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Zach Stewart said:

I am curious as to why you people are even being featured in this type of article/feedback when clearly you cannot move past preconceived notions...

lol@ "You people." You're making a lot of excuses for Microsoft on this one. Granted, some of the above article is just bellyaching, but so cry processor incompatibility is just... lazy. Emulate for XBLA purchases. Set up a trade-in where you can give MS your old 360s for parts recycling, and they'll give you a USB3 optical drive for your old games and run them on emulation. Make a deal with Steam and offer those same XBLA titles at a 90% discount and make them playable through an online interface (ok that one kind of sucks, but you get the idea). I don't care about the hardware, the power, the stupidly over-wrought sports focus, or the TV tuning. I DO care that MS is effectively flipping the bird to a 360 audience that's poured thousands and thousands into making XBLA a viable platform, and saying, "don't worry, you can always spend more money." No one thought this was going to be a PC Killer. I wouldn't call it blasphemy so much as naivety. Rather, I think people are disappointed that there seems to be so much service to small audiences, and so little regard for the journey we've all made together as players and customers.

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Oh man, oh man... might be time to get back into PC strategy games. Rome/Carthage/Gaul/all that is one of the best periods in military history in terms of just... total insanity.

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Tony Rivera said:

Very great points made by all. And now for my 2 cents since you made the mistake of having a public comments section on your site and then having...

After reading that, can't say leaving the comments open was a mistake. GREAT points all around -- Disney might really have been the best publisher for the franchise. My biggest worry is that EA keeps the studios on too short a leash and barks at the first sign of trouble. So for me it really does come down to the amount of leeway given to each studio to make a successful title on their own terms. Also, obligitory "f*ck Origin right in its big, stupid DRM." Here's hoping they market the games to an early death (*cough*SimCity*cough*), because there is huge potential here. But right now, it's exactly that: potential.

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ModestSloth said:

He sounds like he's gonna be so powerful

...and after struggling though much of the game with Zero's melee build, hell yes this is gonna be fun.

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Holy lens flare, Batman!

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sgtGrumbles said:

Available on anything but PC? Looks sweeeeeeeeeee

'ey PapaPico -- yeah, found it on XBLA, hell of a lot of fun! Will DM you my tag.

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I love that the line between DLC and a patch update is just whether you're going out of your way to get it... so basically this says that Xbox will allow devs to extend their games without nickle/diming players. Which is a good thing.

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Yes please Cable. But seeing Mr. Sinister get a runout is GREAT news regardless. Such a dope character. Actually, if you have Sinister, you almost necessarily need Cable/Stryfe in the mix or it doesn't work.

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Weird tie-in, but hey, why not?

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Can't believe CS is still around... I remember playing it after high school in an internet cafe like, 13 years ago. Bonkers. Nice nod to the fans tho.