Recent content by ComradeJim270

This is true. One of the benefits of brushing off, ignoring, or just outright scoffing at hype is that when something actually does turn out to be awesome, it's a wonderful surprise. You don't get as many let-downs, instead you get occasional pleasant surprises.

I know, right? People don't give it nearly enough credit for everything that happens before the last ten minutes.

I'm tempted to say that's a little crazy, but then I remember how that's pretty much how I felt about the previous game in the series, which unfortunately turned out to be possibly the most disappointing turd of a game I have ever purchased and is the reason a quarter of my posts on this forum...

There's nothing obvious about that.

I actually agree with you, I'm just not sure that's actually what's being proposed, hence my comment earlier on how the wrong question is being asked here. I see your point regarding some of the language being used to describe the idea, though.

Probably not, and I already stated that I'm not only unqualified to say it does but lack the knowledge to even feel comfortable stating that it does or does not. What bothered me is you saying that what was being suggested was that Google should be punished for its success or "trying to take...

I don't think you're asking the right question, What you should be asking is "Should Google be charged with violations of anti-trust laws?" Otherwise you get stuff like: Nobody is going to seriously propose those things be done. That's not what we're talking about. But monopolies and the...

You know, I'm going to kind of backtrack on what I said earlier and agree on Fallout: New Vegas. That's probably the closest I've been in the current gen to getting genuinely hyped up about something, probably because it looked like what Fallout 3 should have been (when my friends hear me say...

I had this realization a few years back, which is why I don't even seem to have the ability to get hyped about games anymore and tend to tune out hype or find it downright annoying. That makes it really hard for me to assess whether games have lived up to it. I didn't used to be that way...

I bet there's a lot of good directors they could use, but the most important thing is getting Lucas out of the equation, which gives them the freedom to make a Star Wars movie that actually contains things that Star Wars fans like. The prequels were just three whole films of George Lucas doing...

The product that advertised offers plenty of reasons of its own.

Adam Smith warned against this business model back when capitalism was a novel new idea and he was working on refining it, for the very reason that the people running the business don't necessarily have much to lose or gain based on its success and thus doesn't have that as a built-in safeguard...

Well, I did say how in my post.

It's tempting to just be a smartass and go "Yes." But the real issue is that I was boundlessly optimistic about it and totally bought into the hype, and my expectations for it were based on my immense love of Morrowind. It fell so far short of the bar I set that it caused the aforementioned...

My big one was with Rainbow Six Vegas, when I realized everything that had made the franchise appealing to me had been excised from it and left behind a tremendously bland and generic shooter. My really big one, though, was at some point during my first playthrough of Oblivion. That was when...