lol. Strength of an arch depends largely on the depth of the arch. Too shallow, like these bricks, and you weaken the structure. Also, to have strength I believe you need the composition of the arch to be several structures leaning on one another to create the arch to create support and strength, not a single piece of…

I reckon there are a few arches around the world that would like a word with you.

To be fair, this is still good game design in Japan, a country stuck in 1999. I think it is just one of those cultural differences. The rest of the world has moved on (mostly...), but many Japanese developers still equate hours of grinding or repetition as great game design. In the pre-2000 game development era, when…

The Witcher 2 does a fairly great job with DoF. But it is the exception. I don't remember another title that did it well at all.

I remember playing that god awful game! I still don't know how to pronounce it. But honestly, with fighters like Tekken out, that game was comparatively shit. I was so disappointed by it. So much excitement to thrash around as Cloud, dashed on the cliffs by frustratingly horrible controls and nonsensical "story".

I don't mind cool cut-scenes, I hate it when they take a page out of JJ Abram's book and cover the entire scene in obnoxious lens flares (or whatever their special effect of choice is).

Ahhhhh, how cute! Some one is trying to make a young adult\adult version of Skylanders! I knew it wouldn't be long until some investors jumped aboard that gravy train!

The game is meh, but god damn that stupid lens filter crap. I fucking loathe it! In the beginning I thought it was temporary, like Max was high on pills or drunk, then I realized that it was a design decision and someone somewhere thought it made the game feel more "cinematic". What a load of bullshit.

Not with default models. I get it, if you customize to the extreme the animation don't line up correctly. But for default models they better be spot on perfect. There is no excuse for it to be bugged as badly as it is.

Except they didn't get better. In fact, I think they got worse with each iteration. More clipping, more weird character jitters, more lack of polish. I am sorry, but when Mass Effect was made, 3-D animation was well out of its infancy. The only reason for it is that the devs were on an insane schedule and literally…

Yes, I have to agree. Though my worst game is a tie between Two Worlds II and Enter the Matrix, which is followed closely by The Path of Neo and finally Doom 64.

You are dumb and wrong. The reason you didn't know who the dragon was was because you chose a different story path. You weren't supposed to know unless you chose Iorveth's path. That is how divergent storytelling works. This game is an absolute masterpiece. If you had poor draw distance, that is because you have old…

God you just brought back memories on how rubbish a lot of the animations in that game were. Just, the amount of stuff that needed polish was astounding. I enjoyed the games, but damn if the animation and graphic bugs didn't annoy the crap out of me. My biggest one, because I saw it the most, were if you had one of…

You know what is funny about that gif? The guy has dentures, so he had the choice to get perfectly placed teeth, and opted for the snaggle tooth look.

They are getting more creatively bankrupt because the publishers backing them are making less money (and in recent times no money) off of their investments. This leads to them reducing risk by making a massively marketable product, which is where we get the yearly CoD and all of the unnecessary sequel games from.…

You may want to look at that again. Devs do not get a whopping 40%+ cut of the sale of a video game. They are lucky to get 15%, and that is if they are an established Dev with a track record of AAA games. I don't know where you got your figure, but it is way too high. Not to mention, whatever they miss in profit per…

Was only a matter of time before the constant and unrelenting "crunch-time" AAA development demands was going to crush the industry. Seriously, when you can sell millions of product and still barely break even, or worse still be in the hole, something is wrong. Speaking from experience, when a person first gets into…

You posed some questions, I gave answers. Get your panties untwisted. If you have shitty interwebs, find better access or write companies (and get others in your community to write) expressing your interest in having Company X Y or Z come to your area. (The royal you, not you in particular, which you seem to think I…

I dunno, try to find a different provider? Maybe write some angry letters to your provider? Do something besides whine on an internet chat room about it? Don't play exclusive games? You know you can just not play some games, right? Those data caps are not the developer's fault, place that blame on local congressmen…