@pozium But there is a difference between indifferent disbelief, and preaching against one or the other.

Religious fanatics always seem to be offended by atheists, and I will never understand why. Why can't someone not believe in something? It sounds like Levine is an atheist and didn't know how to sensitively write the character for those that are super religious without coming off as blasphemy to them (or perhaps a select few). I applaud his efforts to try and understand where the developer was coming from. We shouldn't have to feel anger toward those that believe something other than we do, but rather try to understand where each other are coming from.

Swashbuckler Creed. I think if they just dropped the name AC and made a pirate game from the ground up, it would sit better with some people, myself included.

@PlasmaBeam44 It is still more or less AC 2.1 and AC 2.2 in my mind. My point is that the games at their core, are still essentially the same game. A couple of new features isn't enough to get me to keep playing the same core game.

I have had my fill of AC titles (skipped Brotherhood and Revelations). I am going to retire from it after AC3 just like I retired my COD days after MW3. It isn't that the games aren't good, it is just that I don't want to play the same game again only with a different setting. I think most games are best left at 3, anything more than that, and usually the games begin to stagnate. I would rather see Ubisoft dedicate themselves to a new IP.

Yet another reason to build a gaming rig.

@FireWolfRage True, but when you are a kid, there is no filter. As you get older, your tastes become more specific, and money actually has more meaning. I always wanted every toy in action figure aisle, but usually only got 1 unless it was a birthday or Xmas.

Still, I know what you mean. Even if you had unlimited funds, and all the time in the world, some of the games aren't even worth playing, let alone the cost.

@CP2077 I am pretty sure Feedbackula wouldn't do a Cliff Blezinski article. You are in the clear.

@StickyJr1 Well, using the term "80's" in a statement kinda points toward the whole decade being in turmoil. Had he been a bit more specific I would have been more inclined to believe it. I thought he was saying that the whole decade was a dark time for the industry.

Video game crash of the 80's? Maybe I was too young to remember, but it seems to me that the 80's is really when video games took some major forward leaps. Atari 2600, NES, Commodore 64, just to name the most memorable. I actually thought that was a good time for games.