Personally I couldn't care less about online passes. I will buy a game based on the merits of it's content. At the end of the day, the publisher will always sell you their product under their own terms, if it's not fiscally viable for them to do so, guess what? Nobody gets to play it.

I'm not saying this is the case for every Japanese person. My apologies if it came off that way. I'm just talking about the superfans, the serious nerds. We've got them here in the US as well, but we fall on the opposite side of the coin. We want out pop stars to seem like whores, not virgins.

Isn't it sad that Japanese media fans are only interested in the work of those female artists they idolize and worship, when they can fantasize about taking their virginity?

By that logic every single videogame ever made is an RPG, from Frogger to Final Fantasy to Madden.

Thanks.

I'm with you. My wife insists on keeping cable, so she pays for it! I think it's a waste. I'm too lazy to pirate anymore, and I could wait for things to hit netflix or DVD in truth, but I really want a way to subscribe to HBO without going through a cable provider. Hopefully it's coming soon, I think it's inevitable,…

If there's some sort of a la carte option for these services, I'm officially getting rid of my cable subscription. Somehow I doubt it will be that simple...

What I get sick of is being branded a fanboy whenever somebody doesn't like a negative statement I make, or if I defend a platform holder against someone else's attacks.

I'd much rather there be a solution that makes it possible for me to get rid of my expensive cable service entirely. I just want to pay Comcast for broadband access, and get my television a la carte at non-ripoff prices via one of my game consoles. Hulu and Netflix and Zune are decent, but even combined they aren't a…

You've got more time in the beta than I do for certain, so I'm happy to hear your insights. I hope my experience is the same as yours, and that I come to enjoy the game. I guess I wasn't expecting it to feel so different from previous games at first blush, but hopefully as I get acclimated to the changes I'll grow to…

You and me both.

A beta that starts a month before the game ships is as much free marketing as it is a bug squashing exercise for EA and DICE.

I understand his sentiment, as well as the sentiment of the fans disappointed by the choice of Operation Metro. This is the first time I've ever felt less excited for a game based on having early access to a portion of it, but there it is. This beta is just awful, all of the hard work the men and women of EA and DICE…

You'd be barking up the wrong tree to call me a fanboy. I own all of the consoles and a decent gaming pc, so I'm not biased inherently. I buy games for the platform they seem to perform best on, and/or the platform I will be able to play with my friends on. That does tend to be the 360 more often than not (from a…

You'd be barking up the wrong tree to call me a fanboy. I own all of the consoles and a decent gaming pc, so I'm not biased inherently. I buy games for the platform they seem to perform best on, and/or the platform I will be able to play with my friends on. That does tend to be the 360 more often than not (from a…

You'd be barking up the wrong tree to call me a fanboy. I own all of the consoles and a decent gaming pc, so I'm not biased inherently. I buy games for the platform they seem to perform best on, and/or the platform I will be able to play with my friends on. That does tend to be the 360 more often than not (from a…

Good point, but there are other fundamental differences between the PC and console versions of the game beyond the graphics that do change the experience of playing the game. I personally wasn't incredibly impressed with the 360 version, and yes it had something to do with the graphical fidelity of the experience. It…

Thank you for repeating yourself. Let me repeat myself: your argument is invalid. Deal with it.

Until you realize that none of it was interesting, it just seemed like it was because it took so long to parse through, and you don't want to feel like you wasted your time reading it.

Wow, somebody is in dire need of lifestyle validation, no? Or does everyone sees him as the Tim Gunn of gaming nerds and I never got the memo?