This is the first I've heard of a difficulty level being DLC, troubling times. I mean, couldn't they have chosen early access to a late game weapon or something? Poor excuse.

"We didn't just want to update somebody else's game … If you're just doing that, you don't deserve success."—Barry Meade of iOS game developer Fireproof Games, talking aboutwhy original design is important. - I like this mindset. It's a risky one when developing for console, but PC and mobile can handle it. We need…

Excellent question.

It seems like the creative director hadn't even thought that this innocuous dialogue line would be construed as homophobic. I guess he should have expected someone to call them out on it, but it's hard to so without being accusatory.

There was no icon telling me to follow it around in multiplayer, I was helpless!

Yeah, I doubt we'll see anything resembling a breakthrough with a next generation title. It'll probably have a a handy physics engine and good graphics but will still be handicapped by poor AI.

Almost doesn't count. If a kickstarter doesn't garner a certain percentage of the goal within the first couple of hours there is a miserable success rate, and they didn't get there. Sucks, looked like an interested albeit flawed game idea.

The same people who didn't pledge enough the first time? I'd imagine there is some sort of mechanism that prevents a group from immediately reposting a kickstarter after it had already failed within a reasonable time period.

Haha good to know I'm only knee-deep into the micromanage ocean, I'll have to try out those other two.

Agreed, second only to Montezuma in scheming. I used to think I was a hardcore TBS player until I ran into the Crusader Kings/EU combo. I've heard similar things about Hearts of Iron, perhaps one needs an iron heart to micromanage everything.

I think Europa Universalis would suit Adderal, there isn't a whole lot of minutia with Civ V. And that pictures makes me think - "Ghandi, don't believe his lies"

While I'm not a big fan of prequels I can see why developers/publishers stick with them. It can be fun to explore things that happened before the story in the original game but it's mostly a way to stay with an established IP without having to deal with ending canon.

It's just an attempt at creating a "straw man", as long as EA or Activision is still around gaming has a lobbying voice. As much as people have an opinion that gaming gets a bad rap in the media it hasn't drawn the ire of MSM like other topics....yet

I find this reply humorous since he almost exclusively focuses on crap games. But alas I agree, just seeing him rage through the old games makes me go back and play the good ones.

Yup. I'm introverted, so it will manifest whether I use the internet or not. It seems like the author of the article wanted to believe that unplugging would solve his problems, but that was not the case.

You've got to have the AMEX ultra platinum edition CC to get the most out of our hypothetical diamond level.

I remember the diamond level thing being thrown around as an April fools joke a few years back and it pretty much encompasses all the negatives of XBL. Now if MS could somehow tie memberships of HBOGO/Hulu/etc into that $150 package it might be interesting.

Diamond subscription level solves all of your requests.

Good points, I had to fight the urge to say something bad about the guy taking a college level logic course and gleefully applying it to forum posting. Like you said about healthcare (and I'm truly sorry about the lawyers, it's tough to follow all the new regulations as they come in), if there is money to made then…

Pretty good analysis. Given that the competition took up motion controls there really wasn't much to differentiate the Wii U (like you said) other than the gamepad screen. I would hazard a guess that to a casual something like an iPad or other mobile gaming device would serve a similar function and thus wouldn't…