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    When did EA start to go bad?

    Quite easy to answer - when they figured out they could get people to buy yearly sports titles with little to no improvement. EA spent much of the 5th and 6th generations as an also-ran, pumping out mainly movie and sports games and generally being easy to ignore, except when they cockblocked...
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    Tekken 7 x Street Fighter

    I can't help but wonder how Akuma's going to do in the Tekken combat system. Wouldn't it be super easy to side-step many of his specials? He's going to have to have some added combos to make him a lethal character in a 3D environment.
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    Poll: Has any one comment ever immediately killed your desire to buy a game?

    A comment? Never. A feature certainly will, and EA isn't what you'd call my favorite publisher, but it takes more than any one comment to kill something. Now videos, that's a different story. If the FF7 Remake a featureless Aeris for the first ten seconds of her appearance in the intro...
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    Sony Sells Oodles of PS4s on Best Black Friday in "Company's History"

    We go back and forth between consoles and PC dying, because pundits can't accept that the two forms of gaming serve different audiences and insist on there being only one. Physical media has been "dead" for years, according to tech pundits in silicon valley and environs, but they're still out...
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    Koei Tecmo Confirms No Western Release for Dead or Alive Xtreme 3

    Hell, I remember hearing about this back then as well. IIRC, Tecmo mentioned it in passing after some patch on the PC version of DoA5 Last Round (which was released February of this year, March on PC, well after GamerGate and SJWs declared war on one another). They likely saw the same thing...
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    Capt. James Kirk Takes Command of New USS Zumwalt for Sea Trials

    James Kirk? Really? So, when do we get an aircraft carrier headed by Jean-Luc Picard? Maybe we can get Benjamin Sisko to head up the International Space Station?
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    Former Square Enix Boss Calls Konami's Treatment of Hideo Kojima "Cruel"

    That's what gets me. Japanese execs (and really, Japanese business in general) are FAMOUSLY reserved. They don't want to stir the pot at all. Calling the treatment of Kojima cruel, saying that Konami is "making enemies with the world," these are not the sort of thing you'd EVER expect to hear...
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    Truely forgotten games - that not necessarily were any good or even released

    Well, the definitive answer to this would have to be Biometal for the SNES. Only claim to fame was having the US version's music replaced with 16-bit versions of popular 2 Unlimited songs. https://youtu.be/ZQuo0VZZP2k
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    The reason I don't like Super Mario Land 2

    I'm no huge fan of Mario Land 2, but for a different reason. Felt like they were desperately trying to dial back on the awesome weirdness of Super Mario Land and only ended up with a bit of a ghetto Mario game.
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    The Unofficial Escapist Happy Gaming Thoughts Thread!

    New source of happiness. Did a couple of extremely awesome LPs on my Youtube channel, might just be the best ones I've done yet! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqfLW6gRoQdD3Z9XxfYZVR-bTqaqhAa-m - Mega Man II https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqfLW6gRoQdCKJB6IuqzWn09MtZQVpjW-...
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    Unskippable: Metal Wolf Chaos - Mecha Commander-In-Chief

    Actually, that makes me wonder if the "political" issues of late have spurred this departure like with MovieBlob and Sterling.
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    Poll: Do you think From Software is a one trick pony?

    Apparently people liked Phantom Dust on the old Xbox as well. And I still can't believe no one brought Metal Wolf Chaos out in the West...
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    Is Nintendo making the games they want to make a bad idea these days?

    Nintendo's own software has never been the problem. Yes, it's very conservative, but it only has to be different from what EVERYONE ELSE is doing to work. The problem is that one developer's games, even one as great as Nintendo, can't support a home console on its own. Nobody is jumping off...
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    The Unofficial Escapist Happy Gaming Thoughts Thread!

    Over the past few months, I've noticed a largely negative bend in gaming communities as the GamerGate war raged. Now obviously journalistic integrity is an enormous issue that should be taken seriously... But I feel that it's consumed everyone's every waking moment, and for a controversy that...
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    Poll: "Benevolent Sexism"...Wait, what?!

    I voted yes, but I have to state a qualifier. If you're ONLY kind to women, then yes, it's a form of sexism. You're both saying that women aren't as capable as men, and men aren't as worthy of kindness as women. I have always believed that you should be nice to everyone. Male, female...