Poor old Edge can't win.

Anyway, garage-auteurs aside, haven't outfits like Popcap been doing the same lo-fi, retro indie-ish thing for a while?

"...game reviewers care more about story than consumers."

And if That Review is anything to go by, he's right, although it doesn't explain the gushing of perfect tens all over Metal Gear Solid 4.

*runs away*

If you make any Alfie Patten jokes, a klaxon blares and Stephen Fry clouts you with a Sackboy, right?

...the digital equivalent of Stockholm syndrome...

Not even that sophisticated, I suspect: something more like reassurance and envy. The latter would explain why most fanboy fisticuffs tend to cluster around platform exclusives, with each side trying to out-sour-grapes the other. Which is also why this was quite funny: http://sexyvideogameland.blogspot.com/2009/02/je-regrete.html

Today on Sesame Street, we learned that close textual analysis of videogame reviews can make some people very cross. The letters were K and Z and the number was 2.