesy of Great Cthulhu?

Never used more than one display at a time? Or use a projector? Same principle.

Er, outside of the facial animation gimmick, there wasn't anything "different" in LA Noire. You think I haven't played a period sandbox simulator before? There's Mafia 1 and 2, y'know. They were at least a bit more entertaining. As for investigating crime scenes? Modern implementation of the adventure game pixel…

No, Far Cry 3's story missions were a Ponce Simulator.

Why is BF3 in this list? Wouldn't COD4:MW be the better representative of the modern military shooter, given that it's got both the strong single player campaign and a robust multiplayer?