what babe?

Wait, the internet told me that women ruin video games. I don’t know what to believe anymore!

Women play video games? Why that’s a notion so preposterous that I shall need to fetch my fainting couch and smelling salts!

The game is on sale on Origin this weekend, and as someone who loved the first three games, I’m tempted to pull the trigger. However, I’m still hesitant based on the lukewarm reception it got. Has any of the patches addressed any of the game’s issues (particularly with the animation)?

How cool would it be if the AI was just like, “Oh, you wanna play huh?” And you have the best game you’ve ever played. It starts duplicating the enemies and it’s AI within the program only and it’s just a complete blast. The AI adjusts perfectly to give you the satisfaction of killing and barely winning... Because…

Though I largely agree with your comment, I too take issue with your hard-line stance on whether the condition discussed can be classified as “failure” or not. The way you expounded intellectually pleases me, but I recognize as well that the original piece was written to be enjoyed and digested by a more casual…

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Not only is this despicable, it’s testament to how ignorant and stupid these cretins are. Bad animation can be the result of slow tools, unfriendly tech, limited staff resources, and countless other factors (including but not limited to the fact that getting human faces to feel “human” is really friggin’ hard). That’s…

Wow do I hate gamers like this. I know there are bad apples in every kind of hobby/fandom/whatever, but man oh man is this particular brand of bullshit getting way too common for my liking.

I think you might be thinking too deep about this. Maybe you should see a...

How did Bethesda not see this coming?

You bring up some good points that are definitely worth discussing. The conversation over “leaks” in gaming journalism is an interesting one, and one we’ve discussed a LOT internally. (I sit next to Stephen, and he and I have conversations about this sort of thing ALL the time.)

Please differentiate “an actual credible real threat” made via social media and one we shouldn’t pay attention to. This is the problem, because you don’t know who the person is, you don’t have context, how the hell do you tell the randomness of people with anonymity gone wild with a credible threat in such a…

Credible or not, those threats sums up perfectly about (one of many) what’s wrong with this gamer generation or culture or whatever.

All it takes is one threat, credible or not, to be carried out.

To be fair, there are dozens of cases in which celebrities have been murdered by their ardent “fans,” so I don’t think it’s a huge stretch to think that there are random crazies out there who would kill over something they feel (ridiculously) strongly about as, say... game journalism or video game fandom or whatever…

Go to work and school and jokingly tell everyone that “you’re going to kill them and their family” and see how many people care about intent or credibility. You can’t do this in your day to day life but apparently a keyboard means you’re just joking.

I’m all about internet privacy, but it’s about time that internet anonymity went out the window. People need to be held accountable for the things they say and do on the web. As long as people can remain completely anonymous, they’re going to say some crazy stuff just for reactions (hopefully just for reactions). I…

Every single threat should be taken seriously. When you don’t take them all seriously; the one that is serious slips through.

Does it really matter? Credible or not I think it helps to publicize this sort of stuff — both to expose this ugliness and to push sites like Twitter to improve their harassment policies.