If Sony does this too, looks like I'll eventually be getting a Wii U after all!

There is a huge difference between a developer and a publisher. Yes, I get that Visceral used to be EA Redwood Studios, and they literally work in the same building, or at least campus, as EA corporate. But it's a developer who wants to strive to make the best and most enjoyable game possible, whereas a publisher…

I'm still at work so I need to get home and make up my own mind about the game. But assuming all the buzz is true, here's what bums me out the most: I am relatively certain that all of these crappy changes are EA's ideas, not Visceral's. DS2 sold 2 million copies at launch and that's Just Not Good Enough Dammit we…

Yeah, I get the mechanics of it. It's just a terrible idea in a real-time game to add the roll-based hit/miss mechanic from d20 games. It's just an awful feeling to swing at something 20 times for every 1 hit, even if it gets better after a few hours.

I seem to be the only one here who just found Morrowind too ponderous; swinging at crabs and missing for the first half hour of the game made sure I didn't make it much further than the intro back in the day. I came back to it after dumping several dozen hours into Oblivion, and still couldn't get into it; I fizzled…

Can you explain? I understand their numbers are an estimation of retail shipping, but they're the best you can do if the publishers don't release their own numbers.

It's sad, and my heart goes out to all those newly unemployed. It's a cold hard fact that this game was a critical ( http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3/playstation-all-stars-battle-royale ) and commercial ( http://www.vgchartz.com/game/70744/playstation-all-stars-battle-royale/ ) non-starter. 240k North…

I dunno man. The wife and I are both super-casual fans that basically only tune in for the big games. We are both VERY put off by the vapidity of the commentary. Listening to a bunch of hyper-masculine lunkheads who sound like my beer-guzzling room-temperature-IQ uncle and whose qualification is that they Used To Play…

Holy cow this sounds amazing. Shades of Klik & Play!

Armchair diagnosis is armchair, but I had a buddy in high school who was the spitting image of this guy (but with a butt-cut instead of a fro), and he had psoriasis.

I plan to! Feel free to elaborate on my incorrect visual diagnosis though, Dr. Jacobs.

I say "poor guy" because he was hired explicitly to be mocked, because he is not physically attractive and has a skin problem. The audience is being invited to find this "gross," because that ugly dude is kissing that hot lady and eww.

I'd argue the way to "succeed in the world" is to be born into privilege or, failing that, luck out. Right place right time, right look, something like that. The more privilege you have the less luck you need, and the inverse. I know a whole lot of people who are successful that think they got there simply because…

Well said JC, I'd heart you again if I hadn't already :)

Oof, poor guy.

Holy cow I played that game too! They had it at our local county library; you could check out games to play on their C64 and Apple IIs. I don't remember anything but that one screen they show, so I don't think I made it any further.

Peanuts was at its best when children waxed philosophical with lofty vocabularies, but with the extremely narrow understanding and naivete of small kids. It really doesn't make a good video game. Most dialogue-heavy IPs don't.

There were exactly zero high-profile Peanuts video games. The wikipedia list shows how slim were the pickings:

I don't think the article has a message. It's just pointing out that there are hazy but very spendy licensing agreements between gun manufacturers and military game makers. I thought it was interesting, I'd never thought about it before and didn't realize a gun model like an M82 was a brand copyright just as much as a…

Keep in mind that not one note in the Coulton version came from the original. The only notes in the original are that menacing little minor-key bassline that wasn't carried over at all. So Coulton basically wrote an original music composition and performed Baby Got Back's lyrics over it, like any artist writing a song…