Hasn't the majority of all wars fought been by proxy? Old people with money and power decide some other group of old people with money and power have something they want, or are threatening what's theirs. They round up young people to do their bidding. Every young person meets somewhere, and a good number of them…

Outside of his ease with murdering people, I kind of felt like Niko, in terms of the dour outlook on life. He was a pessimist, that's for sure.

Yes.

laughed so hard IRL, thank you so much for that.

I find the online part of it infinitely more enjoyable than story mode, which is a direct opposite to pretty much my whole gaming mode, in which I generally avoid multiplayer like the plague.

Fallout 3

Probably a bit of envy to go along with the disdain. It's chic to take to the opposite of whatever the leaders do/say/legislate/approve of.

Good related example ... fireworks, which are explosives on a much smaller scale. I think it's a human nature thing, this weapons/explosions/fire fascination, less than any one group of humanity sort of thing.

Didn't it take 4-5 years to break even for Microsoft on their original Xbox? I'm wondering how much money it will take both Sony and MS to get into the black for their latest consoles.

Maybe if Telltale keeps killing it with their story-driven adventure games, we'll get lucky.

I grew up on 2600/8-bit/16-bit era anyway, so it's not like I need life-like detail on the screen to enjoy a game.

These companies seem to be having a hard time staying in the ballpark in terms of graphics for their games ... the new-gen consoles are much more powerful, but they're nerfed in comparison to what you can set up with a gaming rig.

I'm in your same boat ... not likely at all to get a next-gen console, and if I had to choose down the road, I'm guessing PS4, big emphasis on the if.

pretty much, being in the black rules sequels. They don't do more in gaming or on the big screen if it doesn't make nearly enough, and they keep it pretty uninspired and non-risky in general to keep the cash train flowing as usual.

There's just design flaws in general that make it less than desirable for many ...

"...you DO know it's basically the exact same map as it was in GTA:SA, right?"

Nice reference, I forgot about that ... 12 Monkeys really is a can't-change-a-thing type of film, if I think about it more.

When it's done, it has to be done well. I'm partial to the Twilight Zone treatment of President Lincoln's assassination because it didn't necessarily stop a bullet from piercing the president's head, rather, the one guy that could stop it got fooled by (spoilers next) the one guy responsible for the murder.

Getting people to think qualifies as a difficult task. If it were easy, teachers would be paid next to nothing ... oh wait ... wrong alternate universe.

GTA 5 has some really awful glitches and a bad history already in terms of fixing shit that isn't right, but that game took some huge leaps in terms of map design and did a few things different enough to be not in the same ballpark as this game-breaking design flaw and the cut-and-paste stuff that someone else pointed…