Wonloong

I like buying properties in GTA: VC and Assassin's Creed 2. I like it even more if I can spend upgrades to increase their values/whatever mechanics they have in place that justifies the upgrading processes.

I'd love it even more if I can visit those places and see the upgrades when I enter the building; have them populated with furnitures or people using the spaces.

I'm guessing they placed him as the CEO since he looks young, and it'll tell people how fresh EA is.

$10 says he's just a puppet, dancing for the board-people.

This was so great! Ryan would lose his shit! What a cool thing to be happening - super hilarious!

This game looks like borrows tropes from Borderlands. I hope it makes some interesting mechanics or something that sets it apart from that other game.

I really love this Japanese take of a 17~18th century European city look they've got going on here. So cool!

Are we then slowly turning into the nagging parents that back then cried in terror for their children's exposure to violence in media, especially in video games?

Edit: I'd like to add that maybe what they're trying to showcase here is how horrifying and uncomfortable it is to be at the receiving end of these tortures in the name of peace and freedom.

Given what the media has exposed to us regarding wars of this and that, and detention camps, maybe they're attempting to let us empathise us on how horrible those people under those circumstances might be in.

If you take it at face value, sure it's violent. But there might be undertones to it that the creators wish to impart to us. Heck, maybe I'm just reading it all too much from a storytelling/interactive medium.

@vibratingdonkey: But isn't what they're doing for the publishers? That they're bringing the money back to them instead of the retailers? I could be wrong about this.

Don't screw this up like Duke Nukem and Aliens, Gearbox. I really, really loved the Homeworld series

Just -- Just don't fuck this up..

Star Wars? More like Bore Wars! HAH! Am I right, guys?!

Guys?

But what about games like Guild Wars 2, an MMO that you have to purchase a copy, but free of any subscription model in place with a micro-transaction one? Does that model work for only MMOs and not other genres?