Um...yeah, I'm not about to tell Rockstar how to make their game...

I'd rather they decide when/if a female lead is introduced to an entry in GTA than have them just throw one in because of outside pressure...

I'm completely indifferent to the gender of the protagonist in whatever games I play...though if I have a choice to pick my character's gender in a game, I usually pick male for my first playthrough and female for my second...other than that, I don't care...

BioWare on next Mass Effect: "Sh**t's gettin' real"

Sounds like ME4 is starting to pick up steam...maybe we'll get a teaser trailer this year?

it wont let 10 people play from a single copy that are just lies xbox fanboys are spreading to damage control. Just use your logic, it would kill devs.

Krelian-co

If someone could just play any of the games the people in their 'Family' owned, only one in 10 people would need to buy a certain game...

Correct me if I'm wrong but if that's true couldn't developers potentially lose up to 90% of their customers? That high of a number is extremely unlikely, I know but the potential is there, isn't it?

But I guess it doesn't matter, now...

By definition, a sport is a competition.

In pro-wrestling (such as WWE) the wrestlers are not actually competing. They are athletic people putting on a show of faux competition.

However, Greco-Roman wrestling is an actual competition.

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your shapeshifting rules have severely limited it to an obvious choice of choosing super "strength" a la superman (i.e. invincibility, super speed, super strength, etc). The way you have it laid out, shapeshifting is a gimmick, superstrength is true power...not very fair.

IMO, true shapeshifting is genuine mastery of ones own body and the ability to change not just the shape, but the composition of it as well. So not only could I change shape into someone else or something else (a giraffe, a horse, a fish, etc), but I could also:

-"refresh" my body as needed in order to prevent aging, i.e. shapeshift myself a new liver, heart, add some stuff to my blood to get cholesterol out of my arteries, etc

-change the general makeup of my body, i.e. give myself kevlar and steel woven skin and nightvision eyes, or lungs that can spit fire or acid.

-give myself an immortality gene or something, whatever you want to call it. In essence, anytime I suffer a mortal wound and "die", my body regenerates. So long as there is a single cell of me left, I can survive.

-add to this the various perks and, yes, gimmicks of being a shapeshifter and in my view of being a shapeshifter, I'd totally choose that over superstrength.

Tropictrain

Now let's assume for a moment that the way you envisioned a shape shifter was added to the list, but you require intimate knowledge of the atomic level in order to actually master it. It doesn't make sense to me to just be able to imagine something and then become it. You should need to know the composition and atomic structure of the material you want to become. That's what you'd be creating and rearranging after all in order to change your shape. If you want to become a dog, you need to a dog inside and out before you change into it. You want to breathe fire? Design a system inside your body that will enable you to safely breath fire. It'd be too much work to be worth it in my opinion.

Oh, man! You guys are describing the 'perfect super human' idea I've had stuck in my head for a long time...descibing it to a friggin' T...

Depends on the story leading up to the ending, I think...

Seen happy endings I've loved and sad endings I've loved...don't really prefer one over the other...different stories just need different endings...

With the DRM and 24-hour online check-ins, I was pretty set on never buying one...without that stuff, there's a much better chance that I'll get one...still not happy about the unnecessarily forced Kinect, though...

I'm pretty sure I'll get the PS4, first...think I'll wait for a price drop or second version of XBO before getting it...

The 2nd hand market existed since the dawn of video gaming.

Why exactly should that change now?

All I'm getting is "we want to maximize profits"...

But without the used games market and renting of games, gamers will feel compelled to give money only for the games they really consider "must haves" and a lot of the "good but unneccesary" games will just get overlooked.

Unless they (the console makers) are planning some sort of Steam-like big discounts on games.

nameless12345

Exactly! To all of that!

Used games/rentals is how I tried out Gears of War in the first place and eventually led me to buying Gears 3 on day one...

If I have to pay $60 everytime I want to play a new game, I'm only gonna buy games from series I'm heavily invested in or games that stand out of the crowd and look like they might be something special...

Used games are how a lot of people try out games/series they aren't sure about...

If developers want to 'maximize profits' they need to stop spending so much money to create crap games...

Bigger budget doesn't mean better game...

I think used games help out in the long run while over-spending on development is the bigger problem...