Well said. I suppose the other thing that really sets Dota apart is the complexity. I think that this is one of its main draws as well as its main deterrents. The game has over 100 different heroes you can play as, and each one has unique, sometimes incredibly specific/niche, abilities. Mixing and matching two teams…

I didn't get it at first either, but now I'm a massive Valve fanboy and I was so confused and frustrated why Valve was putting so much time and energy into this game when I felt like they should have been releasing Half Life 3. I also heard an interview a couple years ago where Gabe Newell said he'd personally logged…

Oh man, if they would have started them out on the Gutsman level or Iceman level it would have been a bloodbath. I beat Mega Man II and III long before I ever beat Mega Man - that game is brutal.

I have a six-year-old and I love playing old-school games with him. Often he seems more interested in older games than newer ones, perhaps because they seem more explicitly like a game (bright, colorful, not-realistic-looking) than newer fare in which everything seems more like a simulator (i.e. zombie simulator,…

I found them on PSN and put them in my cart. Now it's just a matter of deciding whether to pull the trigger. Your comment is swaying me that way though. Thanks!

I grew up on Final Fantasy IV, VI, Secret of Mana, and Chrono Trigger, so some of my earliest and fondest video game memories are of the JRPG variety. However, I picked up Xenogears and Final Fantasy Tactics (both of which I'd never played) after hearing about them a ton and neither really clicked with me. So as I…

I know. I've loved watching Dota Cinema's A-Z challenge, even though it is so painful at times. It inspired me to take my Timbersaw out of training and into an actual game. I even had a support Oracle in lane vs Drow/Viper and went 0-5. The rest of my team was dominating so much and they kindly but firmly told me…

Yes, good point. That is more accurate than the way I put it.

It's another way to support development in a longer-term, lower-cost way ($10-$20/mo) rather than buying ships for a big lump sum. In exchange you get special cosmetic items for the hangar, you can ask questions directly to Chris Roberts which he answers in his weekly "10 for the Chairman" videos, and you get access…

I know the ludicrous amount of money Star Citizen has raised has made it into something of a punching bag, but I think the OP makes a good point: "It can't not make money now." That's actually a pretty tough position to be in. I've put probably close to $100 toward this game, picking up two ships and a couple of…

I tried a SL 30 cap, true role-play (i.e. Only using starting class weapons/armor, though you can upgrade them) playthrough of Demon's Souls and beat it easily. Then I tried a SL 1 playthrough and cleared everything but the False King. After about 15 tries I got him down to about 30% health and he did his charge slash…

I keep wanting to quit Dota 2 so I can play other games. But...I can't. I'm 470 hours in and I can still only play like 7 heroes really well, but I want to be amazing with them all! I don't know what it is about this game. "I just can't quit you!"

As deep and amazing as the lore is in Dark Souls, and as easy as Demon's Souls is to me now, I'll never forget the first time I loaded it up and took my first steps toward Boletaria. It got hooks in me that will probably never come out, just like Final Fantasy II (IV) did with my SNES. I'm actually telling my kids the…

DOOM is such a good game. I played it when I was 14. Now I play it when I'm 34. It still scares, thrills, and satisfies me like very few other games have managed.

This was awesome! Thanks for posting. I loved The Pitt - one of my favorite parts of FO3.

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I do!

For my part, I think the music in the New Vegas intro movie is fantastic. But I do love the whole thing so, so much. I love all the Fallout intro videos (my soft-spot for the FO3 intro probably comes from the fact that it was the first Fallout I ever played and introduced me to what became one of my top 5 gaming…

I can't help but agree with both of your comments (Mav & fdisk). What can I say, I like them both.

Harry and the Hendersons!