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Ok I just want to say off the bat that I understand challenging the player in a game without making the game too hard or too easy is a huge challenge in game development. I get that and I appreciate a game getting the difficulty right. I really really do. That points aside I have an issue with a few games that I want to address.Plainly put the argument is this. When the enemies and puzzles in a game constantly put themselves in a state of flux depending on my gameplay it ruins the game for me. Yes I understand that the game mechanic of adjusting difficulty is not a new state of affairs. But for goodness sakes we have had 20 years to learn how to get the difficulty down when making games and we still have to cop out by using this system of self adjusting enemies?What every happened to... Read more »

For those not in the know it's flying around the internet right now that Jeff the Editor here at Gamespot got the sack becuase he wrote a bad review on Kane and Lynch one of the sites major sponsers at the moment. Even Penny Aracde the Famous gaming comic has gone a strip today of the incident. Frankly if it's true then I bet the backlash will be large and harsh. But I ask this. Are you lashing out becuase you agree with Jeff or becuase you don't want to see reviews bought and paid for by large companies.Hell both are damn good reasons to protest. Screw paying for reviews. Jeff is and continues to be a damn good reviewer who doesn't wait to really speak his mind although I can see now why some games got a higher score under him then the reading of the review puts the game.Screw anyone... Read more »