That's weird that only one person was in a game. How can an online match be going with one person?

It'd be cool if this article wasn't dripping with sarcasm and hatred for Kotick and instead just let me read the NY Times profile without bias. Luckily Geoff Keighley retweeted somebody who was linking to it so I got to read it without all this BS. Really interesting piece. I like hearing the other side of the…

It sounds really dumb, for sure, but I remember when the game's title got revealed Kotaku or somebody had a fun article where they researched the word and showed off a couple examples of old newspapers using it.

For me, the DualShock design has been my favorite controller. You can't hold it like a 360 controller, where your hands are kind of at rest, and I think that's where a lot of the trouble comes in. I hold it so that my hands are at attention, with the inside knuckles above the palm forced outward a little bit and…

There are some problems here:

"Gandalf and his wizard homies" is my favorite band.

Moving her to the back, for a game, makes sense. She's not the protagonist. The plot revolves around her, so for a movie, yeah, having her most prominent makes sense even if she's not the protagonist of the film. With a game, you control the main protagonist, so it makes sense to put him in front even if the plot is…

I kind of hate that example because the videos aren't the same. The 48fps one looks like it's going too fast when you've just watched the 24fps one because you're expecting it to be the same and it's not.

People confuse "all my friends are already on Xbox so I guess I'll just get the Xbox version" for "the online is better and more robust." PSN has come a long way. It doesn't have parties or cross-game chat, but other than that, it's pretty much on par with Live.

"Super Sony Smash Brothers Fun-Time FanFic Hour is not necessarily a bad game—you'll notice that we gave it a "YES" in our review. But..."

The other people replying to your comment seem to forget that PCs require constant cleaning software-side, not just hardware. My PS3 will never need to run AdAware or Security Essentials or Disk Defragmenter or Kaspersky Anti-virus or whatever. My PC absolutely needs to, and often.

I get that, but then don't make Connor so judgmental of slavery and oppression when his people were doing the same thing. Don't paint all white people to be SO EVIL and Native Americans to be gentle, perfect, and peace-loving.

Yep, absolutely. I was totally fine with showing George Washington and the rest of the Founding Fathers in a different light than they're usually painted because it's interesting, but the way they just fell back on "wow, Native Americans are perfect and happy until all the white people come along and ruin everything"…

So... if I made a game about Germans during the 1940s and just glossed over the Nazis but was SUPER accurate everywhere I DID show, that'd be fine too?

"But one of its biggest successes was in its meticulously researched and well-delivered portrayal of Native Americans, arguably amongst the best in any medium."

It only gets worse from there.

The blur doesn't even look good. Just watching the Giant Bomb Quick Look where they showed off the PC version was stunning enough. I'm not saying that the game looks as good as that screenshot; I'm saying it looks better because those blur effects are dumb.

Another commenter asked about Lucy, and I'd like to follow up on that a little bit. Lucy was killed off as a major plot point in Brotherhood that threw Desmond into a coma (Revelations) but wasn't explained until the DLC of Revelations, which I never played. So when AC3 totally avoided the Lucy question (until…

In the end, Desmond's role feels like it was heavily scaled back from where it seemed like it was going from the beginning. Ultimately, he was learning all those Assassin moves for one encounter with Cross, and in the end, he makes one decision and that's that for him. Was there ever a plan to have Desmond become a…

The Mohawk Indians that Connor's tribe is a part of took slaves, but that aspect of history is never touched. Instead, Connor seems EXTREMELY judgmental of slavery (an accepted practice at the time). Why is that? And do you think the game went too far in retroactively judging slavery? It seemed to take over the whole…