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We wouldn't be in this mess if someone just called them "interactive video entertainment" to begin with.

There wasn't a cliffhanger at the end of Season 5a though. There was a moment and you knew 8 episodes were going to be built around what that character knew.

I had this conversation with a buddy of mine the other day when I posited that there must be some level of challenge (or competition) and goal to a game for it to actually be qualified as such. Maybe it's because I grew up in the NES era long before the games as art or the big casual game boom. I don't buy into "games have to be challenging to be games" argument. You can have an easy game still be a game. There just has to be some aspect of competition, even if it's not difficult competition. My notion was that without some kind of resistance (even token at best), there really isn't much point to playing anything. Even Solitaire has the timer and the possibly of putting yourself in a corner. I would agree that without token resistance it's not a game, but that doesn't mean it's not worthwhile. Taken to extremes, there's absolutely no resistance to finishing a movie (unless the movie's bad), but that doesn't mean that no movie is worth watching. Exactly why we need a better term. "Movie" still works but "game" doesn't describe what we're talking about at this point.

I had this conversation with a buddy of mine the other day when I posited that there must be some level of challenge (or competition) and goal to a game for it to actually be qualified as such. Maybe it's because I grew up in the NES era long before the games as art or the big casual game boom. I don't buy into "games have to be challenging to be games" argument. You can have an easy game still be a game. There just has to be some aspect of competition, even if it's not difficult competition. My notion was that without some kind of resistance (even token at best), there really isn't much point to playing anything. Even Solitaire has the timer and the possibly of putting yourself in a corner. What an incredibly narrow-minded and ultimately limiting way to look at this medium. Plenty of games have things you just need to see, hear, and experience. People like you will forever be stuck in the past and will be the reason that games will never be considered on the same level as film or novels.

Controlling a character alone is more interactive than a movie. Unlike Linger in Shadows where you only control the camera which one day may be possible with movies.

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I don't think you played Dear Esther. This is more of a "game" than Dear Esther if you want to use that archaic way of thinking. Well that definitely sucks because they excelled at this with Dear Esther.

U3 was not U2 but then again no games are. I thought that U3 really wrapped things up for Scully's and Drake's relationships so I can definitely see them as wanting to make that game.

What makes you think the Uncharted games aren't "whatever they want?" I assume we'll see the same cycle of a new IP series every generation.

Looks way better? It still looks like a retarded Frieza.

"Every day we throw out millions of electronic devices. Now you can only throw out part of it."

Can a friend and I share a library and both play at the same time? No, a shared library may only be accessed by one user at a time.

"and even factoring in zero anti-aliasing support and a lower resolution, in many scenarios it looks as good as the 360 version, if not better." I'll take "actually looks better in real life" than technically better any day. I owned the 360 version BTW. I don't think I own the PS3 version at all.

Well when you're not buying a Galaxy Note pulling your phone isn't an arduous task. I'm more concerned with the number of steps. Google Now and using an email client like Kaiten Mail cuts down steps.

How so? The shadows and lighting were much better on the PS3 version.

I find people who complain about every single thing PA does to be toxic. They're human. They make mistakes. They're open and honest about them.

This is showing up in Google Now anyways. Either way it sounds like what I'm pulling out my phone for but not unlocking my phone for.

Xenogears non-GH? Though it's not mine.

Is this for threads, posts, or both?

IDK, I thought the latest Double Dragon was pretty shit.

Low end of that GPU= $120 Shield= $300 Total= $420 PS4 itself is $400 Vita= $200 Total= $600 Checkmate again. Where is your god now?

Nvidia Shield. Checkmate.

They're not inferior if your computer can't run them well. I saw AC4 running on a PS4 at PAX and it was pretty damn nice. Though I also saw Nvidia do a demo for it so it might have a bunch of Physx shit just for PC. Can't really remember. I was just there to try and win prizes.

Checking emails, not reading them. If I see something from say Amazon, that is not a dispatch notification I can happily delete it and not waste time taking out my phone to see that it is a pointless marketing email. The watch enables me to know when I need my hugemungous phone and when I can safely dismiss such notifications. Is it really big deal for the marketing email though? If you use Kaiten mail instead of Gmail you can mark as read right from the notification bar. On the Moto X you can see that notification and deal with it really fast, too. Though I also use Unroll.me to deal with shit like that so I have my email on lock pretty well.