I agree, they sucked. My point was that they were a minor roadblock (~10 sucky minutes in a 20-hour game) in an otherwise great experience. I've played through DE:HR twice and have almost entirely positive memories. If they'd included a stealth option for each boss fight; e.g. sneak around avoiding the boss's…

I hadn't heard this; how exactly do you outsource JUST a boss fight? They weren't anything special so it's a little perplexing to think an outside company would be brought in for that reason alone.

I'm betting after A:CM utterly flops on current consoles, it will be pulled for the Wii U. No point in spending the extra money to push out a known non-starter on a console with a tiny install base and even smaller FPS demand.

Hmm, what exactly do you mean about DE:HR? Are you implying the entire game sucked just because of the boss fights? The entire game is fantastic and well-built, the story is great, and the boss fights make total sense in the plot; the problem is that they didn't give a route for hack-built or stealth-built characters.…

Knee was actually slapped; literally, not metaphorically. Well done.

Right, she has a different scapegoat in mind.

It's cool that Nancy is whiteknighting for video games; this is rare among elderly politicians, most of whom haven't seen a video game since their millenial grandkids showed them Sonic the Hedgehog back in 1992, and I think most old people assume all modern video games are basically Hostel with the player as torturer.

Bahahahaha. (<- The sound I just made, causing several people in my office to look at me oddly)

Oh, I don't have any beef with EGM. They can like whatever they like.

Yeah yeah, opinions. I actually think the games are both objectively really good (hence the unanimous critical acclaim) for the reasons any game is good; well-crafted, a lot of breadth but the depth is optional, quality story and varied environments.

If you don't think Ben Croshaw is funny anymore, you need to watch his reviews of bad games, not just mediocre AAA titles.

If the reviews were 30-40-50-60-70-80-90 you'd have a point, but EGM's is literally the only positive review.

"I imagine my consideration of Batman: Arkham City as the best game I have ever played is caused in no small part by my fandom for the Dark Knight. "

Dead Space 1 was pretty coy with its combat. Full ten minutes of nothing followed by thirty seconds of blistering action, followed by another ten minutes of gut-wrenching suspense and jumping at every shadow.

+1

That's awesome. My wife and I played WoW together for about six years and met a lot of perma-internet friends. I saw a whole bunch of couples form over the years, it was pretty cool. One cross-country hookup turned into a marriage that now has kids. Yay social networking!

Good article, thanks for the background.

I think we're all wondering the same thing here:

I don't know anything about this article's author, what does this mean? A few minutes of googling did not help.

Or drugs! Don't forget drugs. Always viewed through a black-and-white After School Special lens, of course.