...my GBA SP is sitting right here.

The reason nothing outdoes Call of Duty is simple.

Ha, how ironic. Midway through ME2, I was ranting about how Mass Effect was turning into Call of Duty! (well, if you take perspective into account, more like Gears, but still).

Unless it uses the same drive brand as the Wii, I doubt it. That and the fact that a LOT less people have Bluray drives. Give it a year and a half, maybe two.

Actually, it's not that easy to rip a Wii game. You need an internal drive that's similar to the drive the Wii uses, then you have to use a specialized ripping environment. Just any old interal DVD drive on your PC won't work. GameCube games are even harder to rip.

Oh, I loved Win7. It's Win8 that's been a boneheaded decision from day 1.

Absolutely.

Not exactly. The laser tracks from the inside out in a spiral. For it to read a Wii U disc, it would have to track outside in, also in a spiral.

What really matters is where the laser starts reading on the disc. On most discs, the lasers read from the inside out, and so Nintendo discs read from the outside in. When a laser that's not informed ahead of time tries to read from the outside in, it just gets garbage and doesn't know what to do.

"The plot is sometimes confusing or unclear, and eventually I found myself not caring about it anymore."

They likely are BluRay discs, just written backwards as Nintendo discs always are (to a). avoid paying royalties, and b). deter piracy by rendering the discs unreadable on a conventional BD drive). Just like the "Wii Optical Discs" were backwards-written DVDs, and the "Gamecube Optical Discs" were backwards-written…

Good fucking riddance. Maybe Microsoft will get its head out of its ass now.

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If Half-Life 3 goes open-world, I'm gonna throw my hands up and be done with the series. The reason I love Half-Life 2 so much is BECAUSE it's linear, and I'm sick of everybody trying to make every linear game open-world. It doesn't need to happen, and people are forgetting the strengths of linear games.

Dishonored and X-COM are both definitely on my to-get list. Particularly the latter, because it's a turn-based strategy game on consoles in the year Anno Domini 2012. That alone makes it worth a buy.

With all due respect, CoD has essentially been the same damn formula for the past four games...

The thing about Halo is that, while it did spread its influence across consoles, it didn't affect other genres NEARLY as much as CoD has. If you ask me, for example, CoD is the reason Mass Effect got ruined with 2 and 3. I was a diehard fan of the first ME, but then they decided to gear it towards a shooter audience…

It's not the CoD games proper that I get so upset about. I agree, let people play what they like. But as a result of their super-success, SO MANY GAMES are trying to imtiate it now. That's what I truly despise about CoD - not the games themselves, but the creative stagnation that they've brought. It's a taint and it…

To be frank, Madden could just charge for a yearly roster update and it would work just as well. People just buy them for the new rosters, not for the new game proper, and EA doesn't do online roster updates because they KNOW people will pay full price.

I wasn't even being fucking inflammatory! Even diehard fans of the CoD games have to admit that very little about them has changed since, say, MW2.