Any game that gives its players more opportunity for choice is a good thing. Would like to see branching storylines in these too someday.

Unless you have a desperate need for some mobile gaming. No. No you really shouldn't buy a vita.

This is the same series that had the players running around as Naked Raiden at one point. And people are complaining about a girl in a bikini>?

You are all Prudes as far as i'm concerned.

A good way to avoid spending money on free-to-play games is not to play them.

If you can't avoid that, then another method is not to treat them like free-to-play, i.e. just ignore all areas and items where real money is required, and pretend what you have access to as completely free is the entire game.

A third method is to purchase the entire game at once, many games offer a premium style purchase price which gives you the entire content of the game for one lump sum. This does not exist as an option for all of them, but does for some.

I suggest option 1.

you people need more self control.

This may break the business model, but I have never paid money for a free-to-play game. Not once. Not ever. Never have, never will.

so they are laying their hopes on the kinects built in microphone and trying to tell us that it is worth the extra 100$ for the microphone? I'm just not buying into their logic with this...

I can plug a microphone into any device. So long as the game has the capability to use voice commands in it, then any old mic will do. I don't need to spend 100$ on microsofts special always-on microphone and camera spy device for my living room.

Eating and talking at the same time for a show.. not good.

Not knowing your subject material (such as not even being able to name the 4 main characters) is insulting to the fan base.

"Gangster" type reviewing is just stupid and not really hip.

Talking over each other constantly and all speaking at the same time is confusing and annoying.

However! I feel like voice command technology could do a lot for gaming. I have played a few games which featured voice controls and I thought worked very well.

One was that Tom Clancy strategy game on the consoles which allowed voice commands for designating certain units and had features to give commands to send those units to attack certain points, retreat, use special abilities, etc. (I can't remember what it was called though..)

The other was a game called Binary Domain which used the players voice to interact in a story and character development fashion with other characters in the game. I felt this made the game feel much more like a personal experience as characters reacted and spoke back when I talked to them in-game. I became more emotionally invested in the game which made it much more interesting to play.

But microphone technology has been around forever and is accepted, easy to use, and could work with pretty much anything provided the developers put enough time into the speech recognition side of their titles. It is an innovation which is simply waiting for a very popular game to incorporate it into itself and pull it off well - before it will start becoming a common part of our gaming experience.

@alterechoxii Perhaps. . lets hope for the best. In any case, you should check out the House of Horrors under the "Shows" tab at the top of the gamespot page. I find them entertaining. If you want to watch the full shows instead of edited down versions, you will need to visit gamespots twitch channel and find the archived versions there.