Productivity was down by 90%, but productivity way up by a very, very sexy margin.

You had Matthews too, huh? I took that bet and lost as well.

It's probably less people searching for it and more the fact that I can never find any, dammit.

It's the first Madden I've purchased since 03. Damn Sunday Ticket got me. :(

I kind of prefer MMO's that don't make me feel like a legendary hero to be honest.

Ugh, every time I turn my fatty PS3 on it sounds like an airplane taking off. I'm thinking about taking it apart and putting on that thermal paste to see if it helps.

I bit. It's still too good of a deal to pass up, and as darkslide notes, you can turn around and sale the game if it ain't your thing.

It actually wasn't them. These were maybe knock off's of those specifically, but they weren't actually Transformers.

Oh man, I had these bug-Transformer knock off ones that I'm pretty sure they bought out of one of those mail order catalogs. I remember opening up and being so excited—there was five of them!—taking them out of the box, and starting the transformation into a robot only to have the cheap plastic snap and break the…

Or give us:

Ah, damn it, I'm going to buy a Wii U.

Every time I see stuff like this and Skylanders, I feel like I should send it to my parents with a note that says, "Now, imagine if this existed but for Pokemon cards. You guys got lucky."

There, supposedly, though, a real money shop on top of the sub fee, which is kinda whack.

What's funny, though, is that there's apparently both: it has a shop where you can use real money and the sub fee.

Dead in the water.

Yeah, but I thought, as you noted, that making the torture required was odd. Clearly, it's putting the ethical "Player Choice!" on the killing or not killing, but I think the much more murky choice—and potentially interesting for a game—is the one to torture. Gliding right over that seems, ethically and…

Well, then get me a time machine to the past.

Irrational is making the next Pokemon game, eh?

Yeah, I think people really grabbed onto the "Niko wants to give up a life of crime" storyline then pointed to him doing crime more as if that wasn't the whole point. We're lead to believe Niko did way worse before coming to Liberty City, and it's a past he can't run from because it's who he is. The game was never…

I didn't really enjoy mowing people down in GTAIV, but I actually enjoyed that game so much—I know it's not internet cool to sincerely love that game anymore but whatever—because mowing people down felt so incongruous to the tone of the game, so I never felt compelled to do it.