Congratulations Mr. Totilo. I'm pleased to see that you'll be taking the reins here. I've always found your work here to be well researched and well thought-out. I'm very much looking forward to seeing what directions you'll be taking this site.

Well thanks to the both of you. Going back and reading it now I wish I'd taken the time to proof-read better. I'm glad you found it useful despite the grammatical errors and the ugly page-links.

Sorry Fahey, this isn't like a Nintendo 64 Star Wars game. This is like the 64 Star Fox game. And a cheap version at that. The 64 Star Wars game was Rogue Squadron and that shit wasn't on rails, not by a long shot.

I'll give some thought to the gay thing. I think there's a decent arguement to be made for not saying it. And just because I think it will eventually go the way of lame, dumb, etc doesn't mean it isn't still hurtful now. Potential future meanings don't justify being hurtful and insensitive in the present.

Alright, first off, Bioware Edmonton (the original Bioware studio) has been a multi-team studio for years. The point of that being that just because a game was made by Bioware in Edmonton doesn't mean it was made by the same people who worked on another game at that studio. As an example, Bioware had four teams of…

Agreed, shades of grey.

I'm not suggesting a piece about the oppression of priviledged white males. I do think we've clearly moved beyond "giving a fairly repressed group a chance to voice and present issue" when we have a male writing this piece about male privilege and how bad it is and how much "we" as a culture do it...after having…

Yes, that is the difference. I'm not saying I think this author should have tried to represet other points of view, just that the site should find other essays or write other articles. I'm not saying that many people wouldn't react the way they have, I'm sure they would have, but some of them might have taken the time…

I think I get where you're coming from, I just disagree about which terms warrant that kind of attention. Ultimately there is someone in the world offended by anything you say, it's just a matter of deciding where to draw the line. I'm happy to get into a discussion of those details but I tend to be long winded so I…

I think the problem is that this site has been promoting articles from a specific point of view (or a group of them that is fairly similar) lately without giving other view points a chance to have a voice except through the comments where things break down into the usual internet stupidity. Other view points doesn't…

I agree with you completely. This would be much more productive as a discussion. Instead a large group of people are being lectured to. It's a very juvenille approach with no chance of making a difference. The people who agree feel alienated. The people who like how things are see it as an opportunity to attack more.…

I'm with you about 50%. By that I mean that if someone I know specifically asks me not to say or do something, especially if it's a friend, I do my best not to. My friend's sister had a miscarriage. Afterwords he asked me to stop telling dead-baby jokes. Seemed reasonable; I don't tell those jokes when he's around…

How is it that a fan like me (and some of the other commenters here) knows more about Bioware and EA than someone who gets paid to write articles like this one? Bioware has had multiple studios for ages, long before EA purchased them. Bioware has become a division of EA, not just a brand. The Doctors run that division…

Actually, Twilight moms are indicative of the larger culture and the general attitudes of women towards men. The comment made along with the image was "Speaking of double standards..." In this particular case the double standard being referred to is that it is ok for adult women to get excited about entertainment…

If all other entertainment media were subject to this level of scrutiny I wouldn't be so upset. This is just another case of games being attacked because they're the new kid on the block. If the SCOTUS can manage to see games as being equally protected I don't know why others can't come to the same conclusion.

Thank you Totilo.

I don't think they would actually be able to make a better game with a three year dev time. I say this because Ubisoft is committing the same amount of resources to this one year cycle that they would to a three year cylce (or a two year cycle as I would have guessed). Ubisoft is leveraging a huge number of their…

I'm more impressed than surprised. While it can be useful to compare similar games I find people spend too much time trying to decide which game is better or which game does which thing better. I like that rather than making that obvious comparison this review was solely about this game.

I'm ready to move on to a new setting too but for me the complaint is more that we didn't get three games with Altair in his time and setting rather than that we've had three games with Ezio. I've enjoyed and been impressed by the places we've visited with Ezio and I can't wait to see where and when we'll head to next.

When PETA says stupid things like this it makes me want to go out and buy as much fur as I can afford. I'm personally against it, so I won't, but that's my knee-jerk response. That says to me that these statements are doing as much harm as good and that maybe they should pick their battles a little more carefully.