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PSN: Eckelberry NFS:R mostly, going to start AC4 and maybe DCO if I get bored.

Don't know if this is already posted, but... http://www.titanfall.com/videos/game...69728079805401

Played this at gamescom. It was, in a word, awesome. If you had told me this game was going to be a launch title for Xbox One, I would have believed you. It felt very close a finished game. Now I only saw one map, and two of the Titans copied each other special guns (in development terms...

It was fun to "play." I am not sure it is technically a game, more an interesting somewhat-interactive experience. While I enjoyed it, I don't really think that I want a bunch of copies and clones of it. Part of the reason it worked for me is that it fed on genre conventions of horror in film...

Just waited 30 minutes to play 15 minutes of Titanfall here at gamescom. Totally worth it. Want to play more, definitely purchase.

Not exactly. Our Villain player is out to win, not to create a good experience or story for the heroes. That said, D&D was an obvious influence, given my background.

Two good decisions.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23712001 I always liked watching Blake 7 in the late hours on crappy local television channels. And that was long before I moved to the UK or started working for Microsoft (yeah, I know, I'm the bad guy).

Fake. http://news.xbox.com/2013/08/xbox-one-confirmed-markets

All of them, actually.

Carmack: Xbox One and PlayStation 4 are 'essentially the same' http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/1...y_the_same.php In his annual keynote for QuakeCon, John Carmack wrote off the triple-A industry's obsession with high-end graphics, while also deeming the next-generation consoles Xbox One...

Shotguns needed a nerf generally though. Played a party of 3 shotgun wielding characters. Hot knife through butter.

My basic review is that it was easily worth the $20 for the 15 or so hours I played of Dead Man's Switch. Sure, some of that value to me was in nostalgia for the pnp games I played two decades ago in college, but so what? Have of these returning IPs in Kickstarter or whatever build their value...

I have to agree. At first I assume he'd be a sort of demi-god, and kept hitting him with haste. What a waste. In those narrow spaces, any character with a shotgun seemed worlds better.

Speaking as someone who works for a MS game studio: Thank God.

US prices don't include sales taxes; euro and UK prices have a nontrivial VAT (20%) included in the price.

If you're saying you can pirate games and use Steam, and the consoles will make that harder to do... yeah, I think MS and Sony are fine with that.

Yeah, I'm radically not the guy making those decisions.

Sort of? Most gamers despise and want developers to remove Day1 free included DLC and online passes, so... and some games have neither.

The argument I made is why Day 1 DLC and online passes came into existence - to give customers an incentive to buy new.

Not in the same sense. There is no reason to buy a new copy of a video game when the used copy is identical, and the retailer is pushing the used copy because it profits them instead of the developer.

Your car depreciates. When you re-sell it, it is a worse product than buying a new car (generally speaking). Digital media such as video games don't depreciate. In addition, many games have an online support component, even if there is no subscription or ongoing spend. So, you're playing your...

Sigh. I wish they had just got disk-less now. At least then I would have made more sense of this.

Games require, I think, some level of neoteny (wikipedia go if you need it). I'm 40 now, and I find that I have to push myself to embrace new games, new mechanics, and even new books rather than embrace the familiar, reread a book, or rewatch something I know I like. It's like there's this...

I do think they do inspire fervent love among some core fan base. Like many other games, I guess. Ultimately the sales of the re-release will determine how many of those dedicated Fable fans there are. Anyway, Fable 1 and 2 have pretty good reviews, for all the understandable whinging about...

I guess this means you have no need for it, and that's fine. The data Lionhead has said otherwise, and there are fans that do want it. What's the harm in that?

Yeah, it felt a bit like marketing speak to me as I wrote it. Oh well.

No, they are not. It's not even coming out on the Xbox One.

I'd bet against that. Any takers?

I like you Sean, but ... really?

I'm pretty sure that Fable Anniversary wasn't included in the list, Sean, though who knows ... Maybe a new Fable game will come out in that time window. Re: Region locks. I hate them, given I've had the direct issue of dealing with them when living abroad. I was told once that the reason they...

Fable has been a pretty good seller for Microsoft (multiple millions sold per indvidiual title, to be a bit vague), with metacritic ratings in the 80s. I can't comment on what was promised ten years ago by Peter Molyneux when he used to work for Lionhead, but re-releasing Fable 1 on current gen...

We aren't great at this on this planet, so, yeah.

I will take that bet.

Well, it's not always on. http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/05/2...net-connection (Disclaimer: I work for MS.)

Again, as much I as I would love it to be true... But since I am a previous employee of both Wizards of the Coast and of Turbine, I know quite well how well both of those companies did and are doing today. And the average audience of D&D gamers is sadly aging greatly, by about 9 months a year...

As much as I wish it were true, D&D isn't really a top tier IP anymore. The percentage of people born after 1990 who have played the thing is far, far smaller than those who came before (like me).

I don't have any loyalty for EA - despite or because of having worked there - but I must think it would be a bad thing if EA were "allowed to die." There aren't that many big publishers in video games, really, and it seems less all the time (THQ, etc.). While I disagree with many of their...

Sean, I personally agree. As someone who happily admits to the title of core gamer or hardcore gamer, doubly so. For the beancounters of the world, what matters is number of customers. I'm sure Nintendo looked at the number of people using those online applications, saw it was near zero, and...

To be fair, there's more money, in last generation at least in winning the English speaking countries.

Sean, I promise I will do something with one of those IPs.