Reading this whole article was super stressful. I am the least handy person in the world, and this seems insanely difficult. I'll never build my own car and I'll never build my own PC and I am perfectly happy with that. It's fantastic that it's an option for the technically minded, though. But man. This looks harder…

Yea, I'm having trouble getting it to work. Don't know what to put on the Name or Phone # fields. Any ideas?

How can I? By leaving out the one I haven't played. Which I did.

No, best to worst.

Rainbow Roads ranked:

I think I would put Mario Kart 7 on top, and 64 way higher, both for the quality of their courses.

Yea, this delay is probably the best publicity they're going to get! Good on them for turning it around.

The depressing part is that after around 8 years I'm still stuck between Monarch (too easy) and Emperor (just right / too hard depending on the day).

Civ V never really gripped me the way Civ IV does. I'll play V, but I never really got one more turn itis. Civ IV on the other hand gets, like, a full weekend of play every 3 months or so. Now. Still.

Time to make the jump to Europa Universalis, then :)

One of my friends screamed out 'NO' louder than I have ever heard a person scream before after losing a match.

I completely agree with all of this. That said, there's something pretty serene about racing in silence with strangers, and the only taunts are the score leaderboard at the end. It makes it feel more like a sport—the game is sacrosanct; the lobby is a free-for-all. An interesting design decision.

Or strangers! Why not just age-gate it or make voice chat opt-in? I probably would want it sometimes and not others anyway.

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I suffered this when I was on a desk as well, and I still feel bad about it! It's a strange way to start new people in the industry.

I haven't played Mass Effect, so I can't really say, but from what I've heard about it, I'd definitely lean Yes. I think Deus is a bit less RPGy and more actiony, but it is definitely still both of those things. Just in different amounts.

Seconding that Deus Ex is really incredible. The Director's Cut was designed specifically for Wii U, and it really does a great job taking advantage of the system.

I meant Civ 4: Colonization, which IS a mostly straight remake of Colonization, you twit!

Coincidentally, I've been playing the Civ4 version all morning and afternoon. It really does capture that patriotic feeling.

I like that analogy at the end, that's pretty good. And I guess that kind of dating is okay as long as everyone is good-humored about it.