Disclaimer: I think most of the "left-wing media" is actually right-wing by global standards, it's only left-wing by label and in comparison to what's labelled as the right wing. The important part is that anyone making excuses for the rapists is awful.
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I signed up for an amateur Dota 2 tournament with random teams, and it starts on the 1st. Team rosters were just released and I'm going to be so sad if my teammates are ragers. This guy is organising and streaming it. Should be fun!
Long story short, that's why I could stand waiting another decade for HL3. I don't need HL3, I want it. And I want it because HL2 and HL1 were awesome, especially HL1 and its mod scene, so why should HL3 need to be any different? I don't want HL3 for the sake of coming full circle in a trilogy...
I think Portal 2 is overrated, DOD Source is crap, CS:GO still needs work and additional content, and I outright despise the L4D series so, no, I don't think Valve is untouchable. But you're kidding yourself if you think a publicly-traded company wholly owned by one of the greediest...
Almost nobody plays D3 anymore, the demo-beta was obviously garbage compared to D2 and it only took four months for the majority of the playerbase to realise how shallow it is and drop it completely. SC2 is good but Activision knows they can't mess with the formula established in SC1 or else...
Believe me, I'm having tons of fun waiting for HL3 to be as good as it deserves to be. I've got Dota, I've got esports, and I've got the surreal circus act that is 90% of the rest of the games industry.
So even if the game was complete garbage, had no balance, and stripped mechanics that existed in earlier games in the series, you'd buy it and play nothing else? You'd stop playing BF3 if Blizzard made a game in a genre they aren't experienced in, on the basis of theme alone? You sound like the...
That's even worse than the worst argument I was expecting. You're basically saying it's a good thing that they're re-using art assets for a new title that doesn't do anything new. Brand appeal is the simplest and most effortless way companies get consumers to buy their products. If that's all...