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Minecraft is a good example of that line, since you basically have to either use a guide or spend 80 hours trying every possible item combination to do anything.

It's probably worth noting in the article that the entire point of Metal Gear Solid 2 was to directly question why you were expecting what you were expecting.

Interesting perspective. For some franchises, people just want more of the same with new maps, while for others, there's more of a demand for gameplay tweaks. I'm surprised no one's mentioned Left 4 Dead 2, which changed very little from the first game, rather than being DLC like Valve's...

Maybe Valve is crazy enough to have sign language subtitles for deaf people who can't read.

"More open to new ideas?" Yes, that's right. Shovelware companies keep making all these new, innovative games; if only those curmudgeonly hardcore gamers would play them! It's casual gamers that keep the industry saturated in quality titles like "imagine babyez 3".

At all of the Gamestops I've been to, the alphabetization has been pretty bad. Not that I'm blaming it on either the customers or the employees, just saying, it can be really hard to find things that way.

To be honest, my only problem with the way GameStop packages their games is the sticker on it. I'm not OCD or anything, but I like my game cases not to have a giant white or yellow sticker on the front. Trying to peel it off leaves a ton of residue. I realize they probably don't want the...

Thanks for bringing up the old memes. Those usually make me actively not want to buy something.

Not a great representation of the Penny Arcade post. What Holkins is saying is that Ebert was basically being a film/"serious art" fanboy and there's no real reason to bother being a fanboy back or even respond at all.

Way to create a reason for readers to read http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_265/7933-The-Fallacy-of-the-Fanboy.

I liked Breen as a villain, I guess, but it seemed like the whole time he was just sort of a punching bag for everyone. I guess it is good though when the audience voluntarily boos and hisses. The Boss from MGS3 is probably the best gaming antagonist in recent memory.

I've always kind of wondered whether the "80% of interpersonal communication is nonverbal" statistic is true. Does that mean that an utterly charming, completely extroverted person could talk about pie charts and convey the same thing as someone telling a joke whose body language was only 80% on...

Old memes, especially intentional/"ironic" misspellings like "vidya gaems".

I guess because gaming isn't really a novelty to non-casual gamers.

You'd think something about Snake Eater would be good to mention here..