Ehhhh... I think you'd be surprised. A full-time (and often more) job and a long-term relationship although it helps not having kids.

Slower year than last in terms of games completion, busy year at work. I still hope to hit 52 again and will probably pick up the pace during the holidays, but here's what I've gone through so far...

1. Crystal Caves (PC) - 6 hours
Status: Beaten - 1/2/2016

2. Super Mario Bros. (Wii U VC) - 1 hour 51 minutes
Status: Beaten - 1/5/2016

3. Undertale (PC) - 6 hours 30 minutes
Status: Beaten - 1/9/2016

4. Yoshi's Wooly World (Wii U) - 11 hours 45 minutes
Status: Beaten - 1/19/2016

5. Mario Kart 8 (Wii U) - 20 hours 39 minutes
Status: Beaten 1/23/2016

6. Jet Set Radio (PC) - 4 hours 5 minutes
Status: Beaten - 1/27/2016

7. Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy (PC) - 7 hours
Status: Beaten - 1/30/2016

8. Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet (PC) - 4 hours 12 minutes
Status: Beaten - 1/30/2016

9. FEZ (PC) - 10 hours
Status: Beaten - 2/7/2016

10. Metro The Last Light (PC) - 7 hours 48 minutes
Status: Beaten - 2/12/2016

11. Life is Strange (PC) - 12 hours 54 minutes
Status: Beaten - 2/16/2016

12. Donkey Kong Country (Wii U VC) - 3 hours 53 mintues
Status: Beaten - 2/21/2016

13. Bayonetta 2 (Wii U) - 7 hours
Status: Beaten - 2/22/2016

14. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (3DS VC) - 13 hours
Status: Beaten - 3/1/2016

15. Super Metroid (WiiU VC) - 6 hours 8 minutes
Status: Beaten - 3/20/2016

16. Gravity Rush Remastered (PS4)
Status: Beaten 4/6/2016

17. Super Mario Bros. 2 (Wii U VC)- 4 hours 42 minutes
Status: Beaten - 4/10/2016

18. Super Mario Bros. 3 (Wii U VC) - 7 hours 45 minutes
Status: Beaten - 4/20/2016

19. Emily is Away (PC) - 29 minutes
Status: Beaten - 4/25/2016

20. Super Mario World (Wii U VC) - 4 hours 42 minutes
Status: Beaten - 5/1/2016

21. Earthbound Beginnings (Wii U VC) - 18 hours 1 minutes
Status: Beaten - 5/12/2016

22. Hotline Miami 2 (PC) - 11 hours
Status: Beaten - 5/18/2016

xx. Rocket League (PC) - 36+ hours
Status: Continuous

@spike6958: She never states that white male leads should be pushed completely out of video game narratives, especially existing franchises with a well established character arc although Zelda wouldn't fall into this category. Her using recently released franchises to exemplify that marketing and character development still predominately caters towards white guys isn't saying that these games shouldn't exist, as they will in droves; it's a call to developers, not just existing developers but new developers as well, for the desire to diversify in a shifting demographic landscape and to create new franchises.

The fallacy that someone needs to create content in order to advocate change and critique an aspect of art that they are dissatisfied with is rich, especially on a site dedicated to reviewing video games with a forum brimming with users who express desires and dissatisfaction towards the medium.

If you're going to attribute a quote to Carolyn Petit, you might want to use a source that actually has the quotation.

An increasing many find narrative to be a driving factor in why they play video games. Critiques on narrative weakpoints and faults should be just as welcomed as technical and mechanical critiques. Critique should be holistic, yet often times narrative is overlooked or given a pat on the back for meeting substandard requirement of existing video game narratives; the industry doesn't improve if no feedback is given; the industry doesn't improve if they're only ask to meet a low standard. A call to developers for greater representation and diversity within game narration isn't killing creative freedom. It's a call to let developers, especially AAA developers, know that they can break the traditional corporate mould, the mould that people on this forum lament over.

I never mentioned force, only the right to critique a piece of art.

You still have the right to critique and even complain about their artistic decisions and ask for change in future iterations. I don't really understand this mindset, especially when you have an entire culture/website/forum based upon 'critiques' of games from many angles, even aesthetic angles. I know quite a few people on Gamespot feel that all critique of games should be directed towards game mechanics and gamplay or technical critiques that move away from the artistic nature of the medium and focus more on the performance and optimization of code--in which case they shouldn't mind an aesthetic change introducing a female avatar--but aesthetics are extremely important in a visual medium.

If they're iterative consoles, then eventually there will be titles that the Xbox One will not be able to play, the Scorpio will be able to play on lower settings, and the Xbox One successor will be able to run on higher settings. If this is the case, then the quote from Phil Spenser is false, and if this is not the case, then it just means that Scorpio is in a contained and defined generational period.

But if the Rift doesn't work on an Xbox One, then there will be exclusive content on the Scorpio making his statement a lie.

Sorry, OP. Unfortunately, this forum is probably one of the worst places to try to get people to empathize with inclusive game options or games that break from traditional moulds.

Independent studios probably wouldn't be able to foot the bill unless they have a publisher like Devolver Digital or Adult Swim covering them. There were a few smaller studios that presented games, but E3 is mainly for companies with large budgets to show off and advertise their newest, expensive game. It's an exposition; it's suppose to be one big ad for companies to attract business. Unfortunately, due to hardware advances the trend of reiteration on previous announced games will continue as game development time is just going to increase for these large productions.

Everyone realized that you could go to other platforms to get what Microsoft offered and more while Sony's content remains exclusive to their hardware.