Could not have said it better. In my opinion, Rime despite being an indie game looked better than almost every single AAA game shown in gamescom and E3 combined.

No, people hate Microsoft because instead of using their money in boosting their first party developers they bribe third party developers for exclusives. This tactic is very effective since most popular IPs belong to third party developers, however this is very expensive and because of that Microsoft can not keep doing this for a whole generation. Thats exactly why half-way through a console generation Microsoft just stops giving xbox exclusives aside from the typical Halo/Forza/Fable garbage.

Or it could reform itself into a modern democratic state and join the EU in the future like other ex-soviet states did, an example being Poland. So yeah go ahead and ask people from Poland whether they prefer being part of Russia or the EU, I think we both know almost everyone there (if not everyone) will choose the EU over Russia without a second thought.

It doesnt change the fact that only 60% of the population would avtually vote for joining Russia

And it was reported that the sniper attacks were a false flag event set up by Russia to create chaos. That much is known. Its pretty obvious why the Russian soldiers were there and it was to make sure this referendum would be fraudulent.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/03/everyone-agrees-ukraine-sniper-attacks-false-flag-argue-culprit.html

So for the love of god stop exaggerating

Also there is no anti-Russia discrimination, most pro-western people dont hate Russians but Putin, a guy who according to internation observers won the last elections in Russia by fraud.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/world/europe/observers-detail-flaws-in-russian-election.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

This referendum is a joke. Its so bad it reminds me to the recent elections in North Korea where Kim Jong Un got 100% of the votes. Do most people in Crimea want to be part of Russia? Yes. But this result is so inflated its completly obvious its rigged. 40% of the people in Crimea are not Russian and wouldnt support being annexed by Russia, therefore its fairly obvious that if the referendum was actually legit the results wouldnt have turned out like this. This stinks of fraud so much its laughable.

Dont get me wrong, I support a referendum, but not like this. Withdraw the russian soldiers from Crimea and have OSCE observers make sure the referendum isnt rigged. If the referendum had been done this way the west would actually take it more seriously.

I Disagree, the cover system is pure crap, in fact cover based third person shooters are the worst garbage thats has ever came from the video game industry. Why? The reason is simple. Shooters are not just about shooting, they are about moving as well and the thing is that cover based shooters hampers your movement to an incredible degree and moving is part of the fun in shooters and removing that part also removes a great part of the fun in shooters. In fact if you think about it cover systems turn third person shooters literally into a peakaboo game and thats the pure definition of boredom. But thats not the only problem cover based third person shooters have also made level design go backwards a lot becacuse as far as I know most these games have incredibly linear maps and what truly shameful is the fact that several the games of the 90s have actually much more complex maps than these kind of game, in fact all these chest high walls being placed randomly makes the maps in these games looks incredibly unnatural and sometimes outright stupid. Sure cover system makes shooters more realistic but we all know realism does not always make the game better, in fact in this case it makes the game a lot worse.

And this game doesnt need a great plot because its main appeal is gameplay like mega man games, because you know, gameplay is in the first place what makes videogames unique. Im getting really tired of video games that focus more on being a movie than an actual game, like the last of us.

And by the way if you think of it, an actual mature person should care about the quality of the product itself and not whether its mature or not, people that really care about "maturity" are the very definition of insecure people.

How does it prove its dead? if anything its a really big improvement over the ps3 launch. I think some people truly have some really crazy expectations of Japan, like a million in the first two days after launch, not even the ps2 managed to get those numbers.

It might not be an amazing number but they its still good or atleast it had much better sales than the PS3 which only sold 88k in Japan in the same time period. And on top of that according to neogaf the inital shipment was of 350k which means they sold nearly the entire of the initial shipment already and it also means that reaching the amazing 650k sales the ps2 did on launch was not only impossible due to the current state of the japanese console market but it also was physically impossible since there is not enough stock in the first place. So yeah overall I say they are pretty solid numbers.

From what I have been reading in neogaf, the best selling games were Yakuza:Ishin, Battlefield 4 and Killzone Shadowfall