Alright, so I come back and see this little spat which is only moving us further away from simply discussing the game and/or the review here. While Srhalo's initial comment wasn't helping there either, I was patient challenge his statements.
This worries me that we're now just going to be talking about past grievances, indirectly insulting each other, etc. For this: I'm just going to mark down all of these down (maybe even Srhalo's original comment if ...
-"Your history of comments and submissions says more about you than your cheap talk."
Am I expected to plead forgiveness for some comments I made or articles I submitted back in 2010-2011 or more joke posts I've made? And if you're talking about weighing what I've reviewed or blogged about in the past: I stand by what I was thinking at the time. Beyond just comment sections, my PM's been open to the vast majority of users since my account's i...
-Haha...well my first comment you're responding to has been standard routine for me almost since the very beginning. I can see why you'd make the comparison, but it doesn't strike me as looking as cloying or desperate. For one, I'm not really e-pleading for followers on here or elsewhere. But sure, like anyone else making content I do hope it's worthwhile criticism. If not, let's see where I'm lacking by commenting. I'm interested in drumming up conversati...
-Eh...I enjoying dunking on anything I think is awful or has awful qualities. Playstation games aren't free from falling into either of those two categories.
-You really shine a light on the moderation of the site."
1.) Suggesting anti-PS moderation on THIS site? Now I've see everything.
2.) It's unfair to generalize the mod team based on my honest opinions of some games and gaming-related topics.
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Oh my! A rather...umm...devoted fan. Should I...be worried that you're trying to discover my home address?
Appreciate the sentiment though. Thanks to you as well, @Monolith. I appreciate you sharing your take on it.
Right, but as I said I get the feeling said % may be a point of contention when considering EA's record for all things financial.
Sure, but I get the feeling they're willing to put a lot of hurdles in the way that'd bother THQ Nordic. Haggling for a ridiculous percentage or whatnot.
Well, I don't see how some believe that but that's the way opinions work I guess.
-"...but it bothers me how ppl shred the writing when in fact these games are taking more risk and attempting far more complex narratives than 99% of games."
And that is something I tried to keep in mind while writing my review. But my biggest problem with that is what good do complex narratives and multiple endings do when so much of it is downright stu...
Haha...oh the dreaded questions about the overall score. :P
Gameplay and fun factor are given the greatest weight. As I've complained about before, I think 'engagement' is a more appropriate term than fun factor and that's a better way to explain how Detroit's story really harmed that throughout almost the entire game. All of the bad story qualities I list above expatiate on that further.
And I had mixed feelings as to where I'd...
Hope everyone enjoyed the blog. Feel free to leave comments and/or questions below. If we're going to butt heads on the review: hope to create some engaging & worthwhile conversations down below.
-And I've brought it up once in my own words here and approved probably 1 article on it within that same timeframe (to the best of my recollection). With that stated, it seems like your dig at me is unjustified esp. when lumping me into that same click-driven sites you're so disparaging. And if we're going by this logic, you must've carried the same kind of disparaging attitude against any user that wanted to blog about XJuan's DRM back in 2013, right? It was one of the...
Unless a miracle happens, there goes any hope of getting a remaster. :(
-The topic has been drummed up for over a year, but I don't believe certain parts of my arguments have been made quite like this. Were that the case, I wouldn't see a bunch of false statements regurgitated like "Sony fans never said anything bad about MS over this topic." I use a site-specific example to show that clearly isn't the case. And I'm not really following this logic of a current topic having this expiration date, as you're suggesting.
Er...ok then? As I said in the blog: See Rebuttal #1.
I don't have any current plans to continue blogging about it, as there's other topics I'd like to touch on. As I've suggested in the blog (which I'm sure you read twice over!) and comments below is I don't register this as a BIG gaming issue anyways. Having said that, I can't deny that some of the new material here is quite juicy.
-"you blog plus three other articles all approved with in an hour of each other."
What...
-"Read console gamer's comments in it that mirror my thoughts on the matter. No matter how cool it would be, financially it negatively benefits Sony."
So...I was able to do that after digging through the main page (other priorities have gotten in the way since your response). And the stuff you throw here and him about potential financial loss strikes me as more tenuous armchair-economist reasoning. The reason I don't feel very comfortable with delving in...
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-"You continue to ignore that it's their network. You buying their product doesn't give ownership."
Not really, but you continue to ignore and/or twist what I've said across several comments now. I've only touched on it in passing because your premise was built on a house of sticks. You made it out as though these "entitled" devs just wanted more & more out of Sony's network investment. I'm not g...
-"Name this multitude of developers asking for it? Show me a list. Remember, there's hundreds of developers."
1.) To list out the instances I'm aware of devs touching on the matter in 7th gen & 8th gen: Trion Worlds intent with Defiance, Square Enix with Final Fantasy 14 Online, Epic Games (Fortnite), Psyonix (Rocket League), Microsoft (Minecraft), Wildcard Studios (ARK: Survival Evolved), Bethesda's Todd Howard (Fallout 76). I've provided in...
-"***I BELIEVE** That's not arrogance. You just read it the way you wanted to. "
First issue: It's rather funny for you to be criticizing my skewed interpretation after what you stated in your previous comment. Personifying it as "No. I'll think about it" is WAY more flimsy than assessing arrogance in this situation.
Second: Also funny for his BELIEF to be stressed by you as though that magically disregards the context ...
Well, movie time with the family can vary between modern classics to straight-to-DVD Christian films, with wild variance depending on when I visit. I've never been very compelled to go back and watch any Pure Flix movies on my own though; plus, there's several YouTube channels that've done deep dives on it before. Who knows...maybe I'll get around to it someday.