I think part of it is how the industry has changed from letting players unlock stuff and turned it into absurd amounts of pay for DLC. Want that costume you use to unlock by beating the game on the hardest difficulty with a certain character? That costume would be a badge of honor and pride that you beat the game on…

I really don't see how we can be having this discussion in a free society. If we don't have the freedom to offend than we don't have free speech. Plain and simple. In a truly free society we cannot have exceptions because that is the slippery slope. To give in to this violence is to accept imposed theocracy. In a way…

Well I guarantee they already have those lawyers on retainer so it's actually not costing them anything to file the suit unless they get counter sued and lose. But trying to prove that a suit is frivolous is extremely difficult in the US.

I thought Jupiter Ascending's plot and acting were universally bad. However that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy the movie. Normally I'm opposed to over the top CG, but I felt that this movie handled it well. The action sequences were amazing, and the overall pacing of the movie was fun and exciting enough that, while it…

Here's a kid who got 2 and a half years for his swatting prank. Hopefully this kid gets more. http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Ira…

Spending 2 1/2 years in federal prison (since the call was made from another state it was a federal crime) should be a good wake up call. Now that this is becoming more of an issue…

This has a lot to do with constitutional rights and reasonable searches and seizures. If any anonymous tip crank call can be considered reasonable suspicion, then we have absolutely 0 privacy and the amendment which protects us from searches and seizures is powerless. Think of it this way. Let's say cops suspect you…

While 5 Centimeters and Voices of a Distant star were both stunningly beautiful, I felt their stories were, not necessarily lacking, but certainly nothing groundbreaking. I certainly would be open to seeing more of Shinkai's films.

For Mamoru Hossoda, I thought The Girl Who Leapt Through Time was severely overrated,…

Am I the only one who is getting burnt out on CG? I miss the traditional animation of the late 80's and early 90's. The illustrations in Ghost in the Shell, Akira, and Memories, still beat out the barrage of CG we are hit with today. The anime now days all looks the same. There's very little visual distinction anymore…

You're an adult, and your choice is to play a difficult game with punishing consequences for failure, or play another game that coddles you and holds your hand as you go through it. If you're an adult you remember the days when games were relentless and a single death meant starting the entire game over. Saves weren't…

Well subscription models are a failing business model for all MMO's but WoW, so this is a smart move. Look at guild wars 2. They have got the pay elements right. No pay to win at all. The most they get to paying to win is paying for xp boosts. Everything else is cosmetic, and even then you can use in game gold to…

Funny enough, wii u has ps4 beat on that. No install times, like the good old days. I honestly find it strange that consoles haven't switched to USB or back to cartridge formats of some kind. I know that sounds silly, but those devices are now faster, and have more storage capacity, than blu-ray and aren't that much…

Well you either get 1080p or higher than 30fps. Pick one. Neither ps4 or xbone does both.

Which is funny because people have said it's not truly next-gen, but in reality it's doing more to change how games are played than other systems. 8 player smash on one screen! Pretty ballsy in a time where split-screen multiplayer is an endangered species.

Yeah crappy ports are sometimes an issue. Luckily we've had quite a few games fixed by modders.

Well consoles aren't even putting out true 1080p right now. They're putting out 900p and up-scaling it.

I think that bad dreams part is true of all gaming platforms. Sony had their networks hacked and their clients information stolen. Microsoft has an underpowered and under-performing system, and they cram micro-transactions into everything. They lied about 4k. Hell, they lied about being able to do true 1080p. Both PS…

I remember all the good secret areas before cataclysm opened the game to flying. Old Ironforge. The Ironforge Airfield. The wetland hills farmlands. The Caverns of Time (before it was added in a patch). The Emerald Dream. Mount Hyjal. GM Island. Stormwind falls was also reachable via jump exploits back then. You could…

My response exactly. It's like these people haven't even seen star citizen or black desert or Metro Redux (pc version) or pretty much any version of any game in the last 2 years that was released on both PC and console, the PC version looks spectacular by comparison. Oh and delicious higher resolutions! The only…

Wow. Great argument. You really made some solid points refuting everything I said in a very thorough way.

That can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. You don't have an argument. You just have an opinion that isn't open to change.

While that is true, if you were to lay out a chart of X being quality and Y being price paid you'd see a VERY strong correlation. There may be a few outliers, but the overall pattern is the same. So the point still stands. If you don't pay a lot for something you shouldn't be expecting all that great of quality. I…