Oh, good. A wonderful way to begin melting your teeth from the moment you wake up instead of waiting until 10am or so. Because hey, why wait!

It's not about devaluing it, it's about people's endless desire to over-complicate a simple statement.

Just call them games and don't muddy the waters; that's my stance. It's a bit too much like piddling over what genre of music a track is or isn't from my perspective.

I think that with enough play-time, how to aim with a controller becomes second-nature. It requires a different approach. There's a slow adjustment over time to begin trying to aim where your opponent will be instead of where he is right now. It's a different mentality and now when I get on PC and try to aim with a…

I asked a question a while back about what would make a good Breaking Bad game, and one of the responses recommended an empire-building sim of sorts. THAT might be a great fit.

Arguing that Sim City isn't a game to (sort of) support the idea that Proteus is a game?

Agreed with this.

I'm not snobby about performance. If a game plays and plays smoothly, I'm happy. I couldn't give a crap how many jaggies it has or what the texture filtering is doing or even if it's in DX9 or DX10/11 mode, don't care, as long as the experience is intact and runs, I'm satisfied.

I intend to spend quite a bit. There was that subtext in my post, though I know the observation of the specs and my hypothetical "upgrade" talk dominate the post.

I intend to spend quite a bit. There was that subtext in my post, though I know the observation of the specs and my hypothetical "upgrade" talk dominate the post.

Hmm. Aside from the processors as I'm not really able to figure out what comparable PC specs are to that, my off-the-shelf PC right now meets or exceeds those specs in every respect except for GPU. I'm no expert on pricing, I'm sure I could fish up decent deals but if I'm looking at this right, my current PC is a $250…

Their full potential has pretty much been met. Compare against recent PC games developments and it becomes more obvious just how tapped out they really are.

Hmm, so there were. Guess I wasn't high enough level to see one in that. Ballistas, then. Those are also new.

There were Rieklings, Boars, Ash Spawn, Ash Hoppers, Netch, and Frost Giants in Skyrim?

Oh man, yes. This guy is hilarious. And totally nuts.

Now I never said it had to be about the whole thing. Just saying there's a colorful event about which little is known wherein lies a potential scenario to explore. It doesn't even have to take it to conclusion, but it has the framework for an invasion narrative plus the benefit of not being directly tied to the game…

The key to your dilemma is in the word "rehash." But I've been taken to task for saying that before. I just can't play a Zelda game without crossing a few hundred yards of familiar ground. I've played other adventure games in the same vein without having that experience (Example: Okami), because the mechanics and…

So much recall to Link's Awakening while watching this.

No, I paid attention. Trust me, I paid attention. I've likely been more deeply involved in the Half-Life community than a metric ton of other people on this site, and have discussed every stitch of detail in the games to death.

Oh, ok. I didn't get that you were driving for that at first. I think there's room for a movie in the HL side of the universe. The Seven-Hour War was a global event, there's a large font of possible scenarios to draw on with that alone that could make a good 90-120 minute movie, compared to the rather capsulized…