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How much is Joystiq being paid to promote PopCap games? The last article about this game received 8 comments, which to me means no one gives a rats ass about it. But here we are again a day later with another article about this game, and still no one cares. I just imagine Richard Mitchell begrudgingly typing his little blip about the video knowing that PopCap is contributing a few dollars to his paycheck.

Too bad my grandma doesn't read this website. She'd love this news!

@Alcidias

Seriously. The whole thing looked like a COD trailer, too. To top it off, they used the Terminator drum thing at the end of the video just like they do in COD. DICE now believe all gamers who enjoy tactical shooters are brain dead idiots who drool over explosions followed by one-note musical scores.

The original Battlefield series had beautiful orchestrated music and was an actual team based game, even to the point where you could have a commander in BF2 overseeing all of the individual squad activity. For anyone saying the final BF3 experience will be great because it's close to BFBC2 has got it all wrong. I was fully expecting BF3 to remaster what was so great about BF2 and BF: 1942. Instead we get a clone of BFBC2 with jets and more bloom effects.

Oh, so I get it: Making the loads upon loads of DLC for Forza 3 wasn't a "big investment" for Turn 10 since the "technology" was already there. So then why did they have a "big investment" price tag? I guess DLC is just supposed to be a big investment for the consumer. Makes sense!

$10 says they do release the Warthog in two years in a DLC car pack to try to maintain the game's relevance in the market. Or that it comes as a promo code when they refresh Halo 2, which is inevitable.

The internet side of me knows that a quick Google search will turn up some disturbing drawings showing that Ryu or Princess Peach know well enough what a penis is. Sometimes I hate you, Internet.

Reading the headline made me immediately think exactly what the first two sentences of the article described. I didn't realize Epic doesn't know that the appeal of this game is the excessive curb-stomping, and not whatever story they think exists.

I remember back in the day trying to unlock the tanks for multiplayer. I think you might have even been able to unlock "on-foot" characters, too. Needless to say I never could do it, but I always kept trying. This game is the perfect balance between replay-value, length, and challenge.

I'm all for digital distribution, and like others I do believe competition is healthy. But please price the games accordingly. Without the need of packaging, or the inclusion of instruction manuals and tangible media, yet the final price of the game does not reflect this. Instead, PC games have actually been increased to a $59.99 price point by EA and Activision. To top it all off, EA now has it's own service where they no longer need to pay fees to the middle-man for distribution.

I am not a fanboy, but I am a fan of Valve (and therefore Steam) for now while they still price games at $49.99 and continue to be diligent with game patches that not only fix bugs, but sometimes add new features. The profit margins of EA and Activision are getting larger and larger. We get less game for more money. Then they try to sell us DLC to make up for it, which just costs us more money. Until this practice stops, I will continue to consider Valve/Steam as a superior company who cares about their products and community.

Seriously? Why did the publisher even need to make an apology for this? Do they honestly think that a feminist group would have attacked them without this statement? What kind of world do we live in where we have to tip-toe around words, but visual stimuli of gore and violence is alright? Society has really evolved into something stupid.

Hell, if a game was in the news for being "misogynist" (which this is hardly even that), I think it would attract even more curious gamers to check it out. All of the girls I know that game wouldn't care at all if this showed up in the final release. They would laugh and move on. But this isn't even in the final release so it's not a big deal.

The only thing that even upset me about the whole story was the fact that the publisher is trying to throw the developer under the bus for a single line of code instead of taking the blame. Plus this story just makes it sound like there is a community of feminists with nothing better to do than cry "let's take action!" at video games.

@SKYRIM111111

Releasing a game that includes glitches without first properly testing for them is unacceptable. Instead of fixing the glitches prior to release with money that should have gone to beta testing, this money is going to DLC content instead. DLC content that is being made BEFORE the game is released. I appreciate you recognizing my eloquence, but I stated all of this in my OP.