@aja26 It's doesn't actually cost money to post on Gamespot. The community of posters here aren't paying anyone's salary at Gamespot. If posters are gonna lob softballs, can't blame Gamespot for swinging the bat.

Looks like a reskin of Prototype, but now with fart jokes. I guess they had to ratchet up the 'wacky' somehow after SR3, but I was happy with SR just being the Benny Hill version of GTA. The move to a Prototype clone doesn't have me rushing out to purchase this one. It'll be a solid rental I am sure, which is good enough.

@TheTNWrestler @Loshead I agree. Madden, NHL, NCAA, these titles are nothing more than roster updates and one new mode a year focused on micro-transactions, while core game play has either stagnated, or even gone backwards. Madden is so bad I'd call it utterly broken since 2009.
It'd be bad enough to drop 20 bucks on what should be a free roster download each year, but to charge full retail on a game that devs spent a month at most on, is just insulting.
It shows the pitfalls of monopoly. EA has exclusive rights and makes millions regardless of their actual product, and none of the major sports care how good a game is, so long as it sells and pimps their logo.

or..I actually intended for a single L, and Lama is meant as in Dalai Lama, not the animal that you just met at the petting zoo with your mom. But go on, you're proving to be so helpful to this discussion so far......back to the fry machine for you.

@Ruukasu01 I respectfully disagree. While I am loathe to employ the 'slippery slope' argument, censorship in any form is one place where I feel it's valid. Here in the US, we have the reputation of being permissive but we have the same issue. Look at the MPAA, we have priests review every single movie that the US releases and they literally count swear words per film. All without ANY oversight of any sort. So before US gamers rattle on about Aus being communist or whatever word they don't know the meaning of but think it makes them sound smart- put down the flag and pick up a mirror.

Censorship is a serious concern. Some politico jerk off in a capital telling you what is right and wrong while running backdoor scams and diddling interns is hardly either hyperbole, or even uncommon. In countries with elections, you can tell the gov't what is and is not their right to even address- so it's always a valid topic of discussion. It's literally a line in the sand that needs to be drawn, and one video game is just one part of a much larger issue that goes to the very core of free press and free thought. It's easy to dismiss because it's a silly video game, but it does touch on a nerve that far exceeds the scope of one game being tasteless or violent. Cheers.

comments from people who think their employment at the local burger stand is somehow the same as CEO of a multi-million dollar company. Like he just left with two weeks notice and dropped and application at another place. Transfer to a new CEO, votes from the shareholders, and negotiating millions in salary are not done on whim. Nor is it a sudden thing to anyone but people reading about it, no doubt it was months in the making. Trying to link this move to the Xbox controversy really just shows the ignorance and small frame thinking of video game players clearly unfamiliar with how the corporate world works unless you count the Saints (Row) as a legitimate business.

Grow up. This is the business world, and teenagers slinging insults from mom's basement just doesn't have the kind of pull gamers like to think they have. The guy moved UP to run an entire company, but I'm sure he is humbled by pimple faced gamers with their pithy internet comments. Now back to practicing You Want Fries With That, you!

The bad features they rolled back are not the ones that affect me much to begin with. Game sharing, online checks, etc are at most annoyances to deal with. What will keep me from buying a One is that stupid kinect. It's sad that in answer to no one buying their crappy motion sensor peripheral before is to make it not peripheral, and thus not optional. (while raising base cost accordingly). I didn't want it then, didn't want it on the next console- and the glaring privacy issues it brings far outweigh any benefit MS can try to pimp. MS has never been known for caring about user privacy, but this debacle is a real head scratcher as to how anyone could have given it a thumbs up during a meeting.

@neonblueshadow @pity-the-sadnes Yup. Commerce is good so there is no gov't motivation to care. The only role gov't is interested in is the appearance of acting on a perceived threat (game violence this month, game sex last month....). That is votes in the coffer when used as a sound bite during a campaign.
Other than that, the (US) gov't would like to find a tax scheme on games just as they tried on firearms- anything they label as 'bad' that month, they like to simply tax the hell out of.
The US gov't is okay with vice, as long as it's taxable. So alcohol, cigarettes- totally legal drugs despite destroying lives--because they are taxed nearly 100% both at the state and federal level. Gambling is increasingly legal, because casinos are taxed at incredible rates. Nothing is really THAT bad here, as long as it's accountable for taxation.

If games are considered a 'legal evil' in the US- a vice for lack of a better term- then the role of gov't will be to tax it heavily, not punish the producer of the vice....

@hwrdstrnsbals I see what you're saying, but the initial purchase isn't going down. The devs simply found a way to make games $90 over time rather than charge more than the current $65 norm at the time of purchase. It's just a series of hidden fees to do it as a smokescreen.

And you won't be buying those titles so cheaply in a couple months- because the seller still needs to cover his own costs plus now fees to devs. Three months down the line you'll be paying $10 less for a title rather than half price. Those fees aren't going to drop in relation to the game's age.

It's crazy. No other industry operates like that. Even entertainment like DVD's never considered the things theirs after it was purchased. A house, a car- real things far more important than video games-- and none of them operate under this business model. I can sell my car without having to pay Dodge again....

@Joeasdfghjkl @TheLamaKnows Certainly do, sir. I still think it's the only thing keeping devs honestly even trying to make good games. Once you have to buy it sight unseen, can't then resell it if it sucks.....that's a recipe for devs to make crap, knowing it's a sale regardless of how bad a game is because you can't preview it- and can't ditch it later.