Recent content by Serrenitei

Also, I'll just go ahead and say: games != reality

I think maybe a little bit pessimistic :-) if you can change common consensus, then we'd still have all manner of what we consider evil in our everyday lives (Slavery, lack of Women's Suffrage, etc). The funny thing about stereotypes is that they help us a society function. Stereotypes do a...

Because the 'race-thing' is still very much a thing that negatively impacts millions of people around the US on multiple levels every day. Historically, it's been insanely challenging to talk about in any constructive manner because people love hyperbole and taking *every statement* to...

I think you can't pin the blame purely on the business people. The moral thing to do would be to have returned a portion of the money consumerate with the amount of work he did. This is the same argument that people use to justify using an exploit in a game -- if it's there, it's not my fault...

EA is what happens when you let business people make decisions...ever. Let's assume that Dungeon Keeper Mobile was the model -- so you can expect a game where it's virtually impossible to do anything without shelling out money every 5 minutes, where EA then responds with "Oh, we just...

This is a sad, sad thing for a multitude of reasons. There's a serious illness, a game gets abandoned -- just lots of crap all over the place. My take is that yeah, it's 100% sucktastic that the game won't be 'finished', but I don't begrudge the guy at all for talking away from a mostly...

*Gives a significant look to Activision Blizzard for Diablo 3*

I can't imagine Aliens without Alien or any of the rest of original quadriology. They create a masterpiece that has endured where so many other movies have faded into obscurity. To cite one as killing the franchise shows a severely impaired understanding not only as the movies in question, but...

Like I said, I'm not an economist and wasn't trying to put forth anything as fact, just speculation from a mildly informed individual. You mention this being backed by the federal reserve, which it is, I guess I'm just trying to understand that difference between the reserve artificially...

It's an interesting concept - I'm not an economist by any means, but I have a rudimentary understanding of fiat currency -- enough that suggestions that the only substantial difference between our USD and the BitCoin is that USD has a physical component associated with it. I think the...

As I said on Twitter - this gave me an uber-sad. I wish all the best and I hope you are still around the game-o-sphere someplace. You one of the biggest inspirations to me professionally, in games, and in games journalism. Godspeed, Live long and Prosper. Edit: Typo

Some of the responses here amount to, "She's just not looking in the right place, look at X!" I think that while some games have good stories, I don't think we've had a game with great stories. I whole-heartedly with her assessment. Currently, most video game stories revolve around "Evil guy...

re: Who get's what money - So if we assume all costs at current market - $60 for a brand new game, 10% below that is $54. So for each sale that means that reseller get's approximately $5.40. The remaining $48.60 go to Microsoft for ... reasons and the publisher. It's not clear who would...

I wish it were that easy. Unfortunately it's not. The courts have no precedent for games, and technically First Sale Doctrine only applies to products not services or licenses. Most games put a ToS that consider that you are buying a "license" to the game, not the game itself, and First Sale...

I couldn't disagree more with Bob on this. I loved the movie. I thought that there was significant character development, the plot was interesting to me, and it had some fan-service, but I thought generally it was a good movie (there's one particular scene that I had to try not to laugh at ...