@PrpleTrtleBuBum: Well, that is what the author did. He literally misplaced Europe. Eastern Europe, anyway.
But I'd also push back against that notion that "it's better to compare EU countries to US states" or that this is any sort of excuse. Spain has what? 40-50 million people in it? The US is 350. The EU is 450. Eastern Europe is 300 million. That's a lot of people to be entirely clueless about. I mean, just with the Spain thing you've misplaced all of Texas. I am pretty sure I wouldn't have placed Texas in the middle of Quebec if you gave me a blank map, and I'd like to think neither would most Europeans. Pretty sure we've all seen games set there and we all got roughly where in the world they were supposed to happen.
But hey, you made me curious, so in the process of fact checking my own assumptions I also went and checked something else. You know how many US states *put together* you would have misplaced, ordered by population? 23. Spain has as many people as the 23 least populated US states put together. By Wikipedia's count you'd get all the way up to Connecticut. That's counting Puerto Rico. If you want to exclude them you have to swap in Oklahoma. So... yeah.
Look, this guy probably just got things mixed up because he was thinking about RE8 (although the mistake lasted at least a few passes, because it made it to the video review script). The reason the OP is probably reacting to it is that the game is already pretty crappy about its depiction of the location and the culture (just as RE5 and RE8 are, by the way), so this feels like doubling down on not giving a crap about it. Getting defensive about it just feels like an extra layer of dickish on top of everything else.
@PrpleTrtleBuBum: We actually ran a quiz about that at my place once. Most of us got what? 30-40 right? That's not necessarily bragging, it's just that American cultural imperialism is so shitty and widespread that a bunch of that sort of stuff just... sticks. From movies to TV shows to the crappy fact that we have to hold our breath every time Americans go vote because they suck at it and keep messing it up for the rest of us, so you get big fat maps with the results in worldwide press tracking your slow-ass vote counting process every time you fail to do it right.
I mean, we also have actual high school geography and world history to go on, but still.
In any case it's a false equivalence. Many Europeans may not be able to place state capitals, but almost all of them sure as hell would know that the US is in North America, which is the equivalent mistake.
@ReyesArts25 @Ghostdog201 "Never in my 9 years of membership have I experienced LIVE shutting down"?
Really? Because it was down this year a few times, the last this December when cloud saves stopped working. And I have received Undertow for free after two separate shortages, even though I have no interest in playing Undertow.
So... maybe you just don't use your Xbox much? Maybe?
Also, the "game connection" thing rarely has anything to do with Live, as plenty of servers are provided by publishers instead of Microsoft, the part about "connecting to others" is absolutely identical on both platforms and cross game chat may not be available on the PS3, but you know where it's available for free?
On the PC, PSVita, Mac, iPhone, Android Smartphones, iPads and Android tablets.
For free.
I've owned every console on this generation since launch and gaming PCs for 25 years and Microsoft has been the only company ever to charge for playing all games online. That thing in your post is straight up, completely mindless fanboyism. Live works well, and whoever in MS successfully pulled selling that service is a frickin' genius, but as far as value proposition I am baffled that it holds as well as it does in the face of, say, Steam, if you're too busy fanboying to accept PSN as a comparison.
@fa11en1134 Oh, man, I hear you. At one point they were doing things that mobile companies had been successfully sued for over here where I live. In the end they caved and now it's possible to cancel from Xbox.com, so that's fine now.
That said, you should have seen heard how far off the script the phone guy asking me "why do you want to cancel, sir?" like some sort of cult leader when I answered "because you're asking me this". It took a while to explain the circular logic of cancelling a paid service because of how obscure the cancellation process is, but I think it eventually sunk in.
@mr-gadgets To clarify, the only stuff that's behind the Plus paywall is basically cloud saving and background downloading. Everything else that you pay for is just access to full games and discounts.
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