Can you guys see those two pictures at the top there?  One is a picture of a humble guy stuck in a dystopian hell fighting to free humanity as part of PC gaming's greatest game franchises, made with fantastic design, engaging storytelling and tight controls.  The other is some guy with two girls with very low self esteem who starred in last year's largest fetid pile of shit to be released on PC.  Can you see the difference between the two?  Can you?  Because apparently Gearbox's CEO, Randy Pitchford, is completely oblivious to the differences.

In a frankly astounding interview with Eurogamer, Mr Pitchford states that the pacing is identical for both games.  In the Runz Court of Are You Bat Shit Crazy, I present the following statement to the jury.

OK so I'm not the biggest fan of EA for numerous reasons which I shalln't go into.  I try to avoid many of EA's games, specifically those which are released via Origin because I do not want to support EA's distribution platform (principled gamer is principled).  This puts me in something of a quandry when I saw that EA's Origin is jumping on the Summer Sale bandwagon mere days after Valve launched the Steam Summer Sale.  Why such a quandry, well because there are some awesome games such as Mass Effect 3 and Battlefield 3 that I really want which were on sale with up to 50% off.  As of writing I can no longer see any hints of the 'Summer Sale' on the Origin website so it may have just been a weekend thing, but I refuse to use the Origin client so I can't double check (sorry but being an independent gamer who does this website for a hobby does mean I can stand by my principle occasionally at the expense of details, kinda sucky I know but that's how I roll).  Worst of all is that Bioware, without doubt my favourite RPG developer, is tied to EA.  Fucksocks.

Overall, however, the very fact that Origin is having a 'Summer Sale' kind of leaves a bad taste in my mouth because it comes barely a month after David DeMartini, EA's VP of Global E-Commerce, took a pretty cheap swipe at Valve by stating that having a 75% off sale cheapens intellectual property and that Origin would never have a Summer Sale like that.  No instead they just have a 50% off sale.  Totally different thing.  Completely legit.  Doesn't make EA seem like a complete bunch of hypocritical a-holes at all who were just taking cheap swipes at the leading company in digital distribution (cos that's the spot they want to be in). EDIT: According to Escapist Magazine, some title prices were slashed by a whopping 80%.   Wow, go ahead and reinforce my distrust of EA why don't you, God damn it EA I want to like you, I want to play your games, stop making it so God damn difficult for me to do that will you.