@heqteur: Touche.

Man, they really are doing everything they can to make sure game journalists love it, aren't they? Can't imagine anyone else who'd want to play it at this point.

@paperwarior17: I'm not sure how it's possible for anyone to miss the point this hard.

@paperwarior17: I'm not saying it's an individual failing. It's collective responsibility on the part of everyone who buys into the trend. Of course one person isn't going to stop it all by him/herself, but look at all the people here who seem to be of a like mind on the subject. If we were all to refuse to buy into it, that's a handful of people who wouldn't support it. I don't imagine it would be too hard to find other people who don't want to support the trend, so connecting with them would increase that number. Eventually and with enough effort, you get a sizeable amount of people who agree they won't buy certain products, and if it's sizeable enough, a company takes notice.

Sure, there are always going to be prodigal consumers who spend their money on anything, and they may even outweigh the principled opposition, but the fatalism of thinking nothing you do will make a difference will effectively ensure that you don't. And I would argue that even a single person refusing to buy into trends they dislike is a meaningful act.

@paperwarior17: And if the customers wouldn't pay for a product that was beyond that boundary, the trend would stop. In the end, the customers are the ones who determine what will and won't sell. The fact that people are willing to pay for ports effectively ensures the trend will continue.

I'm sorry, but when you keep purchasing old games every time Nintendo re-releases them, YOU are the one perpetuating this kind of behavior. Nobody is forcing you to pay money for every unnecessary remaster and port that gets put out, so you have no call to complain about the company that takes advantage of your willingness to buy the same game several times.

@rereviewer77: I think that's probably why this is a "first impressions" article rather than a full review.

@cyrezeraser: That's actually a very valid reason. Even if you don't understand why people have a knee-jerk dislike of Ubisoft, a look at the game's price tag should clue you in.

So in your eyes, the "greatest sin" of Inquisition isn't the boring story, or the gutted class system, or the braindead MMO-lite combat, but some romance option with a nobody? You're full of it.

@sgtkeebler: They can try all they like. Knock one down and another will take its place.