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Wouldn't worry about it. Today CEO of Square-Enix had to fall on his sword due to performance of recent reboots. I doubt Thief 4 will see release unless it goes full Ninja Gaiden.

If only we could blame giant conspiracies or scoring systems for this mess. The truth is that standards in the industry have eroded to the point where nobody will dare to stand against enormous hype.

I can't believe I now think it a flaw but it dose looks too similar to Bastion.

Sorry - wrong thread.

Don't know about others but at least Dead Space 3 topped sales charts.

It's not really beign dismissive, there's actually no evidence, there have been several studies to prove the link between games and violence and none of them have proved it, , for me sarkeesian is in par with the NRA, attacking video games when they have caused no harm. That's a bit of semantic cop-out. There might not have been a study showing causal relation beyond reasonable doubt but some studies have shown correlation between violent games and acceptance of aggression or decreased levels of empathy.

Actually that 'protector' role is due to the simple fact that given human reproduction cycle males are far more expendable. AFAIK it has nothing to do with physical attributes. And you base this opinion on what scientific evidence? On anthropological studies of primitive tribes. The hunter-gatherer people tended to form egalitarian tribes. Only advancement to farming communities allowed growth of so much population that wars could be fought to the point of annihilation. Losing women to war (whether to combat or kidnapping) meant a huge hit to reproductive prospect of the community and weakened it's prospects for the upcoming generations. On the other hand losing men was more acceptable as you could temporarily suspend rules of monogamy and/or incest prohibition and be mostly fine population-wise for the future.

Actually that 'protector' role is due to the simple fact that given human reproduction cycle males are far more expendable. AFAIK it has nothing to do with physical attributes.

Wasn't this common knowledge? Pretty sure I heard about it in an old documentary. As for ending the war the solution was always very simple: US needed to give-up much sooner or nuke North Vietnam.

Errr, her point with that was that the damsel in distress trope has its roots in early gaming, and she illustrated that the theme of Peach being captured has remained the central motivation for the game in 13 of 14 different iterations of Mario games, and that the trope continues today. Though she does acknowledge that the mere existence of this trope in a game doesn't mean that a game must be sexist. My point is that she took offense at Peach being a DiD because she's a woman too. Were she not, she wouldn't care, just as she doesn't care about fat, accented italians and a whole kingdom of evil turtles. The problem of DiD is not that victim is a woman but that she's being rescured by a male. Whole of new Tomb Raider is a giant DiD plot but since we play a heroine there it's perfectly fine and acceptable. Have you played Bayonetta? Me neither, so I can't say how sexist or not the game is, I can only repeat what I read about it. Bayonetta wears her sexuality on her sleeve, what's wrong with that? She eats lollipops, what's wrong with that? She's an over-the-top parody, what's wrong with that? She is strong, confident, etc. And during special finishers all her clothes fall off. Nothing wrong with that as far as fan-service goes but I wouldn't go pretending there is any other point to that design.

Black fingernails. Apparently they were in for initial redesign.

Don't worry about fire hazard in fusion plants. Chances are your toaster will burn the world down before any of them sets anything on fire. The worst that could happen to environment is a mild radiation leak. And don't believe in any fusion timetables either. 20 year is just what it will take to start running proper experiments. In fact we still are missing some crucial pieces to the puzzle and the whole thing may yet prove completely unworkable.

Tomb Raider. A pretty solid shooter but that's not what I was expecting from the franchise.

Far cry 3. A great sandbox but a rubbish shooter.

If anything one of the problems with Witcher 2 was that it senselessly attempted to force references to slavic folklore or modern pop-culture. The end result is only confusion as I doubt many English speakers understood where the 'Elves to the moon' battle-cry came from.

He said his cd-key got stolen and registered by someone else. Back in the day even EA would issue a new one with proof of purchase.

That's one way of looking at things but when we talk about personal responsibility why should average tax-payer have to cover medical expenses associated with obesity? If we consider being overweight a personal choice made by individual rather than a eating disorder that needs curing then such expense should be covered by the people deciding to be obese.

Metal Gear Rising. Maybe I got a bit caught up in the hype but the end result is a little disappointing. It certainly can deliver some great moments but the sheer amount of flaws in gameplay design mar the whole experience.

I was never fond of steam ever since the beta wouldn't allow separate install locations. And that unlisted ~20% tax on my first steam store purchase didn't help the matters none. So if other publishers want to follow in Valves shoes and make their games exclusive to proprietary distribution platforms I'm fine with it.

Used games block on PS4 a publisher decision. Shocking.

In production values and nostalgia perhaps. RTS genre didn't see any real innovation since Sins of the Solar Empire and that game was essentially an oddity. They are being replaced by MOBAs because they refused to change their fundamental gameplay away from boxing stutter stepping and base building. Even the reign of Starcraft won't last much longer judging by the speed with which it's spectator audience leaves.

All that was really said that some used games will work on PS4. I doubt anybody at this time will make a definitive statement when it comes to reselling or DRM. MS/Sony must be eying each other hoping to see how much they can get away with without ending-up as the bad guy. Besides I'm sure nobody will announce their console having restrictions as such. Everything will simply be an 'option' available for use by publishers/developers. This will allow manufacturers to shift the blame onto someone else and hopefully dodge the backlash. And if such 'options' become commonplace MS/Sony will simply feign innocence pretending they cannot set requirements for games running on their own platforms.

Thanks for the summary. I tried watching but snoozed off at the 'social' talk. Doesn't seem like they announced anything particularly interesting.

It's not NK ability to hit US that is at stake here. It's their ability to hit 10 million people in Seoul. And nukes could make quite a bit of difference in that.

We really know too little to say that Obsidian is in trouble but what's surprising is that New Vegas 2 pitch is happening right now. There is no way Bethesda will outsource another spin-off until Fallout 4 is done with DLCs somewhere around 2015.