I love Borderlands, and despite the fact that the first title was full of little issues, I had a blast playing it. Borderlands 2, so far, has been a great continuation of the same thing, and with way more polish and a much better group of classes, in my opinion. Now I actually feel like the different classes…

I just don't see the draw to this title. It will have to have a REALLY engaging story for me to feel it is worth it, and from what I can tell, it doesn't quite make it.

I have to say, I know a few people who hate the fact that 100-watt incandescent light bulbs were done away with. Luckily, I'm not one of them.

I can buy a PC and not upgrade it for four years as well.

Just watched this trailer and I realize how out of touch I've become with the SMT series. It's one of those things that I always meant to play, but never did. And then Persona happened, and now I'm all sorts of confused. Where should I begin? What titles are worth hunting down and playing? And what kind of differences…

Interesting. Despite your jab at me being a LoL player, I appreciate the info. A system like this is indeed pretty awesome. It's more or less the direction that Riot was headed, but they didn't quite commit to that point. Glad that Valve decided to take it a step farther.

I've always felt their microtransactions were pretty well handled. I never felt the need to purchase anything until I hit level 20, and by then I had all the IP that I needed to buy champs that were necessary to stay up with the times. Of course, I've been playing since beta, so I suppose that might be part of it.

The easiest way to stay out of the upgrade treadmill is to actually run a budget. If you ever have to buy anything on credit, then you simply don't need it. Set aside money each month towards a specific upgrade, and you'll be surprised how quickly the cash adds up.

"I'm not saying that the Wii U has crappy hardware. I'm just saying that it's an argument with a lot of holes in it to claim that a Call of Duty title indicates anything." As stated.

Which is great and all, but you can adjust a LOT more than just the resolution to keep the frames running high. ALSO, keep in mind that the Wii U's hardware, even if it is comparable with the PS3 and XBox 360's, is newer and likely more capable of modern processing. This will help a ton in keeping the 1080p resolution.

Keep in mind that Call of Duty games are not super resource intensive to begin with, and that they have a policy to adjust graphics quality until they hit the point of 60 fps. This is not indicative is much of anything, to be honest.

More room for touch controls seems a weak argument for why the iPhone 5 will be good for mobile gaming. This isn't going to convince people who dislike touch controls to like them, and it is just going to make things a little better for people who do.

That must have been an uncomfortable ride home :( Talk about a jerky thing to steal.

Yeah, you have a good point there. The only reason why I think it would still work is because, if they make the apps things you only opt into by downloading them from the store, it's just an optional enhancement that could add a ton of value to their product. Similar to what the PS3 has done with things like Amazon,…

I'd love to see Valve really push for this to become something that can replace XBMC altogether. If they manage to bring over Netflix, Hulu and friends to add apps to Steam's store, in addition to DVD Playback programs, etc, I could see this becoming a perfect solution for my media center.

Well, when all the dust settles on this whole issue, I hope they decided to take the controller mappings they have made for the 360 and add 360 controller support to the PC version. That would be awesome.

Somebody brought up a similar idea in the discussions board for Big Picture. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/bigpicture/discussions/1/882960080231448838/

So, been snooping around on Valve's community pages, and I found that steam now comes with a -bigpicture command line argument that will launch you straight into Big Picture. I just tried it, and it works!

I'm certain they'll get around to addressing this kind of issue.

I'm actually really pleased by the appearance of Big Picture. I'm not necessarily against Metro, but you're right, both of them are designed to be accessible without the use of a keyboard and mouse, which is the primary reason they are similar.