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    Your Single Biggest Disappointment Gaming Wise.

    Beat the game a few days ago and it takes the title for Biggest Disappointment from me too, easily beating out the former champion, Skyward Sword. There's just so much wasted potential in that game, so many changes that add nothing to the gameplay and even detract from it in some cases, and a...
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    Why are people excited about gaming in 2015?

    Well there's like a billion games. Let me see if I can name them all. Witcher 3, Uncharted 4, Halo 5, Evolve, No Man's Sky, Battleborn, Xenoblade X, Mario Maker, new Zelda, Star Fox, Kirby and Yoshi, Bloodborne, The Order, Batman, and uhhh.. that's all I remember, let me look it up. There's...
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    Steam hits 8.5 million concurrent online users

    I actually use Origin semi-often for the free monthly game and I've never noticed that before today. Guess EA just sucks at advertising other publishers' games. Either way, my point still stands. Origin's publisher diversity is pitiful compared to Steam's, and I wouldn't really call them...
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    Steam hits 8.5 million concurrent online users

    Origin only sells EA's games. Steam sells games from hundreds of devs and publishers, but none of EA's newer games. They both sell completely different products and are both free, so they're really not competitors at all and they won't be until Origin starts selling other publishers' games.
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    Final Fantasy XV Trailer Reveals First Female Cid

    Skeptic as always, eh Scully? (that is Scully, right) Yeah, pretty sure that SE mentioned a few times that the game's going to be open world.
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    Nintendo Confirms Work is Underway on New Consoles

    Did you purposefully try to find the least-memorable characters for that comparison? Because it certainly looks that way. Sargeant Paul will only ever appear in that one game, Sunset Overdrive was far from amazing and might not get a sequel and the rabbids games were all mediocre party games...
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    Nintendo Confirms Work is Underway on New Consoles

    By that logic, Activision doesn't rehash either because there hasn't been a new Spyro or Crash game in like 5 years. But of course, that doesn't change the fact that CoD is an annual franchise, just like Pikmin 3 coming out 9 years after 2 doesn't change the fact that there's been 8 Marios (9 if...
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    Nintendo Confirms Work is Underway on New Consoles

    Hate? I see a bunch of people that are indifferent to Nintendo and a bunch of people that are excited for a hypothetical sequel to one of their favorite Nintendo games, but no hate. Heck, you could say there's more Sony/MS hate in the thread than there is Nintendo hate.
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    Nintendo Confirms Work is Underway on New Consoles

    No, it's actually really limited. The only company making any notable games for Wii U is Nintendo, so the only people who are interested in its library are people who like Nintendo's games more than anyone else's or people who like Nintendo games and already own another system to satisfy their...
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    Father Teaches Son Gaming History the Hard Way: Playing It

    Except that going to school is obligatory in a good number of countries and learning to read, write and do basic math objectively helps you out in life in almost every conceivable situation, whereas getting a better understanding of the games medium does not. If history classes weren't required...
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    Poll: Should we boycot EA? (and AAA publishers in general).

    Yeah, that's basically my stance on boycotts of publishers or devs. If you don't buy their bad games or games with bad business practices, you're giving them negative reinforcement to stop making those games. And if you still buy their games that don't have those practices and that you're...
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    Will the Nintendo doomsaying ever end?

    Puttting Megaman in there was just an extreme example of the flaws present in your method of counting games released to show you that those numbers can often fail to show the current reality of a franchise. You really haven't...
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    How much do reviews impact your purchases?

    Not at all. I decide whether I'll buy a game or not based on gameplay videos, my experience with the dev's other games and what I hear about it in the forums I visit.
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    Will the Nintendo doomsaying ever end?

    I'd just like to point out how flawed this way of looking at releases is. You say there have been 20 Mario platformers since 1985. I'm going to assume you went by the Wikipedia list when making that statement, so that's what I'm going to work with, even though there are 3 games on that list...
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    What do you have against The Witcher series?

    Yeah, basically. The bad guys come, trash your castle, kill some guy and take your alchemy equipment and then you and the other witchers "journey to the four corners of the world" or something like that to figure out why and get revenge/stop their evil plans.