You know what, you may be absolutely right. It’s entirely possible I read what I wanted to out of this article because I believe “some games” would benefit. I may have let that strong opinion cloud my judgement in backing this guy’s “all games” argument.

I can think of a significant number of significant contemporary games that would work fine if you’re allowed to skip missions - it’s not a straw man to mention them no matter how many others you can find that wouldn’t be able to work this way, because the point of the article assumes the context of only talking about…

But the key here is that no one is advocating to remove the way you enjoy a game. It’s adding choice to the consumer, it’s not taking away anything from you. I can think of a number of instances off the top of my head where I’d have been happy to have a “skip mission” button to advance past a small percentage of…

Good point. I did think this piece was poorly argued using bad analogies which muddied the point, so I’m not surprised there were things I didn’t even notice that made people like yourself have easy things to counter. To me what he’s advocating is clear and simple- but I think it’s a poor article that has many of…

I “work for shit” every day of the week. I come home, put my full-price game in my PS4 and get annoyed I can’t skip an un-enjoyable, uninteresting and difficult level in an other-wise good quality linear campaign game. I don’t have time because I have other things to do in my life (working for shit) and being a…

I agree, what you raise is also part of the problem the author is raising. Not all of us are hardcore gamers who had time to unlcock everything and try every hard singleplayer level over and over.

I think bringing up games where “unlocking every level won’t work” is a straw-man. Not snarking, just saying. I don’t think the intent of this article is to suggest game designers not make games where you need to play it linearly.

Agree so much. I didn’t finish Red Dead Redemption - a game I most mostly loved to play and experience - because I absolutely hated some of the mission mechanics and design, and once I hit a mission full of stuff I thought was not only designed badly, but was hard enough not for me to give a shit, that was the end of…

I’m always on the fence on this issue. I’m a father of two and I always think it depends entirely on the temperament of the child. My eldest was real easy and quiet from such an early age and seemed conscious of disturbing people with either happy or unhappy sounds etc, but her little sister is not taken everywhere…

Can’t say all video games don’t do good black hair but some of the ones who get it wrong are surprising. I find games like Pro Evo and FIFA are relatively useless and limited considering how global the game of football is and how much that includes black people. It’s also ridiculous considering how well they portray…

I can't say either way. You're not being that guy, it's a real possibility.

I couldn’t place what it was, maybe it was aesthetic - I thought it might be the fact they have flowing hair that they seemed more realistic....also I liked the animation...women run differently and it seems to capture their running movement more realistically than it does the men, who have always looked the most…

I find what you said about the Women’s mode being more fun interesting. I have the demo and I thought I was imagining it when I played my first women’s game and thought the same thing.

I agree with you that IF you’re a person who makes a lot of daily communication to a lot of unrecognized numbers, then stating your name is the way to go....I just don’t agree with you that it’ s a blanket rule everyone should follow.

Yeah I’m with you. If you called my number, I will be the one answering. If you called a collective phone number used by more than one person, then you ask me who you want to speak to.

So after not being able to decide whether I like Rousey or not as a person.....I’ve made up my mind.

Also, and I’m not saying this isn’t a sweet sweet goal and that chipping the goal-keeper isn’t an art, but the angle actually helps because it means there’s more space behind the keeper to drop the ball into.....still a sweet goal though because to me it’s about the presence of mind more than the skill it took to…

Ew, really? I had Google to remind myself who he is and ew, They look like each other.

Agreed. Also, they’d redeem their reputations a lot more if they were open and honest about it. As someone who has only taken a passing interest in the members of NWA through their hits and media exposure, the whitewashing of the violence against women just makes me give even less of a fuck about them, whereas…

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