Story vs. Game is a big one. I think there's a happy medium somewhere between Chrono Trigger (Who's longest mid game cutscenes are still fairly concise) and metal gear solid, (who's shortest cutscenes are longer than Chrono Trigger's longest cutscenes.

It's more a result of a total lack of collusion. Further to that, they've started appearing on steam which is even more hilarious.

Pay a visit to one of the RPG Maker communities and you'll see why people shouldn't be storytellers too. ;p

To be fair, many other fighting games also do sexy, DOA, Soul Calibur, and Tekken only really brag about jiggle physics and pantyshots

Nintendo works in strange and cryptic ways. It's best to just sit back and let it happen.

I wouldn't say that. They're around, but they're not using twitter as their soapbox and have taken to letter writing, particularly against things like the recent Law and Order, or some of the smear pieces that cut corners to blame all of gamer kind or whatever across mainstream news (specifically BBC and CBC).

This is the appropriate response. If it is a wierd sort of meta-publicity stunt, naysayers would do better to answer with a resounding "meh" instead of more vitriol, which only further proves her point.

That dog robot people were kicking around last week or so seemed pretty smooth moving.

It's more that with video games there's a lot of ideas that sound amazing on paper and then fall flat when translated into gameplay. Identifying risk is a big lesson. My "win" ratio on Kickstarter is pretty abysmal, but I've wizened up as a consumer because of it.

It's been more miss than hit.

Quest for glory succeeds where traditional RPG's fail because of the inclusion of the oft-missing 5th element. among other reasons.

I think OEMs would still find ways to get their bloatware on the machine, even if MS wouldn't allow it due to locking down the OS installation. Android is in a similar boat in that regard (and much more difficult to move over to a 'clean' installation at that depending on your device and the manufacturer of said…

Mileage may vary in that regard, but I'd imagine that adoption will be limited to first party titles until the market share is there that people can reasonably expect the install base to hit break-even numbers to exist before really investing in it.

The only thing I disagree with here are the occasional stories about what happens when people who work for the unions themselves get fired for trying to unionize their own workplaces.

Revengeance was short, but the extra difficulty, unlocks, and so on made it feel as though I could replay it. (but I haven't).

Replace 'women' with people, and you should be good to go.

It's great if you're the kind of RPG-er who loved FF12 (it's very similar on paper). I could see it being less appealing to the people who like turn-based.

Save often if you do.

I'm not saying that it's wholly evil to grade things on a scale of 1 to 10, but putting a number to a game will almost always take precedent over the review itself which is the problem. Worse, "7/10" doesn't really tell us anything.

The other problem is that the scale is not really static. we look at a 7/10 and think "oh, it's mediocre". I would argue that a majority of titles are above a 6 to begin with, so people see a 7 and go "meh".