The story is enjoyable even if it’s spoiled. But if it’s not spoiled, then the big moments have a much greater impact when you see them happen. Is it really that hard to understand?

The word you're looking for is acronym, and you are correct, Io is not one. 

“Usually, such impatience doesn’t have a negligible impact on the game you’re playing.”

“Does anyone else have this extremely popular and oft-repeated take?" 

Pedantic nitpick time! The "rank-and-file" members of the team are not Gears, they are just regular soldiers. 

Imagine a headshot sound being your favorite design choice in a game. 

The series was dead to me until I played Origin. Oddessy and Origin are amazing games. 

I’m on the side of, who cares that much about the story or ending of a game when the vast majority of the time is spent on the game play? For me games are about the game. When the story is good (and TLOU had an amazing story), it’s just icing on the cake. The thought of not playing a great game because you thought…

Also Barret's triangle attack is super powerful, seems just as strong as his ATB abilities. 

Is Cadence of Hyrule a Switch exclusive?

Yet here you are 

The SSDs will help the game load way faster, but the game will look even more gorgeous on PC thanks the more powerful GPU and CPU. 

Oh fuck off, you have something to say about nearly every single post on this site, other people are allowed to have their say too.

Counterpoint: Bad writing is indeed the fault of the medium because the writers are forced to write the story around the gameplay, rather than ONLY having to worry about the plot and the character development.

A 3 mana deathtouch cantrip is not at all great. The card is not playable competitively. 

Yawn.

“There’s Stannis’ magic fire sword, which is meant to mark a reborn god, but ends up being forgotten after his death and revisited only as something Melisandre does for other peoples’ weapons as a party trick.”

Damn you for getting that jingle in my head. 

I agree it’s a cool temporary replacement for the real thing, but I don’t think I’d use the word “normalcy” for this.

Umma glad I get this obscure reference.