i figured that much (being video-centric) long ago. seeing who is left only confirms it. but still, tom and carol were dishing out reviews all the time. maxwell felt more like the filler guy for all the livestreams, until anything remotely related to fighting games happened.

also, i heard something about the UK office? did they close down? because i could've sworn cam and seb at least were still working. then again, that was all the way back, in the ancient days known as "yesterday". "yesterday" is also when i saw ryan and tom happily chatting on a livestream, so hell if i know.

where did you hear that he's gone? they can't simply fire the resident psycho. everyone loves him!

i... am not quite sure how to react to that. it'll certainly be weird to imagine gamespot without tom and the others. and who will stand up for fighting games without maxwell around? who will write well written reviews and then get called out for absurd reasons if carolyn isn't around? who will be the resident nintendo fan? justin haywald? no offense justin, but you're not on the same level as mcshea (even though i often disagree with him).

hell, kevin is about the only reviewer left. is gamespot doomed to relying on freelancing alone?

seems i have been summoned to this thread. sounds like people haven't forgotten about me :P

yes, i'd buy a sequel in a heartbeat. dark dawn was a bit too much on the easy side (at least as far as combat went), and the original plot point is abandoned within minutes of playing through it (only to be recapped at the post credits scene), and the game suffered from lack of music/combat/enemy variety once the actual dark dawn got started, but it was still a solid game.

is there a way to just, like, permanently turn off autoplay? i really am not a fan of having to worry about closing pop ups to stick to a page *after* the video is over. the old system had a way to keep autoplay gone forever, but i haven't spotted such a feature on the new one.

looking at those assassin's creed pictures made me realize just how much better looking the PC version is :P

either way, i don't have a wii u (yet), so no screenshot sharing for me. the 3DS' screenshot system doesn't work as a screenshot system, so... meh.

i have no idea why people hate it. even worse, i have no idea why people think PH is better.

ST is a really solid zelda game, and a really enjoyable one. but people were too busy making "it's on rails, literally" jokes to appreciate that controlling the train was actually more fun than PH's boat, and that it only constitutes a small part of the gameplay.

at the very least, when you say you find zelda boring, you can bring up how much you actually tried to play it and enjoy to back you up. it's not like you're making an uninformed statement.

i liked sticker star. flawed, yes, but it had plenty of qualities. felt like a more zelda-y paper mario. wish they hadn't used the whole sticker combat thing though, super paper mario's combat was faster and probably would've worked better here.

and super paper mario was pretty, pretty good too. really well written too.

i think people have the right to want a paper mario game that is "true to form", but i don't think people should bash the paper mario games that try something different just because it's different.

haha, thanks :P