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1.) If it were made by another studio/writers, there'd probably be improvements to the storytelling compared to what David Cage does: better pacing, less on-the-nose hand-wringing about its allegorical elements, less bad dialogue, and on and on and on.

2.) What is this nonsense narrative as though Detroit's being unfairly targeted by critics? It holds a 78 on metacritic with several critics--unfortunately--laudin g it as one of the great story based games of the ...

2817d ago 0 agree8 disagreeView comment

You're under no obligation to...but you're basing it off that? It's just intentional mistyping poking fun at the culture today.

2818d ago 0 agree1 disagreeView comment

-"Bad journalism is never really discussed. It is always "set aside" for some other issue."

In what context are you talking about? There are YouTubers who make a pretty penny castigating gaming news sites. Certain submissions on here touch on this stuff quite often. Not to mention opportunity is right at your fingertips either via user blogs or the forums--here and elsewhere. I'm not buying this premise as though critique of bad gamez jurnalism g...

2818d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

I'm kinda lost here. What has "gamez journalizm" done this year that's even comparable to TellTale's handling of its employees from a moral perspective? You're talking about hundreds of personal stories detailing some gross stuff done by an employer, which now suggests they broke California law in the process.

-A person sacrificing to move across states for this dream opportunity only to be fired ~a week later.
-Multiple accounts of ex-e...

2818d ago 0 agree2 disagreeView comment

-"30 Days isn't so bad, how long did PS3 owners have to wait to get The Lost and the Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony for GTA IV? A lot longer."

Well, yeah.
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That DLC wasn't even considered by Rockstar before MS put money down.

-"Still doesn't make it a very nice thing to do but MS opened Pandora's Box last generation by doing this type of thing, this is the result."

Tomb Raider ...

2819d ago 0 agree5 disagreeView comment

@kneon

I know. I was sarcastically playing to that stupid plot line here. ;)

2820d ago 2 agree3 disagreeView comment

It's obvious AcesHigh just wants her to breathe better. Anyone? No? Can't say I didn't try.

2820d ago 9 agree2 disagreeView comment

It's a great MP game that deserves a chance.

2820d ago 11 agree5 disagreeView comment

Well, that's more of a YOUR history borne out from playing the game, but I still follow the challenge against historical accuracy bit. Didn't the first game have chanting druids and flaming pigs at your command? lol

2824d ago 1 agree0 disagreeView comment

"I remember Heavy Rain getting nitpicked a little in reviews yet something like the Walking Dead which did things worse then Heavy Rain ended up getting Game of the Year."

1.) Heavy Rain came out in 2011, TWD: Season 1 came out 2012 so there's different levels of competition.

2.) Heavy Rain still received a great critical score and many accolades.

3.) TWD certainly didn't do narrative worse than Heavy Rain.

2825d ago 0 agree12 disagreeView comment

Hmmm...

But I think it's fair to consider what they were going for by having a more "authored" narrative experience. The choices were focused on highlighting YOU, as the player-character, and testing your morals for a given situation instead of having huge consequences to the ending. I'm not saying they always established that well in their games, nor do I disagree with other parts of your comment, but I think there's a disregard for the intent of TT...

2825d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Rise of Iron has to be one of the strangest expansions in the Destiny universe, especially after The Taken King at least set stuff on track. Granted, it was a cheaper expansion (barely) and wasn't as hyped up but...really? That's it?

2825d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

The world needs more Gex.

2826d ago 1 agree0 disagreeView comment

"Btw: 10/10 for State of Decay 2 and now the DLC gets 1/10. This just shows how these guys try to get attention."

1.) It's a 1/5, not 1/10. He doesn't go by 10's technically.

2.) I'm not really seeing what's so nuts about this. The disparity basically translates to: "I loved State of Decay 2 (main game), but I hate the Daybreak DLC." He goes on to explain why that's the case.

3.) 6/10&...

2827d ago 0 agree2 disagreeView comment

Again, the general rhythm and implementation of said mechanics feels much different. While not as extreme, it'd be like discussing how Vanquish rips off Gears of War. How Free Flow was utilized & popularized in Arkham is still an industry for games in the same vein.

2830d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Well, I appreciate the comment but I have to--mostly--disagree. I enjoyed it at certain points but there was often some kind of tedium or emotional hand-wringing that would get in the way.

2830d ago 1 agree11 disagreeView comment

@Gwiz

-"There's a huge difference in approach compared to games like Watchdogs where they even tried to hide settings used for showing purposes WELL INTO the game's development."

So too are there several different methods of deception. Whether one's more flagrant doesn't disregard the other.

-"People didn't understand the purpose of said target render and honestly it seems you still don't lol.&quo...

2831d ago 1 agree0 disagreeView comment

Some of the same in that you punched goons in a 3rd person perspective? Ok...sure from such a simplistic viewpoint. But the general rhythm of combating foes, the way stealth & action are implemented, etc. shows clear disparities between them. To consider it a "rip-off," the way it's usually termed, strikes me as absurd in this context.

2831d ago 1 agree1 disagreeView comment

@ShadowWolf712

Except...you just re-validated what you're responding to. Whether or not Guerilla Games were the initiators of said bullshot doesn't matter, it's still bullshot released for public viewing that didn't come with promised bells and whistles. And it's funny to see people bring up Digital Foundry in respect to Spider-Man's PuddleGate (rightfully so) yet don't seem to acknowledge DF's pretty open about KZ2's improved & wor...

2832d ago 1 agree1 disagreeView comment

It's one of the strangest things about how they're treating XOneX (on the commercial side). For a company that's gone all out with Minecraft, Gears, etc. XOneS consoles in the past, it's odd to see the only X variants are stuck to a white one (exclusive only to Gamestop as well), and some quasi-colored ones like Scorpio & BFV's Gold Rush.

2832d ago 1 agree2 disagreeView comment