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I'd love to pile on this guy, but I have to be honest. I was very confused after the first hour I spent on Dark Souls, and if everyone here wasn't raving about this game, I probably would have come to the same conclusion as Yoshida. Game's got a steep learning curve.

Outstanding Achievement in Story? I'm loving the shit out of Skyrim, but giving them a story award is ridiculous.

Skyrim is a collection of little vignettes that are interesting enough to keep you moving through the quests, but there are not memorable characters or cohesive narratives that lend to a great storytelling experience. The open-world jank that makes Skyrim so awesome undermines the story.

This is insulting to games like Portal 2 that were built around a great story, and sets a very low bar for storytelling achievement in games.

@Zoot Suit Jedi Grammar Hammer En

It doesn't look to me like Activision has a huge amount amount of respect for the people that paid them annual fees up front.

Gears of War 3 has already done three significant monthly content drops (a lot more than 2 maps each) for their season pass holders, with more to come. And the season passes cost a lot less than Elite.

Activision collects $50, sits on the money for three months, delivers nothing, and promises a heavily backloaded content schedule. They seem really eager to bill everyone upfront, and thoroughly unprepared to actually produce something with the $75 million they've collected.

At 1.5 million users, they've collected $75 million in membership fees.

And so far they've put out what, 2 maps? And only if you are an XBox 360 user?

Hey, if you guys feel like you're getting great value from this service, I'll leave you to it.

I'm playing the 360 version, and I hit a bug where I lost 70 hours of my life that could have been spent bettering myself or bonding with my family. Does this patch address that?

I'm just about done with Joystiq's bug-ridden comment system. When does Vox Games launch?

This reminds me of the initial response to the RROD issue. Microsoft refused to disclose how widespread the issue was, they admonished users to stop overheating their XBoxes (implying it was their fault), and gave a terse statement that there was no "systemic" issues with the hardware (it's not our fault).

There are too many credible people who have talked about getting hit by this exploit, for me too believe that this is only affecting clowns who can't protect their personal data.

There are a few simple steps Microsoft could take to eliminate 90% of the damage here. Limit the amount of money people can transfer into a newly-created, overseas family account. Investigate how compromised EA accounts are able to gain credentials to the linked XBox Live account. Tell EA to limit purchase velocity on FIFA Ultimate, or they can't do it over XBox Live.

Instead of taking a day to implement these simple policies to help their paying customers, they have been covering their ears for months and screaming, "It's not our fault! It's not our fault!"

@Zolbrod

Yeah, the release timing of this game is not good for 38 Studios.

I'm 65 hours into Skyrim, and I've barely scratched the surface. I've probably got another couple of months on this title, and when I'm done I'm going to need a fantasy RPG break.

And when I'm ready to go again, there's a good chance I'm going to have to choose between Reckoning and Diablo 3.

By the time I get to Reckoning, this game is probable going to be a lot cheaper/less profitable.

@Dirty

Bubba: What did you do before you ended up here in the lockup?

FourKiller: I was an elementary school teacher.

Bubba: OK

FourKiller: Then I was a registered nurse.

Bubba: That's cool.

FourKiller: Then I ran for legislative office...

Bubba: Wait, what? Looks like I found me a new girlfriend.

Having a targeted sin tax sounds a lot more constitutional to me than the "Let Private Companies Shut Down Any Website They Don't Like" bill that the ESA was gleefully supporting last month.