The title of this piece alone is several layers of supreme sensationalism that does nothing but inflame. You call him a 'Saints Row' designer because he works for Volition; should I start describing you as a writer for Cycling News because you write for Future? You then make a leap into supreme trash best left to Fox News when you claim he suggests we "bring on the used game lockouts".
Leave that level of horseshit to NeoGAF, TMZ, The New York Post and The Sun. And if the editors who approved this article intend to drive pageviews with this kind of journalistic detritus, not even my long-time friendship with Mikel Reparaz will keep me visiting the site.
I've come to expect better judgement from the staff at Games Radar, and this article shakes that to the core. To think, several great people lost their jobs recently here and this kind of nonsense still manages to be pushed through.
I wholly agree with DA3 being on this list. The series is totally my kryptonite, my crack... I've done nine playthroughs of the first and six of the second. Sure, the third may only grab me for three, based on numerical progression, but three playthroughs of any game is a huge investment of time.
I don't even really care for fantasy. But BioWare knows where to put the hooks and I line up to get them stuck in me every time.
Syndicate, Overstrike, Binary Domain, Skullgirls, I Am Alive, BattleBlock Theatre, The Secret World, Darksiders II, Planetside II (because former classmates worked on it), The Darkness II, Lollipop Chainsaw, Prey 2, Borderlands 2, Halo 4, Tomb Raider, GTA5, ME3.
The rest are fluff to me. But this means a lot of cash down this year.
My favorite game sound effect is, by far, the telephone sound effect from ToeJam and Earl. Seriously. I've used it as a ringtone for as long as .wav files have been allowed on cellular telephones.
Okay, this'll be an interesting thing. Trying to build a story on how my pureblood Sith Warrior is actually third cousin to my Chiss Bounty Hunter, who is also the ex wife of my Twi'lek Smuggler or something.
Given that Coop put over 150 hours into this game to give us all a solid review, I hereby declare this the definitive document on SWTOR.
And it's worth your money. For sixty bucks and fifteen a month, you get eight... EIGHT... ~150 hour games in the Star Wars universe. Approximately 1200 hours of entertainment.
Now to get my bounty hunter to 30 so I can unlock my useless Legacy.