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Yeah, you could easily make the argument that this gen, RPGs went from a genre to a seasoning in other genres; next gen, online worlds do the same.

That's my larger point. I was sitting here trying to come up with a Top Five of 2013 List that isn't "GTA V / Last of Us / Bioshock Infinite / Super Mario Universe / Fire Emblem (?)" and I'm not coming up with a whole lot of new candidates.

Honest question here: What, if anything, is coming out this year that we didn't already know about, across all the publishers?

Zombi U the MMO?

Also, in reality they are all running on PCs at this point; no one wants the publicity of "One/PS4 games look like shit compared to what we saw at E3".

Predictable "I'd be after Aisha's booty!" jokes go here?

Aisha Tyler was fine last year, the script sucked and the other guy (Tobuscus?) sucked total balls. I would guess she wrote/improv-ed her own script this time; she's including way too many buzz words though.

Ubi leaning into the punch with the girlwood.

They've basically started from scratch twice, so this is the third game they've made in that time. A more strategic Mass Effect 2 isn't a terrible concept.

Bleh, bad day to be busy at work, only catching up with conferences now. MS: That was the solid wall of games I was expecting. But to be honest, I was expecting more One only games, not One/PS4 or One/360. The market has changed, you just can't afford to make games on new consoles with no...

Even this week's 8-4 podcast had a mention of "Crazy Buttocks said it, I assume it is true". I can't quite decipher that Sony line though. It seems like "No paywall for online play, but not confirmed", but could also be "Despite rumors, no solid information either way". Note: I coulda...

NM, the conversation should have been in the book thread.

Err, what in God's name are you talking about? Aside from the much shorter call-in, MS' policies are those of Steam or better. About the only point you can complain about, vs. Steam, is the difficulty for indie games to show up on the platform. Let's be clear here: Steam gets away with a lot...

Err, yes, the widely reported rumors were that Versus was turned into FF15, a PS4 exclusive. (Like, Sony staff pitched in to work on the thing.) I'm not sure how what we've seen of Versus really works with what we've seen of Agni's though.

The military. To a lesser extent, people off at vacation homes, depending on how cell phone tethering works. (I imagine there are some people that can't afford internet yet somehow have the console (given the system as a gift, or severe drop in income in the interim (unemployment, or off to...

Because personally he's a massive twat, and professionally he's now middle of the road, at best? (Admittedly, all he's had going for him is good RBs.)

To be perfectly honest, I'd much rather have the ability for all 14 guildies that are currently on to be in one raid than to have Tempest Keep turn into a 25-man current difficulty raid (and knowing Blizz, killing my ability to solo the old TK for Ashes). I just don't know if I would be...

You can't possibly be claiming that all of us are overly emotional about it, and that said emotion is the only issue. I'll put it in the least emotional terms possible: All I gain out of these policies is the ability to download a disc-based game I've bought even if I've lost the disc, and...

The Xbox Defense Force answer would be that Steam's restrictions are just as bad, if not worse, on many of these points. I'd point out that Steam's minimum heartbeat goes for a hell of a lot longer and assume the game prices still drop much faster on Steam.

I can see it being used; but other than 11+ member family guilds that somehow haven't already fallen apart, I can't see anyone being excited about this. And yeah, a mentally challenged 25 man LFR, an easier than current normal flexraid, and a challenging heroic flexraid does seem to be what...

Just so we're clear, downclocks happen all the time to fix yield issues; as systems have become multicore, assuming not all the cores work has become common as well (the PS3 only assumes 8 out of 9 Cells work, and even the PS4 I believe assumes only 18 out of 20 compute units work). The issue...

I thought the CG additions didn't mesh very well. Felt like they stole Archer's Season 3 vehicle modeler. I also thought it was weird that they apparently slightly rejiggered the timeline of the season, moving the Halloween episode into the commercial break. Nothing between episode 1 and...

In some ways, that's abadthing. Every team that's working on Last of Us, or Puppeteer, or Beyond, or GT6... isn't working on PS4 games. It's a lesser case of why the WiiU has struggled - they had too many teams working on stuff for other systems for far too long. Hell, if we want to get into...

Err, I am fuzzy myself. I thought it was: Book Version- She's drinking something that she thought helps fertility, but in reality keeps her sterile (I believe Tywin is behind the plot). The description of "her" given in a later book has wider hips than before, leading many to think she...

Again, it doesn't matter if the file is on a disc or on your hard drive. Original Xbox to 360 was x86 to PowerPC. To get BC, they had to basically recompile them on a game by game basis, it worked for crap, and they only got through a couple dozen before they gave up. 360 to Xbone is...

Honest question, what do you guys think the odds are of Rivers being in the league a year from now? I think it's likely the Chargers go with a new QB next Fall, so what are the odds Marmalad gets a backup job somewhere else? I just don't see it. Edit: As to the article itself, I think it...

http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-wat...l-for-season-2 Not too much of a surprise it gets another season somewhere, as the US rights are so cheap there was chatter they could move it to Syfy, but a bit of a surprise NBC kept it. (As it is, NBC has a couple shows that don't even have homes on...

Err, the ancient timeline isn't true. I'm not talking about that. Semi-recently (last couple years) Blizz said that they were aiming for 100 as the end point; Blizz has all but announced Burning Legion is 6.0 (the 5.3 legendary quest line flat out says "You're fighting the Burning Legion...

I wonder what, if anything, this does to WoW. They seemed to have a nice timeline set up with Burning Legion at 95 and the Old Gods / Titans to wrap everything up at an even 100; who knows if/what they pad in between/after.

1) Yeah, Garnett, Chris Kohler over at Wired, and even Marcus seem like they've all lost weight / put on muscle over the last few years. Not sure if this is a sign that even the games media is turning into photogenic people only. (Long live the fat bastards at Giantbomb.com!) 2) Yeah, that's...

Technically speaking, PCs with more, lower speed cores are what the industry will move to, just from cooling and power consumption standpoints; better integrated video will eat into the low end graphics card sales. That those statements apply to the traditional gaming market that buys "real...

Like TCFB said, the legal precedents (in Europe, anyway), suggest that MS' scheme won't be legal there in the long run. Still doesn't mean MS won't implement it for the multiple years until a clear legal ruling is issued.

MS' current scheme is that you sell it to Gamestop, etc., and they pay the used fee, rather than the original theoretical of you give the disc to your buddy and he pays it. Either way, there's a fee, it's just whether it is baked into the resell price.

According toPolygon, the plan,today anyway, is that someone sells the game (to an authorized reseller only) for X, the reseller then sells it for (X+Y), with MS (and then the publisher?) getting a fixed dollar value of that Y. Of course, as said, MS wants full retail for Y for new games, so...

Am I crazy, or A) Hasn't Windows Media Center existed for years, including all the fantasy football integration? Hell, that version even functions as a DVR. B) X1 runs windows apps; all MS really did was port (part of) it to the X1 app OS and add Kinect commands. C) Why was MS' big focus of...

GIF. I don't care what the inventor says. The acronym is going off of graphics, not joint.

Yeah, the current / next gen split will be weird to see. MS has pretty much cleared out the current gen; about all I can think of that they are publishing is LocoCycle (for XBLA). Furthermore, almost all of their teams have been working on X1 games since Nov 11 (or earlier). Add in any timed...

Back in February, I thought the PS4 system announcement was blindingly mediocre. Now it's the high point of the decade (or whenever the 4DS comes out). Christ.

Other shoe drop #4: No self-publishing / indie games.

Mark Cerny is completely fluent in Japanese. Dude is awesome. Edit: You do remember that his game, Knack, is made byJapanStudio, right? I don't believe they have any staff outside of Japan.