dorkymohr

Just a Kindle Paperwhite for me. Was looking for an ereader.

@cale: Preservation is important to some people.

Will there be kinect support?

In any case I think these examples stand out for a few reasons. They're some clever ways to acclimate the player to the controls/conceits/story of the game, but your immersion in the game is probably at it's lowest right when you start the game. That's why it's so easy to send off a quick tweet of "look at this silly thing" or "can you believe what this robot said about wizards?" And since it's right at the start of the game, most people have seen it and things quickly dogpile.

But I think it's a bit disingenuous to write this stuff off as "videogamey", you suspend your disbelief every time you press a button on a controller. And it's not like QTE's don't have the ability to elicit some pretty high emotions from the player. The microwave hallway in MGS4 I remember eliciting some pretty strong reactions in people, and all you're doing is rapidly pressing a single button.

It's a tutorial. Shadow of Mordor did the same thing. They're having some fun with it.

Honestly surprised to hear Jeff defend a position of "Silence isn't complicity." I know some won't be happy with that stance but I think it's honest.

Seeing a lot of similarities to how Super Columbine Massacre RPG! played out. I think ultimately I trust people's ability to judge a game's intent based on how it's executed and decide if that's something they want to engage with. No need to panic, alright?

Or maybe just a self-examination on our over reliance on it. If it's so conducive to misuse by those attempting to silence than maybe the attempts to reclaim it are in vain.

In the lead up to this it seemed like she was actively attempting to draw gamergate supporters ire through various means including making sockpuppet twitter accounts to troll them. Obviously she's free to do what the hell she wants in a public forum but the article glosses over this and makes it sound like this is a roving game dev hit squad, targeting her apropos of nothing. If you think this isn't important to the context of the story I'll withdraw my comment.

Should have been communicated earlier. I'll still wait on being able to trying it first before thinking about a purchase.