Recent content by Thomas Knapp

And yet... you're here... complaining and whining like a spoiled brat about it in a comments thread that has NOTHING to do with it.

I have to disagree with this comic. It's more like: 1) Denial 2) Anger 3) Anger (cont) 4) Anger (cont) 5) Anger (cont)

The problem is that the answer is both "yes" and "no", because gamers are a very broad group of people. Just as there are perfectly rational gamers who supply their criticisms, ask something be done, and if the request isn't met in a satisfactory matter, wash their hands of the whole thing...

Doesn't matter, because the answer is the same. Bioware and Electronic Arts, and no one else. You are NOT the editor, no matter how much it may have felt like you were. The narrative of all three games was set in stone long before you put the disc in your drive. Narrative, I may add, that...

Oh no, because all the questions were OBVIOUSLY pre-screened, and that it was done with malicious intent to prevent all of the Retakers from making their anger clear for the world to see! Seriously, that was a post I saw on the Bioware Social Network to explain why no one raised a stink at...

The intent was not to lump everyone into any basket. It was a response to the writer of this article, who tried to compare his experience with Mass Effect 3 as akin to a director or an editor... and thus claim "ownership" of the story. There are many things that went wrong with the ending to...

All this article proves is that even people who write for The Escapist can be entitled little brats. You are NOT the editor. You are NOT the director. You are the PLAYER. You are no different than the reader of a book, or the viewer of a movie. You own the right to play the game you...