Garrus is pretty unlikely. Mass Effect has had no presence on Nintendo consoles besides a port of Mass Effect 3 on the Wii U.

That was never the point of the main article or any of my responses. This is about discourse and whether people can demand change. They can. Consumers make their demands known all the time.There is no force of law or regulation that dictates that the developer has to make changes.

Why should "This game doesn't…

You don't have to agree with the criticisms that are made. My original point was in response to your original statement about the criticism of art. Plenty of films/books/etc are analyzed not only on the basis of who they include, but how they include those groups. These discussions are important and should take place…

You don't "have to" include anything. Just keep in mind that "transfat otherkins" have just as much of a right to criticize/discuss your game as you have to release a game that doesn't include them. Although the fact that you're implying that "excluding transfat otherkins" and "excluding women" are somehow analogous…

Name a game that truly has been "criticized into oblivion". Past games that have been criticized for portrayals (or lack therof) have gone on to sell just fine. The rights of the creator are not being infringed on, they're just hearing things that they don't want to hear. Not agreeing with these cries for…

When alot of these types of people use "games as art" as a battlecry, they don't really care about art itself but just want their hobby (and by extension, themselves) to be treated seriously. They don't want to be looked down on for spending 12 hours playing "Fetish Girl Shooting Adventure 2014", but will throw a…

A lack of a representation of a group is still saying something about that group and the (lack of) role the group plays in the game's world/narrative.

This is a very old argument that goes back in every field of artistic criticism. Intent only matters after a certain extent. Human beings are influenced by all sorts of experiences that they might not explicitly be aware of, and these influences and experiences manifest in what we say, do, and write regardless of…

Except that there are massive portions of art, literary, and film criticisms that deal with how different groups (race, gender, etc) are treated in such creative works. Accepting games as art means not plugging your ears every time a game is critiqued for its representation of a certain social group. Freedom does not…

You folks want games to be treated as art rather than given a Roger-Ebert-esque dismissal? Wish fucking granted.

Part of interrogating creative works is seeing how that work is both a product of and influencer of society at large. This means that, in a society that promises equality and brands itself as a "melting…

I still hum the default battle tune to myself whenever I play a TCG of any sort.

I've never really played Spec Ops, but you've made the game sound really interesting despite your disdain. Personally, I find the idea of an artistic work that resents the very genre/audience that it's made for to be quite an amusing concept.

What I enjoyed about MK DS is being able to view players and their items on the second screen. If I was in first with an opponent close behind me, I'd be able to slam on the brakes on have the blue shell target the opponent by the time it was launched.

Ob looks like it'd be a star in the Commander format, where library searching is a fairly common thing.

There are also weapons you can wield. It's just that the marketing folks behind No Man's Sky are smartly choosing not to put emphasis on those elements.

Eveemon
Vaporeveemon
Flameeveemon
Jolteveemon

PO-PO-PO...
POKEMON
POKEMON
PO-PO-PO...

POKEMON!
POCKET MONSTERS!
POKEMON ARE THE CHAMPIONS!

"Breaking News: Game Freak announces drastic renaming of all Pokemon, adds the suffix 'mon' to every creature name"

Squirtlemon
Pikachumon
Mudkipmon
Mewmon
Kyogremon

The possibilities are endless.

How with these evolutions be implemented mechanically? So far I'm thinking they're just Mega Evolutions under a different name.

That is one hunky lumberjack.