Good question!

Because every shit the say to their friends or as a joke is policed by a few thousand people who spend their life on the internet being angry at evil EA and Microsoft.

Shut it Schreler, you're just stuck in the past, man. A bony past full of inconvenience and stabbed throats.

My wife, upon telling her I didn't know chicken wings came in two parts: "I love you. You're pretty."

Worst / best part is that she came to the game with the guy in the blue shirt and red visor.

So... either tomorrow, or on Monday, I'll be working up a piece in greater detail about 1999 Mode. I'd like to pitch it as a freelance piece, but if that doesn't work out, I'll probably just post it on my Kinja page or on Tumblr. I think it's a really important topic, but nobody's ever really explored why it is what…

How about stealth? How about a tranq gun? How about a taser? How about powers that put people to sleep? How about martial arts to knock people out? How about minigames to convince enemies to ignore you/join you?

And even if you thought you needed to have good old gunplay, why not have more down-to-earth combat? How…

Have you seen a man eat his own head!?

Konami Code that increases game difficulty? Now I've seen everything.