I enjoyed AFfC, it may not have everyone's favorite characters but it was enjoyable to me nonetheless. It's a lot stronger to read in this fan-suggested reading order alongside A Dance With Dragons. Has a good flow to it like that, even if it is somewhat inconvenient for reading on-the-go.

It's a good series if you have patience, but be forewarned, if I may twist the words of Maester Pycelle, that each book is indeed a ponderous tome.

And my first thought is....

And this is precisely why I'll be sitting on a new console purchase for at least a year. Well, at least half of the reason. The other reason being, waiting for something actually noteworthy to play as well.

I mean, yeah, it's an incremental improvement, but nothing mindblowing. A few more particles, some cleaner AA and slightly more accurate shading. I'll be more interested in these kinds of comparisons when we get the next-gen equivalent of GTA:SA vs. GTA:V

on a console once every 7-10 years.

I'm actually not sure how you can argue that Infinite doesn't have the best combat in the series.

No, it wasn't really fun at all, not compared to the first game. The game stopped being fun right around the Revolution mark. It was just an endless grinder of the same enemies over and over again and almost none of the vigors beyond the first two or three obtained in the entire game felt fun to use at all. By the…

I could see this happening with one of those shady "Minecraft" (if you know what I mean) apps on iOS, but -actual- Minecraft? Not seeing it. Unless he bought 25 registrations for the PC game, but who would do that?

It's not that having combat is inherently a bad thing, in Infinite, it just seems to be there for no other reason than to exist as an excuse for having combat. There's a weird line drawn between the world and the combat where the world exists for the sake of existing and the combat happens for the sake of there being…

In an effort to "improve" YouTube commenting, they undoubtedly did everything in their power to make it much, much worse. Is YouTube staffed by a bunch of sadists, or what?

It can be now, they've added quite a few tools that allow players to program custom scoreboards for things like deaths, kills, items gathered etc. etc. , there's all sorts of PvP maps and "race for the wool," other such competitive pursuits. Can be kind of fun, actually.

I don't know, I just got done playing my first normal campaign through Diablo 3 on 360. It felt like a pretty dang complete game to me. Do keep in mind I also own all copies of previous Diablos and expansions so not lacking any kind of perspective on that...

Pfft. Console version is fragging fantastic.

Say what you will about the super-sized power brick, but I've learned to love the gigantic LED light on it. It's doubled as a night-light for so many years I'm not yet certain how I'll replace it when such a time inevitably comes.

Really the time investment is the same, and his odds of finding a shiny aren't changed at all. He set up a system where he spends less time in direct control of the game, making it a novel answer to time management issues, but the odds of finding a rare creature and being able to successfully capture it are unchanged.…

I don't think YouTube works the way you seem to think YouTube works.

Who really cares about HD? Anyone who cares to actually be able to read the text on 9 out of 10 modern games probably should.

Boredom made me Google the term 'Diretide,' which led me to discover that there's already a Know Your Meme page up about this. But, something about it struck me as funny:

It's important and relevant only as long as the peen-waving contest is in effect. Then, everyone goes back to playing games and forgets all about it until someone whips theirs out once more and the cycle repeats.