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Fair enough. I completely get your point, but I was just trying to see if we could possibly translate game quality into some sort of monetary form that would make polish a financial incentive, instead of just an artistic/fun one.

While I know that this thread is supposed to be about piracy killing the games industry, I thought I'd chime in that gamer TASTE is also killing the game industry. You see, there's a way around this. Gaming is, at its core, an industry. Its goal at the end of the day is to make money...

I didn't find mining horribly boring to be honest, but only because I found a great way to cheese the scanning (on 360) that triples the reticle speed while the accuracy of your readings remain the same (tap the left trigger at approximately half-second intervals, and if you're scanning right or...

Infiltrators can also play mindgames with Praetorians, especially if you have Grunt in your party by the time you get to Horizon. You can simply take cover on one side of the map, and then have Grunt on the other side. As soon as the Praetorian starts firing at you, cloak, and it will go after...

Resident Evil 4, Chapter 3-1. All of it. The game has been intense but not too challenging so far. Having gotten a fairly easy escort mission throughout the last part of Chapter 2 (I think it was Chapter 2-3) and the cabin fight which was awesome but not particularly difficult, you find...

It's crashed a few times for me too, but only because I have a used copy and I was playing a lot. Oddly both times it crashed I was driving in an ice-cream truck :/ And the best way to get an epic cop chase is to try and drive to one of the island you're not supposed to get to yet, which...

I was not spoiled by the faceoff-with-Killer-Croc hype so I found the survival horror aspect quite enjoyable in Killer Croc's lair. I guess that goes to show that the hype itself surrounding Croc was what made it a nightmare for some people. I also found a pretty easy way to break the sound...

Oh come on, Yahtzee, this is getting stupid! I don't have an opinion on the game as I haven't played it, and a mostly negative opinion on the Wii (a few excellent games but not enough of them) but if you're going to review a Wii game you review the game, not the console it's on. Saying a game...

The irony of this statement is thick enough to cut with a knife. I am under the pretty strong impression that Yahtzee doesn't want any reviews anyone does to influence one's opinions.

Yahtzee, the recreations of SMB1 are just a caveat for the truly brilliant levels. Have you even had a chance to play Azure Palace yet? But yeah, there's always gonna be 20 really bad levels or every one really good one. I think half the fun is laughing at the hilariously awful levels while...

Finally, Yahtzee's funny again! Took you long enough - but with all due respect, this was a great episode. Slipping in and out of the South African (or should it be Seth Efricin?) accent was brilliant, and while the rest of the jokes were a bit predictable that doesn't mean they weren't funny...

Well, I found this a tad disappointing, but I guess we can't expect Branston pickle from Yahtzee every single time he makes a video, can we? I thought that your points, while sometimes valid, just felt like cheap shots with little explanation. You COULD have made something grand about GTA4...

That doesn't sound too bad, as long as I can play some games when I'm not reading. Which is something I also love to do by the way :)

I'd much rather have a dictatorial coalition than see Stephen Harper as PM for a minute longer, thanks.

I guess with every good experiment there's a hundred failed ones. I agree with Yahtzee on this point; it's definitely nice to see EA of all developers taking chances. Even if they tank like Mirror's Edge did, it's nice to see that someone is trying something different. I haven't played...