His first task needs to be changing out of that godawful orange suit.

It always gets my trivial nerd-rage going that people use "pirate" when they mean something more like "privateer."

I agree wholeheartedly. The white hooded robes are an iconic look, but they've outlived their conceit as used in AC1— to blend in with the "scholars." The farther away we move in time from the middle ages, the more incongruous Assassin Chic becomes. One of the smart things AC3 did was to give Connor his sea captain's…

Well, it's always nice to see people who are worse off than I am.

Likewise.

+1

Pocket Planes was originally conceived as a train game. http://www.gamezebo.com/news/2012/06/15/pocket-planes-was-originally-pocket-trains

Bastion is down to $3.74; I finally picked it up.

A hearty guffaw for you!

Seconded.

Mostly money, since I'm in grad school now and can't take bulky things back with me. I did treat myself to Knights of the Old Republic when Steam had it down to $2.50. I've never played it before and I'm looking forward to getting into it

Diaspora is fantastic, and I heartily recommend it.

This.

I'm enjoying the game quite a lot, but it really is quite astounding that the game shipped with so many bugs— even if most of them are nitpicky.

Yeah.

"Biggest traitor in American history?" Hardly. Jefferson Davis, now that's a real traitor.

Same here. So you're not totally alone.

That looks a lot like my Shep.

Yeah, I'm with you on that. I never played the original XCOMs so I didn't have the emotional investment that led a lot of people to react negatively to this sort of reboot, so I actually thought this one looked cool.

On a tangential note, I'm curious as to how everybody would rank the box art of the three games. My own opinion is that ME1's is hands down the best— I love the style, it's like the apotheosis of mankind into space. It also reminds me of the space art murals that used to be in Epcot. ME3 has a gritty feeling that I…