While I'd rather grab an SFF case and put together something similar for half the price, it's a lot of work, and without the modular abilities sported by the Piston it would be a even more work to install upgrades at a later date. So I can see this appealing to someone who wants a small, easy to install console-like…

Yes, but how big is it? If you can't hold it in the palm of your hand, then you're not looking at the same market.

It's impossible to get a really coherent idea of what the Piston's really capable of until they finally release some full specs (other than a quad core AMD CPU,) but already it has a few things your brand new computer probably doesn't. Specifically: four USB 3.0 ports, four standard USB 2.0 ports, four eSATAp ports, a…

o_O

Hm.

Not until they start posting midi files all over the place.

HAVE YOU SEEN ME?

I'm not about to rake someone over the coals because of a typo, but the original sentence read "Broking games where physics-driven character animation plays a big part always has glorious results." Unless this is a game about the exciting life of a swashbuckling broker on the seas of high finance, "broking" was not…

I'm fairly sure Evan is trolling us. If I wanted to be particularly kind I could say he's written some heavy-handed satire, but it amounts to the same thing.

*points at the top screenshot*

"The Avengers in this scene are former allies who aren't on the best of terms anymore. "

I prefer to play 3rd-person action platformers with a controller too, but that's not the point, is it? If a game supports a keyboard and mouse as a control option, it should work properly.

Ironically, the QTEs were never quite enough of an obstacle for me to learn. If I'd been forced to learn the QTE buttons in order to make progress, I eventually would have. Yet since the QTEs were limited almost exclusively to boss fights, and randomized, and allowed for a number of failures, and I was learning…

You did? Hm. I spent most of the game not knowing what any of the QTE buttons were supposed to correspond to and trial-and-errored my way through most of the boss fights as a result.

That looks not quite as bad as the QTE system in Prince of Persia (2008).

Are you sure about that? Steam only changed their policy (allowing banned accounts access to their games) about a year ago, and they did so in response to Origin doing the same thing.

Agreed. Amazon has a return/refund policy where they accept responsibility for the product they sell, even when it's not their fault. EA doesn't. That's the sort of thing that gives Amazon the reputation it has as a safe place to make online purchases—and it's also part of what gives EA the dismal reputation it has.

We agree on at least one thing: you can be opinionated without being a dick about it. Which is my point: if you disagree with someone, fine, but why does the comment section for every article Patricia ever posts, no matter how trivial, have to devolve into a pile of insults, whines and misogyny? People need to learn…

I was thinking the same thing, but, y'know, he DID spend thirteen years in "a valley filled with other powerful Charizards." A valley couldn't possibly sustain that many large predators for very long, so either a bunch of Charizards left or they started turning to cannibalism.

"Every article she posts is something designed to get clicks"