Re STO, I’ve played it and is definitely not AAA. More like a B, and that’s being generous. lol

Sometimes I wish someone had put a patent on the concept of loading screens in 1995, so that developers would have been cursed with making games WITHOUT them.

Thank you. Ineffective user menus don’t often get reviewed. When I boot up a game, the intuitive-ness of its menus is important. Which is why you almost now see job positions for UI/UX designers. Those roles seem to have only recently risen to the forefront in a big way, mainly from the advent of mobile iOS/Android…

I picked up the original model right before they replaced it with the LCD model. The system is so well-defined from a hardware standpoint. The quality is great, and what I’d expect. With my 3DS XL, there are little design things on it that irk me, but anytime I hop on the Vita I always think “Man, Sony so nailed it”.

Exactly. Not dissing BC, because it is definitely a nice-to-have, but FFS prove your current model can stand on its own FIRST. Unlike what this article suggests, BC shouldn’t be looked upon as their console’s big appealing feature in this day and age. The timing on this just makes them look desperate. Which maybe they…

Being able to assign your own alias to people on your friend list is the greatest freakin’ feature for ID management. No matter what names your friends change to over time, your association info will stay the same. I’m not into playing pc games that often, but when I do hop on Steam, it’s been super useful to be able…

Need more representative characters from the following:

Opening text crawl: Federation trade dispute. What, who would care about this except a director-turned-CEO.

I echo your Bond observations exactly.

Yeah, after saving the world a zillion times across how many movies, the whole animosity towards Mi6 has been a fill in the blank throw-away story Bond movie trope that no really gives two shits about. The Bond films that show Mi6 being compromised - a superspy organization always one step ahead of the world -, is…

James Bourne 007.