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If we go on the movies different xenomorphs behave in different ways. Some rely on stealth by hiding in the scenery and only moving to pounce, some hunt in packs and try to overwhelm their opponents. In the original movie the xenomorph used vents to move around and very rarely made any sound...

"Rot eight", a pun on the words rot/eight and rotate.

Yeah, it really was a Bioshock Infinite thing. I never meant to make it sound like people didn't like the game, only that it got mixed reviews by critics I trust. Some loved it, others felt that it was well made, but had several issues that made the game noticeably less enjoyable than it ought...

The game got fairly mixed reviews. Some love the atmosphere and the characters, while others had very mixed opinions on this. The game also received heavy criticism for the poor controls, which some felt made the game more of a chore than an enjoyment. I never owned a PS3 myself, so I can't say...

This man [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas-Alexandre_Dumas] was a general during the revolution, and also happened to be the son of a Haitian slave. He later fathered the author of The Three Musketeers. There was also a full regiment of mixed race. Assassin's Creed Unity director Alex...

They are named, but they are all the same person. Basically Ubisoft felt that it would be more fun if -- instead of everyone playing their own white dude -- everyone played the exact same white dude with different colored cloaks.

Firstly, games very rarely (if at all) have different weapon models for different FOVs, they simply scale the weapon size to match the FOV. You don't see more of the weapon with a larger FOV, you see more around you. As for Titanfall, sure, they might have had to design a different cockpit if...

I guess that makes more sense, in a twisted way. Let everyone play the main character in coop. I still think it's extremely lazy design, especially in a time period where there are well known historical examples of women working as assassins. If they had simply used this explanation from the...

What..? It's hard to make a game look good with higher FOV? No, it's not. Games are designed around a lower FOV when they are targeted at consoles, as you sit further away from a TV. The devs then "cheat" by not animating stuff outside this FOV so that they need less optimization. It's actively...

The problem is not really that they didn't include [underrepresented group of choice], but rather that they went extremely lazy and went for four white dudes who look almost identical, when just about every modern AAA-game has a generic looking white dude as playable character. And then tried to...

"Happy birthday %PLAYER_NAME%! You can now purchase 10 more years for only $9.99, or get the Family Value pack for only $29.99, including 30 years and two more Family Slots!"

Not only crowd sourced games, but games from small studios that either self-publish, or go through a small publisher. These are no longer exceptions, but a rather large part of Steam releases. Ever since Steam decided to let everyone release their games on Steam we have seen a huge increase in...

That's not really the point, though. It's about games being broken, buggy, stolen, missing files (like the game released without the main EXE file a few months back) or outright lying to the customer (like WarZ). You also have the issue of re-releasing a game that was originally released a...

I've skimmed through most of the posts, but it seems like people missed the biggest point: In the past you almost always needed a publisher to release a game. This publisher acted as quality control to some degree and with the industry crash it was no longer profitable (or even possible, after...

In the eyes of the beholder, mostly. When it comes to game design it's a matter of taste, so it's mostly a case of "I, as a consumer and fan of the series, did not like what you did with the ending of the game". In the end all criticism is personal, as it's based on personal opinions. In the...