@slider78: Sony had a lot of successful series on the PS2—this is why those things seem intensely marketable as remastered box sets— but you're discounting a lot of things people would pay ridiculous amounts of money for that were on the Xbox, like Otogi, Fable, Phantom Dust, Knights of the Old Republic, and Armed &…

@PunkyChipsAhoy: Share your thoughts on TFU2 when you start playing it... I'm kind of interested in hearing how the game holds up. I really enjoyed the first, but the demo for the new one kind of left me with a weird feeling...

@Avinant: I think it releases today, but Gamefly said they were shipping it yesterday... I assume so I'd receive it on launch day? Either way, I'll probably write out my impressions in TAY tomorrow or the next day. I'm excited about it, I like the series a lot. Cheers!

@PunkyChipsAhoy: Fable III should arrive around noon from Gamefly. I'm keen to see if they improved the framerate. Can't be much worse, in that regard, than Fable II.

Unless their prices are going to be hugely better than Target's (which I doubt, although Target takes in a depressingly small list of mostly current-ish iPods) I'll stick to Target for device trade-ins. Wider variety of stuff (even non-game-stuff) to use the credit for, and it's more common that I'd be trading in an…

Yes.

I'll go out on a limb and say that, had Lucas done this before instead of the prequels, Star Wars might be in better shape than it is today. One of the worst things about the prequels was George's insistence on tying together every last thread in the most contrived fashion possible. Moving to a new, distant timeline…

@Ant06: Can't imagine how. They're not selling anything, and at worst you'd just file a C&D to start. No need for overkill yet, right?

This is hugely impressive. I actually didn't find any glaring faults with S4E1, but this is pretty incredible. I hope these guys are getting jobs offers as we speak.

@godot: Sure. Urquhart is in charge, yes, but pretty much all of Obsidian's games are just wrapping for Avellone's storytelling— after all, whenever the conversation swings around to holy crap Obsidian are a steaming horde of buggy shit sandwiches (which is the conversation pretty much every time we see a new Obsidian…

@tees: They did the play for humor, not for accuracy, although the implied meaning is pretty obvious. The hashtag is, in this case, a bit unneeded.

@Keatto: It's easy to argue anything should be free. It always amounts to absolutely nothing, though... LIVE is a product, and they're welcome to charge for it if they wish. I'm not much fussed over it, anyway... I just figure if you do away with one distinction (silver) you'd do well to vanquish its counterpart...

@Dynosaulo: That makes it sound like they're eating something! And the only thing you could be full of on LIVE is ads. And we're all full of those. So, so many ads.

@Char Aznable: Certainly not. I hope you don't think that's what I'm saying... I just can't understand how these guys keep lucking into good properties, as they consistently display an obvious lack of technical proficiency.

@The MSJ: I'm not sure I draw the line at attempt. I appreciate that Avellone tries to make an interesting tale each time out, but it's obvious these guys are bush-league at best. They haven't shipped a finished game in years, let alone a good one. There is a wide space between "mindless fratboy games" and "creative,…

How is #goddamnitObsidian not a happening hashtag? I'm confused as to how one developer as determined to ship buggy, half-operable games as Avellone's crew is could possibly continue to stay afloat. The idea that they're still in business while companies like Pandemic and Free Radical (although yeah, Haze was a huge…

@Hazeman25: Agreed. What a consistently inept developer. Obsidian apologists make Lucas apologists look like nothing at all.

@Ninja Tree: Seriously, this. I know these are pretty early screenshots, but this looks rough. The textures look pretty awful, too.

I approve of the change. Silver made it feel like people were actually members, instead of just visitors.

I can't imagine, now, that I could have ever cared exactly what the sheriff's association of San Diego County thought of Meg Whitman. That concern was happily wiped away on a bassline wrapped in a tutu. Thank God for the Internet.